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requesting a mono poison stall team built around toxapex
Hi, here is your team: https://pokepast.es/53ddd6f283126535
In general, Stall Poison isn't particularly great but this should help in getting some work done.
Notes about some of the moves/item choices.
We have Curse on AMuk so we can have a possible win condition against types like Ghost and Psychic which can prove to be serve problems otherwise.
Air Balloon TPex gives a temporary Ground immunity and a reliable Ceruledge check. And also be used to help check Azumarill in the Fairy MU by losing Air Balloon early allowing Pex to survive +6 Knock Off/Play Rough from near full (needs to be at 80% to reliably get the haze off when it is in after hazard chip otherwise you are risking the 37.5% chance Knock off OHKOs pex and results in Poison being fully swept)
Glowking's EVs make it as specially bulky as possible while being able to 2HKO Gholdengo with Flamethrower.
Finally CB Sneasler is used giving us some offensive Firepower and Speed Control with Glowking's Future Sight to help break opposing Stall Water teams along with being able to help break through problematic threats such as Hatterene, Primarina, and Ogerpon formes.
 
Hi, here is your team: https://pokepast.es/53ddd6f283126535
In general, Stall Poison isn't particularly great but this should help in getting some work done.
Notes about some of the moves/item choices.
We have Curse on AMuk so we can have a possible win condition against types like Ghost and Psychic which can prove to be serve problems otherwise.
Air Balloon TPex gives a temporary Ground immunity and a reliable Ceruledge check. And also be used to help check Azumarill in the Fairy MU by losing Air Balloon early allowing Pex to survive +6 Knock Off/Play Rough from near full (needs to be at 80% to reliably get the haze off when it is in after hazard chip otherwise you are risking the 37.5% chance Knock off OHKOs pex and results in Poison being fully swept)
Glowking's EVs make it as specially bulky as possible while being able to 2HKO Gholdengo with Flamethrower.
Finally CB Sneasler is used giving us some offensive Firepower and Speed Control with Glowking's Future Sight to help break opposing Stall Water teams along with being able to help break through problematic threats such as Hatterene, Primarina, and Ogerpon formes.
thank you!!
 
Requesting a team that with any way has Floatzel. I love him so so so so much and literally any team with him I would love. Preferably choice band could work, built around Swift Swim.
 
I want to request a grass team with my favorite starter and overall grass mon, rillaboom, and for how can we build it...maybe a sun or offensive bulky team could work..but im kinda new on competitive play. But I'm willing to learn it! You can explain how the team works on the same post too. If you like!
 
Hello! Can I get a Water team based around Rotom-Wash as a special attacker sweeper. Bonus points if I can rain dance on the team.
 
I was just going to ask to edit my current team, but I don't think that's allowed... Let me phrase this in a way which is allowed.

BUG TYPES ARE MY FAVOURITE AND I WANT A TEAM BUILT AROUND THEM. My seven favourite bug pokemon are Kleavor, Yanmega, Scizor, Araquinid, Lokix, Forretress, and my absolute favourite is Volcarona, so I definitely want as many as possible (especially Volcarona) on the team.
No stall please! I like having one or two tanky pokemon for status effects and hazards, but that's it. (Not sure bug is good for stall though)
 
I was just going to ask to edit my current team, but I don't think that's allowed... Let me phrase this in a way which is allowed.

BUG TYPES ARE MY FAVOURITE AND I WANT A TEAM BUILT AROUND THEM. My seven favourite bug pokemon are Kleavor, Yanmega, Scizor, Araquinid, Lokix, Forretress, and my absolute favourite is Volcarona, so I definitely want as many as possible (especially Volcarona) on the team.
No stall please! I like having one or two tanky pokemon for status effects and hazards, but that's it. (Not sure bug is good for stall though)
https://pokepast.es/b2e653b17d40c74a
This is a team very sample team oriented. You can play an offensive Volcarona like this or a more bulky one mono attacker Fiery Dance with will o wisp, roost, quiver dance. Otherwise the team is pretty self explained, you set up rocks with Kleavor, sticky web with Araquanid that can also take a kill with Mirror Coat if it's more important. Two priorities with bullet punch and sucker punch. Ice spinner on forretress allows to hit a bit everything and threaten directly Dragapult, Dragonite, Landorus and Gliscor. Forretress helps to glue everything and rapid spin to help everyone. You have some pivot allowing to bring the correct answer to a threat trying to switch on your face.
 
