The Guide to D/P Uber Battling

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INTRODUCTION TO UBERS
The uber metagame is almost a forgotten metagame, the main reason being that everyone plays the Overused metagame (OU), and the fact that some other people even think that Ubers take no skill to use. However, they are wrong. Uber matches are full of strategy. They pack more power and movepool than many OU pokemon, making the Uber metagame is quite unbalanced; this is how, when and where strategy, prediction and critical thinking shine the most. One wrong move can destroy its user if one is not careful. This guide will hopefully help one pick Pokemon and their individual aspects (EVs, moves, etc.) that will thrive in the Uber metagame.

Which Pokemon are Ubers?
The following Pokémon are classified as Ubers:
Mewtwo, Mew, Wobbuffet, Lugia, Ho-oh, Latias, Latios, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Deoxys, Deoxys-A, Deoxys-D, Deoxys-S, Palkia, Dialga, Giratina, Manaphy, Darkrai and Arceus

Why are they Ubers?They are the Pokémon that are considered too powerful for a balanced Standard (also known as Overused, or OU) metagame. Ubers tend to have very high stats and larger movepools compared to most other Pokemon. This results in their being extremely difficult or impossible to counter within the normal limits of the Standard metagame.

Why Wobbuffet?
One may ask why Wobbuffet is Uber; its stats besides Hit Points are very low, and its movepool consists of a meager seven moves. However, it is known as the ultimate set up pokemon, and it is classified as an Uber purely because it has a trait - Shadow Tag - that traps all Pokémon that are not holding a Shed Shell or have the move U-Turn or Baton Pass. Wobbuffet's titanic HP lets him use his moves - Counter, Mirror Coat, and most importantly, Encore - to great success. His ability to set up sweepers such as Rayquaza and Arceus with a deadly combination of Encore and Shadow Tag is definitely not something that players should overlook. In Advance, 386 play, or the 3rd generation as many call it, 2 Wobbuffets facing each other would cause an extremely long and mindbendingly boring stallwar due to their mutual inability to switch out, thus causing them to try and slap around each other for no damage until they Struggle, which will never finish thanks to the recovery they receive from the item Leftovers. However, this problem has been fixed in Diamond/Pearl. Two Pokemon with Shadow Tag will be able to escape out of each other, and thus preventing this dreadfully boring battle of willpower. This, however, is not a reason why Wobbuffet is not Uber, as it can trap anything else and force either a knockout or a free turn with Encore. If Wobbuffet Encored a damaging attack, the opposition would be promptly destroyed, and if it Encored a setup move, Wobbuffet's user would almost be guaranteed a free turn to switch to another Pokemon and set up.

What makes a team Uber?
Any number of Ubers on one's team automatically makes one's team an Uber team. If one has just one Uber on one's team, one's team is Uber. There are no exceptions.

KNOW THE UBERS
The Pokémon will be organized into groups for effectiveness.

The Uber Walls

• Lugia: Known as the ultimate wall in the past, Lugia’s tanking ability remains almost unchanged in this fast paced generation. With 106 base Hit Points, 130 base Defense, and 154 base Special Defense, coupled with a recovery move known as Roost, Lugia is always be a pain to take down. Additionally, its base 110 speed outpaces many threats such as Palkia and Groudon. Despite its higher Special Defense, Lugia is often used as a physical wall because it still pales to Blissey in terms of special walling. In Diamond/Pearl, Lugia’s tanking abilities are slightly hampered by Stealth Rock, though.
  

• Giratina: Known for its ability to stop the rampage of a Swords Dancing Normal typed Arceus, Giratina packs useful stats in tanking and a wide array of moves to back it up. With a godly base 150 Hit Points and base 120 in both defenses, its ability to learn Will-o-Wisp, AND its having useful immunities to Normal and Fighting while resisting Electric, Water, Grass, Poison and Bug certainly makes it a fine wall in Ubers. However, unlike Lugia, Giratina lacks a recovery move. It can't even learn Roost, which is a shame and a major impediment to his tanking ability. Giratina’s weaknesses to Ghost, Dark, Dragon and Ice also hurt it severely, seeing how all of said types are common in the Uber metagame. Giratina's offensive capabilities should not be overlooked, however, seeing that it has access to powerful moves such as Draco Meteor and can launch them from a base 100 Attack or Special Attack when the trainer does not feel like making his Giratina a wall. STABed Ghost and Dragon attacks are certainly something to fear in Ubers.
  

