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Fun lurantis team featuring quag, ches, chansey, slowbro, cyclizer, lurantis.
fairly standard stall team with double regen, double hazard removal, and hazard spam. lurantis with super power and leafstorm can function as a strong breaker and helps out versus the stall matchup, same with the double regen core. matches up very well with most teams if tera is used wisely.
We are probably gonna make a new thread for this, but for the time being: https://pokepast.es/17f1f28d218081ad
This team we built during the first iteration of the RU workshop based around NP alolan ninetales.
Team Description :Mew:
Mew is the lead of the team. Mew uses Taunt to prevent hazards and can set up a few layers of hazards if possible. The team is very weak to hazards, so Mew plays a vital role as a hazard preventer. Tera Fairy allows it to resist Knock Off in case Mew needs to stay in longer to set multiple layers.
:Jirachi:
Jirachi acts as the team's speed control with Choice Scarf Iron Head and U-turn. Trick helps a lot against stall and setup Pokémon like Suicune and Deoxys-Defense. Jirachi also provides Healing Wish support for the team. Jirachi can function as a late-game cleaner if the opponent doesn't have a good switch-in to Iron Head. Tera Steel boosts Iron Head's power.
:Shaymin:
Shaymin is a bulky attacker with Seed Flare, Earth Power, and Dazzling Gleam. Shaymin helps a lot against rain teams, and Synthesis + Leftovers provide good recovery. Tera Ground mainly boosts Earth Power, though it could be replaced with Tera Poison to absorb Toxic Spikes.
:Meloetta:
Meloetta is a strong stallbreaker with Calm Mind + Psyshock. Focus Blast hits Steel-types like Bisharp. Tera Fairy helps resist Sucker Punch and boosts Alluring Voice.
:Diancie:
Diancie uses Meteor Beam, which helps a lot against Talonflame. Moonblast at +1 hits very hard, and Earth Power provides coverage. Trick Room pairs well with Hoopa, who can take advantage of it after Diancie. Tera Water helps it resist Iron Head from Bisharp, who is a major threat to the team.
:Hoopa:
Hoopa has excellent special bulk and deals heavy damage with Shadow Ball, Psyshock, and Focus Blast. Substitute pairs well with Custap Berry, allowing Hoopa to pick up surprise KOs if opponents don't expect it. Tera Fighting boosts Focus Blast and lets Hoopa resist Knock Off.
Special thanks to Heatranator for helping me with this team.
Funnily enough, when talking with the TO before submitting the teams, i was told that 5 regen was too much, which lead ro me replacing klawf with scarf kleavor which is a flat improvement.
Unfortunately the last week of RUPL for me was really bad due to IRL circumstances with uni starting and my misclicking in game then ff'ing too early. Other then that, I'm mostly proud of my record of 4-3 for my first RUPL I played in (with the main losses being me tilting and horrible MU's). Thank you to TheFranklin, Elec-ant1234, Lana, DugZa, Rio Vidal, hjkhj and Vioz for helping build/test with me it was really appreciated.
A good chunk of these teams will be outdated but there are prob small tweaks to be made that make them viable (aside from the first one gl with that one LOL)
Week 1 vs Cielau (L) :goodra hisui::vaporeon::talonflame::krookodile::gengar::mienshao:
Cielau was a tough opponent who I knew was way better then me. But I decided to load a BO team centered around AV hoodra, trying to trade well into HO while using its great power into defense. I paired it with vapo for a natural defensive core, and talon helped keep hazards off while offering a fighting check. Krook gave a secondary ghost resist+rocks and gengar gave a crucial scarfer. Finally, mien provided prio with fake out and a pivot to get in hoodra safely. Sadly the team faced twave psynoise scarf garde which like, yeah that set completely demolishes the team lol. I also made a few misplays so def wasn't the best start to the season.
Week 2 vs MachJacob (W) :araquanid::porygon-z::bisharp::mimikyu::tornadus::torterra:
After that tough loss the week before I kinda knew I had to lock in and try to win this week. I noticed on scout that there wasn't anything standout in the scout so I just decided to load a good webs pory team. However, I noticed that there was no vern in scout and a good amount of talon so araq was a better choice into him. I did the classice core of pz, bisharp and mmq with the bisharp and mmq sets being pretty standard. Araq spread makes sure it lives a rhyperior stone edge from full, can 2hko defensive vern with ice beam, 3hko jirachi with liquidation (or bike can't remember which) with the rest dumped into spdef. Mirror coat I went with to potentially surprise a special attacker. Pz we decided to go bulkier with adapt, which could really brutalise defensive teams that tried to use stuff like spdef quag and weaker special walls to check it. Team rounded out with NP torn and torterra. Torterra in particular was interesting since I could go for tblast if I could see it sweeping, but if not I could withhold it for pz, with pz still working well without tera due to its insane damage. Araq decided to be lebron james by taking out 2.5 mons which allowed the rest of the team to easily sweep.
Week 3 vs xcx (W) :krookodile::mimikyu::terrakion::mew::tornadus::entei:
After a good win, I wanted to prep the absolute hell for xcx, since they were a tough opponent in general. I noticed that they spammed the hell out of wo-chien and ches teams, so we thought to abuse that trend with sub BU tera fairy krook, which can use these mons as setup fodder pretty easily, allowing for an unexpected sweep. Mmq and mew are very standard fairy overwhelm core that can also do well against offense. Terrakion I chose as a lead since it could help with the wallbreaking power the team somewhat lacked and I didn't require hazards to be off on my side for the battle. Taunt torn could help with wallbreaking further and with tera fighting could check duskroc, with entei rounding out the team to give a fairy resist and prio. I matched into an opposing HO team so krook didn't really get to do much LOL, but the team still worked well regardless.
