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idea taken on from Gen 8 ND UU and current ND OU
idea taken on from Gen 8 ND UU and current ND OU
Welcome to the National Dex UU Team Bazaar! A place where you can post your cool teams in a more casual enviroment than the usual RMT and have people get teams when first playing the metagame.
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Torkoal is the setter of choice as it covers a nice amount of role compression at once in both Rapid Spin and Stealth Rock. Yawn is a good option to play around bad matchups and allowing you to switch out safely.
Venusaur and Volcarona are the abusers of choice, originally had Scovillain over Venu but that didn't work out well due to the pepper just being mid in pmuch every aspect (for me at least), Venusaur still has a terrifying combo of Grass, Poison and Fire which greatly covers a bunch of the meta besides certain mons like Nihilego or Blacephalon to name a few. Volcarona is just stupid, fits on pmuch every squad and brings titanic win conditions to the team because of demonic QD Tera Grass and this time the notable feat it gets from Sun is OHKOing standard Torn-T at +1 Sun with Flamethrower, please let this mon leave.
Tornadus-Therian is the usual pivot that brings valuable defensive utility to the team, bringing both hazard removal, Fighting resist, Water and Fire resist once it Terastalizes, momentum with U-Turn, etc. It can practically check anything on most matchups and still does progress vs bulkier squads thanks to Knock Off.
Ting-Lu takes advantage of Hazards and Setup Sweepers with the obnoxious bulk it has, even without recovery and facing electrics like Rotom-Wash it still makes up for it with all the other positives of just checking the entire meta.
Jirachi was more or less Speed Control and a Steel type added to the squad, originally meant to be a Melmetal but quickly threw that away to see if this could be a change of pace after spamming AV Melm on almost any non-ho build.
Your best bet is to have Ting-Lu healthy or else Omni just wins without a second thought but if you keep hazards up then you might kinda survive it by trying to chip it with Venu and Volc.
Similar to Victini except that you technically have 2 answers at your disposal but the problem is that Torkoal has significantly less longevity and Volcarona kinda just gets nuked if the melm is offensively oriented.
Heavily annoys the early game a lot unless they stay in on Rachi and get tricked but it's not that big of a deal.
I'd say M-Latias is a bit underrated, the combination of good bulk, speed, typing and coverage makes it a perfectly solid fit for the meta as being able to resist Fire, Water, Grass and Fighting while also being able to threaten the opponent with Calm Mind boosted attacks is excellent. The speed is what separates it from other Calm Minders as it prevents it from being overwhelmed easily as well as being able to setup and threaten common pokemon like Kartana, Zard Y, Dragonite, Iron Hands, Urshifu-RS and more, depending on its moveset it can be a scary pokemon to deal with, whether you prepared for it or not.
Clefable falls under the same list altho this one is a lot more flexible thanks to the vast list of utility moves it gets but the classic Calm Mind set is still a good one on practice, it's not really gonna be sweeping when threats like Melmetal, Aegislash, Glowking, Victini and the loads of Wallbreakers, Terastalization and Setup Sweepers that can get through those average defenses. Which is why it's more reliable as a backup win condition that can still use utility moves to secure some progress like Thunder Wave or even Stealth Rock if you want which greatly improves a lot of the matchups that it gets stuck with.
This mon is just broken on every aspect and stands up at the top alongside Volcarona, Terastalize or Weather. This time after the Chi-Yu ban, i replaced the Scarf set i had for just Scarf Zamazenta which still has a good offense and can snipe either Sweepers like M-Gyarados, Zard X or Volcarona, Swift Swim M-Pert or Blaziken to Scarfers like Kartana or Tapu Lele. It struggles a bit vs defense due to not having the same damage rolls as CB despite the coverage but it can ocasionally force a few switches.
I swear to god i really wanted to avoid Ting-Lu here and this is what it brought me to. The lack of a reliable Aegi check certainly hurts but having a Ground type with reliable recovery as well as not being weak to Fighting (and not needing to use a Tera to do so) is something that separates it from the juggernaut. Tera Water also likes to play around Rain a lot since it sits on both M-Pert and Melmetal and can annoy Pelipper.
Getting a sub means you're going to get on a dangerous spot as Melmetal is gonna be taking a lot of chip damage just to force it out and that's kind of the only true answer due to no Ting-Lu backup.
