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Use this thread to share the teams that you built for UPL XIV, whether they were for yourself or a teammate! The teams don't have to be winning ones and you don't even need to have loaded them, anything you built for the purposes of this tour is a proper fit for this. Anything you forgot to add to your commencement shout-out post? Add it here, too!
First time tackling this exercise, so I'll do my best.
For the teams :
- https://pokepast.es/a7c483c562526377 : L'Habitat subbing in during week 3, the idea was a Webs HO with a Zekrom in it considering how weak the scout looked to it. I'm still not 100% sure about Skill Swap and QD on Bee though, both had their niche usages, but if you take the team, Skill Swap is definitely up to changes
- https://pokepast.es/70ed9fe6a2d8bd49 : Week 5 build for Suzuya, the main idea was a double hazards Groudon with a Knock Off NDM. We added a double Speed boost Korai for surprise factor, and both the GhostCeus and the Kyogre spreads are defensive with some interesting Speed tiers (I'll talk about them later)
- https://pokepast.es/fa565437bdbafaa1 : Last week vs Hacker, my first and only game in UPL as of now. My idea was basically Screens HO with some bulky spreads, namely the Adamant Koraidon. The NDM and Etern spreads are optimizations, which I'll talk about later.
Alright, now onto the fun part, the spreads :
Immolation (Groudon) @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Drought
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 240 HP / 188 Def / 80 SpD
Impish Nature
- Precipice Blades
- Spikes
- Thunder Wave
- Roar
Sacrificed the Speed and some physical bulk for some special bulk, mainly for this calc : +1 252 SpA Tera Ghost Lunala Moongeist Beam vs. 240 HP / 80 SpD Groudon: 340-400 (84.7 - 99.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
Beyond (Landorus-Therian) @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Intimidate
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 192 HP / 52 Atk / 252 Def / 12 Spe
Impish Nature
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Taunt
- Rock Tomb
Here, the Speed allows it to outspeed 220 defensive spreads, while the Attack guarantees at least a trade vs Zacian (the roll to OHKO is a nice bonus).
52 Atk Landorus-Therian Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Zacian-Crowned: 276-326 (84.9 - 100.3%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
Promenade (Arceus) @ Silk Scarf
Ability: Multitype
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 212 Atk / 172 Def / 124 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Extreme Speed
- Swords Dance
- Shadow Claw
- Recover
New spread that I made a while back and tried to make work here. Basically, you live a Zacian CC while landing at 307 Speed, which can be useful for Specs Kyogre, while also staying faster than fully defensive Arceus spreads (at most tying with those). The rest goes in Attack, and don't worry, you don't lose any rolls. You could go Life Orb on this spread, mainly to OHKO Lunala at +2, but Silk Scarf allows for more longevity. I think I could optimize the spread further, but it's already a decent base.
+1 252 Atk Zacian-Crowned Close Combat vs. 0 HP / 172 Def Arceus: 322-380 (84.5 - 99.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Nightvision (Eternatus) @ Life Orb
Ability: Pressure
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 80 HP / 252 SpA / 176 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Dynamax Cannon
- Sludge Bomb
- Flamethrower
- Recover
Just an optimized offensive Etern spread, as you don't need to run full Speed even on Modest, so I took those points and put them into HP, while landing at 340, which allows you to still outspeed all non speed boosting natures Arceus forms.
Umbra (Eternatus) @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Pressure
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 128 HP / 252 SpD / 128 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Dynamax Cannon
- Recover
- Toxic
- Flamethrower
Pretty much the same idea as above, optimizing an Etern spread, this time the SpDef version. 360 Speed allows you to outspeed Modest Etern, full Special Defense, the rest goes in HP. The 128 points in HP can be flexible, either in Defense or in Special Attack, but HP is the best for me.
Monoco (Necrozma-Dusk-Mane) @ Lum Berry
Ability: Prism Armor
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 216 Atk / 64 Def / 228 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Photon Geyser
- Earthquake
- Sunsteel Strike
A personnal favorite of mine, this spread is just an optimization of the offensive DD spread. You land at 271 Speed (which makes it 406 at +1), and the Attack doesn't lose any rolls. The rest of the points go in HP or Defense.
+2 216 Atk Necrozma-Dusk-Mane Sunsteel Strike vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Zacian-Crowned: 325-384 (100 - 118.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Nebula (Arceus-Ghost) @ Spooky Plate
Ability: Multitype
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 248 HP / 124 Def / 136 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Judgment
- Will-O-Wisp
- Recover
- Calm Mind
We're starting to reach new Speed tiers with support Arceus spreads, and this is a prime example of it. 341 Speed to outspeed EKiller and the spreads trying to outrun it (also because you go from 339 to 341 with one EV), max HP, the rest in Defense. If you feel like you recognize this spread from somewhere, it's because DD GroundCeus has the same amount of Speed EV's.