Week 4 vs Flareblitzkreig (W) :gastrodon::amoonguss::bisharp::kilowattrel::gardevoir::terrakion:
I wanted to load gastro spikes into fbk, since they were a good playstyle that could potentially overwhelm his teams he was most likely to bring. I also wanted to use kilo since I felt it could wreck his team potentially. Unfortunately I really struggled with making a team that worked so Franklin made the team while I made some edits. Gastro set is standard to setup spikes so not much to talk about there. Though make it storm drain since this team struggles immensely with water types LOL. Amoonguss is just a good all around sponge that can be annoying af to switch into with toxic+stomping tantrum. Bisharp can punish defog attempts and has tera fire to take burns from talon/entei. Kilowattrel gave a ground immune and a secondary defog punish if bisharp wasn't good in that specific mu. Tera ghost allows it to be completely immune to blissey stoss and entei espeed. +2 cane/discharge does insane damage to special walls, 3HKO'ing rhyperior and 2HKO'ing a-muk/Umbreon. Gardevoir was initially a dd cloak necrozma to farm stall, but I realised the team struggled immensely at switching into special attackers, so I decided to use av garde, which also gave the team a knocker. Finally, terrakion is the rocker and could help wallbreak as well, with tera steel loon walling quag completely. Team faced a pretty awful mu against offensive empoleon which gave me a run for my money but I was able to clutch it out in the end.
Week 5 vs Hoops (L) :muk alola::quagsire::Noivern::bronzong::entei::gardevoir:
I had been using a lot of offensive team structures so I wanted to go with a bulkier structure to make sure that in future weeks I couldn't be cteamed. Hoops had a lot of munkidori and other psychics/ghosts in scout so a-muk was the main choice I wanted to use. Quag was a no brainer to give a core that could deal with a good chunk of the offensive meta. Avalanche could hit grasses like loom that could be annoying for quag while hitting the sub loon or tera flying sub Terraks that were pretty popular at the time. Noivern helped deal with fighting types while giving the team a good amount of speed. Zong was a great steel that could help with stuff like Rhyp and pz that usually would be really annoying for this core of mons, while also providing a wincon with ID+BP late game. Speed is to psynoise gastro to prevent it from healing. Entei+garde helped checked certain mons like armarouge and slowbro while giving the team much needed speed and breaking power. Unfortunately I loaded into a terrible mu but luckily week was won so it wasn't the worst time to lose.
Week 6 vs liliou (W) :armarouge::Noivern::chesnaught::jirachi::krookodile::basculegion:
Liliou I didn't have much of a radar on but we assumed that they would run some offensive team considering their team was out. I still wanted to prep for stall in the off chance that they loaded it so I decided to load an armarouge team, which could help with both. Dbond arma was a set that I was really interested in, with its ability to wallbreak in the good mu's and trade itself for a mon min in bad mu's, which could potentially open up teammates immensely. Noivern could also help break down bulkier teams if needed with taunt super fang while softchecking opposing Arma and suicune. Chesnaught helped into bisharp while also giving an option to help break down teams with spikes. Jirachi rounded out the defensive core by providing a secondary garde switchin while having encore to lock down setup sweepers. Scarf krook is great speed control and softchecks darks, and with tera blast fairy could potentially sweep. Finally, basculegion gave an okay entei switchin while also giving valuable prio to stop sweepers. I did end up facing an offense team which was a tad annoying due to armarouge being a painful mu but despite some misplays I was able to win, with dbond arma helping immensely by trading with the opposing Arma and then a tera'd bisharp.
Semifinals vs seed (L) :quagsire::blissey::altaria::chesnaught::slowbro::muk alola:
I didn't play week 7 to allow vioz another opportunity and since I was a bit busy that week but I was ready to prep for semis. I had noticed in week 7 that I had no slowbro in scout so I wanted to use one, but also because I felt a bulkier team could do really well into seed. I eventually settled on a stall team, which could do well if seed played a bit more offensive team. Tspikes quag with tera dragon could completely dominate HO if certain mons were removed, which was very nice. Blissey was pretty standard but due to having two ncure mons, I decided cm over heal bell to help into np pz (an otherwise awful mu for stall). Altaria was chosen as the defog mon since talon had left and with fire spin+perish song it could be very annoying for defensive teams if they didn't have a tera ghost or ghost type. Chesnaught was the requisite craw check and spikes setter, with tera ghost helping check gallade. Slowbro was already wanted on this team and it can help check entei and other annoying physical attackers, with foul play+psynoise ensuring it could beat loom pre and post tera. Finally a-muk helped check ghosts and armarouge, and was used over Umbreon since otherwise roar suicune could 6-0 very easily. The team got a decent mu but I missclicked quag instead of haze and then ff'd too early which was def not great for my mental but at the end of the day that's sometimes the game lol.
rupl team dump. most of them are not legal now.
little upset about getting haxed out of finals and potential 6-1 but i had fun building and playing. my team was awesome and active. ru team tours are not missing, 4 for 4 on enjoyment. thanks for another fun one guys.
