Prime Meridian:
Introduction:
Hello, so i haven't posted an rmt in years but that is mostly because i have been juggling irl + playing actively + other stuff. Anyway, i started as a "play for fun" ladder hero way back in 2012, but i started to do tournaments in 2020 and i have been testing teams all through this gen and last gen, singling out good from bad, ive built + tested alot of powerful teams that has produced ridiculously insane results and ive probably peaked #1 over 500 times by just testing these, some teams ended up being mid and theres been some bad ones here and there, but there is something special about this one that makes it stand out above the rest, longevity, if you dont remember, this video showcased a defensive core that i made over a year and a half ago, that involved av mola, a set i created in an attempt to make alomomola less lame with its wish flip strangle hold on the tier, a new set that allows it to sponge special hits and even beat gholdengo if it wants to with full spdef av, that set ended up being one of the most common meta trends, to the point it became a huge nuisance to everybody facing it, the idea was to make alomomola fun, it worked at first, people loved it, but it sort of backfired, anyway, that set + the team behind it, was originally intended to be a team i built exclusively for Joey/pokeaim to run lokix, and that defensive core, has basically shaped ou today:
Here is the video for reference.
The second thing that makes this team stand out, is the synergy of the defensive core and how these specific breakers that go with it can alleviate alot of pressure, av mola + pecharunt walls basically 90% of the tier, and what it doesnt wall, banded ogerpon + specs hydreigon will blow past.
But what makes it stand out the most, is that there is no definitive bad matchup, every matchup can be outplayed, no matter how hard it is counter teamed.
Because i enjoy building more than playing, sometimes i accidentally create a set that suddenly shifts the meta if its good enough, this av alomomola was one of those sets, this also was one of the first pecharunt teams, and since this defensive core was so influential even to this day, i figured i'd give it a spin again, but with different breakers, on that team there was specs iron crown and band lokix, i decided to use band ogerpon base form + specs hydreigon.
Table Of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Table of Contents
3. Building Process + Team Members
4. Calculations
5. Threat List
6. Pokepaste + Special Challenge
7. Replays
8. Proof of Peak
9. Shout-outs
10. Conclusion
Building Process:
I Started off with great tusk, the ultimate pokemon imo, lol, unlike the lokix team, i wanted it to be a solo boots spinner alongside another pokemon as the rocker + another helmet user that wasnt great tusk itself. Key word here is boots rapid spinner, hazards long term will destroy any non boots spinner, defog gweez, or cinderace team, also unlike iron crown and lokix, i wanted breakers less prone to spikes, and can destroy webs + (spikes + fat ghost type) archetypes. Banded base Ogerpon + Specs Hydreigon was a perfect fit. What i love about base ogerpon is, with tera + speed boost, it can act as speed control, you slap a choice band and you basically get band + scarf in one, and my favorite part is the webs interaction, with the ability defiant, you get a +2 boost from webs, then you tera out of the speed drop, and suddenly they have to deal with a banded tera grass ivy cudgel at +2, Hydreigon Has Levitate + can function as a ghost resist + dragon type and fire off unresisted coverage with a very unique defensive utility of not only a fire/water/grass/ghost/dark resist + psychic immunity, but the special defensive utility that only one other viable ou mon can use (latios), a levitating steel, which provides a steel type with a ground immune, effectively walling + immediately forcing out threats like substitute kyurem, gliscor, landorus therian, Clodsire, Ting Lu, etc. Now with the boots tusk in mind, i said it was gonna be a boots spinner without rocks, so i gave it cc as a fourth move with tera fighting as i believe that 2hkoing corviknight after stealth rocks is important, to me, the 2 main threats to great tusk, are moltres, and corviknight, that is my reasoning behind rock tomb grass ogerpon, and cc tusk, band rock tomb ogerpon is my go-to when i want to lure moltres, emergency revenge deoxys/pult or slow +1 dnite with tera + rock tomb and effectively prevent further setup. Now, as a rocker i selected Tinkaton, due to the fact that every bulky offense needs a steel type, and it provided steel/fairy unique defensive utility and with a balloon, a temporary ground immune that steals items with pickpocket and prevents sweeps with encore, i opted to go for an offensive set here to lure gliscor + pick off grounds, ice hammer, stealth rock, gigaton hammer, encore, i call it 2hammer Tink. I needed a Universal physical wall that could pivot, beat zama, spin block and absorb toxic spikes since im going with av mola as the special wall, so i opted to go with pecharunt for the physical wall which i also decided to make my helmet user, crazy how it fit the roles that were required for this slot, the set i opted to use was tera ghost, full physdef, parting shot, recover, malignant chain, shadow ball with tera ghost, i heavily considered foul play here but that wont beat tera steel zama. Finally, we have assault vest alomomola, full spdef, flip turn aqua jet play rough mirror coat, which is amazing at checking most special threats, even kyurem, however, i am fully aware not bolt, thats because great tusk + tinkaton, hydreigon, all threaten bolt, and a tera fairy alomomola also defeats bolt 1v1 with play rough, i am a firm believer in consistency, and on my av mola sets, ive never ran body slam, you're hax fishing which is inconsistent, i opted for aqua jet as my last, which you will see in the replays, picks off ALOT of stuff especially when you are chipped vs a low health mon or a ceruledge.
