Welcome to Break This Team: USUM RU Edition! This project follows a simple layout, with the submission and voting stages taking place on a week by week basis. Most metagame defining teams may seem perfect on the surface, but they all have their undeniable flaws, and this project aims to help point out those weak links. Each week, I'll post a team that was built by someone invested in the metagame, and the participants will then try to break this team with a core made of just two Pokémon.
As stated earlier, the project will have two phases each week: the submission phase and the voting phase. The submission phase will have a duration of five days and participants are allowed to post a core with two Pokémon within that time. Then the voting phase will last two days and people can vote for their two favorite cores (this number is subject to change, depending on the number of submitted cores). Lastly, if you win a week, you will be placed in the Hall of Fame, and if you happen to win three weeks, you'll be able to PM me with your own team and it will be submitted in this thread for that other people try to break it!
RULES:
- Please attempt to not post one-liners. This includes extremely short descriptions. You don't need to write an elaborate essay, but try to at least provide a satisfactory description of the core. Don't post "these Pokémon work well together and I think that it will break this team ", try to elaborate on a good post with an explanation of how the core performs against the team.
- This is not a counterteaming competition. This is an attempt to get the community to find viable, functional cores that work generally well in the meta which the team of the week is weak to.
- By extension, try not to post gimmicky sets. Using Flamethrower Aerodactyl to take advantage of a Forretress is NOT a viable choice.
- Again, participants are only allowed to post one core with only two Pokémon.
- Please don't vote on your own core, or I'll ask forum moderators to delete your post.
- Don't rally people to vote for your own core. This is not fair at all to the other participants, and if you're caught doing this then you won’t be allowed to post or even offer any ideas in this thread.
- A small explanation would be appreciated when voting.
- Participants are allowed to do reservations, but if they don't post the sets with the explanation within 48 hours, other participants are allowed to take it.
- In order to encourage creativity and originality between submissions, the same Pokemon can only be used two times maximum per submissions round.
- Most importantly, have fun!
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Current Team (Week 2):
Thanks roman for providing this week's team ^_^
Donphan (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 248 HP / 128 Atk / 36 Def / 96 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Knock Off
- Gunk Shot
- Rapid Spin
Metagross @ Custap Berry
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 172 HP / 176 Atk / 160 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Meteor Mash
- Earthquake
- Explosion
Virizion @ Life Orb
Ability: Justified
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Leaf Blade
- Stone Edge
Barbaracle @ Rockium Z
Ability: Tough Claws
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Shell Smash
- Stone Edge
- Liquidation
- Protect
Noivern @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Hurricane
- U-turn
- Switcheroo
Goodra @ Choice Specs
Ability: Sap Sipper
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Fire Blast
- Thunder
- Sludge Bomb
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 248 HP / 128 Atk / 36 Def / 96 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Knock Off
- Gunk Shot
- Rapid Spin
Metagross @ Custap Berry
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 172 HP / 176 Atk / 160 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Meteor Mash
- Earthquake
- Explosion
Virizion @ Life Orb
Ability: Justified
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Leaf Blade
- Stone Edge
Barbaracle @ Rockium Z
Ability: Tough Claws
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Shell Smash
- Stone Edge
- Liquidation
- Protect
Noivern @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Hurricane
- U-turn
- Switcheroo
Goodra @ Choice Specs
Ability: Sap Sipper
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Fire Blast
- Thunder
- Sludge Bomb
teambuilding process was pretty simple, we just wanted a barb bo and added sponges donphan / goodra / metagross to deal w most threats and provide rocks / spin. viri is great to break down defensive cores and we went w edge here because it's great on this team to snipe stuff like scarf noivern / lazzle for barb, we've also got decent checks to mons like stoise and zygarde so synthesis wasn't as important here. at this point we just needed some speed control, we ended up going for noivern because the viri matchup was pretty bad and being able to switch in at least once makes the terrible matchup workable. it covers stuff like dd zyg too, which is nice. after that we went back and added some techs to support barb - gunk + ev invest lets donphan ohko viri (you can go more for min but it really cuts into bulk) | meta hp lets you live lo fire from rose and it procs berry after two rounds of rocks + fire from non lo and is in general great for sniping threats or keeping rocks up vs donphan mandi
Good luck and please submit your cores by Monday (March 11th).
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Anyway, vote for your favorite core. 
