Tournament Smogon Champions League V: OU Discussion

[Setsu]

Welcome to the Smogon Champions League V's OU Discussion thread!

In this tournament 10 teams compete across Official Smogon Metagames in SV such as Ubers, DOU, UU, RU, NU, PU, LC, and of course, OU. Each team lines up with 3 SV OU players, which means a total of 15 SV OU games every week for 9 weeks. Starting right after the end the laddering phase of OLT, and being the last major team tournament of 2025, new trends are sure to come. Expect this thread to include game discussion, links to usage stats and replays, and hopefully, teams shared by some of the very best SV OU players on the site.

Here are the teams participating in this year's SCL, with captains in italics and SV OU players bolded once the first round is out:

Arena Spartans DugZa, tko, vivalospride
Attribute, Fc, Separation, Danny, Starsama, etern, Pinecoishot, baconeatinassassin, DAHLI, vk, Akaru Kokuyo, eifo, Schister, Void

Circuit Breakers Mada, elodin, Stories
Santu, ABR, GXE, entrocefalo, MADARAAAA, MZ, watashi, AJ, OranBerryBlissey10, Kebab mlml, LBN, Wail Wailord, crying, 691

Indigo Platoon Lunar., Kingler, Quinn
Fusien, bhkg, JJ09LIE, Nails, Eternal Spirit, robjr, Esteb4n, Kaboom, kyuss, Mashing, MAVERICK SHOOTERS, File, Flabeauf, Sabella, Exiline

Mt. Silver Foxes umbry, Gondra, Xrn
Punny, Ann, Elias PSY, SOULWIND, TheFranklin, emoxu9, Stareal, avarice, Foolycl, Always Edgy, Isza, LOOR, LouisIX, Onraider

Orange Islanders Dave, Larry, Vulpix03
hellom, MichaelderBeste2, Colin, zS, Ewin, Envy, Django, Feyy, sufys, TrueNora, feen, kDCA, Axzel, Kushalos, srvoltmike, Skyiew

Power Plant Dynamos Excal, Mana, Luthier
McMeghan, Kate, Pkel SweeTforU, JustFranco, EternalSnowman, Niko, Jytcampbell, ACR1, Greedy_eb, fakenagol, FlamPoke, Grandmas Cookin, haxlolo, jake, Kristyl

Showdown Shoguns lax, ima, Giannis Antetokommo-o
mind gaming, Fogbound Lake, S1nn0hC0nfirm3d, 3d, Mako, Eniigma, Frito, hjkhj, eragon, SEA, Baddy, Hayburner, Ninja, Plague, SoggyDoggySage

Studio Gible Feliburn, Ajna, Accel
bagel, Star, Finchinator, Laroxyl, fade, Taka, TJ, Gilbert Arenas, mimilucha, RichardMillePlain, Tuthur, One Last Kiss, Shiba, Arc, asa, DaAwesomeDude1

Technical Machines Expulso, hex, Piyu
Icemaster, leng loi, tazz, clean, LpZ, Hiko, ratpacker, Sacri', Dj Breloominati♬, Dr. Phd. BJ, ishtar, frankjosh, sir jelloton, sire clod

Uncharted Terrors shiloh, Gingy, Kunal
oldspicemike, Lokifan, pdt, Scottie, TDNT, zee, Hacker, Shengineer, heileone, Drud, BlackKnight_Gawain, Dugtrio Is Broken, Metallica126, Let's Rumble Shall We, DD Joe​

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[1LDK]

1LDK ou prs​

hey, I have the flu and a terrible headache, so sorry if this comes out uninspiring. Anyway a lot of yapping, all teams are pretty close to each other and can all get wins, but someone has to be last and first, if this bothers you, you can prove me wrong in the field, gamble everything in uma musumes or contact me in my discord. Ninth has a job so we are not partnering this season

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10) Foxes: umbry, Gondra, Xrn

Soulwind: While Soulwind is the GOAT, his recond in sv alone might not tell you that, either way, it's soulwind, you can't just count him out
Stareal: a quite decent player on the quiet side, he qualified to OLT thanks to a Nat ban and his record this year seems to be on the negative, but he is known to put up good shows in the past, against players like sz, zs nad bhkg, maybe he just hates vocals, who knows
Foolycl: This is a new guy on the block, called the next watashi, because the latter is his mentor. With a 2-1 wcop start, can he make his master proud?

On the bench: Isza, LOOR: the former is a good clicker while the latter is a chef

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9) Terrors: Shiloh, Gingy, Kunal

Mike: ever since he was unfrozen, Oldspicemike has had mostly good showings all around, with the most recent wcop being a rare hiccup, but I think he has the skills to let be that, a hiccup.
tdnt: mainly one of the best SS OU players, his SVs have been rather silent, outside OLT once again
heileone: another new guy on the block, a top ladder resident with good knowledge of the meta

On the bench: dugtrio is broken, let's rumble shall we: the former is my goat dugtrio, gl this season #gargexplosion, and the latter is known as the jolteon guy

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8) Breakers: Mada, stories, elodin

ABR: The man of the hour, bro though he was gonna go for 17k and ninth had to grab him by the shoulder and show the knowledge The Ball TM had to give. Jokes aside, while one of the best in the entire planet, this is his first real SV outing, he has been in sv ou in the past but with no experience. Now he is fully invested himself in learning and experiencing sv ou. Him winning or losing might be life or death for the team.
GXE: I'm biased, everything GXE touches becomes gold, and I'm a fan of him, I hope he does well
Kebab mlml: kebab is good, but I know people are gonna prepare full antihax anticheese strats vs him, if he can capitalize through the fear he put in wcop, he might just farm again.

On the bench: No one, their other OU players like crying and watashi are in other tiers, a few moves from LBN and 691 can free those slots

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7) Gibles: feliburn, ajna, accel

Star: first time playing in SCL since the invention of the wheel. Above average in everything he does, he will stick to the consistent and outplay based on that
Tj: I've personally faced the guy on a Bo3 at a seasonal, assuming he doesn't get banned again for whatever the fuck, he will probably win
Finchinator: Finch "I should be going for 3.5k at most" the nator wants to play sv ou again after coming back to bw in spl and playing ss ou in wcop. Ima be real, it feels more like an obligation because "If the leader of the ou tier doesn't play ou at all then why is he still here" Which is why he wants to prove to the world and himself that he still deserves his spot, but his dedication to the community as a whole is objectively unmatched, and I fully respect that level of professionalism.

On the bench: One Last Kiss, Arc: the former is the hero of the wolfpack and the latter won spl and its a good chef, but it's been cursed by being GMT+13

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6) Shoguns: Lax, ima, Giannis Antetokommo-o

mako: Go Chile
3d: Lax and Ima betrayed him, and he is now forced to play OU against his will, time will tell if he archives super sayan status via his rage
baddy: a team UK member that won a SS OU seasonal, and has a 2-1 in wcop, he also won OUFL, and I'm still sad about it, but that's because I loved the tour, I want to run that back.

On the bench: Plague: free my guy, let him run the streets

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5) Spartans: tko + dugza + vivalospride

attribute: retained, 3 good team tours in a row, creator of the evil ass clef team, important in US west run
separation: one of china's most famous players dedicated to sm in spl but a wonderful wcop, defeating piyu
dahli: had a good scl but particular bad spl, well see if they can recover

On the bench: pinecoishot + vk: pineco is a US south member and its a good chef + dedicated ladder player. While vk pricefixed himself outta OU.

