Tournament NDPL VI Set & Team Dump Thread

[sealoo]

post the teams you used / wanted to use in ndpl vi...or not. I guess. Everyone will think youre weird if you dont tho.

 

[1yr]

svnd team dump
here are the teams i built for svnd that were used in this pl (click on player vs player for game and on the pokemon for team pokepaste)
week 1: i lowkey locked in this week and built all the sv teams

mada vs nashrock W
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this team was initially created by Scish (used in ladder tour r1 here), it initially had hatterene + ground z kyurem but i changed it for slowbro + boots kyurem and i also changed some other sets that i dont remember.

scish vs separation L
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Lil bro was indecisive all week on what team he wanted to use but ended up liking this team i built in pre tera ban with big specs blizzard kyurem

1yr vs kyo L
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i want to preface saying i was robbed. Anyways, shoutout sealoo for the help on this team its one of my favourites that i built this pl with it having the big no shadow ball gholdengo. Modest steel z ghold allows it to ohko ting lu after chip, thunderbolt is for moltres who stops steel z, and focus blast is for heatran, and iron treads mainly or any other bulky steels tryna switch in that can be a threat to ghold. Heatran is for psychic types that a bulky ghold would normally be a good check to like tapu lele ect with Protect on heatran's purpose being it helps to dwindle down anything that may be annoying to gholdengo, and twave slowbro is mainly for ogerpon cuz bro lives a pwhip.

week 2: after all the effort i put in week 1 i was lowkey gassed and worn out after week 2 but i still made some pretty cool teams this week

1yr vs ado W
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i saw this dude was mr molameister and spammed fat ass teams every game so i load sub bulk up pert + manaphy which looked dubious into his scout and the rest is history. also manaphy evs are to outspeed raging bolt timid

mada vs leroipolux1 L
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mada wanted to use cm koko so cm koko is what he got, zard y high key assaults this team and i wasnt expecting it all but the game was kinda cooked from koko dgleam roll on tusk to begin with.

week 3: this is when i was extremely worn out and exhausted of building but i still pumped out some tech even though it didnt win unfortunately

1yr vs skyiew L
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matchup this game was kinda cooked but regardless it prob woulda been better if i didnt over predict losing 60 percent of serp staying on ghold when there was a pon on the other end but yeah this is when i realized i gotta take a chill pill from playing and supporting the other tiers at the same time. Phys Z koko is used to bait stuff like heatran, glowking who would otherwise be a problem for serp.

mada vs youanminxue L
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this game was kinda unfortunate hax wise but not much u can do, this team was built in like 10-15 minutes cuz teammate changed his mind about the stuff i made earlier in the week but nonetheless i think i high key cooked with scarf hoopa having an amazing matchup into his team and overall scout

week 4: kinda recycled/made bad teams this week i was hella worn out but we still did well in sv nonetheless

memphisdepay vs kayzn W
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this was an edit of the week 1 team i passed to mada but with z ground kyurem as opposed to boots and slowking with chilly reception for kyu defence boost>slowbro teleport

mada vs xurkiyee W
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not my best build but mada wanted to use roost gliscor and i hadnt build around it before, though i do fw z psychic slowbro for big surprise damage and its ability to snipe out pex to let zamazenta thrive

week 5: this was by far my laziest week because by now i am beyond worn out

for madas game i stole a sealoo team and for memphis game i stole a xurkiyee team both lost

chansey and lulu vs mollymiltoast W
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i saw how menacing kingambit looked into molly's scout so i thought to put it on steroids with helmet chomp so i called up sealoo and he hooked us up with this nice team and it won

week 6: felt a little better building this week, the burnout started to wear off

1yr vs luthier W
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for this game i had built like 36 sand teams all of them were shit so and i never made anything i liked so i ended up just loading Darkness 789 screens and they got the job done

mada vs sealoo L
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mada really wanted to use stall all tour even though i think its ass i gave in and assembled the stall avengers to make this team but it ended up loading into modest heatran sooo yeah

week 7:
barely any of these games actually happened but hidin passed me a team to give to memphisdepay but it lost


S/O...
Kate for giving me the opportunity to manage in the first place

Elfuseon for managing this tour with me after the year long postpone

Darkness 789 for helping me with everything even down to managing and subs bro was like a 4th manager and giving the cord W vibes

