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With the final mg1 tour of gen 8 now concluded, I have decided to share my teams used in the seasonal (plus the rest of my builder). I am lazy and do not think when I teambuild so I cannot share my building thought process on half of these.
Round 1 vs Bilbooo
Game 1:
Falinks Bulky Offense (
Win) -
replay
Game 2:
Rotom-Frost Bulky Offense (
Win) -
replay
Round 2 vs r1dude
Game 1:
Kartana Fat (
Loss) -
replay
A team that makes use of Kartana's ability to break any team and Mirror Coat Gastrodon to ohko Latis/Alakazam/Azelf. As it turns out, you don't need coat to beat any of those mons and can use Body Slam so it's kind of bad.
Game 2:
Yveltal Latias Bulky Offense Sample (
Win) -
replay
Yes I brought a sample LOL
Game 3:
Gastrodon Magearna Fat (
Win) -
replay
The first GastroMag fat in a now long line of them. The general idea is to win with Gastrodon or Magearna as most teams at the time were very shaky vs them. With Gastro you can paralyze Latias with bslam and then boost past it and Magearna will win once Melm/Victini are chipped which will happen over the course of the match due to the longevity the two provide. Koko loves longer games and it patches up both the bad Yvel matchup Gastro and Mag share and the absymal speed tier of your team. Froslass lead doesn't provide much here and is more suited to hyper offense but I didn't get sent to losers so its fine.
Round 4 vs Orangesodapop
Game 1:
Sandaconda + Archeops Offense (
Win) -
replay
The first appearence of the newly discovered extremely good mon Sandaconda in my teams. Zeraora had near 100% lead usage so it allowed me to claim an easy kill and shred through the unprepared team. Aside from that it's just an extremely basic Melm/Lati/Tini team with Archeops that didn't get to leave it's pokeball.
Game 2:
Sandaconda + Snorlax Offense (
Win) -
replay
I match vs my R2 G1 team and as it turns out that team is still not good so I claim an easy win with Yveltal and Sandaconda
Round 6 vs martinvtran
Game 1:
GastroMag Chomper Fat (
Win) - replay
Another GastroMag team, this team with a new dangerous teammate: Garchomp. Having Garchomp in the back further limits Gastro switchins as Chomp tends to win if the opposing Lati is paralyzed. Chomp is also packing Aerial Ace is annihilate anyone foolish enough to bring Virizion vs me (no one was foolish this tour).
Game 2:
Triple Ground Bulky Offense (
Win) -
replay
The fabled triple ground team, all meant to put extreme pressure on likely shared check between them all. Don't particularly like the team since I think Gastro (especially bslam) excels in longer games and you aren't having those when half your team is the same type.
Round 8 vs Pave Low
Game 1:
Sandaconda Froslass Offense (
Win) -
replay
Pave Low decided to make the great decision to bring the exact same team for every single round with no changes so I decided to do a tiny bit of cteaming.
Game 2:
Pave Low Counterteam (
Win) -
replay
I decided to do a lot of cteaming.
Round 10 vs juoean
Game 1:
Golisopod Starmie Offense (
Loss) -
replay
Do not
Game 2, 5, 6:
Swaglord Clawitzer Bulky Offense (
Win, Win, Loss) -
game 2 replay, game 5 replay, game 6 replay
For some (likely terrible) reason, I decided to build not only Swagger Clawitzer but Swagger Ninjask at 1am the day before the finals and for some reason it worked???? Both Ninjask and Clawitzer are great at forcing switches so you can use Swagger and then U-turn and you are (sometimes) able to punish the opponent switching into the correct mon and clicking the correct move which is hilarious. Even if I ended up losing I am glad the Swaglord was able to show off their true power.
Game 3:
Swampert Lead Ninjask Bulky Offense (
Loss) -
replay
build at 1am.
Game 4:
GastroMag Chomper Fat (same as R6 G1) (
Loss) -
replay
After losing set 1 I wanted to use a team which had been proven to be good as I had not playtested the teams I built specifically for finals and then I lost so logically I decided to trust in the SWAGLORD Clawitzer for the remainder of the set.
Shoutout to
R8 and
Amaranth for building help and the former basically running the tour for me lol. Additional shoutout to
juoean for kicking my ass and
DiamondDiancie25 for gaming.
Oh ya there's this too