OU ADV OU Teambuilding Competition

[JoaF]

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ADV Teambuilding Competition
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Welcome to the brand new ADV OU Teambuilding Competition thread! Each week I will post a new Pokemon, core or set, and it’s up to you to make the best possibile team out of it! Every time you post a new team, you will have to provide an explanation of the building process, strength and weaknesses, and the importable of the team itself. Each month will have a new requirement/restriction in the teambuilder. The winner of each month will get their team inducted into the Hall of Fame as well as a fun name color (some restrictions apply) in the Smogon ADV Discord Server.

Each round will begin at the start of the month, with 2 weeks of submissions, 1 week for public voting (vote by reacting to team posts), and the final week for the judges to rank the top 5 teams remaining and declare the winner for that month.

To enter, submit your team as a reply in this thread. The 5 highest voted teams will be further reviewed and then ranked by the judges who will ultimately decide on the winner of the month. The judges will be AC7, Zpanther, and Kollin7.

Rules for team submissions & voting:

1. Don't copy somebody else's team. Pretty straightforward here, we want this competition to be as diverse as possible, and copying a team someone else posted will result in a disqualification. Taking inspiration is absolutely fine, but we don't wanna see copies of teams. Also, remember to provide a PokePaste.
2. Remember to go into detail on the team, building process, sets, spreads, etc. Just PokePastes will be deleted.
3. Vote by liking/reacting to others team post. You may vote more than once.
4. Don't ask for votes, neither for you or your friends. Let's keep the competition fair and clean.
5. Have fun!

Hall of Fame

September 2025 - TBD

 

[JoaF]

Teambuilding Competition - September 2025:

Each month will have a Pokemon selected to build around, or some restriction/requirement in the teambuilder selected by one of our judges to keep things fun. For the first month of building AC7 wanted to commemorate Medicham as the newest ADV OU Pokemon. Excited to see what people come up with!

Note: Since this started a week into the month, the submission and voting phases will be condensed into 2 weeks. Final round of judge ranking will be done on last week of the month as always still.

 

[Politoad With An A]

Double-Band Rain Balance

Cool song that I had in the background when building and stimulation for yall when reading this post <3

<- Press for the Pokepaste

The building process: I wanted to dip my toes into a metagame I haven’t really touched on before and decided this would be a fun way to get me into singles.I looked at something that would be similar to what I would find in doubles, so I decided on a very offensive team that hinges on removal of key threats to surprise your opponent with an unexpected pick that cleans everything up well. Since Medicham was a must I wanted something that thrives upon the removal of Tyranitar, Zapdos and Blissey - which brought me to Rain.

Set decisions and Mon choice explanations:

Medicham
I chose to put medicham in the lead slot because of the team’s aforementioned weakness to Tyranitar and Zapdos and the fact 2HKOing everything with Brick Break is just super fun. The set is pretty standard all things considered; but I decided on Baton Pass for my 4th move because it scouts the switch from Tyranitar and Suicune and keeps you momentum. In the worst case scenario, you have a free Blissey or Forretress entrance.

Blissey
From the beginning of building I already knew the team would need some longevity and ways to pivot around strong Ice Beams and Thunder Bolts, and Blissey is just the perfect wall and can easily make progress with Seismic Toss and Thunder Wave. I have Ice Beam over something like Heal Bell or Rain Dance so it can hit Gengar, which was a big issue in testing. Another pretty standard pick but would probably be better off as a Wish Blissey now that I think of it lol

Kingdra
The main mon and the primary sweeper of the team, Kingdra is an Offensive POWERHOUSE and does illegal amounts of damage with Surf + Spikes chip. Has a really positive Swampert matchup which the team really needs so far. Lum Berry lets it swap in for free on Moltres/Gengar Will-o-Wisps and hit back hard. Cool mon but Hidden Power Grass could probs be replaced with Electric for a better Gyarados Matchup.

Dugtrio
This mon is a lot sillier then the others purely because it only exists to spite late game Tyranitar and Suicune, if you lose the speed tie versus opposing Lead Medicham and get Shadow Balled into oblivion and/or to chip everything into Surf range. That’s pretty much it lol

Celebi
Another Water resist is super nice and provides team-wide recovery with Leech Seed. Also significantly improves your Toxic Swampert matchup and can snipe opposing Forretress with Hidden Power Fire. Recover on Celebi really gives the team a safety net for if Kingdra goes down early, so you can commit to playing out the rest of the game as stall in conjunction with Blissey and Forretress.

Forretress
Speaking of Forretress, it fills out the team excellently and is great role compression in the form of Spikes + Spin + Calm Mind Celebi check. Spikes is just an amazing move, we all know this. A single spike gives you so much momentum and can force you opponent into unfavourable situations super easily. It also has spectacular synergy with Surf from Kingdra as loads of mons just love taking 80% from surf and OHKOing in return, so for the first time ever; 2 layers of Spikes is worth going for (!) Explosion is also a really good option as it is another Offcune answer and can finish off the opposing Spinner so you have 2 layers for the rest of the game and there is nothing your opponent can do about it :3c

That’s my team, hope yall enjoyed the post. (Friendly reminder I barely know what im doing so lots of this post is just assumptions xP)