thanks franklin, heatranator, dugza, vioz, lime, metallica, rio vidal, tsuki, jojen for tests! and all my teammates for supporting throughout
w1 vs seed replay :gengar::krookodile::goodra-hisui::slowbro::noivern::pawmot:
wanted to use a fighter and thought pawmot was cool. goodra was one of my favourites in ru so wanted to use him as well. i remember psynoise noivern being awesome the last time i played ru before this tour. this was week 1 and i did not have a great read on the meta and its power level. this 6 feels pretty boring in hindsight and this team was probably not strong enough. i lost game to stall. mu felt pretty tough. i think i did well capitalizing on the chances my oppo set up for me, with some luck i couldve done it, but i was pretty clueless since t1 tbh.
w2 i had an emergency so i had to sub out last moment, i dont have what i built in my builder anymore
w3 vs etern replay :gengar::rhyperior::empoleon::chesnaught::talonflame::gardevoir:
i got killed by specs gardevoir in test games the previous week so wanted to give it a try myself. i thought rhyperior is a pretty cool pick as well. one of my favourite lower tier mons ever. many uu and ru players call it the primal groudon of lower tiers. i agree with them. rest of the team is a pretty basic 6. can do uturn on talon if you think you can win hazard wars but i did not think this team could. or you cant because its banned now. faced HO in game and missed a very crucial wisp while my oppo also doged flame body burn so i was in a pretty bad spot but was able to recover thanks to him having a tera bisharp that was not useful in that situation (i remember seeing a wack bisharp on scout so i just went w the body press 0 hesitation lol)
w4 vs daharan replay :ribombee::iron-thorns::porygon-z::mew::tornadus::bisharp:
i dont remember why i thought of using iron thorns. i also removed it like 20 times for another rock mon like kleavor or terrak idr until i realize pin missle hits chesnaught which is awesome. my oppo had IRON DEFENSE CHESNAUGHT so it turned out to be bloody useless. i liked the special mon spam here - pory is broken, mew became uu the next week, torn i added reluctantly because my teammates wanted me to have a fast mon and ground resist (fair enough). mu was okay but they had an entei and idef chesnaught, i missed the game winning wide lens bleakwind miss on entei which would be an instant win, and then did not have enough timer to come up with another winpath. annoying game. one of my fav teams in the tour still.
w5 vs kjay replay :gengar::gligar::goodra-hisui::crawdaunt::ditto::gardevoir:
this is not mine so im not linking it but you can tell every set from the replay so its an easy rebuild. no fancy evs promise. teammates said he only uses cheese and i can outplay other mu with this, so went a little overkill on the cteam. he brought sun. i think it was p difficult for him to win this one i had too much on my team. scarf voir + ditto with normal gar, band craw, goodra to tank hits from all weathers. yeah overkill.
w6 vs soulking replay :ribombee::mimikyu::feraligatr::bisharp::raikou::tornadus:
another webs because i wanted to try feraligatr / raikou this week. also i liked HO into their scout. i think this one is a little more solid than the previous web while having around the same power level. sets are pretty straightforward except the raikou with t fairy t blast, felt p good to use in tests so i went with this and not some lo 3a type set. faced hail which i thought was a tough mu. i think i played well with what i had (franklin said i lost from t1 because i didnt pick my lead correctly.. fair) and then my oppo ignored drain punch mimi instead of going for a 50% roll on jet which set up the win
w7 vs jojen replay :cyclizar::gligar::jirachi::basculegion-f::entei::flamigo:
this is the week i realized that im not using the brokens - fighters and entei. unfortunately i was a week late because mienshao was already banned so we went with the next best thing. or the 4th next best thing. idk, flamigo is not even in ru. HAD to use entei though i didnt realize he was so good until this week exactly. i played HO here and i was lowkey prepped well for it cus the lebron of sv ru (entei) is naturally pretty good into HO, and then flying scarfer with no immunities on its attacks vs webs is some hater shit.
semis vs dugtrio replay :weezing::entei::quagsire::wo-chien::noivern::bronzong:
tried to recreate one of those teams that umbry and gum used to pass to me in last rupl. "WEEZING" has only one purpose - it gets up tspikes and absorbs koff from chesnaught krook and beats muk-a (this would otherwise 6-0 my entire team). other than that hes pretty useless. I guess it also beats hail. I think hes not too bad on a build like this. then i added lebron. and then a bronzong because it looked super good on paper. other 3 are boring and standard mons. pretty cool team my favourite build by far i am happy to have come up with it. its better if i dont go into the game. sometimes personal growth is more important than winning games. i only typed gg and logged off. this is good stuff from me.
