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Project 1v1 Secret Santa 2024 (NOW WITH OLDGENS READ THE OP FOR FURTHER INFO)

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As you wish:
SV Darkrai Team
The team aims to stick to a standard core: Ground+Dark+Fairy. These 3 types cover each other's weaknesses very well and theres only a few things that you need to worry about in turn.

In motivated christmas spirit I decided to make your second request aswell:
SM Keldeo Team
The Keldeo is EV'd to live Z Outrage Dragonite + Z Shadow Ball + Shadow Sneak from Aegislash, while still outspeeding base 100s. The Leftover EVs are in SpAtk to make your odds of beating ZardX as best as possible. The Metagross is max Speed EQ for the mirror, the Bulu is just the normal Analysis Spread with BU>Leech Seed.

NihilisticWish wish you and everyone else nice holidays, enjoyable time with family and to recharge the batterys to start the new year.
 
Merry Christmas Opchurtle100 !
You asked for something crazy in SV with Hoodra, and I tried my best to deliver.
:goodra-hisui: :volcarona: :dondozo:

The idea behind scarf Hoodra is to flip its haxorus matchup. You bulk a cc from scarf haxorus and outspeed the others.
The volc is a max max.
Dondozo bulks 2 hyper beams from modespecs volcanion and flower trick from Jolly (!) Band Meowscarada.

I tried building azumarill for BW but realised an hour in that I do not understand this meta yo. Here's the set I put together anyways, its bulked for crustle and also beats volcarona garchomp.
:azumarill:

Wishing everyone a merry christmas and happy holidays. May the Lord bless you all :heart:
 
Merry Murmmas

:Garganacl: :Volcanion: :Haxorus:

Garganacl @ Custap Berry
Ability: Sturdy
Tera Type: Rock
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Iron Defense
- Recover
- Body Press
- Endure

Volcanion @ Air Balloon
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Fire
EVs: 80 HP / 252 SpA / 176 Spe
Modest Nature
- Steam Eruption
- Sludge Wave
- Overheat
- Flame Charge

Haxorus @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Unnerve
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Outrage
- X-Scissor
- Iron Tail
- Close Combat


Garganancacnal (i have no clue how to spell this thing) is a very not good pokemon. Instead of opting for boring Salt Cure strategies that are bad and lost to literally everything, I have instead opted for the much better strategy of using Iron Defense + Custap berry. Is this also bad? Yes. Does it beat some things? Yes. Are those things Ursaluna? Sometimes.

What is kinda cool about this set is that it has two "modes". The normal one where you Iron Defense on turn 1 and hope you KO with Body Press on Turn 2, but also mode 2, where you Iron Defense on turn 1 and if they had previously done ~66-75% of your health you could recover or endure > recover thanks to Custap Berry. This of course lets you then PP stall the attack until you can ID again safely and KO with Body Press. Is this particularly relevant? 252+ Atk Ursaluna Earthquake vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Garganacl: 228-270 (56.4 - 66.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO Idk not really.

Anyways, I needed to beat like Iron Crown, Primarina, Metagross, Corviknight, Landorus-T. So pairing with Air Balloon Volcanion felt pretty natural. Because Garganacalcal should beat Ursaluna, you don't need to run Sub on Volcanion, so I opted for Flame Charge instead of a more consistent Serperior match up. Still speedtiered for 219. After that, obviously Hoopa-U and Drago were the scary people, so I put a Scarf Haxorus on there to finish the team out.

It does pretty ok on ladder. So enjoy!
 
Murmerry Christmas Iron Crusher! I'll send the details of the teams through Discord, but here's what I cooked up.

:primarina: :hydrapple: :iron crown:

and because that team was kind of boring, here's a very slightly more funny one that has some 3-0s

:landorus: :primarina: :hydrapple:

I also made a valiant attempt at SM building, had a lot of fun messing around this set, shoutouts to Felucia for testing it with me.

:meloetta: :trevenant: :primarina:

If you have any questions of course feel free to reach out and ask, hope you enjoy!
 
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a weird lemur thing

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https://pokepast.es/3d37d46f7f65abec

Merry Christmas Kry ! Message me on Discord to receive your team!
 
