Standard Wallbreaking FM set with dual STAB and Tbolt for Flying and Water, Psychic for Poison and the Poison/Fighting mons. Setup sweeper set that capitalizes on burn + Hex to snowball with Grim Neigh. Blocks status moves, hazard removals moves, Poison immunity, bulk setup sweeper. EV spread avoids a 2HKO from Alolan Muk. Avoids an OHKO from non-choiced Mamoswine, Iron Treads, etc. Sash lead set for hazards and pick potential with Destiny Bond. Also fish for Disables with Cursed Body. Setup sweeper set with Sub to dodge status and Lefties for longevity. Sash Weak Armor to take advantage of physical attackers hitting you for double speed. SD to snowball, Bitter Blade for longevity and drain tanking, Poltergeist for strong STAB, Shadow Sneak for STAB priority.
Physical wall, rock setter, Toxic spreader, Unaware for physical setup sweepers, Boots to avoid hazard damage. Water Absorber, special wall, Tspikes setter. Speed control, Ground immunity, Sludge Wave for Ogerpon, U turn for pivoting. Bulky setup sweeper and stallbreaker with Taunt, item removal, Lefties for longevity, enough speed for all the viable Gliscor speeds. Special wall, move scouter with Protect, Lefties for longevity, hazard removal. Psychic immunity, Spikes setter, phazer with Whirlwind, all around wall.
Speed control, fast pivoting, Ice Spinner for Dragon, Grass, Clodsire. Physical wall, slow pivot, Wish passer, potential burns with Scald, move scouter with Protect. Special wall, Rock setter, Ice Beam for Ground, Dragon, Poison. Boots to avoid hazard damage with Sticky Hold to prevent item removal. Special wallbreaker, Ice Beam for Dragon, Ground, and Grass types. Extrasensory for Fighting and Poison types. Sludge Wave for Fairies and Ogerpon. Bulk setup sweeper for Dragon, Fighting, and Dark types. Psychic Noise for Poison types and to block healing moves, enough speed for no speed investment Corviknight. Mixed wall Pex to avoid 2HKO from Meowscarada and Flutter Mane, Poison Jab for Fairies and Ogerpon.
Bulky Stored Power set. Enough speed to outspeed Scarf Boulder after an Agility. Tachyon Cutter for a strong multi-hit Steel STAB. Defense spread avoids an OHKO from the following mons without Reflect: Roaring Moon, Iron Treads, Meowscarada, Hoopa-Unbound, Cinderace outside the sun, +1 Dragonite, Landorus-Therian, Ogerpon-Hearthflame, Choice Band Scizor, Ceruledge. This spread pairs well with Screens to make Crown substantially more bulky. Focus Blast could also be used over Tachyon Cutter to hit Steel and Dark types hard. Bulky setup sweeper, hazard prevention, Nuzzle to hinder fast threats, enough Speed to hit Toxapex before it hits a Poison move or clicks Haze. Speed control, HWish support, strong dual STAB, Trick to hinder walls. Screen setter, Rock setter, strong STAB on Psycho Boost. First AV that handles Steel, Fighting, Normal, and Dark types. Priority with Shadow Sneak. Second AV that handles Ghost, Flying, Water, Steelm and opposing Psychic types.
Bulk setup sweeper, hazard prevention, Giga Drain for Water and Ground types, enough speed for Toxapex. Special wallbreaker and pivoting. Special wall that handles Ghost, Flying, Water, Steel and opposing Psychic types. Faster setup sweeper with strong STAB and coverage moves boosted by Expert Belt. Terrain setter, Encore for impairing, HWish support, Dazzling Gleam for Dark types. Special wall, Chilly Reception for slow pivoting, Eject Button for immediate pivoting, Future Sight for offset damage.I played again after not touching Pokemon for over a year and did 20 battles with the same team hitting top 500:Hello everyone! This is my first post here. In Gen 9 I tried many types but found Bug to be my most played and I'd like to provide a team that has been working for me. Without further ado, I present:
Balanced Bug
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Kleavor = Rocks Setter, Scarf Revenge Killer, Offensive Pivot, General Lead
Lokix = Immediate Physical Power, Revenge Killer (especially on mons faster than Kleavor), Knock Off Utility, Offensive Pivot
Yanmega = Special Setup Sweeper, Anti-Heal Utility
Forretress = Physical Wall, Spikes Setter, Hazard Control, Defensive Pivot, General Lead #2
Araquanid = Special Wall, Sticky Web Setter, Trapper, Surprise Coat Killer
Volcarona = LOL Broken, Special Setup Sweeper #2, Burn Utility
Forretress + Araquanid form your defensive core with Kleavor/Lokix/Forretress forming a VoltTurn core for pivoting. There are two special attackers each with coverage moves because I found Volcarona alone not being enough against some special walls. Yanmega's Throat Spray is activated with either Bug Buzz or Psychic Noise, and I'm a huge fan of Protect to gain information, waste weather turns, as well as guarantee +1 Speed at the very least.