tbh i made the post only cus i wanted to share the weezing team i thought its super cool. here is another version :weezing::entei::gastrodon::wo-chien::noivern::bronzong:
tbh this one is cooler but we thought our oppo might HO so added quag for insurance
been a while since i tried building in all weeks in non ubers + enjoyed some time off the koraidon zacian arceus brainrot so i felt like sharing my work
hello hello big rupl is over and meta went through some ~drastic~ changes in that time and with rult on the horizon wanted to share some of the teams that i built/built for guys on my team/were sitting in my builder and whatnot
i wanted to bring a tox orb trick zong bc i thought it was a cool mon and it was the beginning of the tour so i was trying out some fun stuff and things, unfortunately it ran into possibly the worst mu oat in trick scarf rachi from txunt so the main idea of the team kinda stalled and then it was just a sad game after... STILL i think that guy is cool, its just a tough climate for zong considering his niche as "steel that doesnt care ab grounds" is pointless since the most prevalent ground in the tier is krookodile heh
i'll be honest I don't really remember a lot about this team but it looks straightforward enough with just band daunt with a whole bunch of pivot guys. The game itself was a meltdown of epic proportions from me i binned like craaaazy but slikkles also had some nice stuff with tspikes gar which was pretty good into me once i let the vapo get knocked for no reason so props to him. i also see now this was tblast fly daunt which is pretty funny, last year during scl I was helping out the islanders with their ru stuff and pix mentioned at some point ab band tblast flying daunt to kill stall and chesnaught and stuff which at the time I wrote off as being cheesy nonsense, but ig I wanted to try out at this point in time heh, it didn't come up in the game but MAN it wouldve been funny if it worked
this was the first of many attempts i made this tour to use non scarf gard sets. gard brings so much to the table and scarf is still a great set but i feel like most people are VASTLY undervaluing what you could be doing with her beyond just slapping a scarf on. this game i shouldve lost to the armarouge if soul king was a bit more patient with how he played that guy i didnt have any answers lol. that being said after the early arma tera and trading with goo and talon he kiiiiinda just folded immediately to the gastro i had in the back with a little bit of help from gard getting a trick and wisp click off which was nice to show off the tech and amoongus
i originally built this team to play vs frank and the gang during that one public teambuilding event we had (that will happen again #eventually btw it was a huge success the first time we will get around to organizing another one) and it had a non scarf gard so i was like shit lemme pull up with it and see how it goes lol. ciel pulled up with big plot tsteel mowtom which was a huge pain for the squad and i played pretty sloppy overall and had some ridiculous misclick in front of registeel with alomuk early in the game which was #verybad for me heh. the mowtom really just put in a ton of work after which was tbh cool to see
this is where we enter into phase 2 of rupl after talon was unjustly STOLEN by those evil uu overlords which happened during like the middle of this week, PLEASE give him back. I wanted to get a jump on building for the new meta tho so even though he was still legal this week i went with a vern build instead. You may have noticed i had brought a talon to literally every game before this, thats because that guy was like the best glue guy in the tier and removal is kinda ass! but with talon gone u will now see me bring 100% basically vern from now on ALSO bc hes a good glue guy and removal is again kinda ass! I remember i had tested with gum some random week earlier in the tour and remembering that he had pretty high on ribombee so i was like... ok well what if i just brought scarf dual wingbeat kleavor to own bee lol. this was also during shaos reign of terror as doomlord of the tier and it was pretty funny t1 just dropping that guy bc nobody runs scarf kleavor and NOBODY runs dual wingbeat heh. it felt like a pretty straightforward game after that, av zone put in huge numbers eating hits from scarf gard for a while and getting great progress vs rhyp and talon and stuff. the game eventually did spiral a bit out of hand after my vern missed a super fang vs xcx's bisharp which led to me having to make some real aggro reads doubling around with fake out shao to get the damage i needed to ko that guy and close the game with umb. This is also a trend u will probably notice going forward, umb closing ppl out that mon is SO good lol. this was also a big time game as far as the week was concerned, my team was up 5-4 so pressure was on for me to bring it home so glad i could do that with some nice tech
i will be honest i also dont FULLY remember why i decided to bring a banded sneasel. it probably had smth to do with band beat up just being really generally strong? probably something along those lines, unfortunately the feature mon didnt really do a lot this game heh. this was a pretty back and forth one where hoops ribombee was always the most scary thing on my mind, i knew with a few bad turns from me that guy could pop tground and blow me up basically single handed and it was pretty tough playing around that guy. that being said eventually he made a mistake teraing his vern in a vern vs vern mirror and then the game kinda just like petered out from there. quagsire and jirachi were too much for his squad to contend with. also worth noting this is the first time i tried running grass move chesnaught instead of the regular body press + knock sets bc I wanted to see how it worked and it worked GREAT lol. i will say for ppl who are thinking between wood hammer and leaf storm for stuff like this, to me the answer is always wood hammer. the entire point of the tech is to be able to punish gastros greeding turns on you and if u roll that 10% miss on storm then its like well shit u can only blame urself u had a 100% safe alternative and chose to not use it. worth mentioning i was also kinda feeling the pressure during this game, kinda similar to the last weeks game the series was 4-4 i think when i played so I was thinking hard as a mf trying to get this dub and give feen a chance to close for us