We end up with:
Unironically, it has a great color scheme.
Calculations:
Ogerpon:
1. Webs interaction Calcs:
+2 252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 0 HP / 124 Def Iron Moth: 194-229 (64.4 - 76%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+2 252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Raging Bolt: 333-392 (85.1 - 100.2%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
+2 252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Gholdengo: 323-380 (102.5 - 120.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO
2. Regular calcs:
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Rock Tomb vs. 248 HP / 248+ Def Moltres: 288-340 (75.1 - 88.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 248 HP / 8 Def Deoxys-Speed: 334-394 (110.2 - 130%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 252 HP / 8 Def Slowking-Galar: 358-422 (90.8 - 107.1%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Tornadus-Therian: 186-219 (51.3 - 60.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Zapdos: 176-208 (54.8 - 64.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera U-turn vs. 248 HP / 248+ Def Hydrapple: 146-174 (35.1 - 41.9%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
Note that on the very last calc, albeit its by a small bit, it outdamages the regen on hydrapple even with max defense, if you play the long game, you will beat any regenerator mon.
Great Tusk:
252 Atk Tera Fighting Great Tusk Close Combat vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Corviknight: 184-218 (46.1 - 54.6%) -- 55.9% chance to 2HKO
252 Atk Tera Fighting Great Tusk Close Combat vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Wellspring: 306-360 (101.6 - 119.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Tera Fighting Great Tusk Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Ting-Lu: 432-512 (84 - 99.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Hydreigon:
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Vessel of Ruin Ting-Lu: 195-229 (37.9 - 44.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Multiscale Dragonite: 309-364 (95.6 - 112.6%) -- 75% chance to OHKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Alomomola: 574-676 (107.4 - 126.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Flash Cannon vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Great Tusk: 316-373 (85.1 - 100.5%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Zamazenta: 274-324 (70.6 - 83.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Zamazenta: 273-322 (84 - 99%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Flash Cannon vs. 252 HP / 240+ SpD Tyranitar in Sand: 186-222 (46 - 54.9%) -- 61.3% chance to 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Dark Pulse vs. 252 HP / 204+ SpD Garganacl: 153-181 (37.8 - 44.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Dark Pulse vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Slowking-Galar: 258-306 (65.4 - 77.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Flash Cannon vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Multiscale Dragonite: 95-112 (29.4 - 34.6%) -- 9.8% chance to 3HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Flash Cannon vs. 252 HP / 8 SpD Primarina: 168-198 (46.1 - 54.3%) -- 5.9% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Earth Power vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Kingambit: 326-384 (80.8 - 95.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Flash Cannon vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Tera Fairy Kingambit: 432-510 (107.1 - 126.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Pecharunt:
252 Atk Life Orb Zamazenta Crunch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Pecharunt: 112-133 (29.4 - 35%) -- 7.4% chance to 3HKO
252 Atk Wellspring Mask Tera Water Ogerpon-Wellspring-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Pecharunt: 128-152 (33.6 - 40%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
+2 252 Atk Tera Fairy Dragonite Tera Blast (80 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Ghost Pecharunt: 138-163 (36.3 - 42.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
+2 252 Atk Tera Flying Dragonite Tera Blast (80 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Ghost Pecharunt: 184-218 (48.4 - 57.3%) -- 93.4% chance to 2HKO
+1 252 Atk Tera Flying Dragonite Earthquake vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Pecharunt: 172-204 (45.2 - 53.6%) -- 36.3% chance to 2HKO
252+ Atk Protosynthesis Great Tusk Headlong Rush vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Ghost Pecharunt: 145-172 (38.1 - 45.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252+ Atk Great Tusk Headlong Rush vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Ghost Pecharunt: 111-132 (29.2 - 34.7%) -- 7.4% chance to 3HKO
