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ty Grandmas Cookin for hosting! this is my first tournament win on forums, feels really good
ggs to all of my opponents, had a pretty crazy gauntlet to get here all things considered
Teams
Most of my building for this format was literally just adapting Reg F teams into DOU
https://pokepast.es/e9f3ca5c437844cd
the james evans team felt pretty solid— i like gambit a lot & this team does a great job of supporting it. Gouge felt really great & sub Lando was great into fuckass Archaludon & amoonguss https://pokepast.es/c7cfbc34eb3b018b
the classic Reg F HO was definitely one of my favorite teams to use in the whole tournament— Booster Energy Flutter Mane felt great the entire tournament especially in the face of Choice Scarf Urshifu & Chien-Pao. I also felt like not a lot of teams had the defensive recourse for sun + Chi-yu, as i'll touch on a bit later
https://pokepast.es/eee40e75c7d31080
this ursaluna set is super larp but Urshifu-S + Wogerpon was still enough to get me the win the one game I used it (I ran this back in Reg F lol) https://pokepast.es/ea9ca96f39fe8abb
this was better but Farig was not really bulky enough to make the semiroom really sustainable
i don't really think any of these broke the bank in terms of creativity— this one was cool on paper but i don't think it really works that well, Lorb Pao was an interesting concept at least & I realized I wanted to bring something with Amoonguss because by the 3rd round my Wogerpon usage was 100% https://pokepast.es/2ac8c0a321ddfc30
the thing i'm proudest of here is probably the Urshifu EVs— I changed them last minute to always live a 100+ spa Bolt Thunderclap which allowed it to tank a Psychic from Lando-I in finals. It was also originally CB Ursh, but then I realized the team needed more speed. Amoonguss gets so much better in an Urshifu + Flutter Mane format and it was nice to use my goat back in its element (even if it died t1...) https://pokepast.es/78b3d370bb0bdb46
this is really just goodstuffs, I wanted to think of a way to just force two of the strongest breakers possible (chi-yu & urshifu) & ended up on this. Marlon Hando felt really good into the kind of teams I'd seen so far, and Amoonguss basically holds the team together defensively against Flutter Mane and Urshifu.
anyways so, team yap out of the way! as far as the format goes, I was really unimpressed by Annihilape & Archaludon. in a format with Flutter Mane and the Urshifus they just get outclassed and overpowered— I would never free either of them though! They're both super uninteractive and the only reason they were nbd is because of a certain monster....
Flutter Mane
Never free this guy. Even though it only has two real sets (booster energy and specs) with the proper support it's able to overcome basically all counterplay to it because of the Urshifus. Booster Energy Speed Flutter Mane was an insanely good support mon that wasn't even really all that passive because it supported monsters like Chi-yu and the Urshifus. I was highly impressed with how it performed across the whole run. I think i largely tended towards booster energy because things like Urshifu-R and Chi-yu seemed way more broken with Booster Flutter support than just Flutter on its own. I think Flutter is basically both too good as a support option and too good at forcing unfavorable damage trades. I also had at least one very important game (sorry jello) come down to a flutter speed tie, which is just genuinely uncool.
Urshifu-R (and S a bit)
I'm hesitant about this guy. I think Urshifu-R has more clearly defined checks in the current SV DOU metagame (Bolt, Amoon, Wellspring— even Torn to an extent) than its brother, but I also think its influence on the metagame would be overall unfavorable. I think after this tour I would be open to the idea of a suspect on both Urshifus— in addition to their own broken traits I think the Urshifus' most broken quality is their synergy with Flutter Mane. Flutter Mane and Urshifu form one of the strongest offensive cores in the entire game and both largely cover for each others' weaknesses— I think in a format without Flutter Mane the Urshifus are a lot more palatable to me. Rapid Strike is an extremely strong breaker but has a lot of already viable counterplay, while Single Strike's typing is significantly more flawed offensively and defensively with more niche counterplay. I think the two could be an interesting addition to the metagame & would not be entirely opposed to them being retested— that being said I'm highly skeptical that they would or should be unbanned.
Everyone Else
Arch and Ape are uninteractive and add nothing to the format or the game. Both punish you for hitting them which is just so toxic and I truly despise both of these mons— they truly have no redeeming qualities to me, and while they were not broken in this I will never support freeing either of them in any capacity. Basculegion is kind of just cheese, I don't think it's good in a FM + Dursh format but realistically this guy adds nothing & shouldn't be unbanned. It's uninteractive to a much lesser extent than Arch and Ape but it's still cringe cheese.
TL:DR,
Flutter is broken
suspect Urshifus
Arch/Ape/Legion are uninteractive and should never be freed
anyways ty for letting me yap a bit and thanks again to the host! tour was fun & i feel really proud of actually winning something even if it was kind of small
