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Projects National Dex UU - Winter Teambuilding Competition
- Thread starter Danbear02
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Coming to the next cycle,
Cycle 9: Scizor
With the strongest priority in the tier, a deep movepool, and the incredible Bug/Steel typing, Scizor finds itself as an ever present force in the metagame. With Choice Band, Scizor can overwhelm its opponents with its strong U-Turns and Bullet Punches, whereas Swords Dance can often clean weakened teams late game. Options like Trailblaze, Dual Wingbeat, Pursuit, and Defog give it unexpected coverage or utility to bolster its team members' offense. How will you build around Scizor?
Submissions end November 6th 11:59PM GMT-6.
Cycle 9: Scizor
With the strongest priority in the tier, a deep movepool, and the incredible Bug/Steel typing, Scizor finds itself as an ever present force in the metagame. With Choice Band, Scizor can overwhelm its opponents with its strong U-Turns and Bullet Punches, whereas Swords Dance can often clean weakened teams late game. Options like Trailblaze, Dual Wingbeat, Pursuit, and Defog give it unexpected coverage or utility to bolster its team members' offense. How will you build around Scizor?
Submissions end November 6th 11:59PM GMT-6.
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:Scizor: :Slowbro: :Togekiss: :Excadrill: :Tyranitar: :Latias-Mega:
https://pokepast.es/bcc7d71b4cb7e33d
its a para spam team, you have a band scizor with speed and a togekiss to abuse of para with air slash, for spam, t wave, you have a slowbro for click t wave, and pivot with teleport, and a tyranitar careful with spd for click t wave, rocks and knock off for support, excadrill spinner, because play soo good with tytar, and you can click swords dance (and click iron head for para + flinch).
https://pokepast.es/bcc7d71b4cb7e33d
its a para spam team, you have a band scizor with speed and a togekiss to abuse of para with air slash, for spam, t wave, you have a slowbro for click t wave, and pivot with teleport, and a tyranitar careful with spd for click t wave, rocks and knock off for support, excadrill spinner, because play soo good with tytar, and you can click swords dance (and click iron head for para + flinch).
:scizor: :slowbro: :magnezone: :venusaur-mega: :hippowdon: :hydreigon:
https://pokepast.es/070dede7591605b0
This team is built around Mega Venusaur. Celesteela poses a major challenge, but Magnezone handles it effectively, eliminating it quickly. Hippowdon and Slowbro serve as tanks capable of checking the tier's primary threats, while Venusaur—depending on its moveset—performs well against Enamorus. Hydreigon acts as the team's main speed control. The team may struggle against Buzzwole, but landing a Toxic with Hippowdon makes dealing with it much easier. Finally, Scizor serves as the primary offensive threat; equipped with a Z-Move, Swords Dance, and Roost, it can deal significant damage to most of the tier, while also being able to boost its stats and recover health via Roost.
https://pokepast.es/070dede7591605b0
This team is built around Mega Venusaur. Celesteela poses a major challenge, but Magnezone handles it effectively, eliminating it quickly. Hippowdon and Slowbro serve as tanks capable of checking the tier's primary threats, while Venusaur—depending on its moveset—performs well against Enamorus. Hydreigon acts as the team's main speed control. The team may struggle against Buzzwole, but landing a Toxic with Hippowdon makes dealing with it much easier. Finally, Scizor serves as the primary offensive threat; equipped with a Z-Move, Swords Dance, and Roost, it can deal significant damage to most of the tier, while also being able to boost its stats and recover health via Roost.
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:slowking::arctozolt::scizor::clefable::aerodactyl-mega::hippowdon:
This team is built around scizor using dwb to lure buzzwole and venusaur, which enables snow very nicely. 4 attacks boots scizor is something Iride cooked up during ndpl as a cool middle ground between cb and utility sets, fitting perfectly on a boots spam team with a clef hippo fat core and maero. Arctozolt is a generally underrated mon that destroys most team structures with its strong bolt beak and doubled speed in snow. crash hits hippo, freeze dry hits swampert, and low kick hits steels and ttar. The two main mons it struggles with are buzzwole, which has the natural bulk to straight tank bolt beaks, and venusaur, which has thick fat to take icicle crashes. boots scizor with dwb lures both of these and with them gone, azolt runs through the rest of the team. Two twave users helps scizor outspeed and 2hko mega venu. I brought this team without hazard removal to ndpl and won, so the team has to at least be decent.
This team is built around scizor using dwb to lure buzzwole and venusaur, which enables snow very nicely. 4 attacks boots scizor is something Iride cooked up during ndpl as a cool middle ground between cb and utility sets, fitting perfectly on a boots spam team with a clef hippo fat core and maero. Arctozolt is a generally underrated mon that destroys most team structures with its strong bolt beak and doubled speed in snow. crash hits hippo, freeze dry hits swampert, and low kick hits steels and ttar. The two main mons it struggles with are buzzwole, which has the natural bulk to straight tank bolt beaks, and venusaur, which has thick fat to take icicle crashes. boots scizor with dwb lures both of these and with them gone, azolt runs through the rest of the team. Two twave users helps scizor outspeed and 2hko mega venu. I brought this team without hazard removal to ndpl and won, so the team has to at least be decent.
