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Hello! I'd like to change my name to Volcaronite. It's my YouTube channel name, as well as being (almost) my Showdown name, so I'd like to update my username to match. Thank you <3
oki--mari
This is a team that I had from Gen VI, where it saw moderate success. I brought it up to Gen VII, and tweaked it with some new strategies and some old strategies to fill holes. And... it's very successful. I'd say I get the win ~90% of the time with this team. Here it is:
my hair is my tail...
After having a Doubles OU team absolutely demolished by a Whimsicott and Lucario using this strategy, I decided to try it for myself. I went through many iterations, as I really needed a 'mon who could learn both Beat Up and Follow Me to ensure that I could effectively rid the field of any setup...
I have spent the last few day using this change, and while I have succeded against some teams I may not have in the past (i.e. Flying-types) I have not been any more successful. That is because this Tyranitar loses the Fairy defense that my Bisharp had going for it.
Is there anything to be done...
I thought it would be an interesting challenge to make a series of competitive Ubers teams that employ some of the limits of the "Other" metagame types that usually are limited to OU. I have done some testing with these teams against the standard Ubers metagame to see if they are even...