Well, unfortunately my team is out. 6-3 is a pretty nice record, and I'm in a good yapping mood, so lemme do a teamdump.
Week 1: https://pokepast.es/d308edb383219912
"My scout barely has any HO, so let's mix it up week 1. Surely we won't run into the worst matchup humanly fucking possible!!"
>Mega scizor Washtom Kitsunoh into physical magearna
Sigh. Well, the idea was fun. Didn't really get to play the game this time but the team was also buns anyways. Was too disrespectful of torn-t loading rockless and got punished for it. Though my Volcarona got lucked on Hurricanes a bit iirc so w/e.
Week 2: https://pokepast.es/216e4d248e38869a
Originally, I was going to use some fun Conkeldurr bulky offense shit with like U-Turn mew and shit. Shit was hot. Unfortunately, Jackuzz subbed in. Then around the day of the game, my channel had a new message. The message? "Stall him bro, he won't know where he is after turn 25 trust me.." and thus i took a stallbreaker naviathan team and made Nav a Jumbao. And it worked! Zard-X was a threat but it got played around so the game became mine quite quickly, or well, slowly. cuz yknow. Needed to get back off from a negative record after all.
Week 3: https://pokepast.es/ea2313f14ac5cea3
This one was just tragic. Building a team around bullying Jumbao with ChompCari and running into phys def cresselia instead shit was not playable LMAO. Didn't play flawlessly admittedly. Diggersby was honestly a weavile until the last like hour when I was like.. yknow, weavile is too good where's my shitmon at? Ah here it is! Diggersby isn't really good but fuck I'd rather use Diggersby than a fidgit so w/e. Kinda generic build but its not a bad structure. Also Caribolt is both the greatest and worst mon ever why is it god everytime I fight it and dogshit when I use it ITS NOT FAIR.
Week 4: https://pokepast.es/850fef2e85b52c13
This is probably the traditional "best" team I used all tournament this shit is so good. After
One Last Kiss was pushing the snael agenda in SV (goat manager btw) I was like hey, I haven't used this D tier stinker yet, he looks fire let's run it. And frankly it blew me away. This shit is AMAZING. IIRC the attack on snael is for Sp def Pex at +2, but I could be wrong its 1am. Snael put in ridiculous amounts of work and this is when Snaelstrom started really taking off in general, because it didn't catch only my eye. EVERYONE caught on, and started using it in turn. Not specifically SD sets, though I think those are also good, but pivot sets. The actual game was a Snaelstrom mogging session poor guy was getting schmixed.
Week 5: https://pokepast.es/48beca9a18789519
Running into Pannu in a tour is a matter of life and death for differential cuz any L vs him is magnified by 2 to fund his primogems addiction. Jokes aside, it was pannu so I loaded infernape. I will still call infernape good, and nobody is going to stop me. Beyond that, I figured Pannu would load some anti-offense stuff since he did last time and he did load some stuff vulnerable to this. Dragon Breath Latias was mainly because I wanted to fish paras for Colo. I rarely use Lele so I thought it was a good time to load it and sadly it exploded to an AV Colossoil. Because of course it did. Steel type = Kartana and my lele exploded to paste I was so mad.
Week 6: https://pokepast.es/55d2c5646d309da3
By this stage, my team had made playoff. And that meant I got to load whatever the FUCK I wanted from the recesses of my fucked up head. And that meant beating Clem at his own game. Dude loves mega pinsir so I figured I'd use it back, but do Feint > QA for the one-up. I remember seeing the metagame post talking about how good of an enabler Koko is for any fighting nuke so I took the piss and loaded the pig. The pig went fucking crazy LMAOOOO shit got like 4 kills. I could've loaded alot of things I considered like Roserade of Mewnium-Z NP Mew or psychium-z offensive suicune but I'm glad I chose
DripLegend.
Week 7: https://pokepast.es/140cababda675e04
Pangoro into fucking Helmet Tomohawk bro come on LMFAOOO. Well I already saw my life flash on preview but I thought ay maybe I could clutch this, and to be fair; I almost did. Sadly it came down to calling Jellicent pivoting in for Water Absorb on pex and this dude just went hard into it so well I got fried. Shame. I had another squad built, but I took a look at it and I thought "Hey, this is TOO good to use in week 7, lemme save this for semis" and cooked up this dogshit instead.
Semifinals: https://pokepast.es/1fc63d6f67c7adc2
This was the squad that I chose to preserve, but with some optimizations. Originally, I had colossoil over the Zapdos but I saw how badly Torn-T pieced my shit so I changed it to Zap alongside some other changes. Chose Payapa pex for Lele concerns which also helps for Volcarona. Team's very good honestly, and I don't really use Demon Latias sets like this often so I thought it'd be time to take it for a spin even if I'm not a huge fan. That said uh, oh boy this game wasn't pretty and I don't mean for me. Heat Wave burn on Mega Pert is some nasty shit and Ash gren tore the team apart. This mon is still godlike btw don't let Jumbao and Arghonaut trick you otherwise.
Semifinals Tiebreak: https://pokepast.es/0e788421da5e746c
This squad felt really good to play with. I figured Micaiah would go either full fat or some really aggressive shit so I aimed to cover both. Sticky Web Snael was a fun idea I had for anti-offense measures and it worked like a dream here. Tpunch Ice Punch Medi was aiming to handle the fat angle and as long as I didn't run into some Helmet Cress fat it should be good and well. Flyinium Lando-T was for covering potential CariLucha HOs I also wanted cover for. As for Liquidation on Snael, its a bit hypocritical since I called it abysmal dogshit in the discord but for here I wanted the stronger hit on Volcarona since it super 6-0d this build. Worked out perfectly too since it got the game-clutching libra kill. Which is completely deserved considering how fucking unlucky I got this game. My poor medicham got instant static'd and then a game-ruining crit later on too. A shame teammates couldn't clutch but considering what we loaded we didn't rlly deserve it
FORBIDDEN ARTS: https://pokepast.es/a776b5b0631b586d
And now, a BONUS round. A team so abysmally fucking garbage even I couldn't bring myself to bring it. If you thought my decidueye webs squad from 2 years was a special flavor of ass, this one was so much worse. Where do I even begin? Look at this shit.
Small tidbit but shoutout
One Last Kiss,
Spammernoob,
JayHeaven, and everyone in the team. Ya'll were mad fucking fun to team with and its a shame semis is where we signed off. Hope to see some of yall next year.