Up & Up (Kyogre) @ Leftovers
Ability: Drizzle
Tera Type: Poison
EVs: 248 HP / 52 Def / 164 SpD / 44 Spe
Bold Nature
- Thunder Wave
- Origin Pulse
- Thunder
- Ice Beam
This is a fully defensive Kyogre, but this mf got so many rolls in its favor, while also outspeeding pretty much all of the defensive sets in the tier, it's actually insane. Check this out :
+1 252 Atk Zacian-Crowned Wild Charge vs. 248 HP / 52+ Def Kyogre: 308-364 (76.4 - 90.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
+3 252 Atk Zacian-Crowned Close Combat vs. 248 HP / 52+ Def Kyogre: 341-402 (84.6 - 99.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 Atk Life Orb Orichalcum Pulse Koraidon Low Kick (120 BP) vs. 248 HP / 52+ Def Kyogre: 329-387 (81.6 - 96%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
+2 252 Atk Koraidon Scale Shot (4 hits) vs. 248 HP / 52+ Def Kyogre: 316-376 (78.4 - 93.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
+1 252 SpA Lunala Meteor Beam vs. 248 HP / 164 SpD Kyogre: 135-159 (33.4 - 39.4%) -- 16.8% chance to 3HKO after Leftovers recovery into +1 252 SpA Tera Ghost Lunala Moongeist Beam vs. 248 HP / 164 SpD Kyogre: 226-266 (56 - 66%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery ; very high chance to survive thanks to Leftovers
+2 252+ Atk Life Orb Arceus Extreme Speed vs. 248 HP / 52+ Def Kyogre: 331-391 (82.1 - 97%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Life Orb Tera Psychic Necrozma-Dusk-Mane Photon Geyser vs. 248 HP / 52+ Def Kyogre: 338-398 (83.8 - 98.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ SpA Life Orb Eternatus Dynamax Cannon vs. 248 HP / 164 SpD Kyogre: 168-199 (41.6 - 49.3%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery ; 2 of those can't kill
+1 252 Atk Rayquaza Dragon Ascent vs. 248 HP / 52+ Def Kyogre: 307-363 (76.1 - 90%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252 SpA Life Orb Deoxys-Attack Psycho Boost vs. 248 HP / 164 SpD Kyogre: 253-298 (62.7 - 73.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery ; high chance to survive 2 in a row thanks to Lefties
So yeah, there you go. Feel free to use those sets to your liking, and you can ask me for more info about how I built all of these if you want to !
Okay, so I actually had teams that I'm quite proud of and quite inspired to put into a dump this year, even though our team got yeeted out of the tourney in probably the fastest way possible lmao.
I think the theme in my last few months has really been trying to use more novel lead approaches, which I think has been the case with almost every team in this dump. You will notice that I haven't used Deo-S or Wobbray once this UPL :)
Week 1 vs Dave (W with some certified Jirachi BS)
So this team was not a fresh team build for UPL, but a team that I was playing around with in DPP Open and Invitational for a bit but managed to refine. Scarf Rachi is a lead that was used a couple of times in the past couple of years (iirc Dave brought it once and Susciety brought it once) but hasn't really been that popular until now. I think that if the team has a Scarf Jirachi at the back and the lead is a bit questionable (eg Kyogre), then you can swap the positioning and Scarf Rachi is actually quite good. What is cool about Scarf Rachi is the fact that you can still do the U-turn/priority combo vs Deo-S, while at the same time outspeeding out of Kyogre leads, as well as Iron Head flinching frail suicide leads like Deo-A and Froslass and having a strong chance of preventing their hazards totally.
Anyway, for this team, it's basically a standard Ho-oh sun balance team. The idea is to try and wear down opposing Kyogre with Toxic Spikes and SubRoost shenanigans and then bring sun back and wall the opposing team with Ho-oh. Originally, this was a SubCM Ho-oh, but that was weaker to opposing Ho-oh so it went back to standard SubRoost Ho-oh. I pretty much always run max speed now because Ho-ohs between 250-261 speed are always creeping more and more so I may as well just go max because why the hell not now. 64 HP lets you tank an LO Dragon Claw from Groudon always after Stealth Rock.
If you're wondering the Kyogre counterplay, the idea is basically to go to Tentacruel on their water move and click Tspikes always. Dialga can tank most non SpecsOgre moves and retaliate with Thunder, and idea is always to weaken it enough so the combo of Tentacruel and Tspikes can chip Ogre low enough so Dialga can tank it without problems.
Credits to carbene for the Giratina-O EV spread - pretty much all of the Gira-O spreads in this dump are made by him.
Week 2 vs TyCarter (L)
Looking at TyCarter's scout, I found that he liked TTar/Darkrai/Deo a lot, so Hariyama was a good choice as a lead. That being said, I never really feel comfortable using Yama lead teams for some reason, and I think it showed in this game. Anyway this is basically a standard Hariyama rain offense with a couple of modifications - mainly with Qwilfish to absorb Tspikes.
