Metagame [Gen 9] Balanced Createmons

rightclicker · Mar 2, 2024

alright since i lost the tour i'm dumping all the (actually serious) teams i built during it and haven't shared here. some of them i brought and some of them i didn't.

physical spam HO that tries to exploit as much unaware types as possible.

baton pass team that single handedly got imprison banned

double PH stall that i brought twice and tied 1st lost 2nd (g2 i was using an iteration but still) cuz anaconja brought defog g1 & infinite pp g2

was trying to abuse the sf + eshot interaction and then it got fixed right before the only game i brought this into without me knowing it

another double PH stall but i didn't bring this cuz it hardlost to trapping

sun that didn't work because of point optimization issues

Mystora · Mar 8, 2024

Question: Has the 655 in one stat rolling over thing been removed? (As in making the stat a 0 which basically means you cant take any damage for the defense or special defense stats, I did this here with 249 Def and a defense boosting nature, with 30 hp evs)
Cramorant-Gorging @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
Hidden Power: Normal
Dynamax Level: 999
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 1 HP / 85 Atk / 249 Def / 1 SpA / 252 SpD / 73 Spe
Impish Nature
IVs: 0 HP / 30 Def
- Pain Split
- Extreme Speed
- Baneful Bunker
- Knock Off

rightclicker · Mar 8, 2024

Mystora said:
Question: Has the 655 in one stat rolling over thing been removed? (As in making the stat a 0 which basically means you cant take any damage for the defense or special defense stats, I did this here with 249 Def and a defense boosting nature, with 30 hp evs)
Cramorant-Gorging @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
Hidden Power: Normal
Dynamax Level: 999
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 1 HP / 85 Atk / 249 Def / 1 SpA / 252 SpD / 73 Spe
Impish Nature
IVs: 0 HP / 30 Def
- Pain Split
- Extreme Speed
- Baneful Bunker
- Knock Off

Yes, Stat Overflow Mod is present in this meta.

sojukirin · Mar 17, 2024

Power Trip, Berserk Gene, Octolock, Snow Cloak, Sand Veil, and Moody have been banned! Unburden and Dark have been nerfed! Transistor, Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Fighting, and Psychic have been buffed! No action was taken on Fur Coat/Ice Scales & Magic Guard!

	sojukirin	Nihilslave	rightclicker	anaconja	Glimmer	augustakira	donkkut	AppleSockz	Verdict
Power Trip	NERF	NERF	BAN	NERF	BAN	NERF	BAN	BAN	BANNED
Berserk Gene	BAN	BAN	BAN	BAN	BAN	BAN	BAN	NA	BANNED
Unburden	NERF	NA	NERF	NERF	NERF	NA	NERF	BAN	NERFED
Octolock	BAN	BAN	BAN	BAN	BAN	BAN	BAN	BAN	BANNED
Dark	NERF	NA	NERF	NA	NERF	NERF	NERF	NA	NERFED
Transistor	BUFF	BUFF	BUFF	BUFF	BUFF	BUFF	BUFF	BUFF	BUFFED
Furscales	BUFF	NA	BUFF	NA	BUFF	BUFF	NA	NA	NA
Magic Guard	BUFF	BUFF	NA	NA	BUFF	BUFF	NA	NA	NA

anaconja · Mar 17, 2024

i forgot to post my tour teams

WORST STALL ON TEAM (win w1g2, w2g2, semis g4)

quite a solid team, focuses on pressure zacc who can really pp stall a huge amount by trapping and spamming setup and bulwark. deos is a meme set stolen from this one ndbh ladder hero that can actually setup decently with a much better typing and weaker walls running around (it was mmy in ndbh). koraidon is a nasty set taken from onyx onix with infinite pp to beat most other stall mons and win the hazard game. miraidon blanket checks physical walls (dont use freezy frost though it doesnt clear through subs, use like haze instead), unecro is a standard prank with lunar dance to support zacian, and imposter is imposter. i changed deos to a boring unaware body press salt cure mon to beat rightclicker

sf + debris (win w1g1)

toxic debris is really good cause its so cheap. sheer force is really good cause its fairly cheap. the natural response is to combine the two so koraidon can force poisons on walls. this didnt actually happen in the game but its fine

