Project SV RU Secret Santa 2025

[Sulfura28]

Hey Togyeeee, so merry christmas and Happy new years (little bit late) so here your resquest : BO dragalge


- the main pokemon. I decide to put the assault vest. With it you can :
4HKO by moonblast of scarf gardevoir
3HKO by flash canon of specs magnezone
3HKO by ice beam of Porygon-Z
3HKO by ice beam of specs basculegion-F
14,1% chance to be 2HKO by shadow ball of gengar After a nastly plot.
You can keep the momentum with flip turn or touch steel type with focus blast. The Tera fairy is for to be immune to draco meteor or dragon tail. (The speed investment originally allowed Hippodown to outspeed, but now he's in UU. So you can change his speed if you want.)

- the basic set. He can set spikes, turn or toxic. The speed invest allow to outspeed magnezone and bisharp. The tera allow to resist water and ice type. It is equally the only pokémon who resisting to krook so be careful not to sacrifice him too quickly.

- the "fun" set. A classical bisharp with tera blast and the tera flying. With it you can touch the bulky fighting/grass mon in this tier such as chesnaught, torterra or crafty. Flying it is obviously equally a good defensive tera with fight and ground orginally weaknesses are now resisted.

- the basic scarf set, give speed control in this team. Nothing more to add

- a good offensive option in this team with fake out for weaken, close combat for breaking, u-turn for keeping the momentum and knock off for. Good ability, the role of mienshao is first to weaken the team to let bisharp or gardevoir sweep.

- an excellent antispin, he set the rocks, he can burn or just weaken with sball. He can healing himself with shore up. He have the colburr berry for obviously dark attacks like knock off or just resisting bisharp and attampt to burn him after (not a good idea to stay in palossand when a bisharp was send but still)

So i hope you like this team. If you have questions you can dm me. Sorry for m'y english, It's far from perfect, but I tried my best.
Here some replays :
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2510186852
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2510191403

Enjoy it :)

https://pokepast.es/aa7e4370e22013bc (here the past i forgot lmao)

 

[Hoops]

merry christmas colorednaem, you requested I build with a mon that was very reminiscent of the season in . I had a hard time figuring out what to do with this incredibly versatile mon, boasting an sizable bst of 330. I ping-ponged between going for a banded build leveraging hustle to raise its hefty 55 base attack and strong STAB in Brave Bird, or potentially a mixed attacker using Freeze-Dry to deal with bulky waters. Eventually though, I did land on what I think any Delibird should be doing in this tier, and that is setting up as many spikes as possible on the other side of the field.



That idea naturally lends itself to HO, so I decided to build a team around that.

I went for like a mix between a lead Lycanroc and Froslass for our Delibird lead here, you've got cheese endeavor + priority to score some unexpected KO's for those unfamiliar with its movepool, spin allows you to remove opposing rocks while maintaining your own hazards.

Delibird, for all of its role-compressing benefits, does struggle into the majority of opposing hazards leads, so a member of the team has to be able to deal with them. Cinccino takes on this role very well, being able to dissuade lead Lycanrocs and Terrakions with Bullet Seed, and lead Ribombees with Rock Blast. You could also realistically change Rock Blast or Knock Off into Triple Axel in order to deal with Chesnaught better, but it does worsen your Talonflame matchup, so edit at your own risk. I will just add as an aside that realistically, you shouldn't be setting up much with Cinccino, as you do want your spikes up for as long as possible. I'd say either use it as a counterlead to opposing HO, or a very late game sweeper, don't try and use it to break.

This Torn set is pretty nuclear at +2, really just click your STAB with it and hope you don't miss. All it's really here for is to dissuade rocks from Regi's with taunt and to break through fattier teams. Pairs nicely with Armarouge, as the two of them can pretty effectively break through stall cores like BlissMuk. 8 HP EV's let you live 3 Seismic Tosses from full.

Team is rounded out by the usual core of HO goons, gets you a spinblocker and defog deterrer, as well as a good way to punish Regi for existing. You can realistically change around sets and teras, these are just what I usually like to run.

some replays
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2511423887-tktqo3oiou8kj1drq0lfkvi7fyy06bfpw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2511428577-8ka04mhq1yycfxs03hd08ql2npulpk0pw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2511460805-xjbf1l8bdsx0qr0kkwi9b43gg6lw673pw

 

[fluff!!]