• Deoxys-D: THE Uber Spiker and Stealth Rocker and Knock Offer; the list goes on. Deoxys-D’s movepool surpasses that of all the other walls thanks to its multiple forms. It has access to Recover to replenish his health, and Toxic to poison the opponent. It can Taunt its victims, too, preventing their attempts to heal. Deoxys-D’s options are so numerous, one wouldn’t be able to explain them all here.
  

• Latias: Unlike her brother Latios, Latias focuses on the defensive aspects. Latias possesses a base 80 Hit Points, a base 90 Defense, and base 130 Special Defense. This may seem small compared the others, but Latias’ trump card is her mystical item: Soul Dew. Soul Dew boosts her Special Defense and Special Attack stats by roughly 50%, making it a very deadly sweeper as well. Latias is capable of holding her own against tough attackers such as Kyogre, even if she meets an Ice Beam from 438 Special Attack, and dish back significant with Thunder and Grass Knot. Like many other Psychics in the Uber metagame, Latias has the ability to Recover her lost hit points to make her even a tougher wall. She is, however, prone to Metagross’ Pursuit if she switches out due to her base 80 Hit Points and base 90 Defense, and Meteor Mash if she stays in. She is best known as a special wall that has a considerable amount of offense and speed, which is what separates her from Blissey.
  

• Dialga: Dialga possesses a base 100 Hit Points, a base 120 Defense, and a base 100 Special Defense, Pressure, and one of the the top ranked type combinations (Steel/Dragon) for tanking. While Dialga does not possess the ability to recover quickly like Lugia, he packs a wide range of resistances which makes it quite handy for switching into the constant blastings of Shadow Balls in the uber metagame. Dialga certainly is not a slouch in the offensive departments either. It has a base 120 Attack and base 150 Special attack, which along with powerful moves such as Draco Meteor and Thunder lets him tear a gaping hole in the opponent’s team.
  

• Groudon: Groudon is usually seen in the offensive department, but a physical walling Groudon deserves mention. Groudon is capable of holding up against threats such as Tyranitar and Metagross with given EV investment in Hit Points and Defense. It only needs 252 HP EVs and 24 Defense EVs to survive a Dragon Danced Life Orbed Outrage from Rayquaza; it can then retaliate with Stone Edge or Counter. The former is powerful enough to put Rayquaza down to an incredibly low amount of health that Life Orb recoil can wipe it out. Counter has a 100% chance of destroying Rayquaza, but only if it attacks Groudon.
  

STRATEGY IN UBERS

Playing Ubers often requires a completely different mindset than playing in Standards. Many strategies that were effective in Standards become completely useless, while tactics that were shunned in Standards sometimes become very effective in Ubers.

The Specials Rule Ubers
In Standards, many of the strongest attackers are physically based; in Ubers, the reverse is true. Much of the Uber metagame is concentrated in Special Attack and Special Defense, as those two stats run into astronomical levels with quite a few Ubers; most Ubers have comparatively low Attack and Defense values, however. This can be exploited by using heavy physical attackers such as Groudon and Metagross; such Pokemon should be handled with care, however, as physical attackers tend to have comparatively low Special Defense and therefore are vulnerable to the powerful special attacks that run rampant in Ubers.

Maximizing Moves
In Standards, it is generally advised to take advantage of a Pokemon’s STAB moves unless the Pokemon was of the Poison type and had better options, as Poison has terrible type coverage. In Ubers, however, type coverage is often more important than STAB, and most Pokemon, regardless of type, tend to use Dragon, Electric, Ice, Dark, and Ghost type attacks. Even though many of the Ubers are Psychic type, they seldom use Psychic type moves for the very fact that many of the Ubers are Psychic. Mewtwo, for example, can deliver more damage with Ice Beam than Psychic to almost every Uber and non-Uber usable in the metagame; this is due both to the fact that the many Psychic type Pokemon of Ubers resist Psychic and that the not-as-many-but-still-common Dragon type Pokemon are weak to Ice. In fact, the only Ubers that Psychic hits harder than Ice Beam are Ho-oh, Kyogre, Palkia, and some rare variations of Arceus.