(win w2g1)

i enjoyed how celesteela played in ssbh/ndbh8 so i tried it here. i dont remember jrdyop's team but it wasnt very kind to it. managed to eke out a win with diancie/registeel though

Gengar-Gorging (win w3g1, w3g2, w4g2)

moody octolock is insane. trap a wall and just go to town spamming sub and taunt and eventually get enough spa boosts to win. theoretically you should bring an unaware to actually improof it but purgatory used scarf imp so it lost. this is why you dont use scarf imp. also soundproof sub vd zzc is there too

COOKSMAXING (win w4g1)

at this point i started to properly build teams against the people i was playing instead of generic good teams. unaware 252/200 physbulk with body press ensured i was safe against berserk gene spam, melm and grimmsnarl intended to beat stall, with double imp to have better matchups into both. i played against neither but the mons were still decent (besides the grimmsnarl he got owned).

whar (tie semis g1, win semis g3)

rightclicker cteam, double unaware + scarf imp ensures no funny ho business and hitmonlee was supposed to be a goofy polt counter + bp check (before i realized freezy frost sucks). you cannot view the hitmonchan set it will forever be a secret.
first game rightclicker brought stall and i was able to pp stall the only thing limiting imp but then couldnt do anything with imp so we had to tie
third game he brought rain so i kinda just won instantly with delta stream

Arceus-Gyat (loss semis g2)

this is just cooksmaxxing but the previous version. idk why i brought this team

mildcard (win finals g1)

somewhat similar to WORST MON ON TEAM but just tailor made to priospam and stuff since wildcard brought like one main team. worked about as well as expected

the fbi watchlist (win finals g2)

steelworker set is also stolen from the previously mentioned ndbh laddero hero. lop is an experiment with mono sappy seed so you can run taunt and stop haze

other teams i built for finals but didnt use

was a fun tournament but im begging Nihilslave to please make it cheaper to have a higher offense as a wall bc i cannot stand using 1 atk on everything

Bombshell · Mar 21, 2024

sojukirin said:
Power Trip, Berserk Gene, Octolock, Snow Cloak, Sand Veil, and Moody have been banned! Unburden and Dark have been nerfed! Transistor, Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Fighting, and Psychic have been buffed! No action was taken on Fur Coat/Ice Scales & Magic Guard!

sojukirin
Nihilslave
rightclicker
anaconja
Glimmer
augustakira
donkkut
AppleSockz
Verdict
Power Trip
NERF
NERF
BAN
NERF
BAN
NERF
BAN
BAN
BANNED
Berserk Gene
BAN
BAN
BAN
BAN
BAN
BAN
BAN
NA
BANNED
Unburden
NERF
NA
NERF
NERF
NERF
NA
NERF
BAN
NERFED
Octolock
BAN
BAN
BAN
BAN
BAN
BAN
BAN
BAN
BANNED
Dark
NERF
NA
NERF
NA
NERF
NERF
NERF
NA
NERFED
Transistor
BUFF
BUFF
BUFF
BUFF
BUFF
BUFF
BUFF
BUFF
BUFFED
Furscales
BUFF
NA
BUFF
NA
BUFF
BUFF
NA
NA
NA
Magic Guard
BUFF
BUFF
NA
NA
BUFF
BUFF
NA
NA
NA

kick rc off the council for the funny

Nihilslave · Apr 22, 2024

Balanced Createmons - History of Point System

In this post I'll record the history of Balanced Createmons. And as a main porpose you will get to know how Formulas and Points are designed and changed.

Everyone has a dream of creating totally custom Pokemon and use them in battle and same as I. Thus I created the Createmons format in Nov 25, 2022, which is more than one year before it finally becomes a smogon metagame. At that time Gen 9 just started and no one would expect that Gen 9 Balanced Hackmons finally becomes the worst BH metagame. By saying that I want to explain the fact that BC itself isn't played a lot since its birth until Kirin's appearance.

