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  • One: I'm a newer player for OU and I've loved the idea of stall, but this team I made keeps losing (highest I've gotten is 1050)
    https://pokepast.es/e34fbddfbc199fff

    Gliscor is for knock off and to help with my ground weakness that comes from two poison types. Issue it that it can't stop steel types (Mainly gambit) and I can't do much to opposing Gliscor
    Hydrapple is one of the three regenerator pkmn I have, and is also my phaser. Issue is that I cant beat iron valent

    Toxapex is my hazer, and I have no issues with it, also the second

    Clefable is meant be my back up anti set up but for some reason cant safely use wish

    Pecharunt is anti rapid spin, but I i'm force to tera ghost it infront of Great Tusk 99% of the time

    Alomomola is my second wish user and third regenerator, I just took a pre made set, no notes

    Thanks for reading this and thanks even more if you can somehow salvage it!
    IamNotInPain
    Hey pinkacross, love your vids and thanks for helping the community soon by doing stuff like this!
    love your team-fixing videos and I wanna see what you can do to this team of mine
    I got 1 game off top 500 with this team before tanking and I feel like it has a lot of potential but I'm having trouble figuring out what to change. The worst matchups for me are:
    - gliscor (mostly just encore it into protect with hawlucha and try to slam whatever switches in with CC)
    - Kyurem (very very strong into my team, I end up either tera steeling my rillaboom then hitting it with low kick, or somehow pivoting into blaziken to just do a crap ton of damge to kyurem and whatever switches in)


    I made two versions of this team and I'll explain all the choices below.
    https://pokepast.es/56c16c0a197b01ec
    https://pokepast.es/e1d3950591b91d86

    I wanted to try to make blaziken work in OU and I remembered in gen 8 when blaziken was viable at the very end once people figured out the bulky leftovers + protect set, so I decided to try something similar with grassy terrain support from rillaboom for even more healing.


    below I break down the set for each of my mons feel free to just ignore the yap and look at the team if you want to.
    Overall I'm just wondering what you see I could fix in this team to improve it and really push it over the edge. thanks for your time!



    First, rillaboom is here to set grassy terrain and not much else. Tera steel to help for pecharunt, although I end up tera-ing primarina half the time there

    There are 4 blaziken sets that I've been running interchangably on the teams, although the flame plate set has been the most successful
    https://pokepast.es/24fdf2719edafd23

    With grassy terrain, you can often stay in and burn earthquake users like lando, and with a burn you live a defensive great tusk headlong rush. Every now and then you absolutely mess up a gliscor trying to switch in on a close combat, and you can burn a lot of the walls that tend to stop blaziken like corviknight, pecharunt, dondozo, lando, etc.
    With the flame plate, flare blitz does a ton of damage without any setup, and people almost always expect a swords dance turn one so slamming into them with flare blitz is pretty good. The flame plate lets blaziken 2hko dragapult and do 25% to moltres (2hk0 if I knock it off and rocks are up)

    Primarina is a great special wall and attacker. Moltres matchup isn't too bad due to the offensive overlap of rillaboom blaziken and hawlucha - moltres struggles to handle all 3, especially when primarina gets a free switch in whenever moltres comes in against those 3.

    Hawlucha is just the grassy terrain goat. Encore is massive and a solid amount of my games have been won by getting a single swords dance up and cleaning everything in the endgame. most of the time hawlucha doesn't come in until his walls are chipped, so I swapped tera flying for tera ground to absolutely fry raging bolt.

    Iron Treads/Garchomp: Ground type hazard setter. Garchomp also helps me punish contact VERY well, while iron treads gives me more knock off users. the hazard control is also nice too although I run corv with garchomp

    Zapdos/Corviknight: Big pivot birds. Corviknight also does some hazard removal too I guess. both are tera dragon to save my soul in the wellspring matchup.
    Hey Pinkacross,

    I'm quite new at competitive pokemon, and even more when it comes to building.
    I made a Hydreigon team inspired by Storm Zone's one : https://pokepast.es/5c7ce47843a0e6d8

    I started with Hydreigon and IronMoth because of great defensive synergies and wish Alo for longevity.
    I lack priority but Moth's booster, Ogerpon's Tera and Zapdos' paras seem to do the trick. Encore and substitute also help a lot againts clap and sucker.

