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TBIC106 · Apr 8, 2024

Alright, my run in ssnl is over, so time to dump out all the good, bad and burnt messes that came out of the showdown teambuilder kitchen throughout the tour! Teams that are no longer legal will be noted as such, but they may still provide some inspiration for other teams people may want to make.

Week 3

This team was made because one of my irl friends offhandedly said "Yo I think trick room is kinda cool, why don't you make one of those?" I thought that was hilarious, so I figured the best time to bring it was in the inevitable grudge match that was my rematch vs Amstan. Which hey would you look at that that happened quickly. Basic idea, lead with Hattrem to get a guaranteed trick room and prevent rocks sets into non-Excadrill leads. Healing wish to get Marowak in, blow some holes, re-set trick room with Cresselia, take some kills with either MCamerupt or Hands, use the healing wish on Cresselia for a third trick room, win with Glastrier and lunar danced Marowak-2-Electric-Boogaloo.

- Now illegal with Thundurus Therian banned

Yeah we're back here again. If you want a detailed explanation check out this thread.

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...-cycle-11-read-post-116.3725961/post-10045351

Short explanation, Excadrill hazard lead, use Hands and Thundy to break, clean with any of Moth, Greninja or Greninja. Iron Head on Aegi makes it easier for this team to break unaware Clef.

Week 5

I've been asked about this stall. So many times. Shout out jawabarat and Joeshh with this team, for helping with the building and the initial idea of dropping MSableye from stall teams. It's now a bit outdated, but still definitely functional. The Slowking was originally designed as a secondary Latios check while giving a double regen core for better handling Celesteela and other passive mons. Otherwise, Clef is EVed to be able to guaranteed survive a Goltres Z-Hurricane after stealth rocks damage, but that's the only specific tech.

Week 6

- Now illegal with Thundurus Therian banned

Hi Runo Yeah so if it wasn't already obvious, I was feeding jawabarat teams for the entirety of the tour except for when they played against me. This was the only week I gave him specific prep for an opponent, though. This Custap berry Hands has been some of the funniest shit to use, and it's actually surprisingly effective as surprise factor into offensive teams that rely on revenging hands after chipping it down. Dazzling Gleam moth was also chosen because Runo hadn't been using anything that actually required psychic coverage on Moth, so this would allow it to do a large chunk of damage to a Latias.

- Now illegal with Latios banned

This came from an idea that pretty much all of Runo's teams folded to future sight + Mega Tyranitar except for Ting-lu, and so low kick MTTar + Fsight was born. If you end up using a variant of this, I would recommend switching close combat for knock off on Zeraora. It wasn't initially because I didn't want MTTar's knocks to have less power, but the double knock is probably worth more.

Week 7

So, going into this match I was expecting mostly offence. I've played jawa a lot, and I figured he'd be getting teams from Runo, so I was expecting at least one stall, and then two offences of either the hyper or bulky variety. This was designed to prey on what felt like a semi-forced Celesteela core at the time, with firium-Z enamorus to nuke through it in the late game. Nidoking was present as an offensive Hands check and breaker into a stall with MTtar pursuit trapping a Chansey. S/o Lupla for the help with making this team as well, sorry for jumpscaring you with Nidoking right at the end lol.

This was half a meme, since jawa's main tier is UU where lokix spam is everywhere, and half a slightly offbeat choice based on discussion in the discord server. The idea was to start with a Lokix + Magnezone core to force in, trap, and remove a bug resist then win with eternal pivot pressure, making it particularly efficient into stall. Lokix also helps into a HO match up with priority spam, which was extremely helpful for the sake of teams I was mostly preparing for.

- Now illegal with Thundurus Therian banned

Another slight meme, using Custap hands into the inventor of the tech, but this was a slightly sneaky approach. I'm very sure that both jawa and Runo had access to the paste of the original version of this team, since it hadn't really changed from when I was spamming it before. As such, I was trying to telegraph play into the standard sets before punishing it by removing key obstacles that otherwise wouldn't have died. The main perpetrator of this was the Z-focus blast Alakazam, designed to lure and remove a Ting-lu that would otherwise be a full counter to both it and Iron Moth. Dazzling Gleam Moth was once again employed to target what felt like a forced Mega Latias to guaranteed beat Thundurus Therian, though this ended up costing me the game. Run psychic. It's better.

Week 8

I've been playing around with fire spam a lot, since the tier is historically bad at standing up to it (see Cinderace and Ceruledge bans, as well as Iron Moth's win rate). This is my latest attempt at it. Since I was playing against one of the best players I've ever faced, I wanted to go with something slightly anti-meta rather than following the straight and narrow to try and exploit tier knowledge and surprise factor. With Latios now being banned, Z-Celebrate Victini has also gotten significantly better. With trying to snipe a Mega Latias using custap Hands or Azumarill, you could try and back Victini to sweep in most match ups.

This was very offbeat, and almost a regression of a team I was planning for post-boulder drop. Terrakion on Webs is incredibly difficult to deal with, though its purpose here was mostly to take a kill with Z-Stone Edge then set rocks before it dies. While I wasn't expecting it from Baddy, Mega Gardevoir is almost solely on this team to screw over a random stall, which is the only match up this team can really struggle into.

Teams for the future

Remember I said the Terrakion team was a regression? Here's what it was based off of. This team is meant to take advantage of the inherent speed of boulder by using webs to make it faster than everything in the game short of Mega Aerodactyl, Boots Zeraora and Scarf Zapdos-Galar. It also has just enough bulk to survive a few important hits, like the aforementioned Mega Aerodactyl's earthquake.

This was the first team I made with Boulder, since I was still figuring it out and I thought it was incredibly funny to run 3 iron mons on one team. Not much to say here that wasn't already said in the GeeGee team, only that booster boulder has such an insane speed tier that it can kind of blow past everything if it gets a boost, but it can struggle to secure KOs or break past checks in Aegislash and Skarmory, so it's going to struggle unless you can remove these first.

And that's everything I have in my builder that I used for the tournament. Some of these are better than others, and I've not shared some of the hot garbage that got discarded in the process, but hopefully these will be useful going forward for those making their own teams or just wanting to yoink someone else's.

Runo · Apr 12, 2024

These past 2 weeks have been really taking a toll on me since I have a really bad habit of overextending myself and then burning out. So I think I might want to focus on other things instead until summer break happens (that probably means I have to cancer in some team tours I signed for so idk yet).

Top 6 is still a nice achievement so not really bitching about my loss or anything. This tier is still hella fun too and playing this tour was a pretty cool experience so I'm still gonna continue to play this tier.

Anyways here are my cool teams. I have others but they suck so who cares. No explanation for them because my goldfish memory can't remember why I added x to support y most of the time and I don't feel like making up a reason.
Sorted from most recent at the top to oldest at the bottom. Click on the mons for the teams.

