Pet Mod JolteMons (Complete) [Random Battle is Leader's Choice]

[G-Luke]

Hopefully I do the rest later

Moves

Hammer Arm / Ice Hammer (SV)
Jaw Lock (SV)
Crush Claw
Conversion / Conversion 2
Bonemerang
Sparkling Aura (Yoshi)

Pokémon Modifications

Wishiwashi-School
Rhydon / Rhyperior
Azelf / Mesprit / Uxie
Grapploct (Ema Skye)
Eelektross (sv)
Archeops

Items

Life Bracer
Type Boosting Items
Tart Apple / Sweet Apple
Protector
Reaper Cloth

Abilities

Concussion
Wandering Spirit
Tangled Feet
Shadow Tag
Arena Trap

 

[Voden]

Moves
Blast Burn and friends
Rock Smash
Projectile Retreat
Bonemerang

Items
Tart Apple / Sweet Apple
Whisper Jar
Multiple Tails
Protector
Galarica Cuff

Abilities
Technician
Gravitas
Tangled Feet
Buzz Off

Adjustments
Flygon
Furret
Fearow (sv)
Dodrio
Lake Trio
Cosmoem

 

[Ema Skye]

Moves: Flip Turn, Aqua Ring, Submission, Crush Claw
Pokemon: Grapploct (Ema), Plusle/Minun, Wishiwashi, Archeops
Abilities: Honey Gather, Concussion, Wandering Spirit, Prophetic
Items: Pillow, Protector, Chili Pepper, Apples

 

[Regic Boat]

Pokemon
Lake Trio
Dunsparce
Wishiwashi-School
Flygon (SV)
Breloom
Dusknoir & Dusclops

Abilities
Gravitas
Technician
Nemesis
Slow Start
Narcolepsy
Buzz Off

Items
Protector
Apples
Weather Totems
Adrenaline Orb

 

[The Damned]

Ugh. Almost missed this. Stupid sleep "schedule".

MOVE

1. Fairy Dustup (Self Vote)
2. G-Luke's Jaw Lock [adjustment]
3. Rasdanation's Skitter Smack / Lunge [adjustment]
4. Rapid Spin [redistribution]
5. Meteor Beam [redistribution]
6. Stellar Performance

ITEMS

1. Tart Apple | Sweet Apple
2. Iron Ball [adjustment]
3. Punching Bag
4. Protector [adjustment]
5. Weather Vane
6. Reaper Cloth [adjustment]

ABILITIES

1. Corrosion [adjustment]
2. Gravitas
3. Rivalry [adjustment]
4. Quick Draw [adjustment]
5. Quakeproof
6. Suction Cups [adjustment]

MONS

1. Rapidash-Galar & Rapidash(-Kanto) (Self Vote)
2. Steelix-Mega
3. Armaldo
4. Shaymin & Shaymin-Sky
5. Regic Boat's Flygon
6. Wishiwashi-School

 

[Yoshiblaze]

five slates into my own pet mod and i'm now voting for the first time

Moves

Stellar Performance (SV)
Submission (SV)
Hammer Arm / Ice Hammer
Powder Bomb
Rapid Spin
Fairy Dustup

Items

Reaper Cloth
Adrenaline Orb
Iron Ball
Memories
Chili Pepper
Warp Engine

Abilities

Shadow Tag (SV)
Aura Break
Rivalry
Honey Gather
Buzz Off
Bullet Cannon

Adjustments

Krookodile (SV)
Plusle/Minun (SV)
Wishiwashi-School
Archeops
Dusknoir
Beedrill-Mega

Me voting doesn't mean that votes are closing, you've still got an hour and a quarter

 

[AquaticPanic]

Moves

Meteor Beam
Flip Turn
Scorching Sands
Scale Shot
Null Pulse
Misty Explosion

Abilities

Shadow Tag
Sniper
Adaptive Armor

Adjustments

Goodra
Krookodile
Archeops
Dusknoir
Beedrill-Mega

 

[zxgzxg]

hi

Moves

Rapid Spin
Conversion+Conversion2
Hammer Arm + Ice Hammer
Bonemarang

Abilities

Snake Eyes [sv]
Technician
Gravitas
Buzz Off

Items

Iron Ball
Chilli Pepper
Pillow

Adjustments

Dusclops+Dusknoir [sv]
Wishiwashi
Lake Trio

 

[Yoshiblaze]

Closing votes to count them now

 

[Yoshiblaze]

Votes are in!

Vote Tally

Moves:
Skitter Smack / Lunge (R) - 3
Conversions - 3
Tri Attack - 2
Flip Turn - 4
Scorching Sands - 2
Meteor Beam - 3
Skitter Smack (Z-n) - 1
Shadow Claw - 1
Misty Explosion - 2
Giga Impact & co. - 2
Cherry Bomb - 1
Crush Claw - 4
Rapid Spin - 5
Sparkling Aria (Z-n) - 1
Projectile Retreat - 2
Sublimate - 1
Stellar Performance - 3
Hammers - 3
Jaw Lock (G-L) - 2
Bonemerang - 3
Sparkling Aria (YB) - 1
Rock Smash - 1
Aqua Ring - 1
Submission (unspecified) - 1
Submission (YB) - 1
Fairy Dustup - 2
Powder Bomb - 1
Scale Shot - 1
Null Pulse - 1

Items:
Whisper Jar - 2
Apples (BC) - 8
Iron Ball - 4
Mystic Dust - 1
Multiple Tails - 2
Rifle - 2
Warp Engine - 2
Typer Boosting items - 2
Life Bracer - 2
Pillow - 3
Chili Pepper - 4
Reaper Cloth - 4
Weather Totems - 2
Adrenaline Orb - 3
Parting Gift - 1
Protector - 6
Strange Vest - 1
Galarica Cuff - 1
Punching Bag - 1
Weather Vane - 1
Memories - 1

Abilities:
Prophetic - 3
Magma Armor - 1
Gravitas - 5
Technician - 4
Sniper - 2
Bullet Cannon - 2
Cloud Nine - 1
Aura Break - 2
Concussion - 3
Corrosion - 2
Buzz Off - 5
Honey Gather - 3
Wandering Spirit - 3
Narcolepsy - 2
Nemesis - 2
Slow Start - 2
Shadow Tag - 4
Tangled Feet - 3
Rivalry - 2
Quick Draw - 1
Suction Cups - 1
Arena Trap - 1
Adaptive Armor - 1
Snake Eyes - 1

Adjustments:
Dunsparce - 3
Breloom - 1
Furret - 2
Grapploct (E) - 3
Masquerain - 1
Polteageist - 1
Lilligant - 1
Lake Trio - 6
Dodrio - 3
Crobat - 2
Steelix-Mega - 2
Beedrill-Mega - 4
Celesteela - 1
Archeops - 5
Dusknoir - 5
Wishiwashi - 7
Krookodile - 3
Rhydon - 1
Eelektross - 1
Flygon - 4
Fearow - 1
Cosmoem - 1
Plusle/Minun - 2
Breloom - 1
Rapidashes - 1
Armaldo - 1
Shaymins - 1
Goodra - 1

Winners

Moves

Name: Rapid Spin
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Justification: Simple redistribution without really changing anything about the move. This aims to make some mons more viable overall; Hazard Removal will always have competition but hopefully these have a chance of doing their thing (A few of these is for flavour). Notable ones here include

Name: Crush Claw
Power: 20
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 32
Category:

Type:

Effect: Hits twice. Lowers the target's Def after each hit.
Priority: 0
Flags Contact
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Justification: One of the coolest moves from CCAPM2021 recreated here. This is a very usefull wallbreaking tool that lets its users greatly pressure switch-ins. Notably, Weavile already learns this move and gets STAB on it. other than that the only potential high-tier user I can see (with the vanilla distribution) is Blaziken.

Name: Flip Turn
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Justification: Dexit mons (+unwet Octopus in case the above doesn't win and Qwilfish cause biased) that wouldn't have a chance to learn this move. Big one is Empoleon, but it's pivot so all of them will probably use it to some degree.

Items

Name: Tart Apple / Sweet Apple
Effect: If held by Flapple, holder's accuracy and speed are 1.5x / If held by Appletun, recovers 1/8 max HP at the end of each turn, takes half damage from Poison moves, poison damage is halved (including Toxic).
Can Be Knocked Off: Yes
Ignored by Klutz: Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 20
Justification: Both of the apples are untiered, and these items perfectly complement their strengths. Flapple in particular becomes a terrifyingly powerful wallbreaker, while Appletun gets a hyper-boosted Leftovers (which Ripen should have done anyway).

Name: Protector
Effect: Holder takes 3/4 from super-effective attacks.
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 100
Justification: Protector is literally useless, so I decided to give it the effects of Solid Rock considering the Pokemon Protector makes evolve uses Stealth Rock. This would obviously fail with Solid Rock and Solid Rock clones (Filter).