this goddamn dingus didnt bring a normal type the WHOLE TOUR BUT PULLED UP WITH SPECS BIKE THE WEEK I BROUGHT DECIDUEYE RAHHHHHH. beyond me getting goobed in prep like that he also came out with a whole ass TERA FAIRY KLEAVOR RAHHHHHHHHHHH. anyway that was the story of the game. we traded our steels to open for the specially attacking dragons we had in the back, vern for me and specs bike for him, and then i got owned by the fairy kleavor lols. this was bo3 so i also played an sm game vs him but this has been like all sv stuff so far and that game wasnt super interesting so ill omit it, yall can peep the replay if u want i got cooked by a barb heh
playing vs gum again in semis and i was like uncertain what they would do after the kleavor beatening earlier in the season. at this point too shaos doomlord era was over as it got banned some weeks before so that also added a new fold to the mu that wasnt there when we played the first time. at this point i was on some big ghost kick i think so the original idea was to bring ghost spam into them. I think it was colorednaem who first suggested the core of gengar+golurk to build around which i was fuxing with ive used both of those guys to pretty notable success in the past. That being said once i tried to actually build smth with those guys i got frustrated and didn't really see anything that looked super good to me. at some point in the process i was like cm cress is actually the answer, made the gar a cm cress and BOOM the rest of the pieces then just kinda fell in nicely. gum brought an etern team he made in some prior week and won with and while it does look just like, super weird i do kinda see the vision. ive tried building with similar structures in the past with some success so i do sorta understand. that being said that team also just so happened to be 6-0d by the amoongus i had which was pretty funny lol. more stuff happens in the game but it really did just come down to amoongus doing everything lol. also worth noting that this build really did give me a lot of trouble and it only really came together like a couple hours before game time, as far as the week standing it was 5-4 my team up again so same thing as the regular season and i was sweatin it before the cress swap came up lol
finals woooo dib was the hustlers answers to their sv4 woes that they had been having all season, they slotted dib in week 7 and kept him in semis and he got wins in both games. I knew he doesn't play this tier, knew some stupid offense was coming, and so i broke from my trend of honest gaming all tour and went with dishonest sun lol. and thats what happened, he rolled up with some insane offense and ran into sun. that being said i thought i was fully cooked once he revealed scale shot tfly krook, but fortunately they sabotaged themselves in builder by NOT putting earthquake on their krook, my terrakion got the roll to live a turbo boosted power trip and game was saved
more big stakes gaming this time for the entire tour. this was g3 of the tiebreaks and truly the win or go home moment of the tour. i knew going into prep i wanted to bring specs yanmega. after bringing sun last in the regular week and given my general tendencies i expected a fatter build to be coming and was like shit, tera blast banned yanmega back in the tier lets have some fun. and fun it did HAVE. this isnt my best game ever i definitely played pretty sloppy early on throwing away my pert for free and basically needing to play down 5v6 most of the game but it is what it is. also got a bit lucky with an early air slash flinch onto drips oricorio but that is the game and it is what i was fishing for heh. after the ori went down it was just a big positioning game where i tried to generate as many opportunities for yanmega to blow shit up as possible and that is what it did!
various other things i built and ideas i had during the reg szn:
this was a team i had a lot of success with in the past with scrafty just stealing a bunch of games but unfortunately ran into an actual flying type in torn this mu was a bit too much for it handle when combined with chester also being vaguely annoying
playing into hjkhj week 1 we knew stall or HO was coming bc thats the only thing that ever comes so tried to cover all our bases. where we ended was this type of hazard stack type build with like encore rachi and roar rest talk cune to try and stifle offenses and stuff. hjk brought snow and everything was going pretty well until we forgot tera existed sacked rachi for no reason and eventually ended up losing to last mon rest cm cune.
i had been experimenting with sub krook in the past and this week passed smth with it to jojen to see how it worked out, it rolled like an ok matchup but the story of the game was our loom being really good into kimers squad but bc of a bit of a premature early tox we lost our own tox orb and didn't have the survivability to really make a huge impact on the game after
got pzed such is life, leni made a really heads up play tera steeling loom in front of pz but drain punch failed to pick up the ko and it wouldve been a hard match to bring back from that point anyway
im pretty sure this is the same team but looking back at the replay it looks like heni changed vern to cane and loom to bullet seed but again im PRETTY sure this is the same team. nothing much to say ab the game, drip loaded an offense got a confusion on our empo with swagger and we got cooked, such is life
a big storyline for the team this season was figuring out our sv4 slot. we started with jojen there, he didn't pan out early, we threw heni in, he didn't pan out early, we brought jojen back off the bench and he GOT THE DUB. this was a pretty important week for us as far as standings were concerned too so it was cool to see him break out of his funk at a really critical point for us. more scarf kleavor gaming, this time in the context of an offense featuring vincune who just steamrolled the game once it got the setup it needed
i really like this team and have brought it to ssnl a few times, kinda the same idea with trick torb regi i brought way earlier in the szn but this time its on a klefki who can also like get up spikes and twave guys and stuff. the idea was mainly to trick torb onto gastros who might otherwise skunk keys which then lets suicune go crazy later. the tech did end up helping us win vs an opposing suicune in this mu which was pretty cool, otherwise idk the game seemed pretty straightforward