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asking for a hyper offensive water team built around Azumarill and Greninja. thanks in advance!

edit: if Keldeo could also be added, i'd love that :heart: but if not i understand!
 
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Hello! Can I get a Water team based around Rotom-Wash as a special attacker sweeper. Bonus points if I can rain dance on the team.
Here is the team as you requested. https://pokepast.es/f2fae0f8f736314b
Its not the greatest but I got it into the low 1500s so thats good enough for me. As a Key special attacking offensive threat Rotom-W isn't even close to being one of Water's better ones but its got a few niches. Notably with the EV Spread it can setup up a sub and start nasty plotting infront of the likes Clodsire and Corviknight with no worries alongside outspeeding the base 70s and some that outspeed them (notably this allows us to get the jump on the likes of Skarmory, Defensive Tentacruel, and fast Primarina). SpA EVs generally get OHKOs or are nearly OHKOing a lot of key defensive threats like Empoleon and Articuno at +2 opening up the rest of our breakers.
Rain Dance could not be delivered on solely for the fact that Rotom-W was already pushing, manual rain would of broken the team.
Outside of that, Pex + Pert provide some more standard defensive qualities, Urshifu-R and Scarf Samurott-H break a lot of special walls allowing Rotom-W to cleanup late game and Greninja provides raw nautral speed + second special breaker for the MUs Rotom-W can't get going in. Shoutout to Cpt.Kraken for giving the other offensive threats the correct item choice.

Only really good replay I have of the team: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9monotype-2366635975 in which Rotom-W is able to succesfull remove Glowking allowing for Greninja to easily cleanup.
 
I want to request a grass team with my favorite starter and overall grass mon, rillaboom, and for how can we build it...maybe a sun or offensive bulky team could work..but im kinda new on competitive play. But I'm willing to learn it! You can explain how the team works on the same post too. If you like!
I don't think a sun with Rillaboom is that good especially since you're gonna also boost mons such as Roaring Moon that can be difficult to deal with so let's focus on the drumming monkey !
I like Rillaboom for being able to hit hard with a priority and pivoting. Especially since its priority has been nerfed, I am going for a choice band to still have a lot of damages. Knock off is the middle ground allowing to drop Rock Helmet and other stuffs as Rilla attracts Skarmory so you'll be able to pivot after. High horse power is an option for Archaludon and stuffs but making Rilla useless in some MUs like steel and flying.
Then Meowscarada choice scarf is the ultimate speed control for grass. It will also help keep in check flying and dragon, 2 difficult MUs.
With Sinistcha, you're gonna have a bulky mon that can set up and will help with bug and other types by setting up physically and specially by being a mono attacker ghost.
As Dark and Normal types can be an issue along with more dangerous Steel types, I am gonna use Breloom. Life orb allows to have direct damages while being able to switch moves. Dual STABs with a priority are mandatory along with ground coverage allowing to hit Gholdengo, Toxapex and other mons resisting. Close Combat allows to eliminate directly some threats such as Archaludon (that Sinistcha can also handle) or Muk-Alola.
Since we have Grassy Terrain, I was thinking to use Ogerpon-C that will be able to get back its Sturdy more easily. It will also help a lot against Flying, a bit against poison, fire and bug. Low Kick for Heatran and Archaludon. Ogerpon-H can be an option since grass choose its MUs in builder and then I would play swords dance, ivy cudgel, power whip (at +2 it 0HKO Toxapex with grassy terrain) and rock tomb for Dragonite and Moltres mainly.
Last mon is Toedscruel allowing to have Spikes + Rapid Spin and a special wall. Thanks to its ability you can also put asleep Gholdengo or Hatterene.

https://pokepast.es/c272d68deb5b19d2 (fixed with 4moves Rillaboom)
 
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Here is the team as you requested. https://pokepast.es/f2fae0f8f736314b
Its not the greatest but I got it into the low 1500s so thats good enough for me. As a Key special attacking offensive threat Rotom-W isn't even close to being one of Water's better ones but its got a few niches. Notably with the EV Spread it can setup up a sub and start nasty plotting infront of the likes Clodsire and Corviknight with no worries alongside outspeeding the base 70s and some that outspeed them (notably this allows us to get the jump on the likes of Skarmory, Defensive Tentacruel, and fast Primarina). SpA EVs generally get OHKOs or are nearly OHKOing a lot of key defensive threats like Empoleon and Articuno at +2 opening up the rest of our breakers.
Rain Dance could not be delivered on solely for the fact that Rotom-W was already pushing, manual rain would of broken the team.
Outside of that, Pex + Pert provide some more standard defensive qualities, Urshifu-R and Scarf Samurott-H break a lot of special walls allowing Rotom-W to cleanup late game and Greninja provides raw nautral speed + second special breaker for the MUs Rotom-W can't get going in. Shoutout to Cpt.Kraken for giving the other offensive threats the correct item choice.