4 Atk Great Tusk Headlong Rush vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Pecharunt: 168-200 (44.2 - 52.6%) -- 21.5% chance to 2HKO
+2 252+ Atk Supreme Overlord 2 allies fainted Kingambit Sucker Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Pecharunt: 320-378 (84.2 - 99.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Tinkaton:
252 Atk Tinkaton Ice Hammer vs. 244 HP / 36 Def Gliscor: 244-288 (69.3 - 81.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Poison Heal
252 Atk Tinkaton Ice Hammer vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Landorus-Therian: 332-392 (86.9 - 102.6%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO
252 Atk Tinkaton Gigaton Hammer vs. 252 HP / 8 Def Slowking-Galar: 217-256 (55 - 64.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Tinkaton Gigaton Hammer vs. 252 HP / 196+ Def Tera Fairy Gholdengo: 284-336 (75.1 - 88.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Tinkaton Gigaton Hammer vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Multiscale Dragonite: 94-111 (29.1 - 34.3%) -- 5.9% chance to 3HKO
252 Atk Tinkaton Ice Hammer vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Dragonite: 316-376 (97.8 - 116.4%) -- 87.5% chance to OHKO
Note: these calcs should be used in combo, you gigaton the ground or the dragonite, then ice hammer kills them the next turn.
Alomomola:
132 SpA Iron Moth Sludge Wave vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 115-136 (21.5 - 25.5%) -- 0.7% chance to 4HKO
+6 252 SpA Gholdengo Shadow Ball vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 405-477 (75.9 - 89.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 Atk Tera Fairy Alomomola Play Rough vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Raging Bolt: 168-198 (42.9 - 50.6%) -- 1.2% chance to 2HKO
+3 252+ SpA Protosynthesis Raging Bolt Thunderbolt vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Tera Fairy Alomomola: 415-490 (77.8 - 91.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Kyurem Ice Beam vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Tera Fairy Alomomola: 169-199 (31.7 - 37.3%) -- 87.4% chance to 3HKO
204 SpA Kyurem Freeze-Dry vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 168-200 (31.5 - 37.5%) -- 86.1% chance to 3HKO
204 SpA Kyurem Freeze-Dry vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Tera Fairy Alomomola: 84-100 (15.7 - 18.7%) -- possible 6HKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Tera Ghost Dragapult Shadow Ball vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 182-216 (34.1 - 40.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Tera Ghost Gholdengo Shadow Ball vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 224-264 (42 - 49.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
+4 252 SpA Quark Drive Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 435-513 (81.6 - 96.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+2 252 SpA Tera Electric Iron Valiant Thunderbolt vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 422-500 (79.1 - 93.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+1 252 SpA Glimmora Meteor Beam vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 223-264 (41.8 - 49.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
Threat List:
1. Weavile - vs this thing, you can do 3 things, keep tinkaton healthy and ur safe, tinkaton is required in most games so these other 4 methods may help you: you wanna keep alo healthy or try to let it get knocked early so it can wall better and deliver 2 play roughs vs it, then jet should pick it off, the 2nd method is letting pecharunt get knocked, which actually allows u to wall weavile if knocked, the 3rd method is to position tusk and tera to kill it, the 4th method is a bit technical, so this method demonstrates the use of hydreigon's defensive utility, hydreigon resists one weavile stab(dark) and can tera into the resist of the other weavile stab(ice), you send it in on +2 or neutral, and tera + flash cannon, if its in vs neutral, even if they knock cannon will kill them, if its at +2, a 50/50 is forced IF they know ur tera, they can either axel on tera, or knock kill you on tera, but if they dont know ur tera, they will axel 100% of the time.
2. Raging Bolt - vs this thing ur special wall can lose to it if not positioned well + terad, so i centered the team around momentum and threatening it, the 2 walls have pivot moves + hydreigon/tink/tusk all threaten it, pon will always revenge terad bolt, if things get dire, get tusk in > swap to tinka and encore, that combo always shuts it down, use hydreigon or oger if it gets even more dire, hydrei will ohko it even at +1, if it teras, tealpon will revenge.
