Recent content by Octiosling

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SS OU Secret Santa 2025 Signup Deadline: December 29th (Latest you can join and send your ideas in) Submission Deadline: January 5th (Latest you send your team in) I'm sure most of you are familiar with how a Secret Santa works, but for those who don't, it's a holiday event where a group of...

Glowking + Specs Keldeo Specs Keldeo is pretty similar to Urshifu offensively, but it has the benefit of its attacks not making contact, meaning it's essentially Banded Urshifu and Pads Urshifu rolled into one. Flip Turn allows Keldeo to position its team rather than make a risky prediction...

Team F

Grassy Terrain Balance SpDef Chomp is a pretty solid mon, but with Grassy Terrain support, it becomes something else entirely. Every time Rillaboom hits the field, you can basically turn Chomp into Poison Heal Gliscor for a few turns, granting it better longevity and allowing it to better check...

Double Ghost Grassy Terrain I'm aware that this is a known structure, but when talking about this team over on the SwSh discord, someone brought up a really unorthodox Blace set that's worked out really well in practice. The set in question is Specs Blace with only 20 SpA EVs. With this...

Slowpoke fan

Double Double Dance HO So, while building an Aegislash team for this week, I realized that Aegislash got Autotomize, and even with a non-speed boosting nature, it outsped the entire unboosted metagame after one boost. So, I put it on an HO team where it could take advantage of Heatran's burn...

Slowpoke fan

Dark Pulse Heatran https://pokepast.es/04f5bbebd821e0b5 Although Heatran is a very solid Pult switch-in, being able to take any of its attacks that isn't Hydro Pump, one flaw with SpDef Heatran vs Pult is that the Heatran can struggle to meaningfully threaten the Pult back, meaning that a lot of...

I don't really understand what you want to accomplish with suspecting multiple mons at once, because based on the example you gave, it sounds like you're advocating for broken to check broken, which is not something we want. As for Stored Power, because it's a high distribution move, in order...

You know, with an Ogerpon-W suspect in the cards, it's a good thing that Palafin didn't end up staying in OU. I just know that if that suspect happened with Palafin still here, there would be a subset of players who would argue, "But we can't ban Ogerpon! We need it to check Palafin!"

Hi sh0shin, here's your offensive Zapdos team, https://pokepast.es/04c242bc73e6cedd, supplemented with Scarf Lele, Boots SD Weavile, Spdef Shed Shell Pex, phys def Heatran, and Spdef Lando. Nothing too crazy, but it worked pretty well in testing and I hope you like it too.

No, I'd still Palafin is Thanos, because as soon as it gets its hands on the Infinity Teras, it can eliminate half of all stall teams with just a snap of its fingers.