Only really good replay I have of the team: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9monotype-2366635975 in which Rotom-W is able to succesfull remove Glowking allowing for Greninja to easily cleanup.
Thanks! I’ll try it out in a few!
 
I don't think a sun with Rillaboom is that good especially since you're gonna also boost mons such as Roaring Moon that can be difficult to deal with so let's focus on the drumming monkey !
I like Rillaboom for being able to hit hard with a priority and pivoting. Especially since its priority has been nerfed, I am going for a choice band to still have a lot of damages. Knock off is the middle ground allowing to drop Rock Helmet and other stuffs as Rilla attracts Skarmory so you'll be able to pivot after. High horse power is an option for Archaludon and stuffs but making Rilla useless in some MUs like steel and flying.
Then Meowscarada choice scarf is the ultimate speed control for grass. It will also help keep in check flying and dragon, 2 difficult MUs.
With Sinistcha, you're gonna have a bulky mon that can set up and will help with bug and other types by setting up physically and specially by being a mono attacker ghost.
As Dark and Normal types can be an issue along with more dangerous Steel types, I am gonna use Breloom. Life orb allows to have direct damages while being able to switch moves. Dual STABs with a priority are mandatory along with ground coverage allowing to hit Gholdengo, Toxapex and other mons resisting. Close Combat allows to eliminate directly some threats such as Archaludon (that Sinistcha can also handle) or Muk-Alola.
Since we have Grassy Terrain, I was thinking to use Ogerpon-C that will be able to get back its Sturdy more easily. It will also help a lot against Flying, a bit against poison, fire and bug. Low Kick for Heatran and Archaludon. Ogerpon-H can be an option since grass choose its MUs in builder and then I would play swords dance, ivy cudgel, power whip (at +2 it 0HKO Toxapex with grassy terrain) and rock tomb for Dragonite and Moltres mainly.
Last mon is Toedscruel allowing to have Spikes + Rapid Spin and a special wall. Thanks to its ability you can also put asleep Gholdengo or Hatterene.

https://pokepast.es/c272d68deb5b19d2 (fixed with 4moves Rillaboom)
Thank you so much!! It looks really good!! Im gonna try it out in showdown! Also...do I have a limit to what teams I want built?
 
Requestion a chesnaught team for mono-grass ideally (or fighting), please I don't want to be losing all of the match ups against poison, fire, flying and steel i want a way to answer and find a way to win
 
Hello! First of all, I wanted to thank you for the ice team I received here... It's been fun to use!
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/rom-gen9monotype-2374274?p2
Now, I'd like to request another team.
I'd like a ground team based on defensive or stall Pokémon, preferably stall rather than bulky offensive, but I'd be fine with both.
I'm not a big fan of using sand ground style, and I haven't seen many stall teams available here, but I have seen options for defensive Pokémon like Ting Lu or Gliscor. However, I'd like to know if it's possible to receive additional help in creating a team. Thank you in advance.
 
Hi guys!

TABI notice a lot of people are not taking the paragraph requirement seriously, so I would like to make sure I fulfill all the requests to make your jobs as easy as can be. I heard from a lot of people that grass is the absolute WORST type in monotype, so I would love to use grass! I watched some of pressuresunkern's games and thought it was very impressive how they were high on the ladder despite using a "bad" type.
TABI managed to create this little mess, but don't really like it at all. I like playing with 1 choice itemed mon, usually scarf, and that is fulfilled by meowscarada. I also like to have some kind of good pivoting, preferably a slow bulky mon that I can switch into an attack, and use a pivot move after the opponent moves, providing a clean switch in for the setup sweeper. I have no such mon on my team, which makes pivoting constantly a challenge, especially in monotype when you can never resist your type's weaknesses, like a strong fire move. Torterra is my setup sweeper, brambleghast is my hazard control, and whimsicott is an encore trap and a tailwind setter, so I can have better speed control with torterra and my slower mons. Ogerpon is just ranked really high on the viabitity rankings so I put it on the team, as grass needs all the strong mons it can get. Lastly, brambleghast is hazard control and sinischa I just threw on there because I didn't know where to put it.