3. Kyurem - non issue for this team but i just know people will ask, balloon tinka shuts this thing down, if its dd pech shuts it down, levitate steel hydreigon also shuts it down, same w terad mola, or even unterad mola, see calcs section, if kyurem itself teras, tealpon will revenge
Important note: tealpon is usually ur revenge killer on this team, sometimes itll be hydreigon but band ogerpon is the ace on this team.
Thats it really, everything else ur solid vs, like i said above, this team is amazing into most stuff.
Pokepaste + Special Challenge:
https://pokepast.es/0c8b092be0569629
Im only going to be doing this challenge once, but the first person to peak #1 with this team after i post this rmt, i will build a team around your favorite pokemon on a team style of your choosing, and i dont care how long it takes, i will make it good and get #1 with it, and send you said team after it gets the desired result. Setsu attempting this challenge is cheating theyre too fast of a ladderer, and theyre used to making low tier mons work, so anyone except for setsu is eligible to participate in this challenge.
Replays:
Notable Replays vs Good Players:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2505315313-5jyeriqw3ok7lryotcms6bsjuy9ns50pw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504953508-qudnrqwrv587hif1spfj2i3i0atd0ufpw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504630619-xt6eiul8pv4yptdc3wn3u1j8rdgrd4lpw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504617223-hf5pnxv2665kg8icw7appyl8ji2qai2pw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504370238-1i0dh7ns78lta5ahbama51iti8kaxdrpw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504365505-p0dhq02ytbk9tsm0xjv9ugptxbn0n1npw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504337725-5mmeqcw80qydhlpqdft4ac26jk12ekxpw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504352617-4cu1uj8hp9cslmuj8gulg46djjts6hwpw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504496730-2mlgjfpbnvneet1ev8fputhpraqj5sjpw?p2
Note: i will only include the replays vs good players, because when you are using this team, you will notice very quickly that it is very consistent and will beat any inexperienced player if you know what you are doing, these replays will help you learn because theyre vs actual tough players that are high on the ladder.
Additional Advice: your lead depends on what ur facing, if they have a lando lead grasspon, if they have dragons lead hydreigon except when its pult, then lead alomomola, tinkaton is the rocker but it is only the lead vs kyurem teams, choose your leads based on what you are facing, if you dont know what to lead, keep playing the team, it has alot of training wheels on it so you will learn your leads very quickly.
Proof of Peak:
Ignore that its not cropped properly, i took the screenshot on a phone. (Im also relic stone and c0ldsnow if u were wondering, and #4 is my friend ima, whose channel i featured on for us to get #1 on that alt, and then lax at #5)
Alot of strong players in top 10 here, highly competitive ladder.
Shout-outs:
LB for screenshotting my peak and sending me.
Pokemh for keeping track of my run (and glazing :sob: )
ima wanna give a special s/o to ima here because after i got the peak, i tilted trying to go for 95, im still at 91 but im no longer at 94, but me and ima did a vid recently, i featured on his channel and we got #1 on his alt, and you can see live proof that i actually was at 94.4 gxe in that video on my switchbladess alt.
Heres the video, if u skip to 17:16, u can see us check the ladder where i was still at 94. Btw we got #1 on his account in that video using sand, 3 casualties as a result lol, especially the first game.
Conclusion:
All things considered, im happy with how this team turned out, i came in with low expectations, because it really was a more standard process as opposed to me being technical with my builds. And on that note, my new years resolution is to be the best version of myself, both irl and in mons, i have ALOT of teams ready and on standby, 2 years in a row, i have consecutively made finals of SPL only for my team to end up as the runner up, even though during the first spl finals i did win ost in 2024, i didnt win anything in 2025, but i performed well throughout 2025 scoring some huge wins vs great players like gray/xavgb in the process during olt especially, but whatever spl team i end up on , i do intend to deliver my best performance in that tour, and whatever team it is, they will be claiming that red trophy, even if i have to build for all their ou slots from 6-9, im able to do it, similarly , i do intend to get a second ost aswell, why stop at 1, ive been testing enough and my play is sharper than ever, time to put in the work.
I am open to all feedback, if you have questions, hit me up on my discord my tag is stormzone i will try to answer everybody.
