SV OU Shock Factor OU Garganacl/Sawsbuck/Skuntank Core (Low Peak, would like some suggestions/adivce)

[Murphy Law]

I don't have a fancy graphic to post for this team so I guess I'll just get straight into talking about it, but theirs's a few things I want to clarify about this team and it's playstyle.

1.) It is intentionally chosen, and I'd prefer when possible to try and keep these mons with the exception(s) of

&

being mons I'm looking to replace, reworking everyone else, especially

.

2.) By no means at all will you ever convince me to remove

from my team. The Goat (image:

) disrespect will not be tolerated.

3.) I like to play subversion tactics and my only goal rating wise, is to break some of my favourite mons' into the top 500 (roughly 1700 elo.), so where possible, as evident by the team, I like to use off-meta or lower ranked Pokémon in conjunction with odd move sets (besides

) to bank on misplays combined with bad assumptions. The same weird picks & sets in

,

, with

's help, allow for this team to come out of nowhere to disrupt their entire team.
A common occurrence is

taking out 2-3 Pokémon with Horn Leech or High Horsepower, likely from a "what the hell could this

do?" mindset, when it's packing Choice Band and Chlorophyll over Sap Sipper/Serene Grace, giving it 489 Atk and 496 Spd, letting it out speed and OHKO potential switch-ins like

,

,

,

,

and getting 2HKO's on

,

,

,

,

and

. A hyper-niche interaction was (-1 Spd)

OHKO'ing +1 Def +1 Atk

with High Horsepower after a Roost.

This team tends to go down two paths, deciding what role certain Mons will fill/fall into.

stealth rock lead is my go to, salt curing until a counter comes in.
at which point, if it's a setup mon akin to

, i will send in

.

is meant to look like another hazard setter, which it partially is. The secondary, more evil purpose is to setup Sunny Day early and let

carve a hole in the teams core early, sacking it when the sun goes down most of the time.

is like a random grenade being thrown into a Bunker, as Scarf'd

is the only viable usage he had in any gen.

can also remove potential walls left in the endgame like

,

and

.
A combination of

,

and

is the other Route I tend to follow, chipping away and Stalling as this route typically comes with one or both Hazards having been successfully played.

sometimes being a cleanup artist when my Def or SpD Wall's fall with it's insane Scarfed 492 Speed, and Base 120 Attack.

I win maybe 6/10 matches, barely more than I lose, which is why I thought I'd make a forum post (this is my first one) asking for help. As this is the first team comprised of mostly just, mons i like, that's made it past 1300.

Team Time

Revenge-Killer/Cleanup Staraptor

Staraptor @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Reckless
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Brave Bird
- Double-Edge
- Close Combat
- U-turn

is mainly used to revenge kill whatever is responsible for the death of

.
The perk about

besides his cool design, is that if your opponent has never dipped his toes into the PU Tier, they'll be blissfully ignorant to his brutality as a revenge killer/cleanup artist with the Reckless Ability combined with Double-edge, Close Combat, & Brave Bird for triple 120 base power STAB, aided by Staraptor's rather decent 120 base attack.
I find the culprit behind his murder to usually be

, an opposing

,

, or occasionally

if it has EQ. Staraptor outspeeds everyone here with a choice scarf, including Dragapult, having 429 speed (8>) while scarfed. Tera-Fighting allows Staraptor to OHKO

, with Brave Bird + STAB + Reckless, this allows it to OHKO both

&

. (Double-Edge also takes out

, or

if Tera Ground)
Max speed EV's is a requirement as the only purpose for

is to avenge

, or force a switch if your opponent thinks

will OHKO. You'll notice I didn't mention

and we'll get to him in the difficulties part.

