Tournament SSNDPL I - Sets & Team Dump Thread

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SSNDPL I Set & Team Dump is here to serve as an opportunity to post whatever anyone has used so far! It's pretty self explanatory, post teams you used or built in SSNDPL I here!

Rules
  • This is for teams used in, or heavily considered for use, in SSNDPL I ONLY.
  • A Pokepaste would be preferred in terms of formatting. Sprites would also be a helpful addition.
  • Descriptions/stories about the teams are allowed (encouraged, even) but consider using a spoiler tag if they end up being very long.
  • These teams may be considered to be used as Sample Teams so no need to post in the bazaar as well.
And that's it! Happy posting, and good luck to the teams in the playoffs!
 
Now that our tournament is over I can share the teams I have used throughout, whether these are suitable for samples or whatever idfk. May not be able to go too in depth with the building process, I have a pretty poor memory so if there wasn't any logs/logs didn't go in depth I won't have much to go off of and I'm rlly lazy.

Week 1 vs 3MoreMinutes (L)
:Sceptile Mega: :Rotom Heat: :salamence: :primarina: :krookodile: :scizor:
I really don't remember the thought process here, this is like the only log I have for this team lol.
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Game was pretty much thrown turn 1 by not clicking tect turn 1, matchup wasn't that bad beyond me having to be careful against Meteor Beam Nihilego, which would 6-0 as soon as scizor died.

Week 2 vs Iride (W)
:Nihilego: :Urshifu-Rapid-Strike: :Steelix Mega: :Azelf: :Amoonguss: :Mandibuzz:
Azelf and Shifu looked great in conjunction and Mandibuzz was a nice answer to the large Aegi usage she had, Mega Steelix was only really there cause I was super scared of Nihilego after last week and I added my own Nihi, which would deal with flying types because Mega Steelix isn't a reliable flying resist and provide a rocker so I can run curse/toxic on Mega lix, Amoonguss was the obligatory Urshifu answer. The game started really poorly with me losing another mon turn 1 but I managed to salvage it somewhat by catching Sciz on the switch with Azelf. Definitely got rather lucky with the 2 turn sleep, should have preserved Mandibuzz and/or kept Azelf's Z move for the Salamence endgame with it having a chance to kill depending on Salamence's spread but I was still glad to get a win on the board

Week 3 vs SpaceSpeakers (L)
:amoonguss: :celesteela: :mienshao: :rotom wash: :hydreigon: :hippowdon:
This week was definitely messy, I struggled a ton with what I wanted to bring so Sanguine ended up just making a 6 for me. CB nite caught me by surprise, essentially rendering my Rotom useless turn 1, I think I fucked around too much after burning Dnite and should have gone Hippo and gotten rocks up, definitely should have also just stayed in vs primarina with Steela, Scald isn't very likely regardless if they have it or not and it left me with a huge mountain to climb after losing 2 mons, especially amoonguss which was my buzzwole and rotom answer.

Week 4 vs JeoZ (W)
:Celesteela: :Roserade: :Zeraora: :Scizor: :Hippowdon: :altaria mega:
Iride gave me the idea to run Celesteela + Roserade fat and Scizor seemed like a good set up wincon, zeraora for speed control and knock off and Hippowdown the electric answer + rocker and Mega Altaria provided cleric support and a Urshifu answer, though Urshifu and Keld tear this team apart, CM water/fight Z keldespecially just 6-0es but idk if anyone uses that. The opp's team was really interesting to say the least, matchup was fairly linear after I caught the Bulu's Z move with Hippo.

Week 5 vs Dunoks (W)
:bisharp: :slowbro galar: :keldeo: :zeraora: :rhyperior: :salamence:
I was traveling or something this week, I think? so I wanted to rfn to avoid scheduling complications or something, but I immidiatley had the idea to run AV glowbro which looked insane in the scout, Keld + Bisharp was a nice offensive core, Zeraora speed control, Salamence as the fogger and Urshifu pivot and Rhyperior as the rocker and flying resist, etc. I think you could just slap on Z glowbro, it's better in the bisharp matchup and would have been great in this matchup as well. I think I played fine until about turn 30 maybe, then I started being reactive when I could have easily just taken a knock off vs Zeraora with glowbro and sludged it, which I would have to do eventually. It ended with me having to hard bisharp on Zeraora Volt Switch so I have more health when I sack Bisharp later.