Introduction:
Hello, so i haven't posted an rmt in years but that is mostly because i have been juggling irl + playing actively + other stuff. Anyway, i started as a "play for fun" ladder hero way back in 2012, but i started to do tournaments in 2020 and i have been testing teams all through this gen and last gen, singling out good from bad, ive built + tested alot of powerful teams that has produced ridiculously insane results and ive probably peaked #1 over 500 times by just testing these, some teams ended up being mid and theres been some bad ones here and there, but there is something special about this one that makes it stand out above the rest, longevity, if you dont remember, this video showcased a defensive core that i made over a year and a half ago, that involved av mola, a set i created in an attempt to make alomomola less lame with its wish flip strangle hold on the tier, a new set that allows it to sponge special hits and even beat gholdengo if it wants to with full spdef av, that set ended up being one of the most common meta trends, to the point it became a huge nuisance to everybody facing it, the idea was to make alomomola fun, it worked at first, people loved it, but it sort of backfired, anyway, that set + the team behind it, was originally intended to be a team i built exclusively for Joey/pokeaim to run lokix, and that defensive core, has basically shaped ou today:
The second thing that makes this team stand out, is the synergy of the defensive core and how these specific breakers that go with it can alleviate alot of pressure, av mola + pecharunt walls basically 90% of the tier, and what it doesnt wall, banded ogerpon + specs hydreigon will blow past.
But what makes it stand out the most, is that there is no definitive bad matchup, every matchup can be outplayed, no matter how hard it is counter teamed.
Because i enjoy building more than playing, sometimes i accidentally create a set that suddenly shifts the meta if its good enough, this av alomomola was one of those sets, this also was one of the first pecharunt teams, and since this defensive core was so influential even to this day, i figured i'd give it a spin again, but with different breakers, on that team there was specs iron crown and band lokix, i decided to use band ogerpon base form + specs hydreigon.
Table Of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Table of Contents
3. Building Process + Team Members
4. Calculations
5. Threat List
6. Pokepaste + Special Challenge
7. Replays
8. Proof of Peak
9. Shout-outs
10. Conclusion
Building Process:
I Started off with great tusk, the ultimate pokemon imo, lol, unlike the lokix team, i wanted it to be a solo boots spinner alongside another pokemon as the rocker + another helmet user that wasnt great tusk itself. Key word here is boots rapid spinner, hazards long term will destroy any non boots spinner, defog gweez, or cinderace team, also unlike iron crown and lokix, i wanted breakers less prone to spikes, and can destroy webs + (spikes + fat ghost type) archetypes. Banded base Ogerpon + Specs Hydreigon was a perfect fit. What i love about base ogerpon is, with tera + speed boost, it can act as speed control, you slap a choice band and you basically get band + scarf in one, and my favorite part is the webs interaction, with the ability defiant, you get a +2 boost from webs, then you tera out of the speed drop, and suddenly they have to deal with a banded tera grass ivy cudgel at +2, Hydreigon Has Levitate + can function as a ghost resist + dragon type and fire off unresisted coverage with a very unique defensive utility of not only a fire/water/grass/ghost/dark resist + psychic immunity, but the special defensive utility that only one other viable ou mon can use (latios), a levitating steel, which provides a steel type with a ground immune, effectively walling + immediately forcing out threats like substitute kyurem, gliscor, landorus therian, Clodsire, Ting Lu, etc. Now with the boots tusk in mind, i said it was gonna be a boots spinner without rocks, so i gave it cc as a fourth move with tera fighting as i believe that 2hkoing corviknight after stealth rocks is important, to me, the 2 main threats to great tusk, are moltres, and corviknight, that is my reasoning behind rock tomb grass ogerpon, and cc tusk, band rock tomb ogerpon is my go-to when i want to lure moltres, emergency revenge deoxys/pult or slow +1 dnite with tera + rock tomb and effectively prevent further setup. Now, as a rocker i selected Tinkaton, due to the fact that every bulky offense needs a steel type, and it provided steel/fairy unique defensive utility and with a balloon, a temporary ground immune that steals items with pickpocket and prevents sweeps with encore, i opted to go for an offensive set here to lure gliscor + pick off grounds, ice hammer, stealth rock, gigaton hammer, encore, i call it 2hammer Tink. I needed a Universal physical wall that could pivot, beat zama, spin block and absorb toxic spikes since im going with av mola as the special wall, so i opted to go with pecharunt for the physical wall which i also decided to make my helmet user, crazy how it fit the roles that were required for this slot, the set i opted to use was tera ghost, full physdef, parting shot, recover, malignant chain, shadow ball with tera ghost, i heavily considered foul play here but that wont beat tera steel zama. Finally, we have assault vest alomomola, full spdef, flip turn aqua jet play rough mirror coat, which is amazing at checking most special threats, even kyurem, however, i am fully aware not bolt, thats because great tusk + tinkaton, hydreigon, all threaten bolt, and a tera fairy alomomola also defeats bolt 1v1 with play rough, i am a firm believer in consistency, and on my av mola sets, ive never ran body slam, you're hax fishing which is inconsistent, i opted for aqua jet as my last, which you will see in the replays, picks off ALOT of stuff especially when you are chipped vs a low health mon or a ceruledge.
