Pinkacross

Hi Pinkacross, I've been playing for quite a while and only recently got into teambuilding, your videos really helped me to get a good start.
Do you have any advice on building offense teams? I noticed that whenever I try building an offense team (i mainly play SV NDOU), I always end up going back to very bulky and slow cores, and I can't figure out how to make my teams more offensive without immediately losing to something I had not planned for. How do you get over the fear of getting steamrolled by a random MegaGyarados or Z-Volcarona that your limited defensive core cannot handle?
For example, today I built this OgerponW+Gholdengo "offense" (https://pokepast.es/141ec6673620ab94). I wanted it to be an offense team, but somehow the final version of the team included a TankChomp, Toxapex, Defensive Zapdos and a nonSD Kingambit. The team performed decently on ladder, but it was much more slow and bulky than originally intended. I'm not asking for help on this team specifically (since it ended up not being offense), just some general guidelines/tips to keep in my mind for next time

Hello Pinkacross, sorry to bother you, I just realised that the team I submitted for the team fixes is weak to tera water garganacl and low-key alomomola. This is only relevant if you choose it for the video. Thanks. :)

Hi Pinkacross, I wanted to know if you think SD SpD Gliscor functions fine as wall and stall breaker. The issue is I need all of a wall, something that can at least do good chip to stall, if not make good progress, and something that can set stealth rocks. I tried Ting-Lu but it was a huge momentum drain and forced me to commit tera to not die to chip, which lost me a game where I didn't think far enough into the future to see I needed tera elsewhere, and I'm not wholly confident in lower ranked mons at fulfilling this role. Any help would be hugely appreciated.

The team for reference: https://pokepast.es/48dacb318bdb499e

Hello Pinka, I'm here cuz I need some recommendation for this team. I found Specs Raging Bolt + 4 Attacks Waterpon to be a really solid breaking core. I've been racking my brain on how to support this and the result was being very weak to Dragapult and Darkrai. I put Tera Dark on Slowing but it wasn't good enough.
https://pokepast.es/b705be14d1e96f83

Hello Pinkacross, Lately i've been watching some of your videos on making a balance team in Competitive Pokemon

I would appreciate your help in improving my team
https://pokepast.es/b0b3c14f683550cb

(Sorry in case it's really bad,i am really new to competitive Pokemon)

Hey Pinkacross, I’ve been testing a new team since my other one was trash, and this one has been doing well for me, revolving around Rillaboom and Gholdengo as a breaking core. Most of the pokemon on my team have been doing what they needed to do, but I’m considering swapping cinderace maybe for a different fast pivot because I feel like tusk is doing its role in hazard removal and I would maybe benefit from something with more offensive power than cinderace. I’ll link the team, tell me what you think about it and swapping cinderace. Thanks in advance! https://pokepast.es/ec77a1326fcaf8b0

Good luck on the garg stream ^_^

Also is it possible to ditch high speed for raw intimidating breaking power such as slow pivoting into mamoswine using chilly reception

Hello Pinkacross,
I've been a huge fan of your content since I discovered it. I'm trying to get back into the swing of things with competitive Pokemon and I appreciate you trying to make sense out of a metagame as powrcrept as SV OU.
I recently made a Sticky Web hyper offense team featuring my favorite Pokémon, Haxorus. I know it's not a good Pokémon due to its terrible bulk and mono-Dragon typing, but I specifically chose it because I wanted to take advantage of Mold Breaker to screw over Dondozo and Clodsire. I specifically chose Loaded Dice Scale Shot with Tera Steel as I believe it's the best way to make this thing work in OU.
I would greatly appreciate your help in improving this team. As this is my first team in a while, I tried to play it safe with the other Pokemon and didn't deviate much from what is recommended on Smogon.

Link to the team: https://pokepast.es/6cd5efbfe2843a9c

I can definitely imagine Cinderace being a pain in the ass immediately. I also don't necessarily have anything that can immediately threaten Zamazenta, especially since my Kingambit is Tera Dark. Speaking of Kingambit, it's also my only Ghost and Dark resist, so I'm basically counting on it to break as much as possible.

Hello Pinka, been watching your content for the past year or so, and learned quite a lot of stuff that can also be applied to other tiers while doing so! However, whether if I can actually have the patience to use my time and think carefully enough to make use of that knowledge is something else, I’m always super jittery like on substances when I play games with barely anything on the line at all!

