SV UU Uyou keep stealing our mons and I just want to relive some of the glory days (Peak 1702, 86.7% GXE)

Ming549 · Tuesday at 7:21 PM

As we approach the dreaded April shifts where UU will cruelly and unfairly steal yet ANOTHER one of RU's strongest soldiers (the SECOND fire/flying guy to get yeeted this gen funnily enough THANKS OU DON'T THINK WE FORGOT) I wanted to both 1. go see if talonflame stall is actually obliterating ladder and 2. play with some of the old ru guys bc I like them and they're fun and I CAN'T USE THEM IN RU ANYMORE RAHHHHHHH. I didn't even plan on rmting this but then it just kept winning and I was like ok sure why not. Also maybe it's just because of when I was laddering but I literally didn't see a single talon stall team so color me skeptical about all that usage... Anyway into the team.

:Slither Wing:

RAHHHHHHHHHH FREE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This guy's epic, the set you see here is a similar thing as to what I used to run in RU just with Morning Sun > First Impression but unlike RU where you could get away with that there's just a lot of guys you want to be fimping (greninja, latios, thundys, etc.) and the team plays fast enough that you won't really feel the lack of recovery. Stun spore is there because it's funny and paralysis is broken. If you wanted to put earthquake on him > stun spore that would probably be a valid decision and would help out kinda hitting guys like dirge or pex but realistically paralyzing them boys is probably good enough and can cheese turns later in the game so I think the spore is still worth VIVA LA YELLOW COLOR. He's tera bug because fimp is crazy and tera bug makes him more crazy! Boots is a broken item especially on a guy like slither who you will probably be bringing out several times a game.

:Slither Wing:

This is a skarm tier and skarm is annoying so I just pulled up with the most unfair mechanic in all of mons (besides para) with trapping! Yeah basically the entire point of mag here is so slither can uturn on skarms and then mag traps them which is pretty cool. Magnezone also just hits really hard in his own right and really POWERFUL volt switches tend to make people start to panic and play in pretty predictable ways which can be cool if you want to sprinkle some flash cannons in here or there. He's tera ground because that also allows you to trap like cobalion and excadrill who honestly the team doesnt REALLY need trapped but is cute if you can. It also has no shared weaknesses with his base form letting you sometimes get some cheap chip in on grounds or fighters or whoever if you really need it. Oh it also turns him into an elec immune so you can get some cheap flash cannon chip onto a thund if that ever comes up.

:slither wing:

I will be honest I do not legitimately know about the "big" threats in the tier nor how people really deal with them but clod is just a fat guy and has rocks and toxic and gives me immunities to stuff so thats why he's here. Water Absorb's great, lets you dunk on keldeo since we went all in on phys def and unless you see like sub tera fly or smth (does that exist???) you should be golden. Was toying around with the idea of poison jab > toxic because this is supposed to be like my thundy "answer" but also just loses if that guy's like taunt or sub which pjab would alleviate but it like didnt reallllllly come up that many times in the games so I got lazy and just never changed it ( i got 6-0d by a taunt thundy once was like wow thats wild and then moved on and it didnt come up again). If you DO care about not losing to substituting floating guys though you should probably make him jab. I don't remember ever clicking tera with this guy actually ever, the original tera water was because when I first threw this team together he was unaware but then I went back to make him water absorb and just forgor to change the tera. You could probably just follow the dex spread and make him tera dark and give him the 16 sp def (I don't know why he has 16 sp def nor is there an analysis written to tell me why so I just didn't give him any heh) if you wish.

:slither wing:

RU POKEMON OF THE YEAR ~~in uu now FREE. HIM.~~ Idk I had the Slither Wing+Magnezone combo already and was like lets just keep sticking RU guys on and BOOM. You got Gapdos. He's pretty good speed control especially backed by Slither Wing's fimp and another guy's priority who we'll get to shortly and fits in with the volt-turn thing I kinda had going on AND gave the invaluable ground immune and some nice resistances so I slid him in and he worked out great! Nothing new or groundbreaking about the set or what it does, somewhat worth noting if guys want to switch in skarm on this guy to get rocky helmet chip they can't because just like slither wing you need to respect u-turn -> magnezone instant punish so thats cool and makes clicking brave bird easier sometimes. I'm tera fighting > tera flying because I don't really love blowing yourself up faster with the buffed brave birds and making yourself actually rocks weak when you'll be coming in and out of the field a bunch. That being said if you are a tfly enjoyer feel free to make the swap, that's just not my personal favorite.