https://pokepast.es/8bd89303b6be293f <---- Aforementioned sad attempt at a team

To summarize;
  • I would like a team with a fast hard hitter, probably scarfed Meowscarada,
  • I would like a fun setup sweeper, definitely Torterra, but now that I think about it I don't love the multi hit moves, I would prefer just attacks.
  • I would like a good support mon, to not really do damage but to help the team overall, maybe whimsicott.
  • I would like a bulky slow pivot, ideally with the best matchup against normally supereffective moves
  • I would like ogerpon-hearthflame, because it is the best ogerpon and grass needs what it can get.
  • I would like a second pivot mon, because I don't like playing super HO and focus a lot on switching.
  • I would like the team to be bulky offense, or at least have good switches and pivots to not get OHKOed on switch in frequently
TABThank you so much for bearing with my stupid ideas and bad teambuilding, and for taking the time out of your busy life to help out a newcomer who wants to make the game harder for themselves than it already is.

:)

Just ignore the formatting issues, using the tab key doesn't work so I had to get creative.
 
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Hello I hope you’re all doing well I’m new to competitive Pokemon as a whole and looking for team building advice I want to try an electric or bug team with speed control but I’m not sure who to use or what sets would be good so can I request some help if it’s not possible I understand and thank you for your time
 
Hello!

Thanks for waiting, here are some of the teams requested.

Please also note, YORLAX and Rukt , that your requests could not be processed as they did not comply with the rules (Crawdaunt and Chesnaught are respectively D-rank and Unranked on the Mono VR). Do not hesitate to ask for other teams, if you like :)

Without any further ado,

requesting a dragon team with sd scale shot garchomp, can go in whichever direction you like :heart:
https://pokepast.es/c53e2d8cbba95f81

For your team, I've decided to go with a classic core that proves to be very powerful in the current metagame to surround Garchomp.

- Dragapult: Choice Specs attacker with both STABs, Flamethrower, and Thunderbolt to maximize its coverage and provide utility in all sort of matchups.​
- Goodra-Hisui: Special Defense tank. Heavy Slam to punish Fairy Pokemons, Dragon Tail as a phazing option, Knock off to remove boots and other detrimental items. With Protect, it can make up for the loss of bulk coming from not running Assault Vest and makes it less prone to chip damage.​
- Archaludon: Physical Defense tank. Stealth Rocks and Thunder Wave to cripple the enemy and give Garchomp more in's. Body Press is its primary source of damage, scaling with Stamina boosts, while Flash Cannon allows it to keep Rocks up even against Hatterene and Weezing-Galar. Alternatively, you can use Draco Meteor over Flash Cannon, if you prefer to focus more on the Dragon matchup.​
- Roaring Moon: Choice Scarf attacker. You need some speed control, especially for the Dragon mirror, as Garchomp will act more as a Late-Game Sweeper. With its speedtier and its great moves, it helps in beating Ghost and provides an option to deal with Choice Scarf Mixed Iron Valiant. Iron Head is the preferred coverage move, as you have Garchomp for Earthquake, but Earthquake remains perfectly viable too.​
- Latios: 2nd Choice Specs Attacker. STABs + BoltBeam to hit most foes hard.​
- Garchomp: The Main Character. SD and double STABs is very good in itself, so last slot is there to provide a bit more coverage. I've listed the 3 best coverage moves in the sample, so you can pick the one you prefer. To detail a bit, Stone Edge is most useful to give it a solid matchup against Flying and Fire. Iron Head helps it to not get walled by Weezing-Galar in the Poison MU, but it might be unnecessary, given the number of Steel moves this team run. If you go with it, you may replace Flash Cannon with Draco Meteor on Archaludon. Last option is Fire Fang to give it perfect coverage for the Steel MU. For the item, the preferred choice is Loaded Dice to guarantee minimum 4 hits with Scale Shot. If you feel like you need some self-sustain, you can use Leftovers to that end. Alternatively, this Garchomp can also be used as a Lead with the Focus Sash to guarantee a kill or a boost (speed or attack): Earthquake OHKOes Flutter Mane, Scale Shot does the same with Dragapult.​