If you're wondering why Qwilfish without spinblocker, it's mainly because its main objective is to absorb Tspikes so Ogre can spam Spout more easily, and hazards are a secondary objective. The way I see it, is that your opponent either has Tspikes counterplay or they don't and there wasn't much room to put a spinblocker on this team. Even though this is reg Ubers I put Chilan Berry on Qwil mainly because this is one of the rare teams that actually can lose to Lucario since the only real check to it is Latias and if that's weakened or gone, Lucario can actually come in on Dialga and win. Chilan Qwilfish gives one extra safeguard to that and that's usually enough.
The gameplan for this team is basically just try and sneak SpecsOgre in as much as possible, and for stallier teams try and outlast their Groudon for long enough that BU Dialga can win endgame, really.
Week 3 vs robjr (W with some of the most ridiculous robbery you'll ever see with Jirachi)
I guess this is what happens when I try using stall I guess, I just totally lose control of the game, although this time I managed one of the most ridiculous asspull games I've ever played.
That aside, I think this team is not horrible, it's just bad against Deo-S lead teams which low and behold I run into playing robjr. If you tell me that's the reason it's horrible I better not see you use a Kyogre lead ever. Basically this is me trying to build a Lugia stall I guess. Moving on.
Week 4 vs LBN (W)
Okay, this is going to be the favourite team I've built all UPL. Basically this is when I started brainstorming with the idea of running a lead that loses to Deo-S but you can salvage by going to Gira-O on turn 2 and essentially play a lead Gira-O vs Deo-S MU. Credits to Seldanna who came up with the idea in UWL last year when she ran a slow as balls Lum Berry Deo-S and the plan was basically to just switch out to Gira-O. The catch is that you need to be sure that Deo-S is compelled to Taunt or Trick you, otherwise they'd just click hazards and you concede multiple layers (sorry Ogre lead fans). So basically, I tried to run with this idea (and still trying to brainstorm more possibilities) and the first mon that came to mind was Deo-D.
So I guess with this plan in mind, what does Deo-D bring to the table that Deo-S can't? The main ones are that it lives most lead TTar Paybacks (can't live CB but can live everything else, letting you set up 2 layers on it without needing Colbur), Dark Pulse from Darkrai (means you can safely use Lum and Twave it), Draco Meteor from Ray (means you can safely Twave it) and CB Sacred Fire from Ho-oh. The only things you now lose to are 1) Deo-S (duh) and 2) Specs/Scarf Ogre. You lose to Froslass too, but you can bait them into Taunting you so it's basically like Deo-S, and you can't prevent Tspikes going up from Tentacruel. You can tank standard Hydro Pump lead Ogre because you can actually tank one of those and set up 2 layers anyway, the only ones you die to are Water Spout ones. The EVs are there for you to scout max speed Timid Kyogre which are more likely to have Water Spout (not absolutely foolproof) with Drizzle/Pressure speed tie.
The mons that are mandatory on this Deo-D idea are 1) Deo-D, 2) Gira-O and 3) Lead Ogre switch-in (so basically Lati@s or Palkia for offense, haven't tried Deo-D Ludicolo rain stall but theoretically may work). The rest you can kind of do whatever as long as they fit together. Originally I built a sun HO, then a rain HO, but both of them had problems, and so MM2 suggested I do my usual trick or combining Groudon and Kyogre and it worked really well.
Kyogre's EVs let you live LO Groudon EQ after rocks (credits to carbene), Latios EVs let you live 2 ScarfOgre Water Spouts and Groudon's attack EVs let you OHKO standard CM Twave Ogre with +2 EQ after Rocks and Spikes iirc.
Lead MUs with Deo-D:
- Deo-S -> Go to Gira-O to absorb the Taunt or Trick
- Deo-A -> Twave and click 1 layer
- TTar -> Click Stealth Rock then Spikes
- Ray -> Twave and click 1 layer.
- Kyogre -> Switch to Latios if they win the speed tie, otherwise click a layer
- Froslass -> go to Gira-O like you would with Deo-S
- Groudon -> Taunt followed by 2 hazards
- Ho-oh -> Stealth Rock then Spikes
- Hariyama -> Stealth Rock then Spikes
- Darkrai -> Twave and click 1 layer
Week 5 vs evakiyama (W)
Again, another lose-to-DeoS-but-Taunt-into-GiraO lead idea but this time with Smeargle. It's the only mon that has a reliable access to Spikes and sleep I think (Roserade can but needs to use Grasswhistle). I was thinking whether to put rocks on Smeargle too but I think it's too ambitious. Basically, the Pokemon that Smeargle needs to support are 1) Giratina-O as mentioned, 2) sleep absorber, 3) Stealth Rock user. The simplest configuration for that was basically Smeargle/Gira-O/Dialga/Bronzong, which basically just translates into Highlord 6 but without Deo-S. The last 2 mons kind of just slotted themselves (Kyogre and Palkia). Palkia needed Haban because I kind of need it to trade with opposing Palkia. You can realistically use something else too, but by this time out team was totally out and my motivation to be creative was already on the decline.
