Project LC OMs Megathread

[Roldski32]

Transferred from the old OMM thread

Little Cup OM Megathread
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This is a megathread for Little Cup variants of the existing OMs! Little Cup variants of OMs are welcome here, but note that only the basic LC OMs are included in this thread. You can reach out to OMM Staff or me(Roldski32) if you're interested in helping out.

Little Cup OM Index
Almost Any Ability LC
Balanced Hackmons LC
Camomons LC
Mix and Mega LC (has its own thread)
STABmons LC​

 

[Roldski32]

Almost Any Ability Little Cup

What is Almost Any Ability Little Cup?
Almost Any Ability Little Cup is a mashup of Almost Any Ability and Little Cup, where Pokemon gains access to almost any ability in a Little Cup format.

Council:
Roldski32 (Tier Leader)
Yoru97
bleahey

Ruleset and Banlist:

Clauses

Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same National Pokedex number on a team.
OHKO Clause: A Pokemon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
Evasion Clause: A Pokemon may not have either Double Team or Minimize in its moveset.
Sleep Moves Clause: Bans all moves that induce sleep, such as Hypnosis.
Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.
Single Ability Clause: Two Pokemon on the same team may not share an ability.
Terastal Clause: Prevents Pokemon from Terastallizing.

Pokemon Bans

Aipom
Basculin-White-Striped
Cutiefly
Dunsparce
Duraludon
Gastly
Girafarig
Gligar
Misdreavus
Murkrow
Qwilfish-Hisui
Rufflet
Scraggy
Scyther
Sneasel
Sneasel-Hisui
Stantler
Voltorb-Hisui
Yanma

Ability Bans

Arena Trap
Chlorophyll
Comatose
Contrary
Fur Coat
Gorilla Tactics
Huge Power
Ice Scales
Illusion
Imposter
Innards Out
Moody
Neutralizing Gas
Parental Bond
Protosynthesis
Pure Power
Quark Drive
Sand Rush
Shadow Tag
Simple
Slush Rush
Speed Boost
Stakeout
Surge Surfer
Swift Swim
Triage
Unburden
Water Bubble
Wonder Guard

Misc. Bans

Moves:
Baton Pass
Sticky Web

Resources:

Tours/Challenge Code

/challenge [Gen 9] LC @@@ !Obtainable Abilities, !Sleep Clause Mod, Sleep Moves Clause, Ability Clause = 1, Terastal Clause, -Arena Trap, -Chlorophyll, -Comatose, -Contrary, -Fur Coat, -Gorilla Tactics, -Huge Power, -Ice Scales, -Illusion, -Imposter, -Innards Out, -Neutralizing Gas, -Parental Bond, -Protosynthesis, -Pure Power, -Quark Drive, -Sand Rush, -Shadow Tag, -Simple, -Slush Rush, -Speed Boost, -Stakeout, -Surge Surfer, -Swift Swim, -Triage, -Unburden, -Water Bubble, -Wonder Guard, +Diglett-Base, +Flittle, +Magby, +Meditite, +Porygon, +Snivy, +Torchic, +Vulpix, +Heat Rock

/tour new [Gen 9] LC, elim,,, [Gen 9] Almost Any Ability
/tour rules !Obtainable Abilities, !Sleep Clause Mod, Sleep Moves Clause, Ability Clause = 1, Terastal Clause, -Arena Trap, -Chlorophyll, -Comatose, -Contrary, -Fur Coat, -Gorilla Tactics, -Huge Power, -Ice Scales, -Illusion, -Imposter, -Innards Out, -Neutralizing Gas, -Parental Bond, -Protosynthesis, -Pure Power, -Quark Drive, -Sand Rush, -Shadow Tag, -Simple, -Slush Rush, -Speed Boost, -Stakeout, -Surge Surfer, -Swift Swim, -Triage, -Unburden, -Water Bubble, -Wonder Guard, +Diglett-Base, +Flittle, +Magby, +Meditite, +Porygon, +Snivy, +Torchic, +Vulpix, +Heat Rock

LC AAA Setpedia

To be transferred and updated

 

[Roldski32]

Balanced Hackmons Little Cup

In this metagame, Pokemon that hasn't evolved yet and is at first stage can use nearly anything possible that you can battle with in a local battle. Balanced Hackmons uses National Dex of Pokemon, thus pokemon that are unobtainable in the base game such as Abra and Tangela are usable here. Even first-stage pokemon that are unobtainable at Level 5 such as Poipole and Kubfu are usable too.

