Project Monotype Secret Santa 2025

[Wincon]

Here Irys, your team for Secret Santa (I made some changes after I sent to you):
https://pokepast.es/1d681433246e6d3a

Usually when people build around Moltres-Galar they go duel dance with a bulky set or a fully offensive set. Here I wanted to explore another set that I thought would have merit. Rest Talk! Moltres can be ev’d to be so bulky it can easily take attacks such as specs ice beam from greninja and specs moonblast from Flutter Mane. The thought process behind this team was to fully lean into Moltres-Galar’s strengths, defensively as well as offensively as a late game win condition. This kind of flying actually welcomes the hazard trade and uses Moltres to clean up games or to trade for a big threat.

248HP/136+SpD always lives a specs Moonblast from Flutter Mane from full and will KO back at +3 with hazard chip. The speed allows you to creep gholdengo as well as Pokemon such as scarf Kleavor and scarf Samurott after a Thunder Wave. The rest is dumped into def to take physical hits better.

Defensive Dragonite started gaining traction around MLT and is a phenomenal phaser when paired with spikes. The given ev spread outspeeds up to max speed Raging Bolt, as well as Pokemon such as Scarf Urshifu after a T Wave. There’s virtually no Pokemon that can kill dragonite from full and it can be incredibly annoying to get rid of for offensive teams.

Considering we have Dragonite that creeps Raging Bolt as well as Moltres-Galar that can deal with Ghold I opted for an extremely bulky Gliscor set here. Just a standard knock off toxic set to deter setup sweepers and get rid of items so there are more targets that will be affected by spikes

Standard Spikes Skarm

Pretty standard spdef Corviknight with some speed for Pokemon such as Ogerpon or Urshifu after a T Wave

Standard Scarf Lando with some def since there isn’t really anything faster than 299-309 speed that you’re worried about, so you get a slight bulk increase by putting the difference into def

I comfortably laddered into mid 1750s with this build and it easily farms vs types such as Steel/Dark/Dragon/Ghost/Water. Majority of games you play with hazards up and only Defog later on when they’re no longer useful, unless the opponent has a big threat that hazards make too difficult to play around. Moltres Galar is insanely bulky and can get some insane

comebacks

I could’ve went farther but I loaded up something else and lost elo. Have Fun!

 

[Dead by Daylight]

Merry Christmas Molemitts, and apologies for the delay. Here is your stall Normal team. I must admit, not being able to use either Zoroark or Ursaluna made this painful, but it turned out alright in the end.



This was the set you wanted to build around, and I see the inherent thought behind it. I decided to forgo Sleep Talk to make this able to threaten common spinblockers like Gholdengo as well as lure Heatran and Iron Treads, and I didn't find it much of an issue thanks to Heal Bell Blissey. The Speed EVs are to outspeed Ogerpon formes after a Rapid Spin boost to pick them off with a Tera Starstorm after chip.

The duck himself, P2 puts in major work in matchups like Flying and Water thanks to BoltBeam and gives you a fighting chance against setup sweepers like SD Ogerpon formes with Foul Play. Having reliable recovery is also a godsend, while its hazard weakness isn't too pronounceds both Terapagos and Braviary can keep hazards off.

Blissey is essentially mandatory for its role compression, and here it is the team's cleric as well as special wall and Rocks setter. Not much to say about this set.

Wyrdeer is an unorthodox pick, I will admit, but it has pulled its weight on this team many times over. Future Sight + Intimidate, alongside a meager but passable defensive statline of 103 / 72 / 75 and an okay typing, lets it do heinous things against Fighting and many types once they lose their Dark. EP hits pesky Steel-types like the ones above and allows Future Sight to actually work into Poison teams by chipping AMuk, but you could swap it out for something like Thunderbolt or Hyper Voice if you so desire.

Lax provides basically the entire offensive presence of the team with solid coverage in Body Slam + Heat Crash and great base Special Defense alongside Curse. While it can struggle sometimes for chances, it can easily take over games once its counters get weakened.

I decided on Superpower > U-turn on the classic physically defensive Braviary set in order to better handle Iron Treads and Heatran and this team did not need momentum, what with it being stall. This mon helps immensely in the Fighting MU as well, and having reliable recovery and a way to remove against Ghost is critical.

Replays:
vs. Fire

I'll try to get more as well. Kept running into Belly Drum users like Azu and Cetitan, which this team just gets destroyed by.