OU ORAS OU Team Bazaar

[Sna]

Been months since I’ve wanted to drop something here, and I finally got the time to do it. Big thanks to my brother mixnite for motivating me to post ts! Also this one's dedicated to my good friend and the GOAT, zRyan74



zRyan74 FEMINISM HEAT

I started mons with a Scarf Serperior team back in my hometown, SM OU ladder. When I transitioned to ORAS OU, I couldn’t find a single Scarf Serperior team that I liked. So I decided to build one myself, but i couldn't get any lead so i had to call up my sensei Avendesora for guidance and his spice was excatly what this team needed.

This team revolves around bulky Mega Gallade and scarf Serperior, a set not commonly used in this metagame. Scarf Serperior is a very potent cleaner in the late game thanks to its massive speed, outspeeding basically everything in the metagame. Mega Gallade is a really nice partner to it, as it really likes pokémons like Tornadus-Therian being paralyzed. Seismitoad is the ground type of choice, as it is very good into most electric types, which give both Serperior and Gallade a bit of trouble, especially Zapdos. Clefable is the physical defensive pokemon on the team, coming in on threats like Mega Lopunny and to a lesser extent Mega Medicham. Victini is here for the Volcarona matchup, as well as a secondary answer to Medicham if need be. Last but not least, Zapdos is the hazard removal of choice for the team, as it offers both momentum and a ground immunity to the team.

I haven't done ALOT of testing with the team so any suggestions or stuff like this is appreciated and huge s/o to BluBirD for the victini and the final patching the team needed!

 

[mixnite]

sorry to steal the spotlight Sna...

been meaning to share this team for quite a while as part of a mini series where I share notable teams I've used in tour but I procrastinated oops

HEAT FOG SPIKE VENU DOUBLE TRAP
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I'm growing quite fond of SkarmBliss lately especially as I've engaged more with ADV -- I just speedran Pokemon Emerald and have been nuzlocking FireRed and LeafGreen -- thanks to videos from BKC as well as this other guy who goes by Nostalgic Nighthawk on YouTube. however, this team was actually built quite some time ago for my Masters League set vs Bored Pikachu. this was one of those teams that you build in 5 minutes that turns out to be really good. without further ado, here's the team

timeless pairing. I won't go into the details; if you're reading this then you probably already know all about SkarmBliss, or in this case ChanSkarm. instead I'll briefly go over two particular moves that I think deserve discussing: Skarmory's Defog and Chansey's Thunder Wave. I'll start with Chansey since that's the more straightforward/ standard pick. Thunder Wave is the status move of choice here since it enables my two set up sweepers, Venusaur and Gliscor, to have an easier time vs faster teams. Toxic is a good option but it isn't as useful here since Venusaur and Gliscor don't necessarily need chip damage to facilitate their sweeps. Defog on Skarmory, however, is a much more interesting option. this team is rather weak to Spikes despite the presence of Magnezone to remove opposing Skarmory and Ferrothorn. Chansey's and Venusaur's longevity is especially hampered when facing opposing Spike-stack teams which leads to you having to play extremely aggressively to win before all three layers go up. Skarmory lessens this burden.

similarly to Skarmory and Chansey, these two have a joint role to aid Venusaur and Gliscor by trapping and removing key threats in the Steel- and Psychic-types in the tier. Weavile also acts as an enforcer due to its immensly powerful Knock Off removing key items paired well with its complementary STAB in Icicle Crash. Pickpocket is the ability of choice to act as a psuedo-Weavile check by absorbing Knock Off and stealing Choice Band. really not much else to say here. Magnezone's has two distinct roles: deleting Skarmory and Ferrothorn and paralysing Metagross. the second of these is arguably more important as the first since Metagross poses an incredible threat to this team if it isnt slowed down by paralysis. preserve Magnezone until you are certain you can deal with Metagross.