Offensive Support/Hazard Removing Conkeldurr

Conkeldurr @ Leftovers
Ability: Iron Fist
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 176 HP / 252 Atk / 80 SpD
Careful Nature
- Brick Break
- Poison Jab
- Ice Punch
- Defog

is my hazard remover, screen destroyer, and partial Wall Breaker.

inadvertently tends to make the opponent switch, which I guess is nice, as it allows for Defog to go off without problem. Sometimes,

isn't needed for clearing Hazards as this team runs 2 of it's own.
The playstyle I use with this team goes down two routes. If my own Hazards go up , I resort to a Offensive Support playstyle, using

as a Pivot to tank physical attackers with his natural bulk, as well as Special Attackers with added HP and an assault vest esque boost to SpD. (Not certain it helps)

is setup to take out

with a 4x Ice Punch. Ice Punch also acts as

coverage since

can typically tank Shadow Ball, Dragon Darts and Phantom Force to then OHKO with Ice Punch.
Poison Jab is meant to be coverage for

,

physical bulk letting it tank a single Ivy Cudgel given it's not Tera Typed, to then OHKO. (this guy only OHKO's).
I've considered Guts, to have some counter-play to

and

, the former I could switch in after Toxic Debris to avoid Toxic and force a switch,

could also turn into a Thunder Wave absorber with Guts, switching into

, the 80 SpD being enough to cling on 3%-7% from Psycho Boost.


Wall/Defensive Support Clodsire

Clodsire @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Bug
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Earthquake
- Recover
- Amnesia
- Toxic

is brought for counter-play to any of the Booster Energy Pokemon, along with some stat boosters like

, and

.
I find

rarely getting much usage when I play offensive, besides coming out to Wall

,

,

and

, or to remove the toxic spikes from Toxic Debris.
When playing defensive, I tend to let this thing slowly die as a Pivot when my Hazards are up, or Stall out the good matchups it has, with Amnesia and Recover for some sustain in the few cases

becomes important.
I chose Tera Bug due to the extremely common Earth Power/Earthquake/Headlong Rush threats in

,

, and

. Tera Bug besides being an unexpected pick, get's rid of it's Psychic Weakness.
I have yet to Tera Type

in over 40 battles.

Lead/Wall Breaker Garganacl

Garganacl @ Leftovers
Ability: Purifying Salt
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 52 Def / 204 SpD
Careful Nature
- Recover
- Protect
- Salt Cure
- Stealth Rock

is my usual Lead,

being my backup lead to slow down the pace of an Offensive start with Scary Face lol, allowing for

or

(not under the sun) to out speed and damage or OHKO something(Curse Sets), or force a switch.

usually uses Stealth Rocks first, but I'll reverse the order and immediately Salt Cure if the opponent leads

,

, or

.
If

gets up 2 layers, or even 1 sometimes, of Toxic Spikes,

's great bulk with added investments let's it utilize Leftovers and Protect to recover quickly from non-boosted/non-super effective attacks, Recover being a good option into Tera Fairy in the case of an offensive switch into something like

or

, sometimes

. If Stealth Rocks, and Toxic Spikes go up, I can usually wrap the game up by taking out Rapid Spin users like

&

with an OHKO from

's STAB + Reckless Brave Bird, or Defog user's like

,

, and

with a mixture of STAB + Tera Fighting CC for

, and STAB Double-Edge for

&

. That isn't common however, the usual route being

adding Salt Cure, and stalling.
Only one complaint, this guy takes my Tera 98% of the time, Tera Fairy letting him survive and set up rocks or Salt Cure to force a switch on

,

,

,

,

, and

from experience. (Maybe I rely on him too much.)

