Hayburner
WHAT A POGGER CURRY!
BIRDS
**So I've seen quite a few people making bird spam and decided to make my own. Threw some stuff together then made it to around 1800 in less than an hour so thought I might share **
Teambuilding Process
**Started with mega pinsir because I planned the team to be some sort of hyper offense and wanted to switch it up from mega meta. Set is pretty standard, I'm running earthquake over close combat mainly for hitting magearna and mawile.**
**I chose gyarados next to make the flying spam core. I chose gyarados over salamence because gyarados does not need as much support as mence and I was not going to dedicate a slot to magnezone which is preferred with mence**
**Looking at the team from there, the first issue was with skarmory and celesteela, while the second was stall. Banded zygarde helps with breaking those mons and also appreciates the 2 birds breaking fat grasses**
**I chose azelf over excadrill because of its speed tier with taunt. Excadrill is unable to keep rocks off the field if it is led up against a helmet lando which is very annoying for this team**
**Because most of pheromone's counters, such as toxapex, tapu fini are handled very well by the rest of the team, I chose to use a specs variant to help break holes for pinsir or gyarados to clean late game.**
**I chose ash greninja as a way to handle mega meta gross although it needs a small amount of chip damage to ohko because I chose not to go with the specs variant and instead with wave incense to clean weakened teams easier with the holes made by gyarados and co.**
The Team
Pinsir-Mega @ Pinsirite
Ability: Hyper Cutter
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Return
- Earthquake
- Quick Attack
Gyarados @ Flyinium Z
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Bounce
- Waterfall
- Earthquake/Taunt
Zygarde @ Choice Band
Ability: Aura Break
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Thousand Arrows
- Outrage
- Toxic
- Extreme Speed
Azelf @ Focus Sash
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Skill Swap
- Explosion
- Taunt
Pheromosa @ Choice Specs
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Focus Blast
- Bug Buzz
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Electric]
Greninja-Ash @ Wave Incense
Ability: Battle Bond
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Water Shuriken
- Hydro Pump
- Dark Pulse
- Spikes/Taunt
Conclusion
**The team has some flaws of course, but generally you can just overload most teams with these mons. So far on the ladder only lost due to bad matchup once, and a few to hax made it to 1836 in one day then stopped. Some other options to consider are changing it to a webs team and using smeargle over azelf.
Threatlist:
MIMIKYU: yea you honestly might as well click X
Trick room Magearna: If it gets a trick room up, nothing stops it. So just don't let it get a trick room up.
Talonflame: for some reason this basically just wins
Tapu koko: very annoying to play around but it doesn't come in on much.
Ill add more later probably.**
Pinsir-Mega @ Pinsirite
Ability: Hyper Cutter
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Return
- Earthquake
- Quick Attack
Gyarados @ Flyinium Z
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Bounce
- Waterfall
- Earthquake/Taunt
Zygarde @ Choice Band
Ability: Aura Break
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Thousand Arrows
- Outrage
- Toxic
- Extreme Speed
Azelf @ Focus Sash
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Skill Swap
- Explosion
- Taunt
Pheromosa @ Choice Specs
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Focus Blast
- Bug Buzz
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Electric]
Greninja-Ash @ Wave Incense
Ability: Battle Bond
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Water Shuriken
- Hydro Pump
- Dark Pulse
- Spikes/Taunt
Ability: Hyper Cutter
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Return
- Earthquake
- Quick Attack
Gyarados @ Flyinium Z
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Bounce
- Waterfall
- Earthquake/Taunt
Zygarde @ Choice Band
Ability: Aura Break
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Thousand Arrows
- Outrage
- Toxic
- Extreme Speed
Azelf @ Focus Sash
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Skill Swap
- Explosion
- Taunt
Pheromosa @ Choice Specs
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Focus Blast
- Bug Buzz
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Electric]
Greninja-Ash @ Wave Incense
Ability: Battle Bond
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Water Shuriken
- Hydro Pump
- Dark Pulse
- Spikes/Taunt