Arc-H with Scarf Excadrill

Lokix Hazards

Gengar Hazards

Gengar Sand

NP Hydrapple + Lorb Clefable

Band Iron Hands + Slowking

Zeraora + Band Terrakion

Mega Latias Stall

Mienshao Sand (Updated Version)

Volcanion + Tapu Bulu

Keldeo Sand (Updated Version)

Mega Aggron Balance (Aegislash Variant)

Froslass HO (Updated Version)(Excadrill Variant)

Suicune + Toxic Spikes Iron Moth

Counter Slowbro + Zarude Sand

Mega Latias + Suicune Fat

Reuniclus + Suicune Fat

Lokix + Magnezone

Pivot Pecharunt + SD Scizor (Updated Version)

#1 Celesteela Addict

Closing thoughts about the tier:

Band Iron Boulder might be the broken set but I'm not fully sure about that yet
Iron Hands seems managable enough (maybe idk), aside from it just being able to live random attacks idt its ever been a huge chore to check in the builder and in practice its never put me in a situation where it felt impossible to check (unless it was from skillful play)
I think people should stop running scarf washer as much, but its really hard to give up the insane role compression
Iron Moth doesn't seem that bad anymore
Glad Lokix was ranked but I think it has far more potential than the C-ranks
If all of the stall heads meetup in a lab, we can construct the perfect stall team. Until we find the perfect team it will remain a MU fish I feel

Lupla · May 5, 2024

Hello everyone! It's been quite a bit but right now we are working on new Sample Teams! since the monthly shifts have changed, this is the perfect opportunity for us to start updating our resources without having to worry about any shifts that could suddenly shake things up. Things will be the same as last time, any submission is appreciated (as long as you're not trolling) as we will keep it in mind during voting. With that said, have fun everyone and take care!

Triton_da_g.o.a.t · May 7, 2024

Hi nduu, when i was in trios i made this team for round 1 which not only won me the round but also was doing pretty good on ladder, and after the the hands ban, i replaced it with BU Zera and now i am ~~5th~~ 2nd on the nduu ladder, so i am pretty confident about this team.

:zeraora:

https://pokepast.es/fd0ded45376b2f9d (Sample Submission)

Explanation for the team:

:zeraora:

Bulk up zeraora is an amazing cleaner who can pull off sweeps mid and late game, thanks to its speed, it's not easily revenge-killable without scarfers, booster irons or exca on sand (the defensive core could deal with all of those), this gives it a lot of sweep opportunities against offensive teams, the move choice lets it ohko mons like Mtar, exca and i chose firium cuz it helps with guss and aegi which can be annoying to the team and killing unchiped ting after +1 isn't worth it considering that if it comes in, you have 2 switch in options in skarm and wash.

:gardevoir-mega:

Has favourable matchups against bulkier archetypes and deals with mons such as Mvenu, clef, ting, hydrapple, washtom and mtias which zera appreciates.

:Greninja:

Not only is it amazing for speed control, but it can do a lot of other things such as pivoting and deal with skele and scarfers or booster moth which the aforementioned teammates appreciate very well.

:ting lu:

The defensive core here is filling the missing roles, hazards, hazard control and a defensive backbone, i chose washtom over fini and quaq cuz it can pivot and spread bruns and quaq's rapid spin could give aegi a free switch-in which isn't good for the team, plus it deals with belly drum azumaril which can use choice locked gren as setup fodder.

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if it's on the field do as following:
:gardevoir-mega:

: hyper voice it if it's chipped
:Greninja:

: dark pulse it if it's chipped
:ting lu:

or

: whirlwind it
any other situation: switch to ting immediately then whirlwind it.

- :volcanion:

washtom is your only switch in but that doesn't like sbomb so yeah it can be annoying.

- :keldeo:

specs keldeo to be exact, as you can't switch in on it unless you predict right.

+1 252 Atk Zeraora Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Ting-Lu: 290-342 (56.4 - 66.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery

+1 252 Atk Zeraora Inferno Overdrive (160 BP) vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Amoonguss: 424-500 (98.3 - 116%) -- 87.5% chance to OHKO

+1 252 Atk Zeraora Plasma Fists vs. 248 HP / 204+ Def Rotom-Wash: 157-186 (51.8 - 61.3%) -- 95.7% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery

252 SpA Gardevoir-Mega Psyshock vs. 248 HP / 96+ Def Pecharunt: 176-210 (46.4 - 55.4%) -- 66.8% chance to 2HKO

252 SpA Pixilate Gardevoir-Mega Hyper Voice vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Sinistcha: 253-298 (73.1 - 86.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery

252 SpA Gardevoir-Mega Psyshock vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Amoonguss: 284-336 (65.8 - 77.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

252 SpA Gardevoir-Mega Psyshock vs. 252 HP / 152+ Def Venusaur-Mega: 210-248 (57.6 - 68.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

252 SpA Protean Greninja Extrasensory vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Venusaur-Mega: 192-228 (52.7 - 62.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

252 SpA Protean Greninja Extrasensory vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Keldeo: 242-288 (74.9 - 89.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

252 SpA Greninja Dark Pulse vs. 248 HP / 44 SpD Pecharunt: 236-278 (62.2 - 73.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

252 SpA Greninja Dark Pulse vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Sinistcha: 270-318 (78 - 91.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery

252 SpA Greninja Hydro Pump vs. 248 HP / 216 SpD Skeledirge: 302-356 (73.4 - 86.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

252 Atk Zapdos-Galar Close Combat vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Skarmory: 109-129 (32.7 - 38.7%) -- 98.5% chance to 3HKO (if it does more then it's banded)

252 Atk Zapdos-Galar Close Combat vs. +1 0 HP / 4 Def Zeraora: 160-190 (50.4 - 59.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

R1C3M4N · May 10, 2024

Flames Of Elixir · May 16, 2024

I have a sample submission!

(click sprites for team)

:keldeo-resolute:

Keldeo
The ban on Iron hands and Thundurus-T in UU has opened Keldeo a lot. Keldeo is the teams main wallbreaker. Keldeo is running Choice Specs which provides more raw power for wallbreaking. Hydro Pump and Secret sword are STAB moves ran on Keldeo as well as coverage moves in form of Air Slash (2HKO's M-Venusaur iirc) and Vacuum Wave for a pretty strong STAB priority.

:victini:

Victini
Keldeo really struggles against Celesteela, so I decided to add Victini, a great fire type Pokemon that can easily check Celesteela with V-create and Bolt Strike (occasionally). Victini is running U-turn for pivoting and Will-O-Wisp for burning switchins like M-Tyranitar and Ting-lu. As Victini is a fire type, its pretty weak to hazards which is why I've decided to run Heavy-Duty-Boots as the item.

:latias-mega:

M-Latias
M-Latias is a great MU for this team as it is really bulky and can tank all Grass, Water, Electric, and Fire attacks thrown at the team with ease. .It's the Ground Immunity of the team using its ability, Levitate. Calm mind allows Latias to sweep endgame, while Roost provides longevity. Psyshock was chosen over psychic to obliterate those Spdef mons on the weak Pdef side and Aura Sphere provides coverage for dark and steel types.

:tapu fini:

Tapu Fini
Tapu fini is a great addition to the team by providing no-status support with Misty terrain as well as weakening the power of dragon types moves that are super effective against M-Latias. Tapu Fini acts as the speed control of the team with its STAB damaging moves. I've ran trick to shut down any defensive mon that counters the whole team, specifically Celesteela. Tapu Fini also acts as the hazard remover with defog.

