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Giagantic said:
Topped ladder again, here is a very small team dump of the two teams I used in the process!

:Iron Treads::Scream Tail::Zapdos::Roaring Moon::Great Tusk::Pecharunt:
MGLO Iron Treads Balance

I think this is as good as it is gonna get for this team, the addition of prankster Pecharunt covers for surprise setup sweepers and dangerous threats like Chien-Pao, Mamoswine, and Iron Hands. Mixed MGLO Treads handles lots of different teams that have structures that only really handle either physical or special, not mixed and is really only bothered by VA specially defensive Corviknight.

:Metagross::Latios::Primarina::Great Tusk::Corviknight::Pecharunt:
CB Tinted Metagross Balance

CB Tinted Metagross is a scary monster that shouldn't be slept on, rest of the team is bog standard. Get Metagross in as often as possible and dismantle teams by inflicting massive damage on most metagame elements. Best know what Heavy Slam works best versus and when to Meteor Mash instead... Example Roaring Moon is fat af and iirc only takes 40 bp from Heavy Slam...
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you are wonderful for my videos thank you gia. the treads team felt insanely strong and idt i ever regret loading lorbmglo on it--just very consistent as a progress maker and steel beam lures in so much shit.
 
Rabia said:
you are wonderful for my videos thank you gia. the treads team felt insanely strong and idt i ever regret loading lorbmglo on it--just very consistent as a progress maker and steel beam lures in so much shit.
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Yeah, I just stumbled upon that set whilst randomly testing out mixed sets on Pokemon. I found that even relatively low SPA can be made useful through high BP moves like Steel Beam, MGLO was the logical choice as you avoid the recoil, can run Life Orb for free and it boosts both special and physical power. The thing that Iron Treads brings to the table is both access to Steel Beam and Volt Switch meaning it can pressure non-VA Corvs heavily and do decent chip damage with it to various potential switchins like EE Gholdengo whilst keeping up momentum. Rapid Spin is lure for stuff like Pecharunt as it gets 2hko'd by Steel Beam, and boosted Earthquake is also fairly powerful
 
Giagantic said:
Yeah, I just stumbled upon that set whilst randomly testing out mixed sets on Pokemon. I found that even relatively low SPA can be made useful through high BP moves like Steel Beam, MGLO was the logical choice as you avoid the recoil, can run Life Orb for free and it boosts both special and physical power. The thing that Iron Treads brings to the table is both access to Steel Beam and Volt Switch meaning it can pressure non-VA Corvs heavily and do decent chip damage with it to various potential switchins like EE Gholdengo whilst keeping up momentum. Rapid Spin is lure for stuff like Pecharunt as it gets 2hko'd by Steel Beam, and boosted Earthquake is also fairly powerful
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If you don't mind me asking, why did you choose Primarina as the regenvester? I'm not a fan of prim, i think it's typing make it so that its weaknesses add up and give it a hard time in fulfilling its role, while also being terrible at taking physical hits. I know its role is not to take physical hits, but in a pinch, it has to be basically at full hp to take a phys hit, which isn't gonna be very often. I personally like Swampert more, who only has to worry about grass moves and even those are pretty rare
 
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Primarina brings several qualities that stuff like Manaphy don't, while lacking great defensive prowess in addition to no scald, Primarina's dual Water/Fairy typing gives several useful resistances and a immunity. Resistance to fighting, immunity to dragon, and stab Moonblast are great things to have when some of the top dogs of the metagame are an actual dog (Zamazenta) and though with my investment it doesn't handle switching into said things, it can be slowpivoted in. The big thing with Primarina is its good offense in tandem with its typing, something that Swampert lacks, as with it you are forced to run Knock, EQ, and Flip, and it is quite weak to burn.

The combo of moonblast/surf/pnoise lets it hit a lot things and deny healing.

Primarina is a more offensive orientated regener. Lacks defensive prowess and as such takes max investment to really take advantage of physical defensive qualities of its typing.

Swampert and Manaphy are more defensively orientated regeners. Swampert is crippled by burn, Manaphy is reliant on Scald getting those burns.

Roaring Moon is a fast regener with phazing potential. Weak to fairies and certain mixed attackers.

