Gen 6 ORAS RU Resources

[Feliburn]

ORAS RU
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Generation 6 specific mechanics:

• Burn damage deals 12% damage unlike in SM which has been reduced to 6%.
• Hidden Powers are IV dependent unlike in SM where you can have perfect IVs with any Hidden Power.
• Critical chance ratio is of 6.25% unlike in SM where it has been reduced to around 4.16%.
• Paralysis status reduces speed by 75% unlike SM which has been decreased to 50%.

Resources:

Viability Rankings

Credit to phantom and to everyone involved in the building of this at the time

S RANK:
The best of the best. Reserved for Pokémon who shape and define the RU metagame and are a clear-cut above the rest of the tier. These Pokémon are typically very powerful offensive threats that are difficult to prepare for and/or are phenomenal support and defensive threats that provide significant utility or defensive potential, respectively. Also, the home of Pokémon who can easily perform multiple roles effectively, increasing their versatility and unpredictability. If the Pokémon in this rank have any flaws, those flaws are thoroughly mitigated by their substantial strengths.

S Rank

Venusaur


S- Rank

Flygon

Scrafty

Slowking


A RANK:
Reserved for Pokemon who can sweep or wall significant portions of the metagame and can perform well against most play styles, but require some support or have some flaws that prevents them from doing this consistently. Supporting Pokemon in this rank may give opponents free turns or cannot create free turns easily themselves, but can still do their job most of the time. Pokemon in this rank are also known to define the play styles they fit on or are easy to add on any given team, while being able to carry their weight nearly every match.

A+ Rank

Drapion

Registeel

Sneasel

A Rank

Alomomola

Gallade

Glalie-Mega

Jellicent

Magneton

Sigilyph

Virizion

A- Rank

Camerupt-Mega

Diancie

Escavalier

Medicham

Rhyperior

Xatu


B RANK:
Reserved for Pokemon who cannot sweep through or wall significant portions of the metagame, but can properly fulfill a given offensive/defensive niche. Support Pokemon in this category have flaws that prevent them from doing their job, are setup bait for dangerous sweepers, or often give too many free turns. Pokemon who are partially outperformed or struggle with taking on the Pokemon in the A or S Rank, but are otherwise dangerous in their own right and aren't difficult to fit on teams, may also fall into this category.


B+ Rank

Aerodactyl

Barbaracle

Braviary

Delphox

Druddigon

Emboar

Garbodor

Malamar

Meloetta

Omastar

Steelix

B Rank

Archeops

Audino-Mega

Bronzong

Exploud

Granbull

Hitmonlee

Hoopa

Rotom-Mow

Sawk

Seismitoad

Uxie

B- Rank

Abomasnow

Absol

Blastoise

Cofagrigus

Houndoom

Jolteon

Rotom
Torterra

C RANK:
Reserved for Pokemon who can be effective in the right setting, but either have crippling flaws that prevent them from consistently executing their strategy or are completely eclipsed by a Pokemon in the above ranks. Pokemon in this rank typically require more extensive support, struggle performing against the Pokemon ranked above, and are difficult to fit on teams.

C+ Rank

Accelgor

Aggron

Fletchinder

Golbat

Gurdurr

Hariyama

Mesprit

Qwilfish

Sceptile

Vivillon

Weezing

C Rank

Aurorus

Aromatisse

Banette (mega)

Clawitzer

Eelektross

Piloswine

Quagsire

Samurott

Scyther

Shiftry

Spiritomb

C- Rank

Articuno

Cinccino

Ferroseed

Gourgeist XL

Hitmontop

Jynx

Kabutops

Liepard

Ludicolo

Poliwrath

BLACKLISTED aka D RANK:
The worst of the worst. Bad pkmn (RU Pokemon by usage that are bad will be listed here. Everything not listed also falls in here). Unviable Pokemon that have been repeatedly brought up in this thread, whether they're RU by usage or not, will also be listed here. Discussion on these Pokemon often tends to derail the thread, and therefore discussion on them is not allowed.

D Rank

Ambipom
Togetic

D- Rank

Typhlosion

Sample Teams (Click on sprites for teams)

Barbaracle + Hone Claws Flygon Bulky Offense by MrAldo


Sheer Force Druddigon Balance by atomicllamas


Standard BO Scarf Houndoom edition by many people


Mega Camerupt Alomomola Balance by MrAldo


Archeops Omastar Hyper Offense by EviGaro

 

[Astrø]

Role Compendium
(thanks a lot to EviGaro and Feliburn for the corrections)​

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Based off the Viability Rankings listed above, this resource is being posted in order to provide a visual list of which Pokemon do what in the ORAS RU metagame. The main idea behind this is basically helping the players find Pokemon that could fit in their teams when looking for a specific role, or simply help them build more diverse teams by not always using the same Pokemon to fill the same role.