:ting-lu:

Ting-lu
This team is pretty weak to electric type mons so decided to add Ting-lu. Ting-lu acts as an electric immunity to the team while also providing a psychic immunity. Basic set. Stealth rocks for hazards and whirlwind for phazing out any setup sweeper. Ting-lu can take hits comfortably due its its huge bulk and fire off huge Earthquakes as well as Ruinations.

:scizor:

Scizor
Now this team has become pretty weak to fairy, so I've added scizor, a great steel type that not only is a fairy check but can fire off huge hits with Swords Dance boosted Bullet Punch and Knock offs. Scizor is another mon that can sweep endgame with a strong STAB, technician boosted, priority Bullet Punch. Knock off is ran for well, removing annoying items like lefties on mons the clef etc. Roost is ran for providing longevity. I've ran Heavy-Duty-Boots on Scizor because it provides even more longetivity against any hazard stack sturctures. This team can comfortably take fire type hits to cover Scizor's weakness.

That's the end of my yapping, and let's just say, this team was an experience to build.

Edit 1: Credits to Lupla for helping me
Edit 2: Corrected grammatical errors

Velcroc · May 24, 2024

UU team dump

What's good people, I'm here with a team dump of the teams I used in trios and MSPL. I have a sister post going up in the National Dex RU subforum, so do make sure to check that out. I won the Trios tour alongside Lupla and ARTYMASION so shout-outs to them and I went 4-2 for MSPL (for UU, I went 4-1). I'm fine with these being accepted as samples, but I think they're a bit dated since the Hands ban (Hands influenced my building a lot, so you don't see as much Ting-Lu from me).

While this metagame did feel linear with the options available, I did enjoy building for it in a tour setting even during the Hands meta. Halfway through MSPL, I realized that UU was my strongest tier out of RU/NU partly because of the relative stability and consistency of the cores, and the metagame being more fleshed out contributed as well.

I thought I would thoroughly explain the teams, but that would delay this post unnecessarily. Feel free to contact me via PMs or Discord if you have any questions.

Trios
vs Sealoo (L)

vs Uta (W)

vs 3mm: (W)

vs Hoovy: (W)

MSPL
Week 1 (W):

Week 2 (L):

Week 3 (Dead):

Week 4 (Didn't Bring):

Week 5 (W):

Week 6 (W):

Week 7 (W):

caganinci · Jun 22, 2024

So umm I'm not too experienced with nat dex uu but iv'e been playing for a while now and have one teams that gave me a lot of wins.

https://pokepast.es/b78f88cc52058e8e

This is a BO team utilizing the incredible defensive synergy of hydrapple and rotom-heat, an often overlooked form of rotom. Hydrapple is a mixed wall with an assault vest because it actually has a special attacking potential and it gets recovery by giga drain and regenerator. However, its moves aren't often enough to deal with amoonguss, celesteela and skarmory, against which we have rotom heat. It is the team's defogger and a physical wall to live a hit from dracozolt and willowisp it. Last off from the defensive mons, we have celesteela. It utilizes its access to leech seed with substitute to block spore. It has a nice attack combo with flamethrower and the odd energy ball. This is to surprise water types, especially rotom wash, expecting flamethrower and air slash. It is more specially bulky to resist incoming draco meteors.

Up next are the offensive mons, starting with keldeo, our main wallbreaker. This thing with choice specs is insane. IT DEALS 40 PERCENT TO ROTOM WASH WITH HYDRO PUMP. It has vacuum wave for faster targets and hp grass to at least deal some damage to tapu fini and starmie(P. S., I originally had flip turn here, but didnt use it at all.) . Next we have galar zapdos, our main lead. Not much to say about this mon, just your classic scarf gapdos. And last but not least, we have mega tyranitar(dont question the fact that 2/3 of the team takes sand damage lol). It is ev'd to outspeed all base 110s and most notably keldeo. Vacuum wave from specs keldeo deals about 60 percent. Now the moveset might surprise you here. It has both thunder punch and ice punch. This is to check ting lu, amoonguss, celesteela, skarmory and tapu fini(P.S. you can use superpower instead of ice punch.)

Danbear02 · Jul 20, 2024

Congrats to sealoo on winning the NDUU Open! It was a pleasure to play with and build with you throughout the Tour. I'll be dropping what is essentially my entire builder here so there will be more updated teams other than the samples for people to use for the Summer Seasonal if you don't like to build. I'll put short explanations for a few of the teams, but if you are curious about specific spreads or choices feel free to DM me on Discord at Danbear02.

https://pokepast.es/7ca3b431b0b55172

This is a pretty standard team, and one of the two teams I built for the Finals. Zeraora is one of our best non-Gapdos speed control options, and pairs really well with Psychium Z Boulder, as Zeraora can wear down Clefable and Ting Lu, while Boulder can remove Hippowdon. I was torn between using Toxic Knock Zeraora and Fightinium Z Iron Boulder, so Zera could wear down Hippowdon and Boulder could beat TIng Lu, but Psychium Z turned out to be the better call. Iron Moth provides opportunities for the first two to break, and Celesteela/Gastrodon/Clefable has been a defensive core that I've liked ever since the Cinderace meta. Looking back, this team didn't have quite enough ways to immediately threaten Ting Lu as I would've preferred, since both Zera and Boulder are essentially OHKOd by Earthquake. Team is still solid though, and played very well.

https://pokepast.es/442ae075daf7859c

This is a team that I built quite a while ago, when Mega Tyranitar was still around. I noticed that most teams struggled with Offensive Mega Venusaur, and that after Celesteela or Skarmory (or Scizor) was removed, Mega Venusaur was generally free to beat everything else. Now with Mega Tyranitar gone, Off MVenu is even more threatening, only really stopped by Mega Latias as Magnezone deals with everything else. Mixed Z Enamorus was the choice to help with the stall matchup, as well as benefit from the removal of Steels.

https://pokepast.es/d0fdb7d8c124ab26

On the train of good Pokemon once Steels are removed, Mega Gardevoir is one of the best. Honestly, I should have brought this for the last game instead of reloading the previous team, as Mega Gardevoir would have been phenomenal, but so it goes. Calm Mind was chosen here just because I noticed sealoo's teams were fairly weak to a boosting Mega Gardevoir. Assault Vest Hydrapple eases the matchup vs. Greninja, which would sweep the team after a Battle Bond boost, and helps play around the Psychics, like Mega Latias and Alakazam.

The rest of the teams are mostly teams I built for random opponents in the Open or for sealoo. Most of these are pretty standard, but by all means ask if you have any questions about the team compositions. There may be opponent specific techs or spreads that are better off being standardized, such as Payapa Berry Synthesis Amoonguss.