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4) Platoon: hasayo + kingler + quinn

jj09lie: good scl, amazing spl alongside his entire squad, a silent wcop for reaons we are not gonna talk about, he is not afraid to play his games at 7:55 just 5 minutes before school starts
fusien: won ost this year #oucontributorsgang
bhkg: the newest prospect of US NE, the savor of the bigs and a key factor in US NE getting to playoffs straight up instead of via tb

On the bench: MAVERICK SHOOTERS, one of the best scouters and preppers

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3) Dynamos: excal + luthier + mana

pkel: started last year as a nobody who was picked from a dumpster, pkel has become one of the most recognizable faces in sv ou, for he was the main carry in last OU SCL, while also doing well in spl whenever he had to cover sv. His rivalry feud with axzel in wcop was also funny as hell
niko: both acr1 and niko are pretty similar in being rather inconsistent lately, so their highs will win them the tour, but their lows will ruin them the tour
acr1: just read niko

On the bench: Fakenagol (idk the guy), Justfranco (he is starting in UU, but they have haxlolo as backup plan)

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2) islanders: Dave + Larry + Vulpix03

hellom: rooting for you hellom, we love you goat
ewin: ewin is currently 10-0 vs hellom, so dave decided to put them both in the same tier, so now hellom can win more. In all seriousness, while certaintly not the friendliest face in the community, he is a good player and a dedicated team player
kdca: I have no idea about this one, we will watch your career with great interest

On the bench: Axzel. Neatherlands player, who had a rivalry against pkel during wcop quallys and won the feud, letting neatherlands get to main event

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1) Machines: Expulso + hex + piyu

hiko: neutral last scl, positive in spl and wcop, he is slowly improving more and more, and it's self sustainable even tho the French sv technology is certainly not as trustworthy as the French ss one
leng: even tho neutral in spl and wcop, her support and teams were the driving factors in the classiest sv slot winning so much, one of the best chefs in current sv ou
clean: OLT biggest fan, almost won it, and its on playoffs 1-0 after a win vs soulwind, good spl, good wcop

On the bench: Sire clod. Apparently so good, even Vert is impressed by his skills

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Before I go, i wanna say 2 things

1) like I explained, ninth will not be with me for this season of scl coverage, so it's back to being me, myself and i, meaning that project is gonna be of way less quality, but shiny CC is shiny CC, I just want my own CA.

2) formally apologize to hex for sabotaging SSPL because I jinxed her, everything that I love withers away, and It's destined to rot. For I being punished in flesh for my sins, I'm being punished in mind, and I will be punished in soul....

 

[sire clod]

imma be real with u vert definitely has never said that.

 

[1LDK]

imma be real with u vert definitely has never said that.

Just working with what I have, call it sensationalism if you want, I call it journalism

 

[sire clod]

many are calling me the greatest non-rostered wcop player of all time this is true

 

[ego]

Shamelessly copying 1ldk's formatting so I can make my own OU rankings here. The top end talent is a little down here for sure; four of the five players with an SV OU individual trophy aren't playing (Vert, xavgb, Storm Zone, lax, with only Fusien playing), and if we count the SV STours then Empo didn't sign up while Santu and Michael are in other tiers. Couple that with some other players with recent high-end performances like myjava and Piyu not signing up, a few impact bans, and a bunch of players in lower-tiers instead, and the top of the pool has a lot of question marks, hence the absolute frenzy for the few options that did hit auction. Some teams have a clear top three while others have a bit of a bench mob that offers the flexibility to run with the hot hand, and for some teams that actually makes them feel less risky to me. I'm mostly thinking of these as approximate projections and some of them are going to be wrong.

To talk about the auction more specifically, we can break it down a bit. clean went over 30k, Star and ABR went over 25k. Six players went between 20k and 25k, and then JJ and Finch went for 19k and 18.5k respectively. After that, though, the prices drop off a cliff, because then it's Ewin at 15.5k, Hiko at 14.5k, and then Mako at 11.5k is the only other SV OU player above 10k? Basically, SV OU makes up 30% of the games each week, 50% of the buys worth at least 20k, and then only 27% of the auction buys below 20k but at least 10k. Retains complicate this, with a few players that would have been in that top price bracket getting retained for 16k and a few that would have been real mid-range options getting retained for 10k, but the point is that it seems like teams really, really wanted premium OU options and were generally inclined to fill the rest of their slots for cheap. To my eye, it seems like there's a pretty massive range of prices in guys that I look at and say "yeah they're probably going even", but the benefits of grabbing an undervalued player like that are probably going to be more apparent when looking at full teams.

10: Foxes

Managers: umbry, Gondra, Xrn

SoulWind was the 8th-most expensive OU player in the auction (although admittedly a little inflated because of 5 OU retains) without ever playing this tier in SPL or SCL. I honestly do not know how to rank them. They've played SV OU in WCOP a few times and gone about even, their last SCL was mainly in Ubers and that was disastrous but that was a very different tier. They've made OLT Swiss all three times and playoffs twice, going as far as semis last year. At least for this year, though, I was a little unconvinced? Every time I tuned in it felt like they were spamming the same stall team, which worked on ladder but doesn't really feel indicative of what a full season of SV OU SoulWind will look like here. They went for a lot of money here because there's going to be a lot of figuring it out as it goes along and you bet on the talent for that. I'm not saying that's wrong or anything, but there are safer picks here.

On the other hand, I kinda think Stareal's underrated right now? It's certainly possible I'm overreacting to their recent win over oldspicemike or that I'm not reacting enough to the 0-3 WCOP, but like, the 4-6 last SPL had some good wins and respectable losses in there, and their 5-4 SCL had basically all strong losses and a few top wins. This just feels like a "probably even" type of deal with some downside and some upside, and I don't know, I feel like they paid a really reasonable price for that?

Foolycl went 2-1 in WCOP, they're within striking distance of OU circuit playoffs, but realistically they got drafted by beating xavgb en route to an OST top 8. Isza and LOOR are here as support, I guess that's fine?

Guess: 10/27 wins

9: Dynamos

Managers: excal + luthier + mana
In all honesty, I think this core is pretty overrated. The big issue to me is that I think Pkel is a little miscast as an OU 1/tiebreak option. The 7-4 record is good (although if I'm being a hater I would say that they lost most of their matches against top opponents and that record is a little inflated by a myjava win in a finals blowout). The bigger issue is that that's their only meaningful SV OU result, their DPP SPL was fine but not really remarkable, and they won't be bolstering their resume with an OLT run. This isn't me saying they're bad or anything, but the rest of this OU core is really risky, given that Niko and ACR1 combined to go 3-10 in the tier last SPL. They also went 14-4 in the previous SCL in the tier, of course, so this is clearly an intentional strategy and an indication of which version of these players the Dynamos' managers see. It's a matter of taste, of course, but I just think that every team above them has a more dependable top slot. What's definitely worth remembering, though, is that the Dynamos with basically the same manager group bought Pkel and Niko last year and it went as well as they could have possibly hoped. A lot of these rankings depend on how you personally rate each player, and it makes sense that if the Dynamos were willing to bet on them last year, they're willing to run it back even if they're a bit more expensive.

Guess: 11/27 wins

8: Spartans

Managers: tko + dugza + vivalospride

Attribute is fantastic and maybe even my top OU player in the pool. I will say, though, that they're definitely my main source of optimism for this pool. Separation's SV OU stock is at a relative high right now after a strong WCOP and an OLT qualification, but prior to that they're 4-9 in the tier on the sheet. DAHLI, meanwhile, is probably going to improve from 0-3 into bench in SPL, but by how much? I kind of don't know what to make of this group, and I think they would have really benefited from a few builder/bench options in the tier. I'm not sure here.

Guess: 12/27

7: Gibles

Managers: feliburn, ajna, accel

I also kinda don't have that much to say about this team. Star hasn't played much of this tier but has been respectable when he has. Finch is the tier leader, went 8-3 in the tier in SCL 2023 before going 4-5 SPL into 3-5 SCL into BW, picking up an SV OU ribbon on the way. I think together they offer a high floor but I'm not sure what the ceiling is? TJ is a real wild card with success in other tiers but only the most recent WCOP to go off of in SV OU, Arc probably offers more as a builder but much less track record as a player besides, again, the most recent WCOP. Idk, they probably go even and I heavily doubt this core collapses.

Guess: 13/27 wins

6: Terrors

Managers: Shiloh, Gingy, Kunal

oldspicemike is 9-5 on the sheet this year in this tour. In 2024 he went 16-10. In 2023 he went 8-5. Made OST finals this year, lost in OLT swiss last year and is trying for playoffs again this year. It doesn't seem like he's generally rated at the very top of this pool, but on the other hand you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone this consistent in the tier year-after-year. This is the safest bet for a positive record you'll get.

