:sv/eevee:
This one hurts to lose I can't lie. We were soooo close and we put in so much work... I wanted it more than anything. But that's just life. I think we had a fantastic run start to finish, I don't regret a thing. We had an excellent draft, an incredible teamcord and so many fun memories and friendships to make from this tour. This is definitely my favorite team I've ever been on. I'm glad that all of those ending weeks were so close, I was afraid we were gonna get run over but we really pushed as hard as we could and it was amazing to see. Kinda wished I performed better but don't we all? Plus I was working so hard for this tour, the fact that we made it this far is validating enough for me. I came into AAAPL with something to prove and, with building half the slots each week and going positive supportless in my played slot, I think I've proven enough. I had exactly one chance coming off of OMPL, so AAAPL going this well just might have saved me from perma fraud allegations. I made a whole lot of teams so there's about to be a lot of pastes. I helped build all of the ND teams but chew already posted them so I'm just gonna stick with poke and AAA here
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PokeAAA
W1 - Miss Crisis (W)
:tornadus-therian::iron-hands::landorus-therian::heatran::overqwil::hatterene:
I decided to run some broken mons for W1 in torn-t qwil hands. Bulletproof tran seems kinda odd but unironically I thought they were gonna ditto cause vice was supporting and loves ditto, and treads doesn't 1v1 torn here. Plus needed something to stop meow from spamming knock too hard, cause hands doesn't wanna lose item lol. Kinda jank but it worked out, torn got to claim as torn does
W2 - Ducky (W)
:corviknight::rillaboom::latios::primarina::heatran::clodsire:
Originally I was gonna built galv boomburst rilla but decided that was too crazy so I built mglo rilla instead. The mon is really underrated, it outputs tons of damage with strong prio & gives ur team heals. Would recommend. In game I got a perf mu so just had to switch stuff around until I won
W3 - Velcroc (W)
:skeledirge::corviknight::overqwil::deoxys-speed::hydrapple::ting-lu:
Honestly I really shouldn't have won cause this team's kind of bad LOL. I wanted to run hydra though since velcroc doesn't ever run fairies so I knew +2 fickle would claim. I also wanted to use physdef qwil cause he's underrated & walls a lot of stuff. In game I kinda let hydra die for no reason but still ended up winning
W4 - Baddy (L)
:tornadus-therian::meowscarada::corviknight::ting-lu::skeledirge::samurott-hisui:
I decided to build around sd hsam because calcs from this mon are absurd and can do stuff like ohko max def fluffy corv. This team's neat, I think in hindsight it's not really enough power cause torn and meow are both enablers and hsam's too slow to reliably claim, so if I remade this I'd add either some more power or a spiker to take adv of knock spams. I actually played this well and almost got a chance to make a 50/50 for game, but wisp miss on hsam killed it lol
W5 - The Hisui Region (L)
:hydrapple::heatran::meowscarada::corviknight::slowking-galar::landorus-therian:
This team kinda sucks I just threw together some bullshit before game and clicked fast, you know what it gives. Some cool sets on here but they didn't have the best support. Game basically ended when glow got crit to death, I was planning to paralyze it then lando would go to town. But I'm not blaming that for loss since I could've clicked it better
Semis - Baddy (L)
:gastrodon::corviknight::iron-hands::tornadus-therian::ting-lu::iron-moth:
I wanted to go surfer hands cause he's op. Also gastro honestly sucks so bad and I hate running it, but coba usage was really high so I had to risk. I think I definitely should've won this but just clicked it bad by letting gastro get low and not doubling to hands when I had the read down. This game is the one I'm the saddest about cause the victory was really right there
TB - Baddy (W)
:corviknight::ting-lu::skeledirge::meowscarada::slowking::cobalion:
Def my favorite poke team of the tour. The last loss lit a fire under my ass cause I was mad about the loss. It was a direct tb rematch so I decided to mostly ignore scout and build something good. Np slow is a set I wanted to run for a while cause it stops mons from milling and setting up on fsight turns. I also wanted to go 4a meow because the main checks were coba and tran with flame body. There was a scary synth cornerstone in game but I managed to play around it and just kill stuff with meow
Finals - The Hisui Region (W)
:corviknight::scream-tail::ting-lu::meowscarada::breloom::slowking:
Thr runs a lot of fat which np slow destroys. Besides that my idea was just to get it in a lot of times so I added pivots and wish stail. I wanted to make sure I had mons who would last a long time. Pads corv was to dodge burns from tran if I had to play long game vs it. I fought revbless which, thanks to my team's longevity, I was able to play around until I could secure the win
TB - The Hisui Region (L)
:slowking-galar::ogerpon-wellspring::corviknight::gastrodon-east::tornadus-therian::blissey:
Of course this khia grammy bait made me lose. This was another of my favorite teams in tour, I knew exactly what was coming into me which was fat stack with torn wincon and fsight wellspring + knockspam can decimate those. I also used ng torn which was an unseen set in tour so that I had better odds in speed tie & wallbreaking. What I didn't expect was for such a hard stack cteam that it would include mg bliss, regen corv and levi ches... in retrospect I had been spamming it a lot LOL. I didn't click this great cause I just didn't see that I could boost torn up to +4 and kill everyone without problems, I didn't wanna do it cause I thought I'd let torn and dirge farm but I should've gone for it anyway
Meta thoughts: Can we please ban torn and talon from this tier? I genuinely saw people who want deo-s banned in AAA say torn was healthy in this tier, which is a joke since it does the same thing as deo but 100x better. This mon can outlast all walls, outspeeds 90% of meta, has entry points on half the meta, survives all prio, and has a customizable 4th + abil. It can regularly break bliss + spdef regen cores ALONE, literally bare minimum support you need is like a hazard. It's just such an obvious case for me, I don't know what people could possibly be missing
For talon, when you start running SD jolly w/ roost you realize its checks are literally all fake or unviable. You have to run stuff like pgem tran, tpunch + volt regen hands, wbb bb pads corv, garg, or random una to 1v1 it. These sets and mons are good against NOTHING except for talon, like the only case you want one of these outside of talon is pgem tran to catch prim torn on switch or sometimes the random una will check some other guy like sd hands. Can't revenge this either since it outspeeds most teams (let alone mons), kills anything naturally faster, and beats all prio. You either need someone bad like psurge deo-s or boulder, or you need to break gale & pivot into fast mon which will again always require a bad mon like the ones above. Make sure your fake ass mons don't ever drop below 100% either or get statused, otherwise talon claims. The only mons that consistently beat it and don't suck into rest of meta are like dirge and intim hex peach. Basically it just forces you to run garbage mons on all your teams and it also stifles offense, making you either run a trash lure like dazzling or a defensive cope mon. Ofc nobody wants to do that so they turn to running fat nonsense which is what this tier has become. Ban these two and things go up
Going into tour I thought overqwil and hands were unbalanced but I think they're fine now, though people still underrate qwil a lot. Cinder also lowkey has no checks but that's a conversation for another day. Also some guys we should unban:
:archaludon::manaphy::zapdos-galar::poliwrath::floatzel::victreebel::ursaluna-bloodmoon::yanmega::arcanine-hisui:+ stored
AAA
I didn't actually play this tier ever, I did build a lot for it though. So I'm just gonna post the teams without the weeks
:great-tusk::corviknight::pecharunt::meowscarada::gholdengo::manaphy:
Really solid build, corrosion peach is a fantastic balance breaker in current meta and band meow + scarf ghold is a strong offensive core that puts a lot of pressure on ghold checks. Scarf hex was so you could poison everything with peach then clean up with ghold. Psychic mana was mostly moth cope, maybe matte was right and icy wind was the play all along though... just slap 96 spe on tusk and you eq it at -1 speed
:great-tusk::roaring-moon::ting-lu::moltres::corviknight::gholdengo:
We wanted to build offtusk, moon was stall ct cause you lead it and acro the ches to death then tusk claims. Dd roost also can take adv of some passive stuff. Besides that we wanted an actual team in case they didn't stall, which they didn't, though moon still almost won LOL. Fun build but better out there
:latios::corviknight::great-tusk::ting-lu::chansey::meowscarada:
Another offtusk team I built for this week, I actually thought this was better but I wasn't the one playing so we didn't use it. This was also a stall ct since you just killed ches without caring about burns thanks to chans hb, but this was a more proactive team which I liked. Tc tusk was awesome here since meow took the sor so tusk could bluff a different abil
:okidogi::landorus::ting-lu::corviknight::moltres::gholdengo:
Thought it was a good time for dogi, though he's slight fraud. People clowned this for not being wabs corv but if it WAS then cinder would've 6-0ed so you really can't win. This team's neat but kinda slow so I maybe wouldn't run again lol
:ting-lu::ogerpon-wellspring::iron-moth::pecharunt::zamazenta::deoxys-speed:
I'm sad this one lost cause it was one of my fave builds of the tour, I thought it was super cool. Sd trailblaze wellspring looked od into scout so I made stack HO for it so it could pressure its checks. If it didn't work then you had another demon to pick up the slack, and it had some of my favorite mons of this tour like eseed ironpress zama
:manaphy::landorus-therian::corviknight::zapdos::scream-tail::chien-pao:
Another one of my fave teams of this tour. I didn't realize until after I made this that it looks like the exact same as the betti sample which he also built for sammy... AAA is truly a dead tier. Anyway scout just folded to chuddy pao so I decided to build with it even though it's trash. The lando set's awesome, I recommend trying it