Week 6 vs Mada (W)
:salamence: :nihilego: :azelf: :celesteela: :scizor: :sharpedo mega:
Molly and I were like, "yea DD Mence looks crazy here" every week and I always end up changing my mind, so I'd had decided to finally bring it. Turn 1 was the only time I had to think of the turn and I opted to rocks and not taunt since I went through this exact situation vs Micaiah a few months earlier and it basically won me the game with them going hard Moltres instead of Altaria, allowing me to get +2 and kill Mega Altaria with rocks up.


Week 7 vs R1C3M4N (L)
:keldeo: :roserade: :salamence: :bisharp: :swampert: :zeraora:
Probably the lowest I've felt in terms of mons this tour, I struggled all week with motivation to find ideas to build with and I ended up just editing a team 3MoreMinutes used in money tour like right before the game. The game was fairly winnable in spite of the first few turns not going great, but then after I got the CM vs I realized I was Secret Sword and not Focus Blast, which may not have mattered depending on the roll/ Celesteela spread but tilted me pretty hard. Then I make the passive play a few turns in a row and get my Salamence pursuited by Bisharp on a nice pivot by my opp, definitely played the endgame poorly with sacking half of roserade's hp and basically a whole mence. It was very disappointing to lose in such a manner with a pretty favorable match up in my opinion.

Going 4-3 feels surprisingly disappointing despite going positive being my goal before the tour I definitely should have done better in certain weeks, but regardless there's always room to improve. Shoutout Mollymiltoast and sanguine for drafting me and helping with prep you guys always offered valuable insight. Thanks as well to my teammates and Mamoo, enjoyed interacting with you guys despite how the tour ended. Shoutout Iride for all the help and tests throughout the season and anyone else who has showed support through dms and whatnot. also thank you 3MoreMinutes for putting in a good word... I think.
 
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Week 1: vs oculars (w) https://pokepast.es/651124dff5b1d7b2
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8nationaldex-847112
I wanted to use cm koko after kate used it vs me in wc. It destroys a lot of bo, especially stuff that rely on weavile as speed control. I think my prep was just to make sure i had good outs vs offense because oculars usually uses more agressive teams.

Week 2: vs kayzn (w) https://pokepast.es/a3c799fe3b38fb8a
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8nationaldex-2380970156-9mdymh27cvvlyqa37kvhcfcqn0oly86pw
I honestly didnt know what kayzn would bring, but this old team of mine is kinda all purpose and relies on playing well over fishing a mu.

Week 3: vs memphis depay (L) https://pokepast.es/9bc38470f8cfdf20
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8nationaldex-849705
I got smashed this game and played like a 1200 but i actually rly like this team a lot. Realistically i should have won with latias and scarflando. Its a pretty standard water / fire / grass that is kinda a mix of ss/sm balance.

Week 4: vs devin (w) https://pokepast.es/514c2e2e655d9ec8
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8nationaldex-850513
I built this team specifically for devin. He usually farms people with offense so I opted for the mlop / una clef/ tspike combo with pory wincon. The team is pretty ugly and loses to a bunch of other stuff.

Week 6: vs stareal (w) https://pokepast.es/f8448d6039729975
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8nationaldex-854520
I got beat pretty bad by stareal in wc so I was really excited to play them here. I made this team also specifically for stareal. I wanted to use a strong a defensive core along with draining kiss lele. It came down to a couple 50 / 50s with thunder clef but i ended up getting them right and taking the w.

week 7: vs 0ne last kiss (L) https://pokepast.es/e201d561cff46455
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8nationaldex-855581
I made this team not for 0ne last kiss specifically but during the week. I wanted to try aegi out since kdca and isza have had a lot of success with it. I just thought that these 6 looked super nasty and went with it lol. Unfortunately I was not going to beat taunt cosmic power mew here unless I stayed in with my gliscor on his ditto and attacked on the switch but yeah.

Shoutout everyone in the freewind riders, the energy was high and depsite losing everyone kept their heads high and almost made a nice comeback. I am overall happy with my results here and in WC. Had a really good time playing the tier I love again. Want to thank Murphy Lawden bumboclaat slopcat Dead by Daylight for doing a great job hosting and kDCA Boomenheimer setting the entire circuit up! GG
 
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