Testing Proof:
(200 Battles starting at 1100, 55% Win-Rate)
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Sample Replays:
1.) vs Poison
2.) vs Steel
3.) vs Fire
4.) vs Bug
5.) vs Water
6.) vs Dark
7.) vs Ghost
8.) vs Ground
9.) vs Fighting
10.) vs Dragon
11.) vs Electric
12.) vs Ice
13.) vs Psychic
-> Tenta could be Pex eject button impish 248HP/252+Def/8SpDef reco/poisonjab/haze/toxic or invested to creep Hatt but it's less roleplay
Flutter Mane is the team's special wallbreaker, with specs set instead of Calm Mind as to break Poison Stall better, else you may struggle against Unaware Clod or some other specific walls. This lad hits like a truck with its stab moves and can check threats with the other two coverages.
Azumarill is still insane as a physical sweeper, carried by Belly Drum + Priority in Aqua Jet but also being able to put a bit of utility thanks to Knock Off to get rid of Helmets, Lefties and annoying stuff.
Tinkaton is a great anti-lead thanks to rocks and Encore, and is also able to shut down sweepers with Thunder Wave. Thanks to its high SpD you can take some special hits pretty well and provide instant utility.
Scarf Enam grants speed control to the team and is also able to get quick damage. Superpower occasionally causes emergency sweeps. Mixed Iron Valiant is Great thanks to its coverage BoltBeam and bonkers stab. It can get surprise kills and make progress most of the times. Klefki allows you to get easy sweeps with Flutter Mane and mostly Azumarill thanks to the screens. Spikes chip mons down putting instant pressure if combined with Azu Knock Off and also make games against Sturdy/Sash mons safer. This mon can also shut down physical sweepers instantly thanks to Reflect + Foul Play.
SD sweeper, strong dual STABs with Poltergeist and Bitter Blade. STAB priority with Shadow Sneak. Weak Armor + Focus Sash for get double speed against physical attackers. Mandatory to have on Sunless Fire. Enough speed for Adamant/Modest base 50 Spe mons. Dual STAB with Sludge Bomb and Earth Power for coverage. EPower hitting things hard like Toxapex, Archaludon, and opposing Volcanion. Sludge lets you hit Ogerpon hard and Fairies like Valiant and Azumarill. SD Sweeper set with Horn Leech for longevity and Superpower to OHKO Archaludon and Dark types. Bulky Volc is rising to become the main spread to use on Fire with the recent Gouging Fire ban. Bulkarona also improves the Dragon vs Fire matchup substantially. The spread allows you to outspeed Flutter Mane at +1 and you can tank hits from physical mons like Roaring Moon, Dragonite, Iron Hands, Iron Treads. With the spread along with Flame Body, you can get some useful procs that further exemplifies Volcarona’s snowball potential. Psychic allows you to hit most things that resist Fiery Dance and also annoying Poison types like Sneasler, Toxapex, and Okidogi. SpD Tran has been back on the rise and that’s why I’m using this spread. There’s enough speed to outspeed Skarmory. Heavy Slam for Fairies, mainly to OHKO Flutter Mane. Rock setter as well. Libero Utility Mon, Sucker Punch for priority revenge killing, Court Change for hazard control, HJK for Rock, Dark and Normal types and Archaludon/Heatran.