got pzed again unfort but also looking back it just came down to like a bro vs bro cm war somehow? we were speed tying and stuff and luck just didnt turn our way such is life
i think some slight edits were made since the version of the paste i have has lefties empo but its close enough, rolled unfortunate mu to pull daunt who put in a ton of work vs us, we couldn't really stick reuni on the field either to trade for one of the darks so that was tough
we wanted to build around spikestack fat this week but honestly i got around to it WAY too late and the resulting product was just a bit too passive, then it ran into tghost sticky hold gastro and it was just really hard to stick any sort of progress so we turbo bricked
some closing thoughts, i really just absolutely hate the reputation the tier has for being either all "stAlL or HypER OFfEnse" so i made it a point to just bring honest ass stuff like the entire tour with the exception of that one sun team in finals, btw right now this very moment I am of the belief if you DO want to run an HO some weather based option is whats gonna be the best call for you, whether that be rain or sun or snow or whatever is up to preference but I think that is gonna be your best bet atm. but back to the main point the honest shit just worked out most of the time! a lot of my early losses were due to just not piloting super well but it seemed most of the people i played into either just happened to not try to HO or stall me or also agreed that HO and stall were just too fishy to bring or smth. Stall specifically in my opinion bottomed out this tour during the peak of the mienshao doomlord era and even today i think is really quite fishy vs a lot of the hazard stack structures we got going around and into big breakers like specs gard or yanmega and stuff. HO will always be relevant but again the tier has options to help deal with those options and tblast leaving has lowered the power ceiling a lot. RUPL is always one of the highlights of the community showcasing some of the higher quality games you'll see all year and i'm glad to have been able to participate once again. see yall next year o7
hello hello big rupl is over and meta went through some ~drastic~ changes in that time and with rult on the horizon wanted to share some of the teams that i built/built for guys on my team/were sitting in my builder and whatnot
i wanted to bring a tox orb trick zong bc i thought it was a cool mon and it was the beginning of the tour so i was trying out some fun stuff and things, unfortunately it ran into possibly the worst mu oat in trick scarf rachi from txunt so the main idea of the team kinda stalled and then it was just a sad game after... STILL i think that guy is cool, its just a tough climate for zong considering his niche as "steel that doesnt care ab grounds" is pointless since the most prevalent ground in the tier is krookodile heh
i'll be honest I don't really remember a lot about this team but it looks straightforward enough with just band daunt with a whole bunch of pivot guys. The game itself was a meltdown of epic proportions from me i binned like craaaazy but slikkles also had some nice stuff with tspikes gar which was pretty good into me once i let the vapo get knocked for no reason so props to him. i also see now this was tblast fly daunt which is pretty funny, last year during scl I was helping out the islanders with their ru stuff and pix mentioned at some point ab band tblast flying daunt to kill stall and chesnaught and stuff which at the time I wrote off as being cheesy nonsense, but ig I wanted to try out at this point in time heh, it didn't come up in the game but MAN it wouldve been funny if it worked
this was the first of many attempts i made this tour to use non scarf gard sets. gard brings so much to the table and scarf is still a great set but i feel like most people are VASTLY undervaluing what you could be doing with her beyond just slapping a scarf on. this game i shouldve lost to the armarouge if soul king was a bit more patient with how he played that guy i didnt have any answers lol. that being said after the early arma tera and trading with goo and talon he kiiiiinda just folded immediately to the gastro i had in the back with a little bit of help from gard getting a trick and wisp click off which was nice to show off the tech and amoongus
i originally built this team to play vs frank and the gang during that one public teambuilding event we had (that will happen again #eventually btw it was a huge success the first time we will get around to organizing another one) and it had a non scarf gard so i was like shit lemme pull up with it and see how it goes lol. ciel pulled up with big plot tsteel mowtom which was a huge pain for the squad and i played pretty sloppy overall and had some ridiculous misclick in front of registeel with alomuk early in the game which was #verybad for me heh. the mowtom really just put in a ton of work after which was tbh cool to see
this is where we enter into phase 2 of rupl after talon was unjustly STOLEN by those evil uu overlords which happened during like the middle of this week, PLEASE give him back. I wanted to get a jump on building for the new meta tho so even though he was still legal this week i went with a vern build instead. You may have noticed i had brought a talon to literally every game before this, thats because that guy was like the best glue guy in the tier and removal is kinda ass! but with talon gone u will now see me bring 100% basically vern from now on ALSO bc hes a good glue guy and removal is again kinda ass! I remember i had tested with gum some random week earlier in the tour and remembering that he had pretty high on ribombee so i was like... ok well what if i just brought scarf dual wingbeat kleavor to own bee lol. this was also during shaos reign of terror as doomlord of the tier and it was pretty funny t1 just dropping that guy bc nobody runs scarf kleavor and NOBODY runs dual wingbeat heh. it felt like a pretty straightforward game after that, av zone put in huge numbers eating hits from scarf gard for a while and getting great progress vs rhyp and talon and stuff. the game eventually did spiral a bit out of hand after my vern missed a super fang vs xcx's bisharp which led to me having to make some real aggro reads doubling around with fake out shao to get the damage i needed to ko that guy and close the game with umb. This is also a trend u will probably notice going forward, umb closing ppl out that mon is SO good lol. this was also a big time game as far as the week was concerned, my team was up 5-4 so pressure was on for me to bring it home so glad i could do that with some nice tech