Abilities

Name: Buzz Off
Effect: User switches out after using a Bug-Type move.
Permanent: No
Mold Breaker: No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: Interesting ability that allows for fun strategies with moves like Sticky Web or Lunge. Mostly given to Bugs that lack U-Turn, but also given to Vespiquen for Heal Order.

Name: Gravitas
Effect: Sets Gravity for 5 turns on switch in.
Permanent: No
Mold Breaker: No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: Allows for interesting usage of either low BP moves, Spikes/Toxic Spikes/Sticky Web hitting Flying mons and buffing Ground mons on the team. I guess it also buffs Flapple if you are really dedicated to run that.

Adjustments

Name: Wishiwashi-School

Type: Water / Dragon (only in School Form)
Abilities: Schooling (Intimidate with Graduation Scale)
New Moves: Recover, Outrage, Dragon Dance, Dragon Pulse, Draco Meteor, Core Enforcer
Justification: People are using Wishiwashi right now thanks to Graduation Scale, but I still think it high-key sucks as a bulky water compared to our other options. Its frailer than Fini or Pex and has nowhere near their utility. This buff focuses on differentiating Washi from other waters by giving it a very handy secondary typing and some key offensive utility. Unlike other bulky waters Washi lacks utility moves, so it instead makes progress with its great offensive stats and interesting attacks like Core Enforcer (which makes enough sense flavor wise and is completely unused by Zygarde). I also gave it Recover because damn does it need it

Name: Azelf | Mesprit | Uxie
Type:

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Abilities:
Azelf: Levitate / Competitive / Moxie [HA]
Mesprit: Levitate / Moody / Prankster [HA]
Uxie: Levitate / Neuroforce / Filter [HA]
New Moves: Aura Sphere, Focus Blast, Reversal, Vacuum Wave, Force Palm | Taunt, Moonblast, Spirit Break, Fairy Lock, Defog | Flash Cannon, Recover, Disable, Doom Desire, Teleport
Removed Moves: None
Justification: Lake Trio but more unique between the three. I’ll do some briefs over what I changed for each of the three.
Azelf is now part fighting, and also receives more fighting moves. This type makes the most sense for Willpower, also it reflects how Azelf is the only Lake Spirit to naturally learn a Fighting move. For Hidden abilities Defiant and Competitive fit well with the Willpower flavor, although Azelf primarily runs special sets so I settled on Competitive. With these changes Azelf overall can find itself more threatening in the current meta, gaining much stronger STAB coverage and also punishes the likes of Lando-T.
Mesprit is the Spirit of Emotion, and the closest type I could think for that was Fairy type. It also gets Prankster due to its travels messing with the emotions of nearby humans. It also gets a larger array of various status moves so it can more properly utilize its ability, as well as some more Fairy moves. With prankster it can play either offensive or support, with the likes of Thunder Wave, Defog, and Taunt.
It was harder to figure out the changes for Uxie, as being the Lake Spirit of Knowledge is already largely covered by what Uxie is. So, these changes are certainly more focused towards making Uxie far more viable than it currently is. Steel was added to complement how Uxie is the defensively-oriented Lake Spirit. It gets Filter for both competitive reasons, also for the stretchy explanation that it can filter/erase the memories of others. Uxie is now far more viable defensively, as it gains many more resistances, and can choose to either gain an immunity to Steel or make itself more resilient to all of its weaknesses. It’s also the only lake Spirit with access to reliable recovery. Overall Uxie can just operate far better as a defensive pivot with these changes.

Now we'll start the third 24 hour Distribution/Discussion Phase. During this phase, you can discuss what mons should and shouldn't get the newly added moves and abilities. The council will use your feedback and create a final list. After that, the next submission phase will start immediately.

It's recommended that you use the Discord to discuss distribution (in #distribution-discussion), though you can use this thread as well. See you there!

After the distribution phase, we'll have some big announcements now that we're at the halfway point of the mod!

 

[The Damned]

Let Armaldo win, you cowards. Just give in to its dopey cuteness. You know what you want to.

Ahem. I mean, congrats to the winners of JolteMons's Slate 5, even if technically half of those are AquaticPanic, who really cleaned up this round. Way to go dude, I mean it. [/atonal Internet text]:

EMPEROR'S NEW MOVES:
Rapid Spin [adjustment]: Lol at another Melmetal buff. I swear, one or two more slates and SMT boss music is going to start playing whenever that thing takes the field. At least Melmetal is slow enough that Rapid Spin doesn't break it, so Rapid Spin should be fine on it. As far as additional users go besides the suggestions given, I think and make sense given their focus around useless move Rollout, makes sense and helps it differ its Mega more from Aggron-Mega since G-Luke's Bulletproof sub keeps not winning, and to have parity with Regieleki. Also maybe if Scolipede is also getting it, which makes sense. Centiskorch is extra appealing to me so that Melmetal won't be even further indirectly buffed by being the only Sticky Hold user to get Rapid Spin, especially when Melmetal doesn't even half to choose between Sticky Hold and another ability--lol. (Also also, maybe and to go with the new item buff, similarly to go with its item boost from Slate 4 and given I always think it has Rapid Spin anyway, and maybe and for my own machinations.)

Crush Claw [adjustment]: Only additional suggestion I have here off the top of my head is and Melmetal, who weirdly wasn't listed and probably would still be less obnoxious with this than either form of would be. (...Speaking of which, does also get this by default if Scizor does? I'm guessing "yes", and I guess that's...fine here. Shrug.)

Flip Turn [redistribution]: While this concisely sums up my feelings about this winning, what's done is done, and if you voted for it, then this is your waterbed, so lie in it as we give to all Swift Swimmers. So there's no excuse that "best boys" and shouldn't get this if the usually ignored Qwilfish is also thankfully getting it. Same goes for and , especially since they didn't get Enchanted Punch from Slate 4 for some reason. [/grumbling] We could also give it to , especially since we can't give Flip Turn to Pyukumuku. All I ask is that we keep it away from Alomomola (and Melmetal). Please for the love of all that is (un)holy don't give the too fat Regenerator mon with Wish a (STAB) pivot move even if Game Freak probably stupidly will.


AQUATICPANIC'S NEW ABILITIES:
Buzz Off: Other than the obvious "please keep this away from First Impression mons", to me it's more a question if we can reasonably give this to any non-Bug mons, especially since U-Turn tends to be the only Bug move non-Bug mons use anyway. As such, the only mon that occurs to me off that top of my head is , this Pet Mod's mascot, as a nod to the fact that it was "(in)famous" for Pin Missile in Gen 1, the fact it never uses Quick Feet anyway while Buzz Off doubles as an electrical pun, and the fact that it's one of the relatively few non-Bug mons that has consistently used a Bug move throughout the years in the form of Signal Beam. So that would be a legitimately cool buff to it as a "unique", essentially stronger if special U-Turn even as someone who dislikes pivoting moves, arguably even cooler than Vesiquen finally getting some love. You know that you want to, Yoshiblaze.

Gravitas: A cool ability that potentially changes a lot all at once, so I don't think we should give to many more mons beyond what was already listed. Only mons that even come to mind as probably being "safe" with it as well as needing the help are , who needs all the help it can get, and , who is now even more out of sorts due to the huge buff that Uxie just got. (If it wasn't for the new item that won, I would ask for and/or to get it too, which still might be fine.)


Anyway, have a good weekend everyone (or else).

 

[Yoshiblaze]

Same sort of thing as last slate, there was a super thorough discussion on Discord and the post above that lead to us making this very solid list, so I'll end the distribution phase early, but anyone that missed it can comment on distribution for the next 24 hours

With that said, here's the results

Moves

Rapid Spin: Old Distribution +

Crush Claw: Old Distribution +

Flip Turn: Old Distribution +

Abilities

Buzz Off:

Gravitas:

Ability Replacements

- Paras, Parasect lose Damp
- Spinarak, Ariados, Joltik, Galvantula lose Swarm
- Sewaddle, Swadloon, Leavanny lose Overcoat
- Starmie loses Illuminate
- Elgyem, Beheeyem, Orbeetle lose Telepathy
- Skorupi, Drapion lose Battle Armour
- Torterra loses Shell Armour

Plus, we have 1 quick nerf to go along with this:
- Melmetal - With all the Punch-centric buffs we've added to this mod, it's no surprise that Melmetal has quickly become a super hard to deal with threat. Thus, we've decided to remove Thunder Punch from its movepool, allowing Water-types that resist Double Iron Bash to deal with it more easily, or at least pivot on it. This combined with the buffs to Wishiwashi should make Melmetal a lot less threatening

Now usually, we'd start the submission phase right now, but since we're now halfway through the mod (remember: we're only going to Slate 10), so we're going to take a short playtesting break! What that means is that tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday we will have multiple roomtours in the Tournaments room on DragonHeaven, to see how the meta's shaping up, what's problematic, what could use a buff, and what we might want to add. We'll have these tournaments around 3 PM on each day, with 1-2 tournaments tomorrow, 1-2 tournaments on Sunday, and 1 tournament on Monday. late 6 will also open for submissions on Monday. In the meantime, we will enter an extended Discussion phase, to discuss the tournaments and the meta in general.