Outside of making OLT swiss last year, there kinda isn't a lot of data on TDNT in this tier. And I mean, I do think making OLT's a good indicator that you can play at this level! They're also 7-4 and 11-1 in SS OU over the last two years so there's no doubt that there's underlying skill here. Middle of the pack? That sounds about right.

7.5k seems like a lot for heileone and their 0-3 sheet record, really buying in on the solid performance in the SV weeks at STour and the OLT so far (which includes a win over Giannis). With that said, while I don't necessarily rate any of their OU 3-5 options that high individually I do think that getting a bunch of unproven ladder players and seeing which one rises to the top is a really solid strategy, and I think Let's Rumble Shall We is a good pick. So while I feel like the price is a little hot for the OU bench mob, I think the savings from the Mike retain more than make up for it.

Guess: 13/27 wins

5: Shoguns

Managers: Lax, ima, Giannis Antetokommo-o

Here's what intrigues me about this core; I think Mako brings some "good at a bunch of tiers" credentials (whose SV highlights are probably a 4-0 run in WCOP 2024 and the OLT 2024 quarterfinals run that included an Empo win) that will benefit from the Shoguns likely offering more SV OU support than the Foxes did last year after they withstood a manager ban. That's speculation, of course, but this team has three managers with noteworthy success in SV OU and some great players that won't even be playing the tier here. That's a lot of people to bounce ideas off of. I don't know these people and I'm only speculating here, but this seems like a conducive situation to bet on talent.

In all honesty, I'm not even that high on 3d in this tier, their likely top tiebreak option (though there's undoubtedly upside and they seem to be getting better every tournament this year), and I think Baddy/Plague (and maybe Hayburner?) is more a solid bench group than anything, but it just feels like this is a team where everyone is in a good place to succeed.

Guess: 14/27 wins

4: Islanders

Managers: Dave + Larry + Vulpix03

I think I have allowed myself to be less of a hellom skeptic. I was a bit of a doubter because even though that 10-1 SPL (which really should have been 11-0) was incredible, they basically didn't play again that season, and this year has been a pretty mixed bag on the team tour front. With that said, the first-round exit doesn't change the fact that their STour qualification run was fantastic and they've made OLT swiss twice in a row now, so I'm more inclined to buy into the track record. What's funny is that I'm unironically inclined to believe that hellom would have a better track record if not for the mental block against Ewin, and likewise Ewin's track record is probably a little propped up by big wins over hellom, and whether or not you think either of those are real, they're certainly not factors here.

This is probably the best OU core in the league if they slotted zS in here. Given that they're not (and would probably be taking some significant UU risk to do so), they're going to be relying on kDCA and Axzel, which is...fine? I conceptually like going for players with good OLT/STour qualification runs and seeing which ones emerge best in that last OU slot, but there's some downside risk because hellom's missed a lot of games since that SPL run in 2024 and putting both of them in really stretches the depth, even if it's more likely to hit the UU slot once zS covers any potential issues here.

Guess: 14/27 wins

3: Breakers

Managers: Mada, stories, elodin

This team doesn't really make sense to talk about as individuals, in my opinion. There are a lot of moving parts that are really intriguing here; you have GXE, whose limited SV OU playing record is very good in WCOP but more importantly who has legit SV OU building pedigree and multi-tier playing pedigree, paired with Kebab for some Italian builder magic. You have Mada on the manager core, whose scouting prowess was credited as a big part of the 2024 Tyrants success. And of course, you have ABR, who has basically no track record in this tier but who surely has a ton of upside with the right support. This is a fascinating group with a ton of risk for the price they paid (what, you're going to slot in crying for stability if the first couple weeks don't go well?) but I am perhaps recklessly optimistic.

Guess: 15/27

2: Machines

Managers: Expulso + hex + piyu

My gut tells me that clean puts up 6 wins and Hiko goes even, so the question for me is whether the support (which I would imagine is Piyu + leng loi building) bumps that ceiling up. And I think the answer is "probably". The things that make me hesitant are that a) I really am not convinced by the depth here since I think the viable OU players are occupied with other tiers (which affects the downside more than anything) and b) I want to see more of leng loi in OLT before I fully buy into her in-game as much as in support. The ceiling is really high here, but I'm not ready to buy all the way into it just yet.

Guess: 16/27 wins

1: Platoon

Managers: hasayo + kingler + quinn

Okay, I'll say this: I think Fusien's stock is a little overinflated right now. US West offers a ton of support to succeed in a way that the Platoon are almost certainly a step down from, and OST is more a test of loss avoidance than picking up big wins (although beating oldspicemike in the finals is certainly a defining moment). I think spending 23.5k on Fusien, more than all but three players in the auction, is a little too rich for me for a player who went 3-6 in their first full season just a few months ago. With that said, auction price doesn't matter, and Fusien's in good form right now. What's more, my skepticism of Fusien is more as a true 1a type of OU option, and he doesn't really need to be, since the team also added JJ09LIE (who has yet to go negative in SV OU over three seasons adding up to a 21-13 record and who has an OLT quarterfinals under their belt). What's more, bhkg's an extremely solid OU 3 option, and MAVERICK SHOOTERS offers good support from the bench. This is maybe the most complete group here, I think there's a ton of room for optimism.

Guess: 17/27

Take the specific numbers with a grain of salt. The Machines last year hit 19 regular season OU wins while the Foxes hit 8, but I think it's probably safer to project a narrower range than that. Unexpected breakouts and busts happen, and I think a more thorough model bakes in risk a bit more thoroughly but whatever. Had fun making it.

 

[ninth]

The pool this year is interesting. A lot of the obvious top-end players are either not playing, not playing SV, or outright banned, while a lot of the remaining hot players of the moment were retained.

These are some scattershot, alphabetically ordered thoughts on the OU cores, with some context to the drafts themselves. Not a power ranking. I'm sitting out recaps due to being remarkably busy but I'd be remiss to not write a little bit of slop.

breakers

ABR makes his first SV team tour appearance since a brief outing in WCOP 2023. He's clearly active in SV after taking some runs at OLT, and he has GXE alongside him as a respected player and builder. These two are going to make bulky sets on mons that ain't never been bulky before. Kebab brings some Italian spices into the mix - wonder if he's gonna keep up his penchant for left-field brings. This has potential to be one of the best cores in the tour, but a lot rests on the ABR/GXE core farming, because there is essentially no depth chart here. Your sub options here are very limited: either you force a lower-tier mainer support pick to play OU, or you put 691 into UU and drag crying into OU which is lowkey scarier to rely on. With Kebab's style also not being prone to consistency, this core is a bit of a gamble. I have faith in ABR to do fine, it's goddamn ABR, but at this pricetag he'll need to be outstanding. (Also, I put the over/under for his price at 25.25k and he went for 25.5. I should start bookmaking.)

dynamos

Pkel is probably fair at 10k for a retain; I think I need to see more of him in the tier but if you're looking for someone who can hit open 3s he's definitely fine. Niko and ACR1 are solid picks but have been prone to a decent bit of variance over the last year. This lineup is going to need all three in their SCL forms as opposed to their SPL forms: I imagine Excal and company put significant stock into reassembling the gang that won last year, and are confident they can get that out of them again. Bench players include haxlolo, who had a neat WCOP for Argentina, and fakenagol who I'm told beat SoulWind one time. I'm not sure who builds on this team but they can all probably get their hands on some strong stuff. Honestly, extrapolating from current data this roster feels risky, but the number of Dynamos returners + Argentinian synergy buffs gives me the idea that the unification of longtime allies should raise all ships.

foxes

Okay so this one's interesting. SoulWind is an all time great and will always be competent in CG OU, but he does feel uniquely stally in SV and you get the idea the 21k pricetag is also partially due to his ability to emergency tiebreak. After him the Foxes opted mostly for budget picks in SV; Stareal at 8k is honestly a pretty good price for someone I'd project at 4-ish wins. Foolycl is the project pick here, and while there's not necessarily pressure on him the Foxes will be looking at him as a high-ceiling starter after some promising results this year. Isza is a competent everyman from the bench, while LOOR provides building support and could also start: the relatively low investment in SV means they can play around a bit with starting lineups and not sweat it if one slot isn't too hot.