    I don't know how my luck went the right way but I've reached my best Elo multiple times with it (in de 500s).
    When I start playing something else my Elo drops ... Don't know, i might be onto something ?
    I'm not strong enough to bring it to high Elo though.

    I would very much appreciate a feedback and/or a piece of advice from you.
    I realy enjoy the team and would like to give it its best shot.

    Congrats for your good work !
    It's not that easy to find content creators that actualy theaches you stuff.
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    This team definitely doesn't look bad! My main concern is that Booster Iron Moth is quite hit-or-miss, that's why its usually not on balance teams like this. Your team doesn't badly seem to need a toxic spike absorber, or rely on anything else Iron Moth does typically, so that's the one slot I'd try playing around with. You could also try a different set, potentially double specs. It may also be worth trying to replace it for a priority user. I hope this helps!
    Le_Q_94
    Thank you so much for your feedback !
    I will definitivly experiment :)
    Ominous Void
    Hey Pinkacross, idk if you remember but like a month ago I sent you an Ogerpon team, but recently I made it better with a simple change of Primarina > Samurott Hisui and it feels like this team went from mid to god tier. Since Prima is pretty versatile, I have a version with whirlpool + sub and also one with av but I’ll send you the whirlpool one cuz it’s fun. I’m wondering what you think abt the team now in rating and looks and if you think I can get to 1600s with it if I tried, thanks in advance https://pokepast.es/4ece1de0cac01edd
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Looks quite good! Nice stallbreaking core, lots to help in more offensive matchups, solid defensive core... my only real concern is lack of priority, which may make some HO teams scary. I'd say 1600s is DEFINITELY achievable with this team, the limiting factor will be playing. Keep an eye on the Hyper Offense matchup and see how that goes!
    Ominous Void
    Ominous Void
    Tysm Pinka !
    mmtaccos
    yo, this team is by lax and he said that it's one of his worst teams ever made in sv: https://pokepast.es/7b7ee84eadd7e304
    i really liked the idea of a trade HO however and am curious to see what changes you'd make to it
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Seems cool! I like the Cornerstone idea, personally I'd also include a Metal Burst Kingambit, it would go very well with the gimmick. As far as viability goes though, I'm not a huge fan of the concept, trading based teams are kind of inherently inconsistent. In particular this team is SUPER weak to entry hazards, taunt lead + offensive pressure is sometimes going to be enough but other times not so much... the team not having any hazards of its own is also really rough. The concept is fun for sure though, I like the Dbond Ival... I'll probably test something like this out on a livestream and see if anything works!
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    If I was just trying to fix this particular team, I'd probably try to fit in a Tusk somewhere for SR + spin, but that would kind of ruin the essence of the team I suppose
    mmtaccos
    mmtaccos
    looking forward to the stream :)



    Hey pinkacross, im new to pokemon in general summary, love the channel.


    My team is built around Dragapult as my opener. I bring it in three to four times a game and often get full health kills thanks to Draco Meteor nothing unscarrfed outspeeds it. Tera Dragon gives me the ability to threaten everything except fairy types, tera dragon makes draco deadly at .33 attack sometimes.
    I run U-turn on Choice Specs so I can pivot out if I’m locked into the wrong matchup early.

    My Great Task is maxed in speed and attack, primarily handling ground and fighting type threats, with Ice Spinner for Gliscor and the occasional dragon. Tusk does his normal job, spin gives me stealth rock removal.

    Despite trying to cut Gliscor multiple times, it’s proven too valuable to drop, I get a ton of kills off poison and stalling.

    King Gambit and Ogerpon both serve as my primary sweepers. Gambit can clean up the end of a game with 3 sucker punches. I switched from Black Glasses to Leftovers on King Gambit for better sustainability.

    Ogrepon can sweep hard with ivy cudgel and Horn Leach healing, even a single setup turn has won me games.

    I’m currently running Moltres for defensive bulk and Will-O-Wisp utility, but I’m considering replacing it. My broader concerns are that the team lacks hazard pressure and only has one reliable priority move—both gaps I’m looking to address. But im sure my team has tons of weaknesses, im pretty new overall.


