Dollainthewoods
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner’s for Beginners
This team was made by czim and modified a bit by me, it singlehandedly brought me to zu open quarterfinals and I want to know if there’s any changes I should make. Anyways here’s the team description:
IHM: I Hate Mondays
A.K.A.: The best team of all time
Ok so first let me credit Czim for giving me this team through secret santa, you're the goat dude you should win zu open. And while at first I thought really nothing of it, I started testing it out and it actually didn't do so bad. In fact it helped to carry me to zu quarterfinals, where i would lose to czim in two games. Enough of that back story though, let's get into the team itself.
Da Team:
Import: https://pokepast.es/f6b0a8b13fee458e
Lasagna (Komala) @ Leftovers
Ability: Comatose
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Wish
- Protect
- Knock Off
- Rapid Spin
Ok First we start out with komala, who's running a standard support set. This is very important for the team, as not only does it act as a means to let the bulky attacking mons recover, but also provide hazard removal with rapid spin. Right now Komala is the best mon in zu without a doubt, it's ability to tak hits easily, be immune to burn para and poison, and its recovery and hazard removal, easily make it supporting mon, and a good start to the team. This helps counter stuff like, electivire, special swanna, altaria, bronzor, mr mime, and mareanie.
Oddie (Golem) @ Choice Band
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Punch
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
Next up is golem, with a cb set. Right off the bat golem is a good rocker because of it's great bulk and attack which can scare mons out. The choice band on golem, makes it an amazing attacker, with not a lot being able to pivot into it. STAB EQ and Stone Edge are an amazing pairing going along with it's 566 attack to make it a threat to anything coming into it. Fire punch also deals with stuff like bronzor and shiftry, which makes them unable to switch in due to risk of ohko. This helps to counter mons like muk, pinsir, evire, crustle, and rapidash.
John Arbuckle (Abomasnow) @ Grassium Z
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Wood Hammer
- Ice Punch
- Grass Whistle
Now here is a grassium Z abomasnow set. This set has one basic premise, to help cleanup at the end of the game. The way it does this is by using z grass whistle, which gives it +1 speed and has a meh chance of having the other user fall asleep. Then abomasnow sets up with swords dance and cleans up teams pretty easily. This also helps with mons like shiftry, silvally water, and an opposing golem, which the first two mons struggle with.
Mondays (Mareanie) @ Eviolite
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Toxic Spikes
- Scald
- Sludge Bomb
- Recover
Enough with the offense, now time for bulk with mareanie. Mareanie is here to help deal with physical attackers and to set up t spike to stall out the other team and put pressure on it as a whole. Mareanie gives the team the necesary zu water type and is great as a phys wall and a stall mon, with regen and t spike it'll annoy the f out of ur opponents. It allows a check to phys swanna, which the team desperately needs, gorgeist, combusken, floatzel, and most silvally types.
Live action Garfield (Rotom-Fan) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Trick
- Volt Switch
- Air Slash
- Will-O-Wisp
Big fan incoming. Rotom fan is the 5th mon, and is a good pivot mon. Will o wisp and trick stop setup mons in their tracks, and allows rotom to be able to pivot will volt switch or use air slash with ease. Choice scarf allows rotom fan to outspeed silvally fighting, pinsir, +2 crustle, cs abomasnow, and floatzel. This set can be generally annoying for any team without an electivire, which is rare i know, and is overall a solid mon. Also, watch the live action garfield movie, it's the best thing ever
Garfield (Silvally-Ghost) @ Ghost Memory
Ability: RKS System
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Ice Beam
- Thunderbolt
- Parting Shot
The final mon, Silvally-ghost, I changed one mon so it's my team now. Silvally ghost is an unexpected special attacker that helps deal with some gaping wholes in the team. With it being the only real offensive special attacker on the team, it does it's job well allowing an easy pivot going with a great moveset. It also provides a much needed swanna check with t bolt as it's 3rd move and it's easy pivotability.
Threats:
Shiftry: Even though it has checks on this team, with setup and stealth rocks, this mon one v one's this whole team.
Swanna: Z Mirror move is a huge threat to the team because nothing can really switch into it well, same with cb.
Simisear: It's nasty plot set can cause lots of trouble for my team, and if mareanie is gone it basically sweeps
Replays:
Vs Durza In almost exhib: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-859704116
vs Chessking345 1st in zu open r3: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-861839478
vs Chessking345 2nd in zu open r3: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-861902292
vs Klostnueberg in almost exhib: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-855567937
vs EternalSnowman 1st in zu open r4: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-864132615
vs EternalSnowman 2nd in zu open r4: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-864134441
Reasons for Posting:
1. I got permission by czim, and it's already public
2. It got me to quarterfinals of zu open so I think it's pretty good
3. I'm going to be taking a break from mons due to school sports coming up next week, so I wanted to give the community something to have before I left :)
Thank yous:
To czim for the team
To the ZU mod team for being some of the most dedicated people and being able to pull me into this teir
And finally to Ismail for being my hero
Thank you all for reading have a good day!