Dragon, Ice, and Dark attacks can usually be used alone to much success. Darkrai sometimes relies exclusively on its Dark STAB, and Mewtwo on Ice Beam. However, Electric and Ghost types almost never constitute single-type-attack movesets, for some Pokemon are completely immune to their assaults, making any significant setup for nothing. Moreover, Pokemon that boast said immunity are free to use one turn to set up as they wish; in the extremely fast-paced environment of Ubers, one turn of setup frequently proves fatal to the opposition. Instead, Pokemon that choose to use Electric or Ghost type attacks elect to add an attack of another type to their movesets. Pokemon with an Electric attack often pair up with an Ice attack, and Pokemon with a Ghost type attack do the same with Fighting attacks; the purpose of such pairings are to maximize a specific moveset’s type coverage.

Similarly, there are combinations of moves that do not have ample type coverage and are therefore discouraged. For example, a Pokemon almost never has both a Dragon and an Ice type attack on a single moveset, for both types together are redundant in that both are super effective against Dragon types and not very effective against Steel types. This is one instance where STAB does come into play; the general advice is that the Dragon attack be used if it receives STAB, and the Ice attack be used otherwise.

Almost all Ubers are capable of increasing their in-battle stats through moves such as Calm Mind and Swords Dance, and it would do one well to take advantage of such boosting moves. One would think that with the enormous number of stat boosters, phazers would be in high demand. That is a logical but unfortunately incorrect assumption; Uber stats can become numbers that reach far into the thousands, a level that phazers would be hard pressed to contend with. Instead, Ubers relies on having a solid, durable counter that can -do- something to the Pokemon it wants to counter (such as Giratina using Will-o-Wisp on Groudon to smash its physical potential), destroying the opponent before it has the time to set up, or occasionally even a race to see which Uber can raise its stats most in the least amount of time.

The Lead Pokemon
As with any metagame, Ubers is impacted by the Pokemon one leads with. Most good Uber leads fall in at least one of the following categories: immediate damage, anti-lead, and/or weather.

It is always good to lead with a Pokemon that can cause immediate and severe damage without the need to set up with a stat boosting move. Choice Specs Mewtwo is but one such Pokemon; Choice Specs boosts its already impressive Special Attack to even larger levels, and as Choice Specs allows for 4 move choices, its moveset will likely be able to rend anything in the game to pieces in one way or another.

Dialga is the prime example of an anti-lead. It can take on Kyogre and Palkia reasonably, which is important because Kyogre is popular as a lead for two reasons (immediate damage and weather), and Palkia is able to inflict bad damage to well near everything. Additionally, Dialga may even be able to set up Trick Room, a highly unexpected but potentially dangerous tactic in Ubers.

Only two Pokemon truly fit into the “weather” lead category: Groudon and Kyogre. Tyranitar, Hippowdon and Abomasnow can stir up weather, too, but Tyranitar matches up poorly against popular leads such as Kyogre, and the latter two are not fit for competition in Ubers. There are some Pokemon that become extremely powerful based on the weather, and the weather leads attempt to establish the correct weather as soon as possible. Beneficiaries from weather leads include Palkia and Manaphy, which enjoy the rain, and Heatran and Tangrowth, who like the sun.

Although it may be tempting to lead with a wall, it is highly discouraged because of several reasons. Walls should react to certain threats, and as they can usually take a good amount of damage, it is not necessary to meet the Pokemon it wants to wall straight up. Additionally, walls are predictable and the easiest of setup fodders for the opponent to take advantage of if he or she leads with a Pokemon different from the type said wall is geared to handle. As if that were not enough, almost everything in the Uber metagame is capable of bypassing its potential walls; for example, Blissey can take Kyogre’s special attacks, but abhors Waterfall, which leading Choice Scarf Kyogres often carry.