    Great Tusk @ Leftovers
    Ability: Protosynthesis
    Tera Type: Steel
    EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
    Jolly Nature
    - Rapid Spin
    - Ice Spinner
    - Headlong Rush
    - Close Combat

    Dragapult @ Choice Specs
    Ability: Infiltrator
    Tera Type: Dragon
    EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
    Timid Nature
    - Draco Meteor
    - Shadow Ball
    - Flamethrower
    - U-turn

    Ogerpon-Wellspring (F) @ Wellspring Mask
    Ability: Water Absorb
    Tera Type: Water
    EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
    Jolly Nature
    - Ivy Cudgel
    - Swords Dance
    - Horn Leech
    - Knock Off

    Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
    Ability: Poison Heal
    Tera Type: Water
    EVs: 240 HP / 36 Def / 232 SpD
    Careful Nature
    - Earthquake
    - Knock Off
    - Toxic
    - Protect

    Moltres @ Heavy-Duty Boots
    Ability: Flame Body
    Tera Type: Steel
    EVs: 248 HP / 248 Def / 12 Spe
    Bold Nature
    - Flamethrower
    - Will-O-Wisp
    - U-turn
    - Roost

    Kingambit @ Leftovers
    Ability: Supreme Overlord
    Tera Type: Dark
    EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
    Adamant Nature
    - Sucker Punch
    - Swords Dance
    - Kowtow Cleave
    - Iron Head
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Doesn't look too bad! I'd suggest adding Stealth Rock though, this is a REALLY good move that very few teams want to go without. I'd suggest adding it to Great Tusk over Close Combat. You could also add it to Gliscor. I'd suggest making Gliscor a U-turn set, probably over Knock Off or Earthquake! I'd also recommend trying out U-turn on Wellspring and removing Swords Dance, and going Power Whip over Horn Leech, this will help give your dragapult more entry opportunities! Lastly, I'd go Black Glasses on Kingambit to help with the stall matchup, and max speed instead of max HP. This does make your matchup into opposing Wellspring a bit scarier though, that's an issue to keep your eye on and see if it becomes too much, but I'd go Tera Dragon on Gliscor. Hope this helps, lmk how it goes!
    b3npaii
    Hi Professor Pinkacross,

    Big fan of the videos, I feel like I've become a better teambuilder by watching them. I made a ogerpon-c balance team that I feel good, but I feel like it has speed and immediate power issues, any suggestions? Thanks!

    https://pokepast.es/2a88bcbe2961235d
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    You might want to try CB Dragonite here! That would give you more immediate power and indirectly help with the speed problem, by giving you a stronger priority mon!
    Hi Pinka! I made a Gen 8 OU team which I thought was pretty solid. I'm unfamiliar with the meta, and I also don't know the common threats that could destroy my team so I'd love a quick team scan by you. Thanks!

    https://pokepast.es/a6b500ba767fcda6
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Honestly it's been a LONG while since I've played gen 8, but at a glance this looks solid! Nothing jumps out at me, other than pex seeming like a bit of a momentum sink here. Hazard stack might also be tough, lando as the only removal and this team HATES hazards
    LanturnSkarmory
    Thanks for the feedback! If I were to keep the Landorus, Toxapex, Tapu Bulu, Heatran core, what two Pokemon would you add to round up the team?
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Ishdagoon
    Hey pinkacross how are you im doing a trios tournament soon and would like your opinion on this team https://pokepast.es/1272001b6152a0f6 and if there are improvements and tera improvements please let me know! Thanks.
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Honestly this looks pretty good! You might want to consider a pivoting set on torn, but Nasty Plot seems nice as well. Also you're missing 4 EVs on Pecharunt
    Hello, below is a Rhyperior team that me, sockzz and colton worked on in the discord. I sent the loaded dice lightning rod team because this one seemed very funny to me, especially against raging bolt. Is there anything we should change? What are your thoughts on it?

    https://pokepast.es/973ef2dd3e810907

    https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2552942516?p2

    https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2552950810?p2

    In the 2nd replay I accidentally pressed Rock Polish instead of Rock Blast, but despite the misclick Rhyperior can 6-0 sun teams
    Alijahc038
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    This seems cool! I love the creativity, and this Rhyperior could definitely mess some people up. I'd say Leftovers + Stone Edge is worth testing as well, but Loaded Dice may be optimal. My main concern is just that I doubt Rhyperior is good enough as a sweeper to justify a slot here. When stuff like Ogerpon Wellspring exists... But it is fun!
    Daxdleader
    Hello Professor Pinkacross,

    My name is Daxdleader, and I'm in your teambuilding 201 class. Normally, when writing to professors, I'd say something about the weather to like acknowledge that they're a person and not just a tool that grades my papers. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the weather is like for you because idk where you live. The weather in my city is lovely today.