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2511423887-tktqo3oiou8kj1drq0lfkvi7fyy06bfpw?p2

Only in here do you witness the Delibird HO vs Klawf Stall matchup

 

[colorednaem]

Canard u wanted a heracross ho team, merry christmas
Heracross is a pretty terrible mon so i decided to put it on a webs team built around abusing talonflame cores.
Standard webs set here i chose quiver over stun spore.
Clicks Cm, Clicks Endure and wins.
Standard webs set tera fire to set up on entei and talonflame.
Spinblocker + anti-offense mon.
The featured shitmon has a really good mu into stall and u have trailblaze to maybe sweep vs offense.
Since heracross has a habit of dying after 2-3 kills i added dd flygon to make sure the stall mu is brainless easy.
https://pokepast.es/5ca0d7ade0216789

 

[Akotelette]

Hello fluff!! (!!!!) I'm Fashionably late, but i got your gift :)


First of all, as you can see by the name of the team i DID NOT struggle to make something I like at all (and all my failed attempts are yours to get if you ever want them !)

- “The Voice That Took Center Stage” Ok so like i SWEAR i tried to make great use of the funny move, but i ended up noticing that I could just go the "Hey that girl bulky and do damage path" and hell yeah she do, Hyper voice and Psychock to get both stab, and a reliable way to threaten bike, Energy ball cuz gastrodon was kind of a problem, and focus miss to remember steel type and especially bisharp what she's made of! The 20 speed IV allows her to outspeed most Bisharp, even though you can go up to 230 total to outspeed pretty much all of them.

- "Nah, I'd Win guy" until I have to play the sucker mindgame and end up losing, 204 Speed Iv is a bit faster than usual Bisharp and allows him to outspeed Mienshao if he ever gets tricked a scarf.

- "A Master That Never Fails” Besides, when I need him to hit a triple axel, classic set, physical breaker of the team

- “A Star That Grants Miracles.” PLS FLINCH PLS FLINCH PLS FLINCH PLS FLINCH PLS FLINCH, beside that uturn to keep momentum, trick, cuz cm slowbro and brother are kind of a pain, and hwish for all my good guys above

- “Because Someone Had to Be Ground-Immune.” Hurricane cuz I'm feeling lucky, 96 spa to 2hko arma, who is kind of a problem for the team if you let him roam free, taunt cuz who needs defog when all you need to win is 30 turns at most, and it does help Meloetta to break through stall a lot
"Same Shit but for Rock" Yeah, huum, that guy is here? ig thats already good enough. Physically defensive pivot, Rock and Koff, great utility all around

Some replay if i did save some :
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2511662132-asm78igis24nrjmfyk92oqodsd114nfpw Meloetta,Mienshao and Noivern doing number on stall
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2511557595-l465jvj4fegqhhgqqdx75lcjj4y180bpw 3 am Meloetta missing everything

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2511537221-05nfeide8xcy44hq8lsvidx4p0rakoipw Melo showing Noivern who can scream lounder.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2511423125-rsuutbcyw8mselt1slnkmvqpafu9xy1pw Jirachi, in fact flinched.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2511418964-rttyelb6q8nq8lxjew5wwhi65a2cgq0pw Taunt noivern against sticky, and Meloetta aura making Bisharp wonder why he exists.

 

[Canard]

Hello Akotelette, i may be the worst liar of all time but i've hopefully fooled you