Hope to see you at the tournaments over the weekend!

 

[The Damned]

Cool. Look forward to the tournaments, even if I doubt I'll be around tomorrow (and am shaking my fist at Alomomola).

That said, while you may have said this on Discord, may I ask what time zone at 3 P.M. we're talking about here, Yoshiblaze?

 

[Yoshiblaze]

That said, while you may have said this on Discord, may I ask what time zone at 3 P.M. we're talking about here, Yoshiblaze?

Oh yeah, should've specified, that is 3 PM EST

For people in different time zones, here's a converter to help find out what time that is in your time zone, but the Saturday tournaments are 14.5 hours away

 

[Yoshiblaze]

And the first day of roomtours is done! Let's look at the results:

Tour 1 - JolteMons OU - Single Elimination - 14 Entrants
1st: VoolPool
2nd: Yoshiblaze
3rd: Naronex
3rd: Regic Boat

Usage Stats

JolteMons Roomtour Usage Stats

+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Wishiwashi         |   10 |  38.46% |  70.00% |
| 2    | Tapu Koko          |    7 |  26.92% |  57.14% |
| 3    | Galvantula         |    6 |  23.08% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Uxie               |    6 |  23.08% |  66.67% |
| 5    | Zeraora            |    5 |  19.23% |  80.00% |
| 5    | Chesnaught         |    5 |  19.23% |  80.00% |
| 5    | Flapple            |    5 |  19.23% |  60.00% |
| -    | Gourgeist-*        |    5 |  19.23% |  60.00% |
| 5    | Houndoom           |    5 |  19.23% |  60.00% |
| 5    | Mesprit            |    5 |  19.23% |  60.00% |
| 5    | Gourgeist-Small    |    5 |  19.23% |  60.00% |
| 5    | Wigglytuff         |    5 |  19.23% |  40.00% |
| 5    | Toxapex            |    5 |  19.23% |  40.00% |
| 13   | Mawile             |    4 |  15.38% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Tapu Fini          |    4 |  15.38% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Gliscor            |    4 |  15.38% |  75.00% |
| 13   | Muk-Alola          |    4 |  15.38% |  75.00% |
| 13   | Kartana            |    4 |  15.38% |  50.00% |
| 13   | Moltres-Galar      |    4 |  15.38% |  50.00% |
| 19   | Azelf              |    3 |  11.54% |  66.67% |
| 19   | Heatran            |    3 |  11.54% |  33.33% |
| 19   | Steelix            |    3 |  11.54% |  33.33% |
| 22   | Lopunny            |    2 |   7.69% | 100.00% |
| 22   | Dragapult          |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 22   | Clefable           |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 22   | Chansey            |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 22   | Sableye            |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 22   | Tyranitar          |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 22   | Bibarel            |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 22   | Hawlucha           |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 22   | Charizard          |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 22   | Thundurus-Therian  |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 22   | Garchomp           |    2 |   7.69% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Blissey            |    2 |   7.69% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Rotom-Wash         |    2 |   7.69% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Melmetal           |    2 |   7.69% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Landorus-Therian   |    2 |   7.69% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Gardevoir          |    1 |   3.85% | 100.00% |
| 37   | Zapdos-Galar       |    1 |   3.85% | 100.00% |
| 37   | Magnezone          |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Moltres            |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Buzzwole           |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Weavile            |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Raichu-Alola       |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Chandelure         |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Serperior          |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Deoxys-Defense     |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Cinderace          |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Greninja           |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Meganium           |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Alomomola          |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Haxorus            |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Infernape          |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Corviknight        |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Blastoise          |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Bisharp            |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Starmie            |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Tornadus-Therian   |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Excadrill          |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Ampharos           |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |

Leads

+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Leads                   | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Galvantula              |    5 |  19.23% |  60.00% |
| 2    | Wishiwashi              |    3 |  11.54% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Lopunny                 |    2 |   7.69% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Sableye                 |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Steelix                 |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Tapu Koko               |    2 |   7.69% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Muk-Alola               |    1 |   3.85% | 100.00% |
| 7    | Gourgeist-Small         |    1 |   3.85% | 100.00% |
| 7    | Mawile                  |    1 |   3.85% | 100.00% |
| 7    | Magnezone               |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 7    | Weavile                 |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 7    | Serperior               |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 7    | Cinderace               |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 7    | Infernape               |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 7    | Dragapult               |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |
| 7    | Ferrothorn              |    1 |   3.85% |   0.00% |

Replays

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-330
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-331
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https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-333
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-334
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-335
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-338
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-339
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-341
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-336
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-342
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-340
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Tour 2 - JolteMons OU - Single Elimination - 9 Entrants
1st: Superior Serperior
2nd: Bobsican
3rd: zxgzxg
3rd: Clasmia

Usage Stats

JolteMons Roomtour Usage Stats

+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Tapu Koko          |    7 |  50.00% |  71.43% |
| 2    | Heatran            |    4 |  28.57% |  75.00% |
| 2    | Wishiwashi         |    4 |  28.57% |  75.00% |
| 2    | Moltres-Galar      |    4 |  28.57% |  75.00% |
| 2    | Gliscor            |    4 |  28.57% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Clefable           |    4 |  28.57% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Ferrothorn         |    4 |  28.57% |  50.00% |
| 8    | Weavile            |    3 |  21.43% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Raichu-Alola       |    3 |  21.43% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Dragonite          |    3 |  21.43% |  66.67% |
| 8    | Chansey            |    3 |  21.43% |  66.67% |
| 8    | Slowbro            |    3 |  21.43% |  66.67% |
| 8    | Muk-Alola          |    3 |  21.43% |  66.67% |
| 8    | Houndoom           |    3 |  21.43% |  33.33% |
| 15   | Alakazam           |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 15   | Hawlucha           |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 15   | Wigglytuff         |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 15   | Kartana            |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 15   | Tornadus-Therian   |    2 |  14.29% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Steelix            |    2 |  14.29% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Chesnaught         |    2 |  14.29% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Rotom-Wash         |    2 |  14.29% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Landorus-Therian   |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 23   | Samurott           |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 23   | Decidueye          |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 23   | Tapu Lele          |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Meloetta           |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Hydreigon          |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Forretress         |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Magmortar          |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Weezing-Galar      |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Dragapult          |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Bisharp            |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Melmetal           |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Salamence          |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Swampert           |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Medicham           |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Garchomp           |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |

Leads

+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Leads                   | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Wishiwashi              |    2 |  14.29% | 100.00% |
| 1    | Muk-Alola               |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Tapu Koko               |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Landorus-Therian        |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Heatran                 |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Slowbro                 |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Tapu Lele               |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 3    | Forretress              |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 3    | Steelix                 |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 3    | Houndoom                |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 3    | Chesnaught              |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 3    | Tornadus-Therian        |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |

Replays

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-346
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-347
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-344
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-348
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-345
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-349
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-351

Some quick takeaways:
- As expected, stuff from Slate 5 (Buzz Off Galvantula, Lake Trio, Wishiwashi, etc.) was extremely common. I expect this to come down tomorrow and Monday, though Uxie and Wishiwashi have proven to be really good and Mesprit and Galvantula likely have a niche as well
- Tapu Koko is still one of the best mons in the tier, both for its offensive prowess and how it enables Screens teams, which were really common. Screens were likely common due to a combination of its ease of use (since multiple people who entered were new to the tier) + numerous powerful setup sweepers that really only fit on these kinds of teams (NP Raichu, Samurott, Hawlucha still being Lucha, Wigglytuff even though it's still bad, etc.) all being present. With all of this, my hot take right now is that Koko is a 4th S Tier, along with Lando, Mega Lop, and Heatran.
- Mega Houndoom is really really scary, scariest (offensive) Dark-type in the tier not named Weavile or Ash-Gren
- Someone used Bibarel, the madlad
- I've heard some complaints about Muk-Alola, Raichu-Alola, Uxie, and Gourgeist-Small from the tournament, so the council will look at them, though it's likely that only Muk-Alola will see any immediate nerfs
- Stall dominated the second tour, which is something I never thought I'd see in a SylveMons meta's roomtour, but there's a first for everything
- Probably due to new toy syndrome more than anything, but Melmetal's usage fell off a cliff. Though, with it losing Thunder Punch and Wishiwashi being everywhere right now, this trend might continue.

And that's it! We'll be back with 2 more roomtours tomorrow, so if you missed the tours today, then you're in luck! I want to thank everyone who showed for the tours, I never expected to have this many people show up after holding many a SylveMons roomtour with 3 or 4 or 5 entrants, so 14 entrants absolutely blows my mind.

With that said, hope to see you for more tomorrow!

 

[Yoshiblaze]

Hello! I have some late night news before the roomtours in about 13 hours

Using the data we've collected from the roomtours and some games played after the roomtours, we've decided to push through a few buffs and nerfs before the roomtours tomorrow to hopefully make the tournaments tomorrow even more fun!