Merry Christmas Felucia

:Arboliva: :Volcarona: :Iron Valiant:
Arboliva @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Harvest
EVs: 248 HP / 156 Def / 8 SpA / 96 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Tera Type: Fairy
Bold Nature
- Giga Drain
- Leech Seed
- Protect
- Substitute

Volcarona @ Life Orb
Ability: Swarm
EVs: 252 HP / 32 Def / 12 SpA / 16 SpD / 196 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Modest Nature
- Quiver Dance
- Bug Buzz
- Overheat
- Substitute

Iron Valiant @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
EVs: 208 HP / 252 Def / 48 Spe
Timid Nature
- Moonblast
- Protect
- Disable
- Encore

Admittedly, I don't know SV 1v1 very well, but I did my best with Arboliva. The first thought is that I want it to beat all forms of Primarina. Looking at the VR, I wanted to do something with Harvest, but that loses to some forms of Weakness Policy Primarina. Then I looked at Choice Specs, but that only really beats Primarina. Then it hit me, Substitute, Protect, and Leech Seed. Harvest and Sitrus Berry allows it to heal most its health back from Substitutes. The speed EVs allow it to outspeed Ursaluna, who you now beat. This set should beat Iron Crown, Primarina, Ursaluna, Pecharunt, and non Banded Metagross. From there we needed a way to beat opposing choices attackers and bulky Taunters. Volcarona helps take care of Corviknight, Iron Valiant, Hoopa-Unbound, and Metagross, while Iron Valiant handles Regidrago, Meowscarada, Raging Bolt, Urshifu, and most choice item opponents. Non-choice Volcanion seems like an issue.

:Donphan: :Jumpluff: :Charizard:
Donphan @ Groundium Z
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Ice Shard
- Head Smash
- Counter

Charizard @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Blaze
EVs: 116 HP / 168 SpA / 8 SpD / 216 Spe
Timid Nature
- Blast Burn
- Solar Beam
- Flame Charge
- Air Slash

Jumpluff @ Wide Lens
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 20 HP / 236 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Sleep Powder
- Leech Seed
- Substitute
- Protect

I don't know SM 1v1 that great either (I only really know DPP and some ADV), but the idea is that Mega Charizard Y is able to handle a wide variety of threats, while Donphan can handle the speedy attackers and Rock and Electric types that hurt it. Jumpluff rounds the team out as a catch all counter that can be a nuisance to everything else not covered with Sleep Powder. Hope these teams work decently!
 
Merry Christmas bea
I'll be honest, building with Greninja was surprisingly difficult and at some point I may have started having a little bit too much fun but I think things turned out pretty solid.

:ss/greninja:
This bad boy is there because you requested it, and honestly it's a mon that took me a second to get used to in SV. Since it's barely on my SM usage, I've got an insane blind spot in what it can do, and I ended up way overcomplicating it. The EVs are quite simple, speed for base 110, ATK for a gunk shot benchmark against some fairy type (I'm sorry it's been too long since I made the set I think it was one of the setcomp primarina spreads but I don't remember), and the rest is dumped in SpA to make your hydro cannon go brrrrr

:ss/iron_crown:
Iron Crown goes hard on this team, covering a lot of the bulkier mons that greninja is unable to OHKO. Def booster with either Metal Sound or Calm Mind is here to bop threats like meowscarada, corviknight, and iron hands that would otherwise be really annoying for Gren. EVs are enough to tank two jolly knock offs from Choice Banded Meowscarada, while having the maximum SpA without switching to SpA booster. Speed is for max speed corviknight. You can run Volt Switch over Focus Blast if you really hate corv, and then you can probably just click Tachyon Cutter vs Meowscarada and still win. Use that option at your own peril

:ss/garchomp:
Forgive me bea for I have sinned, haxorus from wish coming in to beat actual Haxorus and Volcanion, with enough SpD to tank any hit from Specs Volcanion, and Speed to outspeed Scarf Haxorus, this Scarf Garchomp does in fact go BRR. Unfortunately I couldn't account for Steam Eruption Burn, as that'd leave your Atk so low that you can't handle the bulkiest of Haxorus sets anymore.

Here's the thing

Team gets 3-0d by Haban Haxorus, and there's probably some drago or crown set that fucks you up, but overall you'll be fiiiine
 
Merry Christmas ExguardiaN! Sorry for the wait...

:iron-hands:

https://pokepast.es/c6e9a0ab5f5afabc

I started off with 4A hands but SD to beat random set up mons is still fine. I also wanted a mon to help with ursaluna and some other fairies/grounds so I opted for for Maranga Corv. This was definitely 6-0ed by every Crown set so I went for AV Hoopa. Dark Pulse over Knock Off so you actually beat ID CM Crown.