incredibly difficult to get rid of and potent at sweeping. a balance classic. Venusaur's immense rise is partly as a result of the discovery of the Growth set. get the Steel-types out of the picture (hi Magnezone) and there really isn't much that can threaten it out barring Fire-types like Heatran. checks notes... did someone say Heatran? you mean Gliscor food? Gliscor is able to capitalise on quite a number of the threats that force out Venusaur such as the afformentioned Heatran. they have great type synergy being able to cover a wide array of threats while also having the bulk to eat that one super-effective hit (9/10 doctors do not recommend).

while I did build this team in ~5 minutes, it's grown on me and has directed me to building structures I otherwise wouldn't have thought of (more SkarmChans teams coming soon). I hope you guys have as much fun using this team as I have. until next time, God bless you and peace out

bonus content

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen6ou-834209

watchout for Safeguard Volcarona

shoutouts Bored Pikachu and KlefkiHolder

 

[GOATED im_m0rtal.]

LUNAR BLESSING


Here to complete the larpcord trifecta, I am here to share one of my absolute favourite teams. This team was made by me, with the invaluable help of stardust, imperialH and tested by me in various tours and friendlies. Mixnite helped me refine it. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.


This guy is an absolute unit. He has an insane ability, along with access to taunt and sub which make it an invaluable stall breaker and threat to offense due to dragon dance. Its natural typing is also good. I use taunt here to deny rocks and break stall. I often use it late game if its threats are dead or with cresselia if it has a really good MU.

Such a dishonest pokemon, and such an absolute goat. Sometimes, one quiver dance is all it takes and the match is over. I utilise a life orb quiver dance set to break past mostly everything alongside giga drain to regain health. You can alternate b/w life orb, and lum berry, and giga drain/hpground/bug buzz. However, you need to keep rocks off.


This is one of the best pokemon gamefreak ever made. This guy gets insane utility moves, ranging from screens to glare to taunt to leech seed to sub to knock off, all of which I have tried. I prefer a screens set/lum taunt set.


The Kevin De Bruyne of this team. The absolute goat. The guy who always takes one for the team. Lunar dance is invaluable and helps you turn the tides in a game. Thunder wave is sometimes crucial, and it helps our team NOT lose to m-lopunny. You can alternate b/w scarf and helmet sets.


Mr Consistent. Mr RoleCompression. There are many names you can give this lad but its never enough. Rapid spin and stealth rock support alongside clefable answer makes excadrill invaluable for this team.


The Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card. Prankster thunder wave, hpice, volt switch and focus blast coverage alongside an insane speed tier providing insane anti offense potential. This guy is HIM and really fun to use as well.


s/o to mixnite for getting me into oras and ithi for funny prep lol​

 

[KNBC]

Been months since I’ve wanted to drop something here, and I finally got the time to do it. Big thanks to my brother mixnite for motivating me to post ts! Also this one's dedicated to my good friend and the GOAT, zRyan74



zRyan74 FEMINISM HEAT

I started mons with a Scarf Serperior team back in my hometown, SM OU ladder. When I transitioned to ORAS OU, I couldn’t find a single Scarf Serperior team that I liked. So I decided to build one myself, but i couldn't get any lead so i had to call up my sensei Avendesora for guidance and his spice was excatly what this team needed.

This team revolves around bulky Mega Gallade and scarf Serperior, a set not commonly used in this metagame. Scarf Serperior is a very potent cleaner in the late game thanks to its massive speed, outspeeding basically everything in the metagame. Mega Gallade is a really nice partner to it, as it really likes pokémons like Tornadus-Therian being paralyzed. Seismitoad is the ground type of choice, as it is very good into most electric types, which give both Serperior and Gallade a bit of trouble, especially Zapdos. Clefable is the physical defensive pokemon on the team, coming in on threats like Mega Lopunny and to a lesser extent Mega Medicham. Victini is here for the Volcarona matchup, as well as a secondary answer to Medicham if need be. Last but not least, Zapdos is the hazard removal of choice for the team, as it offers both momentum and a ground immunity to the team.

I haven't done ALOT of testing with the team so any suggestions or stuff like this is appreciated and huge s/o to BluBirD for the victini and the final patching the team needed!

Very interesting. Is there any particular reason for Timid 252 Serperior?

 

[BluBirD]

Oh baby, i guess it's my time to further corrupt this damn post.

