Wow, tour finally over. It's a surreal feeling to work so hard for 13 weeks and end up with the win to prove it. People have said some very nice things to me abt my role in our SV core but I definitely want to highlight the prep and play of our other 3 starters and our subs. Ho3n especially was always on top of everything and made my job much easier.
I brought a lot of teams that I was very proud of this tour and some that I wasn't so proud of. I think posting my thought process for prep for each week like others have done won't be that helpful relative to the amount of effort it would take, but I do have notes + logs from every week if anyone has questions. Rather, what I'm going to do is post some of my favorite teams I've made this tour that got brought and then post my entire builder. I'm doing this because I think there's very little I did this tour that was extremely innovative, even though I have a reputation for using some wacky stuff. Most of what I did was just putting existing things together in a way that accomplished a goal. I really thrived from iterating on ideas from other incredible builders like Nat, Storm Zone, gxe, GALATINA, hellom, pinecoishot, SupaGMoney, Attribute, Lily, and oldspicemike. If it weren't for them sharing their ideas with me throughout the season, I wouldn't have had the inspiration to continue for 13 weeks of building for multiple slots. Hopefully me sharing these ideas publicly will be a point of inspiration for the next generation of builders to learn and grow.
Without further adieu, here are the teams I'm proud of:
"Lock In Webs"
I came up with this before Week 1 started, and I would have brought it Week 1 if I hadn't psyched myself out. It did insanely well on ladder despite the Roaring Moon weakness, reaching #1 and 88 gxe in a little over 100 games. The idea was to take advantage of webs good matchups and pad out the worse matchups with Moltres Galar who autowins against Stall and breaks Ting Light Balances very well. Shoutout galatina for showing me this molt during I believe Critical League or SCL. Pech lures gambits most importantly but it also deals with some moons. Tbh, if I were to run this on ladder now I wouldn't go terablast pech though. I'd do dbond maybe. This actually probably does quite well on ladder now that moon is gone. I'd make some tweaks to the team, probably with Pounce/Scary Face on Araq for DDnite and a different Gambit item/tera.
"Biig Keldd"
This week was super hard for me to come up with something that I liked. I tested a bunch of stuff on ladder including some updates to my old Heatran RMT, but I settled on this the night before and changed the Dnite set a few hours before.
"Breakfast"
This was another difficult prep week. The idea was twave Latios into someone with no Ting usage. The game ended up featuring two Ting Lus though. I think it was the highlight game of my season for sure. If you're wondering why there's a Cobalion on the team, so did my teammates.
"F is for Fairy Spam, not fascism"
This game was ass but the team was good. I like Heatran as an offense piece rn because of role compression with steel typing, rocks, and flame body. Can run a couple different sets too.
"Tarrasque and the Witch"
This team actually cooks. I won without those spdef drops and I maintain that vk lol. This was one of those weeks where I needed a palate cleanser and just built something wacky that had been in the back of my head for literally months. It turned out really good, however. I got top 3 before I decided I should probably stop laddering with it. Also made a version with AV Quaquaval > Dondozo + Bulk Up Lando-T > Tusk that I got top 10 with this week.
"Tyrants-core offense"
Not the version of the team that I ended up bringing but it would have done better than the wake version that I did bring. Taunt spam offenses have been a fixation of mine for a while because not only do they let the chip stick, they can prevent important utility moves like defog. This one ended up testing worse than the wake one pretty much by chance I think, but it would have been nice to have double encore into DugZa's prep for me which Storm told me relied on my reaction to Nat hitting me w the Unaware CM Clef + SD Scor combo and my reaction to that being "what a fish" (no hate).
Ok, I'll probably edit this with a couple more teams that others brought that I built, but for now I'll just drop my building folders for each week.
Week 1: https://pokepast.es/58d6ab016c11a732
Week 2: https://pokepast.es/31c2c7528fc69d8b
Week 3: https://pokepast.es/173aae0264c3089f
Week 4: https://pokepast.es/3824b441a3d9efb6
Week 5: https://pokepast.es/50ec1f12bd3da9cb
Week 6: https://pokepast.es/e142fe69005813bb
Week 7: https://pokepast.es/b2982e9644cae162
Week 8: https://pokepast.es/833bcb15d02166e6
Semis: https://pokepast.es/b775b2e3a828d114
Finals: https://pokepast.es/0d91ef34fcc2aeae
So yeah, like I said a lot of these ideas are bad or half-baked, but I wanted to put them out there anyway. Idrgaf if this is a bad idea for like, my scout or whatever. I'm always using new ideas from either myself or my friends and I really don't think my usage this tournament will give people much good information for my usage even in WCOP which is very soon.
Please feel free to refine the earlier ideas (later teams in each individual paste). However, I usually dropped the idea for a reason. Also, there's a lot of janky shit in here. Sometimes I needed to goof around to find something that was actually worth exploring.
Enjoy.