Prediction

In Ubers, it can be incredibly difficult to respond to a threat that has already switched in; for example, there is almost nothing a Palkia can’t hurt. This is where prediction comes in handy to make it difficult for said threats to switch in. For example, a Blissey is an excellent opportunity for a Metagross to switch in, especially if said Blissey is walling a Choice Specs Dialga and unlikely to switch out. However, an intelligent Blissey user may decide to switch to a Palkia, who can easily Surf the incoming Metagross back to the scrap heap. Assuming that the Dialga had used Overheat, it is plain that it would switch out due to the severe Special Attack drop Overheat slams it with, and said Palkia could switch in with minimal risk to itself. Even if the Dialga user predicts Palkia, Overheat wouldn’t do over 10% damage thanks to Palkia’s 4x Fire resistance and Overheat’s Special Attack drop.

However, if the Dialga had used Dragon Pulse, and Dialga’s user knew that his opponent had a Palkia, prediction would be far more interesting. Assuming both players are intelligent and playing to win, the Dialga’s user could perfectly well predict a switch to Palkia to take advantage of his own probably switch to Metagross, and the Blissey’s user could perfectly well stay in and take minimal damage. In this situation, both players could take risks or play at face value, which would lead to either:

• Blissey taking minimal damage and hitting Dialga for little damage
  
• Blissey meeting Metagross and inflicting minimal damage, and be threatened
  
• Palkia gets OHKOed by Dragon Pulse
  
• Metagross meeting Palkia and being threatened
  

In this instance, Blissey’s user should play at face value, as switching to Palkia carries the risk of Palkia being OHKOed, while Palkia could take one Metagross Meteor Mash due to resistance, should Metagross switch in and threaten Blissey.

TEAM BUILDING

A checklist and a sample team to help you create your own uber team

Uber Team Checklist
When you are playing in the uber metagame, make sure you have most of these covered. Use this checklist as a guide to build your team. The ones marked with a * are required for a general and stable uber team

• *Have a special wall. Blissey and Latias are your main choices here. Blissey should be prioritized, however, seeing as she is not as vulnerable to Pursuit as Latias is, and has higher HP and Special Defense plus neutrality to Ice and Dragon (very important here, since Draco Meteor would otherwise tear you up). Latias is useful for dealing some immediate and significant damage to Pokemon such as Kyogre and Palkia, though.
  

• *Have a physical wall. In Ubers, Lugia and Giratina are the best physical walls. Giratina is capable of stopping a Normal typed Swords Dancing Arceus and burning things with Will-o-Wisp, while Lugia has access to Reflect and Roost.
  

• *Have a physical sweeper that is not weak to Ice or Electric, or have a high special defense to be able to absorb those two types. You will need something to stop Blissey, otherwise she will wall your entire team. Since Uber Blisseys generally run Thunder and Ice beam, using Rayquaza as your Blissey counter is not recommended.
  

• *Have a special sweeper. Physical walls may not be common in Ubers, but they do exist; however, as a majority of the Ubers are special attackers, you’d most likely end up using two or three anyway.
  

• *Have a resistance or immunity to the following types (1 check for each type): Dragon, Ice, Electric, Psychic, Dark, Ghost, Bug, Fighting, Ground, Water, Fire, Steel and Rock
  

• Have a pseudo hazer (phazer). This isn’t as necessary as the others, since Ninjask is the only thing that would really lose its Baton Passing abilities when phazed. Don’t even think about phazing Mew; it will probably Taunt you anyway.
  

• *Have a counter to all or most of the pokemon described. That would be all ubers, Metagross, Blissey, Heatran, Forretress, Skarmory, Magnezone, Ninjask and Weavile
  

• *Have a sleep talker/absorber. There are two Ubers capable of using sleep moves: Darkrai and Mew. Due to the Uber metagame’s speed and pace, losing a Pokemon to a sleep move can be fatal to your team. It is important to keep your Pokemon from fainting until it has done its job. A sleep absorber in this metagame is more important than in the OU metagame. For newer players, a Sleep absorber uses the move Sleep Talk to take the status condition sleep and activate Sleep Clause (a standard rule that states one may only put one opposing Pokemon to sleep at a time); Sleep Talk is so it's not completely useless while sleeping.
  

