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. edit: forgot to mention but I was gonna bring zekrom because again he has no arceus fairy so he kinda pops off but then I assumed he'd bring scarf yveltal and that smokes zekrom completely so it ditched it :broken_heart:

Anyways thanks for reading.

GLORY TO THE VICTINIS

 

[Nashrock]

NDPL SV NDOU
Week 1 L https://pokepast.es/858fde40d65d90a7
Week 2 W https://pokepast.es/253dc53afc12b90b
Week 3 W https://pokepast.es/4d8e23598dc6a170
Week 4 W https://pokepast.es/9dcd613f02a34fc7
Week 5 W https://pokepast.es/30ef6b6c6fafa871
Week 6 W https://pokepast.es/ecb860bcdca54ebf
Week 7 L https://pokepast.es/4e24d706754376b1 meme team do not use
Semi L https://pokepast.es/af34d16c435d523d

 

[slopcat]

dumping off the slop since our season ended dbHEATWAVE its all love lol
only elaborating a bit on teams i either made or were edited and used, check out the fl dump that will be out some point later for other teams or scrap teams


w2 tempo vs sk0 (W)
bangbros pon used to be bangbros chomp but tempo went ogerpon over it which i think is p fine. no ground makes stuff like sun harder by a lot but honestly this team is kind of a frankenstein regardless that can get assblasted by a lot like msciz and rbolt. shit is p fun though i love running ts on ladder- but this is mostly due to the fact that mdia wellspring gambit is p bonkersbroken to just click w


w3 vk vs pug (L)
team is honestly p bad and i do not like it very much anymore but this was one of the first teams i really built before pl so i am excusing its piss poor matchup spreads. chople gambit was on this paste i think which is a cool tech since it can live zama cc from full and 1v1.


w4 tempo vs loo (L)
this on the contrary is a team i really like that lost because i sent tempo the version w ep > giga drain (my bad). i think mvenu is obviously one of the best wellspring answers out there and is just suuuuuper underused in general no pun intended. weavile similarly is something im really growing on and the fact its basically the one guy who can run suit optimally makes it super unique and fun to build with. team has weaknesses into stuff like cm lele and hamurott but honestly it's only really unfortunate into hamu stuff when ur running no drain venu. L slopper


w5 vk vs mdp (W)
this week i think i finally figured out how to actually kind of build teams in this tier because i realized that the metal elephant and sword otter are really fucking bonkers in terms of value they bring to the game. I was tinkering with builds and lamenting that there was no guy in the tier who could run rocks/spin who didnt get perma outsped by everything and incinerated. until i saw the radiant light of count treadsula. in all seriousness the role compression that treads offers is fucking bananas, you btfo koko rbolt so hard and you can actually run spin + rocks and not feel like that slot is dead weight half the game. the main philosophy is that terap can always guarantee ONE spin per game. for breakers like lele that need to come in multiple times to force catch-22's this is oftentimes just not tenable, and if you want to use spikes with lele (which is greedy but really really good) defog from something like torn or zap isnt really an option. as such, the roboelephant arrives. treads can very easily spin two times per game which is gamewinning for stuff like lele. its speed tier also means that it can suicide spin very reliably or get rocks up before dying midgame, which means you almost always have control of the hazard situation. samurott and lele are two of my most used mons because they mesh super well with my philosophy and style, and i think finally realizing how good the role compression some mons in this tier was really a eureka moment for me that did lead me into other pitfalls as a player later on (no water resist etc)


w6 vlarcheops vs separation (W)
obviously did not build this for vlarcheops but it was fs a trip seeing one of my teams used by someone completely unrelated LOL
this team has seen a ton of tour use from other ppl which is def a bit of a mindfuck for me, hopefully the wellspring version gets put into next slate of samples


w6 tempo vs tuthur (W) didn't make this one i just suggested kantoking which is a mon i think is really cool so im encouraging ppl to peep


w6 vk vs ojr (L)
this is prob my worst team of the tour by a p significant margin and its just super duper passive and thus rly rly bad. breaks way too slow for this tier and no water resist so my bad vk. this team is frankly just not good i would not use it


w7 me vs eldids (W)
fav team oat
actually adore this team. kind of the culmination of my philosophy on nd as a whole but in a format that isnt wholly dogshit. fat ceru is insanely fucking good. at +2 with 4spe you outspeed zama and fat ceru overall goes so stupid on so much random shit its genuinely unfair. you barf all over yard and best of all you get to run adamant ceru which ohkos physdef alo perfectly.
+2 252+ Atk Ceruledge Never-Ending Nightmare (185 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Alomomola: 535-631 (100.1 - 118.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO
its... so peak....
you also live stuff like glisc and dnite eq which lets you goob the ever loving shit out of most gliscor builds! yay!

