OM Matchmaking
Hello everyone, and welcome to OM Matchmaking, a project designed to pick the best partner for a Pokemon! Every week I or UT will post a Pokemon, and you will need to post a partner with a short description of how the two form the perfect match!
How this works:
Each week, one of us will submit a Pokemon and set, and people will have about a week to submit their best partner to the sample set, with a short explanation on why the two form a good core. After the submission period, we will choose the top 3 submissions and they will be archived in the Hall of Fame. This project will rotate weekly between Almost Any Ability, Balanced Hackmons, and STABmons each cycle!
Rules:
I recommend using the following format when posting:
No specific types of detail are mandatory, but things that are worth considering when writing your explanation include:
Hello everyone, and welcome to OM Matchmaking, a project designed to pick the best partner for a Pokemon! Every week I or UT will post a Pokemon, and you will need to post a partner with a short description of how the two form the perfect match!
How this works:
Each week, one of us will submit a Pokemon and set, and people will have about a week to submit their best partner to the sample set, with a short explanation on why the two form a good core. After the submission period, we will choose the top 3 submissions and they will be archived in the Hall of Fame. This project will rotate weekly between Almost Any Ability, Balanced Hackmons, and STABmons each cycle!
Rules:
- When you reserve a Pokémon, please state what set you are reserving
- Reservations expire 24 hours after they're posted. If you do not post in that time frame, someone else may take it.
- An explanation is mandatory. It doesn't need to be very long—two or three concise sentences should suffice—but make sure it's there.
- You may nominate a different set for a Pokémon that has already been submitted. However, it's important that the set is distinct from the other submission—Submissions where the only difference is something simple like 1 move or an EV spread unless the change substantially alters how the core functions, will not be accepted
- A little theorymonning is inevitable in a project like this, but please try to post based on your experience using and/or facing the Pokémon in question rather than just listing something you have no experience using and/or facing.
- It's completely fine (encouraged, in fact) to give feedback on other people's submissions, but please be nice!
I recommend using the following format when posting:
Mix and Mega: Manectite Magearna
Slowbro @ Sablenite
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Psychic
- Slack Off
- Calm Mind
Calm Mind Sablenite Slowbro is an excellent partner for Magearna due to its Water typing allowing it to take on Ground-, Steel-, and Fire-type Pokemon that annoy Magearna, such as Arcanine, Necrozma-Dusk-Mane, and Hippowdon, that would otherwise annoy Magearna. Many of these pokemon can take advantage of Magearna to set Stealth Rocks, which Slowbro can reflect with Magic Bounce. In exchange, Magearna can absorb Dark-type attacks, and the attack drop from intimidate can give Slowbro a useful edge in checking and setting up on many of the metagame's more troublesome physical attackers. Magearna can also serve to counteract the fact that Slowbro is something of a momentum sink due to its access to Volt Switch. However, some Fire-type Pokemon such as Volcarona, Rotom-H, and Chandelure have secondary STAB moves that allow them to hit both Slowbro and Magearna super effectively, so pairing them with partners such as Blissey or Rhyperior can be handy to cover that weakness.
Slowbro @ Sablenite
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Psychic
- Slack Off
- Calm Mind
Calm Mind Sablenite Slowbro is an excellent partner for Magearna due to its Water typing allowing it to take on Ground-, Steel-, and Fire-type Pokemon that annoy Magearna, such as Arcanine, Necrozma-Dusk-Mane, and Hippowdon, that would otherwise annoy Magearna. Many of these pokemon can take advantage of Magearna to set Stealth Rocks, which Slowbro can reflect with Magic Bounce. In exchange, Magearna can absorb Dark-type attacks, and the attack drop from intimidate can give Slowbro a useful edge in checking and setting up on many of the metagame's more troublesome physical attackers. Magearna can also serve to counteract the fact that Slowbro is something of a momentum sink due to its access to Volt Switch. However, some Fire-type Pokemon such as Volcarona, Rotom-H, and Chandelure have secondary STAB moves that allow them to hit both Slowbro and Magearna super effectively, so pairing them with partners such as Blissey or Rhyperior can be handy to cover that weakness.
No specific types of detail are mandatory, but things that are worth considering when writing your explanation include:
- How the Pokémon listed is useful to the nominated partner and vice versa
- Why the set listed is chosen over other variants, if applicable
- Strengths and/or weaknesses of the core in question
- Potential threats to the core mentioned
- Potential options for additional partners when using the core
- Replays that show off the core in full force
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