Green: 1LDK
Red: AndViet
Hello everybody, the name is 1LDK, if you are a frequent visitor to this place you might now me for some whacky teams in the grand scene of things, today im doing another collab, this time with RMT moderator AndViet who is a great human being and wants me to succede. and i asked him about collabing, which he accepted, after a session of brainstorming and trying stuff, I got an idea from a post on the OU forum, and the idea was to use the combination of FS Slowking with both Garganacl and Iron Valiant to create a core of high pressure, constant chip and overall destruction, and after some convincing (i did puppy eyes to him and spammed gun emojis on discord) he accepted and here we are, so with that in mind, lets see the team
Slowking @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Future Sight
- Chilly Reception
- Slack Off
- Flamethrower
The first member of the big 3 is Slowking himself, with the goat animation in Chilly Reception, the snow changes and Cetitan being MID as fuck, Slowking is not really supporting the best cast in a metagame where offensive threads need only a few turns to set up to destroy everything, and is also a meta where you can trade types, maybe something will no longer take that future sight or flamethrower happilly, HDB are for always safe entrance in the land of multiple hazards, slack off for self and safe healing, Flamethrower because of the 10% chance burn, so the plan with the man that wants pants here is to pivot it into special attacks that he can take (which are more now thanks to the Chi-Yu ban) and depending of the situation, either Chilly out, FS, both or just brawl with the thing, tera water is just for overall defense
Garganacl @ Leftovers
Ability: Purifying Salt
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
- Salt Cure
- Protect
- Stealth Rock
- Recover
andviet: This Garganacl set is fantastic, I’ve used it over a 100 times and I feel with the recent quickbans of Annihilape and Chi-Yu it becomes even easier to use. The EVs allow Garganacl to become a physical defensive behemoth, it can do pretty well taking on certain choice banded users or even Dragon Dance users. The protect + Salt Cure combo is an annoying combo which allows Nacl to gain passive HP as well as chip damage on the opponents Pokémon. Recover is used to keep your HP high and scout of for moves or switches. The point of this set is to spam Salt Cure / Protect Stall, keeping Garganacl alive as long as possible is key.
Iron Valiant @ Choice Specs
Ability: Quark Drive
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Aura Sphere
- Psyshock
- Moonblast
- Shadow Ball
Oh valiant valiant sweet valiant, okay so the few people who do know me, know that i love this set, in my personal opinion the CM Booster Energy is too slow, and prefer this instead because it kills every single mon in the tier with the exception of the all mighty Sylveon, but im derrailing, in the rare case valiant is short of a KO by some miracle, a FS from Slowking should send that shit packing, you also have the option of hitting him again, that will defenetly do the trick, the moves are for overall coverage and tera fairy is for maximun destruction with moonblast
Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Rough Skin
Tera Type: Ground
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
- Fire Fang
- Dragon Claw
andviet: I haven’t seen scarfed Chomp being used since BW OU, but I will say it’s speed tier will always make it a plausible option. That combined with Tera Type Ground being utilized some games; it hits hard as hell (even it’s just scarfed). The set is pretty standard, I’d be willing to go with more of a mixed Chomp set here with Fire Blast but 1LDK is a fan of it being fully physical. It provides fantastic natural bulk and it’s key in terms of being one of our fire resists. The role of Garchomp is to be used to a cleaner and ideally best used when all the ground immune / ground resistances are removed from the oppositions side.
Corviknight @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Pressure
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 252 HP / 88 Def / 164 SpD / 4 Spe
Careful Nature
- Defog
- Roost
- Brave Bird
- U-turn
Corviknight sure took a hit from all the new lovecraftian horrors wandering about with lust for blood, luckily for us, Corviknight is still able to put up a fight in spite of all this, now, Corviknight does have some cool tricks to beat its enemys, but in this team, we belive that a standard set is gonna be better overall, so it does the standard corv things, 4 Speed is to win the Corv speed wars (in the majority of times) and either defog faster, roost faster, brave bird faster or give a "fast" U-Turn to a friend who will love it, also brave bird over body press because imagine using body press in the Gholdengo meta and in the year of our lord 20XX lmao
Kingambit @ Leftovers
Ability: Supreme Overlord
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 108 HP / 252 Atk / 148 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Kowtow Cleave
- Sucker Punch
- Iron Head
andviet: Kingambit was chosen because of it’s overall bulk and synergy wise assisting with taking steel damage to assist with keeping Garganacl’s at high health, Kingambit is a great defensive Pokémon as well. It sometimes feels that is has Assault Vest, Choice Band, Leftovers all at the same time. This set is pretty standard, Swords Dance allows it to become a vicious late game sweeper. Sucker Punch is an ideal priority move to have if Garchomp is wasted early in game. Its typing allows it to be an annoying presence to Meowscarada, Gholdengo, and Scizor (If not carrying Close Combat). Kingambits Speed EVs allow it to outspeed Corviknights who have 8 Speed EVs invested.