We end up with:
Unironically, it has a great color scheme.
Calculations:
Ogerpon:
1. Webs interaction Calcs:
+2 252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 0 HP / 124 Def Iron Moth: 194-229 (64.4 - 76%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+2 252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Raging Bolt: 333-392 (85.1 - 100.2%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
+2 252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Gholdengo: 323-380 (102.5 - 120.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO
2. Regular calcs:
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Rock Tomb vs. 248 HP / 248+ Def Moltres: 288-340 (75.1 - 88.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 248 HP / 8 Def Deoxys-Speed: 334-394 (110.2 - 130%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 252 HP / 8 Def Slowking-Galar: 358-422 (90.8 - 107.1%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Tornadus-Therian: 186-219 (51.3 - 60.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Zapdos: 176-208 (54.8 - 64.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Choice Band Tera Grass Ogerpon-Teal-Tera U-turn vs. 248 HP / 248+ Def Hydrapple: 146-174 (35.1 - 41.9%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
Note that on the very last calc, albeit its by a small bit, it outdamages the regen on hydrapple even with max defense, if you play the long game, you will beat any regenerator mon.
Great Tusk:
252 Atk Tera Fighting Great Tusk Close Combat vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Corviknight: 184-218 (46.1 - 54.6%) -- 55.9% chance to 2HKO
252 Atk Tera Fighting Great Tusk Close Combat vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Wellspring: 306-360 (101.6 - 119.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Tera Fighting Great Tusk Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Ting-Lu: 432-512 (84 - 99.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Hydreigon:
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Vessel of Ruin Ting-Lu: 195-229 (37.9 - 44.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Multiscale Dragonite: 309-364 (95.6 - 112.6%) -- 75% chance to OHKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Alomomola: 574-676 (107.4 - 126.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Flash Cannon vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Great Tusk: 316-373 (85.1 - 100.5%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Zamazenta: 274-324 (70.6 - 83.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Draco Meteor vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Zamazenta: 273-322 (84 - 99%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Flash Cannon vs. 252 HP / 240+ SpD Tyranitar in Sand: 186-222 (46 - 54.9%) -- 61.3% chance to 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Dark Pulse vs. 252 HP / 204+ SpD Garganacl: 153-181 (37.8 - 44.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Dark Pulse vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Slowking-Galar: 258-306 (65.4 - 77.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Flash Cannon vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Multiscale Dragonite: 95-112 (29.4 - 34.6%) -- 9.8% chance to 3HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Flash Cannon vs. 252 HP / 8 SpD Primarina: 168-198 (46.1 - 54.3%) -- 5.9% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Earth Power vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Kingambit: 326-384 (80.8 - 95.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Tera Steel Hydreigon Flash Cannon vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Tera Fairy Kingambit: 432-510 (107.1 - 126.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Pecharunt:
252 Atk Life Orb Zamazenta Crunch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Pecharunt: 112-133 (29.4 - 35%) -- 7.4% chance to 3HKO
252 Atk Wellspring Mask Tera Water Ogerpon-Wellspring-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Pecharunt: 128-152 (33.6 - 40%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
+2 252 Atk Tera Fairy Dragonite Tera Blast (80 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Ghost Pecharunt: 138-163 (36.3 - 42.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
+2 252 Atk Tera Flying Dragonite Tera Blast (80 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Ghost Pecharunt: 184-218 (48.4 - 57.3%) -- 93.4% chance to 2HKO
+1 252 Atk Tera Flying Dragonite Earthquake vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Pecharunt: 172-204 (45.2 - 53.6%) -- 36.3% chance to 2HKO
252+ Atk Protosynthesis Great Tusk Headlong Rush vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Ghost Pecharunt: 145-172 (38.1 - 45.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252+ Atk Great Tusk Headlong Rush vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Tera Ghost Pecharunt: 111-132 (29.2 - 34.7%) -- 7.4% chance to 3HKO