Sawsbuck Enabler/Defensive Support/Pivot/Semi Wall/Stat Boost Ruiner/Does it all Chad Skuntank

Skuntank @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Aftermath
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 168 HP / 252 Def / 88 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Sunny Day
- Venoshock
- Toxic Spikes
- Scary Face

Where do I even start with this hunk of pure testosterone.

has the Ability Aftermath combined with the Rocky Helmet for a load of positive interactions in this meta including:

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

teams,

teams (

can OHKO with High Horsepower, lack of sun makes it mid in Trick Room)

teams (

out speeds under the sun),

teams (if

can get up Sunny Day), and more specifically,

regretting ever being given Dragon Dance,

has to switch or it KO's from attacking while

does not (7 hits survives on 11ish% with a Tidy Up), Knock Off users tend (2 exclusions) to have no sustain leading to the opponent being hesitant later in the match to Knock Off

if they are a crucial role and need to maintain HP,

being even scarier when in KO range, taking 44% of the opponents HP if they make contact and trigger Aftermath.
Great Defensive Typing and Natural Bulk let the Goat

tank a lot of hit's specially, the added 252 Def letting

survive STAB Earthquakes/Earth Powers and especially a

Headlong Rush on 8% if caught lacking, and

is still needed for Hazard Control.
Speaking of

, besides propping up

,

is the main answer to

which may seem odd, but it's proven successful for me more often than not, the most common scenario being, Stealth Rocks with contact damage leaves it in range for a revenge kill from it's partner in crime

or

.

works so well against

due to my opponents never considering i'd sack him if it meant a mutual KO. (Mainly due to

usually being my opponents only form of Hazard Control)
In cases Great Tusk isn't KO'd, besides the obvious I lost,

being able to survive a Headlong Rush let's me Scary Face during it, (40% gone from contact). as well as Sunny Day now that i'm faster. Scary Face ensures

can out speed and do his job finishing

afterwards, Sun or Not.
I focus on

so much because my lead being stealth rock from

tends to warrant a

switch-in.
In the most common scenario, I swap into

to make contact off Rapid Spin, the following Headlong Rush putting Great Tusk in OHKO range, or potentially becoming a mutual KO through Rocky Helmet + Aftermath + Stealth Rocks (+ a Venoshock if

has no speed investment).

Offensive Support/Sweeper Sawsbuck

Sawsbuck-Winter @ Choice Band
Ability: Chlorophyll
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 224 Atk / 96 Def / 96 SpD / 92 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Horn Leech
- High Horsepower
- Play Rough
- Double-Edge

is my main form of Disruption but can also have a secondary use in Sweeping under the right circumstances.
I could be using the term Disruption wrong, but

is a good check to some Dragon Types like

, and the rare

.

is given extra Spd Def EV's to help it survive hits from

,

,

(Dual Wingbeat), and in terms of why

? I simply like

, it has good base Spd (95), good base Attack (100) and can be a niche switch-in into

.

is given Horn Leech for sustain, as well as Stab (97.5 base Power), with specific coverage in High Horsepower, Play Rough and Double-Edge to take out

,

,

,

,

(Double-Edge, Horn Leech 2HKO's),

,

,

,

and other threats/supports.
Without the Sun,

becomes rather useless, only able to be useful against slower support's if the core has been disrupted by

or

.

Difficulties and Challenges from Gameplay

This team suffers immensely from setup teams, as one wrong move let's any in that format to plow through my team no issues, with the exception of maybe

picking up a KO.

has actually been able to grant me some reverse sweeps with

, it's natural bulk letting it tank hits from Booster Energy

or a

Headlong Rush, getting up Sunny Day, or Scary Facing the opponents Setup

, Tera-Water

, or for a no-sun

to finish off

.

Toxic Spikes and Aftermath/Rocky Helmet is great for stalling out a potential setup, as the opponent will worry about Hazards and contact damage, so while I have some counter-play to setup/hazard teams, my Gxe would probably be 50 against other hazard teams, not great.

is a Tera hog, I find myself usually Terastalizing

, somewhat commonly on turn one, which i'm unsure is a problem with him being a lead, or me being bad at choosing who to lead.

This was my first forum post I hope the formatting was proper, and something I didn't think to do was save replays, but i"m also unsure of how to get replay links as seen in other posts, critique, feedback and any help you feel like offering is much appreciated, thank you.