ada life orb zama is also a super sick tech that does some crazy shit like ohkoin mdia and wellspring with cc and onetapping lando at -1 after rocks with ice fang. it also makes zama into less of a useless piece of shit vs anything remotely fat (unfortunately it missed the roll to kill rbolt ingame but alas zapdos clutched w broken yellow magic

i love this team a lot

semis tb teams went 0-2 :(

Tempo vs xurk
team was p cool got a lot of edits from the bros like the modest ebelt on kyu but i think fat rh tusk is also p swagbert. in retrospect dnite with firepunch puts this in a pack but what can ya do on some level es lo que es

molly vs aso (this team is a cursed artifact. do not use.)
I changed the paste after sending to have defog > taunt on torn but this version got loaded and that will literally haunt me until i die
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overall was an extremely fun tour and am tremendously happy w my time on the bascus. also im undefeated in nd teamtours soooo....
wish the season didnt end the way it did but if theres one thing about fish it is that they swim up stream. sometimes. i do not know very much about fish

s/o Iride Velcroc Toxinalpaca for being v active managers and being very committed to the bit lol
Tempo di anguria Mollymiltoast Lameflame vk was v fun building w you guys and hopefully get to play w u guys in future tours
jawabarat bumboclaat gz jawa on top1 was fun testing w u guys i am a fucking scrub at ubers tho jfc
shoutout luuanfps Chris32156 i lowkey did not expect anything from you guys but u both went supersoldier mode for 0 seriously luan what ancient egyptian rituals did u start doing
Dorron Tenebricite you guys were also cracked but i already knew you two were good lol

shoutout Runo Ineros Sputnik for helping out in poffs


was super fun season esp for my first pl even though shit went left. all love to the mafia n weaviles though excited to see the maryland vs ROW finals. vamos.... bascus.....

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[Mollymiltoast]

Appreciate yall for trusting me with the tie breaker, sorry for not being clutch when it mattered most. Heres what I used
week 1 https://pokepast.es/a3220623e9b694ed
week 2 https://pokepast.es/4697f5b4eeb62267
week 3 https://pokepast.es/cc5b57efd0472752
week 4 https://pokepast.es/198101f0c5c9a23d
week 5 https://pokepast.es/8b39d7daf9eb5b7c
week 6 https://pokepast.es/349841a94a6e34ba
week 7 https://pokepast.es/9167d5901105e267
semis https://pokepast.es/642d9306ce2b5190
tb https://pokepast.es/95359bbbf58a17a8
Huge shout to slopcat for literally supporting every slot the whole tour and being the backbone of the team. Glad I got to team with some great players, sorry I couldnt bring it home :/

anos luz

 

[Kunal]

Thanks for drafting me Mafia! Was a fun season, wish I couldve had a stronger showing towards the end. Shoutouts to Boomenheimer and LogIce for taking a chance on me, and gephicka iPetBigfoot and eragon for all the support and test games throughout the season. I'll post my teams and thoughs below for the weeks i played, and will let Gephicka do his own post for the weeks he played:

Natdex Doubles OU (Click mon images to see the pastes)

Week 1 vs Schister (L):


I generally talk to schister a lot about the tier, and am familiar with a lot of his building tendencies. I thought it would be best to go with a team that had good bulk breakers and anti-setup, while maintaining a good amount of bulk itself. Mega Kang was the obvious choice, but I couldn't find a build that really sat well with me. I asked my friend ratpacker if he had any teams to share and he sent this, which instantly felt really strong. I ended up actually having schister's exact paste since he reloaded an old team for this match, but still made some early errors and ended up losing. Despite the loss, I think this type of structure is still really strong into the nddou meta moving forward.