i will be honest i also dont FULLY remember why i decided to bring a banded sneasel. it probably had smth to do with band beat up just being really generally strong? probably something along those lines, unfortunately the feature mon didnt really do a lot this game heh. this was a pretty back and forth one where hoops ribombee was always the most scary thing on my mind, i knew with a few bad turns from me that guy could pop tground and blow me up basically single handed and it was pretty tough playing around that guy. that being said eventually he made a mistake teraing his vern in a vern vs vern mirror and then the game kinda just like petered out from there. quagsire and jirachi were too much for his squad to contend with. also worth noting this is the first time i tried running grass move chesnaught instead of the regular body press + knock sets bc I wanted to see how it worked and it worked GREAT lol. i will say for ppl who are thinking between wood hammer and leaf storm for stuff like this, to me the answer is always wood hammer. the entire point of the tech is to be able to punish gastros greeding turns on you and if u roll that 10% miss on storm then its like well shit u can only blame urself u had a 100% safe alternative and chose to not use it. worth mentioning i was also kinda feeling the pressure during this game, kinda similar to the last weeks game the series was 4-4 i think when i played so I was thinking hard as a mf trying to get this dub and give feen a chance to close for us
this goddamn dingus didnt bring a normal type the WHOLE TOUR BUT PULLED UP WITH SPECS BIKE THE WEEK I BROUGHT DECIDUEYE RAHHHHHH. beyond me getting goobed in prep like that he also came out with a whole ass TERA FAIRY KLEAVOR RAHHHHHHHHHHH. anyway that was the story of the game. we traded our steels to open for the specially attacking dragons we had in the back, vern for me and specs bike for him, and then i got owned by the fairy kleavor lols. this was bo3 so i also played an sm game vs him but this has been like all sv stuff so far and that game wasnt super interesting so ill omit it, yall can peep the replay if u want i got cooked by a barb heh
playing vs gum again in semis and i was like uncertain what they would do after the kleavor beatening earlier in the season. at this point too shaos doomlord era was over as it got banned some weeks before so that also added a new fold to the mu that wasnt there when we played the first time. at this point i was on some big ghost kick i think so the original idea was to bring ghost spam into them. I think it was colorednaem who first suggested the core of gengar+golurk to build around which i was fuxing with ive used both of those guys to pretty notable success in the past. That being said once i tried to actually build smth with those guys i got frustrated and didn't really see anything that looked super good to me. at some point in the process i was like cm cress is actually the answer, made the gar a cm cress and BOOM the rest of the pieces then just kinda fell in nicely. gum brought an etern team he made in some prior week and won with and while it does look just like, super weird i do kinda see the vision. ive tried building with similar structures in the past with some success so i do sorta understand. that being said that team also just so happened to be 6-0d by the amoongus i had which was pretty funny lol. more stuff happens in the game but it really did just come down to amoongus doing everything lol. also worth noting that this build really did give me a lot of trouble and it only really came together like a couple hours before game time, as far as the week standing it was 5-4 my team up again so same thing as the regular season and i was sweatin it before the cress swap came up lol
finals woooo dib was the hustlers answers to their sv4 woes that they had been having all season, they slotted dib in week 7 and kept him in semis and he got wins in both games. I knew he doesn't play this tier, knew some stupid offense was coming, and so i broke from my trend of honest gaming all tour and went with dishonest sun lol. and thats what happened, he rolled up with some insane offense and ran into sun. that being said i thought i was fully cooked once he revealed scale shot tfly krook, but fortunately they sabotaged themselves in builder by NOT putting earthquake on their krook, my terrakion got the roll to live a turbo boosted power trip and game was saved
more big stakes gaming this time for the entire tour. this was g3 of the tiebreaks and truly the win or go home moment of the tour. i knew going into prep i wanted to bring specs yanmega. after bringing sun last in the regular week and given my general tendencies i expected a fatter build to be coming and was like shit, tera blast banned yanmega back in the tier lets have some fun. and fun it did HAVE. this isnt my best game ever i definitely played pretty sloppy early on throwing away my pert for free and basically needing to play down 5v6 most of the game but it is what it is. also got a bit lucky with an early air slash flinch onto drips oricorio but that is the game and it is what i was fishing for heh. after the ori went down it was just a big positioning game where i tried to generate as many opportunities for yanmega to blow shit up as possible and that is what it did!
various other things i built and ideas i had during the reg szn:
this was a team i had a lot of success with in the past with scrafty just stealing a bunch of games but unfortunately ran into an actual flying type in torn this mu was a bit too much for it handle when combined with chester also being vaguely annoying
playing into hjkhj week 1 we knew stall or HO was coming bc thats the only thing that ever comes so tried to cover all our bases. where we ended was this type of hazard stack type build with like encore rachi and roar rest talk cune to try and stifle offenses and stuff. hjk brought snow and everything was going pretty well until we forgot tera existed sacked rachi for no reason and eventually ended up losing to last mon rest cm cune.