Council:
Roldski32 (Tier Leader)

Ruleset and Banlist:

Clauses

Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same National Pokedex number on a team.
OHKO Clause: A Pokemon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
Evasion Clause: A Pokemon may not have either Double Team or Minimize in its moveset.
Sleep Moves Clause: Bans all moves that induce sleep, such as Hypnosis.
Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.
Terastal Clause: Prevents Pokemon from Terastallizing.

Pokemon Bans

Basculin-White-Striped
Duraludon
Scyther
Sneasel
Sneasel-Hisui
Type: Null

Move Bans

Baton Pass
Belly Drum
Ceaseless Edge
Clangorous Soul
Dire Claw
Electro Shot
Fillet Away
Imprison
Last Respects
Lumina Crash
No Retreat
Photon Geyser
Population Bomb
Power Trip
Quiver Dance
Rage Fist
Revival Blessing
Shed Tail
Shell Smash
Substitute
Tail Glow
V-Create
Victory Dance

Ability Bans

Arena Trap
Comatose
Contrary
Gorilla Tactics
Hadron Engine
Huge Power
Illusion
Innards Out
Libero
Liquid Ooze
Magnet Pull
Moody
Neutralizing Gas
Orichalcum Pulse
Parental Bond
Protean
Pure Power
Shadow Tag
Stakeout
Water Bubble
Wonder Guard

Resources:

Tours/Challenge Code

/challenge balancedhackmons @@@ Little Cup, +Poison Heal, -Basculin, -Duraludon, -Scyther, -Sneasel, -Type: Null, -Population Bomb, -V-Create, -Victory Dance

/tour new balancedhackmons,elim,,,[Gen 9] LC Balanced Hackmons
/tour rules Little Cup, +Poison Heal, -Basculin, -Duraludon, -Scyther, -Sneasel, -Type: Null, -Population Bomb, -V-Create, -Victory Dance
/tour autostart 7
/tour autodq 4
/wall BH includes the national dex of Pokemon but they will not show when searching via the LC filter. Remember that this is still Level 5!

Sample Teams

T.B.A.

BH LC Speed Tier

Pokemon	Nature	IV	EVs	Speed Stat	Speed Stat (+1)	Speed Stat (+2)	Speed Stat (-1)
Diglett	Positive	31	236	20	30	40	13
Voltorb-Hisui	Positive	31	196	20	30	40	13
Yanma	Positive	31	236	20	30	40	13
Abra	Positive	31	196	19	28	38	12
Buizel	Positive	31	236	19	28	38	12
Cutiefly	Positive	31	244	19	28	38	12
Diglett-Alola	Positive	31	196	19	28	38	12
Girafarig	Positive	31	236	19	28	38	12
Misdreavus	Positive	31	236	19	28	38	12
Murkrow	Positive	31	188	19	28	38	12
Ponyta	Positive	31	196	19	28	38	12
Ponyta-Galar	Positive	31	196	19	28	38	12
Qwilfish-Hisui	Positive	31	236	19	28	38	12
Stantler	Positive	31	236	19	28	38	12
Staryu	Positive	31	236	19	28	38	12
Wingull	Positive	31	236	19	28	38	12
Deerling	Positive	31	236	18	27	36	12
Dreepy	Positive	31	180	18	27	36	12
Finizen	Positive	31	236	18	27	36	12
Gastly	Positive	31	196	18	27	36	12
Salandit	Positive	31	220	18	27	36	12
Archen	Positive	31	196	17	27	34	11
Carvanha	Positive	31	236	17	27	34	11
Crabrawler	Positive	31	252	17	27	34	11
Drifloon	Positive	31	196	17	25	34	11
Fidough	Positive	31	236	17	25	34	11
Houndour	Positive	31	236	17	25	34	11
Kubfu	Positive	31	180	17	25	34	11
Mienfoo	Positive	31	236	17	25	34	11
Toedscool	Positive	31	196	17	25	34	11
Wattrel	Positive	31	196	17	25	34	11
Zorua-Hisui	Positive	31	196	17	25	34	11
Axew	Positive	31	220	16	24	32	10
Frigibax	Positive	31	236	16	24	32	10
Glimmet	Positive	31	196	16	24	32	10
Larvesta	Positive	31	196	16	24	32	10
Pawniard	Positive	31	196	16	24	32	10
Tangela	Positive	31	196	16	24	32	10
Wailmer	Positive	31	196	16	24	32	10
Tinkatink	Neutral	31	212	15	22	30	10
Tangela	Neutral	31	196	15	22	30	10
Cubone	Positive	31	236	14	21	28	9
Dunsparce	Neutral	31	236	14	21	28	9
Frillish	Positive	31	196	14	21	28	9
Mareanie	Neutral	31	236	14	21	28	9
Mudbray	Neutral	31	236	14	21	28	9
Scraggy	Neutral	31	212	14	21	28	9
Swirlix	Neutral	31	204	14	21	28	9
Clamperl	Positive	31	180	13	21	28	8
Cubone	Neutral	31	236	13	19	26	8
Cufant	Neutral	31	196	13	19	26	8
Frillish	Neutral	31	196	13	19	26	8
Sandshrew-Alola	Neutral	31	196	13	19	26	8
Bronzor	Neutral	31	252	12	18	24	8
Clamperl	Neutral	31	180	12	18	24	8
Corsola-Galar	Neutral	31	196	12	18	24	8
Spritzee	Neutral	31	252	12	18	24	8
Foongus	Neutral	31	236	11	16	22	7
Slowpoke	Neutral	31	236	11	16	22	7
Ferroseed	Neutral	31	196	10	15	20	6
Munchlax	Neutral	31	236	10	15	20	6

