I will start with a little recap of my UUFPL games
So yea, I originally signed up for regular UUPL, but no one picked me up, so i tried again for UUFPL and thank god I ended up with the Blipbug City Battlegirls and we ended up winning the whole thing. I ended up going 10-0 in BW UU, mostly because of the great team support I had, so I did not have to build myself, I mostly just used a team we prepared and made some edits.
Week 1 vs Abyssal Ruins
Ok so starting with week 1, I had this random idea of using a different Victini set every single week. I was just trying to have some fun at the beginning, because I havent played the tier seriously in years.
Accel posted some cool looking stuff, I changed some things around and ended up with Specs Victini, a set I wanted to use for a long time now. And well, it did great. Many people rely on physical waters like Qwilfish, Blastoise or Swampert to check Tini, but well, they all get easily 2HKOed by Specs Blue Flare. Scolipede is also super cool, because no one preps for it and you can easily get up some Spikes and after 1-2 layers, Tini just 2HKOes the whole tier, except Snorlax. Its also a huge surprise factor, as many people used special Victini with Exbert Belt before, but the added power of Specs makes it even scarier. The rest of the team is also cool: Cofagrigus blocks Spin and can clean in lategame with Trick Room + Nasty Plot. Both Togekiss and Tini had trick, so I would be able to really cripple annoying walls like Snorlax. Seismitoad is rare in UU, but it has a nice niche. It's not as bulky as Swampert, but being able to freely switching into Scald is really nice and it is amazing against Rain. Overall I didn't prep too much for my opponent in W1 and it was a lot of fun, showcasing the power of specs Tini.
Week 2 vs Martha
On this week
SBPC (Frosty) and
Tack joined in super hard for prepping. Frosty told me to use fat against martha and I still had this team from
choolio sitting in my builder, which he hadn't RMTed by then.
(He did later, check it out!) I used this team a few times before in random room tours and it is a lot of fun. I decided to stop the Tini train for this week, but instead, Charge Beam Zapdos would take the spot. It's a super cool set that is super threatening against almost everything, you just have avoid status on Zapdos, which is why it makes sense to use it on a semistall team with Heal Bell Umbreon. I also made the last minute change of giving Hitmontop Foresight instead of Bulk Up, because in my opinion it rarely gets the opportunity to set up. And thank god I made this change. I ran into a pretty bad matchup, Martha used Xatu which completely walls Bronzong, so bad news for trying to get up and also used Virizion, which kinda 6-0s the team. But thank god HP Flying Zapdos got the surprise kill on it and I was able to spin with Hitmontop, after that it was a long grind in trying to get Rotom-Heat low, but Zapdos finally pulled through.
Week 3 vs faded love
Tack built this at like 3am and I just ran with it. Special Tini again, but this time with Charcoal to, other than that its pretty standard. Defensive Roserade & Rhyperior for hazards, Sub Roost Zapdos with Discharge to maybe get some lucky paras on opposing electrics and Scarf Heracross as a cleaner. The game itself was crazy tho. I missed a very important Blue Flare on faded loves Garbodor on Turn 3, which was super bad for me, as it was the only reliable Heracross switchin for him. But luckily I was able to hit a few turns after, when I clicked EQ with my Scarf Hera against his Band Flygon, so I was able to freely spam CC after. The endgame was really crazy tho, it came down to a 5050, after he revealed CM Virizion, which was able to to beat my Kingdra 1on1. Luckily I got the turn right where he clicked Synthesis, so Hera was able to clean up. Also, this was a busy RL week for me, we wrote like 5 messages in the UU chat the whole week, really happy this one worked out lol
Week 4 vs Draphirion
Frosty: "venomoth is unironically fucking insane". And it truly is. Venomoth is this one weird mon, that was always pretty good, but oftentimes got stuck in a tier where it couldnt shine, same goes for BW UU. Frost came up with this idea of phys def mono attacking Venomoth and this set is just great. It walls Heracross and can freely set up on it and in general it can grab some nice surprise kills, because it suddenly lives some attacks. The rest of the team is pretty much straight forward: Scarf Tini + Sub CM Raikou is in general just a great & fast offensive core, combined with offensive Bronzong and CB Snorlax this team can easily punch through most balance teams. The only thing I would change now is Snorlax, I think running a more bulky variant would function better, as opposing band Victini just clicks V-Create and kills everything. The match itself started insanely good for me. This was my first time using Sub CM Raikou and I guess Draphirion did not expect it, as Raikou just grabbed 2 early kills which gave me a huge advantage. After that, Venomoth got its time to shine, as Draphirion expected it being faster than Heracross, which I was not and then it easily tanked a +2 Megahorn from it. To be honest, the game was already over at that point, but Draphirion definitely played his odds, because normally Heracross cleanly kills Venomoth at +2. Also, this was the week where
CoolStoryBrobat discovered his love for BW UU again and became a huge part in the prep squad.