Regarding how to play Smeargle lead - basically you want to put something to sleep, set up Spikes, then Explode. Fake Out is pretty cool because you can break a Sash with it and potentially gauge how much bulk some opposing mons have (See here).
Lead MUs with Smeargle:
- Deo-S -> can Fake Out to break a potential Sash and gauge how much bulk it has but ultimately you're going to Gira-O to absorb the Taunt or Trick
- Deo-A -> tempting to Fake Out on this but if Deo-A user is switched on they'd Espeed to out-priority you and deny you any progress with Smeargle if you do this. Just Spore the Deo-A and click Spikes, hope they don't 2 turn wake and blow up.
- TTar -> Can Fake Out to see how much bulk they have. If they are Scarf (rare) then you just lose, but otherwise depending on how much bulk they have and the opponent (I was going to Spore any TTar that eva brought because she's tried to fish my Wobbray Groudon with Counter SashTar a few too many times) you can either take a risk to Spore them, or play it safe and click Spike. If you're still alive after clicking Spike then just blow up
- Ray -> Same thing as Deo-A. Lum is rare and so you may as well sleep and get up Spikes instead of trying to Fake Out on them
- Kyogre -> Fake Out to see if you can gauge how much bulk is and potentially what set they are. Frailer ones would suggest Scarf/Specs and no Lum, but not guaranteed. Safer would just be to Fake Out and click Spikes. If you're faster than them then you have a free boom, if they're faster you can just go to Palkia.
- Froslass -> go to Gira-O like you would with Deo-S
- Groudon -> Fake Out, Spike, Boom
- Ho-oh -> Fake Out to potentially gauge Lum/Passho/Leftovers vs CB. Same is to follow up with Spike +/- boom if you're faster and you didn't get burnt by Sacred Fire
- Hariyama -> This is the mon you can actually Fake Out because you're faster. Follow up with Spike then they probably kill you with Close Combat and Bullet Punch
- Darkrai -> Fake Out then go to Dialga
3/8/26 EDIT:
I just noticed that Smeargle has Technician and totally forgot about this lol, so it should really use Technician (previous paste had Own Tempo). Now you can do 50% extra chip with Fake Out which is nice
I've updated the calcs and paste:
Smeargle Fake Out damage rolls:
252 Atk Technician Smeargle Fake Out vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Kyogre: 42-51 (12.2 - 14.9%) -- possible 7HKO
252 Atk Technician Smeargle Fake Out vs. 252 HP / 108 Def Kyogre: 37-45 (9.1 - 11.1%) -- possibly the worst move ever
252 Atk Technician Smeargle Fake Out vs. 144 HP / 0 Def Kyogre: 42-51 (11.1 - 13.5%) -- possible 8HKO
252 Atk Technician Smeargle Fake Out vs. 216 HP / 0 Def Ho-Oh: 42-51 (10.3 - 12.5%) -- possibly the worst move ever
252 Atk Technician Smeargle Fake Out vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Ho-Oh: 42-51 (11.8 - 14.4%) -- possible 7HKO
252 Atk Technician Smeargle Fake Out vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Deoxys-Speed: 42-51 (13.8 - 16.7%) -- possible 6HKO
252 Atk Technician Smeargle Fake Out vs. 248 HP / 164 Def Deoxys-Speed: 36-43 (11.8 - 14.1%) -- possible 8HKO
252 Atk Technician Smeargle Fake Out vs. 0 HP / 0- Def Tyranitar: 20-24 (5.8 - 7%) -- possibly the worst move ever
252 Atk Technician Smeargle Fake Out vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Tyranitar: 18-21 (5.2 - 6.1%) -- possibly the worst move ever
252 Atk Technician Smeargle Fake Out vs. 248 HP / 0 Def Tyranitar: 18-21 (4.4 - 5.2%) -- possibly the worst move ever
Week 6 vs Spreek (L)
This team is not new. I saw that Spreek, like robjr, enjoyed Darkrai leads from time to time so I decided to lead fish with Lum Dialga. This is basically a variation on the classic CB Ho-oh/Dialga/Groudon/Scarf Rachi/Mewtwo/Latias team. Dialga lead loses to Deo-S but is not a bad lead against Darkrai/Kyogre/Ttar. Forretress shouldn't be staying in against this either unless they have Sash.
Week 7 vs magialice (L)
This is probably one of my favourite memes that I've built. As mentioned, our team had no chance of making playoffs at around week 4 and I was basically playing for record at this point. Before I lost to Spreek I thought I might still go for 6-1 but that became impossible and I was going positive no matter what, and 5-2 isn't much better than 4-3. On top of all that, there's the small chance that we actually free Farceus again so there's a chance this may be my last big regular DPP team tour game for a long time so may as well meme.