4 Atk Great Tusk Headlong Rush vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Pecharunt: 168-200 (44.2 - 52.6%) -- 21.5% chance to 2HKO
+2 252+ Atk Supreme Overlord 2 allies fainted Kingambit Sucker Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Pecharunt: 320-378 (84.2 - 99.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Tinkaton:
252 Atk Tinkaton Ice Hammer vs. 244 HP / 36 Def Gliscor: 244-288 (69.3 - 81.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Poison Heal
252 Atk Tinkaton Ice Hammer vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Landorus-Therian: 332-392 (86.9 - 102.6%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO
252 Atk Tinkaton Gigaton Hammer vs. 252 HP / 8 Def Slowking-Galar: 217-256 (55 - 64.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Tinkaton Gigaton Hammer vs. 252 HP / 196+ Def Tera Fairy Gholdengo: 284-336 (75.1 - 88.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Tinkaton Gigaton Hammer vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Multiscale Dragonite: 94-111 (29.1 - 34.3%) -- 5.9% chance to 3HKO
252 Atk Tinkaton Ice Hammer vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Dragonite: 316-376 (97.8 - 116.4%) -- 87.5% chance to OHKO
Note: these calcs should be used in combo, you gigaton the ground or the dragonite, then ice hammer kills them the next turn.
Alomomola:
132 SpA Iron Moth Sludge Wave vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 115-136 (21.5 - 25.5%) -- 0.7% chance to 4HKO
+6 252 SpA Gholdengo Shadow Ball vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 405-477 (75.9 - 89.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 Atk Tera Fairy Alomomola Play Rough vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Raging Bolt: 168-198 (42.9 - 50.6%) -- 1.2% chance to 2HKO
+3 252+ SpA Protosynthesis Raging Bolt Thunderbolt vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Tera Fairy Alomomola: 415-490 (77.8 - 91.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Choice Specs Kyurem Ice Beam vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Tera Fairy Alomomola: 169-199 (31.7 - 37.3%) -- 87.4% chance to 3HKO
204 SpA Kyurem Freeze-Dry vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 168-200 (31.5 - 37.5%) -- 86.1% chance to 3HKO
204 SpA Kyurem Freeze-Dry vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Tera Fairy Alomomola: 84-100 (15.7 - 18.7%) -- possible 6HKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Tera Ghost Dragapult Shadow Ball vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 182-216 (34.1 - 40.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252+ SpA Choice Specs Tera Ghost Gholdengo Shadow Ball vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 224-264 (42 - 49.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
+4 252 SpA Quark Drive Iron Valiant Moonblast vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 435-513 (81.6 - 96.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+2 252 SpA Tera Electric Iron Valiant Thunderbolt vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 422-500 (79.1 - 93.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+1 252 SpA Glimmora Meteor Beam vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Assault Vest Alomomola: 223-264 (41.8 - 49.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
Threat List:
1. Weavile - vs this thing, you can do 3 things, keep tinkaton healthy and ur safe, tinkaton is required in most games so these other 4 methods may help you: you wanna keep alo healthy or try to let it get knocked early so it can wall better and deliver 2 play roughs vs it, then jet should pick it off, the 2nd method is letting pecharunt get knocked, which actually allows u to wall weavile if knocked, the 3rd method is to position tusk and tera to kill it, the 4th method is a bit technical, so this method demonstrates the use of hydreigon's defensive utility, hydreigon resists one weavile stab(dark) and can tera into the resist of the other weavile stab(ice), you send it in on +2 or neutral, and tera + flash cannon, if its in vs neutral, even if they knock cannon will kill them, if its at +2, a 50/50 is forced IF they know ur tera, they can either axel on tera, or knock kill you on tera, but if they dont know ur tera, they will axel 100% of the time.
2. Raging Bolt - vs this thing ur special wall can lose to it if not positioned well + terad, so i centered the team around momentum and threatening it, the 2 walls have pivot moves + hydreigon/tink/tusk all threaten it, pon will always revenge terad bolt, if things get dire, get tusk in > swap to tinka and encore, that combo always shuts it down, use hydreigon or oger if it gets even more dire, hydrei will ohko it even at +1, if it teras, tealpon will revenge.
