Team dump for ndampl and aaapl / sample submissions
I tried to use a different breaker every week, but the teams are mostly either pivot spam + breaker or stall
I'm only gonna talk about the aaapl ones bc ndampl was too long ago
NDAMPL
AAAPL
Week 1 vs Veti (W)
Veti doesn't play natdex so I thought stall would work decently. I also brought this team week 1 of ndampl, but lost to mamoswine. Funnily enough, Veti also brought mamoswine, although some changes to the team such as Regen Fini and Intim Mew made that matchup alot easier. I still could've lost if Veti played more patiently, but I was eventually able to wear down Mamo with rocks.
Week 2 vs Ineros (W)
I had been helping them build natdex for week 1, and I didn't expect anything particularly scary or revolutionary from them week 2. I haven't used or mentioned Dhelmise / Zarude yet, and they both seem like pretty strong mons, but with their own issues of being slow / bricking into ee respectively. Having strong double priority + prank pecha lets me get away with not having speed control, and I filled out the team with generic regen core + corv. We both loaded Dhelmise + intim corv, but having zydog let me break through pretty easily.
Week 3 vs Iride (L)
Haven't used wake or bisharp yet so why not. Regen nihilego was an idea I picked up from ssaaa, and it also bricked heatran which I thought my teams were pretty weak to. I also invested heavily into hazard control with regen tusk and sableye, bc I thought Iride built a lot of spike stack. Unfortuately in the game the opposing bisharp trapped both Nihilego and Pecharunt, neither of which could touch it, and then I lost to Koko.
Week 4 Nashrock vs Kayzn (L)
After losing to bisharp semistall last week, I wanted to try it myself. In hindsight, the defensive core was pretty suspicious, especially the mg barb mantine, and we lost to protean deos. This is a good example of why Bisharp is broken, because it beat Np gholdengo by getting the 50/50 right on sucker punch, and would've won the game if we won a second 50/50 on deos.
Week 5 vs jb291 (W)
Ogerpon Fire looked good into their scout, and I chose band on moon over scarf as a secondary breaker. They reused a team from Week 4 with a WBB ferrothorn, but firepon was able to outmuscle it, and then proceeded to pick apart the rest of their team.
Semifinals - about15gals vs Atha (W)
Didn't really have many ideas this week, and I ran out of fun breakers to use, so I defaulted reusing an HO that I build for ndampl. I think strong ice types are very good in this tier, so I replaced Cetitan with zard, who was probably the worse member of the previous team. Cetitan put in a lot of work, ohkoing gliscor and regen fini, with the rest of the members cleaning up.
Finals - about15gals vs Iride (W)
Wanted to do something different from my usual builds, so decided to build spikestack. In the end we basically stole a team from the Iride scout, but with AV tinglu and mglo moon over primarina. Imo zamazenta is only justifiable on spikestack as decent speed control, but it normally sucks as a breaker bc of mew, fini, tinglu, etc. Iride brought zard y, which we narrowly avoided losing to thanks to a clutch pecharunt poison. Their team also had no zama switchins, so it just click cc and won.
Thoughts
This is the best mon in the tier imo, can check almost every special attacker, insane role compression, and enables three man defensives cores + whatever else you want. In hindsight my teams are all very weak to min speed taunt Heatran, since its one of the very few special attackers that can actually beat Blissey.
Pursuit is broken, and Bisharp is the best abuser since it actually has the power to break through special walls or chunk offensive mons, unlike Metagross. It can force a lot of 50/50 between Sucker Punch/Pursuit or Knock Off/Pursuit, and makes bringing stuff like Dhelmise/Azelf much riskier.