Here they are:
- Decidium Z - Banned - Decidueye theoretically is a very balanced "Speed Boost" sweeper since it's super slow, has no coverage, and a terrible defensive typing. However, access to Sinister Arrow Raid singlehandedly allows Decidueye to just autowin some games after a Swords Dance as pretty much nothing is equipped to take a +2 Adamant Sinister Arrow Raid. Thus, Decidueye will likely be way more balanced without it, but not bad since now it can run Poltergeist and a boosting item
- Kommonium Z - Banned - And while we're at it, Clangorous Soulblaze + Clangorous Soul is a pretty insane combination on paper and with screens team being so common, this could become a really dangerous option down the line, so it's best to get rid of it now
- Light Ball - All boosts nerfed to 1.5x (from 2x) - Yeah, the "Sylve Light Ball but without all the stuff that made Electric-types broken in Sylve" experiment failed. The Raichus and Morpeko were simply too powerful with doubled attacking stats, easily being able to sweep teams by themselves, so it's best to tone the boost down to just a Choice item boost.
- Muk-Alola - Now has Gluttony instead of Regenerator - Regenerator on a super bulky Toxic-immune Pokémon with an amazing defensive typing was predictably extremely unfun to play against, basically never dying, so getting rid of Regenerator makes it a lot easier to take down.
- Meganium - Now learns High Horsepower - Extremely random little buff, but Meganium got adjustments voted in twice and still kinda sucks, so High Horsepower should at least be a tiny help to allow Rototiller sets to hit Steel-types without having to settle for Stomping Tantrum of all things
- Sandslash-A - Now has Ice Body instead of Snow Cloak - Extremely minor buff since Sandslash-A isn't breaking into OU any time soon, but we meant to do this ages ago as we realized that we should've replaced Snow Cloak with Prickly Coat instead of Ice Body, so here you go


And that's it! Hope to see you at the roomtours!

 

[Yoshiblaze]

Day 2 of Room Tournaments is done! Here's how it went:

Tour 1 - JolteMons OU - Single Elimination - 7 Entrants
1st: Yoshiblaze (oh that's me)
2nd: The Damned
3rd: G-Luke
3rd: VoolPool

Usage Stats

JolteMons Roomtour Usage Stats

+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Wishiwashi         |    7 |  58.33% |  71.43% |
| 1    | Moltres-Galar      |    7 |  58.33% |  71.43% |
| 3    | Lopunny            |    4 |  33.33% |  75.00% |
| 4    | Uxie               |    3 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 4    | Tapu Koko          |    3 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 4    | Gliscor            |    3 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 4    | Darmanitan         |    3 |  25.00% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Alakazam           |    3 |  25.00% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Tapu Lele          |    3 |  25.00% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Steelix            |    3 |  25.00% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Zeraora            |    3 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Landorus-Therian   |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Houndoom           |    2 |  16.67% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Blissey            |    2 |  16.67% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Muk-Alola          |    2 |  16.67% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Tapu Fini          |    2 |  16.67% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Blacephalon        |    1 |   8.33% | 100.00% |
| 17   | Zapdos             |    1 |   8.33% | 100.00% |
| 17   | Rillaboom          |    1 |   8.33% | 100.00% |
| 17   | Melmetal           |    1 |   8.33% | 100.00% |
| 17   | Toxapex            |    1 |   8.33% | 100.00% |
| 17   | Flapple            |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Cresselia          |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Wigglytuff         |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Goodra             |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Forretress         |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Weavile            |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Slowking-Galar     |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Skarmory           |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Torterra           |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Mawile             |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Chesnaught         |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Buzzwole           |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Garchomp           |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Clefable           |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 17   | Corviknight        |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |

Leads

+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Leads                   | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Lopunny                 |    4 |  33.33% |  75.00% |
| 2    | Wishiwashi              |    3 |  25.00% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Toxapex                 |    1 |   8.33% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Tapu Lele               |    1 |   8.33% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Wigglytuff              |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 3    | Goodra                  |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 3    | Zeraora                 |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |

Replays

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-321
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-319
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-320
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-326
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-328
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-334

Tour 1 - JolteMons OU - Single Elimination - 8 Entrants
1st: Superior Serperior
2nd: Bobsican
3rd: earl
3rd: The Damned

Usage Stats

JolteMons Roomtour Usage Stats

+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Melmetal           |    5 |  35.71% |  60.00% |
| 2    | Corviknight        |    4 |  28.57% |  75.00% |
| 2    | Toxapex            |    4 |  28.57% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Clefable           |    4 |  28.57% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Gliscor            |    4 |  28.57% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Alcremie-Ruby-Swirl |    3 |  21.43% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Medicham           |    3 |  21.43% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Zeraora            |    3 |  21.43% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Swampert           |    3 |  21.43% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Uxie               |    3 |  21.43% |  66.67% |
| 6    | Chansey            |    3 |  21.43% |  66.67% |
| 6    | Sableye            |    3 |  21.43% |  66.67% |
| 6    | Garchomp           |    3 |  21.43% |  33.33% |
| 14   | Mawile             |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 14   | Rotom-Mow          |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 14   | Slowbro            |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 14   | Blacephalon        |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 14   | Moltres-Galar      |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 14   | Articuno-Galar     |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 14   | Galvantula         |    2 |  14.29% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Heatran            |    2 |  14.29% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Wishiwashi         |    2 |  14.29% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Magmortar          |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 23   | Tapu Koko          |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 23   | Greninja           |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 23   | Rhyperior          |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 23   | Registeel          |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 23   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Slowking-Galar     |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Houndoom           |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Blissey            |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Lopunny            |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Landorus-Therian   |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Chesnaught         |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Bibarel            |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Forretress         |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Kyurem             |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Steelix            |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Terrakion          |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Mismagius          |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Flapple            |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Gallade            |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 23   | Alomomola          |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |

Leads

+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Leads                   | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Sableye                 |    3 |  21.43% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Swampert                |    2 |  14.29% | 100.00% |
| 2    | Mawile                  |    2 |  14.29% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Tapu Koko               |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 4    | Alcremie-Ruby-Swirl     |    1 |   7.14% | 100.00% |
| 4    | Galvantula              |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 4    | Lopunny                 |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 4    | Bibarel                 |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 4    | Terrakion               |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |
| 4    | Mismagius               |    1 |   7.14% |   0.00% |

Replays

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-343
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-344
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-345
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-347
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-346
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-348
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-350

Some Takeaways:
- The second tournament had a coding error and stall, I do NOT want to talk about it
- As I predicted, Wishiwashi and Uxie proved to be the real deal and not just new toy syndrome.
- Lopunny is still insanely good in case you missed it
- Moltres-Galar, Tapu Koko, and PsySpam are also still good
- Houndoom is still terrifying
- Electro Ball Zeraora had a pretty good showing in both tournaments. Competes a ton with Specs Koko, who I personally still think is worthy of S- Tier, but Zera's extra Speed to get the jump on Mega Lop and Ash Gren and access to Focus Blast make it a good secondary option for an Electric cleaner
- Magmortar! And it won a game!


And that's all for today! We'll have 1 more tournament tomorrow and then submission for slate 6 will start!

Meanwhile, tonight, probably starting right after I post this, I'll try to get a VR made with community input. If you want to help create it, then head on over to the JolteMons Discord where I'll ask everyone for their opinion on specific mons and rank them accordingly.

Hope to see you there and/or at the tournament tomorrow!

 

[earl]

Some cool sets and mons I've been using:

Physdef Bounce

Articuno-Galar @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Magic Bounce
EVs: 252 HP / 240 Def / 16 Spe
Bold Nature
- Freezing Glare
- Recover
- U-turn
- Toxic

In my experience, Garticuno has been very effective on teams that would rather not bother with Boots on their Rocks-weak Pokemon. With defensive investment and a Rocky Helmet it sits on basically every hazard setter while still providing some utility with U-Turn and Toxic. It's not a great progress maker or anything but damn does it keep hazards off (and unlike Sableye still maintains momentum). The 16 Speed creeps Modest Specs Peli cuz that mon is a nightmare

NGas Stallbreaker

Magmortar @ Shell Bell / Leftovers
Ability: Neutralizing Gas
EVs: 40 HP / 160 SpA / 100 SpD / 208 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Recover
- Flamethrower
- Thunderbolt / Taunt
- Scorching Sands

Magmortar hasn't really taken off despite the super-sexy NGas+Recover combo, but that's mostly due to it being unexplored and unrealized in my opinion. This funky-looking EV spread hits 2 significant benchmarks, being the following:
80 SpA Slowking-Galar Scald vs. 40 HP / 100 SpD Magmortar: 126-150 (41.8 - 49.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252+ Spe = 278, 208+ Spe = 279
Outside of that, the rest is just dumped into Special Attack to do the main job this clown has: making progress. Flamethrower and Scorching Sands are basically non-negotiable, while Thunderbolt can chunk Water-types like Fini and Toxapex. However, there's no beating a healthy Wishiwashi and SpD Pex can live 2 Thunderbolts comfortably, so that's where Taunt comes in. A Toxapex Scald cannot 2HKO you, so Taunt+Recover+Scorching Sands+Burn eventually beats down The Pex. Shell Bell is my preferred item to offset Poison damage from Glowking or whatever, but Lefties probably provides better recovery on Taunt variants. Run this guy with solid hazard control (like Garticuno) because boots are pretty stinky on this set.