3. Kyurem - non issue for this team but i just know people will ask, balloon tinka shuts this thing down, if its dd pech shuts it down, levitate steel hydreigon also shuts it down, same w terad mola, or even unterad mola, see calcs section, if kyurem itself teras, tealpon will revenge
Important note: tealpon is usually ur revenge killer on this team, sometimes itll be hydreigon but band ogerpon is the ace on this team.
Thats it really, everything else ur solid vs, like i said above, this team is amazing into most stuff.
Pokepaste + Special Challenge:
https://pokepast.es/0c8b092be0569629
Im only going to be doing this challenge once, but the first person to peak #1 with this team after i post this rmt, i will build a team around your favorite pokemon on a team style of your choosing, and i dont care how long it takes, i will make it good and get #1 with it, and send you said team after it gets the desired result. Setsu attempting this challenge is cheating theyre too fast of a ladderer, and theyre used to making low tier mons work, so anyone except for setsu is eligible to participate in this challenge.
Replays:
Notable Replays vs Good Players:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2505315313-5jyeriqw3ok7lryotcms6bsjuy9ns50pw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504953508-qudnrqwrv587hif1spfj2i3i0atd0ufpw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504630619-xt6eiul8pv4yptdc3wn3u1j8rdgrd4lpw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504617223-hf5pnxv2665kg8icw7appyl8ji2qai2pw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504370238-1i0dh7ns78lta5ahbama51iti8kaxdrpw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504365505-p0dhq02ytbk9tsm0xjv9ugptxbn0n1npw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504337725-5mmeqcw80qydhlpqdft4ac26jk12ekxpw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504352617-4cu1uj8hp9cslmuj8gulg46djjts6hwpw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2504496730-2mlgjfpbnvneet1ev8fputhpraqj5sjpw?p2
Note: i will only include the replays vs good players, because when you are using this team, you will notice very quickly that it is very consistent and will beat any inexperienced player if you know what you are doing, these replays will help you learn because theyre vs actual tough players that are high on the ladder.
Additional Advice: your lead depends on what ur facing, if they have a lando lead grasspon, if they have dragons lead hydreigon except when its pult, then lead alomomola, tinkaton is the rocker but it is only the lead vs kyurem teams, choose your leads based on what you are facing, if you dont know what to lead, keep playing the team, it has alot of training wheels on it so you will learn your leads very quickly.
Proof of Peak:
Ignore that its not cropped properly, i took the screenshot on a phone. (Im also relic stone and c0ldsnow if u were wondering, and #4 is my friend ima, whose channel i featured on for us to get #1 on that alt, and then lax at #5)
Alot of strong players in top 10 here, highly competitive ladder.
Shout-outs:
LB for screenshotting my peak and sending me.
Pokemh for keeping track of my run (and glazing :sob: )
ima wanna give a special s/o to ima here because after i got the peak, i tilted trying to go for 95, im still at 91 but im no longer at 94, but me and ima did a vid recently, i featured on his channel and we got #1 on his alt, and you can see live proof that i actually was at 94.4 gxe in that video on my switchbladess alt.
Conclusion:
All things considered, im happy with how this team turned out, i came in with low expectations, because it really was a more standard process as opposed to me being technical with my builds. And on that note, my new years resolution is to be the best version of myself, both irl and in mons, i have ALOT of teams ready and on standby, 2 years in a row, i have consecutively made finals of SPL only for my team to end up as the runner up, even though during the first spl finals i did win ost in 2024, i didnt win anything in 2025, but i performed well throughout 2025 scoring some huge wins vs great players like gray/xavgb in the process during olt especially, but whatever spl team i end up on , i do intend to deliver my best performance in that tour, and whatever team it is, they will be claiming that red trophy, even if i have to build for all their ou slots from 6-9, im able to do it, similarly , i do intend to get a second ost aswell, why stop at 1, ive been testing enough and my play is sharper than ever, time to put in the work.
I am open to all feedback, if you have questions, hit me up on my discord my tag is stormzone i will try to answer everybody.
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can force those kinds of sequences pretty easily. Think the team is pretty tight as is; but Tera Ghost on Tinkaton can patch that. Still, I'd say the benefit of tera ice to nail a fat lando/glisc/dnite at once is more frequent rn.
