Metagame ORAS LC

[gali]

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Why play ORAS?

It’s balanced and diverse: The meta has a wide range of viable threats and playstyles, but none of these are overcentralizing. It’s not at all uncommon to see 12 different Pokemon in a battle.

It’s accessible: The meta is similar enough to SS LC that a player without any prior experience can pick it up fairly quickly. Many of the same threats are here, and the ones that don’t are replaced with mons that fulfill similar niches, such as Fletchling over Grookey.

It’s underdeveloped: The meta is still largely in the same state that it’s been in since the end of Gen VI, meaning that it’s ripe for more optimization and the rediscovery of viable Pokemon and sets that were previously unused.

If you want to play, shoot me a PM on discord at gali#1650--I’ll always be happy to play!

Banlist

Pokemon:
Abilities: Moody
Moves: Sonicboom, Dragon Rage, Swagger, Baton Pass

Viability Rankings

Sample Teams


VoltTurn

Gastbra Webs

PorySpritz Balance

Dual Fight

Water Spam

Bird Spam

Snivy Offense

Fletchling+Shellder Offense

You can find more teams on the RoA Sample Teams page!

 

[gali]

Dropping a quick VR now that LCWC is over. Expect something longer-form with more detailed thoughts on these rankings Soon. Everything C2 and below are unordered. There's been a lot of movement in the meta in the last few months and I'm excited to see what happens in the run of tours leading up to LCPL!

 

[Mister Magnus]

Lets save this thread, this is tazz personal archetype tier rank(which we will be using for a lack of a better source), and I will be posting teams and explaining how each of them work so more people get into ORAS

S
Flying spam

A
Ebutton+trapper
Bulky Balance (LilyAC type teams)
Para Spam

B
Shell Smash
Webs
Zigzagoon
Sun
LarvTurn

 

[tazz]

You can make almost anything work in ORAS, so some of those categories (like bulky balance) are encompassing a ton of variety. With some exceptions, you can usually tech any team to do especially well against some of those archetypes. Still, if archetypes help you build, I think it's a useful list.

Here's my personal VR, everything B2 and above is ordered.

S - A: The most metagame defining Pokemon. Any competent team has to have a plan to deal with them. they are the most splashable Pokemon in the metagame.
B: Great pokemon, but can't be slapped on just any team like the Pokemon above them can. They're less prepared for as a result, so are deadly on the right team.
C1: I've used most of these Pokemon once or twice, but this is light mu fishing territory for me. If they hit their mus they're decent, but may leave you a little bit worse off if not.
C2: Same as the above, but you'd be even more worse off if you don't hit your matchup (Rufflet is the exception, but I downgraded it because of the luck factor).
D: Hopefully the opponent doesn't have fletchling lol

I encourage people to dip into the B ranks a bit more, many of my wins in the past year have come from exploiting people underpreparing for them.