Runo · Aug 27, 2024

Gapdos teams that I liked using

Some nice teams that were apart of my rotation, they should be public already for one reason or another

Less serious teams that I think are interesting

Highlight builds:

Ok so the reason this isn't apart of the funny/non-serious category and apart of my rotation is because I unironically think Mega-Beedrill has some potential in the current metagame. This fairly high-risk high-reward mon is something I would kill to have if it wasn't for the fact that it's a Mega Beedrill. It's a pivot that can pressure Clefable and Ting-Lu, easily chunk mons like Rotom-Wash and Mega Venusaur for sizable damage and be one of the hardest hitting and fastests threats in the game. It also weirdly has decent enough offensive utility with Knock Off and Pursuit to harass its targets with. This Mega-Beedrill set in particular is tuned to revenge kill (and trap Iron Moth) while also being threatening to mons like Aegislash and Excadrill. Pursuit is to trap Alakazam, Mega Latias, and Iron Moth if Drill Run is revealed. Obviously two major flaws are that it insta-thuds into the Steel-birds and Scizor as well as struggling when hazards are down. So luckily Magnezone solves the former rather easily. Which leaves the latter final issue to solve: hazard control. The best one can do here for right now is with Defog Washtom, but due to Mega Beedrill having solid matchups into a lot of the common setters, it can do stuff like hard-switch into them with relative ease in order to punish them setting hazards. Clefable + Ting-Lu is just a strong defensive entry-hazard core in the metagame which I felt was useful to enable Mega Beedrill. Iron Moth is simply another offensive threat to steels incase Magnezone falls through, but it also prevents the team from being too passive (read: overreliant on Mega Beedrill to break things).

In theory this is a stall team that covers everything in the metagame with minimal holes, sometimes refered to as the most optimal stall six. It is a culmination of me and Danbear02's experimentation with stall compositions and rewards deviating from Mega Sableye composition in exchange for more consistency, although it is a bit of a double-edged sword since you now have to work for your wins more instead of just winning on preview or anything like that. Mega Venusaur allows me to check Tapu Fini with ease while blocking Trick from Tapu Fini and Rotom-Wash. Leech Seed I found to be the most comfortable mid-ground move in order to harrass switch ins like Celesteela and Scizor, but Knock has also been used to similar effect. Blissey is simply the cleric and a spdef sponge for mons like Greninja and Hydreigon. Clefable is a nice Unaware Wincon that gives me padding against Swords Dance Aegislash and some Iron Boulder sets. Fire Blast allows me to beat faster variants Swords Dance Scizor consistently. Flygon is the Defogger and is strong against Ting-Lu and Hippowdon builds, while also being the main Iron Moth check for the team. Jirachi acts the Mega Gardevoir and Alakazam check while role compressing a WishPasser and a Rocker on the same slot. Skarmory main job is to abuse other hazard setters for free opportunities to setup spikes, while also sitting on threats such as Scizor and Excadrill. Mega Venusaur in conjuction with Flygon make Special Attacking variants of Aegislash more bearable to handle. Mega Venusaur in conjuction to Clefable makes threats like Mienshao and Lokix less reliant on Skarmory to deal with in case they are paired with Magnezone. This stall has some more flexible options with the movesets of Mega Venusaur and Clefable. Blissey is also interchangable with Chansey here and can optionally be a Wish set if Clefable is Aromatherapy.

This is a long standing HO team I built dated back to the late Mega Tyranitar metagame based around Blacephalon. The premise was essentially to stack as many mons with shared defensive checks (ideally only 1 or 2 mons that could properly stand up to the entire team defensively) as possible in order to lure and remove them, thus making the win path easily obtainable. The shared checks in question were supposed to be Celesteela, Mega Tyranitar, Ting-Lu, and Blissey for the most part since you don't really see them together. Aegislash with an Air Balloon abuses Ting-Lu and can abuse Hippowdon and non-U-turn Flygon for the team while being an emergency Excadrill check. Sash on Alakazam lets me instantly remove a check such as Ting-Lu or Celesteela or a revenge killer like Scarf Mienshao or Zeraora. Iron Moth is just to maul fat and stall for the rest of the team, Greninja allows me to emergency check out of control Iron Moth, Boulder, and Excadrill while the strong neutral damage it chunks from threats like Celesteela is very valuable.

Anyways I'm excited to cook up some more shit for NDPL V, see you guys in a couple of weeks probably.

Daepiquejt · Oct 17, 2024

Drag0n · Oct 23, 2024

Wow my last Bazaar Post was back in the Latios meta. Let's change that.

I realized I've built a lot of teams with tier council members so I wanted to share some

The Ultimate Hazard Stack

Team: https://pokepast.es/eddaab307845e596

Creators: Drag0n and TBIC106

I honestly think this is one of the best Hazard stacks out there. The idea is Serp becomes extremely threatening on Hazard Stack checking Rotom Wash by switching into defog and getting an evasion boost and also being able to set up a substitute for free on it with its stab not breaking sub. Hippo + Skarm is a classic Hstack core setting rocks and spikes. Slowking + Amoongus is a nice regen core that helps the team with pivoting and a way to get Serp in.

Use Zygarde :sv/zygarde 10%:

Team: https://pokepast.es/8380881b8a9fe66a

Creators: Drag0n and TBIC106

First off, you probably recognize this team if you saw TBIC using it in a replay on a post Ineros made about Primarina. It didn't shine in that match, but Zygarde is a really good Mon.

Offensively hits: :iron moth:

Out of these the most notable are Iron Moth, Celesteela, and Rotom Wash

Iron Moth is the best offensive threat in the tier right now so checks to it are really valuable.

Celesteela and Rotom Wash are defensive mons that other offensive grounds like Excadrill can't hit

Moth and Sciz provide checks to Clef as well as pivoting and priority from Scizor, Slowking is there because the only thing that switches into Thousand Arrows + Fsight is AV Tangrowth.

Wait What? Crobat?

Well, Crobat is speed control that also offers hazard removal with taunt to help against SD Aegislah and roost for recovery.

Triple Regen BO :sv/mienshao:

Team: https://pokepast.es/4f177469eb1e2d0c

Creators: Drag0n and Lupla

This core is really good combining pivoting and Regen. Mienshao and Fsight work well together checking each others switch ins, but I feel the real star is Hydreigon it's a super underrated Mon being a Aegislash check and a Clef check.

+2 252 SpA Hydreigon Corkscrew Crash (160 BP) vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Clefable: 736-868 (186.8 - 220.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO

Excadrill is my rocker and spinner for this team so you will need to keep it healthy to take all of those tasks.

Mega Aero is for speed control.

Here's a replay of the team doing really well in a NDUU Last Chance Game (even though I lost round 1 ) : https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9nationaldexuu-2224189449-c3qfdeqe4i1by4r4put0tnfusdi41jppw

That's all. Thanks for all the people who helped with teams and especially to TBIC106 for helping get into the tier back in gen 8.

Jirachi team I'm laddering with by Drag0n and Niadev: https://pokepast.es/5367b7e654de57a3

Runo · Nov 8, 2024

Building during the limbo that was NDPL Semi-Finals was boring because I didn't really have any basis to go off of when trying to make new shit. Luckily after migrating to the Galarian Pheonix for NDPL, Ryuji put me to work so that combined with Last Chance stuff got me back into a fun groove. The small dump is sorted from top to bottom by level of consistency, but I think they are all decent teams.