Anyway, I built this team a while back. The idea is to use Duggy to remove SpD Dialga and/or Blissey, then come with rain offense. SpD Kyogre is one of my innovations recently - mainly people who've played BW knows how specially tanky it is, and as a result you can actually beat most of CM Kyogre's non-SpD Dialga or Blissey checks with it. At +1, you're taking like 30 from Palkia Thunder which is absurd. Muk is there to absorb Tspikes and catch people using TrickScarf Deo-S - it's always funny watching some people Trick Muk and failing due to Sticky Hold. Tspikes absorption is important because Blissey can very easily stall out Duggy just spamming Softboiled if Tspikes are up (also Kyogre and Kingdra totally hate them). Muk is also not bad at tanking a decent number of leads. You can tank things like Draco Meteor from lead Ray, non-CB attacks from Ho-oh, pretty much anything from Darkrai, Deo-A doesn't use Psycho Boost a huge amount in reg these days, and you can still Payback/Sneak things like Froslass. Against most of attacking leads you can just blow up and trade (like vs Ho-oh).
Shoutouts to LouisIX , entrocefalo and aerobee for managing and drafting me again - it's hard to manage the team when we've lost playoff chances as soon as it was mathematically possible so you've had a tough job for this team this year. I got too lucky at the start so I think I sapped everyone's karma. Thanks MMII, LouisIX and burstbean for testing DPP games with me, even though I didn't get to reciprocate with ADV. Apologies everyone else, there wasn't much memorable about this year unfortunately so I'll just shoutout everyone else at once; shoutouts to BigFatMantisSoulWindGondraCrossiaseraphzGigaBytes7Mysterious MKunvirgo @FlamPoke hammer798Baddy
I practically started on Smogon in UPL, and I always put a ton of effort into this tour because this community means a lot to me. First and foremost, thanks Nineveh for managing with me. I just had the vibe that we'd be able to make a good team and we definitely did that. This was the most fun I've had in any UPL, and hope you enjoyed it despite the onslaught of magic sun :blaziken:
Ainzcrad I know you didn't want to be jailed to bo3 off rip, so sorry about that. I always enjoy teaming and prepping with you and I don't think your record reflects the effort or time you put into this tour. I definitely think you can do better, and we saw that when you were able to play sv solo. Hope to team with you in the future and win one of these tours. Also hope to finish our bo100 at some point...
ox04 You killed it man, I'm very satisfied with your retain here. Not only did you put up a great record, but you took over the mantle of bo3 when no one else wanted to, and supported our sv/ss slots all tour. I think you get underrated despite being one of the strongest sv players. I haven't teamed with you in 3 years, but you've grown a lot since then. Really hope you get your scl spot this year!
Hacker This is the second year we've teamed now? Just like last year, I appreciate you being willing to take on some of the more experimental structures I built and pulling off a solid record with them. I hope you continue to play in Ubers in the future.
Lacks Dude you're the goat. NGL you were on my draft plan since day 1, there was no way I was letting you go. It was very fun to prep this tier with you, and I know you didn't do as well as you wanted, but you were up against the behemoths of this tier. SS Ubers is a tough tier, and I think you adapted relatively decently, especially with our lack of support for it. Let's run it back next year and do better.
OranBerryBlissey10 Brother you came in super clutch midseason. You just strung together win after win, needing little support, while helping support our DPP slot. You're a cool guy and you fit the vibe of the team well too. Definitely deserved to start, and hope you get to next year.
liliou Nineveh and I also wanted to buy you after seeing you play in Classic. You did very very well for UPL debut, I appreciate all of the wins in SM but also helping us test in SV and SS. SM is a tier neither of us are great at, so it was reassuring to have you do so well. Definitely want to team up with you in future UPLs and looking forward to CNCL
InkPupil thank you for the decisive win vs Goat when we needed it most. wish we could've gotten you more games, hope you had fun!
Splendid Silver Star we built our draft mainly around two people, one of them being you, and wanted to have you flex between ORAS / BW / DPP / ADV. You got botted in some games (like the goth one) but I appreciate your help with ORAS and also all of the support for BW-ADV.
Lasen Thank you for stepping up midseason bro when big smogon tried to shut down the wobbs. I definitely think you deserved to start in BW, and appreciate that you still supported us so much throughout the tour. my bad for tagging you with random insta reels and then sending hundreds of league messages afterwards. But you're always a very fun presence to team and talk to.
evakiyama! you're the goat and the other person we built our draft around. i know you were in an unfortunate streak at the start of the tour, but after that broke, you had such a strong drive. I've teamed with you a few times, and whenever you have that momentum going, you're genuinely one of the most fun people to talk and prep with. DPP is a fucking mess but you make this tier look very fun, and i would love to team up again in this tour.
Heysup dude you're actually a beast. i wish we had more adv support in our team but honestly you made adv look way more fun than I thought prior to this tour. its a little weird to say but i think i learned adv through our tests this tour. thank you for taking up the mantle of this tier, some of those games were actual robberies but as always I appreciate how self-sufficient and knowledgable you are about these lower tiers.
Waruchuu I hope we gave you an enjoyable first UPL experience. I know your performance wasn't to your liking, and I'm sure the scheduling mishaps made the game more maddening at times. People definitely have bad seasons, that's very normal. I'm not saying to ignore the record entirely, but you kept persevering all tour, and I appreciate and admire that. I think part of the problem was us not giving you enough games and support/advice, and that's something I think we can improve on as managers. I know you can become a very strong player with time, and I hope to / expect to see it in future UPLs.