• Have a Rapid Spinner. Spinning helps you get your Ho-oh, Lugia and Rayquaza into the field. However, in the Uber metagame, the only Pokemon that should be considered for spinning is Forretress, and in the Uber metagame, Forretress doesn’t do much besides help physical walling and soaking up Outrages, and possibly Exploding.
  

• Have a Spiker and/or Stealth Rocker. One has a few options here: Skarmory, Forretress, Deoxys-D can learn Spikes and Stealth Rock. Other pokemon that learns Stealth Rock but not spikes are Dialga, Groudon, Blissey, Heatran and Metagross. Stealth Rock will help you weaken things like Lugia, Ho-oh and Rayquaza, while Spikes hurt everything that’s on the ground. This isn’t not mandatory, but it will certainly be helpful.
  

• *Have a weather changer. Tyranitar, Kyogre and Groudon are the only weather changers in uber play (no one uses Abomasnow or Hippowdon). They will help one against teams who rely on weather to win, and those kind of teams can be very dangerous unless the weather is changed. Even if you only have one weather changer, a simple change in weather can impact the game significantly.
  

Sample Team
This is a sample team that follows most of the guidelines.

The special wall/special sweeper
Latias @ Soul Dew
Trait: levitate
EVs: 156 HP / 176 Spd / 176 SAtk
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Dragon Pulse
- Thunder
- Recover
With her on the team, the weaknesses to Kyogre and Palkia are eliminated. Latias serves as a great lead due to her stated ability to counter Kyogre, a very common lead, and perform decently against Groudon. She also handles a lot of other things as well, including special attacking Arceus that are not Dragon, Bug, Ghost, Dark or Ice type.

The MAIN special wall
Blissey @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 176 Def / 80 SAtk / 252 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Thunder
- Softboiled
- Ice Beam
Uber Blisseys are geared towards Special Defense to help it take Water Spouts and such. Psych Up is always a welcome option over Calm Mind, if one wishes to snag the opponent’s boosts if they have boosted a couple of times. Calm Mind makes her not entirely reliant on the opponent's boosts, but Blissey can only Calm Mind once per turn, netting only one boost. Natural Cure is needed for Ubers so it can somewhat shrug off status, even though Thunder's 60% paralysis rate with Serene Grace may seem tempting.

The Darkrai and Tyranitar counter
Arceus @ Fist Plate
Trait: Multitype
EVs: 92 HP / 216 Spd / 202 SAtk
Modest Nature (+SAtk ,-Atk)
- Toxic
- Judgment
- Ice Beam
- Recover
Many of you will oppose and tell me to use Bug Arceus because it stops Darkrai while hitting many other ubers super-effective. This is not the case, however, since a Bug typed Arceus is weak to Stone Edge and thus will make this team vulnerable to Tyranitar. Ice Beam is there for Rayquaza. Toxic is hilarious if Latias and Lugia thinks they can come in and wall this

The physical sweeper, and resistance to Dragon and Ice.
Metagross @ Choice Band
Trait: Clear Body
EVs: 210 HP / 140 Atk / 160 SDef
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Meteor Mash
- Earthquake
- Pursuit
- Explosion
The EVs are configured to let is survive a Calm Minded Modest Soul Dew Latios’ Thunder and OHKO it back with Meteor Mash. It also ensures that a Thunder from Blissey is a 5HKO against it, unless that Blissey has over 220 Special Attack. Explosion for some serious hurts when Metagross is low on health. Due to the team's rather disturbing Jirachi weakness, Earthquake is almost a requrement on Metagross

The special sweeper, weather changer and revenge killer
Kyogre @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Drizzle
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Water Spout
- Thunder
- Ice Beam
- Surf
Changes weather. With the new Speed boost from Choice Scarf, Water Spout is now usable and will put a dent into almost anything in the game. With this, sunshine is no longer a fear, and things like Heatran can no longer abuse its power. Surf allows for more damage when Kyogre has taken a few hits and is at lower than 63% health.

