Project SV OU Teambuilding Competition (Indigo Disk Edition) (Week 20: Tornadus Therian)

Week 19: OU’s Greatest Hit

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By popular demand(bribery from anonymous sources), Great Tusk is our next Mon of the Week. A staple of the OU meta since launch, this funny elephant has a massive trusk fund to burn his money on. So get your record players spinning and teambuilding skills ready because this week is practically a free-for-all. You all know what this silly guy does, so I expect good teams.

Deadline: Treat it like the deadline is on June 8th, but until we say it’s over, you can still submit.
 
General Info + PokePaste
A team I made in a fugue state the past week, basically the highlight isn't on Tusk (although we can't play without him in this team cause he's a reliable fellow), but scarf Revavroom. Yes, scarf Rev. Basically I was experimenting on a fast parting shot 'mon and figured he'd fit on a team that has bulky 'mons and made use of the fact that he can kill fairies like no other 'mon could... not Tink though but it'd be funny to give her scarf. Not scarf Enamorus either. Man, this thing is kind of bad at its job lmao.

https://pokepast.es/817d86b2e5a37919
:alomomola: :tornadus-therian: :revavroom: :tyranitar: :great-tusk: :iron-valiant:

Team Info
:alomomola: :tornadus-therian: :revavroom:
The pivot trio, jolly scarf Rev outspeeds Pult who's commonly running mixed but can go either extremes so he can help scout the set through a parting shot into either Mola, Torn or even Ttar to soften the blow even on incorrect guesses. standard wishpass Mola set for the heal support and standard av Torn set for his special bulk and access to a faster pivot which helps against Wogers.

:tyranitar: :great-tusk:
Hazard pair, Ttar uses the standard defensive set. he also provides a way to making things pretty annoying with the sand chip on top of the rocks damage. Tusk is on an offensive utility set with close combat because we can very much afford it with two knock off users in Ttar+Torn.

:iron-valiant:
Specs Valiant, can mindlessly click moves and defer to the rest of the team for a little trolling of the regen+wish shuffling variety.

Replay
No mid or high-level replays cause playing with a heavily modified gas guzzling engine takes your ELO from mid 1400s to 1000s real quick and I'm still very much a newbie but for everyone's entertainment here's two highlight replays
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2398507761-e4ydna9o7hlcgo9gg6430yojflwa15tpw vs LO Pult Webs HO
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2400371197-lj474biv041s2a3pfs4pmbxec73hmm7pw vs possibly Scarf Hoopa-U Bulky Offense, I think? I wouldn't know cause Rev made light work of the genie
 
Thanks to everybody who submitted

It's voting time
mcribs said:
https://pokepast.es/40c8d792e629539d

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This team is pretty old. like, 2024 old. but it can prob still work here with some changes.
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was here for spinning and beating the shit out of some
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with CC. Rocks
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was horrible enough for me to use
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, so i just made tusk super strong and super scary. Its a colorful cast of goobers here

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2250019011-2z6ax31mdnm2rrvu86sg8ribug4oyz0pw
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HydreigonTheChild said:
https://pokepast.es/4709f9e5f14bc759

This team is interesting and it uses tusk with spike stack, I feel tusk is a great abuser of hazards and with knock can slam a lot of fat teams who rely on boots and with darkrai, pecha, wellspring i think the MU vs offense is ok and in addition ting lu is quite god at covering great tusk lack of defense investment

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2397680843-ljx03yqqprfnilp5hamt0vbwc3wg6sbpw
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YaVR_1 said:
https://pokepast.es/f242c7175c0a2332
Don't build sv much but decided to try my hand at it. Tusk spins and checks kgb. Tink is there to check most krai variants. Hsam + tink form the teams hstack core with pecha acting as spin blocker. Dnite was added to act as teams fire-water resistance and breaker. Crown provides immediate damage with specs
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t.t said:
https://pokepast.es/eac60bac7d288050
:latios::Ogerpon-Wellspring::Darkrai::Great Tusk::Iron Crown::Kingambit:

Made this a while back for OU SSNL, it did really well got to top 16
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2361762327-9asnnekjwx8e8ypmj1qncjh8b6fg5uqpw?p2
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NietzTheBlitz said:
General Info + PokePaste
A team I made in a fugue state the past week, basically the highlight isn't on Tusk (although we can't play without him in this team cause he's a reliable fellow), but scarf Revavroom. Yes, scarf Rev. Basically I was experimenting on a fast parting shot 'mon and figured he'd fit on a team that has bulky 'mons and made use of the fact that he can kill fairies like no other 'mon could... not Tink though but it'd be funny to give her scarf. Not scarf Enamorus either. Man, this thing is kind of bad at its job lmao.

https://pokepast.es/817d86b2e5a37919
:alomomola: :tornadus-therian: :revavroom: :tyranitar: :great-tusk: :iron-valiant:

Team Info
:alomomola: :tornadus-therian: :revavroom:
The pivot trio, jolly scarf Rev outspeeds Pult who's commonly running mixed but can go either extremes so he can help scout the set through a parting shot into either Mola, Torn or even Ttar to soften the blow even on incorrect guesses. standard wishpass Mola set for the heal support and standard av Torn set for his special bulk and access to a faster pivot which helps against Wogers.

:tyranitar: :great-tusk:
Hazard pair, Ttar uses the standard defensive set. he also provides a way to making things pretty annoying with the sand chip on top of the rocks damage. Tusk is on an offensive utility set with close combat because we can very much afford it with two knock off users in Ttar+Torn.

:iron-valiant:
Specs Valiant, can mindlessly click moves and defer to the rest of the team for a little trolling of the regen+wish shuffling variety.

Replay
No mid or high-level replays cause playing with a heavily modified gas guzzling engine takes your ELO from mid 1400s to 1000s real quick and I'm still very much a newbie but for everyone's entertainment here's two highlight replays
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2398507761-e4ydna9o7hlcgo9gg6430yojflwa15tpw vs LO Pult Webs HO
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2400371197-lj474biv041s2a3pfs4pmbxec73hmm7pw vs possibly Scarf Hoopa-U Bulky Offense, I think? I wouldn't know cause Rev made light work of the genie
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Week 20: The genie of the winds
:sv/tornadus therian:

Tornadus therian has seen an explosion of usage in tournaments recently, standing out as a top tier defensive pokemon that can be very annoying to switch into (when its moves hit ofc). Standard boots pivot sets are its bread and butter, with its ability to use knock off against switch-ins such as glowking, and then pivoting out with u-turn. Its not the bulkiest pokemon in the world, but it can usually stomach a few hits and respond offensively. Assault vest sets have been a thing since XY, being able to easily take special hits and respond with their own pressure. They do have a crippling weakness to Stealth Rocks, but with hazard support, this set can shine. Finally, Nasty Plot sets with Life Orb have popped up recently, with its ability to destroy typical balance cores by using coverage such as Grass Knot to hit Pokemon such as Ting Lu extremely hard. How wil you build around this inconsistent wind genie?
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Deadline is July 28 2025 (which means you have one week to build).
Good luck builders
 
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An old variation of a team that im planning for the future.
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is here specifically for its blend of speed utility and pivoting. i decided outspeeding
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was good enough given that it also outspeeds stuff like
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. taunt was nice here for
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, so theres less pressure for
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to spin as much.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2406338024-9r3g4379nhvyo0amoxxphyuf1pppsbbpw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2406339068-4xtfkrj2ltmf015ew7u61l3x4hreicdpw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2406405311-wee6v6edmhu61b5u7460m1rf4tsjl72pw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2392475440-1tutj98nbjtspvasd4g42x2l2k5hsjjpw
 
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