Speeen

Rhyperior @ Protector
Ability: Solid Rock
EVs: 248 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Arid Absorption
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Crush Claw / Rock Blast

Maybe the dumbest set I brought today, Protector Solid Rock Rhyperior lives virtually any hit that isn't Water or Grass-type. Hell, it took under 50 from a Specs Kyurem's Earth Power lol. Arid Absorption is a very cool recovery move that punishes the obvious Wishiwashi switch-ins, while Rapid Spin does what Rapid Spin does. Crush Claw is my preferred slot 4 attack, as it punishes fat ghosts and is a very nifty momentum-grabber, but Rock Blast is also nice for immediate damage and the classic EdgeQuake combo.

Galv at home

Vikavolt @ Focus Sash
Ability: Buzz Off
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sticky Web
- Bug Buzz
- Discharge
- Roost

Gonna be short with this one, Vikavolt is a funny pick for Webs HO because it slow pivots, carries respectable bulk, and hits like a train (and therefore smokes the MBouncers). Try it out. Or don't, because HO is cheap.

Speeen pt 2

Krookodile @ Shell Bell
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Rapid Spin
- Knock Off
- Earthquake
- Pursuit / Crush Claw

A set like this is a prime example of what Shell Bell is best for. 4 Attacks, good defensive utility, and a very reliable Rapid Spin makes Shell Bell truly shine, turning it into basically lefties x2. Pursuit rules for sniping Ghosts but Crush Claw is also neat for busting through Landos or whatever.

the joltemons melmetal lab

Melmetal @ Shell Bell
Ability: Iron Fist
EVs: 40 HP / 252 Atk / 104 SpD / 112 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Double Iron Bash
- Arm Thrust
- Ice Punch
- Thunder Wave / Earthquake

Melmetal @ Momentum Armor
Ability: Iron Fist
EVs: 252 Def / 244 SpD / 12 Spe
Impish Nature
- Double Iron Bash
- Body Press
- Iron Defense
- Reconstruct

Even as the Joltemons elite attempt to suppress Melmetal's true power, us Melmetal-truthers continue to uncover new heat. The first set is literally just Protective Pads Melm from OU but with Shell Bell to replace the now intrinsic pads. It has doubled lefties! The bottom set is forbidden, ancient technology. Use at your own risk.

 

[Yoshiblaze]

Got the community VR done faster than I thought! Thanks to everyone who participated in making it on Discord

Without further adieu, here's the Slate 5 JolteMons OU VR:

JolteMons OU Viability Rankings as of Slate 5

JOLTEMONS VIABILITY RANKINGS​

Last Updated: 1/9/22

S Rank

S
Wishiwashi-School

S-
Tapu Koko
Mega Lopunny
Uxie
Melmetal

A Rank

A+
Clefable
Dragapult
Ferrothorn
Garchomp
Gliscor
Ash Greninja
Heatran
Landorus-Therian
Mega Mawile
Galarian Moltres
Tapu Fini
Toxapex

A
Galarian Articuno
Chesnaught
Cinderace
Mega Houndoom
Kartana
Kyurem
Alolan Raichu
Mega Scizor
Volcarona
Weavile
Zapdos
Zeraora

A-
Mega Alakazam
Alomomola
Blacephalon
Blissey
Mega Latias
Mega Medicham
Mega Sableye
Skarmory
Slowbro
Tangrowth
Tapu Lele

B Rank

B+
Buzzwole
Mega Charizard Y
Darmanitan-Zen
Mega Diancie
Ditto
Mega Gallade
Gastrodon
Hawlucha
Jirachi
Magnezone
Mew
Pelipper
Rotom-Wash
Galarian Slowking
Mega Swampert
Tornadus-Therian
Victini
Galarian Zapdos

B
Amoonguss
Arctozolt
Bisharp
Chansey
Corviknight
Mega Garchomp
Gourgeist-Small
Mega Gyarados
Hydreigon
Infernape
Kommo-o
Lumineon
Alolan Ninetales
Reuniclus
Rillaboom
Samurott
Serperior
Mega Steelix
Tapu Bulu


B-
Mega Ampharos
Decidueye
Excadrill
Krookodile
Manaphy
Tyranitar
Mega Tyranitar
Urshifu-Rapid-Strike

C Rank

C
Mega Camerupt
Chandelure
Crawdaunt
Dracozolt
Flapple
Galvantula
Mega Gardevoir
Gengar
Greninja
Haxorus
Hoopa-Unbound
Magmortar
Magneton
Mesprit
Metagross
Nihilego
Rhyperior
Rotom-Fan
Shedinja
Mega Slowbro
Tentacruel
Torkoal
Venusaur
Volcanion
Zarude

Jolteon Rank

Jolteon
Jolteon

Hopefully this'll make building for the tournament tomorrow and in the future easier! See you tomorrow!

 

[Yoshiblaze]

And the last day of roomtours has concluded! Just one day since it's Monday and people have school and stuff, so let's see what happened:

Tour - JolteMons OU - Single Elimination - 7 Entrants
1st: Clasmia
2nd: Beaf Cultist
3rd: megaspoopy000
3rd: Yoshiblaze

Usage Stats

JolteMons OU Roomtour Stats

+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Moltres-Galar      |    6 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Tapu Koko          |    5 |  41.67% |  80.00% |
| 3    | Hawlucha           |    3 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Wigglytuff         |    3 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Kartana            |    3 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Charizard          |    3 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Thundurus-Therian  |    3 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Medicham           |    3 |  25.00% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Uxie               |    3 |  25.00% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Wishiwashi         |    3 |  25.00% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Blacephalon        |    3 |  25.00% |  33.33% |
| 12   | Flapple            |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Heatran            |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Alomomola          |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Ampharos           |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Nihilego           |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Centiskorch        |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Chesnaught         |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Starmie            |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Lopunny            |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Garchomp           |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 22   | Pelipper           |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Manaphy            |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Greninja           |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Zapdos             |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Swampert           |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Articuno-Galar     |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Houndoom           |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Victini            |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Volcarona          |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Alcremie-Ruby-Swirl |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Zeraora            |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Toxapex            |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Corviknight        |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 22   | Melmetal           |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |

Leads

+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Leads                   | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Tapu Koko               |    5 |  41.67% |  80.00% |
| 2    | Lopunny                 |    2 |  16.67% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Starmie                 |    1 |   8.33% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Pelipper                |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 3    | Victini                 |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 3    | Toxapex                 |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |
| 3    | Nihilego                |    1 |   8.33% |   0.00% |

Replays

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-288
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-289
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-290
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-291
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-293
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/dragonheaven-gen8joltemons-294

Some Takeaways:
- Tapu Koko continues to prove why it's the second best mon in the tier, both offensively and with screens
- Wigglytuff won a roomtour. This is a true statement. (Also forgot to mention, but Alcremie won a roomtour yesterday as well)
- It's nice to see that Goltres is still amazing ever since slate 1
- Uxie and Wishiwashi did Uxie and Wishiwashi things, just not quite as dominant as they were in previous tourneys
- Flapple 6-0s Rain if your opponent doesn't have a Ferrothorn, so if you really hate Rain, then run Flapple + Magnezone + an Ash-Gren check
- This image
- Centiskorch!