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First 2 are sample teams if nothing major changes meta-wise by the next slate. They are both bi-products of NDPL Finals testing. For stuff I built/tested with during the standard NDPL Season, you can check them out here

Marss Barss · Nov 13, 2024

What's up everyone. Here some fun teams I built over my time playing this tier!

Personal Favorites

:pmd/Tyranitar:

- Okidogi Sand

:pmd/Serperior:

- Salamance Offense

:pmd/Deoxys-Defense:

- Deoxys Fat

:pmd/Tapu Bulu:

- Battle Bond Offense

:pmd/Blacephalon:

- Blacephalon Bulky Offense

Other Teams

Some fun/less serious builds

I got to save the best for last. The team is pretty straight forward. Triple Regenerator is really nice. It makes the team feel more bulky than it really is. Excadrill is your hazard setter, gets rocks up and removes opposing hazards. Hydapple and Slowbro are there to be fat while adding pressure. Enamourus and Zeraora are you fast attackers and to better your match up with Greninja. Mienshao is your wall breaker and help you put things in range for zeraora and Enamorus with fake out. The teams biggest problem is Greninja but that an issuse for all offense (get rid of this frog ) This is on of my favorite teams so I hope you enjoy it.

Danbear02 and SapoDaG30 for assisting and giving me advice for this tier. I would be completely lost in this tier without your help and it wouldn't be as fun play this tier without you guys, so thank you from the bottom of my heart.

That's all from me, until next time cya!

Iride · Dec 1, 2024

Red Trailer / Red Like Roses / Guide My Way

This has been a long time coming, mostly held back until now by frequent IRLs, decision shuffling, and concentration alike. Still, I wanted to get out a post featuring most of (if not, all) my played builds from the last 5-6 months given the tier's current state and where my interests with it will likely be in the foreseeable future.

Pre-NDFL Teams

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The meta I first returned to playing, though I was largely mute at the time and reserved to noting a few anticipated changes here and there, the ban of Yokosuma in retrospect being more significant to the restructuring of several offense builds than one might think!

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Then... the long-awaited tiering shift; M-Tyranitar rising, and thankfully so before an admittingly messy history of proposed action. The even bigger hole felt by teams across the world aside, this was also where we began to see more variety among defense in particular, with options such as M-Venu and Clefable gaining traction to fill the gaps and even the rise of Flygon as a reliable removal tool on heavy balance and stall teams, the latter of which also being through some major structural changes courtesy of Runo and Danbear.

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SSNL brings us to the Gapdos ban, which has largely contributed to the tier's incremental focus on momentum-based offense as opposed to the defensive and punish-heavy stance that most teams previously adopted, and also where I began to re-engage with the community full stop! I'll admit that I didn't share the same sentiment on Gapdos as most people in the community did during the suspect, although the effects of Choice Band and other offensive sets besides were surely felt. That said, we were able to see a lot more diversity in Fighting checks as NDPL begun with M-Venu continuing to gain more influence and M-Aero, as well as other speed control options replacing Scarf Gapdos as more options became viable.

NDFL Teams (9/16 - 11/16)

All of this early setup leads me into my eventual NDFL (no NDPL signup :sob:) run, to which I got drafted for... 22.5k. With such a huge opportunity, it was only such that I begun to commit to my game, improving from previous losses to try and move forward where it mattered. Below are all the teams I built and used for the teamtour, to which I will go over my thought process behind prepping for each week's opponents, use of techs, and the matches themselves wherever important.

Week 1 vs PRC (W)

W1 was an interesting ride, going up against PRC with sealoo in particular who was pretty experienced with the meta despite not being a main and having to deal with seth being in some of the same teamcords as me with knowledge of my building patterns. I did rotate a plethora of times before the match, noticing that a lot of my stuff was quite susceptible to being run over by Fighting + Turn spam in tests which he did indeed bring with a similar-looking team featuring Mien + Sol. In the end though, I brought standard BO with a unique twist on the Gren set, being Battle Bond > Protean to try and convert any offensive momentum gained into a sweep.

A bit of a gamble in retrospect as sealoo's Grass usage was also pretty high based on the scout itself but they ended up loading Hydrapple as the regener which worked perfectly in my favor, dying to Ice Beam which I slotted in anticipation given their chain of thought on it from messages.

Week 2 vs Regigigasses (W)

W2 could not have been a better time to initiate this matchup; Paul on the other side supporting and even about15 (NDOTSL teammate) in the back as manager. Wanted to go with a more offensive build featuring dedicated breakers meant to try and counterteam the common defensive builds Paul tended to bring into NDPL, Steela in particular, so after Keldeo was Thundurus given the center stage on this one. However, I couldn't quite figure out how to deal with BB Gren without the high possibility of it pulling a reversal on me on anything that isn't Zion, so Webs ended up being the hazard support for this round. With Scarf Hydreigon and LO Shao on preview as the offensive core, things were looking quite good for a SD Bisharp endgame, a mon I also slotted over the typical Aegislash for Defog Rotom-W. Then again my opponent did misplay a bit vs the midgame Solchroma, letting it farm enough boosts for Reuni to be overwhelmed, more fuel for the fire and such.

LO Boulder unfortunately didn't get to do much, but I find it's a kickass option over Z-Moves, able to bypass common coverage restrictions with sheer power and even being able to lure in physically defensive checks like Tangrowth and Hydrapple to OHKO them at +2 without hazards. TBIC was the one who came up with this before me so props to them for saving me on options.

Week 3 vs Deoxys (W)

W3 prep was back when Lostmemories was on the other team and not banned so I wouldn't dwell too much on the change of circumstances to be exact. That said, with their SSNL scout in mind, my gameplan was a bit different; I decided to go a bit anti-meta with Trapper Tapu Fini being the tech, seeing as it was a decent punish into the occasional stall and 'clicker' archetypes that Lost often brought. BU Buzzwole was also exceptionally good at walling most of the rampant physical attackers and being the beneficiary of Fini's luring endeavours so I paired it with that to make the basis of this team. As it turned out on preview Dabman was a bit more self-sufficient as a builder than I initially thought so things ended up changing gears from a blitzkrieg to a drawn-out approach where my breakers could only come in with precision on the spot.

Besides that, the game itself went pretty smoothly. Leech Steela was a little annoying at first seeing as I had to go Zera every time to force it out, but their early use of it combined with chip from Fini and Ting made it quite doable. BU Buzz also had a fairly easy endgame barring crits once it turned out I was faster than Aegislash and Latias was Psyshock, so not much else to say there.

Week 4 vs Sceptiles (W)

W4 proved to be troublesome for sure, my supports were a bit busy given the combination of IRLs and prep for other teamtours and Razor certainly had the potential to be the most daunting builder of the lot, so with no other options I pivoted towards comfort picking. Went with my trusty Sand offense that has since associated people with my tech commitments, being a sample team and such. Unfortunately, refusing to tweak the initial setups to (SR > Band and Steela > Skarm with PDef Amoong in hindsight) backfired greatly once I realized I wasn't as comfortable playing to my outs as I thought I would be during the match, which in itself was a death nail vs CBoulder once Hydrapple claimed Skarm. However, they overconfidently Volted > Hydro with Wash after I missed the roll I hoped for with Modest Hyper Voice, and then 1v4 Substitute did the unthinkable...