Hello! First of all, I wanted to thank you for the ice team I received here... It's been fun to use!
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/rom-gen9monotype-2374274?p2
Now, I'd like to request another team.
I'd like a ground team based on defensive or stall Pokémon, preferably stall rather than bulky offensive, but I'd be fine with both.
I'm not a big fan of using sand ground style, and I haven't seen many stall teams available here, but I have seen options for defensive Pokémon like Ting Lu or Gliscor. However, I'd like to know if it's possible to receive additional help in creating a team. Thank you in advance.
https://pokepast.es/d32c04a9f2dbe915

As requested, here is a stall Ground. Finding appropriate movesets for each Pokémon was quite a challenge, but the result is promising. I laddered with it from 1450 to 1650 with great success.
- Ting-Lu: 1st Special Defense Wall. Thanks to its gigantic special bulk, it can pretty much tank every special move, while dishing out good damage with its 100 BP STABs. Rest ensures it can remain useful throughout the game and Whirlwind can allow to chip down foes when hazards are set up.​
- Quagsire: 1st Physical Defense Wall. Quagsire is the unaware wall to prevent physical setup sweepers from wreaking havoc, though it cannot do much against the likes of Ogerpon-formes. Instead of putting all hazards on one Pokémon, I believe it is better to scatter them to avoid putting all your eggs in the same basket, Quagsire thus gets Spikes. Toxic and Earthquake complete the moveset.​
- Clodsire: 2nd Special Defense Wall. Toxic Spikes is the hazard of choice for it, with Poison Jab as its STAB and Low Kick to be able to hit Heatran and Hydreigon which could otherwise come too easily. A few ev's in defense to be 3HKO'ed by Ogerpon's Horn Leech and rest in Spdef.​
- Iron Treads: Utility Glue of the team. Stealth Rock, Rapid Spin and Knock Off for utility and Iron Head for the STAB move. Ice Spinner is an option over iron Head if you feel it hard to beat opposing Gliscor. I opted for a special defense spread to allow it to come over Flutter Mane, Dragapult, and Latios, in case of need.​
- Gliscor: 2nd Defense Wall. Despite that, I chose a mixed spread to let it tank special moves too. Earthquake and Knock Off to deal damage actively and Toxic for passive damage. As you wanted a Stall team, I came with this defensive Gliscor set, but an SD set is also totally doable.​
- Landorus: Choice Scarf attacker. It is the refreshing element of the team, preventing it to auto-lose to Ogerpon-formes, and also gives some crucial speed control. U-turn provides momentum and allows to maximize the hazards efficiency by always bringing the right answer to your opponent's Pokémon.​

Requesting an fairy team with SD iron valiant! Heavy pref on a hyper offense team.
https://pokepast.es/022f3b83ab11ad6a

To accompany SD Valiant, I thought about reusing the common team composition that goes quite well with SD Valiant anf fulfills the HO criterion.

- Flutter Mane: Choice Specs attacker. Its raw power allows it to do sufficient damage to let Valiant finds some sweeping opportunities.​
- Iron Valiant: SD Sweeper. Close Combat, Knock Off and Shadow Sneak offer a perfect neutral coverage. Shadow Sneak is crucial to prevent Dragapult from coming freely on Valiant. Ice Punch is another option over Knock Off but synergizes not so well by leaving it much weak to Gholdengo, notably.​
- Azumarill: Belly Drum sweeper. With its great offensive power, it can easily eliminate 1-2 Pokémon or weaken them for Iron Valiant to sweep.​
- Klefki: Walls and Spikes setter. Klefki is the key (ahem) Pokémon here, setting up the walls that will enable the Sweepers. Foul Play is chosen over Thunder Wave to avoid letting opposing Pokémon setting up freely.​
- Hatterene: 1st CM attacker. Nuzzle helps in crippling the opposing team, providing some much needed speed control (and haxx?) to the team indirectly. Investment in speed to outspeed Toxapex and avoid haze.​
- Primarina: 2nd CM attacker. Incredibly tanky behind walls, 3-attacks maximizes its offensive potential. Torrent to not be blocked by Clodsire and Okidogi.​


That is all for this time!

Have a great day :)
 
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