The physical wall
Giratina @ Leftovers
Trait: Pressure
EVs: 240 HP / 16 Atk / 252 Def
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
- Dragon Claw
- Will-o-Wisp
This Pokemon is very important. It counters a Normal typed Swords Dancing Arceus, and stops Metagross and Heracross from ruining the team. It also absorbs the sleep status, and can counter Pokemon such as Groudon.

Team check?
This is an evaluation of the sample team. Do they all come together?

• Have a special wall? Yes (Latias and Blissey)
  
• Have a physical wall? Yes (Giratina)
  
• Have a special sweeper? Yes (Latias, Arceus, and Kyogre)
  
• Have a physical sweeper? Yes (Metagross)
  

• Have resistances to Dragon, Ice, Electric, Psychic, Dark, Ghost, Bug, Fighting, Ground, Water, Fire, Steel and Rock? The team resists them all.
  
• Have a Spinner? No, but with 2 pokemon resisting Stealth Rock, one immune to Spikes and having everything besides Metagross and Kyogre being able to heal, Spikes and Stealth Rock are not that much of a threat.
  
• Have a phazer? No, but since Ninjask is the only Baton passer in ubers, and is rather uncommon due to the appearance of Stealth Rock, it is not much of a deal.
  
• Have a weather changer? Yes (Kyogre)
  
• Have a Spiker/Stealth Rocker? No, but these aren’t exactly required anyways.
  
• Have a sleep talker? Giratina
  

Threat List

The threat list that will also help in the creation of a solid Uber team. Remember, a counter must be able to switch into a Pokemon with little or no risk to itself and threaten to deal immediate and major damage or set up without much risk to itself.

• Mewtwo: Giratina and Kyogre should handle the physical variants, and Kyogre handles the special variations that have only Ice Beam. Special variants are handled by Blissey. Taunt versions can get ruined by being paralyzed by Blissey’s Thunder.
  
• Mew: Nothing honestly counters this, as its movepool is enormous. Giratina can take the sleep and Kyogre can Water Spout it off.
  
• Wobbuffet: If you can’t switch out, you can’t counter it. Therefore, Wobbuffet is impossible to counter.
  
• Lugia: Metagross handles the Calm Mind variants while Giratina takes on the Toxic variant. Blissey is able to laugh at any special attack Lugia does, and is a backup. Arceus can Toxic non Resting variants, but must avoid getting hit by Toxic at all costs.
  
• Ho-oh: Kyogre and Giratina stop it completely.
  
• Latios and Latias: Blissey can come in and take little damage from their attacks, and Metagross can destroy both with either Meteor Mash or Pursuit.
  
• Kyogre: Blissey and Latias. Mostly Latias, who can easily take any attack thanks to the Special Defense boost Soul Dew provides. Blissey can also defeat it with Thunder. Giratina handles the odd physical versions. Mixed Kyogres fall to Latias.
  
• Groudon: Giratina burns it while taking minimal damage from Earthquake and Arceus defeats non-Life Orbing variants.
  
• Rayquaza: Metagross resists Outrage and can put Rayquaza’s health very low with Choice Banded Meteor Mash or utterly destroy it with Explosion if need be. Not much else besides that, since Rayquaza is very, very hard to counter due to its extremely powerful Outrage.
  
• Deoxys-A: Metagross destroys it, and so does Latias. Giratina handles it if it doesn’t have Ice Beam.
  
• Deoxys-D: Metagross handles the Toxic/Taunt/Agility variant while Blissey beats up Deoxys-D with the help of Calm Mind. Arceus is immune to Knock Off (a bonus of its Multitype trait) and could work against it in the same way as Blissey.
  
• Palkia: Latias outspeeds and destroys it, and can take a Spacial Rend if it doesn't critical hit. Choice Scarf versions play with prediction. Palkia has no real counters and Latias is about as close to the best counter one can get.
  
• Dialga: Arceus beats up on it with its Fighting types Judgment, and Blissey takes care of any and all special variants.
  
• Giratina: Depends. Physical attacking versions can be handled by Metagross and the Giratina on this team. Roar/Protect versions are handled by the Giratina on this team. Latias is there to help as well.
  
