Introduction
I have been waiting for this moment. Buckle in y'all, since I have a lot of teams to share. Note that I built for more people than just myself, and I also ended up building more teams than I needed. Now, onto the teams-
No Johns Round 3-
Me versus qtfox (2-1, W)
(Game 1 (Alphabet Cup), W)-
Dual Dragon Offense
I was unfamiliar with Alphabet Cup, so I kind of just tried to find what seemed broken and slapped them all on a team. Apparently I was somewhat cooking (at least with the Salamence), since I managed to win my match with a Salamence sweep. I was expecting stall (since I knew my opponent liked it in Shared Power), so I cooked a Haxorus set in order to try to answer a potential Unaware user.
(Game 2 (Shared Power), L)-
I liked this team (at the time) quite a bit, but I never should have brought it. I had already scouted my opponent, and I
knew that they liked stall in Shared Power. Bringing a semistall structure against that was... not a decision I am happy with. The main concept behind the team is rather simple- Hydration cures all non-volatile status effects at the end of the turn if Rain is up, so I used a Rain setter, Manaphy (for Hydration + to serve as my progress maker), and spammed Rest all throughout my team. In practice, the team falls apart if you don't time your switches well, since Rest will cripple something if Rain isn't up, and since I wasn't using Damp Rock on anything, that was going to happen a lot. I ended up primarily losing the game to a misplay that cost me my Manaphy, although part of me doubts if that really mattered and if I wasn't doomed from the start.
(Game 3 (ORAS Pure Hackmons), W)-
Dual MMX + WG Pdon
One of the three(?) iterations of my second attempt at the Dual MMX structure. The team is rather weak to Gyarados-Mega, although it can definitely be played around (to an extent). I honestly don't have much else to say about this team- it's just another variation of Dual MMX.
OMCL Week 1-
ORAS Pure Hackmons (me versus sussyamongusdrip)
(Unused)-
Copy of Boomburst Latios-Mega
Discarded this team after testing it out. I kind of wish I made it work, however- Boomburst was a cook on Latios-Mega that answered the massive popularity of passing substitutes to Mold Breakers that I noticed pre-OMCL.
If I remember correctly, Latios-Mega is EV-ed to tank a +2 252+ SpA Oblivion Wing from Rayquaza-Mega after Stealth Rocks, and OHKOes Rayquaza-Mega with Boomburst
before a Shell Smash, and you also outspeed Modest Rayquaza-Mega (before a Shell Smash). In testing, the team pretty much fell apart, to the point where I thought it was more worthwhile to completely discard it and to make a new team.
(Game 1, W)-
The only thing they fear is you
This is the team that started my tournament-long obsession with Shadow Tag Regigigas. Started with a Mold Breaker Diancie-Mega, and structured most of the rest of the team towards supporting it. Added a Regigigas to answer opposing Gyarados-Mega (which will force Diancie-Mega out with Water Shuriken), Aegislash to pass a Substitute to Diancie-Mega (and to provide overall support that the team really appreciates), and a Ferrothorn to Imposter-proof the Diancie-Mega (Gyro Ball is an OHKO on Eviolite Imposter Chansey after a Shell Smash). Swampert-Mega was added to improof the Regigigas, and Latios-Mega was added at the very end as filler. In-game, I nearly threw against the opposing Mold Breaker Diancie-Mega, but I was bailed out by a four-hit Water Shuriken from Regigigas. Nicknames are references to songs in the DOOM 2016 soundtrack.
(Game 2, W)-
For those about to rock (we salute you)
I wanted to bring No Guard
at least one time this match, so I started with a core of Arceus + Metagross-Mega. I threw on a Giratina to Imposter-proof the Arceus, added a Ferrothorn to help with Spore, and I had two slots left. I knew I wanted a Mold Breaker and another Wonder Guard, preferably one that could block sleep and was
not another Swampert-Mega. I settled on Sableye-Mega for the Wonder Guard and a Mold Breaker Latios-Mega. I stole the basic idea for the Mold Breaker set from my friend clodsie, although I opted to run Spore and Shell Smash over Stealth Rock and Tail Glow. In-game, Sableye-Mega bullied the opposing Ferrothorn and (funnily enough) helped to KO the Mold Breaker. I should use this little guy some more, but I hate how hard it is to fit on most teams. Nicknames are references to AC/DC songs.
(Game 3, Unused)-
Deadly Sins
Threw this team together at the last minute. Glad I didn't needed it, since I never tested it LOL. Nicknames are, well, references to the seven deadly sins (which is weird, since I'm not Christian in the slightest, but the theme of the seven deadly sins seemed fitting for this team, and I'm not really sure why).
OMCL Week 2-
Shared Power (me versus GlalieGoesBoom)
ORAS Pure Hackmons (jasprose versus teamo)
(Me, Unused)-
Sticky Web Psysurge
I originally built this for my match that week, but I chickened out last-minute and brought a team I was more used to using.
(Me, Game 1, L)-
Copy of Untitled 134
Ended up building this at the start of the No Johns tournament while I was still learning Shared Power, and brought it for this match. I probably could have pulled off a win if I hadn't thrown away my Comfey to the opposing Walking Wake, but all I can do now is try to learn from that.