Lowkey RBY Ubers is gas. we shoulda got those games in bruh. I'd much rather take out BW.
LOORPixelBob appreciate yall hanging on the sideline. our players are tryhards and don't get subbed out and our sv was too fire so yall didn't get games but always fun having friends on the team. pull up next UPL
I practically started on Smogon in UPL, and I always put a ton of effort into this tour because this community means a lot to me. First and foremost, thanks Nineveh for managing with me. I just had the vibe that we'd be able to make a good team and we definitely did that. This was the most fun I've had in any UPL, and hope you enjoyed it despite the onslaught of magic sun :blaziken:
Ainzcrad I know you didn't want to be jailed to bo3 off rip, so sorry about that. I always enjoy teaming and prepping with you and I don't think your record reflects the effort or time you put into this tour. I definitely think you can do better, and we saw that when you were able to play sv solo. Hope to team with you in the future and win one of these tours. Also hope to finish our bo100 at some point...
ox04 You killed it man, I'm very satisfied with your retain here. Not only did you put up a great record, but you took over the mantle of bo3 when no one else wanted to, and supported our sv/ss slots all tour. I think you get underrated despite being one of the strongest sv players. I haven't teamed with you in 3 years, but you've grown a lot since then. Really hope you get your scl spot this year!
Hacker This is the second year we've teamed now? Just like last year, I appreciate you being willing to take on some of the more experimental structures I built and pulling off a solid record with them. I hope you continue to play in Ubers in the future.
Lacks Dude you're the goat. NGL you were on my draft plan since day 1, there was no way I was letting you go. It was very fun to prep this tier with you, and I know you didn't do as well as you wanted, but you were up against the behemoths of this tier. SS Ubers is a tough tier, and I think you adapted relatively decently, especially with our lack of support for it. Let's run it back next year and do better.
OranBerryBlissey10 Brother you came in super clutch midseason. You just strung together win after win, needing little support, while helping support our DPP slot. You're a cool guy and you fit the vibe of the team well too. Definitely deserved to start, and hope you get to next year.
liliou Nineveh and I also wanted to buy you after seeing you play in Classic. You did very very well for UPL debut, I appreciate all of the wins in SM but also helping us test in SV and SS. SM is a tier neither of us are great at, so it was reassuring to have you do so well. Definitely want to team up with you in future UPLs and looking forward to CNCL View attachment 853406
InkPupil thank you for the decisive win vs Goat when we needed it most. wish we could've gotten you more games, hope you had fun!
Splendid Silver Star we built our draft mainly around two people, one of them being you, and wanted to have you flex between ORAS / BW / DPP / ADV. You got botted in some games (like the goth one) but I appreciate your help with ORAS and also all of the support for BW-ADV.
Lasen Thank you for stepping up midseason bro when big smogon tried to shut down the wobbs. I definitely think you deserved to start in BW, and appreciate that you still supported us so much throughout the tour. my bad for tagging you with random insta reels and then sending hundreds of league messages afterwards. But you're always a very fun presence to team and talk to.
evakiyama! you're the goat and the other person we built our draft around. i know you were in an unfortunate streak at the start of the tour, but after that broke, you had such a strong drive. I've teamed with you a few times, and whenever you have that momentum going, you're genuinely one of the most fun people to talk and prep with. DPP is a fucking mess but you make this tier look very fun, and i would love to team up again in this tour.
Heysup dude you're actually a beast. i wish we had more adv support in our team but honestly you made adv look way more fun than I thought prior to this tour. its a little weird to say but i think i learned adv through our tests this tour. thank you for taking up the mantle of this tier, some of those games were actual robberies but as always I appreciate how self-sufficient and knowledgable you are about these lower tiers.
Waruchuu I hope we gave you an enjoyable first UPL experience. I know your performance wasn't to your liking, and I'm sure the scheduling mishaps made the game more maddening at times. People definitely have bad seasons, that's very normal. I'm not saying to ignore the record entirely, but you kept persevering all tour, and I appreciate and admire that. I think part of the problem was us not giving you enough games and support/advice, and that's something I think we can improve on as managers. I know you can become a very strong player with time, and I hope to / expect to see it in future UPLs.
Lowkey RBY Ubers is gas. we shoulda got those games in bruh. I'd much rather take out BW.