I would throw some much needed hopefully soon to be sample teams inside of the mix. These teams have shown to be quite the decency especially on a metagame still trying to find its course of balance since Dragon got gutted with a defensive investment. Enjoy. Links will be linked in with the sprites so just click on them!
has left us. You can opt for Raging Bolt to help cover flying a lot more, Choice Scarf Roaring Moon, heck even Kommo-o! Within the same time frame I made and crafted this team with the thought of "hmm, what can I pose a threat to that can statistically still make this top type maintain its dominance?" And I found just the idea! Choice Scarf Dragapult & Choice Specs Kyurem. Dragapult, Dragon's fastest base speed Pokemon, can catch opposing Dragapult, Choice Scarf Roaring Moon, relatively any Dragon that can't handle taking a Draco Meteor from it and dispose of it with just one hit! This also works for Flutter Mane, especially Choice Scarf Flutter Mane sets as it outspeeds and threatens with a KO though you do need to make sure you chip it to AT LEAST 70 HP before firing off a Shadow Ball. This set also outspeeds Choice Scarf Meowscarada as well and threatens a KO in a damage range with a fast U-Turn. I also additionally paired this with Choice Scarf Latias as it is one of the best forms of Support Dragons with Healing Wish and Trick to catch off bulky issues down the line. Enjoy!
Fire sunless
Dragon
Flying
Ghost
Poison
Balance def clod
Rain
https://pokepast.es/f85c767f56438bf5
https://psim.us/t/1087525
What do you think? pretty new to monotype
Samurott-Hisui @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 8 SpD / 248 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Ceaseless Edge
- Razor Shell
- Sacred Sword
- Flip Turn
Quagsire @ Leftovers
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Impish Nature
- Earthquake
- Toxic
- Recover
- Stealth Rock
Pelipper @ Assault Vest
Ability: Drizzle
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 40 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA / 212 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hurricane
- Weather Ball
- Knock Off
- U-turn
Araquanid @ Custap Berry
Ability: Water Bubble
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Impish Nature
- Liquidation
- Endeavor
- Sticky Web
- Endure
Ogerpon-Wellspring (F) @ Wellspring Mask
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- U-turn
- Ivy Cudgel
- Horn Leech
- Swords Dance
Tentacruel @ Black Sludge
Ability: Liquid Ooze
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 HP / 240 SpD / 16 Spe
Calm Nature
- Rapid Spin
- Toxic Spikes
- Sludge Bomb
- Flip Turn
I tried this team its a very nice creative team but man i cant win against water stall and why is iron valient timid lol
Iron valiant is runing specs so timid nature is the best because no need physical attack and is important to have max speed in this mon for obvious reasons. If you prefer a mixed set with close combat and life orb, then run naive nature.
it work I use team nd it good
Stop revealing the secretsWith banded meow getting very similar usage in tour to scarf meow in tour, it’s weird that there aren’t any sample teams featuring the set. Also very strange that AV Hoopa also has no representation. So here’s two teams with them both for sample submission.
Band Meow + Scarf Gren + SD Samu
https://pokepast.es/798a64019ac78334
Banded Meow with AV Hoopa form an incredible offensive core. We run t punch here to wall break through water and flying almost on its own since here we’re running greninja as our scarfer of choice. Hazards spam to make our offensive threats harder to deal with. Secondary wall breaker in samurott with an adamant nature can make quick work of opposing dark/dragon and flying cores. The hp and def investment ensure that you take a jolly sacred sword from Samu-H at full hp 100% of the time
Band Meow + Specs Gren + Scarf Darkrai
https://pokepast.es/3cc2353bfa5a676b
Band Meow + Specs Gren form an unwallable offensive core. The rest of the team is there to support this. With a scarfer necessary for revenge killing Pokemon like Sneasler and Urshifu, Darkrai is the best option. Darkrai also outspeeds Meow and Greninja as a choice scarf user. Trick is there to shutdown walls that can annoy your offensive core such as Articuno/Corviknight/Skarmory/Archaludon/Goodra. Hazards spam ting-Lu to facilitate your offensive core even more and defog on Mandibuzz because the team is a little weak to opposing hazard stack, and it’s really nice to have in the mid to late game after you’ve gotten value out of your own hazards. AV Hoopa is just a really nice sponge and is able to break down a lot of defensive cores