Week 2 vs Terekusai (W):


Terekusai was someone I took to load kind of generic goodstuffs teams, so I thought it would be worth just loading some standard weather offense with twave jirachi and iron defense body press ferrothorn to hax/fish any bad matchups. This is a team i built for doubles derby at the start of this year, and I basically made no changes prior to this match. We ended up playing a sand mirror, but I didn't have dragon dance on my Tyranitar so I had to rely on Ferrothorn to bulk through everything. Pretty clean game overall

Week 3 vs Tyo (W):


Another match vs a good friend of mine. I didn't really have a read of what Tyo liked to use in this tier, so I figured I'd just go with a similar mindset to the prior week and try to load some strong offense with an iron defense leech seed steel type to fish bad matchups. This was another team I had built for doubles derby, and I think I didn't make many changes to it. Tyo ended up loading deoxys-attack psyspam from SeaLife's team dump which shouldve been a very easily favored matchup for me. I had to make 1 read turn 1 on weezing switching in or not, as well as what deoxys was clicking. After that, the game was pretty straightforward, since I recognized and had SeaLife's paste and was able to just calc through everything.

Week 5 vs Glimmer (W):


My read going into this week was I wanted to focus on beating random sun + hearthflame teams, as well as kingambit amoonguss because I knew glimmer liked those types of structures. I was thinking initially of just loading my own sun team since I hadn't yet, but Glimmer has a lot of my teams and I wanted to deviate a little bit from what my friends know my standard is (I'm a zard-y spammer outside of tournaments apparently). NDD Ladder Tour started this week and my motivation was at an all time low, but I happened to see SeaLife loading this z-trick room hypnosis bronzong + ursaluna stuff and thought it looked completely broken and uninteractive, so I just ripped it from his ladder replays and decided to load it. As expected, I saw kingambit amoonguss and just went with the team's standard gameplan of clicking z-trick room to boost my accuracy, and then clicking hypnosis at 80% accuracy to prevent glimmer from playing the game. An unlucky burn almost brought the game back for her, but ultimately my spdef mence clutched it out

Week 6 vs Akaru (W):


I knew Akaru wasnt doing much specific building for this tour, so I decided this was the week to load sun offense and just try to power through. This structure is fondly referred to as "Broken Sun" and is from back in Derby when Gothitelle was legal, so I just replaced the gothitelle with a Landorus-Therian to add an extra z-move nuke to break through random bulk and cheese a kill on ogerpon-hearthflame. I also replaced perish song on the flutter mane with icy wind since there was no shadow tag to trap things in anymore. This covert cloak bolt set next to tapu koko is completely unbalanced when sun and electric terrain are both up for it. I routed this game pretty poorly and got an unfortunate burn on Iron Hands that made this game a lot closer than it probably shouldve been on paper. To this day, I'll never know why Akaru clicked fusion bolt on my flutter mane instead of guaranteed win icicle spear on the final turn - probably because I have only ever used specs flutter mane in tour and he auto-piloted - but thanks to that misplay I was able to get the win.

Week 7 vs SeaLife (L):


I spent all week dooming about what to bring into SeaLife, because at this point I was feeling severe burnout and wasn't really enjoying building for the tier anymore. I also stressed myself out because I needed to win this game to qualify for the NatDex Doubles Invitational. Ultimately we decided that I should just reload the team I felt most confident with, which at the moment was SeaLife's own bronzong ursaluna team. What should've been a pretty straightforward game ended up turning into a nightmare due to an early hypnosis miss into some bad line selection by me and some good play by SeaLife. Probably if I had gotten a few more turns right I could've won here, but regardless SeaLife outplayed and i ended up taking my second loss of the tour here + missing out on NDD Invitational.

Semifinals Tie-break vs Chris Numbers (L):


I decided to bench myself for Semis to try and recover from some of the tilt and burn-out from the prior weeks, so Gephicka played and won against Chris in the regular week. For tie break, I decided that I should slot and just lock in to theoretically give our team the best chance of winning. I had spent some of the regular semis week practicing with this old screens team me and Eragon had built for ND blind draft last year, and it was feeling strong and I was clicking pretty well so I decided to just lock this in and play chris as soon as possible. The screens eleki + misty seed iron hands should've been really strong into Chris's team on paper, but it was unfortunately walled by basculegion which made the game a lot more difficult than it should've been. I was so focused on killing basc that I did not correctly identify Gardevoir as the bigger threat on turn 7, so I ended up losing to a trick room sweep that cleared out the rest of my team. Thankfully, Xurkiyee and Aso pulled through and we still made it to finals.