(jasprose, Game 1, W)-
jasprose Week 2 versus teamo
This week was a bit different, since I had offered to be slotted into Shared Power while jasprose went into ORAS Pure Hackmons. I passed jasprose a modified version of my game 1 team for versus sussyamongusdrip, which I had tried to alter to match up better into what I saw teamo had been bringing in the scout. I primarily noticed a lot of Dark Void and zero Spore, so I had a feeling Safety Goggles would be useless, and I gave the Wonder Guards Lum Berry to deal with Dark Void.
OMCL Week 3-
ORAS Pure Hackmons (me versus NToTheN)
ORAS Pure Hackmons (Ineros versus SammyCe123)
(Me, Game 1, L)-
Copy of Copy of Week 3: Versus NToTheN (team 1)
I easily spent three-quarters of my total preparation time on this team, just for me to get almost every prediction wrong. I spent hours on these EVs, and I will be going into a
lot of depth as to what they all do in the ORAS Pure Hackmons thread. I even went so far as to ask aerobee for help improving it, since I knew I was nowhere close to a great builder. and I was far less familiar with the intricacies Dual MMX.
(Me, Game 2, L)-
Week 3: Versus NToTheN (team 2)
One of my new favorite team ideas. The overall concept is you pass Tail Glows to Arceus with Gengar-Mega. Arceus clicks Quiver Dance, then tries to sweep. If Imposter comes in on Arceus, you go back to Gengar-Mega, Tail Glow, and pass it back to Arceus. If Imposter comes in on Gengar-Mega, you click Judgment-Ghost and possibly OHKO. Unfortunately, around the middle of the game, I didn't realize how good of a position I was currently in, and not taking advantage of that that ended up costing me the entire game. Side note here but I jokingly said to NToTheN the day before this match that I was loading Groudon-Primal spam versus them, so I nicknamed all of my mons on this team to be "Groudon-Primal" as a continuation of the joke.
(Me, Game 3, Unused)-
Week 3: Versus NToTheN (team 3)
Never ended up being used. Main thing I want to point out are the sets on Mewtwo-Mega-X and Kyogre-Primal- I have all status moves on Kyogre-Primal,
including Stealth Rock and Aromatherapy, so that way my opponent's Imposter mon could benefit from staying in and using a support move I had so graciously provided. The Mewtwo-Mega-X then comes in, traps Imposter, and Taunts it, preventing it from doing anything other than slowly dying to Struggle recoil. Nicknames are just funny things I came up with and/or remembered in ten minutes.
(Ineros, Game 1, L)-
Ineros Week 3 versus SammyCE123
I regret passing this team to Ineros. I was thinking since the last version of the team did so well, it would be worth bringing an editied version of it again. In reality, the team had been scouted, and I was just being lazy and didn't want to build a new team for Ineros. I still regret that, and if Ineros is reading this by any chance, I wanted to apologize.
OMCL Week 4-
Alphabet Cup (me versus seraphz)
(Game 1, L)-
THE VOICES TOLD ME TO MAKE SUN
Clas asked at the end of the game why Rillaboom was Growth over Swords Dance, and it is honestly because I was rushing and I forgot that Rillaboom learned Swords Dance. That is unfortunately kind of the problem with this team- I didn't spend nearly enough time on it, and when seraphz asked to play about an hour after I built the team, I (for some stupid reason) agreed. I fully deserved this loss, although it did serve as a wake-up call to me that I was fucking things up and I needed to start taking this tournament seriously again. Nicknames are references to various things in the game Dwarf Fortress.
OMCL Week 6-
Shared Power (me versus Fissure)
Alphabet Cup (Ineros versus Plague)
(Me, Game 1, L)-
Copy of OMCL Week 6- Nosepass Semistall
I decided to fully commit this week and to take my match seriously (not that most can tell, since I still lost). I knew my opponent was an offense / hyper offense fan, so I decided to go in the complete opposite direction with a stall team. It came so close to working, to the point where if I had decided to go for Surf on turn 1 rather than switching Gastrodon out, I would have been able to KO the Stealth Rocks Landorus, and would later be able to win it all with Nosepass. Unfortunately, once Stealth Rocks were set up a second time and my only Defogger was low, there was only so much I could really do. I'm still somewhat disappointed with how this team performed. Nicknames are references to various things in Dwarf Fortress, similar to last week.
(Ineros, Game 2, L)-
Ineros Week 6
Ineros was unfamiliar with Alphabet Cup (and so was I but we aren't talking about that), so I tried my best to build a team that was
supposed to function similarly to an OU team that (I believe) Ineros had used in another tournament. Ineros then matched up into a Rain team, and (if I remember correctly) the opposing Archaludon swept almost everything by itself. I'm not sure if much else really needs to be said.
