And it worked perfectly, as I got through Victory Road and had everyone up to level 63 by the end of Victory Road. Thanks to suicidal Graveler and plenty of Gurdurr, I was able to plow Sableye up to 61, and three Rare Candies got him to the rest of the group.
As a reminder, this was the team - no moves were changed:
Aegislash - Iron Head, Shadow Sneak, Sacred Sword, Aerial Ace
Golurk - Earthquake, Shadow Punch, Strength, Fly
Sableye - Shadow Claw, Knock Off, Brick Break, Zen Headbutt
Gengar @Gengarite - Sludge Bomb, Shadow Ball, Thunderbolt, Dazzling Gleam
Trevenant - Shadow Force, Earthquake, Rock Slide, Horn Leech
Chandelure - Flamethrower, Shadow Ball, Psychic, Energy Ball
All L64 to open
And since I'm generous, here's the PBP for the five matches. Note that I had the Exp Share on the whole time.
Drasna: I open on Dragon and send Golurk out against Dragalgae, who promptly falls to Earthquake. I take the opportunity to go Mega w/Gengar and he takes 3/4 off the Altaria who randomly Cotton Guards. Since it's not in Full Restore range, a second Dazzling Gleam brings it down. Noivern goes down to Dazzling Gleam, and so does Druddigon. Easy peasy.
Siebold: This time Trevenant leads off against Clawitzer, who manages to run our leafy friend down to 10HP by surviving Horn Leech at about 10% and firing back with Mega Launcher-powered Dark Pulse (ow). This puts Clawitzer in a Full Restore loop that puts Trevenant back at 167 HP before I say "screw it" and Phantom Force it to death. Gyarados is met by a one-shot from Mega Gengar's Thunderbolt. I go back to Trevenant for Starmie, who gets a Psychic to put Trevenant at 81HP... but Phantom Force is a OHKO. Barbaracle comes in, gets a 4x-effective Horn Leech between the eyes, and gets beaten like a sack of razzleberries (tm and (c) UltraMantis Black). Golurk, Trevenant and Gengar all leveled at the end.
Malva: Taking a chance, I put Sableye out against Pyroar figuring Brick Break has to do something... but Pyroar opens with Noble Roar, so I'm down 33% on attack and hoping for a crit since Brick Break does only 30%. There's no critical coming, and two Pyroar Flamethrowers have Sableye down in single-digit HP so I switch in Golurk on a Full Restore round. Pyroar Noble Roars it... and the countering Earthquake crits. Whoops. A Chandelure mirror match ensues, but ends quickly at the hands of my Chandelure's Shadow Ball. I let Chandy keep going against Torkoal, and it does 70% with a Shadow Ball, loses about 70 HP to Stone Edge, and finishes with a second Shadow Ball. I bring in Gengar to deal with Talonflame, who manages to squeeze off a Flare Blitz for half of Gengar's 150HP before getting dropped by Thunderbolt. Aegislash (who hasn't been in yet), Sableye and Chandelure all level up here.
Wikstrom: Golurk opens against Klefki. Klefki's Flash Cannon took about 40 HP off (out of nearly 180) and Earthquake finishes. Scizor's next, and the inevitable bug roasting occurs. Aegislash makes its debut against Probopass, and Sacred Sword causes Probopass's Sturdy to fire, then it does roughly 60% back (to Blade Forme) with Earth Power. Two more Sacred Swords run out the Full Restores, and Shadow Sneak finishes. This leaves Chandelure against Aegislash, and Chandelure is able to put Aegislash in the red before surviving Blade Forme's Shadow Claw with NINE HP!!! Second Flamethrower finishes. Golurk goes to L66.
Diantha: I lead Chandelure against Hawlucha, who uses Poison Jab for 18 damage... and poisons Chandelure. Psychic is a OHKO, though. Next is Tyrantrum, and unlike Route 21's, Mega Gengar is able to also OHKO this version with Dazzling Gleam. Trevenant levels here.
I go to Sableye against Gourgeist, who is faster than Sableye and able to force a miss with Phantom Force. On turn 2, Sableye goes to 74/167, but Shadow Claw hits for about 70%. I Hyper Potion Sableye on the first Phantom Force turn, he hangs onto a few more HP (82/167) and Shadow Claw finishes. Although I could have gone to Aegislash here, I leave Sableye in for Brick Break against Aurorus... who survives with 5% and finishes Sableye off with Blizzard. On the inevitable Full Restore turn I Max Revive Sableye, and this time Iron Head hits true for a OHKO. Both Sableye and Aeigslash level.
It's now MegaGengar v Goodra, and Goodra's Dragon Pulse becomes a 3HKO while nothing Gengar can do is any better because of Goodra's high SpeDef. Gengar shrugs off multiple Dragon Pulses and runs Diantha out of Full Restores before Dazzling Gleam finishes.
Finally, Aegislash comes for the coup de grace against Gardev... sorry, MEGAGardevoir, and Shadow Ball takes off 80HP... but Iron Head OHKOs, new champ.
Hoorah.
I'm going to retire the team, do one post as part of the Smogon Ingame Tier List project... and then I'll go to the next type, which will be Fairy. Now taking suggestions.
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