MemphisDepay for being a chill guy, giving cord good vibes, and stepping into ru when u never played it and delivering a clutch win

chansey and lulu for cooking the entire tour and being the best sv on the team

Sami for keeping the cord active and being a W ubers support

SpaceSpeakers for getting subbed in a tier u never played before and cooking up hard

Tarre25 for cooking up in mono slot and giving positive vibes throughout the tour

Voltix for doing great in doubles and being a chill dude all around, happy i retained u

Remnonc for bringing positive vibes, testing, and doing well in ubers

salmonelephant for all the good vibes u brought the cord and all the help u gave with uu/ru

ARTYMASION for passing a bunch of those ndwc teams and helping with tests/prep


big shoutouts to the support
Dead by Daylight deserved to get drafted thanks so much for all the help

White Atoq cooked with the ss support all tour and helped out his bro darkness big time

Hiro80223001 for cooking up ss all tour and being hella active

All About The Hax for helping me every single week despite all the shit u going thru, u the goat

Sunrose cooked up so hard every week for doubles with good callouts into prep that helped us win games

SapoDaG30 ty for all the ru help u gave this tour i really appreciate

TBE even though u joined near the end ty for the help with sv

extra shoutouts

sealoo for helping me build/passing a bunch of the teams used this pl

Boomenheimer for that one water stall those who know

Isza for testing with me, and helping with sv/ss teams

Runo for providing big mdp the ru set compendium when needed most

Xurkiyee ty for helping me with teams and tests


mb to anyone i may have forgotten about and mb to everyone i crashed out on this pl

 

[hidin]

https://pokepast.es/2fb9cadb3a998dc1

Thanks to Runo and omar for managing with me, glad to have known you two for a while and be good friends.
R1C3M4N Sorry that your record didn't go well with the effort you put despite having a rough IRL, things will get better brother.
YouanMingxue You're sweet and the potential you have is pretty strong as both a player and as a person, just make sure to do some more studying on Mega Latios in the future...
Skyiew Thanks for the season, but I'm not done with the punishment...
Irene Despite next to no experience, you did well enough in my eyes, proud of you for that.
I Feel Stabby Honestly I'm doing this by tiers but man you do not deserve to be so low in the shoutouts, immaculate presence and a good player. Your mental might get you caught up in some things, but at the end of the day you're a much better player than most of the people you face. Continue doing great things and lead a good life.
Abele Man I wish that you didn't have a rough streak; but even then, you still went out of your way to support and be very involved in both SS slots and I thank you for that.
JeoZ Next year tell your managers to start you because I don't know why I waited so long to do so. I first saw you as some DNU guy (that tier is some trash) but getting to know you a little bit better has opened my eyes. Keep on winning.
Magician You kept it real after you lost and honestly that's a good thing, admitting your shortcomings is always good, but you're probably almost double my age, so I don't think I need to say anything wise yeah? Thanks for playing
QWILY At the end of the day you came and played your games, appreciate it
RoFnA Monotype legend...
Schister You're a good player and your confidence is something that is fantastic about you; HOWEVER, being humble is just as important. I know you will knock the bricks off of most players in this tier but remember to not let that get to your head. Thank you for playing
EatFoods The princess of doubles, vibes are always gonna be good with you and I’m sure you already know I appreciate you.
Soul king0 I appreciated your eagerness, and I'm sorry that we didn't give you more opportunities to play. Just know that I myself am very proud to have a circuit finalist on my team lol
unfuuny Zrp200 Ubers support!! Despite our differences over one specific bird, I respect both of your views on the tier and wish you guys the best in it. Sorry for no floober unfunny
Redgoop115 Just chilled around and helped in SS OU, nice to have a guy like you around in general. My man :dabmeup:
Jojen When we got scared because we had to sub someone in, it was nice to know that you were (mostly) always there, I appreciate that. You're pretty component at most of the tiers in this section, so make sure people know that about you
SapoDaG30 Thank you for being around for Runo and Riceman and being a nice guy in general, you got some shoes to fill with Runo being off the grid soon and it's nice to know you'll be influential in lower tiers in the future, I know you'll do good.
Frixel :dbCry: Please don't leave us bro...a guy like you doesn't come around so often. I wish you the best
skimmythegod You got games in and checked in prep when you needed to, activity is whatever at this point so just know I'm happy to have you on the team.

