Team Help - Grass Team (OU Monotype)

i feel bad there is no rapid spinner or defogger on your team.

 

Perhaps you should change Venasaurs ability to Chlorophyll, Thick Fat isn't too viable.

You should also look into getting a Sunny Day user. Chlorophyll boosts the power of grass type moves when it is sunny.

 

Oops you might be right about that. Not a big fan of grass

Well, you do have the ability to see the team during team preview. It may be an option just in case. Also, Flower Gift Cherrim is very good with utilizing Sunny Day.


You should also invest more EV's into SpDef rather than a 252, 252, 4 set.

Also, I would change Rock Tomb on Breloom for Stone edge.
Is this doubles? If so, use Rock Slide. Stone edge is sheer damage and can nearly OHKO any offensive. fire or flying type.

 

Ohhhh haha, I only play VGC. I wouldn't be much help here

 

Uhh i think Lilligant is a weak link here. Petal Dance IMO is a bad thing to get locked on (actually in the current meta, locked moves have gone bad), especially when steel/fairy/poison/dragon monotype is a thing. I'd suggest replacing it with a Nasty Plot Celebi as another setup sweeper or a ScarfTrick Rotom-C (Leaf Storm, Volt Switch, WoW, Trick) as a pivot.

 

hmmm what about sceptile? He is pretty viable as a physical or special attacker. With the unburnded ability, you can just stick a red card on it, and the first hit that sceptile takes doubles his speed, allowing you to use that one turn to boost your own stats freely. On top of that, its going to get a mega evolution with the ability lightning rod, which will make special attacking sets even more viable.

 

Just from looking at your team, I can already tell that a single Steel type could stall you to death. You've also got no coverage against any of tour weaknesses ( bug, fire, ice, flying, and poison ), which basically means you're screwed against a majority of the metagame.

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Breloominati (Breloom) @ Life Orb
Ability: Technician
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Spore
- Swords Dance
- Bullet Seed
- Drain Punch / Mach Punch

First off, I would change up Breloom's move set. Right now, it doesn't really have a purpose on your team. Mach Punch will damage ice types, but that's really it. This set will probably be more efficient. This is the set I tend to use in OU. The main idea is to get 1-2 Sword Dances up when the opponent is asleep. After that, the 252 EVs invested in his speed along with a Jolly nature should give him the capacity to sweep teams. After a single Swords Dance, Breloom can 1/2HKO almost anything that doesn't resist it's STAB Drain Punch, which also heals up the Life Orb recoil damage. You could also use Mach Punch if you tend to have Breloom out later in the round, but Drain Punch is usually more viable. Bullet Seed is basically another STAB for anything that resists the fighting attack of your choice. This set also allows Breloom to tackle steel types with little effort. However, he is pretty frail and gets shut down by status.

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Lilligant (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Chlorophyll
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Sleep Powder
- Quiver Dance
- Giga Drain
- Hidden Power [Rock]


As an experienced Lilligant user, I can safely say that your set is outclassed by mine. This set allows her to take advantage over the rather common sun teams because of Chlorophyll. Similar to Breloom, Lilligant first sets up 1-2 Quiver Dances while the opponent is asleep, and then sweeps. After a single Quiver Dance, Lilligant can freely spam QD against special attacks until she's maxed, or close to it. Giga Drain is the obvious STAB of the set, and is favored over Petal Dance simply because it helps the Leftovers heal the little damage that wasn't shrugged off. This set is tied together with Hidden Power Rock to damage the ice, fire, flying, and bug types that resist Giga Drain, and are all super effective against grass types. Lilligant can now sweep through anything that isn't a Steel type, which Breloom now can deal with.

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Venusaur @ Venusaurite
Ability: Chlorophyll
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Synthesis
- Leech Seed
- Earthquake
- Substitute


My last piece of advice would to be to use this set. Although it seems kind of strange, it's designed to be a fire staller. With Thick Fat, Mega Venusaur is the perfect candidate on your team, as it didn't seem to have much of a purpose before. Synthesis is the first form of recovery, used to simply heal up when in a pinch. You shouldn't ever have to use that, but it can really help him out before Leech Seed is up. Once it is, you can easily get a Sub up and running, then simply proceed to spam Earthquake. If you happen to go against an Air Ballooned Pokémon, Synthesis helps Venusaur to Leech Seed stall. His Leech Seeds can also help out the rest of your team stay healed, unless your opponent really likes switching.

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Try these out if you'd like, and tell me how it goes. The only real problem I see is Talonflame, but you can't exactly counter him without switching a Pokémon. Good luck with your team!

 

Hey there, just want to give a heads up that Talonflame was banned from the monotype tier because of its overcentralizing presence, which made grass, bug, and fighting monos arguably unviable.

 

Oh, great! I haven't been keeping up with the bans outside of OU xD Glad they got rid of him.

 

Honestly, any fire type will mess u up, as you have no coverage other than thick fat with venusaur and rock tomb with breeloom, and even though ferrothorn has barbs+helmet, whats to stop CharX from roosting? i suggest a Pokémon like ludicolo, as it also takes care of t-flame (or can do serious damage with scald/hydro pump) also, whats to stop a scizor from ruining your fun? as its common on mono bug&steel generally i like youre team i just think you should listen to what the people that posted before me were saying.

 

They already have said Talonflame is banned from monotype so why would you even mention it? Ferro also is able to check Scizor decently enough since it will be taking over 33% every turn just from attacking it thanks to IB + RH + LS.

Regardless though mono Grass is a VERY hard type to use effectively due to the extremely common Flying, Fire, and Steel teams running around. Bug are becoming more popular as well which can be an issue though the majority of your team does take neutral damage from their STAB moves which is useful. I also notice that this team will have some issues against Dragon as well since you have absolutely no Ice or Dragon attacks yourself...Lati@s in particular are very threatening since half of your team is weak to Psyshock and they very commonly carry HP Fire for Ferrothorn. Mono Psychic, though very uncommon, gives this team a lot of problems as well. Since you have no Defogger/Spinner any hazards your opponent gets up are sticking around as well making your two Focus Sash users a lot less effective.

I will make one suggestion in adding Celebi to your team in place of Roserade since you already have one tanky Grass/Poison attacker in M-Venu. Specially Defensive Celebi is one of the very few Grass types that can repeatedly switch into the Lati Twins and other offensive Psychic types thanks to it's typing and Recover. It is also able to utilize Heal Bell to remove any harmful status from your team.

 

I have no idea about how viable this would be, but what about a manual rain team with swift swim ludicolo? It seems like a good way to combat sun teams which use ZardY as the rain dance would take place after they mega evolution. Then your fire weakness is reduced and you have some speed in ludicolo (which obviously will also help with fire types). You could go for a more sweeper set with life orb or specs, or maybe a bulky build with AV. Roserade gets access to rain dance, but unfortunately not many other grass type Pokémon do.

Again, I'm just making suggestions and haven't used this in battle but it seems like it wouldn't be a bad idea.