Project SV DOU Teambuilding Competition v3: Week 34 (Sylveon)

budgie pup stew · 2026-01-26T00:28:13-0500

Life orb (at least in my opinion) is the best item for :sylveon:

as it provides a considerable damage boost to all of :sylveon:

's moves including quick attack while still being able to protect in front of fake out. Tera ground tera blast is particularly interesting on :sylveon:

as a tera type of ground turns its poison weakness into a resistance and removing its steel weakness while hitting all of fairy's resists for super effective and pixilate allows tera blast to be used before tera. The EV spread outspeeds :chien-pao:

in tailwind while maximizing special attack. :landorus-therian:

pairs with :sylveon:

almost perfectly with intimidate and ground-fairy complementing each other perfectly offensively. The EV spread lives choice specs make it rain from :gholdengo:

and ice punch from :iron-hands:

after an intimidate while outspeeding :chien-pao:

.

provides tailwind and further support with breaking swipe, and forms the coveted fantasy core with :sylveon:

and

.

is designed to beat opposing :gholdengo:

with 252 speed evs and threatening a ko with choice specs shadow ball. :ogerpon-wellspring:

deals with :landorus:

,

and

while providing redirection and the EV spread was designed to beat sand teams, surviving 2 :excadrill:

earthquakes after tera water, koing :tyranitar:

and

with tera water cudgel. :porygon2:

can set trick room against faster teams, help stall out trick room set by hardroom teams and snipe :kingambit:

and

with tera fighting tera blast.

edit: the paste was outdated

ratpacker · 2026-01-26T07:22:27-0500

I was experimenting a lot with structures that could fit Brute Bonnet and revisited the "Dragonite paired with a Trick Room user" archetype, which notably struggles with Gholdengo. I came up with this:

Sneasler is there for Fake Out support and as a Toxic Spikes absorber, as Brute Bonnet's main weakness over Amoonguss is an atrocious Glimmora match-up.
Brute Bonnet supports Dragonite and Sneasler with strong Dark moves and will KO bulky Wellspring in two hits.
Sylveon threatens opposing teams under Trick Room and particularly Roaring Moon for the team's physical attackers. It lives Tera Normal Sword of Ruin Extreme-Speed from an opposing Dragonite.
The worst matchup of this team is probably Okidogi and Iron Defense Hisuian-Goodra(?) but the team has enough offensive power and Spore support to muscle through it. Tera Blast Ground on Porygon helps. Sylveon is Tera Fire for the snow match-up.
Click the sprite for the pokepaste and the pokemonshowdown team database link.
Here's a replay: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9doublesou-2521759244

Project SV DOU Teambuilding Competition v3: Week 34 (Sylveon)

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