content warning: disgustingly high amounts of Zamazenta. not posting teams I consider to not be up to my standard, which is a solid 40% or so. also I just forgot some. not ordered properly because idr when each team was used and I moved them around in my builder so idk which came first.
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Really fun and very good though it struggles a lot with EE Ghosts cucking Blursa. Best Regenless structure I've made in a while, still holds up now despite being built for Week 1 of OMPL. Pecha and Blursa cover everything on the physical end besides Pao and Meow which have to deal with Zama and Gambit. Molt and Corv are a good spdef pair, again with Gambit backing it up against Ghold and a few other guys. Zama because it does Zama things and does wonders for creating room to outplay in nearly any matchup. I'm not going to be mentioning it again unless it's a weird set.
I chickened out and changed Exca to Treads when I passed this to feen. Exca is def something I overhyped but Treads is also complete shit so it's less Exca's fault and more the fact that the role it fills is fucking useless. Exca does work better than Treads on this team though I think, gives a bit more offense. Can change from Bulletproof to Wabs or WBB or even EE (great at fucking up some people prone to Lando or Glisc shit.) Rest of the team is pretty self-explanatory. You won't be seeing Zappy again.
I don't really feel the need to explain the hizo set. It works just play better if you aren't getting value. Focus Blast could technically work but I'm not a fucking coward who's afraid to click Focus Punch. Other guys are just generic mons that do things. Side note: I really need to revisit hizo this mon has some serious potential, but my builds trended away from the stuff it fits on so I didn't bring it any more.
Yeah this one is fucking ass but I think it's cool and wanted to share it anyways. Don't seriously load it though.
Built with
cat . It's webs. Still inconsistent but whatever. Inconsistent style is inconsistent. Big shocker. No ghost because everything but Zama scares off Tusk anyway. Don't face an annoying immunity Treads and you should be fine as long as you don't suck too hard. We really wanted to do like Teapot over Zama but then the team is actually 6-0ed by Gambit so we begrudgingly put Zama.
Also built with sapphire, I actually deleted it from my builder at one point so I had to get it again from her. It also sucks ass. We were complaining literally the entire time about not having Zamazenta but we managed to stick it out. Mew is actually really cool as role compression and the team has the darks and Molt for Ghold so it's fine. Mew over Hands cuz too weak to fairies otherwise.
I think this is when I built this chronologically? I literally cannot remember. Really fun balance that I liked building a lot. Kinda owned by Sands Molt, hence lefties Ting-Lu to slightly alleviate the matchup. Tinkaton balance (even bulky offense) is still cool now, sick defensive mon with a ton of unique traits and skill expression in how you use it. Underrated af.
Yeah, you already know this team. Doesn't hold up quite as well anymore but is still pretty decent. The sample version is unusable because of Pecha over Ghold getting completely fucked by Psysurge Deo so just run Ghold. Payapa Berry Zama and Chople Gambit is what I loaded against maybca and both of them came in clutch lmao. Try 'em out, they're good. Deo suddenly not being able to kill healthy Zama can be incredibly broken if you play it right.
my builds kinda massively shifted towards Ghold and Corv and Deo stuff going into AAAPL so thats going to be noticeably different in the following builds
If I could somehow slot Gambit over Lando or Corv then I'd have all of the top 5 mons in the meta (maybe WBB Gambit and Tusk over Lando and Corv?) but alas. This one is maybe the best but idk. Just some generic stuff. I hate WBB Lando but felt it was necessary here. Specs Ghold matchup sucks but scarf is fine because of Calm Primarina (I don't think I saw anybody running this before this but maybe I'm wrong.) Calm Prim is good, Iron Defense Zama helps outplay physical mons since there's not really a true physdef guy.
This team is cool. Hydreigon has some really nice role compression that justifies it over Specs Latios or whatever else. Other than the Hydreigon and the Protect Zamazenta everything is quite standard but it's fun to play and I like it :D
Stored Power spam Screens. Incredibly gimmicky and inconsistent but is pretty ridiculous against teams without the tools for it. The Latias is a neat lure to try to get rid of some particularly annoying matchups for Cress and Primarina. Gambit holds the team down for some matchups while Chomp is a great self-sufficient sweeper. I've personally found the most success with it by keeping Gardevoir around to Healing Wish in midgames. If you can avoid leading Garde, I'd recommend it in order to find better chances to get both screens without dying. Latias does suck though so I would probably change it to like Mold Breaker Lando or Zama or some other mon.
Far from my best work, and even farther from my typical style of team. I still find it to be quite fun to play though it can be very frustrating in some matchups. AV Zama instead of boots or whatever because the team needs a bit more bulk and it can potentially lure problem matchups.
Actually really happy with how this one turned out, nothing is more comfortable to me than an offense that forces my opponent to play on their toes just as much as I have to. The defensive backbone is minimal as with some of my best teams I've ever made, but it's just substantial enough as long as you don't face physical fires. Torn really impressed me once I started playing with it, it's able to get consistent value in pretty much every game assuming you position properly and hit your Bleakwinds. This is probably my favorite team of the bunch though it's close.
I think I built this for April in AAAPL semis? Though Ghold was used over Deo in the game. Good team.
This team is incredibly schizophrenic. Future Sight is really powerful if you can get it off and Slowking is good at doing exactly that. Almost a reuse of the core from the first Blursa team with Slowking over Moltres, which has a very similar defensive profile all things considered. Roaring Moon is chosen instead of a good mon like Kingambit because I
really wanted to have something extra for fire types since Slowking doesn't really beat them, it just clicks Thunder Wave and pivots out rather than winning the 1v1.
The second team I built for feen to use against atha, in case the first was too out-there for him. Similar to the other Deo Prim team it uses Iron Defense Zama to make up for the lack of a true physical wall, since it instead relies on type matchups to beat the physical attackers, which can get overwhelmed more easily in some matchups. VA Corv covers the Deo matchup pretty well, which feen was quite paranoid of. Psychic Surge Deo doesn't struggle with Kingambit preventing it from using it as an entry point and alleviating some pressure on Zamazenta, while unlike Hadron Engine it can fit Spikes without giving up an important move, allowing for some nice synergy with Sinistcha to spinblock. The Gholdengo matchup does leave a lot to be desired though so I'm not the biggest fan of this team overall, but Calm Primarina does give some breathing room against it, especially with Shadow Ball (WBB Sinistcha handles Desolanders generally.)
Very matchup fishy HO but it's fun and does have some room to play in worse matchups. Cloyster is very finnicky mon but if you can weaken its checks—or use it to weaken other teammates' checks—it can be incredibly dangerous. Thundy is chosen over Iron Moth as the Agility guy because it immediately threatens kills on non-Swampert waters, while the rest of the team threatens Swampert. Payapa for Deo because you're kinda fucked otherwise (still are if they don't suck lmao.) Deo set can be Taunt with Spikes but I prefer being able to threaten KOes if the opponent is too slow to respond. AV Crown matchup is fucking horrendous do your best not to face that guy.
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Swas for suffering through managing aaapl with me. neither of us really wanted to manage, and it showed, but it was for 50k react score, how could I say no?
