So I had experience prior the tour, as I play a lot of monotype in my free time. It's not the tier i'm the most confortable w but i made 3 teams during this tour. Will only share two tho, as the last is really classic so i dont think it need to be shared. However, as
style.css almost begged me to repost and this is clearly an undevelopped meta, i'll dump the final team asw, so as one that i made for a french PL, and consider using during NDPL.
Claydol psy :
this was made because I had a feeling abt claydol being good, having hazard control in psy is always good, although claydol is passive asf. Psy is to me the most broken type rn, letting Alakazam Mega and Tapu Lele in it really weird if you ask me, especially now that zam has access to expanding force and np. Structure is pretty simple, encore zam prevent setup and let u win the mirror against stuff like sub cm tias, jira has enough speed to outspeed gyarados and twave it, and toxic on dol helps the elec MU.
replay :
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8nationaldexmonotype-1692978529 cielau vs Rinda week 7
Celebi psy :
I highly value this team as I think it's probably the best possible psychic in the current metagame, and it's a bit sad it lost but well that's life. Celebi is a really really good mon in psychic, being able to solo handle water add an insane value to it. spread is made to outspeed offensive tran and to always OHKO defensive variant after a np, rest is in phys bulk to improve water mu. Psychic was elected instead of E-force here, mainly because it's a better option overall in this team I think.
replay :
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8nationaldexmonotype-659429 devin vs tricho tiebreak semi
Sub gastro ground :
so i made this in litteraly 10 secondes in vocal, 30 minutes before the Cielau-QWILY's game. I'm ngl sand ground is super hard to tweak, mainly because you need to keep a certain structure in line to make it viable, but i like what i did here. Lando is scarfed for better speed control, hippowdon is rindo mainly for greninja : as it will always either click gk/ice beam (you live both) you can now guarantee a free toxic on it, meaning after you can hard switch excadrill under sand and abuse chip damages/rocks to have a better time against it. Gastrodon is sub also for water MU, the idea is that toxapex litteraly cannot win against you if u use a sub set and manage to get a burn on it, as nowadays i feel like outside of poison pex doesnt use black sludge as an held item. It's a cool tech, although I don't think it's that good. We were just very paranoic abt water.
replay :
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8nationaldexmonotype-661062 qwily vs cielau final
Fairy ebutton flock key :
It's also a team I highly value, mainly because it can practically won every mu, including poison/steel that are usually super harsh for fairy. the idea is to abuse ebutton fairy lock klefki, as it's smth ppl will never expect. fairy lock is a move that trap the 2 remaining pokemon on the field on the next turn after the move is used. So here, let's assume you face water rain, the correct sequence is to lead klefki, fairy lock on whatever move it throws at you and then you trap and remove it w ninetales gg. Smth to note tho, is that this require the opponent to not know abt this strat. Fortunately, azumarill bd is such a prominent wincond that can autowin like almost anything, meaning even if the tech is known by your opponent you'll still have room to outplay and win, so as making mindgames that will nevertheless always reward you. Ninetales is scarfed mainly for peli scarf, and also because it's always usefull against drag, you don't wanna lose to a +1 dragon type.
replay :
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/...-1683307303-l1pjq0a5vlwuvm027egojeybe7ovbj5pw me vs dorron for the sendoff, ebutton klefki did his job although i didnt used the fairy lock tech