Special off week team
https://pokepast.es/04e9275dd38d17cc
Frosty built this for this fun off week where just some players played each other in fun matches. And while this team looks like a fun team, its serious business lol
Week 5 vs mygrein
Ok so things are getting pretty serious right now, as I am currently 4-0 and everyone was finally talking about Victini and how broken it is, so we decided to bring Band Weavile to trap opposing Tinis, while running Colbur Berry on our own special Tini. I think Tack came up with this build, and while it looks pretty weird, it can definitely put in some work. Its a more defensive build, focusing around Hazards to wear down the opponent, until Tini and Weavile can clean up. mygrein also didn't play BW UU before this tour, so I was feeling confident and yea, Sleep Powder Roserade came in clutch and he made some weird plays, playing around the sleep and also Colbur Berry came in clutch on Tini, the extra health wouldve been really useful against Zapdos in Lategame.
Week 6 vs justamente
So this team was inspired by a team soulwind used earlier in regular UUPL. He used Stallbreaker Mew > Scrafty, but I really wanted to try out Scrafty since its looking really dangerous in the tier. Overall this team just looks super threatening and it truly is: Colbur Special Tini again, this time with Will-o-Wisp to burn Snorlax or any other annoying wall. Nidoqueen, Blastoise, Zapdos + Scrafty as a good defensive backbone that can still hit pretty hard and Scarf Mienshao for my speed control. justamente tried an unconventional strategy in using Sun, which was still super scary, but thank god Mienshao is fast af and was able to outspeed SD Tangrowth in sun. I couldve easily lost if i missed another Heat Wave tho, so it was still super close. Sadly Scrafty just died, because I did not expect SD Tangrowth but this game showed, how strong sun can be and how easily it can defeat more offensive teams.
Week 7 vs rabia
CSB came up with the idea of Special Victini + Lorb CM Raikou + Sharpedo and while I was sceptical at first, Frosty said it looked solid af so I went with it. So this is just straight up HO, Sash Qwilfish for Spikes, Cobalion for Rocks and Mismagius as my Spinblocker. And while the game started off pretty badly, when rabia paralyzed my Tini with his + me getting the full para, I was able to bring it back after Raikou landed a surprise KO on Nidoqueen with a +1 Extrasensory and then things started dying on both sides, but again, my Raikou came out on top thanks to Lorb Extrasensory. This couldve easily gone either way tho.
Week 8 wouldve been a rematch against
Rabia , but it never happpened because we already won the week and he got really sick and was not able to play. I hope you are finally feeling better <3
Finals vs avarice
Ok, so I was pretty sure that I wanted to use stall again and although I originally planned to use this team in W8 against rabia, I ended up using it 1 week later against avarice, because we were pretty sure that he is not that confident in the meta. CSB came up with this sick build, looks pretty broing, is pretty boring, but its strong af. Ferroseed is a cool tech against Snorlax, which usually does pretty good against stall with Resttalk. Its also way bulkier than Qwilfish, while still providing Spikes support and Leech Seed is annoying af. So the basic idea is to set up hazards and just force switches, Snorlax was a Resttalk variant with Whirlwind so I could get even more Hazard damage. The game itself was pretty cool, avarice used Bisharp, which was a huge threat and Resttalk Heracross, which is also super threatening but thank god it couldnt hit Cofagrigus, because he used Close Combat + Facade. But overall, still a very hard matchup for him and he just couldnt break my defensive core.
Finals Tiebreak vs splash
So we tied in finals and
ramolost decided to put me into the final tiebreak. Frosty and CSB built so many teams in prep for this, but I didnt like any of them, until I saw this. The idea was Life Orb Zapdos, because its just super strong, combined with Hazards ofc and Krookodile, which is super overlooked in BW UU, because Knock Off is still bad this gen. The original version had Kingdra > Scrafty, but then opposing Zapdos or electrics in general would just destroy this team. We tested a lot of version, but I ended up with my trusted Scrafty again, and this time, it finally did something. We were super afraid of rain, because its just a good playstyle in BW UU, thats where Slowking came in, because it walls the super threatening Rain Dance Kingdra. When the game happened, we were already up 1-0 because
pokemonisfun did a great job in SS, so this was now my chance to win the tournament. And man, what a game. Splash brought a really threatening team, the highlight being Metal Sound Zapdos. Thank god I scouted early enough that his Zapdos was not max speed, so I knew I had a chance in our offensive Zapdos war. The highlight was definitely turn 40, where I, again, pressed EQ against a Choice Scarf Flygon while it went for U-Turn, allowing me to kill Ferroseed. From that point on I just needed to wait for the right moment to safely trap his Choice Band Victini with Krook, so Bronzong and Scrafty can win.
^this almost happened lol
So yea, this was my little recap about my UUFPL run. This tournament really showed me, how great BW UU can be. I won't be sharing teams this time, because most of them were not built by me, but it will surely happen soon in this thread :)