Finals vs Terekusai (L):


Rematch vs Terekusai, I went into this week feeling pretty refreshed in spite of the losing streak in the last few matches. I knew very early on that I wanted to bring zard-y with offensive raging bolt, and based on Terekusai's scout I decided that this ratpacker team from NDWC finals looked like a very strong choice. The only change I made was making raging bolt fast and changing its dragonium z to a life orb. I felt great in testing all week, and was well tested into sand, basculegion stuff, and some sun mirror variants. Unfortunately, Terekusai's prep was one step ahead of mine and he had AV raging bolt and ogerpon-cornerstone, which completely swung the matchup in his favor. In particular, cornerstone might have legitimately had 0% usage before this match, it was not a mon I had ever seen used in this tier and I cant overstate how bad it was for my team. I got some good luck early game, and Tere called me out on a couple of passive turns late game to end up taking the win bringing my total record with ratpacker teams to 0-2 (sorry ratpacker, maybe its a skill issue)

Overall, reasonably happy with the record, but wish I could've made the x-1 regular season run to qualify for ndd invitational. Thanks to the team for the playoffs carry. Not sure I'll play more of this tier actively moving forward so I'll probably do a larger builder dump on the ndd subforum later this week when I have time to sort through everything for anyone who's interested.

 

[Xurkiyee]

A more indepth explanation+thought process+sentimental yap about teams I used this season. Just grab the teams by clicking the mons if you dont give a fuck about the above.

W1 vs Skyview (W)

thought 1

Derusting was honestly pretty painful, but I think we ended up landing on some good stuffs. Lativile is an incredibly potent offensive core and can get into position to fry everything with offzap and mola. Tusk and melm were easy fits to round out the team, slide melm being there to be back up vs volcarona. Diancie and opposing zap are annoying (one of which appeared in game) and it is a bit slow. Pretty easy to pick up and play tho.

W2 vs Sealoo (W)

thought 2

Only win vs sealoo in the whole tour, but at what cost? Honestly was tired of building subroost kyurem whenever im asked to build vs him, so tried to spice it up a little. Modest belt kyurem is freakishly strong since its coverage is hitting all of the tier with super effective damage, so you end up with a side effect of bluffing specs if freeze dry hits into stuff like av mola. Extremely difficult to wall and is a match made in hell with spikes pon who prevents mola from getting too far and loves kyurem frying all of pons checks (ferro, sciz, zap, etc). Tinkaton and tusk are the hazard controls, tink acting as an early scale chomp check and tusk potentially cleaning up after pon and kyu bust through. Moltres checks yard and volc while acting as the primary ground immune, lele is great at cleaning up/revenge killing in general. Team is good for a first outing but the kyurem set is overall a net negative for the tier.

The timeline was probably not ready for a luna val renaissance tho

W3 vs Molly (L)

thought 3

Originally tried building plot pecha + tran but, building that gave me an aneurism. Tapunium was invented to snipe mvenu/ferrothorn for sd shifu or koko itself to break through. SD tpunch shifu is quite absurd vs every water, deletes pex/mola/bro and chunks dozo, the speed is an issue compared to tblaze though. Logice fitted out the rest of the team. Cool ass imoth set to fry non-av mola and spread paralysis (discharge) and provide uturn pivoting. Lando provides rocks and toxic, though the pace of the team made it extremely difficult to fit removal. Ghold checks scarf lele, kyurem and everything while spreading more para. Originally the last slot was terapagos for removal, but the final version has dnite because the ogerpon mu is dire and espeed can bring alot of emergency clean up vs other superthreats like volcarona and ival. Unfortunately, av mola and mlop in game was really really tough, the kyurem too I suppose.

W4 vs Mada (L)

thought 4

Was going for melm+pon here to punch though the lack of ghold, was not able to get something i like. Threw some slop together and called it a day.

W5 vs Tuthur (W)

thought 5

The building philosophy for the weak. Was trying to create sd z-dark as a bird and ghold lure in one, but the set up opportunities are pretty non existent as all the waters stay in. Standard fog actually ended up serving a purpose, acting as removal on an otherwise difficult squad to fit it on. Vile shifu lati do no wrong and ghold+lando are a consistent backbone. Good team.

W6 vs Eldids (W)

thought 6

We didnt really have a scout, so Boomer suggested some anti-offense. He suggested semi room with bear and it was heat, so we ran it. Team is a little weird but the main idea is break down grounds to clean with cm koko or dnite. Bro is good at setting up reversal scenarios vs HO and sets up luna to pummel everything. Everybody loves ferro's leech seed support. Ace spreads burns and is the only hazard control.