Also, if you're curious, here are the cumulative stats across all 5 tournaments. Due note, however, that 7 replays got overwritten, so we're missing data from 7 games

Cumulative Stats

JolteMons OU Roomtours Stats

+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Wishiwashi         |   21 |  32.81% |  57.14% |
| 2    | Moltres-Galar      |   19 |  29.69% |  57.89% |
| 3    | Tapu Koko          |   17 |  26.56% |  76.47% |
| 4    | Uxie               |   14 |  21.88% |  64.29% |
| 5    | Gliscor            |   12 |  18.75% |  75.00% |
| 6    | Zeraora            |   11 |  17.19% |  54.55% |
| 7    | Lopunny            |   10 |  15.62% |  70.00% |
| 7    | Toxapex            |   10 |  15.62% |  40.00% |
| 9    | Melmetal           |    9 |  14.06% |  55.56% |
| 9    | Wigglytuff         |    9 |  14.06% |  55.56% |
| 9    | Clefable           |    9 |  14.06% |  44.44% |
| 9    | Houndoom           |    9 |  14.06% |  33.33% |
| 9    | Garchomp           |    9 |  14.06% |  22.22% |
| 14   | Chesnaught         |    8 |  12.50% |  50.00% |
| 14   | Galvantula         |    8 |  12.50% |  50.00% |
| 14   | Flapple            |    8 |  12.50% |  37.50% |
| 17   | Kartana            |    7 |  10.94% |  71.43% |
| 17   | Medicham           |    7 |  10.94% |  57.14% |
| 17   | Heatran            |    7 |  10.94% |  42.86% |
| 17   | Corviknight        |    7 |  10.94% |  42.86% |
| 21   | Mawile             |    6 |   9.38% |  66.67% |
| 21   | Chansey            |    6 |   9.38% |  66.67% |
| 21   | Blacephalon        |    6 |   9.38% |  50.00% |
| 21   | Steelix            |    6 |   9.38% |  33.33% |
| 25   | Hawlucha           |    5 |   7.81% |  80.00% |
| 25   | Charizard          |    5 |   7.81% |  80.00% |
| 25   | Thundurus-Therian  |    5 |   7.81% |  80.00% |
| 25   | Sableye            |    5 |   7.81% |  60.00% |
| 25   | Muk-Alola          |    5 |   7.81% |  60.00% |
| 25   | Tapu Fini          |    5 |   7.81% |  60.00% |
| -    | Gourgeist-*        |    5 |   7.81% |  60.00% |
| 25   | Mesprit            |    5 |   7.81% |  60.00% |
| 25   | Gourgeist-Small    |    5 |   7.81% |  60.00% |
| 25   | Landorus-Therian   |    5 |   7.81% |  20.00% |
| 25   | Blissey            |    5 |   7.81% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Swampert           |    4 |   6.25% |  75.00% |
| 35   | Alcremie-Ruby-Swirl |    4 |   6.25% |  75.00% |
| 37   | Slowbro            |    3 |   4.69% |  66.67% |
| 37   | Darmanitan         |    3 |   4.69% |  66.67% |
| 37   | Alakazam           |    3 |   4.69% |  66.67% |
| 37   | Tapu Lele          |    3 |   4.69% |  66.67% |
| 37   | Azelf              |    3 |   4.69% |  66.67% |
| 37   | Alomomola          |    3 |   4.69% |  33.33% |
| 37   | Greninja           |    3 |   4.69% |  33.33% |
| 37   | Zapdos             |    3 |   4.69% |  33.33% |
| 37   | Articuno-Galar     |    3 |   4.69% |  33.33% |
| 37   | Buzzwole           |    3 |   4.69% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Rotom-Wash         |    3 |   4.69% |   0.00% |
| 48   | Ampharos           |    2 |   3.12% |  50.00% |
| 48   | Nihilego           |    2 |   3.12% |  50.00% |
| 48   | Centiskorch        |    2 |   3.12% |  50.00% |
| 48   | Starmie            |    2 |   3.12% |  50.00% |
| 48   | Rotom-Mow          |    2 |   3.12% |  50.00% |
| 48   | Ferrothorn         |    2 |   3.12% |  50.00% |
| 48   | Dragapult          |    2 |   3.12% |  50.00% |
| 48   | Slowking-Galar     |    2 |   3.12% |   0.00% |
| 48   | Bibarel            |    2 |   3.12% |   0.00% |
| 48   | Forretress         |    2 |   3.12% |   0.00% |
| 48   | Weavile            |    2 |   3.12% |   0.00% |
| 48   | Cinderace          |    2 |   3.12% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Magmortar          |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Rhyperior          |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Registeel          |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Rillaboom          |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Tangrowth          |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Gardevoir          |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Zapdos-Galar       |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Tyranitar          |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Pelipper           |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Manaphy            |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Victini            |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Volcarona          |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Kyurem             |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Terrakion          |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Mismagius          |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Gallade            |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Cresselia          |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Goodra             |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Skarmory           |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Torterra           |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Tornadus-Therian   |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Krookodile         |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Jirachi            |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Haxorus            |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Infernape          |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Blastoise          |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Bisharp            |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Magnezone          |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Moltres            |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Raichu-Alola       |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Chandelure         |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Serperior          |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Deoxys-Defense     |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |

Leads

+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Leads                   | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ----------------------- + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Tapu Koko               |    9 |  14.06% |  77.78% |
| 1    | Lopunny                 |    9 |  14.06% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Galvantula              |    6 |   9.38% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Sableye                 |    5 |   7.81% |  60.00% |
| 4    | Wishiwashi              |    5 |   7.81% |  60.00% |
| 6    | Swampert                |    2 |   3.12% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Toxapex                 |    2 |   3.12% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Mawile                  |    2 |   3.12% |  50.00% |
| 9    | Starmie                 |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Alcremie-Ruby-Swirl     |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Tapu Lele               |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Slowbro                 |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Muk-Alola               |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Gourgeist-Small         |    1 |   1.56% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Pelipper                |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Victini                 |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Nihilego                |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Bibarel                 |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Terrakion               |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Mismagius               |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Wigglytuff              |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Goodra                  |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Zeraora                 |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Tornadus-Therian        |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Zapdos                  |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Infernape               |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Dragapult               |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Steelix                 |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Magnezone               |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Weavile                 |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Serperior               |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Cinderace               |    1 |   1.56% |   0.00% |

And that's that! Thank you to everyone who participated in any of the 5 roomtours, I had a blast over the last 3 days and I hope you did too. With our little peek into how the current metagame is concluded, I can now open submissions for slate 6!

 

[Ema Skye]

Pauluxx (9:32am): Oh yeah ema you and rez are both uber boomers

Attacks

Name: Self Destruct / Explosion / Misty Explosion

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Power: 170 / 250 / 130
Accuracy: 100
PP: 5
Category: Phys / Phys / Spec
Type: Normal / Normal / Fairy
Effect: Halves opponent's defense when calculating damage. User faints. Misty Explosion: halves opponent's special defense when calculating damage. Deals 50% more damage in Misty Terrain.
Priority: 0
Flags (ex: Contact, Sound): Spread, Explosion
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Explosion:
Self-Destruct:
Misty Explosion:
Justification: Gen 1-4 Explosion is an iconic move that shaped the metagames around it, and defined a decade of Pokemon formats. These moves are surprisingly flexible: they can take down a counter to an ally to create a sweep (a common team comp in GSC has boom Exeggutor for Zapdos so Vaporeon can sweep), they can lure in a counter (Gen 4 Heatran ran Explosion for Blissey) and even the threat of the move alone, even if you don't run it, puts people on edge to try and bait it.

Explosion/Self Destruct was nerfed in Gen 5, coincidentally with the advent of team preview. Restored boom moves in a team preview meta are very interesting as you can scout out potential boom victims (and, in return, can anticipate what your opponent wants to boom on), which really adds to the mind games aspect of these moves. It fits perfectly with their intended role as timed nukes.

Furthermore, the introduction of Misty Explosion as a special boom move gives boomers a way to target the other defense stat, which is often lower and means the boom won't be weakened by a burn. This could be useful for something like Rapidash, running SD + 2 Atks + boom, given that the set naturally lures in Def mons, only to misty boom on them. Or you can run misty boom on a mon like Mega Gardevoir to try and take down a Blissey since it does so much damage. Also, for maximum funnies, if your misty boom mon would be countered by Tapu Fini, things get wild.

Also shoutouts to and for the 600BP STAB Explosion.

Name: Skull Bash / Razor Wind

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Power: 130 / 120
Accuracy: 90
PP: 10
Category: Phys / Spec
Type: Water / Normal
Effect: Charges turn 1 and boosts user's Atk (Spe for Razor Wind). Damages Turn 2.
Priority: 0
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Skull Bash:
Razor Wind: :sirfetch
Justification: Meteor Beam clones for different stats. Probably could be kinda fun. Handle Razor Wind with care but Normal-type should balance it a bit.

Name: Magma Storm / Thunder Cage / Clamp

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Power: 100
Accuracy: 90
PP: 5
Category: Spec / Spec / Phys
Type: Fire / Electric / Water
Effect: If it lands, binds the opponent for 1/8th HP for 4-5 turns.
Priority: 0
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Magma Storm:
Thunder Cage:
Clamp:
Justification: I'm tired of missing Magma Storm but trapping moves are genuinely pretty cool so it'd be cool if there was more than 1 viable mon with them. Might help Magmortar be a bit more viable with the chip damage helping it land KOs, or Galvantula trapping and then using its free switch.

Items
Name: Pillow

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Effect: Restores 1/8th of the Pokemon's HP if it is asleep at the start of the turn. As long as this Pokemon is asleep, it can attack with a random move (acts like Sleep Talk).
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 10 and puts to sleep
Justification: Sleep is an oppressive status condition so this provides some counterplay. Could be really fun on Rest mons (no longer needing to give up a slot for Sleep Talk) or Komala (if you like RNG).

Name: Chili Pepper

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Effect: Thaws the Pokemon when held, then consumes the item. While this Pokemon is holding this item, it is immune to burn.
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 10 and burns
Justification: Burn immunity could be really cool for physical mons and while freeze isn't common, when it does occur, it can be game-ending.