gible

The cornerstone of the OU core here is two UncEast stalwarts in Star and Finch, both seasoned operators who usually go positive in team tours. Neither have extensively SVed this year beyond WCOP for starmaster, which gives me some pause, but they're both fairly involved in the tier and probably have high enough floors that you're not gonna get outright flops out of them. TJ played for WCOP but has relatively little SV experience due to being out of service for most of the tier's life; he's obviously a competent pilot but is more of a question mark than the other two. Arc is a Finch ally and offers some neat offensive teambuilding, while Wolfpack saviour One Last Kiss might sub in if a slot does underperform. This roster does kind of feel like you just leave the OU channels alone and assume they'll go for some permutation of 14 wins with some ethical BO teams.

islanders

I'm curious about hellom as of late; obviously 16k is too much of a bargain to pass up on but his actual SV results have been sparse and roughly even this year, an OLT qualification his most notable accolade. At his price he doesn't need to go 10-1 again but they'll definitely be looking for that 6+ win form we know he's capable of. It's kind of funny that he's paired with his #1 SV opp in Ewin, one of the more consistent wildcard-ish picks as of late. Dave's drafts really like operating in that 10-20k range and he's one of those picks that I would think most likely to put up 5 wins. SV3 is going to either be kDCA or Axcel, who I would both classify as development picks; you're fishing for one of them to have a breakout, and if they don't, it's fine they're 3k. As far as project picks these are good choices, with the former hitting a 90 GXE in OLT before tilting (I think?) and the latter winning an STour week. Overall, this is a very good roster but is definitely looking for a full-season hellom offensive.

machines

clean was extremely expensive for someone whose breakout started late last year, but having watched the tapes I do think he's a very strong pick for an SV1 even if the pricetag is wild. His play is very sharp on a turn-by-turn basis and team-wise he's not reliant on fishing. I would put him down for a 6-7-win season, especially since he's partnered with South teammate leng loi, one of the more prominent builders in the tier. She certainly elevates the ceilings here in terms of getting good MUs and staying ahead of the curve; the gameplay has occasionally been a little nervous, but this should be a comfortable environment as it's her like 3rd Expulso team. Hiko is positive or neutral in 3 SV tours in a row; another 5-win season puts him right on the money for cost-effectiveness. sire clod in reserves is a cool pick, I'm told they're a hard worker. I do think this core is going to win a lot.

platoon

This is one of the most luxurious (and expensive) OU starting lineups. JJ09LIE is one of SV's best sheet farmers, having gone positive every tour since their SPL XV debut. Watching Fusien I definitely think he's leveled up since his SPL (the OST and 5-1 WCOP codify this), and even if he slumps to SPL form they still have a TB option in JJ. bhkg is hard for me to get a read on: the Dynamos winposts considered him a huge piece of undrafted support, and two positive team tours in a row (including a 4-1 WCOP against solid competition) is good but ultimately a bit of a small sample size. Support from MAVERICK SHOOTERS is definitely appreciated here, but considering how much they dropped on starters you get the idea that people are only getting subbed out if they literally can't play. I think on average this group picks up 15-16 wins, but it'll be if Fusien/bhkg hit their ceiling that determines if this core can go all the way.

shoguns

First of all, the Shoguns management is a major factor in OU support. lax and ima are prominently active players and builders in the tier, and this is probably also the team most likely to have Vert in the discord. 3d has had a great last year in SV and is probably one of the top options in the pool; Mako's official CG play has been limited to a 2-3 WCOP this year, so getting her up to speed will be key. Their starting SV3 appears to be Baddy: I know he's been chipping away at circuit tours for a minute and definitely deserves a shot, so that's super cool as a well-backed project pick. Plague is on the bench as a now-recurring member of the Tyrants Cinematic Universe: their one SCL game vs JJ lsat year was pretty cool.

spartans

I trust Attribute in SV OU almost without qualification at this point. He has something like an 18-5 record in his last 3 team tours, is a quality builder, and plays extremely cleanly regardless of pressure. Another 7-win season would not be surprising. Separation has only been super active in SV OU recently with a 3-1 WCOP (including a crazy-ass TB win over Piyu) and an OLT qualification, but his previous, generally consistent body of work leads me to trust him to land somewhere in the top half of the pool. Currently DAHLI is starting third; an underwhelming SPL and absence from WCOP hides the fact that their three SPL/SCLs before that all had 5 wins. For 4k you don't need 5 wins, but there is definitely some evidence for upside here. Pinecoishot is a substitute I'm optimistic about, a zoomer ladder grinder type that can definitely make waves off the bench. Overall, I'm pretty high on this one mostly because Attribute is really good at the game and I have more faith in Separation/DAHLI than others might be.

terrors

It's shiloh managing and oldspicemike playing, this team is making playoffs no matter what I say. mike just wins a lot, and notably just won two super-important games for Midwest, which helps alleviate my only concern of him losing a bit more in important games. (They still got relegated but that's beside the point.) TDNT is capable of good things in SV (though perhaps best known for SWSH SPL excellence) but honestly I think I'm most intrigued by their lineup of zoomers: they've got three ladder addicts ready to brawl in heileone, Dugtrio Is Broken, and Let's Rumble Shall We. A combined 5000 ladder games per day means they're all very modern with the meta and I bet at least one of them has a major breakout.

As far as overall predicts: Islanders make playoffs because they always do. Terrors make playoffs because they always do. Machines end with the best OU record. Breakers OU core works out well but they finish 5th. Dynamos or Shoguns start a roster worth 75k or less in W9 while in the playoffs race. My crystal ball breakout performance is Let's Rumble Shall We.

 

[1LDK]

SCL 5 Report: Week 1


Wellcome to the first week of 1LDK SCL report, I think we know the drill by now, ninth is not gonna be with me on this session so this ones are gonna be slower on a lower quaility / uninspiring, so sorry for that one, but I need to farm those likes and shiny CC badge for the CA. we work to earn the earn to work to earn the right to work to earn the right to

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Mt. Silver Foxes (4) vs (6) Uncharted Terrors

SOULWIND vs oldspicemike

No ghost resist balance vs a Pecharunt looks good on Mike's end, and yet it's probably the least useful mon on the game. We start by kyurem chipping glowking and fully taking gholdengo out with its unique sub set with no protect nor lefties. Gliscor uses tera ghost to tank kyurem, and we start seeing a back and forth with chip from spikes and kyurem everywhere, eventually Mike catches dnite with a lethal ice beam, with dnite and glowking killed, Val comes in to finish opossing Kyurem and that's game.

Stareal vs TDNT

This match was funny because both players were paired against each other for SCL, OLT and SS OU Invitational. Earthquake was spamming dragonites through the samu, pecha and crown, until tusk comes along and hits him with a -1 hurricane. Weavile breaks the kneecaps off samu with a knock off into a low kick. Iron Fraud misses a Focus Blast which lets scizor defog, then misses another which lets it pivot into weavile, then misses another to lose the 1v1 vs Weavile, and It's now forced to sack tusk too, bum ass mon. TDNT goes to pecharunt to try to lure heatran into EP and giving dnite a free turn, but instead he was met with a Will-o-Wisp, TDNT forfeits. But while Stareal won the SCL bo1 game, TDNT went on to win the OLT bo3 and the SS OU Invitational bo3, so I guess he didn't go out empty-handed after all

Foolycl vs heileone

Midwest players showdown, a bad start by helieone with tusk vs kyurem means he has to sack moth to ep. araquanid gets webs but well played glimmora and clear body pult makes it so that Foolycl is still afloat. Moltres carefully tries to balance ceruledge and kingambit, but an unlucky Roar brings out Raging Bolt, after moltres dies, glimmora is sent, which means air ballon kingambit fully takes it out. Kyurem comes out and while risky, heieone goes for the tera flying, here fooly locks the fuck in, playing with sub, protect and creating the good opportunity to bait a sucker, keep sub and ohko gambit with freeze dry. After that, it's an easy Kyurem sweep