 

[Roldski32]

Camomons Little Cup

Camomons Little Cup is a mashup of Camomons and Little Cup, where Pokemon gains new typing based on their first two moves, in a Little Cup setting

Council:
Roldski32 (Tier Leader)

Ruleset and Banlist:

Clauses

Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same National Pokedex number on a team.
OHKO Clause: A Pokemon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
Evasion Clause: A Pokemon may not have either Double Team or Minimize in its moveset.
Sleep Moves Clause: Bans all moves that induce sleep, such as Hypnosis.
Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.
Terastal Clause: Prevents Pokemon from Terastallizing.

Pokemon Ban

Aipom
Basculin-White-Striped
Cutiefly
Dunsparce
Duraludon
Flittle
Gastly
Girafarig
Gligar
Magby
Meditite
Misdreavus
Murkrow
Porygon
Qwilfish-Hisui
Rufflet
Scraggy
Scyther
Sneasel
Sneasel-Hisui
Stantler
Voltorb-Hisui
Vulpix
Vulpix-Alola
Yanma

Misc. Bans

Moves:
Baton Pass
Sticky Web

Items:
Heat Rock

Abilities:
Moody

Watchlist

Treecko and Shroodle

The sweeping prowess of Swords Dance and STAB Acrobatics that these two had might be too much for this tier, and it doesn't help that both of them have Unburden, which makes revenge killing impossible and Grookey, while less threatening than last gen due to Grassy Glide nerf, is still enabling these two. Shroodle hits harder and has Knock Off, while Treecko has better longevity and Steel Matchups with Drain Punch.

Resources:

Tour/Challenge Code

/challenge [Gen 9] LC @@@ Camomons Mod, Terastal Clause, +Diglett-Base, +Snivy, +Torchic

/tour new [Gen 9] LC, elim,,, [Gen 9] Camomons LC
/tour rules Camomons Mod, Terastal Clause, +Diglett-Base, +Snivy, +Torchic

Camomons LC Setpedia

To be transferred and updated

 

[Roldski32]

STABmons Little Cup

STABmons Little Cup is a mashup of STABmons and Little Cup, where Pokemon gains access to any moves of their typing, in a Little Cup format

Council:
Roldski32 (Tier Leader)

Ruleset and Banlist:

Clauses

Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same National Pokedex number on a team.
OHKO Clause: A Pokemon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
Evasion Clause: A Pokemon may not have either Double Team or Minimize in its moveset.
Sleep Clause: If a player has already put a Pokemon on his/her opponent's side to sleep and it is still sleeping, another one can't be put to sleep.
Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.