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:venusaur-mega::thundurus::hydreigon::excadrill::scizor::slowbro:
I've built around Scizor many times as it's one of my favorite Pokemon in the tier atm, but I've never tried out Bug Z. I invested enough attack EVs to KO no bulk Tyranitar after SD with Bullet Punch, and invested most of the rest in HP and Special Defense. This spread lives 2 Dark Pulses from Hydreigon after rocks, as well as helping your odds vs MAero with the defense investment. I decided the best partner for this Scizor set would be Thundurus, and I came up with a very fun set that takes advantage of some of the usual counterplay you see vs Thundurus. With Taunt and Grass Knot, it bullies the grounds like Hippowdon and has a favorable roll to KO Swampert from full outright. As well as stopping hazards and toxic from the grounds, it denies Amoonguss' Spore, something which this team would struggle to absorb consistently otherwise. Since Scizor wants to finish off weakened teams, I made sure to include Knock Off on both Thundurus and Mega Venusaur to ensure hazard chip and whatnot could acrew over the course of a game. Scarf Drei, Excadrill, and Slowbro round out the team to fill the roles of speed control, hazard control, and MAero control respectively. I beat Sapo bad with this in testing but forgot to get more games with this so just trust me bro it's good.
I've built around Scizor many times as it's one of my favorite Pokemon in the tier atm, but I've never tried out Bug Z. I invested enough attack EVs to KO no bulk Tyranitar after SD with Bullet Punch, and invested most of the rest in HP and Special Defense. This spread lives 2 Dark Pulses from Hydreigon after rocks, as well as helping your odds vs MAero with the defense investment. I decided the best partner for this Scizor set would be Thundurus, and I came up with a very fun set that takes advantage of some of the usual counterplay you see vs Thundurus. With Taunt and Grass Knot, it bullies the grounds like Hippowdon and has a favorable roll to KO Swampert from full outright. As well as stopping hazards and toxic from the grounds, it denies Amoonguss' Spore, something which this team would struggle to absorb consistently otherwise. Since Scizor wants to finish off weakened teams, I made sure to include Knock Off on both Thundurus and Mega Venusaur to ensure hazard chip and whatnot could acrew over the course of a game. Scarf Drei, Excadrill, and Slowbro round out the team to fill the roles of speed control, hazard control, and MAero control respectively. I beat Sapo bad with this in testing but forgot to get more games with this so just trust me bro it's good.
:altaria-mega: :scizor: :swampert: :serperior: :hydreigon: :rotom-heat:
Boom malt, scizor, AND r-heat team woaw!
this team is shamelessly ripped off from pl testing but is pretty awesome. Offensive malt is a super big threat in the tier while also providing a good defensive profile for threats such as buzzwole and allows free switchins to most physical defensive mons. Malt is also very nice at chipping defensive checks such as celesteela with fire blast, which opens up cb scizor and scarf drei to clean up in the late game. CB scizor, drei, and pert form a nice volt turn core to put your opponents in the blender. Rotom-heat is an interesting pick here which does a lot switchin on fairies and steels such as celesteela and enam which would otherwise threaten a team where scizor is the main steel. The only really annoying mu is mvenu but just hit it hard and get rocks up and you'll be fine. I like really need to go rn so this is all you get for the team intro I wrote this on my 5 minute bus ride to a test.
Boom malt, scizor, AND r-heat team woaw!
this team is shamelessly ripped off from pl testing but is pretty awesome. Offensive malt is a super big threat in the tier while also providing a good defensive profile for threats such as buzzwole and allows free switchins to most physical defensive mons. Malt is also very nice at chipping defensive checks such as celesteela with fire blast, which opens up cb scizor and scarf drei to clean up in the late game. CB scizor, drei, and pert form a nice volt turn core to put your opponents in the blender. Rotom-heat is an interesting pick here which does a lot switchin on fairies and steels such as celesteela and enam which would otherwise threaten a team where scizor is the main steel. The only really annoying mu is mvenu but just hit it hard and get rocks up and you'll be fine. I like really need to go rn so this is all you get for the team intro I wrote this on my 5 minute bus ride to a test.
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Voting ends November 7th, 11:59 -7!
With 4 votes, R1C3M4N wins this week!
Coming to the next cycle,
Cycle 10: Volcanion
With phenomenal bulk, an immunity to water, a deep movepool, and a one of one type combination, it's hard to imagine how little play Volcanion sees. How will you harness such incredible yet unwieldy power?
Submissions end November 13th 11:59PM GMT-6.
Coming to the next cycle,
Cycle 10: Volcanion
With phenomenal bulk, an immunity to water, a deep movepool, and a one of one type combination, it's hard to imagine how little play Volcanion sees. How will you harness such incredible yet unwieldy power?
Submissions end November 13th 11:59PM GMT-6.
Voting for last week's competition is closed, sorry!