Gen 4 DPP OU Teambuilding Compendium v2.0

[Kristyl]

Approved by Earthworm
Template from Ophion
DPP OU TEAMBUILDING COMPENDIUM (v 2.0)
The idea of this thread is to provide a visual list of what Pokémon does what in the DPP OU metagame.
All Pokemon included are from BKC's Viability Rankings
Rules:

• One liners are fine, avoid double posting
• Don't shitpost and don't be an idiot.
• When suggesting things to be added/removed, provide decent reasoning as to why something should be added or removed.
• Don't nominate unviable mons
  In front of slash = standard and common, behind = niche and uncommon (usually applies to the specific role but a mon can be niche as a whole)

General and Important Team Roles

Entry Hazards

Stealth Rock:
/
Spikes:

Toxic Spikes:
/
Spinners:
/
Spinblockers:

Toxic Spike Absorbers:
/
Attackers

Physical Attackers
/
Special Attackers:
/
Mixed Attackers:
(explosion)(explosion) /
Walls

Special Walls:
/
Physical Walls:
/
Mixed Walls:
/
Setup Sweepers

Dragon Dance:

Curse:
/
Swords Dance:
/
Agility / Rock Polish:
/
Calm Mind
/
Nasty Plot:
/
Charge Beam:
/
bulk up:

Trapping

Magnet Pull:

Arena Trap:

Pursuit:
/
Magma Storm:

Pivots

U-Turn:

Priority

bulk up:
Extreme Speed:
/
Sucker Punch:
/
Mach Punch:
/
Aqua Jet:

Fake Out:

Bullet Punch:

Ice Shard:
/
Shadow Sneak:

Vacuum Wave:

Items

Choice Users

Choice Scarf:
/
Choice Band:
/
Choice Specs:
/
Berry Users

Lum Berry:
/
Yache Berry:
/
Shuca Berry:
/
Chople Berry:
/
Custap Berry:

Passho Berry:

Colbur Berry:
/
Occa Berry:

Petaya Berry:

Wacan Berry:
/
Rindo berry:

Chesto Berry:

Sitrus Berry:


Utility

Moves

Wish:
/
Trick:

Healing Wish:
/
Phazers:
/
Knock Off:
/
Encore:

Reflect:
/
Light Screen:
/
Taunt:
/
Memento:

Substitute:
/
Haze:

Destiny Bond:

Clerics:
/
Status

Burn:
/
Paralysis:

/
Poison:
/
Sleep:
/
Weather

Rain:
/
Sand:

Hail:

 

[49 Days]

This is great I think it is necessary is very useful.
Well just to make it look a bit more complete I have considered this:

Stealth Rock:

Agility:

+

Choice Scarf:

Sleep:

It is what I have seen above. Great job.

 

[Mannat]

Got a ton of suggestions, sorry to spam your thread, but I hope this helps.

New additions:

• Azelf into (good) mixed attackers (Psy/FB + Boom sets)
• Heatran into (good) mixed attackers (Utility + Scarf Boom sets)
• Gengar into (good) mixed attackers (LO + Boom sets)
• Hariyama into (less good) Fake Out users (Toxic Orb AoA)
• Milotic as a (less good) scarfer (Lead Hypnosis)
• Suicune as a (less good) scarfer (Utility/AoA)
• Gengar as a (good) scarfer (insane speedtier w/tools like tbolt and dbond that make it into a great rkiller and has very high lategame potential not being jumped by other scarfers esp flygon and rotom)
• Breloom as a (borderline) scarfer (Lead Spore)
• Lucario to (borderline) Specs users (see vacuum wave point)
• Tyranitar to (less good) Specs users (fun specs set that can lure shit like skarm pert etc for physical offense strats)
• Infernape to (good) Passho users (can run it on NP)
• Clefable into (less good) Healing Wish users (not its best set but can be fun on some more offensive teams with like fast sash counter and shit)
• Forretress into (less good) Light Screen users (somewhat fun set that can give it a cushion vs spinblocking like scarf rotom and gengar)
• Zapdos into (less good) Reflect users (helps it make up for its tendency to get harassed by ttar + helps vs some random phys shit like pert and friends, recommended alongside toxic or toxic spikes)
• Froslass to (less good) Taunt users (can be used w/spikes)
• Latias into (good) RD users (can be a great midgame setter for rain dance teams)

Rank Movements

• Infernape to (less good) SR (prefers doing other stuff tbh)
• Empo to (good) SD (very underrated set that can rip through teams)
• Azelf to (less good) NP (lead sr and cb are just way way better than back np)
• Infernape to (good) NP (np fb + vacuum wave alone are a headache for a ton of teams to teal with and you get to pick a cvg move of choice and have a ton of good item options)
• Celebi to (good) NP (fun anti-offense set that boasts fantastic coverage that can really disrupt offensive teams if it gets a boost)
• Gliscor to (less good) U-turn users (taunt and sd sets are miles better and other rockers are way more consistent/good)
• Lucario to (good) Vacuum Wave users (underutilized Specs set is very strong and ironically is a solid check for other lucario as well as picking off stuff like weakened DDTar and such)
• Infernape to (good) Vacuum Wave users (see NP point)
• Metagross to (good) CB users (who the hell likes switching into CB Mash)
• Zong to (good) CB users (trick into defensive mons then functioning like a normal zong is pretty solid tbh)

 

[Shizuki]

: I personally would add Zapdos to Status: Poison as well. Toxic can work wonders especially on physically defensive variants that don't want to miss hp ice while still being able to make pert question its life choices. I mean there's even the slowpokes and p2. Reflect may be really underrated too like Mannat said.