(Only peaked at 1487 Elo, now at 1302 Elo)​

 

[burstslinky]

ok i get the point of this team is supposed to be shitmons only, and i respect it. but there generally tends to be a limit to the amount of shitmons in a team to around ~1-2 so that the team can still function as a whole. many of your selected mons have no cohesion with eachother and have roles just slapped upon them, for example, your only removal being defog conkeldurr, which to put it bluntly, is the worst removal mon i have seen in the history of pokemon.
to be honest it is both impressive and appalling to see how a team that autoloses to so many things actually made it to nearly 1500, good job on your part honestly.

as for improving this team, i certainly think it is very difficult to make a very solid OU team (and reach mid ladder) with mons like sawsbuck and skuntank, but there are certainly mons that can drastically improve the team.

my biggest suggestion for this team is to pivot it from being a mashup of defensive and offensive mons and to make it into a hazard-stack balance. garg and clod are easily carrying your team thus far so it makes sense to try and capitalize on those two. if you really wish to keep skuntank (competitively speaking that thing is horrendous garbage and outclassed by clod in basically every capacity) then the amount of slots you have left is certainly constrained

I would recommend replacing your CB Chlorophyll Sawsbuck (im sorry that was going to get 0 sweeps and i cant fathom how you are meant to get it in off of skuntank without sacking the skuntank) with an SD Gliscor.
Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 244 HP / 248 Def / 16 SpD
Impish Nature
- Swords Dance
- Facade
- Knock Off
- Protect
(i took off of the smogon dex, you can tinker with the spreads but i would not recommend it at all, chinese ev's are cool but they tend to be less useful than one would imagine)
SD Gliscor is a very efficient sweeper, and is able to clean up many games with its large bulk allowing it to tank and dish out incredible amounts of damage in one package. tera water is for kyurem and ogerpon-w, but you could also consider changing the tera to other options like normal
also Knock is really important as its a knock off user in the team which is really, really important for any hazard stack

SD Gliscor also is able to capitalize off of the next mon that will be added
Skarmory @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Sturdy
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 HP / 160 Def / 96 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Body Press
- Iron Defense
- Roost
- Spikes
(again stolen from smog dex, would also not recommend tinkering here)
Skarm is here for the all important role of being our spiker, allowing for Mr. Scorpio to break bulkier structures, and provide as the neccessary gambit check since this will be replacing Conkeldurr

ok last replacement i prommy, but we are replacing the scarf staraptor with another speed control goat

Dragapult @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Infiltrator
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 76 Atk / 180 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Dragon Darts
- Hex
- Will-O-Wisp/Thunder Wave
- U-turn
(thank you smog dex i will never forget what you have done for me)
as much as i love my cb pult sets, boots status pult is far and away the best set here since we have no removal and pult gets demolished by hazards
The Real GOAT of OU here has something to say. pult checks all of the dragons, and can serve as a way to weaken teams via status for gliscor and also be a check to major threats like ogerpon, kyurem, and slower dnite variants


Ok now that im done butchering the original lineup, its time to move onto the changes on the mons i kept
Skuntank @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Aftermath
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 168 HP / 252 Def / 88 SpA
Bold Nature
- Knock Off
- Endure
- Toxic Spikes
- Poison Jab
as much as i loathe to keep this here, its still always best to play with your favorites, after all this is a childrens game with no benefit to playing outside of fun
idk what the evs you put are for, but im keeping them since i cant be asked to cook skuntank evs and im assuming that the only skuntank fan in the universe would have cooked a half decent ev spread.

taking a bit of inspiration from the pain in the ass rocky helmet chomp set, i decided to put endure on this since i couldnt figure out what the last slot was and i thought it would be funny. as for the rest of the moves, i think they are pretty self explanatory, knock is to get rid of boots and not be as passive, and pjab is just stab, hits ogerpon hard enough, and fairies, such as hatterene who otherwise would wall you.