Goodnight, thanks for the season. Mafia or bust

 

[YouanMingxue]

Three goats, I love you all. Let's fight side by side again next time we have the chance.

 

[vwnz]

boom is the best manager thanks to him for the work

 

[Runo]

I love NatDex RU as always, pool was fairly challenging with very competent and creative builders on each team. Enjoyed this season and will continue to play NatDex RU.


Danbear thinks I cheesed him but I choose to belive that this is actually a serious team because a lot of its purpose was to pretend to have a bad matchup into his Dhelmise spam so it would be killed or worn down by status so Registeel could sweep unopposed. I did get some good odds vs Thundurus in that game though.


The tech of the day here was to overload on Lokix lures, in the hopes of wearing it down in range of Mega Sharpedo's Close Combat to win the game. Counter was great in the early game as was double Rocky Helmet, but I missed out on a roll that I needed and it tilted me the rest of the game.


Probably my most favorite team of the season. The original plan was to queue Rain Dance Swampert into Salmonelephant, but I couldn't figure out how to easily get past Tangrowth consistently so it phased into a Mega Sharpedo concept, which again I couldn't get past the Tangrowth matchup. Finally I landed on completely abandoning the physical attacking water and opting for Volcanion as the Water breaker of choice, with three monster hitters in the back. Z-Skeledirge + Hisuian Goodra did not give this team any favors but smart manuvering allowed me to strong arm his defensive core with Heracross and Volcanion.


This is the only game I didn't actually care to scout prior, but continuing my trend of using nichemons I figured that basing a team off the snowball power for Nihilego would be worthwhile. Team is built to try to cripple or wear down opposing Steel types and Cyclizars. As luck would have it Dlanyer loaded no Steels or any Rock resist so the team was easy picking for Nihilego once it got into position.


This was a panic load because I was insanely unconfident in the two original ideas I had for the slot (Trick Room and Salazzle BO). I made this like 10 minutes before the game started in the hopes that I could catch some of LBN's diverse tendencies in the builder. Turned out to be a good idea on preview since I had a lot of strong tools to grab a quick advantage but I fumbled too much for it to be impactful.


Now at this point, I wouldn't say that I was creatively dead but I was having a tough time figuring out how to account for or make Blissey + Galarian Slowbro teams. Thankfully mrfraud passed me a stall team that I edited into a semi-stall because Dhelmise is overrated to shit. The Plan was always going to be to stall LB because his scout was really offense heavy and I thought something like Calm Mind Galarian Slowbro could put him down. The game itself was more challenging than I anticipated since I didn't recognize what set his Registeel, Swampert, or Togekiss were despite it being a reload from a prior week.


I wanted to load something funny into Micaiah but still had solid odds to win so I went with Gen 8 National Dex RU as the theme. Unfortunately RUBL mon Staraptor on top of Gligar sitting on half the team proved too much for me.







These are some other teams I was considering bringing but didn't for one reason or another. I did use them a lot when testing for other peoples games. I still think they are chill just not stuff I would overrely on for a win because of specific matchup failings.

SapoDaG30 and Marss Barss thank you for being such eager testers and entertaining a lot of my building antics. Also to Danbear02 for the constant sparring and post test discussions.

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I also did some stuff for Ubers despite still disliking the tier. Everything else was passed or built by one of the helpers.

I still got the #magic in this tier. Teleport Slowbro on its own is strong but Thunder Wave really adds a new layer of how annoying it could be. If there's one mon you really don't want being full para'd it's your Specs Eternatus or Mega Salamence switch in. Combine that with Defog Facade Mence to clear against Webs Yveltal and GHAZ Ho-oh and I essentially solved the Bumboclaat scout.

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SS NatDex is a tier I enjoy building but I didn't really do a lot of it because JeoZ prep was just carrying and I didn't feel the need to provide heavy input.

I remember I feel stabby wanted something on the fatter side of things so I gave him this. Performed well in tests. It was built specifically for NDPL but I do not remember what the prep was outside of this Slowbro set being to cover a Toxapex and Weavile lure in one slot.

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Here's some stuff I gave to people in SV NatDex OU, but tragically my chud teammates couldn't understand peak and didn't load them. I like building this tier to be honest but it seems like a lot of people are really set in their ways in terms of what they find good or bad.