Week 5 vs Bibarels (W)

W5: New mask, same task. Humbling aside, Baddy was rather innovative with their unorthodox bulky builds coupled with equally British support from balance mainer TBIC. However, them being a little complacent with the special check on certain teams gave me the queue to exploit it with an unconventional but powerful setup threat in Goltres. I also wanted a reliable out for the possible endurance match, so classic HippoSkarm + Scarf Mien was the other half of what I wanted to build around. The WishKiller bring they had was certainly entertaining but wearing down the Chansey in tandem with careful play around Fly Z Keldeo led to a much more solid win in the end.

Week 6 vs SeismiSaucers (W)

W6 had quite an ambitious bring into a team unlikely to prep much, that I will say. Pecharunt is a solid balance breaker but had to be carefully supported given its inability to be successful under the habit of being brought frequently, so I chose a rather bulky approach to combat their likelihood of offense in the midsts, though it was pretty funny to see that it ended up as a stall team nonetheless. Thoughts aside, some cool ideas worth explaining are the inclusion of Ting; though I found max SpDef to be redundant with Blissey so PDef was used instead to compress a better long-term switch to Aegislash as well as other physical breakers like SD Boulder, and AV Tangrowth; a pick I found to be rather underrated in general given its propensity to completely stomp common BOs lacking Venu or Amoong, Secret Power in the last slot as a tech allows you to para Venu and Steela so Pecha breaks through them with boosted Hex more easily.

Runo also sniped me, but I did want to mention that Talon is definitely viable. Fast Wisp/Flame Body + Defog + Typing gives it valuable role compression vs a lot of common balance killers and it's certainly better than some of the stuff we have in the C Ranks right now.

Week 7 vs Kyurems (W)

W7 was likewise a little disappointing, but I can get behind things if Sapo > Maia itself had to be dropped due to issues with scheduling. The build I used was to take advantage of frequent Sapo's blob usage as provided by the scout, though it was also worth noting that Maia was more likely to stick with certain builds over comfort despite the Ls. Band Tyranitar provides solid matchups as both a breaker into balance and annoyance to common momentum teams, the latter of which I was indeed correct to assume; it also gave me the liberty of being able to run EPless Enam which opened up the doors to go all in on breaking opposing Steels with Fire-Z, otherwise troublesome had it been Celesteela like anticipated. Riceman suggested having a Grass pivot as insurance into Zeraora and fatter teams while Celesteela and Excadrill provided a nice double Steel core to handle opposing offense, and I ultimately went Amoong > Tang for the Fighting resist while having better special bulk to help scout special attackers when paired with Eject Button.

Semis vs Deoxys (W)

Semis was a rough place for me mentally given my schedule but decided that if I wasn't going to prep I would just load the consistent gold mine that is Tyranitar Exca Sand with a bit of CM Clef magic to boot. Unfortunately things ended up being a little underwhelming once again given how easily Exca swept the matchup itself so I don't find myself commenting on it too highly.

Finals vs PRC (W)

And last but not least, the Finals into a few familiar friends. sealoo's scout was looking rough when factoring in additional support from Danbear into the equation so a couple of adjustments away from my comfort zone had to be up to make things happen. Aegislash looked pretty monstrous provided that they tended to stick with slower Tyranitar sets and often nominally relied on outspeeding or statusing it as their answer. However, it did clash with Okidogi quite a bit, my second choice that was also quite good given its nigh-unwallability with Toxic Chain and defensive profile. Some tests later and this was further compounded by my hopes of running SD Aegislash, I also didn't feel as if the benefits of Air Balloon or Spell Tag were instant enough to be justified either so it came to a compromise that I find rather intuitive to discuss.

A few hours before the match, I decided to run Z-Okidogi, but also to keep Z to enable SD Aegislash. This worked out great for me as it essentially promoted attacking versatility, letting me choose which mon I wanted to nuke with so that the other could potentially go from there. I backed this up with Healing Wish support > Rocks from Clefable to offset status and things began to look really solid. Nevertheless, loading into Pecharunt and Double Psychic on their side essentially hindered much of what Okidogi could do, so I turned solely to Aegislash; only said chances were in the air given the matchup and need to lay down a +2 Shadow Sneak situation to win. This was done thanks to utility Salamence, another offmeta pick that I chose to compress a defensive pivot into Grasses/Fightings and to Rotom-W lure with Toxic which worked heavily in my favor as it ended up being their sole check, then Clef got off a crucial TWave on Pecharunt and the endgame was basically set from there.

other teams that didn't make the cut / were casual brings -

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(courtesy of Danbear himself)

Overall, this was quite the intuitive season for its various high moments and equally outstanding learning curve, with every step of the way being up some sort of contributor to upping my game and figuring out the ways to do so.

Recent/Other Teams

And finally, Post-NDFL stuff that leads me to the remaining builds I experimented with during roomtours, friendlies, and everything else in between! At this point I was also pretty well-known for being the former TL back with a vengeance, and would actively find myself conversing with council members and other friends during spare time to talk about the tier itself among other things. I'll be sure to drop s/o for some of the people I've most enjoyed chatting to in particular, but to go into some teams I had before that -

Lokix at this point was pretty well known for being a potent anti-offense mon and pivot but often lacked the power to revenge kill things without significant prior damage, as well as thudding into bulky matchups with natural fat mons which resulted in people dismissing its viability for a bit. So I figured why not slap a Band on it and turn it into one of the most satisfying clicker mons to disprove that opinion? Background aside, CB Lokix is insanely strong and has certainly carried its weight over the conventional Boots sets in many of the tests that I did, being able to achieve absurd feats like OHKOing M-Aero with Impression after SR as well as 2HKO Clefable and Z-Scizor with Knock after a single U-turn, which I thought was pretty cool. Besides the inclusion of double removal to best support it, I also initially had AV Tang as a defensive pivot but then decided to switch over to Hydrapple for the role, another unconventional but surprisingly pleasant pick for its reduced passivity into offense while maintaining the Psychic switch I needed. Also got word that Elfuseon was keen on bringing this to the Semis of NDPL vs Micciu, another consolation for this fun build which I guess I'm disappointed did not become a reality due to the deadgame.

Being stubborn with ideas at the time, I decided to tweak an initial build Danbear dropped for NDFL finals. (and with perhaps a bit of inspiration from ChrisPBacon's Gen 7/8 Zard builds in general lol) But having cycled through different options for the last 3 slot over quite a while, I can confidently say that this version brings the most out of M-Gallade's potential on fat/balance teams, a role the guy fits beautifully on as teams continue to pivot towards the direction of being increasingly weak to it. Bulk investment with Drain is used over standard max max in particular as the aforementioned metagame changes make the ability to punch holes with it throughout the game that much more appealing as well as also being much harder to revenge kill with conventional answers. I also wrote a full spotlight for this exact set which you can read about here!