Points System was here at the very beginning. However I had 0 experience of making such a thing so I just made it very subjectively and arbitrarily. The first version of Points System is different from the current one mainly in Stats Point calculation, which is done by BST and Standard Deviation of Base Stats like this:

Python:

# We will use the following denotation by default in all codes:
h, a, b, c, d, s = pokemon.baseHp, pokemon.baseAtk, pokemon.baseDef, pokemon.baseSpA, pokemon.baseSpD, pokemon.baseSpe
BST = h + a + b + c + d + s
SD = StandardDeviationOf(h, a, b, c, d, s)
StatsPoint = max(50, BST - 450) * (SD + 100) / 100

In the above algorithm I tried to restrict min-maxing by adding Deviation to the Formula, with a weight neither too high nor too low to also avoid too much advantage of all-round Base Stats spread. However the linear BST calculation is the flaw that finally ruined the Alpha meta, cuz you could make cheap sets like this:
:silvally:

(Set by Fhyr, cost was ~11k)
Silvally @ Loaded Dice
Ability: Technician
Hidden Power: Ice
Tera Type: Ice
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def / 252 SpA / 252 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Bullet Seed
- Icicle Spear
- Bone Rush
- Dragon Dance

Suggestions of making new Base Stats Formula came very soon. Let's move our step to the next stage.

Basically the idea here is "Stats Points should reflect what you really get from Stats". So we have new BST algorithm:

Python:

# Formula designed under the help of Akira
# 2 * a + 100 is very close to the real stat when you set the base stat to `a`
A = (2 * a + 100) * 100 # simulating base `a` Atk Pokemon using 100 BP move
C = (2 * c + 100) * 100
B = (2 * h + 200) * (2 * b + 100) # very close to Pokemon's actual bulk
D = (2 * h + 200) * (2 * d + 100)
S = ((2 * s + 100) - 300) * ((2 * s + 100) - 300)
BST1 = sqrt(A + B + C + D + S)

At that time I also wanted to keep the formula as simple as possible, and min-maxing seemed not to be a big problem, so I simplified "Standard Deviation" to this:

Python:

SD1 = 2 * max(h, a, b, c, d, s) + 100
StatsPoint1 = BST1 * SD1 / 800

Some beautiful results can be achieved by this version of Formula, such as Stats Point of Mew is 200 and Stats Point of Arceus is 252 (we did a bit of rounding in real calc). You might expect me to start complaining about its flaws now but before that we should deal with another big problem, the Types.

From today's point of view, it's hard to imagine that Type Points used to vary from 0.5 to 3 instead of approximately 1 to 2. For example Steel's cost was 6x that of Bug in the early days. Akira spotted this and reappointed all the Types, which is fairly close to the version nowadays.

The elicitation I got from this is that when designing a Point System, we should first have a baseline, and then everything else is determined by muliplying that baseline by a number. This explains well why some very bad Abilities like Slow Start are still of 1 Point instead of 0.5.

As you might figure out yourselves that the simplification of Standard Deviation of course caused some problem, that is the difference of Stats Points are too small for people not to use big Base Stats sets. The Point of all-round base 252 was only 3.8x that of all-round base 100. (Today it's ~6000x btw.) Adding back the old Standard Deviation immediately occurs to many people but let me explain why we are never doing that. A small reason is that Standard Deviation is really a weird outcomer under a Pokemon context. And the main thing is when using a BST algorithm that expresses the quality of Pokemon's Base Stats spread very well I don't feel it reasonable to restrict people from min-maxing. Like, in old days, you could really gain things from min-maxing, cuz your BST could be lowered by that way, which was no longer a thing after the BST Revolution.

After the above monologue we need a new way to punish unreal Base Stats spreads. Akira and I finally worked out the thing called Penalty Point, which is calculated as below:

Python:

# Penalty Points are directly added to the total Point without any multiplification
Penalty(stat) = max(0, (stat - 150) * (stat - 150) * (stat - 150) / 10.61)
PenaltyOfHp = 2 * Penalty(h) # Penalty of HP is doubled

This change was made on Jan 17, 2023 and last tweaked on Mar 24, 2023. Kirin and most people started playing BC from this version (after a very long time though) so I'd call it the Beta version of BC.