Calcs:

252+ SpA Choice Specs Primarina Moonblast vs. 152 HP / 80 SpD Assault Vest Iron Hands: 410-486 (84.1 - 99.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

192 Atk Choice Band Hoopa-Unbound Zen Headbutt vs. 152 HP / 8 Def Iron Hands: 410-486 (84.1 - 99.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Good chance to ohko CB Ursaluna and you outspeed if they're sample set 0 speed

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen91v1-2268170168
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen91v1-2268170035

:goodra:

https://pokepast.es/62b07251bbedbb4b

I assume you only wanted no stabs on Goodra so I just put EQ over Draco on AV. I also wanted to try Balloon Gross with it but it seemed very weak to Entei so I made the final mon Scarf Fini. These are all standard sets so I won't go over them.

I haven't built 1v1 for a while so these probably aren't the best quality and probably do not account for a lot of the meta but I hope you can have fun with them!
 
Merry Christmas bern
:gallade: :roaring_moon: :corviknight:
Gallade lives a custap prim hydro cannon along with volcanion overheat and you can beat iron crown but vs special attack booster it gets dicey.
:gallade_mega: :mawile_mega: :manaphy::waterium_z:
Gallade lives a timid specs greninja hydro cannon and a jolly charizard mega x outrage(click rock tomb), and the manaphy lives aegislash and I forgot the other benchmark, gn.
:gallade_mega: :mawile_mega: :manaphy::chesto_berry:
Same gallade, spdf on manaphy gives genesects the attack boost so you can win by clicking cm.
 
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Merry Christmas happysh !

https://pokepast.es/6fd455a5ccb2de96

Victini gets kills on stuff like Zera and MVenu, outspeeding base 135s at +1 and getting matchups like Serp and Zone from flame charge

Mawile lives stuff like MAggron and Keldeo and outspeeds uninvested base 55s

Manaphy lives golem and volcanion and outspeeds heatran

This loses to charge Rotom-Heat and is fishy into Manaphy, but other than that it should be good to go.

Also I finally wrote down what the evs are for so if you want exact details I can actually give you that.
 
Merry Christmas neomon I hope you have a great holiday.
Here the team with rhyperior
https://pokepast.es/3eba5c3c17c56acc

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For the set I went with the normal Custap set since it should be able to beat most of the mon which does not have priority moves,really bulky or which have resistance against Rhyperior STAB. I particularly went with Custap just to have better mus against Volcanion(still lose to Custap,Bulky and wisp sets). It also have Sword Dance so it has better odds against Iron Crown WP sets.

For the team I went with Pasho Volcarona and Speed booster Walking Wake. Volcarona cover most of the mon that Rhyperior lose to with it fat coverage and Walking wake cover the mons that Volcarona cant cover and dragon mons.


There could be some mons that can 0-3 teams that i forgot but this team is patched with copium and prayer as a bandage so there shouldn't be any. So have fun with this team.
 
Merry Christmas jhm5!
Scizor was a fun one and gave me two routes, one with Primarina and then another one with a DFS core.
:scizor::primarina::arcanine-hisui:
The Scizor EVs should ensure your Primarina matchup, and pairing it with band Arc-H just feels natural to help you beat pokemon like Corviknight and Iron Crown that Scizor and Primarina struggle with.
:scizor::walking wake::iron valiant:
Trying band Scizor this time (with the same EVs), this should give you a good chance against most primarina spreads, this time i paired it with a different water type in Wake which allows me to round out the DFS core with Valiant. I'm hoping Wake and Scizor can scare Iron Crown out between them and that Scizor can beat most of the fairies you'll be facing.
I also had a go at your mamoswine DPP team, but I don't really play DPP so I can't promise it's as good as the other two.
:mamoswine::cresselia::infernape:
I don't really have much to say here as I don't play DPP but Cresselia seems like a pretty good pairing for Mamoswine, and then Infernape seemed good to cover things like Celebi that can beat both.
 
Merry Christmas lost heros!
here are your teams as requested:
:sliggoo-hisui::ninetales-alola::volcarona:
https://pokepast.es/2f0970a9e3957022
I tried to find something that sliggoo-hisui could be better than hoodra at, and that is stall. Skitter smack for lowering SpA, and rock tomb to help with volcarona.

Ninetales-a is just standard.

The volcarona evs are to out speed base 80s and live a 252+ hoopa-u hyperspace fury.