 

[Sami]

NATIONAL DEX UBERS TEAMDUMP by the Victinis

National Dex Ubers as a whole is in a bit of a pickle when it comes to building since balancing the Smeargle HO and GHAZ Balance matchups in one singular team can be difficult at times, especially depending on the core you want to build around. Regardless, I still had a lot of fun building, testing, and playing this tier, even if this is the worst its been in a while. Our opponents were pretty challenging too, which only encouraged me to help Remnonc more since I was basically a support for the majority of the tournament (no shade for it I don't mind). Big thanks to 1yr, Kate, and Elfuseon for drafting me to begin with, hope to see yall next year.

Week One: DripLegend (W)
Week Three: Skimmythegod EatFoods (W)
Dual-Flying Alomomola Balance by SilverStar

Now this team wasn't actually built by me, which is fair since I was on holiday for most of the week anyways, so I mostly let Remnonc load whatever he wanted. Looking back on it, there's only a few things I don't like about this team. The big one is Adamant Rayquaza; underspeeding Arceus, defensive Yveltal, and even Glimmora seems a bit sketchy in my opinion, especially when Life Orb Rayquaza is strong enough. Knock Off on Alomomola also seems a bit weird, I feel like Protect offers more value, especially when its only Zygarde that's actually threatened by Knock Off (who keeps Ho-Oh in on Alomomola anyways?). Outside of that though, the team is fine, especially when we get a god-tier matchup with Tera Normal Alomomola into Basculegion Trick Room. For Week Three, since we got a sub instead of Skimmy, we just recycled this team again, since it was consistent enough into whatever EatFoods could load anyways.

Week Two: Splendid Silver Star (L)
Dragon Dance Arceus-Ground + Ferrothorn Balance by Sami

This team mostly revolves around Ferrothorn since its one of the only Pokemon to be able to withstand boosted Life Orb Mewtwo, which SSS loves to use. Unfortunately, he didn't load that, but even then, Ferrothorn is still really nice into Alomomola and Giratina-O, something else that SSS loves to load. Defensive Primal Kyogre benefits from the lack of Mixed Defense Alomomola, since all the Alomomola he uses are physically defensive with Rocky Helmet, meaning +1 Scald is able to 2HKO it with ease; Primal Kyogre is also just... a good Pokemon. Finally, Arceus-Ground is nice since we have Marshadow to handle Ultra Necrozma anyways; synergises nicely with Dragon Tail Primal Groudon to overwhelm Zygarde and Giratina-O too.

Despite all of this, we lost, which sucks because I don't think this team does badly into Tera Fairy IDBP Garganacl anyways; if anything, Tera Water IDBP Garganacl is even scarier. However, there are two bigger issues with this team. The first is the lack of Life Orb Yveltal counterplay. For a team with both Giratina-O and Ferrothorn, this is a big cause of concern for general use, especially when our only answer into it is Defensive Primal Kyogre; SSS doesn't use Life Orb Yveltal very often, so I wasn't worried about it, but still. The second issue, if you watched Round 9 of Summer Seasonal, is the PsySpam matchup is horrid. Our only Psychic-resist is Ferrothorn, which is really really bad into PsySpam despite what some people think (Ultra Necrozma setup fodder, gets nuked by Lunala and Deoxys-A, can easily get copied by Ditto for free Spikes). Your best bet is using Tera Steel on Giratina-O and praying Psychic Terrain ends after Tapu Lele dies so Marshadow can clean up.

Week Four: Swas (L)
Clefable Stall by SilverStar

Another SSS team loaded. Stall is fishy, but it can work, and I had a feeling Main Event Mafia wouldn't consider Stall in their team unlike Week 2 with their CB Rayquaza. And for the most part, Stall was fine, we just shouldn't have sacked Tera Poison Ferrothorn since we needed it for Toxic Spikes. There isn't much to say here, I don't mind Clefable, I might vote for it to be C- if it appears on the slate, but its niche is almost entirely caried by Heal Bell in my opnion.