Week 7 vs Avarice (W)

thought 7

Made a rather bold claim when the lus were being set, so that may have impacted the building process a tad. First there was an attempt at building lopunny, then some kyurem, and after 10 drafts we landed on the team emblematic of involunatary celibates. Triple regen, greed nite, gambit, fastest mon torn, check check check and check. We don't talk about the game it was used in.

Semis vs Lameflame (L)

thought 8

The only one of my goats who hasn't wooped me in tour (well now that has changed). The omar and hidin prep hit diff tho, behind the scenes them and boomer already cooked this anti offense squad. Originally they had av bolt but I thought that with tspikes sub cm bolt would absolutely cook since all the poisons hate that set in particular. Draco over pulse seems weird but it allows for more flexibility in match ups where you cant get a cm up and allows you to remove tusk/lando from the game. The gking is physdef to take on zama better and get up some tspikes on incoming tusk a little free'er. Lando pagos are pretty nice safety nets who handle the hazard game and zama+gambit clean well. The zama was z-fight because in testing ogerpon was pretty annoying, so it acts as a nuke to remove it in case they stay in to trade at +2. Didn't really talk about mu in the other ones, but this one was particularly not really feasible due to balloon treads being unpunishable and not afraid at all of sub bolt. Not to mention kyurem+dia was just killer to switch into.

Semis tiebreak vs Tempo (W)

thought 9

The first thought was some good old diancie slop, I tried reinventing kyurem and failed, then we went with some nice and clean diancie offense which worked nicely. Specs koko is a slept on demon who enables iron treads to act as secondary speed control and hazard support. Diancie breaks good and provides rocks to boot. OWS and dnite are the amazing breakers as they always are, though this is my first use of z-nite in a long while. I was puzzled on how to make this better into mlop, zama and lu since the original boomer squad had i-moth in the last slot. The solution, as it turned out, was bulky blaziken. The hp lets you eat cc from the fighters and even random stuff like +1 volc hp ground and diancie earth power while protect and lefties let you chip heal out of priority ranges. The attack also lets you ohko zama at +2 if it loses dauntless or chipped dealing with OWS/Dnite/Treads and has a good roll to ohko standard mola at +4 (easily gotten with bulk investment). Speed is a dump, and conveniently ties ace at +1. In-game despite the t1-2 goofs goat dnite brought it back.

Finals vs Sealoo (L)

thought 10

Burnout really cooked my ass here. Thank you boomer and omar for picking up my slack building wise. The ideas here were either: ceru, sub oger, or gallade. Gallade is my favorite mon of all time so there might have been some bias here. Legitimately tho it looked promising into the mu as it smokes the defensive cores with +2 cc/axel/eq. Lele compliments gallade by blocking prio and cleaning up if ghold is lured by +2 quake. Ferro Lu Zap were more experimental here, but they did cover gallades "problem mus" like latios, volc, scarf ghold and scarf shifu. Slide lu is cause molt/yard is an annoyance, ferro is bpress as anti-kyurem/gambit and zap is standardino fog. Ace in the back brings some choiceless speed and checks volcarona with teched sucker. Ingame i gotta say, even in poor mental I dissappointed myself. Lady luck was not really on my side but despite that I kinda played like a bitch. This is one of several reasons I am going to step away from the scene for, probably a month realistically.

Im happy to get to play again in this tour, though with the gargantuan price on my head 6-4 is a little dissappointing of a finish. Twas a good run and thank you to boomer, dan and logice for picking me up. Thank you puggod, vwnz, jscurf, asoat, immortal (sorry for never using your teams LOL), zach, nongy and vlarch (ndcl managers heads up) for helping in tests and building. Hope to play with or against yall again in the future.

