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[Slovami]

Arceus has come and gone and I'm torn as to whether it was a net positive or negative influence on the game due to its unforgiving stats, unparalleled combination of speed, power, and bulk, and matchless customizability that could often be frustrating. Still it was available and I tried to exhaust all the ideas I could think of so here are three teams I made with it.

Calyrex/arceus



Calyrex/arceus cores were one of the most dominant ones of the regulation and this was my take on it. I'm a fan of leads that debilitate the other team for a strong set up sweeper to come in. In this case we have scarf mimikyu with trick and the rarer gastrodon with yawn and stealth rock and a strong water/ground typing and ability (sticky hold is actually viable as well as a defense against trick) and good enough bulk. Memento is good when yawn looping isn't feasible or when they eventually concede it.

Arceus and calyrex both with Tera ground. Covert cloak is great for sacred fire mortal spin and salt cure.

Poison heal breloom is a cheesy mon against defensive Pokemon.

Archaludon with the unusual Tera of fighting to boost its body presses, especially needed for teams with both miraidon and wo-chien.

Calyrex/water arceus



Calm mind water arceus is another one I wanted to try and I though it would mesh well with specs calyrex. Bulky kyogre has been paired with caly for much the same reasons but arceus obviously is sturdier and has greater longevity.

Kyogre/fairy arceus


This is one of my favorite builds.

Standard scarf kyogre. Tera water for maximum damage output but alternative Teras are possible such as ghost since extreme speed is another thorn in its side and this was an extreme speed meta or fairy just not to be completely defenseless against scarf miraidon (especially since early in the game it was wary of clicking an electric move as described below).

If only origin pulse didn't have the accuracy it does.

With fairy arceus we finally got a physically bulky fairy with recover which was a niche that was sorely vacant. I thought it would pair well with scarf kyogre. Two of scarf kyogre's biggest pains are opposing scarf miraidon and scarf koraidon. With neat maximum physical bulk and Tera water it is good against koraidon and potentially against miraidon with calm mind, in either case often forcing teras. Taunt is good against wo-chien and clodsire (please no mental herb) which are two other common throw-ins against kyogre.
Then we have the funniest member of the team, dugtrio. I have seen some usage of it but i thought it would pair well with scarf kyogre. Of course its main purpose is to trap miraidon and either eliminate it or force a tera to clear the way for kyogre. But it also can trap eternatus or clodsire. It leads to interesting mind games when the opposing miraidon player knows you have a dugtrio in the back.
Assault azumarill is stronger against a variety of meta targets and great against Koraidon leads. Knock off is vital for removing items like choice scarf or assault vests that could get in kyogre's way.
Specially defensive gliscor to be another pain for miraidon as well as other things like clodsire and eternatus.
Kingambit as a bulky check against calyrex and eternatus. Tera ground is an unusual Tera that could be useful against miraidon. Covert cloak for Tera grass garganacl when it seems that's their main kyogre answer.

 

[DerpySuX]

Finally, BSSCL teams and retrospective. This took a bit longer than expected, primarily due to me focusing on the invitational, which I managed to win. I had a lot of fun in BSSCL and I am eagerly awaiting our next team tour!

 

[Slovami]

Double Z



Team featuring the two restricteds that begin with Z, namely Zekrom and Zamazenta. Zamazenta is fairly niche and Zekrom doesn't see hardly any usage but I find both fun to use and pair very well with each other.

Zekrom could be considered a flex option with no real reason to use it over miraidon on a team like this other than simply wanting to use it. Still it can be pretty effective.. Bolt strike is a wickedly powerful move though the accuracy stinks. But it is a physical booster that not only isn't stopped by dondozo (barring curse sets with tera) but can use it as set-up fodder, which obviously goes well with zama's inability to beat it. Also good against ho-oh. One might consider that you could use kyurem-black but zekrom's typing is better.

Zamazenta is standard. Wants to use both crunch and heavy slam since it hates calyrex and lunala, but it's loath to give up agility.

Defensive primarina.

The rest of the team is unusual Pokemon especially serperior, which you don't really see. But offensively grass is great against a lot of defensive Pokemon and with an AV it can play offensively and defensively. Since it's not used a lot of people aren't sure about it and definitely don't know it can pack mirror coat.

Roaring moon and ceruledge are complementary slots. Roaring moon has a good typing to take some on attacks but in this case isn't offensive but a funny defensive trapping set. Ceruledge was changed from flutter mane and is used for more assurance against koraidon builds or ghosts. If anything these two slots could be changed.

If there is interest I can share a cartridge rental code. I like trying to make non-meta Pokemon work.

 

[Most Call Me Jim]

Paste: https://pokepast.es/088448db52a8cf4e

Rental Code Attached

Caly-S/Koraidon dual screens offense. If at all possible you want to bring Grim/Caly/Koraidon. Ogerpon is necessary for certain stall cores, especially with Muk/Kinggambit. Flutter gives an alternate way to set up Koraidon or Caly to sweep and slow down other offensive teams. Glim can help against a t-spike team, but honestly it mostly is there for team preview mind games.

