Introduction:
Hey everyone, as many RU player's know, I have been spamming this team or some variation of it on ladder and in some tours for while now. I thought that I should finally make it an RMT, so here's my RU Stall team that I used to climb to the #1 spot on the RU Ladder. It features Chansey as the cleric and Stealth Rock setter, Quagsire as the response to physical set up threats, Chesnaught as the main physical wall and spike setter, Talonflame as the Defogger, Slowbro as well rounded response to meta threats, and Muk-Alola as a secondary special wall and check to ghost types. Enjoy the team everyone.
Proof of Peak:
The team:
Chansey @ Eviolite
Ability: Natural Cure
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 240 HP / 252 Def / 16 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Soft-Boiled
- Seismic Toss
- Stealth Rock
- Heal Bell
To start, we have Chansey which acts as the team’s primary special wall, as it can blanket checks the majority of special attackers in the tier and provides crucial team support through Heal Bell and Stealth Rock. The other moves and EVs are standard.
As for the Tera type, Tera Ghost was chosen here as it serves two major functions: it removes Chansey's Fighting-type weakness, and it allows her to act as an emergency spin blocker.
Quagsire @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 Spe
Impish Nature
- Toxic
- Earthquake
- Recover
- Whirlpool
Quagsire is the team’s primary answer to physical setup sweepers due to unaware. Its Ground typing allows this team to have a Volt Switch immunity, which denies otherwise infinite momentum from things like raikou and rotom-heat. The Whirlpool + Toxic combo is meant to pressure opposing fat playstyles, and allow quagsire to Flying/Levitate users who would otherwise be immune to Earthquake.
Tera Dark provides important resistances and immunities against dangerous threats like Necrozma, Armarouge, and other Stored Power abusers.
Chesnaught @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Bulletproof
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 240 HP / 244 Def / 24 Spe
Impish Nature
- Spikes
- Body Press
- Knock Off
- Synthesis
Chesnaught plays the role of the main physically defensive pokemon on this team, and specifically as the team’s dedicated Crawdaunt check, which otherwise poses a massive threat to passive teams like this. Chesnaught also provides the team with Knock Off and Spikes stack support.
Tera Steel flips Chesnaught’s Flying, Fairy, Ice, Poison and Psychic weaknesses into resistances instead, and enables it to check special threats like non-Hex Gengar, especially useful if Muk-Alola is worn down or otherwise unavailable, due it being tricked for example.
Talonflame @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Flame Body
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 248 HP / 12 Def / 248 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Brave Bird
- Will-O-Wisp
- Roost
- Defog
In this slot, we have Talonflame, which serves as the team’s Defogger. Its high speed tier also allows it to act as a soft check to fast threats like Gengar. Additionally, since Talonflame has the Flame Body ability, it provides the team with another way to punish physical attackers that try to gain moment by spamming U-Turn, such as Zapdos-Galar.
Tera Ghost is chosen here once again in order to allow this pokemon to act as a spin blocker.
Slowbro @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 248 HP / 216 Def / 32 SpD / 12 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Psychic Noise
- Foul Play
- Slack Off
Slowbro functions as a reliable blanket physical check, and the primary switch-in to Fighting-types like Mienshao and G-Zapdos. It also acts as an infinite value generator with regenerator since it can heal itself just by switching, which can be useful into opposing fat teams where PP begins to matter. The inclusion of Foul Play allows Slowbro to beat setup sweepers like Rest + Dragon Dance Gyarados and Sub Dragon Dance Salamence, who would otherwise exploit the main other counterplay in Quagsire.
Tera Fairy improves the team’s matchup against Galldade, which otherwise can be a huge threat if the Gallade player gets some predictions correct. It also provides an emergency answer to Regidrago, who lacks checks on this build since there is no Fairy type.
Muk-Alola @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Poison Touch
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 248 HP / 36 Def / 216 SpD / 8 Spe
Careful Nature
- Knock Off
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
- Haze
And finally, we have Alolan Muk. This pokemon is essential as the team's special Ghost-type check, answering threats like Gengar and Basculegion-F that are immune to Chansey’s Seismic Toss. Haze was included on this set over Poison Jab as it allows Muk to reset setup sweepers such as Calm Mind threats like Tera Reuniclus, Tera Cresselia, or Suicune.
Tera Water was chosen here to improve the team’s matchup into Volcanion, since it’s fire spin taunt set is quite threatening. However, Tera Ghost or Fairy can also be used here to provide another spin blocker or check to Regidrago respectively.
Conclusion:
This team, in my opinion, is able to perform extremely well, which is evident from the fact that it was able to peak at #1. I had a lot of fun building this team, and enjoy using it every time I load it up. I hope you also find the same enjoyment and success as I did. Good luck and have fun with this team everyone :]
Importable:
Haze Alolan Muk Stall