: Could be added to Status: Sleep. It's already added as a mixed wall and sleep powder is one of its main selling points on this set besides absorbing tspikes. Sleep helps a lot by creating free turns to get out leech seed. It's a bitch to switch into. Really niche mon tho.

/

Regarding utility / status the category Clerics / Heal Bell might be worth adding. While they are generally not seen much in dpp stuff like Bliss or the good ol' Heal Bell Dnite can be viable on certain teams.

with

is really cool and underused on OTR Zong imo. Being able to set up on Heatran and Infernape while still having Levitate is huge. The power loss from Macho Brace is noticeable but with a secondary Trick Room abuser after an early boom this can be really great.

with

: This hasn't been used in tour games in ages and may not be worth adding but in theory Chesto Resto Gyarados can go to town on a lot of teams if paired with pursuit support to trap annoying Rotoms. Has a considerably increased longevity and is able to just come in for Intimidate midgame while being able to clean up lategame because chip doesn't matter too much. Doesn't need Starmie as well.

: To Pivots: U-Turn. U-Turn is really good on this mon after shutting something down with taunt to keep up pressure. Being able to outspeed the whole unboosted metagame besides some irrelevant mons (looking at you Jolteon without BP) helps it a lot.

 

[Kristyl]

Thank you all for your responses! This is a community effort and we want this to be as accurate as possible. That being said I did implement most your changes, I didn't add Specs Tyranitar,Lucario or Scarf Suicune since I have not seen these have any play and I believe they are outclassed heavily by their other sets. Hope you can understand my decision to not include them. Thanks again and have a great day!

 

[49 Days]

Well, now that I have a little more time I have seen more things that can be added here.

Choice Scarf:

I think you missed this one from the trio.

Wacan Berry:

I don't see it as crazy on a set with DD so you have support for electric spam and you can increase attack + speed.

Wish:

I don't think it is used much because of the spam fight there is, but I think it should be taken into account.

Sub:

(subpunch)

Clerics:

Rain:

It is not his best role but I think it should be mentioned here. I think it's the only one missing.

 

[TarnEtherlite]

No Empoleon for hazards?

 

[badabing]

does anybody know a good chople berry user?

 

[SFG]

Hi there! First of all, good job mate! This is definitely an useful resource. Here are my suggestions:

-Add Empoleon as a (standard) Sword Dance user: SD Empo is definitely an awesome set, and he's commonly used in the current metagame, so I think it deserve to be mentionned.

-Add Celebi as an (uncommon) Sword Dance user: even if SD Celebi isn't the most common of it's sets, it definitely looks like an option that we need to mention to me.

-Add a line for Bulk Up with Machamp and Breloom: there both really niche an uncommon sets, but they also can be real threats for some teams, so I think they deserve to be mentionned here.

-Add Kingdra as a Chest Berry user: DD Rest Chesto Berry Kingdra is a really common set, so I think it's just a a thoughtlessness here.

-Remove Jolteon from Wish users: I feel like since the ban of BP, Wish Jolteon is just bad and unviable.


That's all for me! Thanks for reading, and have a nice day!

 

[Kristyl]

BIG UPDATE

Hello all, I hope you have been putting this to good use.

I would just like to bring it to your attention that I have removed a lot of Pokemon, this does not mean I think they aren't viable options on some teams but they don't see enough usage to be included or represent the meta.

If there's anything you feel should be added feel free to suggest it! I hope you can all understand this decision.

That is all! I hope you have a great rest of your day.

 

[apesh!t]

BIG UPDATE

Hello all, I hope you have been putting this to good use.

I would just like to bring it to your attention that I have removed a lot of Pokemon, this does not mean I think they aren't viable options on some teams but they don't see enough usage to be included or represent the meta.

If there's anything you feel should be added feel free to suggest it! I hope you can all understand this decision.

That is all! I hope you have a great rest of your day.

Maybe Gengar behind the slash on scarf? Might be one of the ones you purged. But I see it a few times on the ladder from 1300-1500 type people and definitely more often than azelf and shaymin with scarf

 

[Kristyl]

Maybe Gengar behind the slash on scarf? Might be one of the ones you purged. But I see it a few times on the ladder from 1300-1500 type people and definitely more often than azelf and shaymin with scarf

Thanks for the suggestion! Instead of adding Gengar I think I will remove Shaymin and Azelf this was a bit of an oversight by me, I don't think they're bad but I'm going to stick with my rule of they aren't seen enough and are often outclassed by another Scarfer to be included.

Take care!