    I have this Rillaboom Garganacl BO that has been kinda sucking for me, but I don't understand why. I lost to DD Espeed Ice Spinner Roost Dragonite. I lost to a mono bug team. I'm going insane.
    https://pokepast.es/664e34fde5723b49
    I have a really hard time getting/keeping rocks up. Also, while I haven't really been losing to ground types or ground coverage, I feel like I can't add a Ground immunity without being too weak to other things.
    I also tried to restart and ended up with this wip, but it still looks really sketchy.
    https://pokepast.es/fca5be0a7351c637

    So my question is, is the core of Rillaboom + Garg just not viable? I feel like I went wrong really early in the building process. Is that true?

    Thanks,

    Daxdleader
    Daxdleader
    Daxdleader
    Happy to report I put rocks on Heatran, made Garg curse, and changed the Glowking to toxic + future sight over tspikes and psynoise and these changes have dramatically improved my winrate. Still happy to take feedback though.
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Glad to hear it's going better! Rilla Garg is definitely a solid core, Garg is great at setting up Stealth Rock and keeping it on the field, which is great for Rilla, and Grassy Terrain is nice for Garg. The main issue with the team seems to be the complete lack of speed, counting fully on Grassy Glide is going to make certain sweepers and breakers that resist Grassy Glide VERY difficult.
    Hey pink. i made this sun team and ive been having alot of fun with it, do you think its decent or should i scrap it?
    wimblewomp
    Hey Pink! Made this team that works around Specs Valiant.
    It does fairly well its a certified mid-ladder demon, breaks nicely, but speed control is a bit of an issue, especially against Banded Oger and Zamazenta. Any tips?
    https://pokepast.es/dcf7c23169ccc566
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    For Banded Oger, Leftovers on Kingambit and a more defensive set would help. It's a power trade-off for sure, and Oger-Grass isn't super common, but that's the fastest fix for that. As for Zama, I think your team can handle it most of the time, but one possible answer is going with a Tera type like Fairy / Bug / Ghost on Raging Bolt. Probably Ghost is best of all. You can even run Discharge over Thunderbolt, I like that on Leftovers sets. If these two pokemon prove to be too big of an issue, Pecharunt over Rbolt is a possibility. I'd definitely go Aqua Jet on Hrott in that case though, that change makes Iron Moth scary.
    Ishdagoon
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    The main issue here is that this team is horrifically weak to hazards. If Stealth Rock goes up, or Spikes, it's going to be extremely difficult to win. You definitely need solid removal if you're using non HDB Dragonite. I question the viability of Scarf Dragonite in general, but if you're set on trying to make that work, I'd make sure you fit in a Great Tusk or Iron Treads here. I'd also suggest a defensive core of some sort, Scarf Dragonite is going to be very easy to take advantage of and you'll need to switch it out a lot. Your current team has no defensive core and thus hates switching. Pairing Multiscale with Sand is also not ideal.
    Ominous Void
    Hey Pinkacross I made this team https://pokepast.es/ee0d54270a35f756 that revolves around a Ogerpon Grass + Zap VoltTurn core. I use hazards to break and also have a somewhat niche Shuca Berry on Glowking to trade with ground types like Tusk to open up Volt Switch and punish rapid spins (on early turns) so hazards can stay up for longer later. I was wondering if you could rate it on a scale of 1-10 so I could improve stuff I didn’t really notice myself (also cuz I’m low ladder)
    Ominous Void
    Ominous Void
    I made a second version (which I think is better) where I replaced TWave on Zap for Heat Wave (so treads doesn’t wall) and replaced FSight on Glowking with Psychic Noise for immediate damage vs Iron Moth and also to chip Blissey (or rarely) Sub Kyurem, as well as simply changing its nature so I’m slightly better vs special mons. The last notable change is using Razor Shell > Aqua Cutter just so I can chip / break down walls like Corviknight more easily. Here is the team, you can rate either if you have the time. Ty! https://pokepast.es/86851a9380547297
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Looking at the second version, it seems quite good! I'd have to play it to give an accurate estimate, but I'd say about a 6.5. My main concern is Fire types, Hrott as the only resist is rough. Iron Moth and Cinderace could be problematic. Aqua Jet over Encore on Hrott may help, but if the problem persists then you may want to rebuild or restructure. You also may want to throw Tera Ghost on Treads here for another spinblocker.
    Ominous Void
    Ominous Void
    thanks Pinka I’ll try these changes out! I will keep ice treads though so I don’t die to kyurem easily
    BoidddID
    Hello Pinkacross,I listened to what you said used a few sample teams
    after quite a while i finally decided to make a team again and here it is
    https://pokepast.es/a0f0801de78cae58
    i want to know what your thoughts and opinion about it are, and yes this team's for NatDex
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Mostly this seems solid, but the lack of a dragon resist worries me! Ceruledge also seems like a bit of a random choice here, it doesn't really fit with the rest of the balance team to have a random hit-or-miss sweeper
    ilikeplayingroblox
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    The Cinderace is an odd move. A Great Tusk could replace Cinderace for removal, and it helps with Garganacl. As for Banded Oger, honestly I don't see how thats an issue given you have Kyurem, Ceruledge, and a Booster Speed Ival...
    Itzbruhcon
    Zeraora is a solid pivot with it outspeeding the entire unboosted metagame so I made this team. however this team hates to deal with ghost types and I got no good fix with it also making me horrendous against fairy types.
    paste:https://pokepast.es/79be2335909829c4
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    Itzbruhcon
    Itzbruhcon
    like rocky Def Lando?
    Itzbruhcon
    Itzbruhcon
    also what do I put on Lando Instead of rocks? (I'm assuming Def)
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Yea, rocky helm defensive lando works. Go jolly speedy, outspeed Pecharunt at least. Defog EQ U-turn filler, knock toxic taunt are all solid
    Lucyfer874
    Hi, I've watched a lot of your videos recently, but I can never seem to nail a good team, maybe I just need to get better before I start teambuilding but so far I have made 2 teams that I think are decent but they both have some flaws, can you tell me what I might be doing wrong and maybe fix them?