 

[Slovami]

https://pokepast.es/037d533be9558e1f

Rayquaza lunala team. Was standard extreme speed rayquaza but decided to try out dragon dance rayquaza again. Both work on this team and have their merits and flaws. Dragon dance rayquaza is pretty fun though. Tera flying sharp beak dragon ascent is extraordinarily strong and can muscle past most things including dondozo. Rayquaza is so coded as normal extreme speed that you can use that to your advantage. Though probably should have fit extreme speed on that set since that's one of its best tools. Slower speed boosters have the problem of being outpaced by the best choice scarfers but dragon dance has the advantage of being in a better position versus calyrex and flutter mane (5-3 latter of which without booster energy won't outspeed in the sun) who are often brought out.

Swords dance gliscor is also a funky set too. I believe that is common in singles OU but it was really used this generation in BSS. Still you have the same defensive utility while fat team breaking potential. It also has that great ground flying stab and unlike landorus has usable flying stab and without having to tera in dual wing beat so max attack power with agility was also fun on other squads.

The SV scene is essentially done. I made a lot of funky teams with rare Pokemon and I was happy to take some wins using stuff seen as pure shitmons like Zangoose, Dedenne, and Sawsbuck and a lot of others.

 

[Sstardust]

https://pokepast.es/0163df44416a057f

Edit of the MegaMie Venusaur Balance by StarkGod sample team. I find the team severely struggles into many common threats, the worst being dragons/

mclef helps a lot into a ton of matchups that the team struggles into currently like mzard x. corv being the only phys check feels awful, as it loses to stuff like sneasler and msciz if they get an sd off. mclef helps alleviate pressure off corv from threats like chomp, meow, mgyara, making sure corv stays healthy for the steels which otherwise kind of fold this team.

i put chomp over pex as the latter is just way too passive. payback does nothing to 99% of mons and haze is at best a panic button and at worse completely useless bc special pex is not hazing anything with physical setup like mluc, kingambit, etc. too many pokemon can just come in and sit on it, and this is especially bad because the team struggles into these common attackers already. sash garchomp gives this team hazards which is handy for the many sash dragons that can kill hydreigon and leave you defenseless against mphox, mgar and the like. having a ground also helps a lot with volt switch spam from pivots like rotom, while sash is always immensely helpful to guarantee damage, especially on mons that only need a turn to start decimating the team like zard x.

overall, these two changes make the team a lot smoother to play and puts a lot less pressure on making perfect pivots. i hope that posting these types of edits are allowed!

 

[DerpySuX]

https://pokepast.es/0163df44416a057f

Edit of the MegaMie Venusaur Balance by StarkGod sample team. I find the team severely struggles into many common threats, the worst being dragons/

mclef helps a lot into a ton of matchups that the team struggles into currently like mzard x. corv being the only phys check feels awful, as it loses to stuff like sneasler and msciz if they get an sd off. mclef helps alleviate pressure off corv from threats like chomp, meow, mgyara, making sure corv stays healthy for the steels which otherwise kind of fold this team.

i put chomp over pex as the latter is just way too passive. payback does nothing to 99% of mons and haze is at best a panic button and at worse completely useless bc special pex is not hazing anything with physical setup like mluc, kingambit, etc. too many pokemon can just come in and sit on it, and this is especially bad because the team struggles into these common attackers already. sash garchomp gives this team hazards which is handy for the many sash dragons that can kill hydreigon and leave you defenseless against mphox, mgar and the like. having a ground also helps a lot with volt switch spam from pivots like rotom, while sash is always immensely helpful to guarantee damage, especially on mons that only need a turn to start decimating the team like zard x.

overall, these two changes make the team a lot smoother to play and puts a lot less pressure on making perfect pivots. i hope that posting these types of edits are allowed!

Generally this thread is for your own teams but I think you changed enough here to say this team is at least in part your creation.

Also the samples definitely won’t all be for everyone, that’s why I add a bunch of different ones, and you’re encouraged to tweak them if something isn’t working for you. This team looks solid and I’m glad you were able to find changes that suited the team to your preferences! Nice job!

 

[Sstardust]

https://pokepast.es/d81074b73f12ea37
Team Code: EB1NS4F7GY

I would like to share an offense team that has been quite successful for me! MGren's coverage is amazing into the meta, and with the ability to double protean, you can often snipe most threats with a supereffective Ice beam or Sludge Wave. It's speed tier is stellar, outspeeding MDelphox, MGengar, and MLopunny. 4 attack sets have so much coverage that I opted to bring Gren as the ONLY mega on the team, as I have never had a singular game where I didn't want to bring it.

The rest of the team patches up some of Gren's weaknesses while also complementing it's offensive capabilities:

Corviknight takes care of bulky mons that Gren can't break through like MScizor and MKanga. while also acting as a pivot to safely bring the offensive guys in with a slow U-turn.

Defensive Garchomp is almost never a bad pick, pretty self-explanatory. Sets up rocks and clicks Dragon Tail most of the time.