GO CLASSIEST GRAHHHH
I also want to thank 1LDK, ninth, and TheDuckChris for their phenomenal work this tour. They were always a joy to read.
I brought a lot of teams that I was very proud of this tour and some that I wasn't so proud of. I think posting my thought process for prep for each week like others have done won't be that helpful relative to the amount of effort it would take, but I do have notes + logs from every week if anyone has questions. Rather, what I'm going to do is post some of my favorite teams I've made this tour that got brought and then post my entire builder. I'm doing this because I think there's very little I did this tour that was extremely innovative, even though I have a reputation for using some wacky stuff. Most of what I did was just putting existing things together in a way that accomplished a goal. I really thrived from iterating on ideas from other incredible builders like Nat, Storm Zone, gxe, GALATINA, hellom, pinecoishot, SupaGMoney, Attribute, Lily, and oldspicemike. If it weren't for them sharing their ideas with me throughout the season, I wouldn't have had the inspiration to continue for 13 weeks of building for multiple slots. Hopefully me sharing these ideas publicly will be a point of inspiration for the next generation of builders to learn and grow.
Without further adieu, here are the teams I'm proud of:
"Lock In Webs"I came up with this before Week 1 started, and I would have brought it Week 1 if I hadn't psyched myself out. It did insanely well on ladder despite the Roaring Moon weakness, reaching #1 and 88 gxe in a little over 100 games. The idea was to take advantage of webs good matchups and pad out the worse matchups with Moltres Galar who autowins against Stall and breaks Ting Light Balances very well. Shoutout galatina for showing me this molt during I believe Critical League or SCL. Pech lures gambits most importantly but it also deals with some moons. Tbh, if I were to run this on ladder now I wouldn't go terablast pech though. I'd do dbond maybe. This actually probably does quite well on ladder now that moon is gone. I'd make some tweaks to the team, probably with Pounce/Scary Face on Araq for DDnite and a different Gambit item/tera.
"Biig Keldd"This week was super hard for me to come up with something that I liked. I tested a bunch of stuff on ladder including some updates to my old Heatran RMT, but I settled on this the night before and changed the Dnite set a few hours before.
"Breakfast"This was another difficult prep week. The idea was twave Latios into someone with no Ting usage. The game ended up featuring two Ting Lus though. I think it was the highlight game of my season for sure. If you're wondering why there's a Cobalion on the team, so did my teammates.
"F is for Fairy Spam, not fascism"This game was ass but the team was good. I like Heatran as an offense piece rn because of role compression with steel typing, rocks, and flame body. Can run a couple different sets too.
"Tarrasque and the Witch"This team actually cooks. I won without those spdef drops and I maintain that vk lol. This was one of those weeks where I needed a palate cleanser and just built something wacky that had been in the back of my head for literally months. It turned out really good, however. I got top 3 before I decided I should probably stop laddering with it. Also made a version with AV Quaquaval > Dondozo + Bulk Up Lando-T > Tusk that I got top 10 with this week.
"Tyrants-core offense"Not the version of the team that I ended up bringing but it would have done better than the wake version that I did bring. Taunt spam offenses have been a fixation of mine for a while because not only do they let the chip stick, they can prevent important utility moves like defog. This one ended up testing worse than the wake one pretty much by chance I think, but it would have been nice to have double encore into DugZa's prep for me which Storm told me relied on my reaction to Nat hitting me w the Unaware CM Clef + SD Scor combo and my reaction to that being "what a fish" (no hate).
Ok, I'll probably edit this with a couple more teams that others brought that I built, but for now I'll just drop my building folders for each week.
Week 1: https://pokepast.es/58d6ab016c11a732
Week 2: https://pokepast.es/31c2c7528fc69d8b
Week 3: https://pokepast.es/173aae0264c3089f
Week 4: https://pokepast.es/3824b441a3d9efb6
Week 5: https://pokepast.es/50ec1f12bd3da9cb
Week 6: https://pokepast.es/e142fe69005813bb
Week 7: https://pokepast.es/b2982e9644cae162
Week 8: https://pokepast.es/833bcb15d02166e6
Semis: https://pokepast.es/b775b2e3a828d114
Finals: https://pokepast.es/0d91ef34fcc2aeae
So yeah, like I said a lot of these ideas are bad or half-baked, but I wanted to put them out there anyway. Idrgaf if this is a bad idea for like, my scout or whatever. I'm always using new ideas from either myself or my friends and I really don't think my usage this tournament will give people much good information for my usage even in WCOP which is very soon.
Please feel free to refine the earlier ideas (later teams in each individual paste). However, I usually dropped the idea for a reason. Also, there's a lot of janky shit in here. Sometimes I needed to goof around to find something that was actually worth exploring.
Enjoy.
GO CLASSIEST GRAHHHH
I also want to thank 1LDK, ninth, and TheDuckChris for their phenomenal work this tour. They were always a joy to read.
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