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Glowking + Specs Keldeo
Specs Keldeo is pretty similar to Urshifu offensively, but it has the benefit of its attacks not making contact, meaning it's essentially Banded Urshifu and Pads Urshifu rolled into one. Flip Turn allows Keldeo to position its team rather than make a risky prediction.
Rocky Helmet Ferrothorn helps against Melmetal and Kartana, which is important, because Kartana outspeeds Keldeo by 1 point. Tragic. Also helps vs Tapu Lele.
Clefable is the team's rocker and forms a solid defensive core with Ferrothorn.
Lando provides hazard removal and serves as the electric and ground immunity of the team.
Glowking provides Future Sight support and also helps sponge special attacks. Also helps out against Clef.
Weavile gives some physical firepower to the team and helps against faster threats.
WEEK 21: Starmie
Starmie is known as one of the greatest classic gens pokemon of all time, but has since fallen off from its peaks in more modern gens. Starmie still has some good qualities like 115 speed, wide move pool including the valuable utility of rapid spin and various colorful coverage options. Lets see how you put these qualities to use.
Deadline for submissions is on the 19th of December at 10am +5.5
This team leverages Starmie's ability to keep hazards off the field, check most variants of Heatran and spread paralysis to enable an offensive spikestack team. Choice Band Weavile acts as a wallbreaker that can switch into Shadow Balls in a pinch and pick off dangerous threats with Ice Shard (CB Icicle Crash also notably OHKOes Tornadus-T if the opponent decides to u-turn off lead), while Zapdos further plays into the synergy that Icicle Crash has with paralysis via Static and is generally a nice two-way pivot that keeps Grass-types like Rillaboom and Kartana in check. Landorus-T and Ferrothorn form a tried-and-tested defensive core that sets up hazards to wear down checks to Weavile and Zapdos into range of their strong STAB moves. Choice Scarf Gengar is a bit of an interesting pick: I like its speed tier among Choice Scarf users (110 outspeeds the likes of Blacephalon that can be a threat against this team) and it has interesting traits as both a Toxic Spikes absorber in cases where Starmie would like to not enter the field (e.g. against fatter structures where keeping up offensive pressure is paramount) and a potential setup sweeper against fat teams if it runs Nasty Plot over Focus Blast (Taunt is also interesting for such purposes). Will-O-Wisp is also viable if Gengar desires to punish the likes of Tyranitar more consistently and cripple switch-ins in general.
This team uses an Analytic Choice Specs Starmie with Expanding Force to take advantage of Tapu Lele's Psychic Terrain and chip down shared checks. It can also act as a semi-fast pivot with Flip Turn to bring in other team members. One neat thing about Starmie is that it outspeeds 353 speed Tornadus-T, which is pretty much all of them on the ladder. Tapu Lele is the team's Scarfer and enables Expanding Force on Starmie. It's generally a great cleaner and can lob up Future Sights for Weavile to find a way through slower teams.
Zapdos, Heatran, and Garchomp form a pretty famous bulky offense core that some of y'all might be familiar with. The trio sets and removes hazards while providing good defense and additional win and breaking routes. Heatran in particular is really nice to heavily threaten Ferrothorn, which would otherwise sit on this entire team. Weavile's there to provide solid speed control with Ice Shard and threaten its STABs like usual. It's also the team's dedicated Knock Off user.
The Starmie set could use a few changes based on preference. If you'd like, Hydro Pump can be used over Scald and Thunderbolt can be added over Flip Turn. These give you more power off the rip and allow certain checks like Slowking to be obliterated with prediction. You can also rock Psyshock over Expanding Force on Starmie to hit things like Blissey and Slowking-G, but it's not as cool.
WEEK 22: Victini
Vicitni's typing and stats help it check the demonic Tapu Lele while having an extremely powerful STAB V-Create to respond with, it also has an extremely deep movepool including moves like U-Turn, Bolt Strike, Encore and Glaciate which help it bypass its answers. With access to heavy duty boots, it ignores is rocks weakness and can use its good natural bulk more effectively. Other items like Choice Scarf or Band can also be used on certain team structures.
Deadline for submissions is on the 1st of January at 10pm +5.5
by Slowpoke Fan