Name: Burn / Chill / Douse / Shock Drive

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Effect: User's Normal-type moves become Fire / Ice / Water / Electric, but do 10% less damage.
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 10 and burns / reduce speed / reduce speed / paralyze
Justification: Adds new coverage opportunities at the cost of holding an item, and further at the risk of losing it due to removal shenanigans.

Abilities
Name: Honey Gather

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Effect: At the end of each turn, if this Pokemon has no item, it gets Honey. Knock Off doesn't get boosted against Pokemon with this ability.
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: (over Unnerve), (over Gluttony) (all 3) (over Swarm) (over Anger Point) (over Gluttony) (over Unnerve)
Justification: Changing Honey to be useful is really cool, but this ability is still useless. While a lot of these mons are weak to SR (and probably still run Boots), those that aren't definitely get some huge viability out of double Leftovers and, essentially, a Knock Off immunity.

Name: Gorilla Tactics

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Effect: If this Pokemon moves first in the turn, or the foe switches out, it embargoes the target's item.
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: So actual Guerilla Tactics involve ambushes, raids and sabotages, which I think fits with the new effect. And it lets us both unban Darm-G and allow the use of Chill Pill Darm-G-Zen. Most of these Pokemon are decently fast and so they'd probably get a lot of mileage out of the ability.

Name: Curious Medicine

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Effect: When this Pokemon switches in, it removes status from all active Pokemon and screens on both sides
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: Yes, this is buffed Screen Cleaner (could honestly combine the two abilities together). This adds more screens counterplay, which is probably helpful given their status in the meta. The other effect is a worse Natural Cure clone, functionally, but could possibly add some fun interactions with Guts/Poison Heal mons if the orb has been removed.

Name: Heavy Metal

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Effect: User takes half damage from Dark and Ghost moves, but double damage from Fairy moves.
Permanent (Yes or No): No
Mold Breaker (Yes or No): Yes
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: Gives Steel mons some more resists, restoring their old matchup, while increasing damage from Fairy as a drawback. New resists might help them compete with Uxie and Melmetal being so dominant.

Adjustments

Name: Guzzlord

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Type: Dark/Dragon
Abilities: Beast Boost / Neutralizing Gas
New Moves: Thunderbolt, Thunder Punch, Fire Punch
Removed Moves:
Justification: Neutralizing Gas is a strong ability on paper but limited here because its abusers (Weezing and Magmortar) lack the stats and/or typing to make it in the higher tiers. Guzzlord offers good bulk and has the right moves to succeed in this role. Obviously will struggle against the Fairies but at least Clefable takes hazard damage trying to come in against it. Electric coverage is nice vs Goltres though it's still not enough for Pex. Also being able to Knock Off the Sticky Hold mons is pretty awesome. Might even do okay vs Wishiwashi. Earl also thought a Dragon Tail+RestTalk set could be cool with a Prickly Spikes mon.

Name: Copperajah

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Type: Steel/Ground
Abilities: Heavy Metal / Dry Skin / Sheer Force
Justification: Type combo matches up well with pretty much all of the top tiers, with Wishiwashi, Melmetal and Tapu Koko, in particular, struggling to break it. Extra Fire weakness does hurt but it does create more counterplay to the mon to stop it from being overly centralizing, especially in a meta with Hidden Power and a bunch of other viable Steels.

 

[Beaf Cultist]

Moves

Name: Acidic Fists
Power: 90
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 10
Category:

Type:

Effect: Breaks screens, 10% poison chance.
Priority: 0
Flags: Contact, Mirror, Protect, Punch
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Justification: Amazing counterplay to the currently dominant screens HO teams. Basically Brick Break but stuff actually wants to run it, plus it hits Tapu Koko, the main setter, super effectively. Also has the bonus of being the strongest non-Fighting punch move.

Abilities

Name: Concussion
Effect: While this Pokemon is active, opposing Pokemon cannot use their items.
Permanent: No
Mold Breaker: No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: A classic FELT ability. Disabling boots is great for dissuading threats such as Cinderace, and for keeping various defoggers from getting rid of stacked hazards. Plus, disabling Leftovers is great for wallbreaking, and avoiding Rocky Helmet chip is always great on physical attackers. Also Concussion Terrakion goes hard, feel free to screenshot.


Name: Overachiever
Effect: This Pokemon's moves that require a charge turn charge immediately (Power Herb effect).
Permanent: No
Mold Breaker: No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: (lol!)
Justification: Ridiculously strong ability for mons that are able to abuse it. Skull Bash Bouffalant goes hard, but the real top-tiers are Nihilego and Wigglytuff.

Items

Name: Rifle
Effect: The holder's ballistic moves have 1.3x power and are guaranteed to hit.
Can Be Knocked Off: Yes
Ignored by Klutz: Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 80
Justification: Better Life Orb with a smaller area of effect. Really enables special Fighting types, as well as various other mons (such as Gengar), but the existence of Bulletproof does put somewhat of a damper on it.

Name: Assault Mask
Effect: The holder's moves do 1.3x damage, but the holder cannot select status moves.
Can Be Knocked Off: Yes
Ignored by Klutz: Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 40
Justification: Better Life Orb, take two. Great on mons with no setup who also don’t want to be choice locked.

Name: Cursed Belt
Effect: When the holder uses a status move, this item disables it. If the holder has a move disabled, its attacks deal 1.3x damage.
Can Be Knocked Off: Yes
Ignored by Klutz: Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 10
Justification: This one is very strong, but I believe it's in a healthy way. Gives a damageless Life Orb boost at the cost of a moveslot and a setup turn, but setup sweepers and the like absolutely love it, and Speed Boost mons like Blaziken who already run Protect go absolutely wild. Still easily counterplayed and the mons that would usually run it are easy to force out, thus removing the item's effect until they use another status move. Also provides a way to punish Cursed Body.

Adjustments

still good


Name: Crobat
Type:

Abilities: Inner Focus / Delta Stream / Infiltrator
New Moves:
Removed Moves:
Justification: Amazing defensive typing with Delta Stream allows it to pull off utility pivot roles much easier. Still struggles with poor bulk and somewhat low offensive power.


Name: Dodrio
Type:

Abilities: Analytic / Early Bird / Moody
New Moves: Earthquake, High Horsepower, Triple Axel
Removed Moves:
Justification: Lando 2. Absolutely insane buffs to typing, ability, and movepool easily catapult it into OU (and yes, it has flavor for all of this. Ask me about it if you're wondering), with pseudo-Speed Boost in tandem with Swords Dance allowing for terrifying sweeping sets, or Analytic providing a great immediate power boost to all of its moves, allowing it to take advantage of the switches it forces. Near-perfect coverage in BB/EQ/Axel is great, and Ground/Flying is an amazing typing both offensively and defensively. Still has obnoxiously low bulk, and doesn't hit particularly hard unboosted, but while it might be hard to get going, it easily has the tools to become a staple.

the bulkiest fur coat mon is… wormadam???

Name: Wormadam (Plant | Sandy | Trash)
Type:
Abilities: Simple | Fur Coat | Thick Fat (Overcoat remains HA for all 3)
New Moves: Recover (Plant, Sandy), Spikes (Sandy, Trash), Thunderbolt (Plant, Trash), Sticky Web (Sandy), Earth Power (All), U-Turn (All)
Removed Moves: N/A
Justification: These all suck hard, so I gave them tools to potentially have niches. Plant Cloak now gains access to the ridiculous combo of Simple and Quiver Dance, and while its stats are still so bad that it won't immediately become meta-defining, Thunderbolt and Earth Power giving it near-perfect coverage for a lot of the types that resist Bug Buzz helps a lot. Meanwhile, Sandy already boasts a fairly respectable typing in Bug/Ground, and with the combination of Fur Coat and Recover, it becomes the single bulkiest Fur Coat mon, as well as the only one with reliable recovery. I can easily see it having a niche as a physical wall, and with the addition of Sticky Web to its movepool (to make up for EP no longer being exclusive to it), it has another niche as the bulkiest webs setter. Finally, the star of the show (ironic since it ended up being probably the worst of the three), Trash Cloak, gets the absurd combination of a Bug/Steel typing and Thick Fat, giving it a single 2x weakness to Fire in exchange for an immunity and 9 resistances. This combined with the buffed Reconstruct and the addition of Spikes and U-Turn make it a great defensive pivot, with low base stats made up for by its sheer number of resistances. Overall, at least one of these should see OU play.

gonna think more competitively now that the meta has developed.

 

[PalpitoadChamp]

Abilities

Name: Scouting
Effect: When this pokemon uses a charge move where it becomes invulnerable for a turn, it can choose to switch on the second turn instead of attacking.
Permanent: No
Mold Breaker?: No
Potential Pokemon: ? Flying, Ground, or Water-type pokemon
Justification: As the name suggests, this ability is used for scouting & making use of some bad moves. Thanks to various discord people for help with this one. Based on Sifting from DLCmons.