i had been experimenting with sub krook in the past and this week passed smth with it to jojen to see how it worked out, it rolled like an ok matchup but the story of the game was our loom being really good into kimers squad but bc of a bit of a premature early tox we lost our own tox orb and didn't have the survivability to really make a huge impact on the game after
got pzed such is life, leni made a really heads up play tera steeling loom in front of pz but drain punch failed to pick up the ko and it wouldve been a hard match to bring back from that point anyway
im pretty sure this is the same team but looking back at the replay it looks like heni changed vern to cane and loom to bullet seed but again im PRETTY sure this is the same team. nothing much to say ab the game, drip loaded an offense got a confusion on our empo with swagger and we got cooked, such is life
a big storyline for the team this season was figuring out our sv4 slot. we started with jojen there, he didn't pan out early, we threw heni in, he didn't pan out early, we brought jojen back off the bench and he GOT THE DUB. this was a pretty important week for us as far as standings were concerned too so it was cool to see him break out of his funk at a really critical point for us. more scarf kleavor gaming, this time in the context of an offense featuring vincune who just steamrolled the game once it got the setup it needed
i really like this team and have brought it to ssnl a few times, kinda the same idea with trick torb regi i brought way earlier in the szn but this time its on a klefki who can also like get up spikes and twave guys and stuff. the idea was mainly to trick torb onto gastros who might otherwise skunk keys which then lets suicune go crazy later. the tech did end up helping us win vs an opposing suicune in this mu which was pretty cool, otherwise idk the game seemed pretty straightforward
got pzed again unfort but also looking back it just came down to like a bro vs bro cm war somehow? we were speed tying and stuff and luck just didnt turn our way such is life
i think some slight edits were made since the version of the paste i have has lefties empo but its close enough, rolled unfortunate mu to pull daunt who put in a ton of work vs us, we couldn't really stick reuni on the field either to trade for one of the darks so that was tough
we wanted to build around spikestack fat this week but honestly i got around to it WAY too late and the resulting product was just a bit too passive, then it ran into tghost sticky hold gastro and it was just really hard to stick any sort of progress so we turbo bricked
some closing thoughts, i really just absolutely hate the reputation the tier has for being either all "stAlL or HypER OFfEnse" so i made it a point to just bring honest ass stuff like the entire tour with the exception of that one sun team in finals, btw right now this very moment I am of the belief if you DO want to run an HO some weather based option is whats gonna be the best call for you, whether that be rain or sun or snow or whatever is up to preference but I think that is gonna be your best bet atm. but back to the main point the honest shit just worked out most of the time! a lot of my early losses were due to just not piloting super well but it seemed most of the people i played into either just happened to not try to HO or stall me or also agreed that HO and stall were just too fishy to bring or smth. Stall specifically in my opinion bottomed out this tour during the peak of the mienshao doomlord era and even today i think is really quite fishy vs a lot of the hazard stack structures we got going around and into big breakers like specs gard or yanmega and stuff. HO will always be relevant but again the tier has options to help deal with those options and tblast leaving has lowered the power ceiling a lot. RUPL is always one of the highlights of the community showcasing some of the higher quality games you'll see all year and i'm glad to have been able to participate once again. see yall next year o7
This thread has had no team sharing for some months, so I've decided to share some of my own. I did remove all the speed creep from my teams bare in mind... not letting people know how much I creep Slowbro and Reun... (random amounts depending on the vibes) so you can put speed creep on yourselves to try and get an advantage.
:umbreon::swampert::toxtricity::infernape::noivern::goodra-hisui:
Umbreon balances are some of the best and consistent strategies in the tier at the moment in my opinion. This team features three different pivots that can bring big Choice Specs Toxtricity in. Acid Spray Hoodra is also very irritating against most teams.
:Ninetales::venusaur::scovillain::forretress::cinccino::Slowbro:
A sun team I quite like. Ninetales is EVd to survive a +1 Shadow Ball from Tera Ghost Yanmega after Rocks and it KOs it right back with Overheat. I like Cinccino on sun as it's a good anti Kleavor lead since it OHKOs Kleavor with Rock Blast but you got to be careful of Scarf sets. Helmet Forre soft checks a bunch of physical stuff and provides good support. Sub Scovillain is to help against Bisharp but it's worth noting that without Giga Drain it can't punish Politoed switching in well.
:krookodile::umbreon::bastiodon::gardevoir::slowbro::noivern:
I personally really like the combination of Specs Gardevoir and Scarf Krookodile. Specs Gard is a really good breaker and Scarf Krook is so good against offense. Bastiodon helps counter Specs Yanmega and Super Fang Noivern on this team. Umbreon is Moonlight + Roar to deal with setup sweepers.
:Chesnaught::quagsire::muk-alola::ditto::blissey::reuniclus:
For a long time, my favorite way to go with stall is spam Heavy-Duty Boots and go without removal and we have Reuniclus too which does not take anything from entry hazards. I also have a version with Kilowattrel>Ditto (although that's gonna be a lot worse against sun) which is an overall more consistent fast Pokemon. You could fit removal with Noivern or Altaria but then Ditto has to go which is not ideal. Fling is so that if Muk gets Tricked it can remove the choice item it received and Tera Psychic is to help against Mew as a Tera that resists Psyshock and does not leave Mew weak to Fairy or Ground like other Teras would.
:Krookodile::registeel::infernape::slowbro::entei::cyclizar:
I updated that CB Krook team that I posted for samples a while ago mainly to help it deal with setup sweepers. Switcheroo on Scarf Infernape as opposed to Flamigo helps and I changed Slowbro to Calm Mind. Thunder Wave + your own Slowbro can deal with opposing Slowbro. 48 Speed EVs on Registeel are for paralyzed Kleavor.
:Noivern::krookodile::empoleon::slowbro::maushold::chesnaught:
This is also an older team that I updated. I really like Bulk Up + Taunt Krookodile but I had a hard time making anything I liked more than this team with it, and even then there are generally more consistent Krook sets. I think Maushold on non-HO structures is underrated especially with Knock Off support to get rid of Helmets. It's just really fast and really strong. Haze Empoleon is for Roar Suicune which would beat out Empoleon's Roar. Scarf Noivern is good speed control and disruption with Switcheroo; Noivern outspeeds every weather sweeper except Barraskewda and it speed ties with Speed boosting nature Venusaur and Shiftry, though the latter isn't very relevant. The team is a bit hard to use relying on Maushold for removal but it can be potent when it works.