as for the other two, garg and clod, just make them tera water. the reason you havent clicked tera on clod in 40 games is probably because bug tera is not real outside of tera bug jaw lock roaring moon which is funny as fuck even if it isnt good in the slightest

water on garg since i just prefer water over fairy here, and all the threats you mentioned tera helping on are helped more by water (except meow)

as for threats, there are still a lot since skuntank is still on the team and volcarona, the perfect skuntank replacement, has been banished to the shadow realm, and to be fair, i am not the greatest balance builder of all time, im sure there are improvements you can make

Meowscarada/Weavile: skarm usually has this pretty well, but be wary of getting too chipped and being in double knock range, also if the weavile is tera ghost you cry, but you can probably deal with it using tera clod

Primarina: ah my goat, this mon is so goated, but unfortunately it does sort of cook this team if it is psychic noise sub cm
ways to fix this are by changing the ability to water absorb on clod or replacing it with glowking, though even that can still be beaten by a well played prim, but that can be said about like 85% of teams

Roaring Moon: if this has taunt, then you are probably going to be annoyed, and you probably have to play the chip game, and try and rack up chip skuntank and just play from there


theres definitely a lot more threats out there but i couldnt think of any in the past 20 seconds, and its certainly a far cry better than what you had before

sorry for butchering your team, but heres the paste
https://pokepast.es/03d5b25205ce88e4

took a bit of inspiration from Pinkacross's Volc Garg Hazard Stack

 

[Murphy Law]

ok i get the point of this team is supposed to be shitmons only, and i respect it. but there generally tends to be a limit to the amount of shitmons in a team to around ~1-2 so that the team can still function as a whole. many of your selected mons have no cohesion with eachother and have roles just slapped upon them, for example, your only removal being defog conkeldurr, which to put it bluntly, is the worst removal mon i have seen in the history of pokemon.
to be honest it is both impressive and appalling to see how a team that autoloses to so many things actually made it to nearly 1500, good job on your part honestly.

as for improving this team, i certainly think it is very difficult to make a very solid OU team (and reach mid ladder) with mons like sawsbuck and skuntank, but there are certainly mons that can drastically improve the team.

my biggest suggestion for this team is to pivot it from being a mashup of defensive and offensive mons and to make it into a hazard-stack balance. garg and clod are easily carrying your team thus far so it makes sense to try and capitalize on those two. if you really wish to keep skuntank (competitively speaking that thing is horrendous garbage and outclassed by clod in basically every capacity) then the amount of slots you have left is certainly constrained

I would recommend replacing your CB Chlorophyll Sawsbuck (im sorry that was going to get 0 sweeps and i cant fathom how you are meant to get it in off of skuntank without sacking the skuntank) with an SD Gliscor.
Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 244 HP / 248 Def / 16 SpD
Impish Nature
- Swords Dance
- Facade
- Knock Off
- Protect
(i took off of the smogon dex, you can tinker with the spreads but i would not recommend it at all, chinese ev's are cool but they tend to be less useful than one would imagine)
SD Gliscor is a very efficient sweeper, and is able to clean up many games with its large bulk allowing it to tank and dish out incredible amounts of damage in one package. tera water is for kyurem and ogerpon-w, but you could also consider changing the tera to other options like normal
also Knock is really important as its a knock off user in the team which is really, really important for any hazard stack

SD Gliscor also is able to capitalize off of the next mon that will be added
Skarmory @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Sturdy
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 HP / 160 Def / 96 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Body Press
- Iron Defense
- Roost
- Spikes
(again stolen from smog dex, would also not recommend tinkering here)
Skarm is here for the all important role of being our spiker, allowing for Mr. Scorpio to break bulkier structures, and provide as the neccessary gambit check since this will be replacing Conkeldurr

ok last replacement i prommy, but we are replacing the scarf staraptor with another speed control goat

Dragapult @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Infiltrator
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 76 Atk / 180 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Dragon Darts
- Hex
- Will-O-Wisp/Thunder Wave
- U-turn
(thank you smog dex i will never forget what you have done for me)
as much as i love my cb pult sets, boots status pult is far and away the best set here since we have no removal and pult gets demolished by hazards
The Real GOAT of OU here has something to say. pult checks all of the dragons, and can serve as a way to weaken teams via status for gliscor and also be a check to major threats like ogerpon, kyurem, and slower dnite variants