Moves

Name: Wicked Blow
Type: Dark
Physical
BP: 60
Acc: 100%
PP: 5 (8)
Effect: Is a guaranteed critical hit.
Flags: Contact, Mirror, Protect, Punch
Potential Pokemon: most likely not but it could happen.
Justification: Ubermons nerf brings Urshifu down a tier. Could even be distributed to more pokemon.

Adjustments

Type: Fire/Ground
Abilities: Unchanged
New Moves: Solar Blade, Parting Shot, Flare Blitz
Removed Moves: None
Justification: Neutrality to Stealth Rocks, a usable physical Fire-type move & Pivoting help sun become at least somewhat more usable.


Type: Unchanged
Abilities: Levitate
New Moves:
Removed Moves: None
Justification: Gengar isn't as good as it used to be because it lost Levitate. We're giving it back.

 

[Voden]

Modifications


Name: Galvantula
Type:

Abilities: Compound Eyes / Fluffy / Buzz Off (HA)
New Moves: Heal Order, Focus Blast, Thunder Cage, Nuzzle.
Justification: Fluffy, reliable recovery, and trapping help further its incredible ability as an utility pokemon, and giving this fake arachnid even more versatility than this already has, being able to trap with thunder cage, poison with toxic thread, and outheal a lot of physical attackers due to a good (or at least interesting) defensive type and Focus Blast helps Compound Eyes sets. Also, it gets heal order as a former holder of swarm, just imagine a hundred tiny joltik coming to the rescue of a galvantula. also is quiver dance restricted to pokemon based in insects with wings? lol


Name: Fearow
Type:

Abilities: Simple / Sniper (HA)
New Moves: Dragon Dance, Dragon Claw,
Justification: “A Pokemon that dates back many years.” Prehistoric (I’m assuming) and low brain-to-body ratio? Yeah this checks out. just a simple buff that makes an underwhelming, extremely powercrept pokemon, become a good sweeper. Walled completely by melmetal if drill run is removed, and would have a hard time setting up and sweeping due to frailty and weakness to priority.


Name: Glalie
Type:

Abilities: Heatproof / Ice Body / Moody (HA)
New Moves: Stone Edge, Rock Slide, Head Smash, Meteor Beam, Power Gem?
Justification: Type and Ability is for flavor, which reads "Glalie has a body made of rock, which it hardens with an armor of ice." (Omega Ruby Dex) "It has a body of ice that won’t melt, even with fire." (Sword Dex) and acts as a slight buff making it able to switch in into fire types:D. You still wouldn't pick this over moody tho. It also gets a few stabs for its new type. (the Head Pokemon should by all means get Head Smash)


Name: Whiscash
Type:

Abilities: Simple / Anticipation / Intimidate (HA)
New Moves: U-Turn, Life Dew, Flip Turn, Stealth Rock, Power Whip? (whiskers lol)
Justification: Kinda shitty sub that intends to give an interesting but stupidly underwhelming and gimmicky pokemon with one of the best types in the game a legit and cool use as a pivot and/or a sweeper. (Simple Replaces Oblivious for obvious reasons, and intimidate replaces hydration bc of a pokedex entry that reads: "Whiscash shakes the ground at high intensities to intimidate its opponents." Ultra Sun Pokedex.)

Items


Name: Adrenaline Orb
Effect: Raises holder's Speed by 1 stage if it gets affected by Intimidate. Negates Intimidate attack dropping. (No longer single use)
Can Be Knocked Off (Yes or No): Yes
Ignored by Klutz (Yes or No): Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 20 bp, raises target's speed harshly and confuses it.
Justification: Now its usable. (also would have a niche in vgc with fling?)

 

[Rasdanation]

Some resubs with some new stuff sprinkled in too. More to come

Name: Skitter Smack / Lunge
Power: 90
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 15 [24 Max]
Category:

Type:

Effect: Drops the opponent’s Special Attack / Attack by one stage.
Priority: 0
Flags: Contact, Mirror, Protect
Potential Pokémon With This Move:
Justification: Skitter Smack is literally just Lunge for Special Attack & worse. However buffing Skitter Smack to Lunge levels doesn’t do much to help it find more use either, as both moves would be outclassed as an 80 BP Bug STAB by Leech Life, as draining health is far more reliable defensively than dropping a stat. So, boosting both to 90 BP could help the move find a bit of a niche, as these options are now an overall more powerful bug STAB than the typically superior Leech Life. With Buzz Off as well, these buffs could especially help see both attacks see competitive play.

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Name: Narcolepsy
Effect: While this Pokémon is active, opposing Pokémon are treated as if they have the comatose ability. Pokémon that are either affected by Sweet Veil, or have Insomnia or Vital Spirit as their abilities are immune this effect.
Permanent: No
Mold Breaker: No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: (?)
Justification: Finally, viable Dream Eater! Not too much to elaborate on here. The opponent cannot gain status and can attack while asleep, while in exchange they can be targeted by the likes of Dream Eater and Nightmare.

Name: Symbiosis [Adjustment]
Effect: Upon switching out or fainting, the incoming ally will receive a copy of this Pokémon’s item, only if they are not already holding an item.
Permanent: No
Mold Breaker: No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: Symbiosis but it’s concept is reworked into a singles format. Nice answer to knock spam, as you can hand new items to knocked allies. As for suggested Pokémon I kinda just searched up Pokémon that have Symbiotic relations and put various mons that appeared on here.

Name: Tangled Feet [Adjustment]
Effect: While Confused, this Pokémon’s speed is boosted by 50%. This Pokémon cannot hit itself in confusion.
Permanent: No
Mold Breaker: No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability: Mons that dance or learn Outrage, Thrash, or Petal Dance
Justification: Tangled Feet is a rather unique ability, one of the only two that interact with the confused status, and the only one that provides a benefit to being confused. However, that’s all the ability had going for it, between uncompetitive effects, confusion being unreliable, and the ability having lackluster users. So, this sub aims to completely overhaul the ability. The only real problem with the ability as of now is that it is rather challenging to rely on confusing yourself, with the only real method being the multi-turn attacks, however that doesn’t mean we can’t submit new ways to accomplish that in the future.

Name: Adaptive Armor
Effect: Upon switching in this Pokémon receives a one-stage stat boost depending on the opponent’s highest attacking stat. If the Attack stat is higher, then Defense is raised. If Special Attack is greater than or equal to Attack, then Special Defense is raised.
Permanent: No
Mold Breaker: No
Potential Pokémon With This Ability:
Justification: Download but for Defense. Decent for pivoting in, as the ability will make you take less from opponent’s stronger offensive stat. Couldn’t think of all too good a list for mons with the ability atm, so take the Potential Pokemon list with a grain of salt.

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Name: Heat Totem / Rain Totem / Snow Totem / Sand Totem / Grass Totem / Storm Totem / Mist Totem / Bizarre Totem
Effect: Upon Switch-in or receiving this item, this item is consumed and Harsh Sunlight / Rain / Hail / Sandstorm / Grassy Terrain / Electric Terrain / Misty Terrain / Psychic Terrain is summoned for 5 turns.
Can Be Knocked Off: Yes
Ignored by Klutz: Yes
Fling Power & Effect: 50 BP, Summons corresponding weather for 5 turns
Justification: Self-setting weather for abusers. Abusers can skip the setup via self-setting moves or pivoting weather mons, in exchange for giving up their item slot. Idk kinda just a random idea I had. And hey, now we got T

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Name: Armaldo
Type:

Abilities: Multiscale / Dry Skin [HA]
Ability changes apply for both Armaldo and its prevo, Anorith.
New Moves: Rain Dance, Skitter Smack, Lunge, Scale Shot
Removed Moves: None
Justification: Armaldo is a classic example of a Rapid Spinner whose fallen behind in viability. So, here is my attempt for helping provide Armaldo with some more tools to utilize in its spinning role. One of Armaldo’s biggest problems was that it’s poor speed and type combo made it really easy to snipe with a supereffective attack. So, it’s two new abilities act to provide Armaldo with more defensive tools. These two new abilities are intended to draw parallels to Armaldo's old abilities, with Multiscale to Battle Armor and Dry Skin to Swift Swim. Dry Skin aims helps alleviate one of Armaldo’s most prominent weaknesses, while Multiscale is here as well for broader usage, allowing Armaldo to more effectively take a hit before spinning. As for some of the new moves, Armaldo’s gets access to both of Bug’s stat-dropping attacks, helping boost its overall defensive potential, and Scale Shot is also there because it could be funny for stacking even more speed boosts.



Name: Beedrill-Mega
Type:

Abilities: Adaptability
New Moves: First Impression
Removed Moves: None
Justification: Not too much has changed, but enough to bump Beedrill up in viability. Mega Beedrill forgoes it’s poison typing for the ground typing now, giving it a rather unique STAB combo to utilize in competitive play. It also gains access to First Impression, allowing Beedrill to threaten the likes of Mega Alakazam. Despite these buffs, Mega Beedrill still definitely has counter play. Due to its incredibly frail nature, switching in can be challenging, and even when on the field it finds itself still incredibly vulnerable to priority.