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Arena Spartans (5) vs (5) Studio Gible

Attribute vs Finchinator

This is the first sheet official finchinator sv ou game of 2025, earlier than GTA 6, and it was probably the best game of the week. Both with balances, finch taking a nostalgic approach with ting lu rotom-wash, while atributte goes in a more unorthodox way. With Icy Wind Tornadus-T vs Toxic Gliscor, both have to play perfectly, this is until finch reveals his wincon, tera flying tblast dnite. Finch misses a few moves around, which lets atri get better positioning. dnite gets back online and ohkoes ace with tblast. And atri's gliscor badly poisons Ting Lu while the soup bowl mon tries to get rocks, and then atri decides to go for the toxic on rotom, sadly for him, crit hydropump. As you can see finch the inator is up 5 to 2 but zama bonks hatterene, gholdengo tricks scarf and zama keeps trying to get value, but with dnite in, kingambit is in, here it uses tera fairy sd, rotom burns, but he has to go for all the marbles, now atri has to guess 3 50/50s in a row to win, ihead on a recover, then another ihead on a recover to kill dengo, then sucker punch on dnite, I got 2/3 and STILL would've lost, at that point you can't hate, its peak

Separation vs Star

Match starts around star stacking hazards and putting pressure vs iron treads, with glimmora popping a slow ass treads, they stick around and with meteor beam + hatterene, glowking also gets overwhelmed. Hattenere packs future sight which actually helps a lot in winning vs moltres. Fast foward to the turn im hyped for most is hydrapple preassuring gholdengo and then separation sacks pult to bait star into popping tera, with tera now being played, you can now safely use tera poison darkrai with sludge bomb to------ its........ it's not packing sludge bomb.....

DAHLI vs TJ

Night Shade? In this economy? It does decently well against torn and hatt. TJ plays around tusk with every resource he has, until kyurem gets struck by stone edge, but tanks a following eq and kills tusk with freeze dry. Red Card glowking chips torn-t with sludge bomb poison, and Kyurem survives barely and kills it earth power. Cinderace wins a speed tie vs Oger-W and TJ's tusk almost kills kingambit but instead of giving the finishing blow he sets up rocks to kill Oger on the way in, this proves to be the right call as we see leftovers nite appear. dragonite encores the fresly tera fairy kingambit and that's a problem because free dragon dance, torn t knocks the leftovers and kingambit tries to slash it, but roost puts it back at full and at +2, how does he get out of this one? Cinderace takes a +2 mono tblast fairy and burns dnite, so now Kingambit can knock it out with ihead. After that, Ace burns gambit and Kyurem finishes him.

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Orange Islanders (6) vs (4) Indigo Platoon

kDCA vs JJ09LIE

I think this is the sheet debut of kdca, idk, but he starts off pretty bad by losing the ace vs ace to a speed tie + poison damage but at least he traded. Zama comes to press and pult answers, but the press is made of steel and not flesh, so he gets hurt, he then munches on tusk but he ouchies because rh. We see AV kyurem with ancient power of all moves taking into a Kyurem I thought it was scarf for winning all the speed ties, maybe the AV kyurem was too fat, it goes as well as you can guess, it then gets beat up by zama, and then it gets beat up by pult. Kingambit pulls the usual GOAT comeback by sd + tera flying tera blast, it sweeps pult, opposing kingambit and val before getting taking out by tusk, but that's just game over thanks to lando + prima at full in the back

Ewin vs bhkg

Scarf rilla, when bro was without Grassy Glide, the RU classic. Gliscor eats a massive unlucky burn, and it's essentially sent to suicide poison the +2 iron hands. Kingambit gets to 1v1 a Rocky Helmet Ting Lu with +2 low kick thanks to grassy terrain weakening eq. Both Cinderaces start going at it until Ewin pivots into rilla and takes away dnite's shoes. Pecharunt puts the iron hands down with sball and gets a kill vs Ace who swaped rocks. it goes down to deo-s, Rilla gets to fund Kingambit's sweep by preassure on Gholdengo and dragonite with +2 iron heads and healing. Pecharunt does a positive elixir trade agaisnt gholdengo who was forced to tera fairy. Rillaboom and tera fire Zama both dance around dragonite and deo-s for the win

hellom vs Fusien

hellom starts hot with zama putting in work vs tusk. Val forces it out and gets damage on rilla, and gets extra value on zapdos. Zamazenta gets robbed by Kyurem freeze. This forces Gliscor to tera fairy toxic and stall but hellom has to sack zapdos to make it work. Gliscor goes for a protect to scout for ace only to be met with a nasty sd and is ready to put belt to fucking cakes, the heatran is not flash fire, 4 Pyro Balls later and its over.... wait.... 4... balls? BALL BALL BALL mygrannycalledshesaidTravieyouworktoohardI'mworriedyou'llforgetaboutme BALL BALL BALL I'mfallinginandoutofcuffsDONTWORRYIMMAGETITGRANNY

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Showdown Shoguns (6) vs (4) Power Plant Dynamos

Mako vs haxlolo

doble eject pack action with deo-s and lolo's dengo, this preassure early game kills ace early. dragonite gets its timbs knocked and tries to swing into kyurem but misses and gholdengo has to be sacked for that. samu-h trades against kyurem for hazards and lando taps dnite with stone edge. Gholdengo with grassy seed and NP wipes most of haxlolos team and rilla cleans after.

Hayburner vs Pkel SweeTforU

worst game of the season we start by deo-s vaporizing ace before the bell rings mf got folded, bro gets up tha rocks and mola is that fraud av set on a ting lu less fat balance. treads get mad value with knock off. corv gets to +3 and gets washed by a crit surf bro this is already over. Just for the love of the game dnite crits weezer with eq this forces tera dragon and lives with 1hp and cte, all that for a pain split this is bad economy we live in. deo-s gets burned, darkrai comes to eat the psycho boost and tries to sucker, but deo-s weaves and puts up the "nuh uh uh" wiggly finger before getting nuked. Zamazenta comes to sweep the entire game but gets instantly frozen, bro was sealed and well-preserved for the next BBQ cookout. Kyurem gets dd + tera ghost to avoid body slam from a scaldless mola and wins.

3d vs Niko

Both balance teams with dedicated balance breakers. Ursaluna well positioned does a ton to zama, darkrai tries to shot ting lu but misses the +2 focus miss and almost dies, sure it kills zama but this is not good. Mola gets a flip turn into ursa again but a misspredict results in ursa clicking fire punch into moltres, and a crit flamethrower sends his ass packing. With that out, Niko is forced to use tera steel heavy slam to take out clef, darkrai finally takes out ting lu, but its too late, since scarf gholdengo can always force it out, hydrapple 1v1s zama and deo-s with a lucky fickle beam and 3d is given the win

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Technical Machines (2) vs (8) Circuit Breakers

clean vs Kebab mlml

evil ass dudunsparce alert. Ace trades itself for a burn on tusk, gliscor comes and nails a toxic on the dun, oger-w comes in and chips rilla. Zama gets to reroll with roar, bro looks like me with the eternal d6 on a lost run but rolls Gliscor, this invites Oger-w and rilla has to take chip again, who then 2shots dengo with wood hammer. dnite comes and eats rocks, meaning it has an item, rilla gets sacked and clean's Zama starts chipping everything until kebab's one roars it out with great effort, and dies to pecharunt while dundun claims ace with glare. dnite comes again to set up and go all out. here we see the most brutal doble toxic miss, which sends the entire game off the rails from Clean and gives kebab the win.

