Koumei wrote:What do you mean by "gimmick"?
Muk could do a good themeteam with other oozes, there are enough choices:
- Reuniclus (Psychic: Trick Room Ahoy!)
- Magcargo (Fire/Rock I think. No idea how you'd utilise it)
- The gastropod thing that's Ground/Water and can have Storm Drain/Sand Force
- Ditto
- Goodra: if you're looking at a source of rain, go Hydration. Maybe go Sap Sipper as a way to switch the gastropod out. But Gooey is pretty awesome otherwise - foes can choose to slow themselves down to get killed (or revenge killed) or to plink away uselessly with special attacks.
So for a team of 3, that gives you options.
Gimmick meaning -- team of pokemon that are never seen because they suck, working because they abuse some small corner case. They'll lose to a prepared team, but can quickly overwhelm even uber teams with their minor gimmick.
They're a
lot easier to run in 2v2 because the team-up aspect can cover serious weaknesses. In DP/PBR random battles (which were double battles, 4v4 total), I ran Squirtle/Solrock/Camerupt/Rampardos. I've just thrown together a team using a similar core, but it's a little different (and a LOT less reliable) because of new priority moves and restrictions:
Lead:
Medicham @Medichamite
Fake Out
Hi Jump Kick
Psycho Cut
Protect
Solrock @Lum Berry OR Lunatone @Focus Sash
Trick Room
Explosion
Filler
Filler
Medicham stops one of the opponent from moving, guaranteeing his partner can get Trick Room off. I used to run only Solrock, but now I have to run both Solrock and Lunatone because of the amount of priority status out there. I choose between the two based on whether it looks like they'll have a really powerful lead without status (Lunatone) or something like Machamp or another status-inducer (Solrock).
Then there's the cleanup crew:
Camerupt @Life Orb
Eruption
Earth Power
Explosion
Whatever
Rampardos @Something (haven't figured it out yet)
Head Smash
Crunch
Hammer Arm
Whatever
These are simply mons that have some kind of serious power behind them (they both have a 150 BP STAB attack and acceptable attacking stats; Camerupt hits the entire field for full damage) and are never seen otherwise because they suck. I haven't figured out a 6th team member yet.
But, yeah, gimmick. When was the last time you saw Solrock, Lunatone, or Camerupt? Let alone beating teams of regular OUs?
it's less of a "theme team" (that's easy) and more of a "what random corner case do these overlooked/obscure mons abuse to cheat wins off of unprepared people". With Muk it's that he gets both Infestation and Minimize and has the bulk to start setting it up. With the double battle team, well, that one is pretty obvious.
