teamdump time
these first ones will have descriptions because I really like them (these are also my sample submissions)
:suicune: :iron leaves: :aerodactyl-mega: :aegislash: :thundurus: :excadrill: - Broken Suicune HO (Rafa ver, built w/ dan)
This team is like ultra broken. Suicune is super cheese but fits super nice on this team being able to come in on defensive mons such as slowbro, hippo, pert, and steela to set up. Iron leaves is there cause they're the goat asw as being speed control + zera check + brings in mons such as steela, scizor, and tini to get farmed by the more broken breakers. Speaking of broken breakers maero and aegi are HO staples to clean and break respectively. Thundy is a fun pick because dark z kills / puts in ko range for other threats much of the tier (notable grasses for suiune/iron leaves, hippo/pert for maero) and it super easy to set up with thanks to the rest of the team bringing in mons thunday likes to set up on
:Hydrapple: :Magnezone: :Enamorus: :Excadrill: :Aerodactyl-Mega: :Slowbro: - Drapple Mag Six
This is what I believe to be one of the most consistent 6 for most drapple mag teams. Pretty straight forward to pilot with general standard sets for most. AB mirror coat mag is a super fun set which can beat/basically kill every relevant steel in the tier. sand rush shuca drill is for both maero and opposing sand which can be annoying. enam can be switched to cm over scarf if prefered.
:Latias-Mega: :slowbro: :buzzwole: :celesteela: :tyranitar: :excadrill: - Lati Classic Sand
This was actually a sample before but now it's edited for the newer metagame. Basically just a very standard sand build that's very intuitive. SD drill isn't seen that much anymore sadly but I still think it has a lot of merit (you can switch steelium for groundium for bro/pert). This team has tools to deal with the entire metagame and can win almost any mu with the right play so I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out.
:Swampert: :arcanine-hisui: :hydrapple: :celesteela: :altaria-mega: :mienshao: - Core Spam Balance
Super fun team I built for the team comp. Again it's a solid balance with tools for most of the tier. I don't really have much to say here cause the team is self explanatory but I do find it cool that the team shows off a lot of B rank mons and how you don't nessarily need to work with the easy glues of A to get a good team in.
:Aegislash: :victini: :excadrill: :iron-boulder: :tapu fini: :lilligant-hisui:- Super Awesome HO (idk what to name it (its touhou themed but thats not really a good name))
A more off meta HO using some underutilized HO mons such as Iron Boulder and Lilligant-Hisui. This a much bulkier HO compared to the suicune HO which allows you to pivot around much more and play more aggressive with switches compared to other HOs. This comes with the downside of being harder to use but the upsides of more devasting setup opportunities is very much worth it. Talking about the unusual picks, this specific iron boulder set allows you to threaten as much of the tier possible, but more specifically a lot of problems for HO (maero, zera, mlati, serp,) fall to cleave, eq, and megahorn. Hilligant is a terrifying sweeper similar to mew (if it hits it moves) that threatens most of the tier, but for this specifcally provides a nice way to threaten hyreigon while also not addiing another ghost/dark weak to the team.
:Aegislash: :buzzwole: :latias-mega: :hippowdon: :salamence: :victini:- Mlati BO
A very strong BO with a lot of nice breakers in the tier such as mixed z aegi, LO buzz and 3a mlai. These three are able to dismantle most teams defensive cores and allow victini to clean later in the game. Mence is a super nice fogger rising in popuilatity due to the rise of buzz. The maero MU can be shaky but by pivoting between mence and hippo you are usually able to keep it from doing anything too substantial, and the rest of your team does a good job on limiting it's swichins asw
:buzzwole: :clefable: :hippowdon: :serperior: :celesteela: :victini: - Wish clef buzzwole balance
Another LO buzz team but this team with more of a focus on longevity. Super fun squad with paraspam from clef and vicini opening up paths to buzzwole to break. The rest of the team is there to help faciliate that process by allowing clef and tini to come in often over the course of the game with clef keeping the breakers healthy with wish.
Okay that's it for the teams I love, below are just some other teams I like just not as much (no longer sample submissions (unless y'all want them to be))
:tapu fini: :lokix: :excadrill: :aerodactyl-mega: :serperior: :thundurus: - Lokix Super Offense
:Zeraora: :goodra-hisui: :slither wing: :swampert: :serperior: :enamorus: - Slither Volt Turn
:Victini: :Terrakion: :rotom-wash: :aegislash: :celesteela: :swampert: - Terrakion Offense
:Suicune: :amoonguss: :aerodactyl-mega: :excadrill: :buzzwole: :hydreigon: - Suicune Super Offense
:mew: :iron-boulder: :aegislash: :serperior: :celesteela: :quaquaval:- Standard HO
Here's some fun experimental teams I made for funsies, none of these are sample submissions
:lokix: :glimmora: :rotom-wash: :chesnaught: :enamorus: :victini: - Lokix Glimmora Hstack
I have been working on the idea of a lokix glimm team for so long and I think this is almost there, 3.0 is coming soon
:tentacruel: :hydreigon: :mienshao: :mamoswine: :slowbro: :tapu bulu: - Tentacruel Offense
Tent has some funny properties which make it super cool to build with. Steela and aegi check, high spd for drei and enam, its a cool guy.
:venusaur: :suicune: :mew: :charizard: :thundurus: :lilligant-hisui:- Sun HO
Venu is broken, go next (suicune won me 90% of these games)
:runerigus: :blissey: :chesnaught: :altaria-mega: :celesteela: :bisharp: - Runerigus Stall
ITS FUNNY OKAY. I like runerigus, hes a silly little guy. tspikes are evil tho, so he becomes a silly evil little guy. This team is also genuinely not horrible I promise)
Again this tier is super fun. Thank you Danbear02 and Ursaluna for being there during PL (even though I got carried out of my mind LOL) and it was so much fun just building and testing teams with y'all. This probably the best state the tier has ever been in and I'm glad to have been a part of what this community has become. Heres to a new future of nduu, have fun y'all!!!
these first ones will have descriptions because I really like them (these are also my sample submissions)
:suicune: :iron leaves: :aerodactyl-mega: :aegislash: :thundurus: :excadrill: - Broken Suicune HO (Rafa ver, built w/ dan)
This team is like ultra broken. Suicune is super cheese but fits super nice on this team being able to come in on defensive mons such as slowbro, hippo, pert, and steela to set up. Iron leaves is there cause they're the goat asw as being speed control + zera check + brings in mons such as steela, scizor, and tini to get farmed by the more broken breakers. Speaking of broken breakers maero and aegi are HO staples to clean and break respectively. Thundy is a fun pick because dark z kills / puts in ko range for other threats much of the tier (notable grasses for suiune/iron leaves, hippo/pert for maero) and it super easy to set up with thanks to the rest of the team bringing in mons thunday likes to set up on
:Hydrapple: :Magnezone: :Enamorus: :Excadrill: :Aerodactyl-Mega: :Slowbro: - Drapple Mag Six
This is what I believe to be one of the most consistent 6 for most drapple mag teams. Pretty straight forward to pilot with general standard sets for most. AB mirror coat mag is a super fun set which can beat/basically kill every relevant steel in the tier. sand rush shuca drill is for both maero and opposing sand which can be annoying. enam can be switched to cm over scarf if prefered.
:Latias-Mega: :slowbro: :buzzwole: :celesteela: :tyranitar: :excadrill: - Lati Classic Sand
This was actually a sample before but now it's edited for the newer metagame. Basically just a very standard sand build that's very intuitive. SD drill isn't seen that much anymore sadly but I still think it has a lot of merit (you can switch steelium for groundium for bro/pert). This team has tools to deal with the entire metagame and can win almost any mu with the right play so I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out.
:Swampert: :arcanine-hisui: :hydrapple: :celesteela: :altaria-mega: :mienshao: - Core Spam Balance
Super fun team I built for the team comp. Again it's a solid balance with tools for most of the tier. I don't really have much to say here cause the team is self explanatory but I do find it cool that the team shows off a lot of B rank mons and how you don't nessarily need to work with the easy glues of A to get a good team in.