Overall Gameplan
Your overall plan is to tera fairy garga turn 1, and do what you think is gonna be best be agresive but confident, make pivots and force darks with Slowking, Valiant and gambit are gonna be your main sources of damage, salt cure spam + FS + a hefty attack should be able to let anything retreat, sack Slowking if necessary, dont be afraid to do so, but dont let that sack happen because of something stupid, and let chomp clean after
Threats, Dangers and how to deal with them
Despite this being the best team of all time, there is some problematic things that you need an overall plan for in order to archieve success
Rain is a playstyle that people though was dead on arrival when gen 9 started, yet it has innovated to become a staple of the metagame again, with a team that has no water resist outside of Slowking (who will get overwhelmed with either Amoongus, Ting Lu or Scizor, common partners) the plan here is to play the long game with garganacl and the almighty salt cure and Slowking pivots that WILL force Pelipper back in, and from time to time give a poke or 2 with Valiant
A good question to always make when making a team is "how do i beat stall and be in time for dinner" the answer is scout the covert cloacks with garga, garga and slowking can run the distance, poke with valiant or gambit depending on the overall team structure (like for example if it is the dashbun stall then go valiant but keep gambit on the back)
fun fact, from the longest time i had this mandela effect where i swear Masquerain had access to Aeroblast, because i remember watching it use it multiple times across generations, anyways, try to kill him in a way that does not trigger sash and lets you defog it away, because theres nothing worse than webs your side and a +2 Chien Pao from the other side
Tera fairy Garga, Salt Cure him and start stalling him out in any way you can, start praying for its ban
while nothing really wants to take a big hit with it, depending on what he locks himself into (and the item), Gambit or Chomp should be able to take him out, and unless it has covert, garga will always have a chance to lock him or salt cure himConclussion, Pokepaste and shoutouts
https://pokepast.es/b636a4ebf7d87255
Honestly, this was a fun project, where despite difficulties such as Chi Yu, tera, miscommunications and overall lack of skill from my part, i believe AndViet had a ton of fun with it, because i did had fun with it, thank you for everything man.
As for the team itself, after laddering a bit, i can safely say that Slowking is a mon who has been supporting the wrong cast in my opinion, and it seems like people are starting to see it too, I hope everybody likes this team and gets a lot of attention, maybe even we can start a new trend on the meta, heh, that would be wild. anyways this was 1LDK, and now im going to bed
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1764697268 (what to do if you see a Webs team)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1764710770 (an overall good game where everybody did something)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1764757919 (its outdated but this serves as a demonstration that, even with 6 broken mons on the enemy side, you still always have a chance to fight)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1764793229 (Outdated but im so proud of this game, also Garganacl is the fucking goat)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1764190764-7vto333l741ie8hi8f472anfsi3m7qipw (Fun fact, on the original draft we had Cetitan who is MID as fuck, anyways heres a 40 step plan on how to break balance + a THE ONE PIECE IS REEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL meme included)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1764710770 (an overall good game where everybody did something)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1764757919 (its outdated but this serves as a demonstration that, even with 6 broken mons on the enemy side, you still always have a chance to fight)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1764793229 (Outdated but im so proud of this game, also Garganacl is the fucking goat)
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1764190764-7vto333l741ie8hi8f472anfsi3m7qipw (Fun fact, on the original draft we had Cetitan who is MID as fuck, anyways heres a 40 step plan on how to break balance + a THE ONE PIECE IS REEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL meme included)
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