Ok now that im done butchering the original lineup, its time to move onto the changes on the mons i kept
Skuntank @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Aftermath
Shiny: Yes
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 168 HP / 252 Def / 88 SpA
Bold Nature
- Knock Off
- Endure
- Toxic Spikes
- Poison Jab
as much as i loathe to keep this here, its still always best to play with your favorites, after all this is a childrens game with no benefit to playing outside of fun
idk what the evs you put are for, but im keeping them since i cant be asked to cook skuntank evs and im assuming that the only skuntank fan in the universe would have cooked a half decent ev spread.

taking a bit of inspiration from the pain in the ass rocky helmet chomp set, i decided to put endure on this since i couldnt figure out what the last slot was and i thought it would be funny. as for the rest of the moves, i think they are pretty self explanatory, knock is to get rid of boots and not be as passive, and pjab is just stab, hits ogerpon hard enough, and fairies, such as hatterene who otherwise would wall you.

as for the other two, garg and clod, just make them tera water. the reason you havent clicked tera on clod in 40 games is probably because bug tera is not real outside of tera bug jaw lock roaring moon which is funny as fuck even if it isnt good in the slightest

water on garg since i just prefer water over fairy here, and all the threats you mentioned tera helping on are helped more by water (except meow)

as for threats, there are still a lot since skuntank is still on the team and volcarona, the perfect skuntank replacement, has been banished to the shadow realm, and to be fair, i am not the greatest balance builder of all time, im sure there are improvements you can make

Meowscarada/Weavile: skarm usually has this pretty well, but be wary of getting too chipped and being in double knock range, also if the weavile is tera ghost you cry, but you can probably deal with it using tera clod

Primarina: ah my goat, this mon is so goated, but unfortunately it does sort of cook this team if it is psychic noise sub cm
ways to fix this are by changing the ability to water absorb on clod or replacing it with glowking, though even that can still be beaten by a well played prim, but that can be said about like 85% of teams

Roaring Moon: if this has taunt, then you are probably going to be annoyed, and you probably have to play the chip game, and try and rack up chip skuntank and just play from there


theres definitely a lot more threats out there but i couldnt think of any in the past 20 seconds, and its certainly a far cry better than what you had before

sorry for butchering your team, but heres the paste
https://pokepast.es/03d5b25205ce88e4

took a bit of inspiration from Pinkacross's Volc Garg Hazard Stack

I Appreciate you taking the time to write out this reply and I started laughing when you discussed Conkeldurr (not because you're wrong, i just didn't expect you to be so blunt hahaha)
When I started playing ladder battles I noticed most of my favourites fall into the category of shitmon, including my beloved

:(

could switch in after

uses Sunny Day pretty safely most times because whatever was out to counter

,

usually resisted, but like you guessed this thing I don't think ever got a sweep, at best 3 KO's which got surpassed by a game where Tera Fighting

cleaned up 4OHKO's lmao

Ev's were intended to let it take 2 hits before it dies, hopefully allowing Aftermath to KO, the random SpA being when double T-Spikes go up for Venoshock (hyper niche i think i was high when i made this team)

I'll be taking this team as you made it since I have no contentions with anything you said, and as was probably evident, I really only care about keeping the Goat (

) which you managed to do while improving literally every other aspect.

As for making it to nearly 1500, I have

and unironically

to thank,

because salt cure + hazards + defensive playstyle walls and KO's anything not setup by attrition , with

being a good switch in to physical attackers to finish em off.
I really wish I screen snipped my Elo, and like you said autoloses were common, almost always if I didn't lead

as for why

was a big part, probably because it's a hard stop to anything

wants to do, or

anyways, Thanks alot :D

 

[burstslinky]

I Appreciate you taking the time to write out this reply and I started laughing when you discussed Conkeldurr (not because you're wrong, i just didn't expect you to be so blunt hahaha)
When I started playing ladder battles I noticed most of my favourites fall into the category of shitmon, including my beloved View attachment 648798 :(

I'll be taking this team as you made it since I have no contentions with anything you said, and as was probably evident, I really only care about keeping the Goat (View attachment 648799) which you managed to do while improving literally every other aspect.