Unburden Sneasler is able to punch holes through teams easily with it's amazing coverage and insane speed tier. I find myself often leading Sneasler, CCing, and crippling my opponents' team to the point where Gren can clean up. It checks some steels like Archaludon and MLuc, which are often led into Greninja.

Ceruledge is our sash mon as well as our ghost, offering Fake out, Mach Punch, and Vacuum Wave immunity. It serves as a secondary MScizor check, being able to switch into Bullet Punch, and completely walling Roost sets with no Knock Off. Of course, it also acts as an amazing revenge killer with Focus Sash and an incredibly powerful Poltergeist coming off adamant max attack. It's also the MZardY check for the team, being able to switch in somewhat comfortably due to the lack of Scorching Sands. I chose Ceruledge here partly because of how great the team is at denying rocks; Sneasler scares out Archaludon lead, while Gren and Meow both scare out lead Garchomps. Even if rocks are up, Bitter Blade can heal Ceru back to full easily, reactivating sash. Ceruledge also owns Corv, who would otherwise be troublesome for the team.

Scarf Meow is the speed control for the team, outspeeding post-shellsmash MBlastoise, scarf Basculegion, scarf Rotom, and other annoyances. Meow does scarf Meow things, very self-explanatory.

 

[Iura]

I play a little of BSS on the side when I feel like relaxing for my dailies instead of having to look at my doubles ranking and worry and working towards my critical hits achievement. I played the same team from Poke Ball to Master Ball 4, but I do concede it has its issues. Even so, it's a very easy team to pilot and can pick up with honestly 5/6 autopilots and 1 mon to make people sometimes question their enjoyment of this game. Note that I purposefully did not use anyone on my first doubles team since I made this team on Day 1 (at least with knowledge of which items were in unlike my doubles team...), so I didn't include (rip no Power Herb) / in my teambuilding.


https://pokepast.es/95a1068194a41ded

These two are the two non-Mega pure damage mons. They really pulled their weight in turning matchups on their head, especially in the opening days, Scarf Meowscarada catching people off-guard with outspeeding +1 / Dragapult, while outputting truly boggling damage at times or just pivoting into something else in the back with U-Turn and doing a nice chunk of damage most of the time. This Primarina was mainly focused on turning the Sneasler matchup into a winnable one, but with the speed actually outruns a lot of mid-speed mons that definitely were not expecting to get outsped and OHKO'd. Surprise Encore can lock many slower Pokemon and even faster setup Pokemon into unideal states. Thank you Meowscarada for easy Sharpshooter achievement farming.

Realistically, just in case I wanted rocks in a matchup sometimes, but I did put this in before I knew Salt Cure got nerfed. Still wins a lot of matchups and forces switches from anyone who decided status stall was what they wanted to play that day.

Speaking of rocks, ow. Honestly, matches up into some teams so well and if you get to QD in front of a passive target, it can run away with a game. Morning Sun and Giga Drain give much more staying power than Volcarona has any right to have and Fiery Dance procs can really snowball games.

The Adaptability Twins. I kinda just wanted to test them and Lucario-Mega definitely comes to more matchups, although Meteor Mash still feels iffy at times. Bullet Punch more than makes up for it most of the time. If you can SD for free... well game over I guess. Glimmora-Mega has the duty of also sometimes removing rocks for Volc as well, but also all its moves being 100% accurate unlike a certain dog. It also isn't as flimsy as Lucario-Mega. Both Pokemon have team spreads where they easily kill 4-6 mons and at other times are hard walled by 3 mons (e.g. Aegislash, Delphox-Mega, and Corviknight or Ground types in general respectively), so I think there is still by far better megas to use, but these still pack a whallop to them.

Overall, you have enough offense to outmuscle teams and some defensive pivoting to play with. There are definitely hard Pokemon for this team to match into, such as Corviknight with Brave Bird, Mega Lopunny, Sneasler, and at times Hippowdon, but there's always just slighty enough power to get through most situations.

 

[skype]

This team is a fairly straightforward balance built around consistency rather than anything too flashy is usually the safest Mega choice, using Fake Out and U-turn to scout sets, chip faster threats like and , and keep momentum without needing much prediction

is usually the better Mega choice when trapping specific targets is more valuable than anything can do. Will-O-Wisp lets it weaken physical Pokemon such as , , and , while Protect helps it scout attacks and stall extra burn turns. Hex punishes those burned or statused targets that cannot switch out, and Sludge Bomb is fairly straight forward and gives a direct way to pressure Fairy-types such as and .

, , and form the defensive backbone

checks physical attackers and bringing teammates in with slow U-turn

uses Encore to stop setup and defensive mons and uses Chesto Berry + Rest to give it a one-time full heal and lets it absorb status or recover after trading into something, and 8 Speed SPs let it outspeed 2 Speed opposing

gives the team Wish support and Yawn pressure, which pairs nicely with ’s Stealth Rock and ’s Hex.

rounds things out with Choice Scarf speed control, an Electric immunity, and Rock Slide for threats like and . Stealth Rock on a Choice Scarf set can be kinda awkward at times, but the chip is really useful for helping or secure KOs.


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