:roaring-moon::zamazenta::iron-treads::primarina::corviknight::pecharunt:
We wanted to bring sflo prima, we didn't actually bring this to tour though. This team has one of my favorite mons of the tour in mg peach, which baits a lot of contact moves cause of knock weak & it won't die to uturn spam. It also functions well without an item thanks to the high def and haz immunity. Scarf zama is also a fun mon to catch deo and scarf darks lackin
:latios::roaring-moon::primarina::great-tusk::pecharunt::moltres:
I think we brought this version to tour, it's probably the better version. The tusk set is a lot of fun, we coulda ran head smash here but decided to spinner for landos instead. Besides that nothing is crazy
:scream-tail::zapdos::corviknight::pecharunt::ting-lu::ogerpon-cornerstone:
We wanted to build cornerstone so I made this build where zap paralyzes everything so cornerstone can win later. 98 corv here cause opponent spammed 99 a lot and throat chop lu was to beat stail. This team also got clowned in discord for not running strong breakers, which kinda confused me cause cornerstone is one of the highest damage outputs in tier? And if you're not running bliss (who can get parafused) or spdef regen ground then zap is problematic asw. But I know om players are bored and will just say anything until we get ww
:corviknight::cobalion::chesnaught::gholdengo::ting-lu::iron-moth:
I made this to ct betti but player hated it cause it kept losing long term so we didn't bring it lol. It's too bad cause it would've got a free mu
:corviknight::zamazenta::cinderace::zapdos::sinistcha::manaphy:
I made screens cause it looked fun and cinder was good into scout. Problem was this team ended up just being bad in practice for whatever reason, also the sin set was cool but it was an overcook cause you weren't slow enough so you'd get outsped by lu and stuff in tr LOL
:deoxys-speed::gholdengo::zamazenta::roaring-moon::primarina::corviknight:
We were hours before fighting betti and ches stack got denied so I decided to throw a bunch of brokens onto one team and see what it gives. These are basically all the mons that people complain abt so I thought together they might destroy an unprepared opponent. Sadly whirlpool missed and then we had to get a couple zama calls and we didn't, but that's mons
:pecharunt::iron-hands::latios::great-tusk::corviknight::ting-lu:
Another team that I was sad to see lose cause I thought it was cool. I had to bring in glove hands from poke into this tier, with ee it takes adv of #those balances. Our opponent relied on fluffy tusk a lot, which was brought again this week, so I thought that it could punch massive holes into their team. I kinda forgot what went wrong but it lost
:iron-moth::corviknight::swampert::meowscarada::scream-tail::great-tusk:
Another offtusk build, matte said band mold would be good into ghostlike so I decided to do that. This team's just really basic not much 2 say
:cinderace::great-tusk::zamazenta::corviknight::iron-treads::manaphy:
Mglo treads is not a good mon, don't be fooled. We wanted to go cinder but it just started looking crazy so I scrapped this
:ogerpon-cornerstone::scream-tail::iron-hands::primarina::corviknight::iron-treads:
Wow another offprima l2b :uglychildrenthatihate: Idea here was stail would cripple prima check with trick then prima could own the fatter balances. If they were fast or had no prima wall then you could keep the scarf on stail. Cornerstone was there asw cause stail will cripple their steel then it's huge money for her. Also decided to bring broken vest hands which guarantees victory since it has no checks
:cinderace::zapdos::zamazenta::iron-treads::slither-wing::manaphy:
The mglo treads became this eventually. Slither is a really good fight and dark check, can spread status & prevent any setup foolishness. Helps against deo too and psurge deo will just lose to treads anyway, so it seemed anti-offense. Then the minroll nation struck
Meta thoughts: Well what haven't people said about AAA? It feels pretty lame right now and we all know 2ac will save but nobody wants to implement it. If you want to win then just load specs tinted or stall and see what it gives, 9/10 times you're rewarded cause it's too homogenous. Also does ghold feel like a problem to anyone else? I swear np just breaks through all its checks without even trying, esp if you pair with knockspammer like deo or mana. It's so customizable, you have to guess set a lot even after it's revealed a bunch. Its only reliable checks are like bliss, bproof treads, vest lu all mons that can easily sink momentum. Because of that you usually have to settle for pivoting around with regenvest, so it feels like the main factor in regenvest being the only viable regen which is one of my least fave parts abt the meta. The type + bulk also makes it so hard to revenge esp cause it often has colbur which is rly tough to get around for some builds. During this tour it's felt the most limiting on teams out of anything. I've seen nobody else bring it up but lmk what you think abt it
Anyway a good tour needs some good shoutouts and I've got plenty! I def am using up all my pings but who gaf?
