Thievul Grassy Terrain HO (Peaked #10 1912) 
please dont talk about my trenches GXE btw just ignore that rq
Team Breakdown:
D'Thievuls (Thievul) @ Grassy Seed
Ability: Unburden
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 24 HP / 252 SpA / 232 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Dark Pulse
- Burning Jealousy
- Psychic
- Nasty Plot
The main star of the show, once a shit mon is still a shit mon! However instead of running a specs stakeout set which doesn't even break anything, the set being used is a grassy seed unburden set. Modest max investment in special attack to do as much damage as possible with the speed evs to outspeed booster 
as well as also outspeeding scarfers like 
as well as some +1 mons like 
. Rest into HP which sabotages the extra gterrain recovery as it isn't divisible by 16 but i find in practice the extra spatt mattering more than the extra recovery. Burning Jealousy is a rare move that I see few people use which is why it is quite unexpected but it is helpful for doing massive damage to steels 
and 
as well as doing massive damage to bulky mons like 
. It also has the nice bonus of burning the target after a stat boost which can be nichely used for quick mons like unburden that dont expect it. Psychic helps OHKO without boosts as well as OHKO'ing 
and having a chance to OHKO threats like 
and 
that are big threats. One of the best things about is the surprise factor with many people not expecting the coverage it has with them not bothering to look it up.
The gameplan usually is to save for a late game sweep after walls like 
by chipping them with and when mons like 
get worn down you can go for a sweep. It can also set up on mons like choice locked which you can lure in with and sack is to MIR then set up with and as it has the +1 defense boost making iron head doing less. You can also set up on the birds 
and however be wary of thunder-wave or crit body press as well as setting up on and 
without toxic and if needed 
as you threaten it out with dark pulse.
Overall while might not be the greatest mon in existence at least they get a few good sweeps here and there which honestly is better than my first expectations.
Calcs:
248+ SpA Thievul Psychic vs. 0 HP / 0- SpD Iron Valiant: 276-326 (95.5 - 112.8%) -- 75% chance to OHKO
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Psychic vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Zamazenta: 290-342 (89.2 - 105.2%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Psychic vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Venusaur-Mega: 280-330 (76.9 - 90.6%) -- 25% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 252 HP / 176 SpD Ferrothorn: 384-456 (109 - 129.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Corviknight: 290-342 (72.6 - 85.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Iron Treads: 340-400 (105.9 - 124.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Kingambit: 292-344 (85.6 - 100.8%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 116 HP / 0 SpD Mawile-Mega: 266-314 (98.5 - 116.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 248 HP / 128 SpD Scizor-Mega: 452-532 (131.7 - 155.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO
-1 252 SpA Gholdengo Make It Rain vs. 28 HP / 0 SpD Thievul: 144-169 (50 - 58.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
252 Atk Kingambit Iron Head vs. +1 28 HP / 0 Def Thievul: 139-165 (48.2 - 57.2%) -- 91% chance to 2HKO
Reasonable Drums (Rillaboom) @ Terrain Extender
Ability: Grassy Surge
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 204 HP / 252 Atk / 52 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Grassy Glide
- Knock Off
- Low Kick
- U-turn
The team needed a terrain setter and since it's grassy terrain theres only one option (
doesnt exist) is just a standard bulky set with low kick to ohko as well as do massive damage to and and solid against . Speed is to outspeed jolly with its grassy terrain helping out heal and with the terrain boost allowing to do massive damage with leaf blade. This is the teams main check to 
and a temporary switch in to pivot out from 
and against terrain wars from 
and 
. Not much else to say other than its an essential part of the team.
DevilWearsDiancite (Diancie-Mega) @ Diancite
Ability: Magic Bounce
Tera Type: Rock
EVs: 28 Atk / 228 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Moonblast
- Earth Power
- Diamond Storm
Nothing much as changed from the original team to this one, I replaced mystical fire for stealth rock as it needed a rocker after replacing and mystical fire not even helping much anyways. Also helps prevent hazards going up as well as chipping the steels that help and This is my main switch in to flying types 
and dealing massive damage to darks. Diamond storm threatens AV 
and 
that can be a nuisence to
NineMilliLucha (Hawlucha) @ Grassy Seed
Ability: Unburden
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 132 HP / 252 Atk / 124 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Close Combat
- Acrobatics
- Encore
- Swords Dance
Standard set on grassy terrain. The Speed EV's allow to outspeed sand rush 
as well as chlorophyll 
and booster . With encore you can lock mons into recovery/status moves such as 
as well as set up from and This is also a switch in to 
and in a pinch to set up.
Usually I use as an endgame sweeper after has broken down the bulky physical walls such bold (not really the bulkiest of mons) and 
PossessedByPaper (Kartana) @ Normalium Z
Ability: Beast Boost
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Leaf Blade
- Giga Impact
- Sacred Sword
- Swords Dance
The classic Paper Cut set, standard evs with +2 Giga Impact ohking the birds and with a predict to ohko as well as annoying mons like 
and tank . Sacred Sword to deal massive damage to 
as well as ohko . This mon helps open up my late game after the physically defensive mons have either been ko'd or heavily chipped.
This is my switch in to mons like as well as it can set up on mons like as well as choice locked and non-superpower to set up SD's as well as threatening
PoisonedSoul (Iron Moth) @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 124 Def / 132 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Fiery Dance
- Sludge Wave
- Energy Ball
- Substitute
The mon that shocked me the most on this team was , at first I thought this mon was hot garbage but it actually put in a lot of work. Standard set with booster speed which is one of my methods of speed control without the use of unburden and . This acts as my tspike absorber which is nice for 
as well as rare 
and tspike and 
. With grassy terrain boosted energy balls deal massive damage to as well as chip down and which can enable and most importantly which hates bulky dark types. Sub is nice for the thunder-wave immunity and can help better position against u-turn, mons like and and protect mons like and With multiple firey dance boosts this mon can go super out of hand and even if it doesnt sweep it gives an opportunity for . With i can offensively pressure steel types with fiery dance that can snowball out of control.
This team gave me some huge respect for , while it is an MU fish and if you see a mon like it will obviously do nothing it was an invaluable piece of my team & put in quite some work.
- offensive heatran can be tricky with it being able to hard wall , against this you have to try not to give it a free entry opportunity by going into your physical sweepers such as and or you can try and get the read with between earth power and moonblast. An option if desperate is to go into early and try and chip down with +2 dark pulse and then go for an sweep.
/ - just try and position your sweepers as best as possible against these two, more often than not you have to trade damage for one of your mons getting KO'd/getting reads right as gets nuked by and special attack and gets OHKO'd by psychic attacks
- dont give any free set up on always u-turn out as +1 Z volc can pretty much instantly roll over this team, otherwise volc doesnt have great set up opportunities against the rest of the team with boosted attacks
- just outplay tclap honestly even with no ground immune I havent had that many issues
stall
-MU is super hard but I've had one or two wins against stall before, lead set up rocks and you can offensively threaten most of the defensive mons, you can also go and chip down a lot with boosted fiery dances if lucky. is also a good asset with it being able to completely snowball as +2 Breakneck Blitz will ohko anything baring which dies to boosted leaf blades and can encore mons into recovery or status to chip them down for the other sweepers.
Here are just some funny comments when i was laddering (sry if ur included):
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credit to everyone doubting you guys only made my motivation to ladder higher as well as Sockzz101 for sending the team I appreciate it
Thanks for reading this RMT, don't glaze this mon is still ass but it can get a few sweeps here and there and at least its trying its best! And if anyone wants to try this team out & attempt a higher peak please do I'm struggling rn preparing for exams so got no time playing mons
ALSO GUYS NEVER EVER SAY SPECS STAKEOUT THIEVUL IS THE BEST SET LIKE THIS PERSON:
YOU WILL BE APPREHENDED BY THE THIEVUL CULT IF THIS HAPPENS
please dont talk about my trenches GXE btw just ignore that rq
So as a challange I decided to ask a bunch of people to send unserious natdex teams for me to ladder with, and one of those teams was from this person:
The team included: and the team was decent (just ignore ) however it had clear issues primarily in terms of the fire resist department as well as overall breaking power with only on the special side this made it unable to break past the bulky dark types in the tier such as :ting-
lu: and bulky , however i really liked the physical core of + with them being able to get past the birds and
With this information, I swapped out since it's only purpose was to set up rocks and being a ground type to block volt switch which doesn't even work out very well since it immediately dies after rocks. I replaced treads with (the ultimate goat/fraud) to help out on the special side as well as a tspike absorber and a fairy resist and thus the final version of the team was born.
This team has only 1 OU mon suprisingly with , being UUBL , being UU and being RU (even tho if lower natdex tiers were a thing bro would be like untiered lmfao)
(Lets also please ignore the GXE, i went through quite a few bad teams before this)
The team included:
and the team was decent (just ignore ) however it had clear issues primarily in terms of the fire resist department as well as overall breaking power with only on the special side this made it unable to break past the bulky dark types in the tier such as :ting-lu:
and bulky , however i really liked the physical core of + with them being able to get past the birds and With this information, I swapped out
since it's only purpose was to set up rocks and being a ground type to block volt switch which doesn't even work out very well since it immediately dies after rocks. I replaced treads with (the ultimate goat/fraud) to help out on the special side as well as a tspike absorber and a fairy resist and thus the final version of the team was born.This team has only 1 OU mon suprisingly with
, being UUBL , being UU and being RU (even tho if lower natdex tiers were a thing bro would be like untiered lmfao)(Lets also please ignore the GXE, i went through quite a few bad teams before this)
Team Breakdown:
D'Thievuls (Thievul) @ Grassy Seed
Ability: Unburden
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 24 HP / 252 SpA / 232 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Dark Pulse
- Burning Jealousy
- Psychic
- Nasty Plot
The main star of the show,
once a shit mon is still a shit mon! However instead of running a specs stakeout set which doesn't even break anything, the set being used is a grassy seed unburden set. Modest max investment in special attack to do as much damage as possible with the speed evs to outspeed booster as well as also outspeeding scarfers like as well as some +1 mons like . Rest into HP which sabotages the extra gterrain recovery as it isn't divisible by 16 but i find in practice the extra spatt mattering more than the extra recovery. Burning Jealousy is a rare move that I see few people use which is why it is quite unexpected but it is helpful for doing massive damage to steels and as well as doing massive damage to bulky mons like . It also has the nice bonus of burning the target after a stat boost which can be nichely used for quick mons like unburden that dont expect it. Psychic helps OHKO without boosts as well as OHKO'ing and having a chance to OHKO threats like and that are big threats. One of the best things about is the surprise factor with many people not expecting the coverage it has with them not bothering to look it up.The gameplan usually is to save
for a late game sweep after walls like by chipping them with and when mons like get worn down you can go for a sweep. It can also set up on mons like choice locked which you can lure in with and sack is to MIR then set up with and as it has the +1 defense boost making iron head doing less. You can also set up on the birds and however be wary of thunder-wave or crit body press as well as setting up on and without toxic and if needed as you threaten it out with dark pulse.Overall while
might not be the greatest mon in existence at least they get a few good sweeps here and there which honestly is better than my first expectations.Calcs:
248+ SpA Thievul Psychic vs. 0 HP / 0- SpD Iron Valiant: 276-326 (95.5 - 112.8%) -- 75% chance to OHKO
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Psychic vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Zamazenta: 290-342 (89.2 - 105.2%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Psychic vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Venusaur-Mega: 280-330 (76.9 - 90.6%) -- 25% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 252 HP / 176 SpD Ferrothorn: 384-456 (109 - 129.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Corviknight: 290-342 (72.6 - 85.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Iron Treads: 340-400 (105.9 - 124.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Kingambit: 292-344 (85.6 - 100.8%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 116 HP / 0 SpD Mawile-Mega: 266-314 (98.5 - 116.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO after Stealth Rock
+2 248+ SpA Thievul Burning Jealousy vs. 248 HP / 128 SpD Scizor-Mega: 452-532 (131.7 - 155.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO
-1 252 SpA Gholdengo Make It Rain vs. 28 HP / 0 SpD Thievul: 144-169 (50 - 58.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock
252 Atk Kingambit Iron Head vs. +1 28 HP / 0 Def Thievul: 139-165 (48.2 - 57.2%) -- 91% chance to 2HKO
Reasonable Drums (Rillaboom) @ Terrain Extender
Ability: Grassy Surge
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 204 HP / 252 Atk / 52 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Grassy Glide
- Knock Off
- Low Kick
- U-turn
The team needed a terrain setter and since it's grassy terrain theres only one option (