    https://pokepast.es/e9f8d9241fbf2bf7

    https://pokepast.es/297371e983c1db30
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    Lucyfer874
    Lucyfer874
    or maybe i just suck idk
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Team 1: Try speed boosting max HP Great Tusk with a Rocky Helmet, this will help with Dragonite. For fairies, perhaps consider Venusaur over Brute Bonnet.

    Team 2: Tera Fairy on Hydrapple could help with Specs Bolt. No Knock Off isn't a huge issue here, the whole point of your team is just bringing in Hydrapple over and over basically. You could try to remove Kingambit for a Knock Off Dark type like Weavile though.
    Lucyfer874
    Lucyfer874
    Team 1: Ill try that, I was thinking of replacing Brute Bonnet anyway, no priority sucks but I guess Venusaur is fast enough to make do

    Team 2: Ill definitely be changing the tera type. I think youre probably right about knock off, and replacing Kingambit with Weavile definitely doesnt seem worth it. I might also replace stealth rocks on Landorus with grass knot, not having the two most important moves on my team feels wrong but having no knock off, no reliable spinblocker, and two ways of removing my own hazards on top of being a massive momentum sink on a choice scarfer makes it feel mostly useless here.
    Fothwind
    Hi, watching your team building content has me thinking about playing showdown again recently, so I thought I'd start by asking around for feedback on the team I had been using before my last hiatus. :smogduck:
    https://pokepast.es/3046398a38256a7b
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Honestly this team is extremely strange and lacks a typical structure. Many very meta pokemon, like Kingambit and Wellspring are a complete nightmare for this team. I'd suggest trying out some sample teams or looking for a team on the Rate My Team forum that suits you, until you have a better grasp on the metagame.
    Fothwind
    Fothwind
    Will do, thanks for the advice!
    V4lentin_Harvey
    V4lentin_Harvey
    V4lentin_Harvey
    zamazenta is a problem quite often
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    Yea this does indeed lose to Zamazenta. Physically defensive Glowking often works well on these teams to help with that.
    Pinkacross
    Pinkacross
    You'll have to give up one of your breakers, and potentially remove Mandibuzz, it seems like quite a momentum sink here. This team has WAY too much power, which is not inherently a problem but it's impossible to defensively support
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