As for making it to nearly 1500, I have View attachment 648801 and unironically View attachment 648800 to thank, View attachment 648803 because salt cure + hazards + defensive playstyle walls and KO's anything not setup by attrition , with View attachment 648804 being a good switch in to physical attackers to finish em off.
I really wish I screen snipped my Elo, and like you said autoloses were common, almost always if I didn't lead View attachment 648808
as for why View attachment 648810 was a big part, probably because it's a hard stop to anything View attachment 648811 wants to do, or View attachment 648812

anyways, Thanks alot :D

np, as much as i hate skuntank you seem to have figured out a way to use it so gl with that

as for glim answers, generally people are idiots and throw away their glimmoras for no reason, so its not much of a threat so long as you have removal that can deal with it like a glowking or boots tusk. wake is often pretty hard to deal with, so tera water garg should be able to handle it pretty nicely.
i hope you enjoy the team, feel free to pm me if you have any questions.

also torterra is actually good if played well, people suck at dealing with shell smash loaded dice
but if you want the REAL noob killer, just try the Custap CM Primarina tech. That farms

 

[Murphy Law]

np, as much as i hate skuntank you seem to have figured out a way to use it so gl with that

as for glim answers, generally people are idiots and throw away their glimmoras for no reason, so its not much of a threat so long as you have removal that can deal with it like a glowking or boots tusk. wake is often pretty hard to deal with, so tera water garg should be able to handle it pretty nicely.
i hope you enjoy the team, feel free to pm me if you have any questions.

also torterra is actually good if played well, people suck at dealing with shell smash loaded dice
but if you want the REAL noob killer, just try the Custap CM Primarina tech. That farms

I've managed to get roughly a dozen games in with this team and i'm 9-3 with it. The

with endure has already proven useful, and was actually able to kill both glimmora and a +2 atk gliscor if i used it properly. It also puts Walking Wake in range of Dragon Darts, even if

dies, so

is serving his purpose like an absolute chad once again. if instead of Maushold my opponent is running Cinccino, or for some reason Maushold can't kill just like Cincinno's Tail Whip,

can simply endure and secure the KO, or it will force a switch.

My absolute favourite iteraction is switching Skuntank into a Population Bomb Maushold, making it commit suicide essentially, which I actually remembered to screen snip.

there's also times I can get the opponent frustrated like this:

(Boomer is Great Tusk) endure clutch.
of course I cropped it before the KO, but it goes down 2 routes: Maushold uses Tidy Up, getting +1 Atk, which Kills

but also itself. If Maushold doesn't have a Tidy Up used,

survives on 8-14% HP while Maushold still dies lol. Whenever I do come across Maushold he's either a disruptive lead or a clean up sweeper/minor hazard control, which gives

another important responsibility to remove that he oh so happily fufills.

I want to paste my current Torterra set just to get your opinion if that's okay, if so, it's below:

Torren (Torterra) @ Salac Berry
Ability: Overgrow
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 200 Atk / 92 SpD / 216 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Headlong Rush
- Tera Blast
- Wood Hammer
- Shell Smash
The idea is he has just enough speed EV's to outspeed even scarf'd Dragapult in the ideal circumstances, being,+3 speed from a Shell Smash and Salac Berry. I occasionally switch out Wood Hammer for Seed Bomb because with +2 atk Torterra is killing absolutely everything that doesn't resist his attacks, Tera Steel being Fairy and Garganacl Coverage.
Salac Berry combining with Overgrow let's even a Seed Bomb Torterra OHKO Landorus-T and other bulkier supports like Clefable.​