 

[hex]

I prepped the Monotype slot for the Weaviles all season and figured I'd do a team dump. I didn't build much and mostly just decided what type to bring and found a team that I thought looked good, but here's the few teams I did build. Our overall record in Monotype was 5-4 but I think 2/4 of our losses could've been avoided with some cleaner play, while our other 2 were a result of me getting us bad matchups.


https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9nationaldexmonotype-868951?p2

This was week 1 of the tour and going off opponent usage in Week 1 doesn't really do much so I just wanted to use something that's offensively paced with some techs to beat bad MU's. Helmet Washtom was to help alleviate the Rain matchup by chipping Swampert and Urshifu (spoiler alert, Washtom got packed T1), while Taunt Zeraora should 6-0 Normal. Zapdos handles Flying pretty much single handedly since playing around Gliscor/Lando can be a headache sometimes. Scarf Lele is another hard mon for Electric to deal with so I added Roseli hands though Payapa can work too. Ground shouldn't really be too difficult between Wisp Washtom and trapping Exca with Magnezone but I haven't really tested that MU much. Overall I think the team is fine? In hindsight, I wouldn't rate Electric that highly but I think the techs on here boost it up a good amount.


https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/...-2441173374-cnqo8jjnfrtlfofaltgk9tfrdcw0kbtpw
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9nationaldexmonotype-877878

For some reason Weezing is the only one without a :pmd/ sprite......ermmmmmm........

I don't entirely remember my reasoning for using Poison against Feen. I assumed he would bring something relatively standard since LogIce was prepping for him, andddd he brought stall. The matchup vs Water Stall would've been good had I put Tbolt on Nidoking, but I decided that Rocks were more important and this is like 1 of the 2 bad matchups I think we got all season. Tarre is someone who doesn't really deviate from his usage and Poison generally beats the stuff he uses. The team itself isn't anything special, the goal is to just spread status and click Knock so everything just eventually dies over time / gets chipped enough for Sneasel to clean an endgame.


https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9nationaldexmonotype-874817?p2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen9nationaldexmonotype-882304?p2

I think Dark is one of the most consistent types from ORAS-SV so when there are weeks where I'm not really sure what to bring I just fall back to Dark as the only "bad" matchup would be like Fairy. vs Dorron I really don't think we should've lost since the team was mostly specifically prepped for Steel. HP Fire Gren + SpD MSab and SD Hamu should steamroll it but a little chungus happened in game. When Dunoks used the team I didn't have anything prepped for him and didn't really have time to do much so I told him to reuse it and ummm! It lost again. I thought the matchup was bad bc I kinda forgot to build for Dragon a little bit which is a super throw by me. I again think the team is fine just needs a little bit of refinement or to not load into Dragon XD. The team is just a standard 6 Dark but I changed movesets around to cover as many matchups as possible. Meow for Psy/Water/Ground/Fight, Gren for Fly/Steel/Ground/Water, and Hamu for Steel/Psy. Neutral matchups don't really need to be covered as Dark should win most of them between the OP defensive core it has and the offensive pieces that take advantage of being able to play mostly safe since Ting/Muk/Sab are so fat that it's hard to punish them depending on MU. Also, hazard stack helps.

NDM is honestly such a shit-show to prep for I think it's an unfun tier to build because there is just wayyy too much to cover and every week it felt like you might as well load Dragon or find a way to bring something that doesn't immediately lose to Dragon while also covering other types. The opportunity cost you fall victim to by covering other types just leaves you open to the set / mon variety that Dragon has anyway so it just felt really pointless. Probably needs some tiering to happen before I would call it a competitive tier worth being in ND tours and I'm not trying to throw shade I think there's just too much going on in that tier rn.

 

[Isza]

Hello, my name is Isza better known as Kaiser/Shali. I managed this years NDPL leading my team to semi finals, and despite sitting out I did build some teams for SV/SS. Between work and an active social life, I can't put up legendary effort as much anymore but I still try my best. For quality purposes, I'm only posting teams that have been brought this tour and these are all sample submissions. If you are an active community member, I encourage you to post the teams you've used this tournament. It not only creates resources for newer players but keeps you on edge as a competitor. Here are my previous team dumps from ND tournaments:

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/post-ndpl-ii-set-team-dump.3693634/#post-9055301 NDPL 2 Team Dump

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/national-dex-ou-team-bazaar.3658452/page-10#post-9235302 NDWC 2 Team Dump

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ndpl-iii-set-team-dump.3709950/#post-9395719 NDPL 3 Team Dump

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ndwc-iii-set-team-dump-thread.3722456/#post-9680985 NDWC 3 Team Dump

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ndwc-iv-set-team-dump-thread.3742566/#post-10124884 NDWC 4 Team Dump

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ndpl-v-set-team-dump-thread.3753502/#post-10312563 NDPL 4 Team Dump

