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Hi mistaken here, showing the teams used to qualify for olt along with some discussion on how the teams changed over time.
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32 People in total 45 Teams
15.5% Full Stall Teams
4.44% Rain Teams
17.7% Hyper Offense
22.2% Balance
8.88% Semi Stall
31.1% Bulky Offense
Bulky Offense has emerged as the most dominant play style through the teams used to qualify for OLT. Statistics with such a small sample size are often flawed, however the players who qualified for OLT are a good representation of what the high ladder looked like during this time. Bulky and hyper offense make up nearly half of the teams used where semi and full stall take up around 24% of the teams, which is less than half of what offense take up, this goes to show how the teams used are heavily shifted to offense. Now that goth is gone even more of the ladder has shifted to offense.
All of these teams have proven themselves through their success on the ladder. I would like to note how the majority of teams used had a way of breaking stall. During the start of the tour fatter teams were very common. Omfuga's team had a diggersby, mega gyarados, and sd talon along with a healing wish latias to gain favorable match ups vs these common fat builds. Pokemon like mega gardevoir and manaphy were used on many of these teams because these mons help break balance. I would also like to point out how the teams used in the last 5 weeks were in general more offensively oriented compared to the teams used in the earlier weeks which were more balanced. This occurred because the ladder was filled with balance and stall breakers which made it difficult to find as many good match ups with semi stall and balance. Chople tyranitar was seen a lot throughout these teams as it became the hoopa-u, charizard-y, gengar,mega zam etc blanket check for all of the threats to balance.
In general the qualifying teams were a great representation of what the ladder is like. Showing how all the play styles are able to be used however some styles are more prevalent than others. You will notice how some of the teams are used by different users in different weeks this also mimics how the majority of the ladder contains extremely similar types of teams. Teams like goth stall and sand balance w/ amoongus became very common during these qualifying runs and is still very commonly seen on the ladder.
I hope this thread inspires you to build and helps you realize that every play style can be used successfully on the ladder.
Hi mistaken here, showing the teams used to qualify for olt along with some discussion on how the teams changed over time.
LT1A Cosine180
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LT1D Omfuga
LT1a tessy
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LT1A ABR
LT1D Omfuga
LT1a tessy
LT1A ABR
LT2X Leftiez
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LT2D M Dragon
LT2S MetalGro$$
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LT2B Specterito
LT2D M Dragon
LT2S MetalGro$$
LT2B Specterito
LT3Y Xray
LT3A sabbs
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LT3D WCAR
LT3A tewmew
LT3A sabbs
LT3D WCAR
LT3A tewmew
LT5Y Alexander
LT5X Impulse
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LT5A Beatiful EG
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lt5b hiye
LT5X Impulse
LT5A Beatiful EG
lt5b hiye
LT6X Tsunami
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LT6Z Lange
LT6B boudouche
LT6 GTM
LT6Z Lange
LT6B boudouche
LT6 GTM
shartruce2
Arifeen
Asuya
evanston
Arifeen
Asuya
evanston
32 People in total 45 Teams
15.5% Full Stall Teams
4.44% Rain Teams
17.7% Hyper Offense
22.2% Balance
8.88% Semi Stall
31.1% Bulky Offense
Bulky Offense has emerged as the most dominant play style through the teams used to qualify for OLT. Statistics with such a small sample size are often flawed, however the players who qualified for OLT are a good representation of what the high ladder looked like during this time. Bulky and hyper offense make up nearly half of the teams used where semi and full stall take up around 24% of the teams, which is less than half of what offense take up, this goes to show how the teams used are heavily shifted to offense. Now that goth is gone even more of the ladder has shifted to offense.
All of these teams have proven themselves through their success on the ladder. I would like to note how the majority of teams used had a way of breaking stall. During the start of the tour fatter teams were very common. Omfuga's team had a diggersby, mega gyarados, and sd talon along with a healing wish latias to gain favorable match ups vs these common fat builds. Pokemon like mega gardevoir and manaphy were used on many of these teams because these mons help break balance. I would also like to point out how the teams used in the last 5 weeks were in general more offensively oriented compared to the teams used in the earlier weeks which were more balanced. This occurred because the ladder was filled with balance and stall breakers which made it difficult to find as many good match ups with semi stall and balance. Chople tyranitar was seen a lot throughout these teams as it became the hoopa-u, charizard-y, gengar,mega zam etc blanket check for all of the threats to balance.
In general the qualifying teams were a great representation of what the ladder is like. Showing how all the play styles are able to be used however some styles are more prevalent than others. You will notice how some of the teams are used by different users in different weeks this also mimics how the majority of the ladder contains extremely similar types of teams. Teams like goth stall and sand balance w/ amoongus became very common during these qualifying runs and is still very commonly seen on the ladder.
I hope this thread inspires you to build and helps you realize that every play style can be used successfully on the ladder.
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