Gen 6 ORAS RU Discussion Thread

[Rarelyme]

ORAS RU DISCUSSION THREAD

This thread will serve for general discussions about the tier's metagame so feel free to talk about anything you want as long as it is related to ORAS RU!​

 

[Rarelyme]

TEAM BAZAAR​

 

[Piyu]

Here are the teams I have used over the years

 

[Ruffles]

Stall - - pretty standard now and used in tour a lot. It's also pretty editable (e.g. xatu > golbat)
Uxie Xatu HO - - Xatu is insane on offense and in generally really good anti-meta
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen6ru-2360490501-63fl1qrv4hmorijs5a5f3dtl5eh4ak6pw - rugl
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen6ru-840923?p2 - rupl semis tb
for samples i edited the team to remove audino. I think prob make braviary max speed to fit the team better

Aerodactly Spikes HO - - another team i really like. Aerodactyl HO is just really good. Can also run taunt here on 1-2 mons. I like running drain punch > cc on gallade to make it harder to revenge (e.g. flygon outrage doesnt kill into dpunch kills after rocks and recovers a ton)

I think like for samples, at least:
1 Camel team (honestly we can keep the current camel sample team by Aldo)
1 Fletch team
1 Aero HO
1 Uxie HO
1 Stall
At least 1 Virizion team
At least 1 Scrafty team

From Piyu's post:

This team showcases a good reigvenu build in an offensive way w/ scrafty + spikes and is very standard

From pastes shared in the discord:
Lighthouses - - like the most standard 6 ever
Lighthouses - - a pretty standard/good fletch
Real FV13 - - growth venu + np slowking is pretty standard now and i like this

 

[lighthouses]

https://pokepast.es/b9cf8859a0703628
my variation on the standard formula, people have made many variations of this in the past with movesets and whatnot like running waterfall on alo for camerupt and some other stuff but this is how i like to run it atm

https://pokepast.es/8f20e484c4dec0c0
diancie slowking flygon steel type is extremely standard and one of the best archetypes to use in the tier, similar teams with magneton over escavalier have been used as well and also work well

https://pokepast.es/f1ab6452c2fd857c
psychic type attacker/setup sweeper + omastar or barb is the most standard and straight foward form of HO in this tier, made this team for evi to use in rupl semis

https://pokepast.es/c49bb0de16e90136
double psychic to take advantage of the single dark type standard structures, simple and straight foward

https://pokepast.es/06d6d66ed908c8bc
my personal fav team, i used to get memed on back in the day for being the only person to use jolteon and i believe the best way to use it is alongside additional ways of pressuring and removing opp flygon, its usually the only ground type on peoples teams and specs volt switch is immense pressure. running hp water on jolteon is a valid edit

https://pokepast.es/f8612daa90936a77
my most reliable team as the title suggests, fletch is really good and underused in this tier, willo is op and so is non trapper non choice magneton as it doesnt get abused by deffensive teams clicking protect, volt can be used in place of subs

https://pokepast.es/554854876a3ff9e4
sok, used and passed this to many people over many years and it has been pretty consistent

https://pokepast.es/419c19a62f8d2d9d
my take on camerupt i made for rugl, my fav way to use it atm but can be a bit funky. i think alo + camerupt is bait personally and granbull without alo definitely is but i kinda make up for it by making it offensive

i have more stuff but all more for fun in a way and gimmicky that i decided to not share(bait people into losing games) hf if you wanna try oras!!!

tagging Feliburn to drop some teams

 

[Feliburn]

https://pokepast.es/b9cf8859a0703628
my variation on the standard formula, people have made many variations of this in the past with movesets and whatnot like running waterfall on alo for camerupt and some other stuff but this is how i like to run it atm

https://pokepast.es/8f20e484c4dec0c0
diancie slowking flygon steel type is extremely standard and one of the best archetypes to use in the tier, similar teams with magneton over escavalier have been used as well and also work well

https://pokepast.es/f1ab6452c2fd857c
psychic type attacker/setup sweeper + omastar or barb is the most standard and straight foward form of HO in this tier, made this team for evi to use in rupl semis

https://pokepast.es/c49bb0de16e90136
double psychic to take advantage of the single dark type standard structures, simple and straight foward

https://pokepast.es/06d6d66ed908c8bc
my personal fav team, i used to get memed on back in the day for being the only person to use jolteon and i believe the best way to use it is alongside additional ways of pressuring and removing opp flygon, its usually the only ground type on peoples teams and specs volt switch is immense pressure. running hp water on jolteon is a valid edit

https://pokepast.es/f8612daa90936a77
my most reliable team as the title suggests, fletch is really good and underused in this tier, willo is op and so is non trapper non choice magneton as it doesnt get abused by deffensive teams clicking protect, volt can be used in place of subs

https://pokepast.es/554854876a3ff9e4
sok, used and passed this to many people over many years and it has been pretty consistent

https://pokepast.es/419c19a62f8d2d9d
my take on camerupt i made for rugl, my fav way to use it atm but can be a bit funky. i think alo + camerupt is bait personally and granbull without alo definitely is but i kinda make up for it by making it offensive

i have more stuff but all more for fun in a way and gimmicky that i decided to not share(bait people into losing games) hf if you wanna try oras!!!

tagging Feliburn to drop some teams

Don't tag me ever again

 

[lighthouses]

Feliburn

 

[GoldCat]

Stall - - pretty standard now and used in tour a lot. It's also pretty editable (e.g. xatu > golbat)

Here's the actual team made by sol and me: https://pokepast.es/84c677236e3ff248

I've realized that Rindo is necessary on Slowking to make the Virizion matchup (and misc. mons like Leaf Blade Gallade and Delphox) manageable. You need double Heal Bell on this stall, otherwise you'll be out of status healing in the Registeel mu, as you need all 8 to PP stall Toxic. However, without Dazzling Gleam on Audino, both Gallade and Medicham become much worse matchups. You can't drop Knock either, since it's mandatory for Sigilyph and Hoopa. Taunt Golbat does help because then you don't need to PP stall Registeel out of Stealth Rock (hence you can save Heal Bell PP on Articuno), but without Toxic, Jellicent outright wins. Neither is Xatu over Golbat a solution, as your matchup is worsened against Venusaur and Scrafty.

This stall is very much a matchup fish (even if it's a successful one), no matter what techs you choose.


https://pokepast.es/5c3c7376591dd9fd

Really cool team I made for RUBD Semi-finals tiebreaker, and it would've won if I were good at the game.


https://pokepast.es/63c31f6466fb99aa

Shiftry has no switch-ins, even if it's hard to fit. I used this team in my winning RU Classic run against rabbit, and I've used it a lot since then.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen6ru-635743