:Aegislash: :victini: :excadrill: :iron-boulder: :tapu fini: :lilligant-hisui:- Super Awesome HO (idk what to name it (its touhou themed but thats not really a good name))
A more off meta HO using some underutilized HO mons such as Iron Boulder and Lilligant-Hisui. This a much bulkier HO compared to the suicune HO which allows you to pivot around much more and play more aggressive with switches compared to other HOs. This comes with the downside of being harder to use but the upsides of more devasting setup opportunities is very much worth it. Talking about the unusual picks, this specific iron boulder set allows you to threaten as much of the tier possible, but more specifically a lot of problems for HO (maero, zera, mlati, serp,) fall to cleave, eq, and megahorn. Hilligant is a terrifying sweeper similar to mew (if it hits it moves) that threatens most of the tier, but for this specifcally provides a nice way to threaten hyreigon while also not addiing another ghost/dark weak to the team.
:Aegislash: :buzzwole: :latias-mega: :hippowdon: :salamence: :victini:- Mlati BO
A very strong BO with a lot of nice breakers in the tier such as mixed z aegi, LO buzz and 3a mlai. These three are able to dismantle most teams defensive cores and allow victini to clean later in the game. Mence is a super nice fogger rising in popuilatity due to the rise of buzz. The maero MU can be shaky but by pivoting between mence and hippo you are usually able to keep it from doing anything too substantial, and the rest of your team does a good job on limiting it's swichins asw
:buzzwole: :clefable: :hippowdon: :serperior: :celesteela: :victini: - Wish clef buzzwole balance
Another LO buzz team but this team with more of a focus on longevity. Super fun squad with paraspam from clef and vicini opening up paths to buzzwole to break. The rest of the team is there to help faciliate that process by allowing clef and tini to come in often over the course of the game with clef keeping the breakers healthy with wish.
Okay that's it for the teams I love, below are just some other teams I like just not as much (no longer sample submissions (unless y'all want them to be))
:tapu fini: :lokix: :excadrill: :aerodactyl-mega: :serperior: :thundurus: - Lokix Super Offense
:Zeraora: :goodra-hisui: :slither wing: :swampert: :serperior: :enamorus: - Slither Volt Turn
:Victini: :Terrakion: :rotom-wash: :aegislash: :celesteela: :swampert: - Terrakion Offense
:Suicune: :amoonguss: :aerodactyl-mega: :excadrill: :buzzwole: :hydreigon: - Suicune Super Offense
:mew: :iron-boulder: :aegislash: :serperior: :celesteela: :quaquaval:- Standard HO
Here's some fun experimental teams I made for funsies, none of these are sample submissions
:lokix: :glimmora: :rotom-wash: :chesnaught: :enamorus: :victini: - Lokix Glimmora Hstack
I have been working on the idea of a lokix glimm team for so long and I think this is almost there, 3.0 is coming soon
:tentacruel: :hydreigon: :mienshao: :mamoswine: :slowbro: :tapu bulu: - Tentacruel Offense
Tent has some funny properties which make it super cool to build with. Steela and aegi check, high spd for drei and enam, its a cool guy.
:venusaur: :suicune: :mew: :charizard: :thundurus: :lilligant-hisui:- Sun HO
Venu is broken, go next (suicune won me 90% of these games)
:runerigus: :blissey: :chesnaught: :altaria-mega: :celesteela: :bisharp: - Runerigus Stall
ITS FUNNY OKAY. I like runerigus, hes a silly little guy. tspikes are evil tho, so he becomes a silly evil little guy. This team is also genuinely not horrible I promise)
Again this tier is super fun. Thank you Danbear02 and Ursaluna for being there during PL (even though I got carried out of my mind LOL) and it was so much fun just building and testing teams with y'all. This probably the best state the tier has ever been in and I'm glad to have been a part of what this community has become. Heres to a new future of nduu, have fun y'all!!!
