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Welcome to the SS ZU team dump thread! Usually team dump thread's act as an alternative to sample teams, where posts are more lax and teams more unorthodox. Because of the volatile nature of DLCs and tier shifts this generation, this thread will replace sample teams for the foreseeable future. I will judge whether teams are worth archiving or not. The criteria I'll be using is simple: if it's a good team and easy to pilot, it'll most likely be archived. However, I want to emphasize that meme teams or objectively bad teams will be rejected and I might delete posts that are especially bad.
- Provide an import for your team(s)
- Write a description of your team(s), preferably a short and concise explanation of how the team in question functions and its weaknesses (replays are highly encouraged)
- Specify the type of team it is: offense, balance, semi-stall, stall, weather, etc
- This helps me categorize teams when archiving
- Must use sprites when showing a team rather than only having an import (for visual appeal and archive friendliness)
- Just because this thread is relaxed does not mean meme teams or bad teams will be accepted. This thread is not a rate my team hub, use the ZU room on PS! or ZU's Discord for help
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This pokemon's main job is to defog the hazard to which this particular team is slightly weak. Though it has a little attack investment to work in case of tough times (remember that it is amazingly bulky in Def, but not too much in Sp.Def. so switch in carefully). Though mime-g ice beam cannot ohko it without specs and u can easily revenge kill it with knock. (I hope you are never down to fighting mime with vullaby though).
This particular set has been tailored to maximise the damage on opponent while also trying to minimise the damage faced. Leftovers give it some recovery and nasty plots there to put pressure on opponent (because with +2 it is usually a devastation for your opponent). Psychic/shadowball/focus blast give it good coverage and ensure that very few things stand in front of it.
Even though physical sets are very popular, just in case of ice vally I prefer special. that's because it lacks coverage in physical movepool and can be completely stopped. Surf can be replaced with air slash if you want coverage for fighting, but you always have gourg and vullaby for that. Thunderbolt can also be switched with U-turn or Parting shot if preferred, but be cautious that if you switch thunderbolt, do switch surf as well because then any water type can put pressure on vally. Multi attack does less than ice beam on this set, but the difference is not much so it can be used to confuse the opponent.
This man has a special place in this team. Not only is it rocker and can hit like a truck, but it also helps this team against TR users. (One should not forget that even though tr isn't much famous right now, anyone who uses it knows that it is one of the best strategy in current ZU.) In case you want coverage against whiscash and you are not terribly needing stealth rock, u may switch it with wood hammer.
This boy is annoying as hell for your opponents. It can always switch out with ease because of its speed provided with quick feet+toxic orb and parting shot. The main reason of frustration (for the opponent of course) is the fact that this boy is having switcheroo, which means it can always get the opponents eviolite and toxicate them for life or break their strategy in general for example against greedent or pyukumuku. Knock is there cuz that's the most imp move of zu and also a stab. I don't think I even need to explain why it has facade.
For one, this particular set is a counter to Persian in general to which the team is extremely vulnerable. the only other counters this team has to it are sudowoodo and hoping your opponent forgets about the inner focus on oranguru (which almost always happens). For two, people may not like the fact that I am using special gourg, especially when its Atk stat is 95 and SpAtk is 58. But there are 3 reasons that make Sp>>Phy. 1) access to nasty plot but not swords dance 2) both power whip and poltergeist miss a lot. 3) It gets giga drain that recovers it and you are not desperately in need of getting the synthesis in a slot. It has flame charge so that it can easily outspeed almost everything wit 1 flame. The main idea is to stay on a knock turn which is nicely absorbed with the colbur berry its holding. Now according to the situation you can use that knock turn to use either np or flame charge. After you have gotten the first np on, you can use a little giga drain to rejuvenate and then go on a victory sweep with shadow ball and giga drain. (Even though its an effective set, a little caution is extremely imp to fully utilise it. E.g., it must be taken care of that mons like vullaby and tranquill are out.)