Now, back to the main topic of today, I’m just a normal ahh kid who don’t have the capital to just throw out dozens of dollars at once for the tutoring sessions, and neither do smogon got the resources available as it has been a whole year since my request in a non OU tier has been out with nobody available… so I’ll make best of what I can.

I’ve learned a thing or two while in my unexpected hiatus from mons, while I won’t get into all of them one of them includes the fact that knowledge playing OU can apply to other tiers as well, which is exactly why I’m going to start off trying to teambuild and play in OU first and foremost.

https://pokepast.es/eb7e524bd8fe3a30

Help would be very much appreciated.

My philosophy in teambuilding first and foremost is to have an option that can trivialize most stall with basic plays and positioning, then build off from there. Whether the said set has utility into other teams might be hard to say, but for this specifically it does.

Regardless, wellspring might still be an issue.

Quick question
Any pokemon able to be paired with bulky nasty plot ghold + sub curse press dozo that can deal with dragon types (the pult situation is crazy )

What do you think about ?
I personally think it's the most underrated Pokemon by far

Hey Pinkacross, I made this bulky Hazard Stack and I was looking for a few pointers for improvement. I think it has the potential to be great! https://pokepast.es/9fdae9be06b36341

Hey Pinkacross! I’ve made a Hydrapple team that I’ve really liked using and I’d like to know what you think about it. I have two versions but I’ll send the first one. I am having a lot of trouble with pokemon like primarina and iron valiant, as they often force a Tera on my Hydrapple if they place correctly. Here is the team, I was thinking of replacing maybe dragapult or Lokix, but still wanting to keep the volt turn core with Rotom. https://pokepast.es/717c15d7f82a08f6

What would you say are the best reliable special breakers in OU for balance?

I feel like I’ve been here multiple times

I’ve been trying this team and wanna know if anything could be improved

https://pokepast.es/e18f0d77eafb3725

Would this team be viable?

https://pokepast.es/9ba6c546edf89361

I love Frosmoth and I wanted to build a snow team around it to make it tanky with the def boost from snow and ice scales + quiver dance. I do worry about priority though.

Back again for the third time I have an idea to use scarfed Tera psychic indeedee with expanding force and psychic surge

Would this work in ou? (It one shots dozo after spikes)

Hey Pinkacross, I tried building a team centered around darkrai but I have been struggling with bulky offence teams could you suggest some improvements to the team
https://pokepast.es/3b185919d67fdf6d

What are your favorite things about SV OU as a metagame?

Could umbreon be viable in ou? I really like it as a mon and it's really low usage, but I think it could function as a wish passer like mola.

Back again with another question. I’m planning on making a balance hazard stack team with my fave pokemon sandy shocks and I wanna know what teammates it likes - the curious moss in your basement

Hey man, I moved on from Showdown months ago, but I just wanted to say I'm glad your community is still going strong! Thanks for everything bro

Hey pinkacross you have an idea for what supporting pokemon snorlax would like in the current meta of s/v ou. - from the clump of moss growing in the corner of your basement

https://pokepast.es/2fb1c3ce22015af7

Hey pinkacross. I’ve been testing this team recently but due to school stuff, I don’t think I’ll be able to play for a while. I did manage to climb to the 1800s, and have faced other high ladder players with success. I think you’ll enjoy it even if it is a bit gimmicky. The main idea of the team is to set up for either an iron crown or chesnaught sweep. They are both very powerful sweepers under terrain that can potentially wipe entire teams by themselves. Ting Lu and Glimm are there to facilitate the sweep by chipping targets that would otherwise be out of ohko range, and pult spreads status to give more set up opportunities as well as check Zama and Val which this team can otherwise struggle with. Hatt and roar Zama have given me the most problems so far, but both aren’t unplayable matchups. This team also destroys stall since they’ll be forced to tera against one of the sweepers letting the other one 6-0. I’m curious to hear your thoughts.

I actually haven't tried out this team yet, I was more so testing out teambuilding. I was wondering if there was any extremely notable weaknesses, because I am a more inexperienced player and I don't really know if what I'm doing is correct.

The team - https://pokepast.es/4d5ea03f2a6c8ed6