Hiko vs ABR

The first ever game of SCL V yippiiiieeeeee. And ABR is using some heat! Turn 1 Slither Wing jumpscares Scizor with flare blitz. this gets scarf lando-t to use tera flying and show iron moth some lobotomy kaisen memes. We then cut off to hatterene using pain split tf? i guess for when dkiss is not enough value, ABR's moth is really into that tho so he is ready to sludge. Hiko is also sporting quite an interesting Moth with Morning Sun, I have experimented with it and its cool. ABR easily mannuvers around hatterene with Moth and vaporizes tusk with a final flash. he then trades ting lu for damage on lando, sets the sun with torkoal and lets ting lu get 1 final hit just to get more value out of it. Walking Wake gets whenever raging bolt can't, and once tusk takes care of raging bolt, the game is over.

leng loi vs GXE

First turns we see some funnies with levitate weezer, which means chomp not being to touch weezing-galar and getting burned, having levitate also means you cant do shit about good as gold, with that, lengs gholdengo instantly puts in the work with tera fairy + grassy seed NP dazzling gleam, taking dnite out and correctly both forcing and predicting tera steel zama, which lets GXE's zama taking huge chip from tankchomp. From this point on, garchomp stacks hazards and rilla can use taunt to prevent defog, but stab sludge bomb can and will pose problems. LO zama puts preassure but a well played glowking + ting lu combo from GXE forces leng to retreat and a crit Ivy Cudgel from Oger-W flattens chomp out. Leng's Zama and GXE's Zama have a game of chicken, also notice the oger-w slower than treads, adamant moment, no hazards means leng has free real state to keep chipping slowly, but its also taking away its own life. Enamorus-Therian wins vs weezer galar but it takes too much damage and GXE's zama will block it from progress regardless. eventually, Glowking remains as the only mon standing.

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And thats week one, I got a nice 30/47 record for week 1 and my olt predicts aint too shabby either, I hope all of you have a fun SCL and show love to this project too. Now if you excuse me, I have an Umamusume Pretty derby addiction I have to feed. I have a 3 star Taiki Shuttle I have to train because I got her and 3 star Symboli Rudolf but not the Seiyun Sky they were promoting this entire time, and I dont have the SSR Kitasan Black support card so the run is probably cooked, but sure Cygames, keep giving me Pace Chasers with good aptituted in Long races. (inb4 hmm akshually Symboli Rudolf is a Late Surger to better proc her abil-- pls sybau :wilted flower: :broken heart:)​

 

[Finchinator]

I have not been as involved with OU posting the last couple of months, but I think it is important for leadership to be both involved and communicative, so here are some observations from the last couple of weeks with SCL starting (and OLT ongoing). This is not intended to interfere with or replace the detailed game-by-game recaps like the above post, which we all appreciate.

| 13.33% usage in SCL, tied for 15th (Darkrai, Rillaboom, & Landorus-T)

Hatterene continues to rise up the ranks in OU. There are a ton of applications for Hatterene that make it so intriguing. While you do not traditionally "counter" much besides Iron Defense Zamazenta, Mixed Deoxys-Speed, and Iron Defense Corviknight, this generation has seen most styles moving away from hard counterplay and instead blurring the lines with checking, proactive limiting of threats, and trade-offs. Moreover, Hatterene fulfills a ton and has evolved recently to fit more teams. Pain Split has been a revelation on it, taking advantage of relatively low HP stats when compared to regulars like Ting Lu or Alomomola. In conjunction with Nuzzle, Draining Kiss, and Psychic Noise, a new type of utility Hatterene, often using Rocky Helmet or even Covert Cloak, has become one of the metagame's peskiest Pokemon. Being able to deter balance or stall centerpieces like Utility Gliscor, Skarmory, Toxapex, Clefable, and Garganacl helps enable certain flimsier teammates, promoting new team structures and Pokemon combinations. On top of this, we are seeing a comeback of classic Hatterene exploits like Assault Vest and Calm Mind, which we have seen both with Grassy Seed in tandem with Rillaboom and Leftovers in tandem with screens or Aurora Veil.

Slight tangent: is also peaking now, which has Court Change to disrupt hazard setting (and Veil/Screens) in its own way. I do think the reasons differ between it and Hatterene, but worth noting it currently being a top 7 Pokemon in SCL through 2 weeks.

Game length | 2 of 30 games over 50 turns

Games have been much shorter than historical norms thus far. During Week 1, we had 11 games last 30 turns or fewer while none of the 15 total games hit 50 total turns. While this number dropped to six during week two, we still only had two games over 50 total turns, capping out at 53. We have yet to have a "marathon" game and stall has not surfaced. Obviously there is a lot of season to go, but this would be the quickest games have been over a decent sample in many years if this persists. We have seen a decent amount of hyper offense, but even bulky-offense mirrors have transpired at expedited paces thus far.

| 13.33% usage in SCL, tied for 15th (Darkrai, Hatterene, & Landorus-T)

Rillaboom's surge predates SCL week 1 as we have seen a lot of Rillaboom teams in OLT playoffs and on the ladder, but it has become a mainstay in the metagame. This makes a lot of sense seeing as Grassy Terrain enables a lot of Pokemon in the metagame as is, but especially a handful of Grass Terrain options like Gholdengo and Hatterene or Life Orb breakers like Zamazenta or Dragapult, who appreciate the healing. Rillaboom itself is able to resist Ogerpon-Wellspring STABs and serve as a revenge killer with Grassy Glide, too. I do think as a standalone Pokemon, Rillaboom is a bit limited. Swords Dance Tera Dark Knock Off can flip some match ups with Flying types, Choice Band can deal a lot of damage, and other exploits like Assault Vest or SD Tera Blast can offer surplus value that is otherwise left on the table, but the true goal here is the support Rillaboom provides the entire team.

| 30% usage, 4th overall

While Kingambit's usage or status as a top tier Pokemon is nothing noteworthy, one thing struck me: Kingambit has a 67% win rate despite already having good volume. It wins 80% of the games that are not Kingambit mirros and remains the great equalizer in the metagame. Any arguments for it to not be considered S/S- tier in the metagame should really go away at this point. I know it is fun to be "different", but Kingambit is here to stay (and has been for years) as a centerpiece of the metagame. I do not personally care much about win rate and I find it tends to level out over metagame cycles, but it stood out to me when reviewing replays, so figured I would note it for now.

| 12% usage, tied for 19th (Iron Treads)

Tornadus-Therian always finds a way to be relevant in OU. It started UU last generation, but eventually became an OU staple. It was underwhelming in SM OU initially, but became a staple with Z-Move variants and RH utility sets. While we are not quite at historical levels, Tornadus-T has finally comeback to comfortably being an OU Pokemon rather than one of the faces of UU. Assault Vest is elite glue, even if it mandates some support, and we are seeing it a lot. Offensive sets can be fun, too. Just think Tornadus-T is one of those timelessly great Pokemon that will always find a way to make a splash eventually, and we are certainly seeing it now.

| Some quick set mix observations

• 's most common set seems to be Tera Dark with Black Glasses (often running Knock Off and even sometimes Sucker Punch) or Choice Specs (making the most of Dark Pulse while having Trick to cripple would-be checks).
• is running Life Orb more than ever on AoA sets, enabling it to get some ranges it could not get with Boots. This works especially well with Grassy Terrain, Hatterene/Cinderace/Spin Treads support, and/or on Hyper Offense. Close Combat into Corviknight or Great Tusk, Crunch into bulky Gholdengo or PDef Slowking-Galar, and Ice Fang into Gliscor all have great chances of flipping into one less hit for a KO among others.
• 's Tera Blast shenanigans are no longer predominantly Tera Blast Flying as Tera Blast Fairy is peaking lately, making it even harder to consistently play against.
• used Nasty Plot multiple times last week, giving another dimension to one of the most pesky new additions this generation.

There are a ton of other noteworthy things going on in the metagame, but this is all I have for now. I hopefully will follow up in a few weeks with another post once we see how things are developing.

 

[1LDK]

SCL 5 Report: Week 2


Welcome to week 2, sorry for the delay, I had a week worth of holidays and the party went outta hand. I also have to take care about my toxic girlfriend, University, who has never given me a single moment of happiness in my life and has only massively increased my inferiority complex. And I also have to grind the horse game, which believe me is not doing much better either

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Circuit Breakers (4) vs (6) Arena Spartans

GXE vs Attribute

You would think a sun vs no sun switching sun would end in a 6-0, but there's a lot more than meets the eye. Walking Wake is sub, and torn-t uses tera water to survive hydro steam and get AV Kyurem to trade for freeze dry and dies to zarude. Atri also predicts a GXE double and blows up tusk. Rocky Helmet hatt blocks a 16% tusk from spinning. Zarude gets in and tera poisons + sd, a choke is made by using nuzzle and therefore, getting 0 damage, but to be fair, Leaf Guard is a meme lmao. Unlucky para on heatran mean he gets bitchslapped around. Torn reduces its speed and also drops to the knock. treads finally forces it out, GXE sacks raging bolt, cress does insane pp stalling + minuscule chip, enough to put it in range of a crit knock off. zama tries to crunch but its burned so it lives at 3hp and heals off, zama gets a +6 def but it's piss weak and has no healing so zarude actually 1v6 a whole team, I'm sure the 4 zarude fans out there must be happy.