doesnt exist) is just a standard bulky set with low kick to ohko as well as do massive damage to and and solid against . Speed is to outspeed jolly with its grassy terrain helping out heal and with the terrain boost allowing to do massive damage with leaf blade. This is the teams main check to and a temporary switch in to pivot out from and against terrain wars from and . Not much else to say other than its an essential part of the team.DevilWearsDiancite (Diancie-Mega) @ Diancite
Ability: Magic Bounce
Tera Type: Rock
EVs: 28 Atk / 228 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Moonblast
- Earth Power
- Diamond Storm
Nothing much as changed from the original team to this one, I replaced mystical fire for stealth rock as it needed a rocker after replacing
and mystical fire not even helping much anyways. Also helps prevent hazards going up as well as chipping the steels that help and This is my main switch in to flying types and dealing massive damage to darks. Diamond storm threatens AV and that can be a nuisence to NineMilliLucha (Hawlucha) @ Grassy Seed
Ability: Unburden
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 132 HP / 252 Atk / 124 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Close Combat
- Acrobatics
- Encore
- Swords Dance
Standard
set on grassy terrain. The Speed EV's allow to outspeed sand rush as well as chlorophyll and booster . With encore you can lock mons into recovery/status moves such as as well as set up from and This is also a switch in to and in a pinch to set up.Usually I use
as an endgame sweeper after has broken down the bulky physical walls such bold (not really the bulkiest of mons) and PossessedByPaper (Kartana) @ Normalium Z
Ability: Beast Boost
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Leaf Blade
- Giga Impact
- Sacred Sword
- Swords Dance
The classic Paper Cut set, standard evs with +2 Giga Impact ohking the birds
and with a predict to ohko as well as annoying mons like and tank . Sacred Sword to deal massive damage to as well as ohko . This mon helps open up my late game after the physically defensive mons have either been ko'd or heavily chipped.This is my switch in to mons like
as well as it can set up on mons like as well as choice locked and non-superpower to set up SD's as well as threatening PoisonedSoul (Iron Moth) @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 124 Def / 132 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Fiery Dance
- Sludge Wave
- Energy Ball
- Substitute
The mon that shocked me the most on this team was
, at first I thought this mon was hot garbage but it actually put in a lot of work. Standard set with booster speed which is one of my methods of speed control without the use of unburden and . This acts as my tspike absorber which is nice for as well as rare and tspike and . With grassy terrain boosted energy balls deal massive damage to as well as chip down and which can enable and most importantly which hates bulky dark types. Sub is nice for the thunder-wave immunity and can help better position against u-turn, mons like and and protect mons like and With multiple firey dance boosts this mon can go super out of hand and even if it doesnt sweep it gives an opportunity for . With i can offensively pressure steel types with fiery dance that can snowball out of control.This team gave me some huge respect for
, while it is an MU fish and if you see a mon like it will obviously do nothing it was an invaluable piece of my team & put in quite some work. - offensive heatran can be tricky with it being able to hard wall , against this you have to try not to give it a free entry opportunity by going into your physical sweepers such as and or you can try and get the read with between earth power and moonblast. An option if desperate is to go into early and try and chip down with +2 dark pulse and then go for an sweep./ - just try and position your sweepers as best as possible against these two, more often than not you have to trade damage for one of your mons getting KO'd/getting reads right as gets nuked by and special attack and gets OHKO'd by psychic attacks - dont give any free set up on always u-turn out as +1 Z volc can pretty much instantly roll over this team, otherwise volc doesnt have great set up opportunities against the rest of the team with boosted attacks - just outplay tclap honestly even with no ground immune I havent had that many issuesstall
-MU is super hard but I've had one or two wins against stall before, lead set up rocks and you can offensively threaten most of the defensive mons, you can also go and chip down a lot with boosted fiery dances if lucky. is also a good asset with it being able to completely snowball as +2 Breakneck Blitz will ohko anything baring which dies to boosted leaf blades and can encore mons into recovery or status to chip them down for the other sweepers.Whilst the team is quite strong, there are some changes that could be made, mainly with which even though is super nice, it can often struggle against some teams.
