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Project SV ZU Teambuilding Competition

PlayaBeavs said:
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guess who’s back, back again…
Teambuilding competition!

:venusaur: :sv/venusaur: :venusaur:
This gen1 starter was initially very surprising to have in the tier, but it has settled as a great piece in the metagame; both physically defensive sets and offensive Sunny Day are very threatening in their own right. However, this mon has many more underexplored options… Choice Scarf? Swords Dance? Curse? SubToxic? who knows what your mind can conceive, and I’ll be curious to see.
Build a team featuring a less common Venusaur set and post it in this thread with a brief description.
Deadline is Friday 16th at 10pm GMT+1.
Have fun!
 
Semi Stall Venu

:venusaur:-:Dusknoir:-:whiscash:-:vikavolt:-:hitmontop:-:mesprit:

When thinking about what to do with venusaur I wanted to try something different to the teams I normally make but still retaining somewhat of my unorthodox identity so i went for a defensive core of :venusaur: , :dusknoir: and :whiscash: with vika, mesprit and top taking more offensive roles

Venusaur is here to toxic and knock, prot, heal and repeat, straight forward and simple. does become weak on the special side vs :mesprit: and :magneton: tera water is mainly for :Hitmontop: and :Glastrier: if Dusknoir is no longer available, but other than that very bulky very toxic

Dusknoir can 1v1 :brute bonnet: with :colbur berry: and wisp with tera fairy as a back up, tera fairy with haze can also 1v1 OTR :spiritomb: if you're patient with it, it can also hinder :minior: and :snorlax: with haze and pain split setting up :hitmontop: to revenge with bullet punch, it's main role here though is to burn all the poison and steel types that venu's toxic can't touch as well as preventing setup sweepers from doing too much

Whiscash is the so called 'special wall', it's main job is to tank special hits venu might have problems with (:magneton: and :Charizard: most notably) and scare them of with eq and surf respectively, take those opportunities to lay spikes but be careful of tera grass mag with tera ghost which is also useful to prevent rapid spin from top ,sash is there for my style of gameplay but you can change it to leftovers since it's stealth rock resistant, protect is there to fuel the tox and burnn damage from venu and dusk earlier in the game if possible a useful piece indeed

now finally for the offensive pieces

:vikavolt: i went for a somewhat unorthodox approach for this, since shaymin could potentially become a problem for the team i went with agilty throat spray on modest vika, at 370 it outspeed majority of the tier whilst having great stab coverage in bug and electric asw as a plethora of coverage moves like energy ball and flash cannon, once it gets going it can be quite difficult to stop

:mesprit: I went for a standard nasty plot set with encore, great disruption for the team overall

:hitmontop: i went for a mix of bulk, speed and offense on this rapid spin set, tera steel for extra bullet punch damage and prot pads to deal with rocky helm

I had fun making this team, special thanks to lettuce for helping me refine it a bit

Here is a few replays to get some idea of how it works:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9zu-2518959839-i92s6lsyvdj7x3bxwhm3e67h1q7hlvppw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9zu-2518923125-y8dnielnvkej7cbat9mcs8giqjvw6h7pw
Pre Change Bonus Replay
 

Physical Grassy Terrain Venusaur​

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Venusaur slides in ! Me and kriegueur present you our entry for this week's team building competition : a team revolving around physical Venusaur taking advantage of the grassy terrain to hit some virtually insane grassy glides.

This idea stemmed from me being an idiot and seeing that Venusaur had a funny priority move which resulted in us trying to make this work for the last 3 days. Now was this worth it, well it's up to you to judge !

Team Core​

As said before the team heavily revolves around being able to set the grassy terrain and Venusaur successfully being able to switch in to abuse the move.