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/national-dex-bazaar.3710928/page-16#post-10661544 NDLT Team Dump



SV
(Replays aren't in cause I'm lazy, will be edited in later)

https://pokepast.es/df0b1c1ace39be76

Open

One of my favorite teams ATM. I think tech is super good at not only keeping wellspring in check, but is the best viable terapagos spin blocker in the tier. The teams P easy to use, spike stack with clef/skarm and deny hazards with ghold/pech. This features calm nature lefties cleavable so that kyurem and dance are easier to check. Skarm is brave bird+press>ID+press because you can't let tech take on oger alone every match up. Ting lu is 3 attacks with 1 being payback to hard force out mega patios, and rock slide for volc. rest is to keep it healthy.

https://pokepast.es/b71469f036aad749

Open

Posted this team in discussion thread but not this version. Red card ting lu is very disruptive and gets up hazards on almost everything and after that you open up dnite/moth/zard x. Many prefer dragon dance but SD+scale shot is strong+ is a nice lategame cleaner. Gold/pagos control hazards, and iron moth is good for speed control+tspikes. This is nice for a bo1 if your opponent doesn't know sets or good for the ladder in general.

https://pokepast.es/f408c61183ad4a86 - Built by Nashrock
My version - https://pokepast.es/753bb52af5eceb67

Open

Another one of my favorite teams from this tour. Because of Xurkiyee Ebelt Kyurem has made a huge impact on the tier that I wanted to try and abuse. Nash didn't fw the version I made so he edited it and got this. Double hazard control with u turn lop to get kyurem in on its pivots with pex as a water resist. Super fun and easy to use especially if you're expecting opposing bulky offense.

https://pokepast.es/ce354a640d17af83

Open

This teams been used a lot between side tours with ND, and pl. I admit it doesn't win a lot of the time, although I think its solid and piloting issues could be behind a lot of Ls. Nothing crazy stands out here besides Orb+overheat moth, which is super dangerous to play with sun up. Morning sun keeps it healthy and there's no good last move to put on a set like this to begin with. Think having something that can outpace or tie with base 100/110s on sun is v important. Rest is standard glue, oh and toxic hard is for late since there's no hard answer for it.

https://pokepast.es/e4b9be5e05eb61c4

Open

Used this in semis, I built this for OLK in another tour but hasn't been used since then. protect diancie is really great because it means you 100% control hazards now, even if it has to die. Air balloon treads means I can come in on lando/gliscor after tect to get my own rocks/spinner. Between treads and diancie you should always keep rocks off, which opens sub dq volt and z dnite up a lot. pech seems weird on this 6 although its so that shifu/opposing ogerpon/zard x isn't so annoying

SS

https://pokepast.es/0e069b9a6138c55f

Open

Made this spike stack for NDWC 2025 tiebreak, unfortunately it didn't get used. It's an easy to use team with clefable and ferrothorn stacking hazards, making 4 atks heatran (almost has no pivots) and lopunny put up offensive pressure. Quick attack is so you don't get 6-0d by offensive volc, heatran coverage hits waters, grounds, even dragons. Scarf lando is ground +speed control and rotom is your other water resist outside of ferro. If you feel uneasy into scizor with this makes rotom wisp>toxic, otherwise toxic comes in handy for mons like mega latias and friends.

https://pokepast.es/9ea8ff1f362e520c

Open

This is the craziest team I've ever given to anyone, especially for a high stakes game. But I believed in it and would build it again if I could go back. This features screens, using the fastest mon in the tier to do so. screens+removal+pivoting move seemed very heat and I liked it immediately. All the set up sweepers are super dangerous behind screens, I think manaphy and hatterene def steal the show though. While we looked bad in game our match up was super fucked, celesteela hard beats most of our team and it's not something I considered anyway. There's a lot more on what went into this but it would be better to dm me on discord if anything to explain. This is mainly for a best of 1 and cannot be re used.

Was a fun tournament overall, I enjoyed my time with everyone and of course making teams as always. This tournament solidified the fact that I have to play in a nd team tour if I participate in one. I've played many different team tournaments and I've had some amazing wins, and some extremely depressing defeats. In both cases, theres no worse feeling than not being in control in game, and it's the part I hate about not playing. With that being said, im looking forward to circuit. I did ladder tour to ring chase, and now I'd like to solidify myself as the #1 sv before the gen ends.

Any questions on teams my discord is shalisza, thanks for having me.