Hi, been meaning to get into monotype but there seems to be a lack of stall teams in the samples. Is stall a struggling archetype in the meta rn or are there simply no beginner friendly stall teams?
There are a few reasons for this.
1- By its nature, Monotype ignores one of main teambuilding fundamentals which is repeating the same type too much. When you literally have one type of Pokemon in your team, you are also stacking the same weaknesses and this leaves you weak to common coverage. Some examples being Steel being forced to play prediction games versus a Victini despite its solid defensive core, and Flying teams being forced to play extra careful around its Electric immunity so it doesnt get automatically invalidated by anything that runs Thunderbolt.
2- Since Monotype is one team sharing a type, the defensive properties of a type is important. Types may have access to good defensive Pokemon, but if the type itself doesnt have a good type chart resistances, those types cant really make an efficient stall team. Two examples of strong offensive types that has shit defensive properties, Fighting and Ice.
3- Lastly, the utility provided by the type's availability also plays a huge role in the stall team's composition. You want access to Pokemon that can cure status with moves like Aromatherapy and Heal Bell, you want access to hazards, you want access to good hazard removal to reduce the pressure, you want good amount of defensive immunities so you dont lose to common coverage etc. Most types are quite limited when it comes to the utility, for example Fairy teams does not have any proper hazard removal outside of Togekiss, Poison-type teams who rely on their only Dark-type mon in their team to not get sweeped by a Psychic-type Pokemon, and Normal-type teams who cannot resist fighting type coverage in any way.
Combining all this, you can realize that there arent many good types that can effectively run stall and be consistent in the metagame. Water is perhaps closest thing we have right now that can attempt at making a stall but its questionable how efficient that team will be. Thus they are not featured in our samples.