you asked for plot glowbro, so i decided to build some fat around it

-the poisonous idiot itself, i went with 100spa because it seems to be about as much bulk as regular slowbro generally affords to put into speed, but put into spatk instead for the plot shenanigans, sludge and flame allows it to clean late game and it still brings glowbro utility, notably helping with fightings like Mienshao and Breloom
-the speed control and progress maker, it clicks standard mienshao moves and ensures the team does progress by knocking and turning as one does
-with some of the mons that we're gonna add later, we're very vulnerable to spikes, and since glowbro is also not the most reliable physical wall ever, a talonflame can't hurt, notably it can answer things like mimikyu that would be very scary to the team (R.I.P Hippo)
-i love umbreon, it's an awesome special wall and i'm still mentally stuck in the gweez hoodra umbreon era, toxic is a broken move that fatter structures have to respect, and we already have glowbro and talon as fairy resists, so gardevoir isn't the end of the world
-big fan of specs slug as a breaker alongside umbreon, it loves to come on wish, does great damage alongside nice defensive utility, really what's not to love
-was meant to be hippo award! it nicely wraps up the defensive core by taking weight off of glowbro by answering things like mienshao and bisharp reliably and gives hazards to the team

overall i hope you like the team and that my gaslighting worked, merry christmas and happy new year

 

[milliongatejumpguy]

Greetings mr. Sulfura. I have been elected your secret santa for the year, which means I am pretty damn late. But I do have your gift! Here, you requested a specs Noivern team, right? Have a look:


Specs Noivern is a fast webs-immune breaker with two absurdly powerful STABs in Draco Meteor and Boomburst. With access to Flamethrower, it can even break through steels for itself later on. Because it's me building, I figured the perfect partner for him would be OTR Diancie, which very much enjoys special walls like Registeel and Hisuian Goodra chipped down for an endgame sweep.
Because specs Noiv needs to come in multiple times in order to actually wallbreak, we round off the team with a balance core that provides Noivern with various entry points and hazard support. We run no ghosts because the team seems to pressure the more common removal options in Forretress/Cyclizar/Noivern/Talon well enough. Tera ghost on a random defensive piece should do the trick.

- Featured mon and fast wallbreaker. We run dual STAB in Draco Meteor and tera normal Boomburst, plus Flamethrower to hit incoming steels. Finally, Switcheroo is insurance against bulky setup and I may or may not have added it after losing to a double dance rest Registeel.
- Princess of every tier and win condition. With Wish support, you can hang around for a good bit and support the balance core even in the middlegame while also firing off strong moonblasts/EPs and forcing steels to take hazard chip. Trick room also provides you with a form of speed control in emergencies. I used !pick to choose a tera between the ones I consider viable, it gave me Fairy, so we're rocking Fairy tera for boosted Moonblasts and losing a number of weaknesses in the process.
- Much-appreciated removal and pivot, also another fast mon to support Noivern's speed tier. I am running AV because I am an AV Cyclizar appreciator, but you don't lose a lot from running boots. U-turn and spin are mandatory in my opinion, the last two moves are customizable. I like knock off and dragon tail for utility, though that does leave you with a very passive Zar. Feel free to drop either for Draco.
- Wish support for Diancie, Pert and even Noivern, who may need to take rocks chip a couple times if Cyclizar fails at his job. Does standard Umbreon things: wish, protect, toxics something, foul play last because it's a good STAB.
- Rocks setter and pivot, also a very good defensive partner for Diancie in general. Since we already have two special tanks, I figured we are running physdef, I mean, what's there to do. You could also drop knock off for roar if you want more phasing.
- Spiker to match Swampert's rocks, also provides the team with a very sturdy physically defensive backbone. We do have three knock off users, huh?


This is pretty similar to the six I spammed for the first couple rounds of Felicup: , which did well for the time Hippo was legal. That team has a scarfer because our main progress maker besides Diancie is slow. Here, Diancie's partner is super fast and even webs-immune, so I figured we can get away with no scarf and just defend against the faster threats.

Here, a few replays to showcase how the team is supposed to function:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2513391142-jx8r16dgg3ly59xcjbsio390tidocjlpw (vs opposing hazardstack balance)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2513435516-ljlldsldy9cpmgnus5r0b38a29i0t2apw?p2 (vs nooo OTR Diancie is a HO mon you can't run her in balance)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ru-2513377456-pcoq2rdwpttomackhveq7g54oji6havpw?p2 (vs rain)

I do hope you enjoy the gift. Merry latemas and happy holidays! ^^

 

[Elec-ant1234]

With that, this year's Secret Santa is finished!! Thank you everyone for participating!
Thanks for making this Christmas a merry one, and I hope you all had some very happy holidays!