Other than that, the rest of the team is fairly standard with a few outstanding features; Steela and Blissey are all purpose checks to most of the common faster threats in the tier, namely Sol, Latias, Hydrapple, M-Venu, and many of the lower special attackers on the VR, while Pecharunt is a self sufficient second stallbreaker that also retains one of the best matchup spreads into common Fighting-types such as Mien and Buzzwole, giving it extra defensive utility in more offensive matchups too. The original version had Ting which became a Lokix but I eventually swapped both out in favor of Scarf Krook, which while niche, ended up being the missing piece I needed! Here is a self-sufficient speed control option that also has the major caveat of trapping common balance annoyances in Swords Dance Aegislash, Boots Zeraora, and Boulder, being able to completely remove them early in the match with semi-decent play is a major boon that made it far easier to focus to handling everything else, and it could even comfortably run Rocks in the last slot to set them if needed.

Other than that, there isn't much else to say. Balance is generally rarer in NDUU on account of teams lacking diversity in removal options in a more offense/HO-centric tier but I've found the above to work quite well for its archetype.

As opposed to what people might think, Primarina wasn't the mon I was trying to build around at first, but rather something I discovered to be quite good while searching for pivoting options versus special attacking mons that could also compress the offensive profile. Originally wanted to go with a more offensive build featuring SD Bisharp, who I thought was quite underexplored at ripping into teams lacking Buzzwole or Skarmory while having strong offensive matchups into the conventional BO builds featuring Wisp WashTom with the ability to outspeed it. However, it often struggled to get in safely and required a safety net around Grounds and the other things it would try to force out, such as CC Aegislash, Boulder, and Clefable. I decided to follow things up from here with Hydrapple to complete the offensive duo, a mon that was also surging a lot for its catch-all defensive profile for offensive teams, as well as Scarf Rotom-W and M-Aero to answer most of the tier's Fire-types that Prim struggled to take on. With how much this team got used to facilitate the nom, below is the explanation of what Primarina does to be exact.

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(piloted by Elfuseon/Elvira)

(6 by Runo)
:beedrill-mega:

(6 by Danbear)

Here lies the other builds which contributed to the sacred rise of Primarina, a mon which I covered in detail here. In short, we got to see different people pick it up during NDPL for its unique blend of offensive and defensive traits on a variety of teams, being especially good for covering Greninja and Hydrapple with AV while maintaining good offensive pressure against the common defensive teams anchored by Clefable Celesteela and friends. Of course, this would not be where it was without the progenitor Ineros, whose usage of it in NDOU helped me brainstorm the mon from next to nothing. Thanks again goat.

rest of my builds sorted in different archetypes below -
*As Greninja was recently banned, some of these teams are now illegal.

Bulky Offense

Balance

Hyper Offense/Offense

To the people during this time I wanted to s/o in particular; Gangsta Spongebob you are still my #1 supporting goat (please come back to humble ND bro...), my council buds Runo Danbear02 Pubo as well as R1C3M4N Ineros and SapoDaG30 for being very good friends and testing buddies. The rest of the Poliwhirls; each and every one of you deserve to be mentioned for supporting an incredible season, and lastly seth Nashrock Elfuseon for letting me into the Absols cord to support for NDPL, I look forward to seeing what y'all decide to do in the future!

And that's it, preciate everyone else who liked hearing about my journey.

Daepiquejt · Feb 16, 2025

Random team dump, also reincludes stuff from the last post that's still viable

(change the hippo to spdef and steela to physdef maybe)

funny semiserious rock-Z stakataka

holy hell serperior spam

Danbear02 · Mar 2, 2025

Big Team Dump!!

Its been a fun season of NDUU with NDBD, Winter SSNL, Circuit Finals not too long ago, and just a lot of fun ppl to build with. Will be dumping teams from newest to oldest, though many of my old teams are still probably useable with a few tweaks.

These three are the teams I built for my game vs. mrfraud. Great player, I'm expecting to see them near, if not at, the top of the Circuit rankings at the end of the year.

Mostly an Iride creation, this team was made mainly to exploit some of mrfraud's building tendencies, though I won't share them here because if your a good enough player you can figure it out and if you aren't then mrfraud will beat you bc they are a incredibly strong player. Big fan of this one, offensive Dogi is better than offensive Buzzwole if you want something that actually breaks.

Honestly idk how Azu broke through a Rotom/Venu/Fini team but if I didn't absolutely punt that endgame v mrfraud by getting impatient this team woulda shamoned. Regardless I'm a big fan of Azu in the current metagame with partners like Scizor and Aerodactyl that consistently wear down Rotom.

This one was a more experimental brew, but WaterZ Hydrapple is a fantastic Celesteela lure, able to vaporize it at +4 as well as Scizor and Clefable at +2. It also allows Hydrapple to actually touch Enamorus which is nice. Scarf Enam+Aegi takes advantage of Steela being gone, and the reliable MAero/Washer/Lu core rounds out the team.

Rest of the builder-

- goofier team build around Hoodra Leech-blocking Steela

- very standard but solid Sand team, my typical sand composition

- Update to the Quagsire stall (which still works btw)

- rebuild of a similar structure I built in the Gapdos meta, this team is really solid

- uhhh sometimes we all gotta get our inner Adriyun out

- another standard Sand, no ground immune is a bit awk tho

- Hoodra is fantastic with any breaker that Steela switches into to block Leech. Also checks Scizor

- just a very simple reliable BO, nothing fancy. Love this team

- concept with 2 fighters to break for the other

- same team but with Scarf Shao, this version is slightly worse against Moth. Not sure which one is better

- old fraud prep, team is really solid but also forgets a Ground-immune

- standard offense

- experiments with Mew, this team kinda sux

- cool version of the other team with HZo, 4a specs is really solid

- HoodedZack larp

- 4A Sciz is heavily underexplored, you can drop Roost as 4A makes you so much more threatening

- was before MGall was explored so probably Slowbro > King now

- same comp but swapped items, King prolly fine here bc of Scarf Enam

- either loaded this exactly or Keld>Shao in NDBD, very solid

- funny concept with Z DD TTar, not super tested but fairly decent

- Archaludon quickbuild, team is NOT good

- iirc this is a r1c3 comp

- nicknames by dragonpimpnite i think? idr

- GMolt might be broken if Lu+TTar rise

- mainly a meme but v funny in MGall meta

- the origin of Drain Punch Mgall by the brilliant mind of Iride

- double rocks is indeed intentional

- another v solid sand comp

- similar sand but with Bulu

- feel like i've shared this somewhere already but this is a fairly solid fat

Ok damn I'm realizing I have way too many damn teams to sprite them all so uhh here are all of them. Most of these are prolly ass but some are pretty solid.

https://pokepast.es/c5d8bf5d9d71e3cc

At the bottom are my boxes, importing them into your builder greatly helps with autofilling sets when building.

Huge shoutout to Iride, Runo, R1C3M4N, TBIC106, Niadev, Rafadude as council/vr buddies that make doing this so fun. Shoutout to everyone else in the NDUU Discord except Adriyun for making this tier such a great place to be.

Adriyun · Mar 2, 2025

Danbear02 said:
Big Team Dump!!

Its been a fun season of NDUU with NDBD, Winter SSNL, Circuit Finals not too long ago, and just a lot of fun ppl to build with. Will be dumping teams from newest to oldest, though many of my old teams are still probably useable with a few tweaks.

