Resource SV OU Offensive And Defensive Counterplay Compendium (Updated and Complete!)

[Hon07rial]

Hosted by Hon07rial
Approved by the OU mod team
Inspired by the Natdex Thread

Welcome to the SV OU offensive and defensive answers compendium! This resource is meant to facilitate teambuilding by compiling a comprehensive list of answers for every Pokemon in the tier!
Pokemon are sorted alphabetically.


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[Hon07rial]

Reserved.

 

[Hon07rial]

Reserved X2

 

[Nefeer]

Welcome to the SVOU offensive and defensive answers compendium! This resource is meant to facilitate teambuilding by compiling a comprehensive list of answers for the 15 most used Pokemon in the tier!
Pokemon are sorted alphabetically.


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Impressive! Tqsm for the info and checks

 

[eliana[]samia]

has Heat Rock instead of Damp Rock behind it in the offensive counterplay to Dragapult
Great post!

 

[DaddyBuzzwole]

has Heat Rock instead of Damp Rock behind it in the offensive counterplay to Dragapult
Great post!

what, you haven't seen that new overqwil sun that's been going around?

 

[Hon07rial]

New slate is up with 5 new pokemon! Thus this thread now encompasses half the OU tier at 20/40.
The new slate will be added to the homepost later today! Feel free to point out anything I overlooked.

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[Hon07rial]

Good Morning, Smogon!
Apologies for the last update being more than a month ago!
As a compensation for my incompetence, here is the rest of the ou tier in one go + ogerpon due to its unique placement on the vr.
Dondozo is missing because I couldn't figure out a reasonable way to go about it.
(39+1/40)
Will be added to the op sometime later.

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[Hon07rial]

Unfortunately, there a few issues with this community resource that I will be displaying in a clear manner in this seperate post for the sake of starting some discussion and suggestions and hopefully coming out with a proper way to go about them.

1. Terastal
I have so far mostly ignored terastalization outside of tera blast on mons with tera blast in their smogon set.
but that has hurt a few pokemon with the most affected being which would have one of its tera types in almost everyone of these otherwise and I don't want to go all in as that would cause massive unhelpful bloat (imagine the tera grass and dragon all over 's defensive counterplay for an example).

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heatraniac: dozo is the scissors paper rock champion
heatraniac: but he only chooses rock

3. Check who?
Due to sv being a very different tier from every other one the standard by definition checks and counters have become an endangered species, which is one of the reasons why the resource explicitly does not use the words checks and counters and rather uses the much more vague counterplay.
So far this resource's way of deciding if something goes somewhere or doesn't has largely just been my personal opinion, knowledge and experience with some level of strictness or leniancy added depending on how vicious that pokemon is with this tier's provided tools further on: I am very unhappy with and 's counterplays but if I were to be as a strict as I was with the pokemon with less set variaty and offensive pressure such as they would have their counterplays quartered, which will be just unhelpful.
And such, coming out with some a better and more acceptable metric would be very nice and can go very far in improving the resource.

 

[Eviolite Bisharp]

This Is wrong, the defensive counterplay to Dragonite is praying for it not to be the ultraspecific set that destroys your team

I'm also disappointed that people don't consider Dragapult offensive counterplay to Dragonite