:venusaur: : The honored one right after Satoru Gojo, after listening to the entirety of the latest Jamiroquai album, ended up wanting to be able to slide everywhere himself. That's why this Venusaur is physical with his main goal here being to hit as many grassy glides as possible, but for that he'll need some help from his odd tree looking friend. With poison jab as his second stab and access to knock off, this build can present a real threat to a lot of mons. Venusaur being naturally bulky, he can, when needed, click swords dance to let him set up in order to pass some otherwise too tanky mons and get some mean OHKOs while gliding.

:arboliva: : This sadistic tree is great since every time he gets hit, the terrain suddenly gets grassy (how convenient). Equiped with terrain extender, Arboliva's main goal is to ensure grassy terrain is up a few times per game in order to enable Venusaur's gliding shenanigans. Surprisingly Arboliva ended up also being pretty useful with its ability to hit very powerful leaf storms and access to good moves in hyper voice, leech seed and earth power.

We tried different things with this team, mainly bulky offense by giving Venusaur leftovers, replacing swords dance with curse and building him to be more bulky and Hyper Offense by giving him a miracle seed, the later being the one we went with for this submission.

Overall Team​

The rest of the team is here to cover the main weaknesses of our core, being two grass mons, and help the team lean towards hyper offense :

:oricorio-pau: : A good grassy seed user that can take good use of the grassy terrain. Nothing special to see here, her set is really just the regular set you'll see for this mon in grassy terrain teams. She ended up being pretty useful and really helped the team shine overall.

:basculin: : This nasty fish provides the team good speed control and help the team's core deal with the few fire types that can be encountered in the tier. Access to a good pivot move in flip turned can also help Venusaur come forth and do whatever he does best. Wonder what this guy would taste if we were to sushi him...

:lycanroc: : Pretty standard set for this good boy too. Lycanroc as a suicide lead with access to rocks, taunt, endeavor and a good priority move in accelerock can answer a lot of the most common leads in the tier. When unable to lead, absculin is usually a good second option.

:toxicroak: : The second set-up sweeper of the team. Toxicroak proved to be quite the threat to be wary of in hyper offense teams in ZU these past few weeks. Fiona should be proud to have him as a dad.

Possible improvements​

Leech seed on Arboliva could be changed to something more useful but that's something we couldn't really address. The team also struggles quite a bit against Hitmontop :hitmontop:. Oricorio technicaly can take him on, but if Hitmontop is +1 after a rapid spin, Oricorio loses the duel.

Final Thoughts​

This team took a lot of efforts but we're actually really surprised by what it can actually do. What started out as a joke ended up being a pretty competent team, so we're really pretty proud of it. Hope y'all will like it too :totodiLUL:

Replays​

Ladder was dead so sadly you only get one replay. We really tried our best but it's almost like people were scared of our team, and they were right to be.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9zu-2519959129-syy19sdjm62tp6g9h42ha02o442drjfpw
 
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I hope I am on time, I built this last night, tuned today morning played a few games badly and got 1 relevant replay
This Worry Meth Venusaur set occurred to me in a dream (not even joking, it literally did).

:venusaur: :passimian: :whiscash: :brute bonnet: :drifblim: :jolteon:
Worry seed prevents Snorlax from resting, allows u to hit earth power against Weezing and Orthworm while also allowing to knock mons with sticky hold. The possibilities are endless.
Jolteon tech is also demonstrated in the attached replay.

Replay vs 5Dots
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9zu-2520464375-qqbut970hy8k0xpvdptet6eewkooyvhpw
 
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:toxicroak: :sv/toxicroak: :toxicroak:
One of the latest additions to the ZU metagame, it has shown itself to be a real force to be reckoned with. It has great set variety, between Choice Band and Choice Scarf sets or the more common set up sets, which can go physical with Swords Dance or special with Nasty Plot; a strong stab combination paired with high bp moves, decent coverage, and access to priority make Toxicroak a very powerful wallbreaker. Tera and its ability Dry Skin can give this mon extra immunities to allow for safer switchins or set up turns.
Build a team featuring Toxicroak and post it in this thread with a brief description.
Deadline is Friday 23rd at 10pm GMT+1.
Have fun!
 
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