None of the above are perfect, and the other regeners like meloetta and Goodra-hisui have major flaws as well such meloetta beubg weak to U-turn meaning things like Zapdos can pressure it just by pivoting and Goodra-hisui lacks pivot.


(Edit: In regards to my team, I chose Primarina over others because of the immunity and offensive potential it has over others.)
 
Since I've just qualified for the AAALT, I wanted to share some few cool teams that I've been laddering with:

:Ting-Lu: :Primarina: :Iron Treads: :Pecharunt: :Roaring Moon: :Deoxys-speed:
:Ting-Lu: :Iron Crown: :Great Tusk: :Manaphy: :Iron Moth: :Roaring Moon:
These two centers around the Prankster Ting-Lu set with team 1 more of a traditional hazard stack while team 2 is more of a BO with lu getting up hazard to help chip thing in range. I really like this set bc it does everything a Ting-Lu need to do: put up hazard and spam ruinations. Atha might make you believe I stole his idea but his ting-lu is a HO lead while I came up with this idea after taking inspiration from ABR's hazard stack team in OU with double hazard lu.

:Landorus-Therian: :Deoxys-Speed: :Great Tusk: :Sandy Shocks: :Manaphy: :Pecharunt:
Now this is where it's at. Gravity Hustle Lando. I was tinkering around with a gravity team when I rmb gravity also boost accuracy so I immediately thought of putting Hustle on Lando and made this masterpiece. In case you run into ee there's also scarf mb tusk which has no switch in under gravity. Highly recommend everyone trying it.

:Weezing-Galar: :Great Tusk: :Pecharunt: :Zamazenta: :Goodra-Hisui: :Cinderace:
Can't end it off without a weezing-g team. This is the team that I used for a good part of the ladder tour. I went like 20-1 from 1450s to 1650s in a day with this team and I can tell you it's a banger. The main idea is for mb tusk to break down zama's check like corv, tusk and pech and let it clean up. Very simple but effective idea. Ace slot is the only thing Im not really sure about but there arent many fast pivots that also put up rocks.

Anws that's all. S/o Atha who wouldnt have qualified for playoff if I hadnt sniped Rofna for him.
 
Built a new stall team for aaalt, peaked 1704

:Gholdengo::Ting-Lu::Pecharunt::Chesnaught::Skarmory::Blissey:
  • Originally intended to go full superman, but Ting-Lu gets overloaded too easily by random spattackers like mglo crown. Protect for fsight teams.
  • Gholdengo could be spdef volt absorb to brick Cobalion, Zapdos, and Thundy, but you rly want a second knock absorber that can switch into tusk, as well as an answer for Mamo and bulk up lando. Aforementioned electrics are still playable with proper regen cycling and prank pecha
  • Chienpao is a pretty suspect mu, but chienpao is pretty fradulent anyway
  • Specs Primsea primarina is theoretically unwinnable
  • Special setup sweepers other than gholdengo (tail glow mana, blursa, etc) can be beaten with trick twave blissey
  • Moldy/Scrappy Taunt offensive tusk can only be beaten with flame body burns
  • Baked Skarm and Flame Body Naught is fine to hard counter mglo molt/talonflame and firepon, but chesnaught doesn't like taking knock off if spikes are up
  • Almost every other matchup is favorable or free
 
I'm trying to build balance teams but I'm really struggling with how to prepare for Latios.
No matter what I do, one of its common abilities (Hadron, Adaptability, Tinted Lens) absolutely destroys my check.

Any advice?
 
CrazyLasagna said:
I'm trying to build balance teams but I'm really struggling with how to prepare for Latios.
No matter what I do, one of its common abilities (Hadron, Adaptability, Tinted Lens) absolutely destroys my check.

Any advice?
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One of the best ways to prepare for it is a RegenVest and a Dark-type. It will normally be Choice-locked, so if they make the read and use Psyshock as your RegenVest Mana / Primarina / Swampert comes in, it's a free switch to your Roaring Moon / Chien-Pao (and your Regen will recover most of the damage off).

Other options include RegenVest Ting-Lu, most Scream Tail sets (since they outspeed), Specially Defensive Volt Abosrb Corviknight, and Tinkaton ~~and Volt Absorb Grimmsnarl~~.
 
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