OMCL Week 7-
ORAS Pure Hackmons (me versus Excaliju)
Alphabet Cup (Bella versus ExguardiaN)
(Me, Game 1, L)-
No Guard Lando + Huge Power Yveltal + Mold MLatios
I am really sad this team did so poorly, since this is BY FAR my favorite team that I have made this tournament. I cannot do the team justice with this one small section on it, so I would look at my upcoming post on the ORAS Pure Hackmons thread for a
lot more information. I was (and still am) rather proud with how I put this team together, and I am genuinely kind of upset that it did so poorly in its OMCL debut. I also meant to bring this team for game three, but I accidentally loaded it game one, so I decided at that point to bring my teams in the opposite order that I had made them.
(Me, Game 2, W)-
Mold MRay + Mold MGar + WG Zap
I knew I was at high risk of being completely counterteamed this match, so I wanted to (try to) bring something that features mons that I don't typically bring. I then proceeded to load Rayquaza-Mega and Aegislash. I only won this game because of the
insane sleep RNG I got versus Excaliju's Gyarados-Mega, which allowed Rayquaza-Mega to sweep.
(Me, Game 3, W)-
Copy of OMCL Week 7 (versus Excaliju g1)- BD Mold PDon + Huge Power Gigas
I had very little Mold Breaker Groudon-Primal usage, and
zero usage of it running Belly Drum, so I figured I would build a team featuring it. In-game, I faced a Dual Diancie team, and all Groudon-Primal did was be sacrificed to a Diancie-Mega when I wasn't sure which one was out (and I didn't want to lose the other five mons a lot more than I didn't want to lose Groudon-Primal). I am extremely proud of how I played that game, even if I nearly threw it in the third or fourth quarter of it.
(Bella, Game 1, W)-
Copy of Probably bad Sun
Despite my earlier loss with it, I still had a feeling that Sun could work in this format, so when Bella asked for a team, I decided to provide this as one of two "starting points", to see how they felt about it so I could have a better idea of what direction to build in. In testing, the team was
terrifying, to the point where it shredded even the stall team I brought versus it. Bella ended up bringing that team to their match, and won, so I guess I was at least somewhat cooking with Sun after all, although it helps if you aren't being dumb and running a fucking
Growth Rillaboom.
Bonus teams!
Camomons- Copy of Double Levitate Offense
I didn't know the metagame for Camomons, so I tried to build my team in such a way to where for every type, I tried to
at least match the number of mons that resist any given type to the number of mons weak to that same type. I did run it a bit on the monthly ladder, and it seems to do okay, so I'm guessing I had some of the right ideas with this team.
Cross Evolution- Copy of Anaconja NOT Approved
Stole a team from my friend clodsie (who had received help from anaconja in building it), and tried to improve it based on the weaknesses I noticed when clodsie brought it for No Johns. I eventually received some help from anaconja with polishing the team, so I guess it is "approved" now, in a way.
Alphabet Cup- Probably bad Rain HO
I had built two teams to start with for Bella in week 7, and this was the second one. I might have been slightly fascinated with that Rain team that Ineros lost to in week 6.
ORAS Pure Hackmons- Copy of Imp + STag Gigas + Prankster Glare Gira
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I originally built this for fun, and I used it in a Lobby room tournament, just to then find out that there was one week left of OMCL and that I likely had to play ORAS Pure Hackmons one more time. If I had realized that there was one week still, I probably would have brought this team, but there's nothing to be done about it, I suppose. Yes, I was (half) unironically running Zebstrika in that Lobby room tournament.
ORAS Pure Hackmons- Versus LycanrocWastaken
Originally built this a few weeks ahead of time, since I was expecting to play versus LycanrocWastaken in the week my team faced the Primeapes. I knew I had a 99% chance of losing, so I decided to meme a little with a funny Poison Heal Zapdos set that improofs my Ground coverage + Dark Void Mold Breaker Rayquaza-Mega. That match never happened, although I did get to bring it when Lycanroc asked me for a test game. We tied, so is Poison Heal Zapdos actually real now? (No)
ORAS Pure Hackmons- "Fake" Dual MMX
The idea here is that the second MMX bluffs Wonder Guard, and then you get a surprise OHKO with Sheer Cold. To compensate for one of the MMX's not being Wonder Guard, I made Gyarados-Mega Wonder Guard, and gave it a Choice Band to compensate as much as I could for no longer being Huge Power. This team is bad, but it is kind of funny.
Shoutouts
I have too many people to thank, so in the in the interest of not spending another five hours on this post, I'm limiting myself to three people, although I really hate having to choose. Even if I don't mention you by name, you all know who you are, and I have really appreciated the help I have received from everyone, no matter how much or how little it was.
clodsie - To be completely honest, I have no idea how I would have been able to do any of this without you. I can't say too much mushy stuff here, but you have helped me as a friend far more than you may realize, and I wanted to thank you for everything.
GhastlyPixie - tysm bestie for your help! Your help has been invaluable this tournament, and I wanted you to know that I appreciated it all. Hopefully we can work more in the future!
LycanrocWastaken - I've really appreciated getting to talk about the ORAS Pure Hackmons metagame and test teams with you throughout this tournament. You and I may not see eye-to-eye on everything, but I am still glad I have you as a friend, and here's hoping we maybe will get to work together in Pure Hackmons Premier League II.
EDIT: I just realized this post took me around two and a half hours to make, LMAO.