Hello oras people i'm BluBirD, some of you might know me for some whack ass teams and spreads, others might know me because...actually yeah it's just because of the shit i make from time to time.

Here's a team i spent a lot of time on which to some might feel like it really shouldn't take a lot of time to make ngl, it started out with different sets and spreads, other megas and some other additions that came but didn't last.



So here's the idea behind this thing, absurd chaos and mons that shouldn't live hits but they do. It's my trademark style by now and it's kinda funny to think about mons like crawdaunt actually taking advantage of their typing defensively and it's even funnier when people are actually surprised that i'm attempting it, anyway.
The core idea is for these 3 overwhelming physical breakers/sweepers(see how it's interchangeable due to their now new found staying power)
to break for each other until one of them just suffice in the end game with the support provided.
Just a small backstory this team was originally a mega diancie/volcarona team which ended up going to the mega hera route due to it's ability to just humiliate hp rock serp which at the time this team was made was the premier set in comparison to hp fire.
Here's a quick rundown of what each mons runs and why:

Dragonite @ Leftovers
Ability: Multiscale
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Outrage
- Ice Punch
- Superpower

Lefties DD ice/superpower dnite is a clown but it matches up well into the lando teams that are getting more and more common by the day and it absolutely obliterates most sand offenses single handedly, it gives us back up checks to stuff like volcarona/serperior/keldeo as we know, a speed booster and appreciates the wallbreaking ability of heracross + crawdaunt vs clefable cores(also gives me a decent offensive check to zard-y which idt i need to explain why we need it here)

Cresselia (F) @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 244 HP / 96 Def / 40 SpA / 108 SpD / 20 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Psychic
- Trick Room
- Lunar Dance
- Thunder Wave

As sharp readers might have noticed, this team is quite slow and lacking of a decent tank to just soft check half the tier for 1-2 turns...enter cresselia.
Decided to go with Bold here which is appreciated for the help vs medi/lop/gallade/sd chomp/ddnite and metagross which is quite important and so on, some spdef to help vs keldeo/zard-y/diancie/np thund and there's speed to creep ada max crawdaunt letting it function as a pokemon for that 1 turn before it gets sent to the shadow realm(speed also comes in handy vs some mega venusaurs who aim for a similar benchmark) standard moveset through and through but instead of moonlight i decided to opt for a far more aggressive option in Trick Room to support the slow speed tiers the team runs in and open up heracross and crawdaunt end games more reliably while also providing excadrill with spin/rocks opportunities if we're in dire need of them.

Heracross-Mega @ Heracronite
Ability: Guts
EVs: 232 HP / 16 Atk / 20 Def / 216 SpD / 24 Spe
Careful Nature
- Close Combat
- Rock Blast
- Pin Missile
- Swords Dance

Huge shoutout to my guy @Amir(o right, he's still banned for some reason) who gave me the original idea for this abomination.
Assault vest mega heracross as mixnite likes to call it, needs no introduction really, i would post a wall of calcs to prove of how useful it really is but i think just this one will suffice here:
252 SpA Alakazam-Mega Psychic vs. 232 HP / 216+ SpD Heracross-Mega: 264-312 (73.5 - 86.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock.
(have fun on the calc to see what else it may live as well)
This guy means business, trades 1v1 with half the tier and gives u some unfair advantages in some matchups vs fatter teams but is no slouch vs offense either considering that u have to take it down twice if u consider that cresselia's trick room + lunar dance wombo combo is mainly there for heracross, you can lead it vs like diancie, trade 1v1 and then lunar dance it back to devour the rest of the team.

Excadrill @ Shuca Berry
Ability: Mold Breaker
EVs: 128 HP / 204 Def / 24 SpD / 152 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Rapid Spin

Good ol' standard drill but with a shuca berry because it helps us trade with other excadrill and diancie to open up the team more reliably(especially helpful vs sand) it's impish this time around to help out more vs weavile, metagross and outraging kyurem-black cause jesus that guy is annoying, speed is for offensive mega scizor.