LOORPixelBob appreciate yall hanging on the sideline. our players are tryhards and don't get subbed out and our sv was too fire so yall didn't get games but always fun having friends on the team. pull up next UPL
I practically started on Smogon in UPL, and I always put a ton of effort into this tour because this community means a lot to me. First and foremost, thanks Nineveh for managing with me. I just had the vibe that we'd be able to make a good team and we definitely did that. This was the most fun I've had in any UPL, and hope you enjoyed it despite the onslaught of magic sun :blaziken:
Ainzcrad I know you didn't want to be jailed to bo3 off rip, so sorry about that. I always enjoy teaming and prepping with you and I don't think your record reflects the effort or time you put into this tour. I definitely think you can do better, and we saw that when you were able to play sv solo. Hope to team with you in the future and win one of these tours. Also hope to finish our bo100 at some point...
ox04 You killed it man, I'm very satisfied with your retain here. Not only did you put up a great record, but you took over the mantle of bo3 when no one else wanted to, and supported our sv/ss slots all tour. I think you get underrated despite being one of the strongest sv players. I haven't teamed with you in 3 years, but you've grown a lot since then. Really hope you get your scl spot this year!
Hacker This is the second year we've teamed now? Just like last year, I appreciate you being willing to take on some of the more experimental structures I built and pulling off a solid record with them. I hope you continue to play in Ubers in the future.
Lacks Dude you're the goat. NGL you were on my draft plan since day 1, there was no way I was letting you go. It was very fun to prep this tier with you, and I know you didn't do as well as you wanted, but you were up against the behemoths of this tier. SS Ubers is a tough tier, and I think you adapted relatively decently, especially with our lack of support for it. Let's run it back next year and do better.
OranBerryBlissey10 Brother you came in super clutch midseason. You just strung together win after win, needing little support, while helping support our DPP slot. You're a cool guy and you fit the vibe of the team well too. Definitely deserved to start, and hope you get to next year.
liliou Nineveh and I also wanted to buy you after seeing you play in Classic. You did very very well for UPL debut, I appreciate all of the wins in SM but also helping us test in SV and SS. SM is a tier neither of us are great at, so it was reassuring to have you do so well. Definitely want to team up with you in future UPLs and looking forward to CNCL View attachment 853406
InkPupil thank you for the decisive win vs Goat when we needed it most. wish we could've gotten you more games, hope you had fun!
Splendid Silver Star we built our draft mainly around two people, one of them being you, and wanted to have you flex between ORAS / BW / DPP / ADV. You got botted in some games (like the goth one) but I appreciate your help with ORAS and also all of the support for BW-ADV.
Lasen Thank you for stepping up midseason bro when big smogon tried to shut down the wobbs. I definitely think you deserved to start in BW, and appreciate that you still supported us so much throughout the tour. my bad for tagging you with random insta reels and then sending hundreds of league messages afterwards. But you're always a very fun presence to team and talk to.
evakiyama! you're the goat and the other person we built our draft around. i know you were in an unfortunate streak at the start of the tour, but after that broke, you had such a strong drive. I've teamed with you a few times, and whenever you have that momentum going, you're genuinely one of the most fun people to talk and prep with. DPP is a fucking mess but you make this tier look very fun, and i would love to team up again in this tour.
Heysup dude you're actually a beast. i wish we had more adv support in our team but honestly you made adv look way more fun than I thought prior to this tour. its a little weird to say but i think i learned adv through our tests this tour. thank you for taking up the mantle of this tier, some of those games were actual robberies but as always I appreciate how self-sufficient and knowledgable you are about these lower tiers.
Waruchuu I hope we gave you an enjoyable first UPL experience. I know your performance wasn't to your liking, and I'm sure the scheduling mishaps made the game more maddening at times. People definitely have bad seasons, that's very normal. I'm not saying to ignore the record entirely, but you kept persevering all tour, and I appreciate and admire that. I think part of the problem was us not giving you enough games and support/advice, and that's something I think we can improve on as managers. I know you can become a very strong player with time, and I hope to / expect to see it in future UPLs.
Lowkey RBY Ubers is gas. we shoulda got those games in bruh. I'd much rather take out BW.
LOORPixelBob appreciate yall hanging on the sideline. our players are tryhards and don't get subbed out and our sv was too fire so yall didn't get games but always fun having friends on the team. pull up next UPL
I practically started on Smogon in UPL, and I always put a ton of effort into this tour because this community means a lot to me. First and foremost, thanks Nineveh for managing with me. I just had the vibe that we'd be able to make a good team and we definitely did that. This was the most fun I've had in any UPL, and hope you enjoyed it despite the onslaught of magic sun :blaziken:
Ainzcrad I know you didn't want to be jailed to bo3 off rip, so sorry about that. I always enjoy teaming and prepping with you and I don't think your record reflects the effort or time you put into this tour. I definitely think you can do better, and we saw that when you were able to play sv solo. Hope to team with you in the future and win one of these tours. Also hope to finish our bo100 at some point...
ox04 You killed it man, I'm very satisfied with your retain here. Not only did you put up a great record, but you took over the mantle of bo3 when no one else wanted to, and supported our sv/ss slots all tour. I think you get underrated despite being one of the strongest sv players. I haven't teamed with you in 3 years, but you've grown a lot since then. Really hope you get your scl spot this year!
Hacker This is the second year we've teamed now? Just like last year, I appreciate you being willing to take on some of the more experimental structures I built and pulling off a solid record with them. I hope you continue to play in Ubers in the future.