• Darkrai: If predicted right, Giratina absorbs the sleep and Arceus handles Darkrai with powerful Fighting Judgments.
  
• Manaphy: Manhandled by Blissey's, Kyogre's and Latias' Thunders.
  

• Normal Swords Dance forms: Handled by Giratina and Fighting Arceus.
  
• Any other non Fighting type special Arceus: Blissey will hopefully counter them. Latias can come into the non Ghost, Bug, Dark, Ice and Dragon types
  
• Physical attacking Arceus that are not Dragon or Ghost type: Handled by Giratina
  
• Non Extremespeed versions can be revenge killed by Kyogre provided Kyogre is at full health and is able to use Water Spout at a high power.
  

• Metagross: Countered by Giratina, who can Will-o-Wisp it, and Kyogre, who deals huge damage with its STABed weather boosted Water moves. Beaten one on one by Arceus
  
• Blissey: Metagross can come in and Meteor Mash it.
  
• Heatran: Kyogre and Giratina should wall it, with Kyogre cutting off its main power source, the sun.
  
• Weavile: Metagross can Meteor Mash or Bullet Punch it to its grave, and takes little damage from even Night Slash.
  
• Tyranitar: Arceus ruins it with Fighting Judgment, and Kyogre can set the rain back after Tyranitar is vanquished.
  
• Skarmory: Arceus, Blissey, Kyogre, and Latias can all smash it to pieces with their powerful special attacks.
  
• Forretress: Giratina absorbs Explosion, Arceus beats it up with Judgment, and Kyogre destroys it with STABed weather boosted Water moves.
  
• Magnezone: Blissey and Latias can easily take any special attack it throws out, Arceus can land a super effective hit on it, and OHKO. Giratina can take the Explosion.
  
• Ninjask: None sadly, but if it is repeatedly attacked, it will usually pass nothing but Speed, which by itself isn't overly threatening.
  
• Heracross: Giratina walls it infinitely and whittles away at its health with Dragon Claw.
  
• All Chlorophyll Pokemon (such as Tangrowth and Exeggutor): All are handled by a combination of Blissey, Metagross, Giratina and Latias. Kyogre, while it can't switch in directly, cuts off the sun. Jumpluff is a little harder to handle due to its high speed and stally tactics, but Giratina can waste its PP and Kyogre beats it up with Choice Scarfed Ice Beam.
  
• Shedinja: Metagross lands an easy Pursuit on it. Arceus Toxics it, and Giratina can Burn it.
  
• Swift Swimmers: Ludicolo and Kingdra are handled by Blissey and Latias. Floatzel is slightly harder to handle, but without Taunt it is ruined by Giratina. Its weak defenses allow it to be a snack to the common Thunder in the team
  
• Jirachi: Metagross can Earthquake it. Blissey can paralyze it with Thunder too, although nothing but a stallwar happens when two pokemon are facing each other armed with Calm Minds. Blissey might emerge victorious in the end with a single critical hit, whereas Blissey will survive a Critical Hit anything Jirachi throws at it
  
• Bronzong: Giratina absorbs Sleep, Kyogre Water Spouts it. Blissey walls it. Metagross is immune to Toxic and can Meteor Mash it into oblivion (3-4HKO. More likely to be 3 since there's the attack boost)
  

THE TRICK ROOM FACTOR
In ubers, Pokemon are generally EVed to outspeed other Pokemon. Examples are Lugia being trained to outspeed Groudon, and Latias being trained to outspeed Palkia. Trick Room reverses all of these, making the attempts at outspeeding useless since faster Pokemon will move last in Trick Room conditions.

Why would one use a turn and a moveslot to set up Trick Room, especially when time and space are such necessary commodities in Ubers? Trick Room can allow powerful but slow Pokemon such as Groudon to make an impact. Of course, Pokemon that can set up Trick Room safely are also necessary. Usually, Pokemon that are used to set up Trick Room in Ubers are sturdy specimens such as Dialga; obviously, one would not leave the Trick Rooming to something such as Deoxys-A.

-Originally written by Jibaku and Great Sage of Smogon University