Pokemon Bans

Aipom
Basculin-White-Striped
Cutiefly
Dewpider
Diglett
Dunsparce
Duraludon
Gastly
Girafarig
Gligar
Magby
Misdreavus
Murkrow
Porygon
Qwilfish-Hisui
Rufflet
Scraggy
Scyther
Sneasel
Sneasel-Hisui
Snivy
Stantler
Torchic
Voltorb-Hisui
Vulpix
Vulpix-Alola
Yanma

Move Restriction

Acupressure
Astral Barrage
Belly Drum
Extreme Speed
Fillet Away
Gigaton Hammer
Last Respects
No Retreat
Population Bomb
Revival Blessing
Shed Tail
Shell Smash
Shift Gear
Spore
Surging Strikes
V-Create
Victory Dance

Misc. Bans

Moves (Full-ban):
Baton Pass
Sticky Web

Items:
Heat Rock

Abilities:
Moody

Watchlist

Dire Claw

LC STABmons uses Sleep Clause, not Sleep Move Clause, because I followed LC more than STABmons, so you can only put one mon to sleep with this move. However, its RNG might still be annoying, so I'll keep an eye for it.

Greavard (Rage Fist)

This is a lower priority on the watchlist and I honestly think its not that super broken, but I'm only putting this in case someone brought up Rage Fist, and yes, it is legal here. but why? Because all the Ghost-types in this tier (except Greavard) suffered from only having middling to average bulk, a near-lack of useful resistances (not immunity), and a crippling weakness to Knock Off, they just take too much damage when attempting to stack up boost, and its hard trying to tank 2 strong neutral hits with them. This leaves Greavard, which is far more tankier than other Ghost-types thanks to Fluffy, the only viable user of Rage Fist, thus targeting Greavard and not the move. But Greavard itself is not immediately broken and is held back by a couple of flaws. While Fluffy negates its Knock Off weakness to the point you can get a free boost off of Mienfoo(its Knock Off doesn't even 4HKO Greavard), it still kind of wants its Eviolite intact in order to not get easily overwhelmed by constant offensive pressure. Greavard is also very slow, only outspeeding Foongus and gets outsped by almost everything else, it is quite common to see it getting outsped by your opponent's 5 mons on their team and its even worse if you're attempting to clean late-game with it. On top of this, Greavard doesn't have a reliable recovery outside of RestTalk. It also doesn't have a set-up move (unless you count Post-Tera Curse, which Greavard is already strapped on moveslot), making it reliant on raw power of the accumulated boost from Rage Fist.

Jet Punch

This was originally Slowpoke, because a Belly Drum into +6 Jet Punch is ridiculous enough to put this on the watchlist, and it is comparable to Zigzagoon, but I decided to changed it to Jet Punch instead due to another abuser in Corphish, whose Life Orb Adaptability Jet Punch can outright delete some frail mons.

Snover (Aurora Veil)

This is moreso linked to Natdex LC's move ban and Gen7LC's apix ban. Despite its low speed and multiple type weaknesses, Snover can still find ways to get Veils up thanks to the Snow's Defense boost, which allowed it to withstand even some super-effective hits such as Mienfoo's High Jump Kick, Pawniard's Sunsteel Strike, Vullaby's Dragon Ascent, and Stunky's Gunk Shot/Temper Flare from full if given maximum hp and defense ev investment. This one is tricky because I couldn't do an Aurora Veil ban due to Snover being the only user. Yes, Alolan Vulpix got banned due to Aurora Veil, but it is a native user of the move unlike Snover. I couldn't do a full ban of the move because one is a native user and the other gained it from STAB mechanic, so I decided to just target Snover instead of the move for now.

Terastallization

This might be my most difficult decision, because I've been a No Ban guy when it comes to Tera. Using Tera to answer a threat defensively (Mudbray going Tera Water to beat Shellder or Rain Team) will always be healthy no matter how you try portraying this specific trait as broken. This is still worth keeping an eye out, however, and potential ban on the mechanic is still being considered. Its brokenness lies with using this mechanic offensively, especially with STABmons granting pokemon an even stronger move as well as some set-up moves.

Torch Song

Somehow I forgot about this move, but this is second to Wingull when it comes to being banworthy. The snowball potential of the move might be too much and it also doesn't help that Fire-resist in LC is still scarce and limited.

Wingull

High-priority to get banned. Wingull is usually held back by its low accuracy from Hurricane and, to some extent, Hydro Pump. However, STABmons gave this mon a much more accurate STAB move in Aeroblast and Steam Eruption. Wingull is already difficult to switch into defensively because Water/Flying combo is only resisted by Chinchou, and hits a great portion of bulkier mon for super-effective damage, including Mienfoo, Foongus, and Mudbray. 19 Speed is also much scarcer due to absence of Abra, Ponyta, and Staryu, which makes its own 19 Speed much more threatening.

