Hello everyone, posting an RMT again after almost a year, I built this team couple days ago around choice band weavile as it's tera dark knock off are very strong in the meta currently and I ended up making a cool team out of it with fun techs which ended up doing really well on ladder, I also live recorded couple showcase games at 2100+ with this team which will be linked below, hope you like the team. Title is reference to the game of thrones books, A Song of Ice and Fire
Table Of Contents:
1.Proof Of Peak
2. Live Team Showcase and Breakdown
3.Teambuilding Process
4.Threats
5.Replays
6.Team Importable
1.Proof of Peak
(Laddered up on a side test alt so gxe is bit cooked, got 88 gxe on a private alt with this team too)
2.Live Team Showcase and Breakdown
I was laddering with this team in a voice call with vk and decided to record couple games live after we hit 2100+, team breakdown at the end of the video as well
3.Teambuilding Process
- Main idea was to build around choice band beatup weavile, but after making the team I realized beatup is weaker than knockoff here so decided to remove that, tera dark choice band knock off are still very strong and potent in this meta when paired with right teammates
- I wanted a really strong pokemon that can threaten pokemon that annoy weavile like corviknight and skarmory along with baiting mons like great tusk, volcanion also resists fairy, can break through fire types like moltres, water absorb to help with ogerpon-wellspring and walking wake, very bulky, and very strong, overall was just a really good fit with weavile, wisp also gave backup insurance vs setup sweepers like dragonite and kingambit
- I had two rocks weak pokemon so needed rapid spin on the team, and av great tusk made the most sense, can stay in on air balloon gholdengos easily to get spin off and takes very little from pecharunt so forces a tera ghost on them if they want to continue spin blocking after which weavile has a field day
- Tusk alone isn't enough hazard control in current SV so put a hatterene as well which dissuades opponent from clicking hazards, as the tusk is av team doesn't have rocks so hatterene can magic bounce on opponent clicking rocks and we can get up rocks that way as well. This also helped with zamazenta which is one of the biggest problems for weavile so was a good fit overall
- Wanted a choice scarf pokemon for speed control along with something for espeed dnite, backup into zamazenta and kyurem, gholdengo made the best sense as it is one of the best pokemon in current meta along with baiting in pokemon like ting lu which you can double on and force progress by switching to weavile on the it, trick helps as a good way to have clear path in endgames lot of the times, also another fairy resist to take the pressure off volcanion
- This team still needed a setup wincon and some heavy anti setup stuff as currently team has a lot of power but no one really sweeps, hence I put encore mamonite on it, this paired really well with healing wish hatterene as well to let dnite go back to full after its first attempt to go at it again, was also a much needed flying type for grounded immunity, due to having good hazard control I could go with leftovers and not need boots4.Threats
Vs Stall it's probably a loss, team has a lot of power and tools, but the biggest factor here is we have no rocks so very hard to rack up damage on opposing mons even with stuff like tera dark weavile and trick gholdengo
Some stuff like tera water toxic glisc, sash ceruledge, specs kyurem etc. could be annoying too, but I would say its manageable and you can play around it
5.Replays
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2549026316-mnq18b6s5ioket6tmoigbmtcx40qo0epw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2549032104-mayelh23alcsgbshdlfsjca7ljk849xpw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2549037006-0wbdx0c2bwmvi19q61ehengbhvxcpq5pw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2549043307-64cw3nvuj4r007fumw526w3c2gxahospw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2549052005-vbvd9yuyki2qu8qqqgi2p7qk7p506mfpw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2549055906-4np2r6hhj4og2tk5t8inr4hmoirgn0spw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2549093027-hh0jwryxv23bfdxh0wds471m3qwgs4qpw?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2549097568-8c5hb77pvoqolfohov0sehi660ab3h0pw?p2
6.Team Importable
https://pokepast.es/95863bb2ad5d269b
(click the above pokepaste link to get the team)
S/o my fellow Indian friends, and vk Arc
~Have fun on the ladder
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