As of today, we are just 3 weeks away from the release of gen 9! To celebrate, I'm going to be emptying out my teambuilder to get most ideas I've had out here, so we can continue to come up with new ideas into Scarlet and Violet. I will be editing this post once per day with a new team until release. If you have any really cool teams you haven't seen anyone else use, you can PM me on smogon, and I might throw it in.
10/28 Poison Touch
This is a really fun team that I have been experimenting with for a while now. The basis is that the majority of physical attacks make contact, so by using an extremely physically-offensive team, you greatly increase your odds to just flat out kill or inflict poison as well. I chose to run a Glastrier over another Mega-Heracross so that I would be able to Dynamax, increasing the damage my opponents take from poison. However, running dual Heracross is still plenty viable. I've found from testing that I get a poison in most matches, and those that I don't are usually because I just win before I get the chance to poison.
10/29 Normalize
I had this idea to be able to use normalize but not instantly lose to ghost and rock types. Flower Veil Dhelmise is a beast offensively, and this Venusaur will be hitting everything for neutral damage as long as they aren't ghost or rock. If they are, you can just mega, and now you have Thick Fat, which is very much a viable ability.
10/30 Enamorus-Therian
This mon is broken. Above average stats, and a very solid typing, make it easy to build with, and easy to win with. This team is a pretty basic Delta Stream, with Aerilate on the other to help the Mega-Heracross and Flower Veil matchups. You can mix and match with pretty much any good ability and have a solid team going.
10/31 Make the Bulky Mon Bulkier
We are back with some stall today, with this very versatile team featuring Mega-Audino. I used a variation of this team following the release of Chromera, and brought it back today with relatively high success on ladder. The idea is to just give a mon of choice +1 to its defenses to start the match, and then Audino can mega-evolve to get Healer, helping our bulky mon live even longer. Cresselia was my bulky mon of choice for today, but you can use pretty much any bulky mon in its place.
11/01 More Flower Veil
We should all know this by now, but Simple Mega-Venusaur is a beast. Doesn't matter much what you have alongside it, as long as you have Flower Veil it will be successful. When it comes to Flower Veil users, there are not many grass-types that can even attempt to outbulk Eviolite Flarelm, making it a terrific partner to ensure that the Flower Veil stays up.
11/02 Spooky Time except Halloween was 2 days ago
Stealing from the viability ceilings, Blacephalon was pretty intriguing for me, and after some testing it really doesn't feel bad. It is a slightly worse Dragapult, sacrificing bulk and typing for higher special attack. However, with Friend Guard Dusclops, it can at least live long enough to fire off some strong attacks so Dusclops can clean up.
11/03
CRITS BABEY
Alright, stealing from doipy's November recap again, but with crits this time. How do you live anything Heracross does when it also gets a 1.5x buff and bypasses your defensive stat changes.
11/04 Orange Birbs
Stealing this from an old forum post of mine, but I feel that Tomohawk is quite underrated, being a solidly bulky Delta Stream user, and Cramorant-Gulping, which has fallen off a bit recently, is made much better under Delta Stream, helping with its poor defensive typing.
11/05 Neuroforce
Neuroforce is a strong ability that is really not seen often. It can turn the large amount of weaknesses that WP Pokemon possess and turn that into even more of a weakness, stacking on another multiplier. It is run with Tinted Lens here for the Pokemon focusing more on defensive typing.
11/06 Pickup Jaboca Berry
Yet another old forum post of mine, this is a method to get around the Harvest + Jaboca/Rowap Berry ban. While it is far more inconsistent, it is still quite fun. After one Deoxys uses the berry, after the next berry is used, another one will be picked up, and it will be passed around from then on.
11/07 ඞ Zoroark-Hisui ඞ
Zoroark-H is the closest to perfect a defensive typing can be, with one weakness, and three immunities. However, its poor defensive stats can hold it back, so we pair it with a Friend Guard Dusclops, greatly increasing the longevity.
11/08 My First Team?
This is a re-do of the first team I ever sent on the forums. I originally had Competitive and a Normalium-Z on Ampharos, but now I know better, and have upgraded to WP and Analytic.
11/09 Basically Mega-Heracross
Just a thought here, Plus and Minus aren't seen very often, so let's make a Special Mega-Heracross team. Any special move puts a sizable chunk into anything.
11/10 Imposter Pikachu
I hadn't used this team until recently, but it's just kinda fun. It's really nice if you just want to play some really quick games, as it is incredibly unlikely that you go longer than 5 turns.
11/11 Color Change lol
Rip the type change, so lets just ignore that and use Color Change.
Not terrible, but def not good.
11/12 Anti-Blissey TTar
TTar with Fluffy is
super bulky, making most fighting type attacks deal halved damage, helping with its 4x weakness. This team could have trouble with Blissey, so on the second TTar I gave it As One, preventing Blissey from using its Leppa Berry, nearly always securing a win there.
11/13 Triple Intimidate
Credit to
doipy hooves for this team, def one of the most fun teams from the samples on Showdown. But by my luck at least, the second you start using it you're gonna run into to dual Defiant Mega-Heracross.
11/14 Kind of a Rain Team
I was just trying to find a decent way to use Basculegion, and thought rain couldn't be a bad option. Not a huge fan of Abomasnow so Glastrier was my best bet.
11/15 Oh yeah, Altaria Exists
Kinda forgot that this is a Pokemon, but it has some really solid stats, and with Download and a Pixilate buff, it has some solid damage output. To go with this, we add on a Dusclops with Power Spot.
11/16 Crit Venusaur
Another solid crit idea, one Venusaur with Flower Veil, and one popping off huge damage with Super Luck Razor Claw.
11/17 Yeah
There is no explanation, just Hisuian Avalugg.
11/18 The True Test of Man
Here it is. The last team of jeffdaboss's daily metronome battles team. And yeah, it's dual snom. I ran out of ideas, so I present the True Test of Man. You are not a metronome battles player until you have
a win with Dual Snom.
Thanks for tagging along through these three weeks, can't wait to see what comes from Gen 9. I will likely be staying off of Smogon and Showdown while I try to beat the game as quickly as possible. See you guys then, and Happy Metronoming!