Week Five: bumboclaat (L)
Sample Primal Groudon HO with some tweaks by MirrorSaMa + Sami

This one is interesting to say the least. I know some people are going to clown on me for telling Remnonc to load a sample into a council member, but I unironically think this is the best you can get out of Primal Groudon on HO teams. Why were we using Primal Groudon? Well, Bumboclaat doesn't load Giratina-O, Landorus-T, or Arceus-Ground, and he hasn't used GiraMola structures in ages, so his only check to Double Dance Primal Groudon is Zygarde, considering how offensive Ho-Oh dies to +2 Heat Crash. There's also Outrage Ultra Necrozma, which snipes Calm Mind Arceus-Dark, A Pokemon that Bumboclaat loves using as well. Overall, this team does pretty well into most GHAZ structures barring ones with specific Pokemon like Tera Fairy IDBP Garganacl, and maybe Tera Ghost Pheromosa. Additionally, accoding to the scout (nerd emoji), the only teams Bumboclaat loses to without hax or MU fishes, are HO teams, which might be noteworthy for some...

Unfortauntely, we lost with this too. It wasn't because the team sucked, but it was just a playing issue. By no means am I calling Remnonc bad at the game, if anything you could probably argue he's better than me since I'm the support over here, and he's playing in bigger Ubers tournaments, but it is what it is I suppose.

Week Six: xinnobu (L)
Tera Blast Ground Zacian-C Bulky Offense by Sami

Main premise was that xinnobu doesn't have a lot of answers into Tera Blast Zacian-C, which was proved right away by the team they loaded. Before we get into that though, Marshadow is super useful into all the HO teams he uses, and defensive Primal Kyogre is nice into Trick Room and Mega Salamence. The rest of the team is pretty standard Bulky Offense. Should be noted that xinnobu doesn't use Sticky Webs much so I wasn't as concerned about that; even then, you could probably get away with a sudden Tera Ground on a predicted Smeargle Nuzzle to mitigate that issue. Arceus-Fairy is probably the weakest link here, but you need it for opposing Marshadow and Choice Scarf Yveltal. Going back to the game though, boosting in front of a +2 Primal Kyogre with Scald is a horrible play, even if Tera Blast Zacian-C would've cooked otherwise. Revenge-killing with Marshadow was a much safer play, especially since he has a whole Arceus-Dark to setup in front of.

Week Seven: emoxu9 (L)
Darkinium Z Chien Pao HO by Sami

I would've loaded something more standard, but we had lost the chance to get into playoffs anyways, so I quickly scrambled on a shitmon I could bring. I brought Iron Treads, since it does well into both Deoxys-S and Smeargle, and the lack of Giratina-O means its not that easy to punish Iron Treads with Rock Tomb. Darkinium Z Chien Pao is cool because emoxu9 doesn't load Arceus-Fairy either, and it being able to nuke Pokemon such as Primal Groudon, Tera Water Zygarde, and even Zacian-C on the switch, would've been pretty cool. Using Chien Pao forces you to load Primal Groudon though, as well as Heat Wave Yveltal. The last two are just typical HO mons.

As for the game, I think I played fine. I kinda shit myself when I saw Agility Lunala, but it was more of a mild inconvenience all things considered. Call me coping but if that Zacian-C wasn't Play Rough and Behemoth Blade at the same time (??????) I would've won that; Yveltal lived Wild Charge and Heat Wave --> Ice Shard would've done the job.

ALL THE OTHER THINGS WE DIDN'T BRING BUT THEY'RE STILL COOL I THINK

Week 3	Kyurem-B Screens HO Grimmsnarl + 3 Dragons Chien Pao + Landorus-T Sample Physical Giratina-O BO Dragonium Z Eternatus Offense SD Rayquaza Webs HO Just thought either Kyurem-B or Chien Pao could be good into Skimmy, but the Chien Pao teams were too inconsistent into something while the Kyurem-B teams are a bit too MU fishy for Week 3; this also applies to the Rayquaza team.
Week 4	Cyclizar Offense Fezandipiti + Garganacl Balance Cyclizar team was more of a meme suggestion since we thought Anchor9 was gonna play (iykyk). FezGarg was what I would've loaded.
Week 7	Landorus-T + Deoxys-A Offense Landorus-T + Pheromosa BO Galarian Darmanitan + Giratina-O Galarian Darmanitan + Landorus-T BO Landorus-T seemed nice since emoxu9 never loads Giratina-O or Arceus-Fairy but he likes Zacian-C and Arceus-Ground a lot. But then we lost our chance for playoff so I started looking for something more flashy. I thought Galarian Darmanitan would be cool but then I panicked about Alomomola balance teams absolutely curbstomping me so I opted to load Chien Pao instead.

Anyways thanks for reading.

GLORY TO THE VICTINIS