Kebab mlml vs DAHLI

Sun vs Primarina, ngl it's just a trade fest, with raging bolt eating gliscor, kebab's tusk killing the other tusk but with rh chip. moltres kills venu, raging kills moltres, it tera flys for tusk and kills. Ogerpon has no switchings left so tera grass 2shots wake. ninetales hwishes the raging bolt, encore into dengo killing. kingambit gets parad, taps gholdengo, encore from oger, gets clapped, prima and para ALMOST do him in, but lives at 1hp and wins

ABR vs Separation

Okay so screens zama, cool, with the help of eject button glimmora, sneaky Iron Hands on the pocket, gets a sd and pult misses a W-o-W, the sky turns dark, the dragon, the bunny, the monkey, clapping cheeks with the sounds of thunder, the army is torn asunder, with the sneaky golem on the tower, the war is officially over. When the witch came to see the fright, she realized, the true horror that happened in the night.

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Power Plant Dynamos (5) vs (5) Mt. Silver Foxes

Pkel SweeTforU vs Foolycl

I like the pkel aesthetic team. As for the game itself, we have screens, +3 darkrai with tblast fairy boom boom kaboom bye bye tusk, resto chesto to starve the mola mirror coat, and a +6 NP flinches mola with dark pulse, from that point it's just over, half the team dies just so that mola can finally claim a kill, but there's now a 4v2

Niko vs Stareal

Battle of the tera haters, gliscor vs gliscor but one is sd and one is spikes, this means darkrai has to go force tera, get BTFO by a +3 facade. And let Zama handle it and try to sweep, but a well time (and high cost) roar from stareal zama saves it. Primarina loses its specs, but It's still locked into moonblast. Zama tries to make another run, but gliscor sneaks 2 hits and Torn T finishes it. deo-s tries to land a focus blast, but it misses, gets pounded and Niko forfeits

Fakenagol vs SOULWIND

Apparently, nagol got subbed against sw because he is "the soulwind slayer". The match starts with kyurem throwing everything off at the enemy for chip, 300 doubles later, dnite gets a +1 and soulwind has to salt cure it + sacking dengo to get damage in. LO zama gets to eat some apple pie and nagol goes to dnite to get a free switch in + dd, with soulwind deciding to do a dnite ditto, nagol encores it and clicks espeed 6 times to win. Then they beef for a little post match

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Indigo Platoon (4) vs (6) Showdown Shoguns

Fusien vs Mako

deo-s sets screens, gets uturned twice, ceruledge loses more than what he gains with rh + lo + ep chip, fusien's tusk comes in to finish it, oger-w gets in the way, tusk decides to fuck it we ball and CCs for chip before croaking, reflect is down so pult u-turns. kyurem kills mako's tusk, zama kills the kyurem, glowking 1v1s zama with 2hp left, dies to ceruledge, but it's in scizors range. Valiant tera ghost to tank the hit and kos scizor with focus blasts but sneaky sucker punch from pult on the pocket saves fusien

JJ09LIE vs 3d

Latios drops draco untill -6 killing tusk. LO Weavile forces it out and knocks but touches the 10000 degree Celsius heatran and gets burned. bum ass booster wake misses the pump once and puts it in sucker punch range but we not bothering with that just straight spikes. dnite got the flying tblast on him, tusk still removes rocks tho. Latios keeps clicking luster even tho its free eats for the JJ political party. Zama has to tera steel id, but dnite encores it and thats game. Pecha malignants but does nothing, everyone else got slimed

bhkg vs Baddy

At its core, the match is pretty simple, deo and lando stacking hazards, while corv is not defog and tusk can't spin because almost the entire team 1v1s it. 25% hp ting lu using tera fairy to not get swept by weak ass mixed valiant. turn 30 pecha uses tera ghost to survive a tusk that just chickens out and with NP just 1v4s since ting lu died to hazards

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Studio Gible (6) vs (4) Orange Islanders

Star vs hellom

hellom starts the match off strong by preasuring the garg into tera + massive chip, twave on pult and only really taking damage on gliscor. Until samu gets hazards and chip, which tusk uses to spam ice spinner and nail dnite. kingambit is running the flavor of the month kowtowless set, which means now you lose to corv. Fsight + Psy Noise gets gliscor 2tapped. At this point it becomes a game of who can survive rocks more and star has 2 mons with recover, 1 regen and 1 quad resist

Finchinator vs Ewin

shiny darkrai :putlitterinitsplace:. Prima and tinka trade damage, rilla and ace trade aurafarm. Finch the nator gets a double into Kyuremnator and I shit you not this man clicks freeze dry 4 times in a row, subs and clicks freeze dry again 4 times in a row :sob: what happened to shame. ngl landonator shitting on moltres + 10 million damage on everything means ewin is on the back, while gambitnator gets free wings healing. Only rilla and NP pecha are left and the fucking zama goes from 47% to 84% alright ive seen enough, leftovers howl 3 attacks grassy terrain zama. Kingambitnator wins

TJ vs kDCA

Match starts with Pecha scouting tj's team while healing, primarina is at +2 with CM and darkrai tricks specs, but since darkrai is faster it still needs to lock prima into something, which is dkiss, here TJ just pivots around like a beheaded chicken and lets kdca farm. Moltres finally roars that shit off and ting lu has to go get himself killed to get prima another switch in and actually wins vs oger since she is too busy stacking hazards. dnite comes to spin the block and glowking is ready to snipe that, but tera waters makes toxic go from 100% accuracy to 30%, which means, +2 flying tblast dnite no diffs Attack on Titan verse and Homelander combined

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Uncharted Terrors (9) vs (1) Technical Machines

oldspicemike vs clean

252+ Atk Choice Band Tinted Lens Lokix Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Zamazenta on a critical hit: 294-346 (90.4 - 106.4%) -- 37.5% chance to OHKO shit hits harder than the experimental vanilla ice cream made from recycled plastic, shit is NOT sweet. Bro gets 0 bitches too because of RH mola lmaaooo. defog forces ting lu back in which gives lokix free eats for bullying zapdos with no repercussions, bro feeling like public school. ting lu pulls the legendary red card gatcha pull and gets an eq on a weezer so 1 last defog and he dies. Rocks get back up again but lokix finally gets to stuff ting lu thanks to a failed ruination and with tera bug also feeds off zapdos who never got static. In the end, Gliscor has to man up and 1v4, but 6 tickles later and bro is down for the count

heileone vs Hiko

No ghost resist vs ghost spam when will this end :wilted flower: :broken heart: with that being said, helione's dengo does lose the 1v1 vs hiko's. If anything, gliscor was the one carrying since after tera fairy, he badly poisoned ace and oger, while having to keep itself and pecha alive, this was done by both making zama run a 9-5 where he had to chip multipe things and hiko's ace missing a gunk shot which gave pecha room for heal. dnite gets a run in and helio almost misses a double toxic like week 1 clean, but the second one connected and with an ogerpon sack, dnite reveals kee berry tf it does nothing in this game tho-.