Crawdaunt @ Lum Berry
Ability: Adaptability
EVs: 140 HP / 156 Atk / 4 Def / 24 SpD / 184 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Crabhammer
- Knock Off
- Aqua Jet

Here comes the controversy, this guy scares all the boomers away with 168 evs invested in its bulk!!!
Jokes aside, i managed to make a decent spread here to help me avoid 2hko's from weavile's ice crash, check bisharp more "reliably" and also give me good chances to play vs volcanion(scarf steam eruption does not 2hko and lum helps me avoid burns)
If u managed to get this guy in vs slowbro in a 1v1, good job you got a kill(or in some cases vs certain teams, 6 kills)
Jet comes in handy vs volcarona and random targets u wanna pick off(diancie/drill come to mind once again).

Thundurus (M) @ Magnet
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 64 HP / 4 Def / 100 SpA / 88 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- U-turn
- Thunderbolt
- Thunder Wave
- Hidden Power [Ice]

Last but certainly not least, here's the big enabler!
This guy here just gives Crawdaunt/Heracross free entry vs virtually everything like hippo, excadrill, gastro, seismitoad, ferrothorn and more, momentum is extremely important for this team and u can't afford to let it go with volt vs grounds here, twave to check half the tier, magnet thunderbolt helps the mu into manaphy, smacks clef for decent damage and basically makes up for the lack of excessive offensive investment here, spread lets u take a mega alakazam psychic after rocks.
This team can be tweaked and changed and formed to anyone's liking, set and spread wise so please go crazy if u feel like this version is not for you!

Yeah this the one, i'm usually reluctant to post "big" posts like this but i felt like forcing myself to do something "productive" for the community to break the monotonous cycle that has been running amok on my life lately.
This might sound silly coming for this kind of team and setting but i have found in mons something i haven't managed to find anywhere else in my life so far, artistic expression.
Some may laugh at this or dismiss it because the team looks bad to their eyes or because they think that it's really not that serious and i'm going over-sentimental here but i really don't give a shit anymore.
Be kind, express yourself and find things in your life that make you happy and complete, even if it's something as unimportant as building pokemon teams. Be constructive and curious and don't let negative people and situations keep you down.
Shoutout to my friends from the larpcord, the grandfather server, the sterk, phantom troupe, Pukka Dat, the MelCord and all my friends scattered around discord and pokemon showdown, i'd be nothing without you and i'm sorry if sometimes i'm ignoring y'all a bit more than i should, i hope that i can fix that sometime soon.
Love you all, have a great night and an ambitious life.

 

[Sna]

Very interesting. Is there any particular reason for Timid 252 Serperior

Modest underspeed the base 100s. Timid 252 outspeeds +1 Scolipede, +2 Mega-Tyranitar, +1 Gengar, +2 Cloyster and such

 

[Bored Pikachu]

Bored Pikachu's teamdump
This team dump includes both teams I've submitted on Smogon and ones I've helped build. Most of them have been revamped to fit the current metagame, and I'll be updating them from time to time. I also plan to add more teams in the future. I still have around 30 teams to upload since typing out all the sprites just takes a while.

1) Dragalge + Mega Metagross


2) Christmas-inspired team


3) Halloween-inspired team


4) Mythical-inspired team


5) Lucario rain


6) Mega Abomasnow TR


7) Mega Ampharos TR


8) Mega Gardevoir + CB Azumarill


9) Mega Alakazam + Breloom


10) Mega Latios + CB tyranitar


11) Mega Diancie + Dragonite


12) Mega Lopunny + Specs Kyurem


13) Mega Venusaur stall


14) Mega Charizard Y + Scarf Terrakion


15) Mega Tyranitar + Gengar


16) Mega Lopunny + AV Goodra


17) Priority spam


18) Gravity Mega Alakazam


19) Mega Gyarados + Weavile


20) Mega Charizard + SD Garchomp


I'm grateful you took the time to read my post. While the teams might not be perfect, I'm still proud to have built them for my beloved ORAS OU, a tier I truly enjoy. If you have any suggestions or feedback for my teams, feel free to DM me on Discord or Smogon.