Penalty Point didn't solve the core problem. It just turned the meta from all-round 252 spam to all-round 152 spam (because 152 is the max Base Stat without any Penalty Point). After many people joined the format and quickbanned obviously broken things this soon became the biggest problem. Several smart players sent their suggestions of how to change the Formula to the discord server. The idea of weighed average of stats is intereting though, I couldn't see a trivial solution among them. After weeks of waiting I finally decided to use this ugly but working solution on Jan 12, 2024:

Python:

# h,a,b,c,d,s and their upper-case are denoted as above
A_w = max(A, C) * 4 / 5 + min(A, C) * 1 / 5
A_mew = A_w of mew = 30000
B_w = max(B, D) * 2 / 3 + min(B, D) * 1 / 3
B_mew = B_w of mew = 120000
S_w = 2 * s + 100
S_mew = S_w of mew = 300
# Kernal Functions
KernalForAtks(x) = 1.5*x*x*x - 3*x*x + 2.5*x
KernalForDefs(x) = 0.6*x*x*x - 0.2*x + 0.6
KernalForSpe(x) = -1.5*x*x*x*x + 6.5*x*x*x - 7*x*x + 2*x + 1

StatsPoint2 = KernalForAtks(A_w/A_mew) * KernalForDefs(B_w/B_mew) * KernalForSpe(S_w/S_mew) * 200
# Penalty Point is no longer a thing

Finally I gave up the idea of explicitly punishing people for min-maxing or having too high stats. Instead I made a perfect function to really evaluate what people get from their Base Stats spreads. It firstly normalizes a Pokemon's Offense, Defense, and Speed by dividing those of Mew. After processing these normalized values by their respective Kernal Function the results are multiplied altogether to get the final Stats Point. By multiplying in the last step I meant to achieve the effect that no Pokemon can have all of good Offense, good Defense, and good Speed.

After all the above changes the Stats Point Formula is finally very scientific. And we finally can tweak all the Moves Points and Ability Points which were made by me, again, subjectively and arbitrarily, more than 1 year ago. I chose to firstly do this for all attacking Moves, by writing a program to determine the points by rules:

JavaScript:

const moves = Dex.moves.all();
const points: {[k: string]: number} = {};
for (const move of moves) {
    if (move.category === 'Status') continue;
    if (move.isZ || move.isMax) continue;
    if (move.isNonstandard === 'CAP') continue;
    let power = move.basePower;
    const powerx2 = power * 2;
    const powerMapper: {[k: string]: number} = {
        // real power of some moves, emitted here
    };
    if (move.id in powerMapper) power = powerMapper[move.id];
    if (move.ohko) power = 250;
    if (move.multihit) {
        if (['tripleaxel', 'triplekick'].includes(move.id)) power *= 6;
        else if (typeof move.multihit === 'number') power *= move.multihit;
        else power *= 3.1;
    }
    if (move.willCrit) power *= 1.5;
    /**
     * ,60] | (60, 80) | [80, 100] | (100, 120) | [120, 150] | (150,
     *  0   |   0.5    |     1     |    1.5     |     2      |  2.5
     */
    if (power <= 60 && power > 0) points[move.id] = 0;
    else if (power < 80) points[move.id] = 0.5;
    else if (power <= 100) points[move.id] = 1;
    else if (power < 120) points[move.id] = 1.5;
    else if (power <= 150) points[move.id] = 2;
    else points[move.id] = 2.5;
    if ((move.priority > 0 && move.id !== 'bide') || move.id === 'grassyglide') points[move.id] += 0.5;
    if (move.flags.heal) points[move.id] += 0.5;
    if (move.flags.recharge) points[move.id] -= 0.5;
    if (move.ignoreAbility) points[move.id] += 0.5;
    if (move.selfSwitch) points[move.id] += 0.5;
    if (move.volatileStatus === 'partiallytrapped') points[move.id] += 0.5;
    if (move.id === 'triplearrows') points[move.id] += 0.5;
    const secondary = move.secondary;
    if (secondary && secondary.chance && (secondary.chance >= 30 || secondary.status === 'slp')) {
        const isVeryUsefulSecondary = ['acidspray', 'direclaw', 'luminacrash'].includes(move.id) || secondary.status === 'slp';
        const isUsefulSecondary = isVeryUsefulSecondary || secondary.boosts || secondary.self || secondary.status || secondary.volatileStatus;
        if (isVeryUsefulSecondary) points[move.id] += 0.5;
        if (isUsefulSecondary && (power >= 80 && power < 120 || secondary.chance >= 50 || isVeryUsefulSecondary)) points[move.id] += 0.5;
    }
    const self = move.self;
    if (self) {
        const isVeryUsefulSelf = self.sideCondition;
        const isUsefulSelf = isVeryUsefulSelf || self.boosts && Object.values(self.boosts).some(value => value > 0);
        if (isVeryUsefulSelf) points[move.id] += 0.5;
        if (isUsefulSelf && (power >= 80 || isVeryUsefulSelf)) points[move.id] += 0.5;
    }
    const otherVeryUseful = [
        'ceaselessedge', 'endeavor', 'stoneaxe', 'lastrespects', 'naturesmadness', 'powertrip', 'ragefist', 'ruination',
        'sappyseed', 'storedpower', 'superfang',
    ];
    const otherUseful = otherVeryUseful.concat([
        'barbbarrage', 'bodypress', 'buzzybuzz', 'collisioncourse', 'comeuppance', 'coreenforcer', 'counter', 'electrodrift',
        'electroshot', 'infernalparade', 'hex', 'knockoff', 'metalburst', 'mirrorcoat', 'mortalspin',  'psychicnoise',
        'rapidspin', 'saltcure', 'sparklyswirl', 'spectralthief', 'thousandarrows', 'venoshock',
    ]);
    const otherUseless = [
        'belch', 'burnup', 'doubleshock', 'dreameater', 'flail', 'focuspunch', 'freezeshock', 'iceburn',
        'lastresort', 'reversal', 'shelltrap', 'skullbash', 'skyattack', 'sparklingaria', 'steelroller', 'synchronoise',
    ];
    if (otherVeryUseful.includes(move.id)) points[move.id] += 0.5;
    if (otherUseful.includes(move.id)) points[move.id] += 0.5;
    if (otherUseless.includes(move.id)) points[move.id] -= 0.5;
    points[move.id] = Math.max(0.5, points[move.id]);
    points[move.id] = Math.min(2.5, points[move.id]);
}

Beside of that I still need to tweak the Kernal Functions because speed tiers were in a mess and stall turned out to be too strong:

Python:

# These may not look the same as what you see in `/crtm f`
# But they are essentially equivalent
KernalForAtks2(x) = 2.2*x*x*x - 5*x*x + 3.8*x - 0.15
KernalForDefs2(x) = 2.5*x*x*x - 4.5*x*x + 2.5*x + 0.5
KernalForSpe2(x) = -x*x*x*x + 8*x*x*x - 10*x*x + 3*x + 1

The meta looks stable and balanced from my point of view however there are still some possible things to do:

1. Re-Point Status Moves and Abilities, especially Abilities.
2. Ban or nerf potentially broken things.
3. Find a more elegant way to calculate Stats Points than Kernal Functions.

I feel it necessary to show players how meta develops and how decisions are made, by which they can understand the meta more deeply and provide us more high-leveled battles. Feel free to make suggestions.

sojukirin · May 12, 2024

Prankster, Fur Coat, Ice Scales, and Haze have been buffed!

We have decided to buff these due to their underperformance. Changes will take effect before the next round of the Solomod Premier League.

sojukirin · May 14, 2024

we kinda need more team/set discussions so i'll be posting one of my teams

rain (click for importable)
:ninetales:

cheap rain setter, bug/steel is an amazing & cheap defensive type that happens to synergize with drizzle
:darmanitan:

good fishious + bolt beak sweeper with a good improof in palossand. pls dont use mach punch it's scary
:palossand:

ground/flying is a good defensive typing especially when paired with dry skin. i actually didn't know dry skin granted a water immunity, so initially it was an accidental improof lol
:dugtrio-alola:

epack pivot which acts as an improof for our rotom-heat and can be used to emergency check an imposter copying darmanitan. i find it generates momentum pretty well with spore and strong pseudo pivoting moves in draco meteor & leaf storm. inspired by BSS epack pivot hydrapple
:rotom-heat:

the star of this team, electromorph is a nutty ability especially when paired with electro shot. its immense physical/special bulk & low speed allow it to tank hits and hit back like a truck with x2 power electro shots. volt switch is also a powerful slow pivoting move which helps generate momentum. inspired by SVOU AV bellibolt
:volcarona:

we can thank Glimmer for this crazy set, SFLO steam eruption under rain coming off of 252SpA actually just deletes stuff. i went with bug/water to inflate the price a lil, though it could be replaced with another type at the cost of having to sacrifice some speed or special attack.