TDNT vs leng loi

LO mix pult and heatran have a mid-off where it ends with wellspring coming in. leng pivots around the ting lu really well. And with the help of an unlucky glimmora red card roll, kyurem subs up and kills the tinglu, but pult is at 2hp so he still no-difs thanks to infiltrator. Zama gets +3 and oger-w does not sugar coat it, crit ivy, go home. Valiant gets to +2 and kills heatran with tbolt, torn-t uses tera but a destiny bond throws both into the garbage. Sd oger-w 1v3s

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Alright thats week its fucking 1am here this is what i get for not making shit on time. I hate pokemon so much this is hell on earth i cant stand it, this is literally 1% of a league of legend's pain :pensive:​

 

[1LDK]

SCL 5 Report: Week 3


Welcome to week 3, I have lots of things to do, and I will dissociate and burn in hatred instead of actually doing them

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Mt. Silver Foxes (5) vs (5) Indigo Platoon

Foolycl vs bhkg

Match is top-heavy trade, kyurem starts strong by kyureming all over the place vs oger and dengo. Lando and dragonite enter a stare contest because the second one blinks, the other wins. dragonite wins that one and his reward is getting dominated by primarina. fast foward a bit kingambit is ready to win with tblast fairy but bhkg's kingambit barely survives and ohkos with iron head. Chesto Resto Zama from bhkg 1v3.

SOULWIND vs JJ09LIE

Unawere double heal Clefable with help of wisp pult actually 1v1s band scizor which is a vibe check I didn't know I needed. Kyurem reveals scarf to deal with pult, tusk fails to get rocks up vs Corviknight, that same corv who then fails to stop adamant 3 fallen black glasses tera dark drill that will spear the heavens ahh kowtow from gambit, but clef does, at 2% mind you. Covert Cloak dnite and scarf kyurem try to do some pressure, but once rocks go up, it's pretty much over.

Stareal vs Fusien

Fat balance vs Torn-T, the mon that his only real actual objective niche IS to vaporize fat balance out of existence, shit was over from preview

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Orange Islanders (5) vs (5) Circuit Breakers

kDCA vs ABR

rare footage of samu-h hitting ceaseless :wilted flower: but it gets compensated with deo-s missing psycho poop, which means ace gets free food. Tusk hits head smash until his cranium is a protein tomato soup. Moth gets walled by glowking, but dnite isn't. It's now a game of cat and mouse until ABR gets a place to sub on enam and dnite is slow on the draw and doesn't dd on the enam sub. This combined with no hazards lets Oger-C have 5 seconds of glory by mopping the floor with dnite, winning the game.

hellom vs GXE

match starts low with both hatterenes having a mid-off and chip damage galore flying all over the place. GXE pulls out kyurem's signature, Glaciate, to slow tera flying tera blast dnite down, did it do anything? hell nah, was it raw as hell? hell yeah! hellom's fraudnadus misses 1 bleakwind which lets tusk get spin, rocks and knock into it, the whole package. This means Moth can have an easy time deling with it. dragonite itches for the sweep, but kingambit is ready with tera ghost and avoid it. heatran turns out to be flame body, the way hellom tried to make it suicide dive into gambit. And even tho that doesn't work, dragonite finally gets a free turn to wreak havoc and get enough chip for tusk and sneaky zama get the win

Ewin vs Kebab mlml

Everyone feared this game as the literal end of the universe. But it was a close, serious game. Garg with tera ghost not only helps vs volcanion but helps put chip on Ewin and scout any covert cloaks, kebab scouts the volcanion and plays it safe until the end. The match becomes a battle of positoning on getting dnite in, once lando gets sacked, an entry point is given. Tera Ground + Eq at +1 vaporizes weavile and a well landed hurricane packs Oger-w. Garg and Gliscor BARELY outlast dnite with the skin of their teeth, but hatt and zama can pave the way for kingambit, who wins a 3/3 sucker punch mind game

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Showdown Shoguns (3) vs (7) Studio Gible

3d vs Star

You would think sun vs no pivot move glowking would be an easy win for 3d, but 3d's ace gets stalled by tusk and poison. and surprise scarf tusk vaporizes wake. With 2 support mons, dnite has to literally 1v6 an entire team, but these 2 mons have hwish so he gets an extra one from ninetales, +2 with tera fairy tblast eq and rockslide kills 5/6, and would've kill kingambit, had it not been for that crit sucker

Baddy vs TJ

Long game, little action, zama overwhelms pecharunt, glowking poisons ting lu, and ace, the hazard preasure baddy has doesnt seem to be doing a lot since TJ's squad has some healing and hazard removing support. Kingambit with tera fairy just crashes out on ace and crit corvs into killing himself with bbird. Latios gives glowking a giveaway mister beast bitcoin scarf and almost decimates it with crit luster, but glowking is not fraud so it lives to regen off. Zama and rilla seal.

Mako vs Finchinator

crit sludge bomb leaves hat at 2 hp then back to 51% with a 1 elixir pain split. Kyuremnator subs up no leftovers and tries to kyurem moment his way outta shit but zama boos him off the stage. Mola catches a burn which is huge because kyuremnator cannot freeze the burning heart of the fish. Both players pick up the pace, with Mako stacking hazard preasure + little chances for threads to spin, while Kingambitnator uses tera fairy sd and also gets booed out of the stage. With nowhere to run, the poor metal elephant gets beat up behind the dominos parking lot with a hot pizza. Gliscor tera normals and start harrasing rotom-nator juice mixer with knock + well-timed protects, and while leaves kyuremnator at 1 touch, a crit freeze dry like that one golden fornite weapon keeps finch in the game. Sadly, zamazenta spoils the party, and with finchinator losing leftovers on kingambitnator, gliscor widdles it down and lets both him and hatt die together. Glowkingnator 1v1s Mako's pecharunt but with no more places to hide, zama has free lunchables

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Technical Machines (5) vs (5) Arena Spartans

clean vs Attribute

Stall, but I actually have some material to talk to since Kyurem is AV with body press, so he can actually preasure blissey. But it was still possible for atri to pull the win UNTIL corv got frozen, meaning he cannot pp stall kyurem nor hatterene, and thanks to that, he had just enough Psychic Noises to hit 1 for donzo, which let Clean get a win

Hiko vs DAHLI

I'm actually writing this while standing up, because my cat stole my chair, and cat rules indicates that you literally have no rights, everything is for cat, you own nothing and you will be happy. The match is momentum heavy with everyone having pivoting moves. Hiko in particular uses specs hoopa as his main attraction. Hoopa is then given the chance to kill heatran and apple and torn-t minces tusk. Once weezing galar defogs, raging bolt takes over and wins

leng loi vs Separation

dondozoless stall but outside trick dengo or haxing with darkrai leng doesn't really have any stallbreakers

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Uncharted Terrors (7) vs (3) Power Plant Dynamos

TDNT vs Pkel SweeTforU

Sun vs Sun, but you can see the differences in both team structures and philosophy. Like for example, tdnt has 5 special attackers + tusk, while pkel has fraudnadus-therian + 3 weak to fairy pokemon. We actually spent 4 turns before sun actually starting since both are playing chicken for positioning. Eventually, tdnt bites the bullet, which costs him his hatterene. Raging Bolt trades tera, more than half its health and tusk's health for pkel's tusk. Venu takes a wake hit and clicks sludge bomb vs torn until it dies. Ninetales does the hwish thing and raging bolt is back. 3 calm minds later, game is over.

oldspicemike vs ACR1

No ghost resist vs NP Pecharunt "bububu meows--" sybau. Treads trades flame body burn for a moltres knock, and gets to knock the raging bolt's lunch before croaking. Valiant trick its scarf into glowking. Kyurem quickly puts the preassure with hazards, with time running out, Mike has to force kyurem out and pivot into tusk to spin, but once blocked by pecharunt, acrone gets rewarded with a dengo kill. Meowscarada fails to even tickle the tera fairy pecharunt. It gets to +9999999 and wins

heileone vs Niko

Trade central, with oger and zama looney tunes each other, enam forces zama out, dengo forces enam out, gambit stumbles into Niko's glimmora, kyurem gets the +1 with scale poison auchies. then tera blast fire the dengo, and swings one last time vs valiant before dying. Heileone's glimmora eats the tspikes and red cards away. Tusk is BU taunt so he 1v1s the ting lu, and forces dnite to tera normal dd and both brawl untill dnite wins at 3hp, he espeeds the enam but lives, meaning either the enam had def eves or the dnite was jolly, and even then it was a roll.

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im tired, of a lot of things actually, im going to bed​

 

[DubaiChocolateLover]

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