It's not surprising that Stall is also a complicated playstyle on a team like this since the offense is a bit lacking, if you manage to pressure enough with Clefable and Melmetal then you should find a way, another option is to pressure M-Sableye and get rocks with Hippo, you'll find a way out later on probably but Garganacl is a massive threat regardless.
You may have AV Melm but Specs is an absolute demon, it's fairly playable if Melm dodges Focus Blast or if it comes on a resist instead.
Obvious suicide lead is obvious
The new mechanic changes with Snow and the fact that it doesn't chip your team anymore has in my opinion heavily boosted the viability of Aurora Veil Hyper Offense teams. I personally think Hail is mandatory on Alolan Ninetales since pretty much every single other weather being decently common.(Rain with Politoed, Sun with Mega Charizard Y or Torkoal, and Sand with Hippowdon). 
This team was made in Chi-Yu meta, which Mega Gyarados thrived in, but even after the ban of the demon fish it continues to be a devastating Pokemon to deal with. Nothing really defensively checks Water + Dark + Grass coverage after a Dragon Dance, and cleans a lot of the offensive teams running around.
Baxcalibur takes advantage of getting a +1 defense boost in Snow, which gives it a lot of chances to set up a Dragon Dance. Glaive Rush + Icicle Crash + Tera Blast Electric basically makes it a mini Kyurem-B, a Pokemon banned from OU for its excellent Dragon Dance set. Dragon + Ice coverage is just generally great, and Tera Electric allows you to hit the few resists in Tapu Fini and physically defensive walls such as Slowbro.
I thought it'd be funny to try out 'Double Dance Urshifu' with its new moves Swords Dance and Trail Blaze - ends up its actually not all that bad. Gastrodon is very common and makes clicking Trail Blaze really easy. If somehow Urshifu manages to get up both setup moves it becomes really hard to stop, as nothing really takes on a +2 +1 Urshifu. Here's a funny replay of it in action and 1v1'ing a Salamence with Tera Water: 
Imagine Mega Medicham and it actually outspeeds your entire team - that's exactly what Trailblaze Mega Medicham in. One of the main things that held Mega Medicham back was its relatively 'slow' speed of base 100, especially in a meta filled with faster Pokemon like the Mega Latis, Tornadus-T, Kartana, Greninja etc. Trailblaze turns these matchups entire on their head and allows Mega Medicham to just basically screw over everything - I am not joking. A +1 speed Mega Medicham in this offensive of a meta is insane. Specially Defensive Gastrodon being everywhere makes Trailblaze really easy to get off and can late game clean so many teams currently. 
Obligatory Zamazenta counter
Azelf runs Magic Coat to counter other HO builds but other than that, it's a fairly standard set with Taunt Rocks Explosion.
Autosteela is also a solid pick since it can oftentimes run away with the game and has good bulk to bounce back on, which is basically what it did last gen. It really good at setting up on utility variants of Tornadus-T and breaks past a lot of the fighting and grass mons in the tier.
The double scarf offensive core of Kart + Chi-Yu is pretty dangerous since both of them outrun everything and dish out a ton of damage.
Iron Valiant is a good check to the Darks and Dragons that plague the tier.
Guzzy has good qualities such as shoring up stall's weaknesses to rain and sun, being a pseudo-check to Greninja and Gyarados-Mega, and most importantly walling Chi-Yu (the scarf variants at least).It's a fine special wall but it's never going to be the next Blissey
Skarm + Dondozo walls nearly every physical attacker in the tier.
Azumarill helps to extinguish fire and ground types and gives the team some priority to revenge kill faster threats.
Polteageist is another broken that can only really best stopped by priority and Tera Fighting lets me shit on dark types with ease.
Kommo-o is simply a late game sweeper, with Tera Ground giving it a more powerful Earthquake.
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Standard set + Tailwind > Moonblast, I'm a freak for speed and this gives me as much speed as possible to force out airborne mons or mons carrying Heavy Duty Boots.
A hood classic on webs: Thundurus-T, uses a double dance set to outrun and nuke everything. Grass Knot handles the rain matchup very easily, while also luring Ting-Lu.
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SpDef Flygon to compress a defogger, a volt-immune, and a Zard Y check in one. It does fairly well but it's Flygon so it's still mediocre of course.
and scarf 
and the team didn't have a z user, so I added sd double edge ace as the last slot. This mon is insanely good too. +2 z edge is a free kill against all non resists.