Now for the togedemaru team, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, since I don't really play SM.
:togedemaru::tapu_fini::zygarde_complete:
https://pokepast.es/51f6b3792cd17e3c
I thought the togedemaru set would be funny, magnet rise+encore can do something probably. Iron tail can be changed to iron head for consistency.
I hope you enjoy these teams, and happy holidays!

shoutout Iron Crusher for helping me test!
 
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Merry Christmas LemonLime78!

I build Iron hands
Team 1 Team 2

I built team 2 because team 1 didn't feel that good to play with even though it got results on ladder. For team 1, I went with Iron Crown for fairy, dragon, and psychic types. Zarude is there for the ground types and the psychic types that Iron crown can't beat which is most of them.

For team 2 I used Hoopa because it actually beats Fairy and psychic types with gunk shot. A9 can beat ground types and dragon types and another option is ice beam over moonblast as the attacking move for ursaluna that outspeed iron hands.

I don't remember what the evs do but if you really want to know I can try and remember
No munchlax because I can't build old gens :c
 
Still xmas in honolulu so I'm not late :X

Happy holidays UwU1v1
SS - Blissey:
:blissey::entei::tapu fini: https://pokepast.es/f3a2fca7986ca979
This team should be pretty "functional" - its just the classic chansey fini entei squad with a chople blissey. Losing eviolite bulk is very felt but you do flip some random matchups with the extra chople resistance.

:blissey::landorus-therian::primarina: https://pokepast.es/61181ddbdfcf7204
I decided the team that I built wasn't fun enough so I made one that takes advantage of blissey's real niche: serence grace ice beams. Scarf lando-t beats gdarm, pult, zeraora and is generally unexpected. Fast lorb prim is strong for the mirror (blissey should win but maybe you run into like cm encore prim) and rounds out matchups vs. other fairies like sylveon and threats like ursh and drago. Sub helps vs steela and is cute in random matchups like ttar.

SV - Braviary-Hisui:
:braviary-hisui::scizor::raging bolt: https://pokepast.es/ffecdd61a8eb4e1d
This mon is quite terrible and actually has no arguable legitimate niche. This bulk is for specs volcanion overheat (roost turn 1 kind of counters it (not rly)) and ada band val ice punch. The combination of cm+esper wing+roost should beat random special attackers like heatran and scope lens can break through cress. It probably beats corv too? scizor beats hoopa, urshifu, arguably crown and drago too. wp bolt lures grounds and beats prim.
 
merry belated christmas Pokemh! ur secret santa (nuxl) did not do urs for some reason so i will be putting them on the naughty list next year >:(

:tauros-paldea-blaze::goodra-hisui::spectrier:

the tauros evs live a jolly scarf gross psychic fangs and a 164 spa timid life orb spectrier hyper beam after ur own life orb recoil (flame charge into blitz). the goodra hisui is for mons like non offensive crown, fairies like prim, and hoopa-unbound. spectrier rounds out the team, beating mons like val, urshifu-rapid-strike, landot, and haxorus. Happy holidays!
 
happy holidays realaccountami? (!!!) here is your ting lu team, pls do enjoy it
:ting lu::volcarona::primarina:

ting lu evs: modespecs volcanion steam eruption, adaband meowscarada taxel
ting lu beats, or has good odds into the ever annoying pecharunt, allowing for a nice synergy with volcarona which passho berry helps it defeat ogerpon-wellspring. the primarina beats the fightings and the dragons that threaten the two like both urshifu forms and walking wake.

for your ss team heres a chansey team featuring nihilego and moltres galar, with nihilego beating non assault vest zeraora and chansey beating assault vest zeraora. Rocky helmet moltres-galar is a personal favorite of mine, with the combination of rocky helmet + taunt + nastplot + dual stabs allowing it to plow through even pokemon like opposing chansey and ferrothorn which the other two struggle with, but still allowing it to hold its core matchups like cresselia, spectrier, urshifu, and haxorus. I hope you have fun and happy holidays once again, and I apoplogise on behalf of hungryfoodies not doing ur secret santa >:( which i will be putting him on the naughty list next year
 
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And with that the 1v1 secret santa project comes to an end. My personal thanks to everyone who contributed to the project, giving everyone at least some newfound fun in a pokemon or two. I hope this year's format was not too hard for people to understand, and with (potentially) gen10 releasing next year we will see you in 2025 with a bunch of new pokemon. Happy holidays!
 
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