:slither wing:

Volt turn is cool and all but you still need some glue pieces so FULL SP DEF MANDI IS HERE. He's the removal guy and a secondary toxic guy next to clod and also a foul play guy which is cool. Should he be a knock guy? Maybe/probably/idk but foul play is helpful for stopping random setup guys like your rogue revavroom or an excadrill or smth if you play a little careless and let them get turns to setup. This is also my latios guy who i'll just toss in whenever and he generally will eat for days. You will get owned by subcm tera steel but apparently ladder just doesn't respect that guy anymore so hey! you take what you can get!

:slither wing:

This guys broken, there is actually no mon in the tier that is not two shot by this idiot if he gets the click right. He also has dumb strong priority in espeed which is just such an unbelievable utility tool and a very respectable speed tier (faster than exactly excadrill). With slither and zone and gapdos voltturning around you'll find a lot of chances to get this guy in and then just start asking uncomfortable questions to the opp. Tera rock is definitely just a win more type thing but you get superb rolls to one shot like slowking and not defensive apple which just scratches a certain itch in my brain. You definitely need to respect hazards being up since you're not on boots but a lot of time I just... didn't care? Like so what if you get 25 on this guy GIMME UR MONSSSSSS!!!

if ladder didn't take 5ever to find games and gave more than like 8 points on average I probably would've kept going but motivation just plummeted after breaking 1700 and i realized I have rupl prs to go right so MEH, also dont really even pay attention to the gxe, i got maybe like 300-400 points using ~the team~ but this is the account i've done like all my laddering for every tier ever on so it's not exactly as good a representation of things as it might be normally

threats:

any guy that can click cm/plot + substitute that is not keldeo or cm+tpoison

this might be a silly thing to be weak to because it definitely is but guys like latios, sinistcha, hydreigon, thundy who can get subs up and setup in the face of your special answers like mandi or clod will probably just obliterate you. You need to play around these guys so carefully and try to limit them as much as possible but sometimes you just can't and will get cooked. Procced with EXTREME caution if you see/think you see one of these guys lurking about.

:conkeldurr:

yeah idk if he gets a couple bulk ups on you you're probably boned, even in general he's like a hard guy to switch into since the only guy who actually resists some of his clicks and can threaten something meaningfully back is gapdos and that is FLIMSY to say the least. Worth noting that basically with any level of chip (17% to be guaranteed) magnezone can just obliterate non av conk with tbolt but if it gets like some bulks on you or has guts proccd or smth you would have to burn tera to not die to mach punch so yeah, is something to consider.

Closing thoughts

I will be honest, I do not actually think this is like a super sturdy team if you really go to scrutinize it. The whole "losing to sub cm or cm tpoison guys" and "oh no conk exists" is definitely a big yikes moment! And yet I did enjoy clicking various big buttons with these guys and at the end of the day that seemed to just work out a lot of the time! This was a very spur of the moment decision, from the construction of the team, to actually deciding to PLAY a ladder (i cannot understate how grueling an experience this was, people who can frfr do this for straight kicks are different), and then to finally making an rmt so thank you to anyone who actually read through this whole thing and I hope it was coherent!

1LDK · Tuesday at 7:46 PM

Hello, I am a representative of the EAOUC (Evil Ass Over Used Community). We will be dropping C- rank fraud mon :corviknight:

into RU which walls 75% of both RU and UU combined, and we will ruin your guys' fun forever

Thank you for your understanding

SV UU Uyou keep stealing our mons and I just want to relive some of the glory days (Peak 1702, 86.7% GXE)

Ming549

heat ran

1LDK

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