These three are the teams I built for my game vs. mrfraud. Great player, I'm expecting to see them near, if not at, the top of the Circuit rankings at the end of the year.

Mostly an Iride creation, this team was made mainly to exploit some of mrfraud's building tendencies, though I won't share them here because if your a good enough player you can figure it out and if you aren't then mrfraud will beat you bc they are a incredibly strong player. Big fan of this one, offensive Dogi is better than offensive Buzzwole if you want something that actually breaks.

Honestly idk how Azu broke through a Rotom/Venu/Fini team but if I didn't absolutely punt that endgame v mrfraud by getting impatient this team woulda shamoned. Regardless I'm a big fan of Azu in the current metagame with partners like Scizor and Aerodactyl that consistently wear down Rotom.

This one was a more experimental brew, but WaterZ Hydrapple is a fantastic Celesteela lure, able to vaporize it at +4 as well as Scizor and Clefable at +2. It also allows Hydrapple to actually touch Enamorus which is nice. Scarf Enam+Aegi takes advantage of Steela being gone, and the reliable MAero/Washer/Lu core rounds out the team.

Rest of the builder-
- goofier team build around Hoodra Leech-blocking Steela
- very standard but solid Sand team, my typical sand composition
- Update to the Quagsire stall (which still works btw)
- rebuild of a similar structure I built in the Gapdos meta, this team is really solid
- uhhh sometimes we all gotta get our inner Adriyun out
- another standard Sand, no ground immune is a bit awk tho
- Hoodra is fantastic with any breaker that Steela switches into to block Leech. Also checks Scizor
- just a very simple reliable BO, nothing fancy. Love this team
- concept with 2 fighters to break for the other
- same team but with Scarf Shao, this version is slightly worse against Moth. Not sure which one is better
- old fraud prep, team is really solid but also forgets a Ground-immune
- standard offense
- experiments with Mew, this team kinda sux
- cool version of the other team with HZo, 4a specs is really solid
- HoodedZack larp
- 4A Sciz is heavily underexplored, you can drop Roost as 4A makes you so much more threatening
- was before MGall was explored so probably Slowbro > King now
- same comp but swapped items, King prolly fine here bc of Scarf Enam
- either loaded this exactly or Keld>Shao in NDBD, very solid
- funny concept with Z DD TTar, not super tested but fairly decent
- Archaludon quickbuild, team is NOT good
- iirc this is a r1c3 comp
- nicknames by dragonpimpnite i think? idr
- GMolt might be broken if Lu+TTar rise
- mainly a meme but v funny in MGall meta
- the origin of Drain Punch Mgall by the brilliant mind of Iride
- double rocks is indeed intentional
- another v solid sand comp
- similar sand but with Bulu
- feel like i've shared this somewhere already but this is a fairly solid fat

Ok damn I'm realizing I have way too many damn teams to sprite them all so uhh here are all of them. Most of these are prolly ass but some are pretty solid.

https://pokepast.es/c5d8bf5d9d71e3cc

At the bottom are my boxes, importing them into your builder greatly helps with autofilling sets when building.

Huge shoutout to Iride, Runo, R1C3M4N, TBIC106, Niadev, Rafadude as council/vr buddies that make doing this so fun. Shoutout to everyone else in the NDUU Discord except Adriyun for making this tier such a great place to be.

WTFF why am i always getting hated on..

PedroSMC · Mar 8, 2025

Danbear02 said:
Big Team Dump!!

Its been a fun season of NDUU with NDBD, Winter SSNL, Circuit Finals not too long ago, and just a lot of fun ppl to build with. Will be dumping teams from newest to oldest, though many of my old teams are still probably useable with a few tweaks.

These three are the teams I built for my game vs. mrfraud. Great player, I'm expecting to see them near, if not at, the top of the Circuit rankings at the end of the year.

Mostly an Iride creation, this team was made mainly to exploit some of mrfraud's building tendencies, though I won't share them here because if your a good enough player you can figure it out and if you aren't then mrfraud will beat you bc they are a incredibly strong player. Big fan of this one, offensive Dogi is better than offensive Buzzwole if you want something that actually breaks.

Honestly idk how Azu broke through a Rotom/Venu/Fini team but if I didn't absolutely punt that endgame v mrfraud by getting impatient this team woulda shamoned. Regardless I'm a big fan of Azu in the current metagame with partners like Scizor and Aerodactyl that consistently wear down Rotom.

This one was a more experimental brew, but WaterZ Hydrapple is a fantastic Celesteela lure, able to vaporize it at +4 as well as Scizor and Clefable at +2. It also allows Hydrapple to actually touch Enamorus which is nice. Scarf Enam+Aegi takes advantage of Steela being gone, and the reliable MAero/Washer/Lu core rounds out the team.

Rest of the builder-
- goofier team build around Hoodra Leech-blocking Steela
- very standard but solid Sand team, my typical sand composition
- Update to the Quagsire stall (which still works btw)
- rebuild of a similar structure I built in the Gapdos meta, this team is really solid
- uhhh sometimes we all gotta get our inner Adriyun out
- another standard Sand, no ground immune is a bit awk tho
- Hoodra is fantastic with any breaker that Steela switches into to block Leech. Also checks Scizor
- just a very simple reliable BO, nothing fancy. Love this team
- concept with 2 fighters to break for the other
- same team but with Scarf Shao, this version is slightly worse against Moth. Not sure which one is better
- old fraud prep, team is really solid but also forgets a Ground-immune
- standard offense
- experiments with Mew, this team kinda sux
- cool version of the other team with HZo, 4a specs is really solid
- HoodedZack larp
- 4A Sciz is heavily underexplored, you can drop Roost as 4A makes you so much more threatening
- was before MGall was explored so probably Slowbro > King now
- same comp but swapped items, King prolly fine here bc of Scarf Enam
- either loaded this exactly or Keld>Shao in NDBD, very solid
- funny concept with Z DD TTar, not super tested but fairly decent
- Archaludon quickbuild, team is NOT good
- iirc this is a r1c3 comp
- nicknames by dragonpimpnite i think? idr
- GMolt might be broken if Lu+TTar rise
- mainly a meme but v funny in MGall meta
- the origin of Drain Punch Mgall by the brilliant mind of Iride
- double rocks is indeed intentional
- another v solid sand comp
- similar sand but with Bulu
- feel like i've shared this somewhere already but this is a fairly solid fat

Ok damn I'm realizing I have way too many damn teams to sprite them all so uhh here are all of them. Most of these are prolly ass but some are pretty solid.

https://pokepast.es/c5d8bf5d9d71e3cc

At the bottom are my boxes, importing them into your builder greatly helps with autofilling sets when building.

Huge shoutout to Iride, Runo, R1C3M4N, TBIC106, Niadev, Rafadude as council/vr buddies that make doing this so fun. Shoutout to everyone else in the NDUU Discord except Adriyun for making this tier such a great place to be.

do you have the pokepaste for second one please ? with Iron Mother and azu ? link seems to be the wrong one

Danbear02 · Mar 8, 2025

PedroSMC said:
do you have the pokepaste for second one please ? with Iron Mother and azu ? link seems to be the wrong one

Should be updated now!

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