I believe snow works well with hearthflame ogerpon as ogerpon can remove any ice, steel, or water types standing in the way of blizzard spam and snow gives ogerpon setup oppurtunity with aurora veil. Therefore, I created this snow team, with ogerpon as a late game cleaner. I will now go into each pokemon in further detail.
Alolan Ninetales is a mandatory choice on snow as its ability snow warning sets up snow on switch in. It has light clay to make Aurora Veil last 8 turns instead of 5. Its high speed for the tier lets it often get an aurora veil off before fainting and allowing another pokemon to come in and use the veil to set up.
Kyurem is also a staple of snow teams as its bulk with assault vest, snow, and veil cannot be understated. Its coverage with earth power allows it to threaten many steel types that would usually come in against Ninetales. Tera ground also allows it to resist faster steel and rock moves such as glimmora meteor beam. Freeze dry lets it ohko the likes of walking wake and pelipper, giving kyurem the ability to threaten these key components of sun and rain teams respectively. The assault vest allows it to survive draco meteors from many common dragons as seen in the calculations below
Without Veil:
16+ SpA Archaludon Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Kyurem: 276-326 (60.7 - 71.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
100+ SpA Raging Bolt Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Kyurem: 318-374 (70 - 82.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
With Veil:
244 SpA Life Orb Walking Wake Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Assault Vest Kyurem with an ally's Aurora Veil: 195-230 (42.9 - 50.6%) -- 2% chance to 2HKO
Rillaboom is here to provide grassy terrain and fake out pressure. Grassy terrain will power up Suicune who is holding the grassy seed. In addition, this will override psychic terrain, an all too common sight in the many trick room teams in the current meta. Knock off also threatens big damage on an Indeedee trying to redirect and can remove various items. Grassy glide can also pick off weakened pokemon that outspeed or otherwise threaten ogerpon
Suicune is an almost never seen pokemon in this tier due to its relatively low damage output and weakness to rillaboom and the ogerpon forms. However, with defense investment and a grassy seed, suicune can become an extremely bulky calm mind sweeper. Tera dragon can help it defensively deal with electric and grass moves and air slash can allow suicune to threaten ogerpon wellspring and rillaboom after calm mind. Inner focus prevents it from flinching and scald's 30% chance to burn can allow Suicune to neuter physical attackers such as sacred sword chien pao. To give an idea of how bulky this suicune is, here are some calcs.
252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Mold Breaker Ogerpon-Hearthflame Wood Hammer vs. +1 252 HP / 168+ Def Suicune in Grassy Terrain: 270-320 (66.8 - 79.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Grassy Terrain recovery
252+ Atk Rillaboom Wood Hammer vs. +1 252 HP / 168+ Def Suicune in Grassy Terrain: 254-300 (62.8 - 74.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Grassy Terrain recovery
+1 16+ SpA Archaludon Electro Shot vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Suicune: 336-396 (83.1 - 98%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Kyurem Freeze-Dry vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Suicune: 204-242 (50.4 - 59.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Choice specs gholdengo has long been a staple of snow teams. However, what if we emulate that idea with something with much higher special attack: Hoopa Unbound. With its massive base 170 special attack, hoopa does not need specs to be overwhelmingly powerful. Therefore, it is holding a choice scarf instead, which allows it to outspeed chien pao. Trick lets it cripple trick room setters and other support mons such as whimsicott by locking them into a move. Another use is to outspeed focus sash chien pao or tornadus and steal their focus sash, allowing something like ogerpon to OHKO them. Dark Pulse and Psychic are strong STAB options and tera rock allows Hoopa to threaten many good mons such as chien pao, chi yu, incineroar, kyurem, tornadus, and torkoal.
Finally, we arrive to the star of the show, focus energy ogerpon-hearthflame. Focus energy raises the crit chance by 2 stages, allowing ivy cudgel to always crit. Although swords dance may output more damage in a vacuum, incineroar and landorus therian run rampant in this tier. Their abilities lower attack, something this ogerpon doesn't have to worry about. Critical hit boosts are also unaffected by moves such as clear smog and haze. In addition, crit ogerpon bypasses enemy screens and defence boosts, allowing it to deal massive damage to even stamina boosted archaludon. Tera blows the damage out of proportion, giving it the ability to OHKO many neutral targets with ivy cudgel. This ogerpon specializes in cleaning up a team that has already been damaged by kyurem, hoopa, and suicune. Enemy chien pao and tornadus are likely already ko'd, giving ogerpon the chance to set up a focus energy and sweep. To show the absurd damage this ogerpon dishes out, here are some calcs.
Without Tera
252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Mold Breaker Ogerpon-Hearthflame Ivy Cudgel vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Landorus on a critical hit: 363-427 (113.7 - 133.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Mold Breaker Ogerpon-Hearthflame Ivy Cudgel vs. 252 HP / 220 Def Indeedee-F on a critical hit: 357-420 (103.7 - 122%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Mold Breaker Ogerpon-Hearthflame Ivy Cudgel vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Hatterene on a critical hit: 348-411 (109.4 - 129.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Mold Breaker Ogerpon-Hearthflame Ivy Cudgel vs. 200 HP / 0 Def Ogerpon-Wellspring on a critical hit: 387-456 (110.2 - 129.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
With Tera
+1 252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Tera Fire Ogerpon-Hearthflame-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Archaludon on a critical hit: 532-626 (138.5 - 163%) -- guaranteed OHKO
+1 252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Tera Fire Ogerpon-Hearthflame-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 248 HP / 0 Def Ursaluna on a critical hit: 638-752 (137.7 - 162.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
+1 252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Tera Fire Ogerpon-Hearthflame-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Chi-Yu on a critical hit: 401-472 (159.7 - 188%) -- guaranteed OHKO
+1 252 Atk Hearthflame Mask Tera Fire Ogerpon-Hearthflame-Tera Ivy Cudgel vs. 252 HP / 64 Def Landorus-Therian on a critical hit: 678-798 (177.4 - 208.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
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