IHM: I Hate Mondays
A.K.A.: The best team of all time
Ok so first let me credit Czim for giving me this team through secret santa, you're the goat dude you should win zu open. And while at first I thought really nothing of it, I started testing it out and it actually didn't do so bad. In fact it helped to carry me to zu quarterfinals, where i would lose to czim in two games. Enough of that back story though, let's get into the team itself.
Da Team:
Import: https://pokepast.es/f6b0a8b13fee458e
Lasagna (Komala) @ Leftovers
Ability: Comatose
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Wish
- Protect
- Knock Off
- Rapid Spin
Ok First we start out with komala, who's running a standard support set. This is very important for the team, as not only does it act as a means to let the bulky attacking mons recover, but also provide hazard removal with rapid spin. Right now Komala is the best mon in zu without a doubt, it's ability to tak hits easily, be immune to burn para and poison, and its recovery and hazard removal, easily make it supporting mon, and a good start to the team. This helps counter stuff like, electivire, special swanna, altaria, bronzor, mr mime, and mareanie.
Oddie (Golem) @ Choice Band
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Punch
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
Next up is golem, with a cb set. Right off the bat golem is a good rocker because of it's great bulk and attack which can scare mons out. The choice band on golem, makes it an amazing attacker, with not a lot being able to pivot into it. STAB EQ and Stone Edge are an amazing pairing going along with it's 566 attack to make it a threat to anything coming into it. Fire punch also deals with stuff like bronzor and shiftry, which makes them unable to switch in due to risk of ohko. This helps to counter mons like muk, pinsir, evire, crustle, and rapidash.
John Arbuckle (Abomasnow) @ Grassium Z
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Wood Hammer
- Ice Punch
- Grass Whistle
Now here is a grassium Z abomasnow set. This set has one basic premise, to help cleanup at the end of the game. The way it does this is by using z grass whistle, which gives it +1 speed and has a meh chance of having the other user fall asleep. Then abomasnow sets up with swords dance and cleans up teams pretty easily. This also helps with mons like shiftry, silvally water, and an opposing golem, which the first two mons struggle with.
Mondays (Mareanie) @ Eviolite
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Toxic Spikes
- Scald
- Sludge Bomb
- Recover
Enough with the offense, now time for bulk with mareanie. Mareanie is here to help deal with physical attackers and to set up t spike to stall out the other team and put pressure on it as a whole. Mareanie gives the team the necesary zu water type and is great as a phys wall and a stall mon, with regen and t spike it'll annoy the f out of ur opponents. It allows a check to phys swanna, which the team desperately needs, gorgeist, combusken, floatzel, and most silvally types.
Live action Garfield (Rotom-Fan) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Trick
- Volt Switch
- Air Slash
- Will-O-Wisp
Big fan incoming. Rotom fan is the 5th mon, and is a good pivot mon. Will o wisp and trick stop setup mons in their tracks, and allows rotom to be able to pivot will volt switch or use air slash with ease. Choice scarf allows rotom fan to outspeed silvally fighting, pinsir, +2 crustle, cs abomasnow, and floatzel. This set can be generally annoying for any team without an electivire, which is rare i know, and is overall a solid mon. Also, watch the live action garfield movie, it's the best thing ever
Garfield (Silvally-Ghost) @ Ghost Memory
Ability: RKS System
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Ice Beam
- Thunderbolt
- Parting Shot
The final mon, Silvally-ghost, I changed one mon so it's my team now. Silvally ghost is an unexpected special attacker that helps deal with some gaping wholes in the team. With it being the only real offensive special attacker on the team, it does it's job well allowing an easy pivot going with a great moveset. It also provides a much needed swanna check with t bolt as it's 3rd move and it's easy pivotability.
Threats:
Shiftry: Even though it has checks on this team, with setup and stealth rocks, this mon one v one's this whole team.
Swanna: Z Mirror move is a huge threat to the team because nothing can really switch into it well, same with cb.
Simisear: It's nasty plot set can cause lots of trouble for my team, and if mareanie is gone it basically sweeps
Replays:
Vs Durza In almost exhib: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-859704116
vs Chessking345 1st in zu open r3: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-861839478
vs Chessking345 2nd in zu open r3: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-861902292
vs Klostnueberg in almost exhib: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-855567937
vs EternalSnowman 1st in zu open r4: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-864132615
vs EternalSnowman 2nd in zu open r4: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7zu-864134441
Reasons for Posting:
1. I got permission by czim, and it's already public
2. It got me to quarterfinals of zu open so I think it's pretty good
3. I'm going to be taking a break from mons due to school sports coming up next week, so I wanted to give the community something to have before I left :)
Thank yous:
To czim for the team
To the ZU mod team for being some of the most dedicated people and being able to pull me into this teir
And finally to Ismail for being my hero
Thank you all for reading have a good day!