Lacks Dude you're the goat. NGL you were on my draft plan since day 1, there was no way I was letting you go. It was very fun to prep this tier with you, and I know you didn't do as well as you wanted, but you were up against the behemoths of this tier. SS Ubers is a tough tier, and I think you adapted relatively decently, especially with our lack of support for it. Let's run it back next year and do better.
OranBerryBlissey10 Brother you came in super clutch midseason. You just strung together win after win, needing little support, while helping support our DPP slot. You're a cool guy and you fit the vibe of the team well too. Definitely deserved to start, and hope you get to next year.
liliou Nineveh and I also wanted to buy you after seeing you play in Classic. You did very very well for UPL debut, I appreciate all of the wins in SM but also helping us test in SV and SS. SM is a tier neither of us are great at, so it was reassuring to have you do so well. Definitely want to team up with you in future UPLs and looking forward to CNCL View attachment 853406
InkPupil thank you for the decisive win vs Goat when we needed it most. wish we could've gotten you more games, hope you had fun!
Splendid Silver Star we built our draft mainly around two people, one of them being you, and wanted to have you flex between ORAS / BW / DPP / ADV. You got botted in some games (like the goth one) but I appreciate your help with ORAS and also all of the support for BW-ADV.
Lasen Thank you for stepping up midseason bro when big smogon tried to shut down the wobbs. I definitely think you deserved to start in BW, and appreciate that you still supported us so much throughout the tour. my bad for tagging you with random insta reels and then sending hundreds of league messages afterwards. But you're always a very fun presence to team and talk to.
evakiyama! you're the goat and the other person we built our draft around. i know you were in an unfortunate streak at the start of the tour, but after that broke, you had such a strong drive. I've teamed with you a few times, and whenever you have that momentum going, you're genuinely one of the most fun people to talk and prep with. DPP is a fucking mess but you make this tier look very fun, and i would love to team up again in this tour.
Heysup dude you're actually a beast. i wish we had more adv support in our team but honestly you made adv look way more fun than I thought prior to this tour. its a little weird to say but i think i learned adv through our tests this tour. thank you for taking up the mantle of this tier, some of those games were actual robberies but as always I appreciate how self-sufficient and knowledgable you are about these lower tiers.
Waruchuu I hope we gave you an enjoyable first UPL experience. I know your performance wasn't to your liking, and I'm sure the scheduling mishaps made the game more maddening at times. People definitely have bad seasons, that's very normal. I'm not saying to ignore the record entirely, but you kept persevering all tour, and I appreciate and admire that. I think part of the problem was us not giving you enough games and support/advice, and that's something I think we can improve on as managers. I know you can become a very strong player with time, and I hope to / expect to see it in future UPLs.
Lowkey RBY Ubers is gas. we shoulda got those games in bruh. I'd much rather take out BW.
LOORPixelBob appreciate yall hanging on the sideline. our players are tryhards and don't get subbed out and our sv was too fire so yall didn't get games but always fun having friends on the team. pull up next UPL
You forgot to shoutout one very important player and seeing as you did such a great job I think I'll just fill in on your shoutouts.
Shoutout Taka for being the MVP on the team. Helping with all the prep, doing all the scouts every week, being great to talk to, giving incredible advice, being insanely active, giving tests to the entire team, and putting up a 7 - 1 record, which makes my "great record" (of 5 - 3) look like rookie numbers. Most certainly the number 1 reason our team was so successful, objectively. Thanks for having me on the team! Also, the sv-hoenn jail channel was hilarious.
- https://pokepast.es/c4a56dcaad327050
Probably the best "stall" by far in the meta to me. Simple double defog stall with ttar that lives focus blast from mgar and takes 2 gknot from latios. The last slot can literally be anything you want that fits well vs ur opponents scout. I think I'm like 5-0 with this one in tours, using it vs mz, byron and etc. i pasted 3 variants that work well for the last slot but stuff like Latios/yveltal work amazing too on this. this is not the type of stall where u can just be passive forever tho. toxic + hooh/ttar alone allows u to break thru teams fairly fast, which is often what u should be going for, unless the match up is truly too free
By far my most consistent balance imo. The amount of matchups it gives u a fairly solid chance to win is absurd, and ID CM steel ceus is an ultra broken last mon sweeper on this, especially after poger and pdon went to work vs the opponent.
Very cool and consistent balance. Not much to really say. Spdef yveltal is very underrated in this meta, it can toxic a lot of calm mind arceuses and sit on them, and can be an easier switch in to stuff like m2 and etc, especially with sucker. cm ground ceus is also an excellent cleaner here
An improvement to my older scizor balance. I built it mainly to cteam byron and it worked well but then got haxed af. I also made an extra update to this, making ground ceus calm mind which should make this far more consistent vs some of the annoying pokemons like calm mind steel ceus and rock ceus. With that change, I think this team is pretty damn solid, yve + deo do an amazing job of crippling stuff for arc or xern to clean
All of these should comfortably build any stall too, which most teams just straight up don't account for at all