rightclicker · May 14, 2024

hey i'm just gonna mention this reaaaal quick that both spore and illusion aren't banned
have fun

Bombshell · May 14, 2024

can we unban pbond? tjanks

Nihilslave · May 15, 2024

Bombshell said:
can we unban pbond? tjanks

I had it unbanned at the very beginning but people felt unrestricted Ruination + Night Shade unhandleable so it got banned eventually.

rightclicker said:
hey i'm just gonna mention this reaaaal quick that both spore and illusion aren't banned
have fun

plus Last Respects and Magnet Pull. We encourage people to try such things a lot in SMPL so that we can see if they are worth banning. Especially Last Respects which we already got a lot of banning requests of.

sojukirin · May 17, 2024

free z-moves?

Bombshell · May 18, 2024

sojukirin said:
free z-moves?

please!

sojukirin · May 19, 2024

We plan on introducing Z-Moves in a future update! How do you plan on using Z-Moves?

Here's some interesting Z-Moves I suggest you try out:

Z-Parting Shot: Fully heals the user's replacement in addition to the effect of Parting Shot.

Z-Haze: Fully heals the user in addition to the effect of Haze.

Z-Belly Drum: Fully heals the user before the HP reduction of Belly Drum.

Here's a list of Z-Moves I see getting the Gigaton Banhammer:

Extreme Evoboost: Might be too overbearing with Simple + Extreme Speed.

Searing Sunraze Smash, Menacing Moonraze Maelstrom, Light That Burns The Sky: Moldy moves that nuke Fur Coat/Ice Scales might be broken. They do have a downside though— Searing Sunraze Smash and Menacing Moonraze Maelstrom are both resisted by the most common Fur Coat/Ice Scales types (which are Water and Dark) respectively.

What are your thoughts on this? What are some creative ways Z-Moves can be utilized in Balanced Createmons?

Nihilslave · May 20, 2024

Supreme Overlord has been nerfed!

By a council vote, the cost of Supreme Overlord will be raised from 1 to 2. That was going to happen anyway after SMPL as part of a big Ability point tweak. However we do it in advance to see how it will affect the performance of Last Respects. This will be in effect in Playoffs of SMPL.

sojukirin · May 27, 2024

Last Respects has been banned!

Following a council vote, Last Respects has been banned from Balanced Createmons. We have determined that it does not contribute anything positive to the meta and is overbearing in endgames.

rightclicker · May 27, 2024

sojukirin said:
Last Respects has been banned!
Following a council vote, Last Respects has been banned from Balanced Createmons. We have determined that it does not contribute anything positive to the meta and is overbearing in endgames.

right in time when i finally get to play in smpl, good decision

GhastlyPixie · Jun 3, 2024

Good riddance last respects

ZeStinky · Jun 3, 2024

i forgot to comment on this but i take semi credit for getting last respects banned for almost cheesing the hell out of anaconja

ZeStinky · Jun 3, 2024

rightclicker said:
hey i'm just gonna mention this reaaaal quick that both spore and illusion aren't banned
have fun

also we were scheming some illusion strats in solopl its extremely hard to build around illusion
its 5 points and also acts as a focus sash, you need quite a bit of support and it doesnt necessarily synergize with that much (ignoring imp is broken though)
spores very cheesy though

GhastlyPixie · Jun 3, 2024

ZeStinky said:
i forgot to comment on this but i take semi credit for getting last respects banned for almost cheesing the hell out of anaconja