Zorua-Hisui

I'm only bringing this up due to Specs Boomburst, which I still called "a troll set". Normally, Specs is a pretty bad item due to Life Orb giving as much power but with the ability to switch move. However, Hisuian Zorua gets away with running Specs due to Illusion, and unlike Life Orb, it doesn't lose HP, which can be vital in its guessing game. The surprise KO from Specs Boomburst might be too much for this tier, most notoriously on Turn 1, where Hisuian Zorua can disguise itself as a Mienfoo on the common Mienfoo mirrors occurring there, and can easily punish Fake Out, which Mienfoo almost always used on its very first turn of the game.

Resources:

Tours/Challenge Code

/challenge [Gen 9] LC @@@ STABmons Move Legality, -Dewpider, *Acupressure, *Astral Barrage, *Belly Drum, *Extreme Speed, *Fillet Away, *Gigaton Hammer, *Last Respects, *No Retreat, *Population Bomb, *Revival Blessing, *Shed Tail, *Shell Smash, *Shift Gear, *Spore, *Surging Strikes, *V-Create, *Victory Dance

/tour new [Gen 9] LC, elim,,, [Gen 9] STABmons Little Cup
/tour rules STABmons Move Legality, -Dewpider, *Acupressure, *Astral Barrage, *Belly Drum, *Extreme Speed, *Fillet Away, *Gigaton Hammer, *Last Respects, *No Retreat, *Population Bomb, *Revival Blessing, *Shed Tail, *Shell Smash, *Shift Gear, *Spore, *Surging Strikes, *V-Create, *Victory Dance

Sample Teams

Horua by Roldski32
Standard MarePawn by Roldski32
Diglett-Alola by Roldski32
Screens HO V2 by Roldski32

Setpedia

Last Updated: 11 / 24 / 2025
Axew
Clauncher
Corphish
Diglett-Alola
Dreepy
Drilbur
Elekid
Espurr
Fidough
Fletchling
Foongus
Gible
Gimmighoul-Roaming
Gothita
Greavard
Grookey
Growlithe-Hisui
Houndour
Joltik
Larvesta
Mareanie
Mienfoo
Mudbray
Munchlax
Numel
Pawniard
Salandit
Shellder
Shellos
Shroodle
Slowpoke
Snover
Stunky
Trapinch
Venonat
Vullaby
Wattrel
Wingull
Zorua-Hisui

 

[rightclicker]

bhlc initial thoughts (note: i have never played a single game of lc before)

- abra is probably broken, its one of the fastest AND strongest mons while not being held back by its moveset. other similarly fast mons like elekid diglett-a ponyta etc etc just doesnt have as much power

- strength sap is really really good because of level 5 stats

- mixed attackers in general get a huge power boost since you can just run the highest power coverage moves available. notable guys are like the ponytas archen carvanha zorua-h etc

https://pokepast.es/7b8b33d7a4f3bcde heres a quick team i threw together (again i have never played lc before so i'm not really familiar with whats usually good)

 

[Clas]

Oh, we're talking about LCBH?

Mini AshGren Fat
This team is built around the insane breaking power of Sniper Carvanha to shatter defensive cores with the help of entry hazards from Ferroseed and Voltorb. Gligar is a really strong Mortal Spin user that mimicks FC Groudon from PFD G9BH, using Parting Shot to round out the set, while Munchlax can act as a backup hazard remover that also can take over games if given the opportunity. Since Knock Off is incredibly potent and this team has a lot of bulk, a Sticky Hold user is necessary; hence Sticky Hold Voltorb, which not only can answer Imposter Carvanha decently well but also switch into almost every Knock Off user in the tier. Wailmer is the team's Imposter user since Munchlax is the dedicated special wall.

Honestly, the biggest thing with LCBH is having a Knock Off answer. Sticky Hold is a really strong ability for this, although you do have to be able to answer the Knock Off users in the first place. Carvanha also feels like the strongest Pokemon in the tier, not Abra, since Surging Strikes and Wicked Blow are both incredibly busted in this format. I don't think any Pokemon can actually switch into it, and would imagine the likes of Stunky, Wiglett, and Kabuto would be much healthier.