porcupine21 This whole tour you've been doubting yourself and calling me carry. I keep agreeing with you and saying "exactly, I'm best player on team" cause it's fun to say that. But if we're being serious, no way I could've done this tour without you. You helped so much from auction to scouts to tests, but the biggest thing you did was bring a smile to everyone's face. I think you've just never been negative in your life? Which counterbalances me being bitter and gay. You had something nice to say after every game win or lose. One time deny sold us our game and I was getting ready to light this hoe up & curse his whole family tree and you sent
this. I was literally blown away, you need like a nobel or smth. Also your tz diff saved me so many times. Plus you came up with the volleys name. I really really really can't thank you enough u are actual goat of oms and never think different!
ItsChew. Building nd & just shooting the shit with you was the most fun I had this whole tour. You're really funny, friendly and easy to talk to, you brought a lot of good vibes to teamcord and it was just a blast spending the time with you. Plus I don't mind making more fans :dnite:
mmtaccos Best clicker on team I promise to glaze u every tour and always nom you. And I WILL upbid and I WILL make likewhore channel public at all times. Amen. But seriously you super impressed me and didn't deserve to go neg, your season was mega unlucky & I think you shoulda won most of ur games. Your next run will be a slam dunk for sure
TTTech Sorry ur season was so rough / haxy, but I loved having you anyway. We all know you put in more work than that record showed. It was also great that you didn't need me to support you after all I was already doing for this tour LOL
iPetBigfoot Thanks for being so committed to SV, you did an outstanding job and beat some really tough opponents. Going pos while not being in your main tier is pure aura. It was lots of fun to test with you and hang, I hope we can team again sometime
Dahness You bounced back really nicely after OMFL, I was impressed by how intuitively the tier came to you. You are really good at finding the best picks for teams, I'd just leave you some guy I liked and you'd come back with somethin killer and take the game. It was also really fun to talk to you in teamcord, made me laugh a lot and I'm glad we got you
OrnLatios Best draft in tour baby, your precision is unbelievable and you were a huge factor in us doing this well. The builds you came up with were amazing and it was awesome to build with you. Sign up for more stuff, they won't know what hit them
zoe Your determination really inspired me and you brought a lot of fun stuff, you totally should've done better than you did. I liked talkin with you in teamcord but unfort we didn't interact a lot. I'll be cheering for you in future games
BoingK I was really happy when we got you cause I don't know a thing about uu, though luckily porcupine learned it bc he's the goat. You truly worked very hard, no build was slacked on. I was always confident in uu slot thanks to you. Though maybe dnp this tier next time? You were going through it by the end
Les2BG You were my #1 ss pick in auction and you did not disappoint. Your clicks are amazing and the builds u chew ako came up with were super cool. You were another player who made me feel relaxed about a slot I knew nothing about
Akotelette I was initially unsure about drafting you cause I didn't know anything about you, but your activity and presence were super appreciated and you also surprised me with how skilled you were. Your support in ss was crucial, I hope I can see you slotted more in future tours
DenyInDenial One of our biggest and most active cheerleaders, I was really impressed with you just slotting into a tier you didn't know and beating AM like it was nothing. Your determination was top notch, you did everything you could for us and it didn't go unseen. Have some more self confidence too, I think you're really goin places if you haven't already
Metagross773 You were awesome to have in teamcord and your upper skill is what we were really lookin for. I initially had you for nd support but you did more than I expected, you're great to talk to. You kinda took a backseat this tour so I hope we can team together again sometime
Teriso179 I was gonna dunk on ur message count but somehow you have 595? I literally thought it was gonna be like 30. But thx for draft help
matte Sizzlipede & Snom SinOfWrath Caffine._.addict Weredude08 Miss Crisis Ducky Thanks for your support, you guys were invaluable and we wouldn't have been able to do this well without you
Will I come back for next AAAPL? Yes probably bc I'm addicted 2 wasting my time and not getting sleep. Maybe next time I'll stop being a fraud and win? But until then it's volleys forever!
:eevee: