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Project NatDex OU Teambuilding Competition v2 - Cycle 13: Garganacl
- Thread starter Sputnik
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Team B
The real winners are those who voted keep banned
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Team D
hop on the bronzong bandwagon A
Cmon boss
boss can you stop cluttering the thread with short posts
Team A
Team E
Team E
Congrats to Team A by Xurkiyee for winning this cycle! Your team will be added to the Hall Of Fame.
Cycle Four
One of many Pokemon freed post Tera, Zamazenta has wasted no time in re-establishing itself as one of the best offensive weapons in the tier. Heavy-Duty Boots sets are challenging to wear down while dishing out consistent damage, Choice Band sets are very hard for many teams to switch into, and other variants like IDPress and Z-Move lures can also make some noise in the right matchup. This is all on top of notable utility thanks to its valuable Dark resistance and superior speed tier. What can you cook up with this fearsome canine?
Submissions end Friday, March 21st at 9:00 PM GMT -7!
Cycle Four
One of many Pokemon freed post Tera, Zamazenta has wasted no time in re-establishing itself as one of the best offensive weapons in the tier. Heavy-Duty Boots sets are challenging to wear down while dishing out consistent damage, Choice Band sets are very hard for many teams to switch into, and other variants like IDPress and Z-Move lures can also make some noise in the right matchup. This is all on top of notable utility thanks to its valuable Dark resistance and superior speed tier. What can you cook up with this fearsome canine?
Submissions end Friday, March 21st at 9:00 PM GMT -7!
IDBP Zamazenta + Calm Mind Hatterene
IDBP Zamazenta is a cancer and I hate him; I chose Roar in particular because I don't like opposing HO either. Hatterene is a cool partner, since she blocks hazards such as Toxic Spikes which are a massive issue for Zamazenta, breaks through Poison-types like Toxapex, and appreciates Zamazenta beating bulky Steel-types like Heatran and Corviknight for Hatterene. Landorus-T provides Stealth Rock and a pivot for the former two, while checking opposing Zamazenta, Great Tusk and Melmetal. Ferrothorn provides even more hazards with Spikes, a way-out against Water-types such as Hisuian Samurott, while Tornadus-T offers hazard removal, forming a nice 3-way-defensive backbone for Zamazenta and Hatterene. Raging Bolt handles Mega Charizard Y and, to a lesser extent, Mega Scizor, for the team, while also pivoting for the first two. It gives me priority as well.
IDBP Zamazenta is a cancer and I hate him; I chose Roar in particular because I don't like opposing HO either. Hatterene is a cool partner, since she blocks hazards such as Toxic Spikes which are a massive issue for Zamazenta, breaks through Poison-types like Toxapex, and appreciates Zamazenta beating bulky Steel-types like Heatran and Corviknight for Hatterene. Landorus-T provides Stealth Rock and a pivot for the former two, while checking opposing Zamazenta, Great Tusk and Melmetal. Ferrothorn provides even more hazards with Spikes, a way-out against Water-types such as Hisuian Samurott, while Tornadus-T offers hazard removal, forming a nice 3-way-defensive backbone for Zamazenta and Hatterene. Raging Bolt handles Mega Charizard Y and, to a lesser extent, Mega Scizor, for the team, while also pivoting for the first two. It gives me priority as well.
Offense, swing my way
Future sight + Zamazenta is the best way to use this mon and I won't budge on this. Iron Crown feels 100x better to use now that Dragapult is out of the format, and it ends up being a critical piece of offense vs niche mons that would normally give Zamazenta trouble. Also helps our matchup against Iron Valiant, where Calm Mind sets are pretty easily thwarted as long as we stay healthy. Samurott Hisui serves as our speed control and spike setter, which ups the pressure for Zamazenta even more. It also serves as a crucial pivot to keep our momentum. Raging Bolt gives yard trouble, and the EV spread ensures we aren't 2hkod by Scorching Sands, so we can remain reliable at all times. Also does well to keep up our pivot core along with Landorus, Samurott, and Iron Crown. Landorus is our nonsense stopper, as well as getting up rocks. Taunt could easily be replaced for Knock Off, but I like the extra pressure into Ferrothorn, and stopping Alomomola from wishing as well as keeping Dragonite honest. Terapagos is our government mandated spinner, while also clicking as many buttons as possible with our 4 pivots.