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Lil Gold Vert (Gholdengo) @ Ghostium Z
Ability: Good as Gold
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 HP / 112 Def / 84 SpD / 60 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nasty Plot
- Make It Rain
- Shadow Ball
- Recover
This would give the team a more sturdy fairy resist allowing the team to have a sturdy check against faries like as well as 
, ghostium Z to help chip down special walls and it can act as extra special breaking power to further assist . Standard Smogon set fits this role.
credits to 1yr for suggestion
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Nicki Mirage (Ogerpon-Wellspring) (F) @ Wellspring Mask
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Ivy Cudgel
- Power Whip
- Superpower/Taunt
The bane of SV OU Balance can find a spot of this team instead of with its extra speed helping it with mons like 
and a better secondary stab in water it can help provide as a nice primary wall breaker for setting up . Grassy Glide could also be used as secondary priority to help against and speedier mons with the possibility of either taunt or superpower to help against
which even though is super nice, it can often struggle against some teams. -> Lil Gold Vert (Gholdengo) @ Ghostium Z
Ability: Good as Gold
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 HP / 112 Def / 84 SpD / 60 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nasty Plot
- Make It Rain
- Shadow Ball
- Recover
This would give the team a more sturdy fairy resist allowing the team to have a sturdy check against faries like
as well as , ghostium Z to help chip down special walls and it can act as extra special breaking power to further assist . Standard Smogon set fits this role. -> Nicki Mirage (Ogerpon-Wellspring) (F) @ Wellspring Mask
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Ivy Cudgel
- Power Whip
- Superpower/Taunt
The bane of SV OU Balance can find a spot of this team instead of
with its extra speed helping it with mons like and a better secondary stab in water it can help provide as a nice primary wall breaker for setting up . Grassy Glide could also be used as secondary priority to help against and speedier mons with the possibility of either taunt or superpower to help against Here are some replays (I've forgot to save most of mine but i've got a selection of a few) that portay immense overbearing power to its full effect (as well as the other mons ofc)
6-0
cleans late game with no set up
ohkoing 
after +2 & rocks :
taking 5 lives after AV 
goes down
putting in work:
another game
6-0 after :mega-tyranitar: gets chipped
taking 5 lives again
vs fat
steal
Z Kartana 6-0
another game (getting a bit repetitive now)
immense overbearing power to its full effect (as well as the other mons ofc) 6-0 cleans late game with no set up ohkoing after +2 & rocks : taking 5 lives after AV goes down putting in work:another
game 6-0 after :mega-tyranitar: gets chipped taking 5 lives again vs fat stealZ Kartana 6-0
another
game (getting a bit repetitive now)Here are just some funny comments when i was laddering (sry if ur included):
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https://pokepast.es/4b53df9153f76bed version: https://pokepast.es/b8f9ece72dbc0919 version: https://pokepast.es/68df2184cd45a360credit to everyone doubting
you guys only made my motivation to ladder higher as well as Sockzz101 for sending the team I appreciate itThanks for reading this RMT, don't glaze
this mon is still ass but it can get a few sweeps here and there and at least its trying its best! And if anyone wants to try this team out & attempt a higher peak please do I'm struggling rn preparing for exams so got no time playing mons ALSO GUYS NEVER EVER SAY SPECS STAKEOUT THIEVUL IS THE BEST SET LIKE THIS PERSON:
YOU WILL BE APPREHENDED BY THE THIEVUL CULT IF THIS HAPPENS