I also almost cheezed conja with last respects

anaconja · Jun 5, 2024

teamdump 2

WORST STALL ON TEAM (week 1, win)

yeah its worst stall on team (except ph is now scales). resorted to this after trying to port gen 8 bh samples to bc and it not panning out. game went well until last resects came out and i had to sack 5/6 mons lol

(week 2, loss)

ran it back with the custom spam, dark/soundproof is a surefire way to beat tttech's defensive core which usually relies on prank pshot spam. job application went hard again but then it ran out of pp and i shouldve sacked the spectralthief pp instead of multiattack because that allowed regigigas to drum and instantly win

silver uhh surfing to the polls? (week 3, win)

Gekokeso said my custom spam was unfunny so i had to change my team :soyegg: but the team consists of a bunch of checks to rain and that one analytic balance someone posted in discord, which worked perfectly because thats what shucklegigas brought

leftclicker (week 4, win)

this is rightclicker's team, double regenvest and double fc are diabolical into hyperoffense which kirin built and zestinky bought. last resex jumpscare

double edge (week 5, win)

sharpness is underpriced so i wanted to take advantage of it. psysurge blocks prio like triage/espeed, while delta stream cteams rain and fc normals beats last resex. i ran into rain and valiant 2hkoing the rain setter followed by celesteela deleting rain pretty much sealed the deal.

my dishonest reaction (semis, win)

weird ass offense again by rightclicker which relies on only prank and double imp to beat offensive mons. this wouldnt work into the arceus but gengar clinched it by bluffing spooky plate and koing on the switch. then we went like 300 turns because double ph vs double imp but both are poisoned. ban bramblin btw

err what the deuce

random gimmick sun+assist team i built in w2. its pretty dumb but you can catch ppl off guard with it (i played once against kirin and lost bc it was too slow iirc)

GhastlyPixie · Jun 6, 2024

Me realizing I deleted most of the teams I used in the tour already (all but semis and finals)

GhastlyPixie · Jun 6, 2024

Hi, I’m the person who went 1-4 (didn’t play W3) in the BC portion of smpl. In the early weeks I was too nervous to play stall (my best play style) so I tried weird offense and balance teams which ultimately led to some losses. Those teams have been banished to the shadow realm but I will share my semis and finals teams along with some teams that didn’t quite make the cut.

Semi finals: https://pokepast.es/950f16fb9e237830

This match was vs anaconja. My thought process was that double ph would help me out stall his heals and tidy up would stop sub sweepers. Fc was for a gag sweeper I thought he’d bring but unfortunately for me, this was a rc team and featured double imp, one holding a toxic orb so ultimately I slowly lost this game. (New longest bc game tho) My biggest mistake that cost me this match was not scouting which plate the gengar was holding leading my own GAG sweeper to faint.

Finals: vs TTTech
https://pokepast.es/01690e5539d800d6

Tech brings a lot of furscales/prankster so Delphox was built to bypass fur coat and outspeed prankster with espeed. Togekiss was made to stop your typical ice scales while blocking heals from non-dark types.

gag garchomp to stop his pshot spam. Tech threw a curveball at me with his baton pass team but ultimately gag pshot and a haze fur coat made it impossible for him to setup.

Unused teams:
https://pokepast.es/5061b3652065b899
I made this team to fight zestinky but ultimately felt it lacked structure and decided against it (probably would’ve worked better than air lock tho)

https://pokepast.es/438d1c8f01a42489

I made this team I believe to fight Tech with but once again decided it was lacking. For instance, no knock off would be crippling.

https://pokepast.es/055e1467f7bf5daa

Made this team for W3 but didn’t play that week. (I’ll get you next time Bombshell)

Metagame [Gen 9] Balanced Createmons

rightclicker

HARDWAREZ

Mystora

rightclicker

HARDWAREZ

sojukirin

anaconja

my dishonest reaction

Bombshell

Nihilslave

sojukirin

sojukirin

rightclicker

HARDWAREZ

Bombshell

Nihilslave

sojukirin

Bombshell

sojukirin

Nihilslave

sojukirin

rightclicker

HARDWAREZ

GhastlyPixie

ZeStinky

ZeStinky

GhastlyPixie

anaconja

my dishonest reaction

GhastlyPixie

GhastlyPixie