M I X E D Z A M A Z E N T A
https://pokepast.es/01db311687b7f2dd
The Idea is that Zama might struggle vs Other zamas, or vs tech like Body press Gtusk if I dont play IDBP. well not anymore, because theyll take a big fat Moonblast from +1 Special attack invested, and Z-work up also gives a Swords Dance, so Close Combat is gonna be pretty deadly, obviously crunch and stone edge are interchangeable
https://pokepast.es/01db311687b7f2dd
The Idea is that Zama might struggle vs Other zamas, or vs tech like Body press Gtusk if I dont play IDBP. well not anymore, because theyll take a big fat Moonblast from +1 Special attack invested, and Z-work up also gives a Swords Dance, so Close Combat is gonna be pretty deadly, obviously crunch and stone edge are interchangeable
I mean it has ZamaThis team is actually one of my personal projects where I use a random (but viable/niche) pokemon and pray it gets me to 1400's in an alt account, last week kind of failed with
Celery as I had to use 
Fini (the first pokemon I centered around for flavour of the week) halfway through to fix my fragile ego. Coincidentally someone told me to pair 
bro (My flavour mon for this week) with zama and the core works I guess. This team won't win but I just want to leave a (very tiny) footprint in this thread ^^Usually lead with Samu and spam hazards before dying or pivot to another pokemon. Try to make a lot of hazards to usually overwhelm the opponent. Bro uses Future sight, pivots to a wall or breaker and the usual thing you do with Future sight users. 
Samu and spam hazards before dying or pivot to another pokemon. Try to make a lot of hazards to usually overwhelm the opponent. Bro uses Future sight, pivots to a wall or breaker and the usual thing you do with Future sight users.
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Z fsight lele + zama and megasaur
https://pokepast.es/096d3dc2afc94148
The team is built around zama (duh) and one of the best ways to make it work is with future sight and a volturn core. I originally had slowbro as the fsight setter but I also wanted fat wishes for zama so I changed it for mola and added lele as the fsight setter and put the z on it for immediate big damage on something. The next mon I added was moltres because moltres-mola is cool, and to complete the fire-water-grass core I added mega venusaur, which is one of my favorite megas and helps vs oger and valiant while gives toxic immunity too. Last but not least is metal tusk, providing rocks, knock off, hazard removal, electric immunity and psychic resist
I personally miss some priority moves or a better speed control, zama as fastest mon is lame imo, but meh
https://pokepast.es/096d3dc2afc94148
The team is built around zama (duh) and one of the best ways to make it work is with future sight and a volturn core. I originally had slowbro as the fsight setter but I also wanted fat wishes for zama so I changed it for mola and added lele as the fsight setter and put the z on it for immediate big damage on something. The next mon I added was moltres because moltres-mola is cool, and to complete the fire-water-grass core I added mega venusaur, which is one of my favorite megas and helps vs oger and valiant while gives toxic immunity too. Last but not least is metal tusk, providing rocks, knock off, hazard removal, electric immunity and psychic resist
I personally miss some priority moves or a better speed control, zama as fastest mon is lame imo, but meh
Zama CM Lele Pecha
https://pokepast.es/ebe867664f3475ae
https://pokepast.es/ebe867664f3475ae
Teamcomp do be back. Main idea of this team is to pivot into Lele/ Zama to break through defensive cores using Zapdos, Pecha and mola. I originally was trying to build around pecha, i feel it has some nice traits right now as a fast fat pivot who can spread poison p easily. Ting Lu when coupled with mola forms a very nice defensive backbone, and mola also keeps zama and lele healthy for the team in the long run. While not rly ideal, my fogger is zapdos, which can still often scare common rockers such as chomp and lando out with the fear of Hp ice, even though im heat wave for ferro and other steels here.
Waterpon + Life Orb Zamazenta BO
https://pokepast.es/0d0e414c8f459f73
I built this team based on some svou team I saw in SPL. Zamazenta is a life orb set, which helps further its capability as a revenge killer against threats like ogerpon and mega Diancie while also providing the team some more firepower (think: helping to overpower usual checks like Gholdengo and Zapdos easier). The Garchomp was originally ting-lu because of Dragapult, but here it acts as the Ghold, Volcarona, and yard check while also setting spikes so zama can break easier. Ogerpon has a pivot set to bring in Zama easier against Ferrothorn and Melmetal. Besides that there is nothing really to note.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9nationaldex-824465 Here is a replay of the team in action from when it had ting-lu in a nd smogcord Swiss game. Not the exact same thing, but it should give an idea of how the team plays
https://pokepast.es/0d0e414c8f459f73
I built this team based on some svou team I saw in SPL. Zamazenta is a life orb set, which helps further its capability as a revenge killer against threats like ogerpon and mega Diancie while also providing the team some more firepower (think: helping to overpower usual checks like Gholdengo and Zapdos easier). The Garchomp was originally ting-lu because of Dragapult, but here it acts as the Ghold, Volcarona, and yard check while also setting spikes so zama can break easier. Ogerpon has a pivot set to bring in Zama easier against Ferrothorn and Melmetal. Besides that there is nothing really to note.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9nationaldex-824465 Here is a replay of the team in action from when it had ting-lu in a nd smogcord Swiss game. Not the exact same thing, but it should give an idea of how the team plays