You will find below a table that contains the various roles an ORAS RU team might need. For each of these roles there will be an exhaustive list of which Pokemon can fulfill the mentioned role.
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Wallbreakers

Physical Wallbreakers​	Special Wallbreakers​	Mixed Wallbreakers​
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Choice Item Users

Choice Band​	Choice Specs​	Choice Scarf​
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Walls/Tanks

Physical Wall​	Physical Tank​	Special Wall​	Special Tank​
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Entry Hazards

Spinblockers​

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(Offensive) Stealth Rock​	(Defensive) Stealth Rock​
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Spikes​	Toxic Spikes​
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Suicide Leads​	Hazard Control​
​	Rapid Spin: Defog: Magic Bounce:

Set Up users

Swords Dance​	Calm Mind​	Bulk Up​
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Others​

Acupressure: Coil: Contrary: Cosmic Power: Curse: Dragon Dance: Growth: Hone Claws: Nasty Plot: Quiver Dance: Rock Polish: Shell Smash:

Other Strategies

Trick Room​	Weather​
Setters: Abusers: ​	Rain: Sun: Hail: ​

Status Spreaders

Burn​	Paralysis​	Toxic​
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Status Absorbers

Burn​	Paralysis​	Toxic​
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Priority Users

Aqua Jet​	Ice Shard​	Mach Punch​
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Shadow Sneak​	Sucker Punch​	Others​
​	​	Bullet Punch: Fake Out: Gale Wings: Prankster:

Defensive Support

Cleric​	Taunt​	Phazers​
Wish: Heal Bell: Refresh: Aromatherapy: Healing Wish: ​	​	Dragon Tail: Haze: Roar:​

Offensive Support

Offensive Volturn​	"Defensive" Volturn​	Knock Off​	Trappers​
​	​	​	Block: Pursuit: Whirlpool: ​

Mega-Evolutions:

 

[DugZa]

I had a lot of fun playing and building ORAS this RUPL so I decided to make a post with the teams I used and share some personal thoughts about the tier right now. I'm not very good at explaining my building thought process so I'll just post the teams but feel free to ask me about anything that sparks your interest!

I didn't build the team I used in week 2 so I haven't included a link for that and week 7 I played SM but everything else was built by myself. I'll just talk a bit about my week 5 team I used vs. atomicllamas because that is by far my favorite team I used. I always thought Accelgor was pretty underrated but I really didn't like the sets people were using on it, Specs seemed very promising. The original core I had was Accelgor + Specs Magneton + Eject Button Slowking/Alomomola; the entire team ended up being fairly offensive-ish so Eject Button was to give me one of Accelgor or Magneton an extra opportunity to come in safely. Then etern gave me the idea of pairing Xatu with it so I could volt on Regi into it to scout EQ + deny rocks which sounded great so I slapped that, ultimately ended up with Mola > Slowking so Band Flygon didn't maul me and Healing Wish felt like a great fit on this for late-game Virizion/Accelgor action. Accelgor is also faster than +1 Scrafty which is super cool and I had Modest on this for the extra power because we weren't expecting Aero/Jolteon but Timid is probably better in general.

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Some general thoughts on the tier —

I think the balance/fat teams structures are the best in the tier at the moment and will continue to be so, the tier has a lot of great defensive staples for them to not be good and having a great wish passer is perfect too. Although, hot take but I think Venusaur is a bit overrated? I only used it twice in the whole tour and my teams turned out just fine; it's a great Pokemon and needs to be accounted for at all times but I don't think its as metagame-warping as people make it seem. The Sludge Bomb sets with no Giga Drain can be taken advantage of by a bunch of Pokemon too which is a bit annoying.

All the megas (bar Glalie maybe) are underrated and need to be used more. Mega Camel in particular is amazing and offers a lot of defensive utility as well if you pair it with the right partners and sets; 3 atks + Rest or 2 atks + Rest Talk or no Rest with wish support are all perfectly valid and are great in different ways depending on the rest of the team. Having Rest and being able to switch in to Venusaur/Registeel etc. without worrying about status is always nice. Mega Banette and Audino also have their uses on the right teams.

Pokemon like Escavalier and Braviary are kinda underrated too now imo and they capitalise on balance/fat being good although just simple changes like Thunderbolt on Registeel makes them easier to deal with. Escavalier is a bit harder because of its really good defensive typing and stats in general but the reliance on Rest and slow speed can hold it back sometimes. Nonetheless, cool mons that should be used more.

Same with Jellicent, very underrated; Jellicent was used only 8 times the whole tour which is a bit wild but I never used it either so who am I to judge... although, competition with Slowking and Alomomola as defensive Water-types is a bit annoying sometimes. Taunt/WoW/Scald/Hex are all great and can annoy some teams, I had nascar Molas on some of my teams just so I didn't get completely bodied by lead Jellicent. Unsure what to make of Slowking, tried to use it on a bunch of teams but always ended up with different variations without it that felt better; maybe I'm just building wrong with it. Competition with Alomomola as a regen Water-type is annoying too and given my high Mola usage, it probably had a hard time finding its way onto most of my teams.

Flygon is by far the most splashable Pokemon in the tier and fits on all kinds of teams although not sure if I'd call it the best Pokemon in the tier. But still very good and customizable depending on what the team needs. On another note, my thoughts about Scrafty from this post are still the same as well.

There are some other Pokemon that I think could be cool but never got a chance to or couldn't come up with a team that I liked with them: Clawitzer, Emboar, Mantine, Hitmonchan, and Aurorus are some of them at the top of my head but probably more that I'm forgetting. I've also put together some other teams I made but didn't end up using either because I didn't like how they turned out or they didn't feel great in tests but could probably be good with some tweaks: https://pokepast.es/991662a02cee6788

Overall I had fun playing this tier after I randomly had an urge to lock myself to and play ORAS this tour. Big shout-out to everyone on the Hustlers (Santu Beraldo Metallica and others ) that were constantly talking in my channel and keeping things going and making sure I wasn't going too outlandish with my ideas sometimes like my week 1 Mega Glalie + Mega Banette team....