OLT has been a kinda fun experience for me but not really, forgot to post after cycle 1 but, i cant help but notice that the tour has been somewhat dead in cycle 3 and hopefully it comes to life in cycle 4, but there are some important things that i need to address metagame wise, the reason some people don't like this metagame is not the illusion of the broken sub kyurem, its one good set that shouldve had adaptation given the right circumstances happened and i'll get into that in a second.
Heres one of my most consistent teams i used to qualify:
https://pokepast.es/3224b774360cbc49
I think its rather linear to think that ONE pokemon that stands out is the problem in a metagame, i promise you getting rid of kyurem is absolutely not going to bring more balance teams and make it less oppressive to use defensive stuff, there are many other dangerous wallbreakers, and i would like to point out that zamazenta is a healthy presence that is supposedly "keeping physical attackers in check" but yet still dies to terablast from goug, gambit, and random setup mons like dnite(the wcop team Latin america set (actually i think we got the set from a guy called reze , idr his name faced him in ourlt last year, but yeah the fairy blast set), the reason that every sweeper has so much snowball potential is not even the type change, its the 80bp free STAB coverage that you get to use at will, tera blast, that is the big problem with this meta and an extremely stupid fish move that shouldve went but lets pay attention to the volcarona ban, i am pointing out that we had a special healthy presence keeping the special attackers from snowballing, that was made broken by the move that has been rewarding and flipping matchups since day ONE.
My opinion has drastically changed on the move "tera blast" when i decided to really take a look at the tier, i realised that this move is not competitive and it feels like the more unpredictable player wins rather than the more skilled player. So ive decided to take the time to state a solution, which is banning the cancer that is tera blast, and freeing volcarona and eleki, eleki provides a great spinner and pivot, which can still tera normal espeed, volcarona without terablast is balanced and will stop the stuff people hate like darkrai and sub kyurem, with this solution kyurem becomes less of an issue because you force it to either drop sub or protect to run rock slide for volcarona, and if you really played youd notice the only problematic set, is really sub protect, mixed is almost broken, specs is punishable, scarf is non existent, and boots is just aite. I think we can all agree nobody would miss tera blast as a move, and losing it would really benefit this metagame, bringing back volcarona to tame kyurem, the main focus should be Tera blast, gliscor and gouging fire, not kyurem, those 3 are much more oppressive than kyurem.
Now let me dive into the pokemon i think are super crazy right now:
Gouging Fire: I hated this pokemon from day ONE, i voted a 5 on the survey it was on, and i made not one but two ban posts that you could actually go back and see that i was BEGGING that this shit would go, i cry about it in pms to most of my friends every day, i would vote a 10 if i had to, if this got tested in ubers i would ban it, a clean 2hko to physdef dondozo on a resisted physical stab hit even if its in sun is ridiculous, not to mention the ever-expanding 1000 booster sets that keep finding ways to adapt to each counter that has been crafted for it, im tired of finding niche counters for it, when it gets to the point im losing creative ways to beat it thats when you know its bad, ive been playing for 12 years, ive been a ladder / non tour player for 9 of those years, i build 10x more than i play, and ive never seen an offensive threat, even bloodmoon, even baxcalibur, even mega kangaskhan, where i couldnt find some super niche or creative way to beat it, as a pokemon you would have to be ag material for that to happen with me, it stayed the last time, and im still salty about that, even when everybody switched up their votes and tried to convince me to vote dnb, i couldnt bring myself to do it so i just didnt vote, my vote wouldve made no difference anyway the overwhelming change from ban to dnb was too much, to this day im hoping we get a retest on physical mega reshiram(yes its way stronger than zard x).
Gliscor: Ive always hated that this pokemon always finds a way to warp the structure of my teams (and tbh, teams in general), around either having ice type gliscor lures, or steel birds, this is another pokemon that helps to snowball kyurem(pretty sure most people's reason to use kyurem is gliscor) and invalidate balance/stall/offense/BO/HO. And i do somewhat fear that after this goes we will be staring down a zapdos ting lu meta but honestly thats better than a pokemon that heavily restricts every playstyle, these sd sets are out of control, they sit on every balance , every stall, and just spam knock or facade, its a really unfair, unhealthy mon, good players with nice teams like 3d, mimilimi, empo, leng, bea, ive seen them all lose to atleast 1 sd gliscor(saw the fast one beat bea's sub kyurem team). And despite bea outplaying the shit out of their opponent, the gliscor still ends up winning? why is it fair? it forces extremely uninteractive gameplay that take away from the skill of the game, the better player is supposed to win by positioning, pivoting , attacking and defending, not gliscor > sd > protect > take every hit > kill back, thats what happens to all defensive comps vsing a well played sd gliscor, and the offensive comps, lose to the hazard stacking sets, spikes protect toxic, so not only does it restrict fat, but offense too, would like to formally request that this uncompetitive cancer gets added to the next survey.
The other 3 pokemon on this list may not be going anywhere but they are worth mentioning:
Kingambit: im pro kingambit, lets be honest we need it in the tier to keep MANY threats from spiraling, but i want to acknowledge that the 5050s it forces, paired with TERABLAST, and sometimes other sets like dark/flying, are extremely stupid sometimes, i do hate being reverse swept by kingambit, its the worst feeling, you outplay the whole game, it clicks sd and wins off a coinflip, this is a small part of the reason that i love raging bolt and that its healthy asf, it removes the fear of a kingambit reverse sweep(even with broken terablast). Theres no pokemon that stops all gambit sets, my tera fighting black belt lowkick set beats irondef zama/tusk/iron hands, my tera fire air balloon set beats valiant, my tera dark suckerpunch glasses set breaks dozo, etc, its a dumb mon that we sort of need, kind of like magearna in 7.
Zamazenta: Very healthy presence to keep all the physical threats at bay, would be better at checking some of them without terablast in the tier, but on the other hand, these iron defense sets are crazy, and roar beats sub kyurem, so does roar molt, which is another fire mon rn, but yeah sometimes these idef sets can become really stupid despite it benefitting the tier and i felt like that deserved to be pointed out.
Garganacl: This pokemon is absolutely crazy rn, with the amount of offense in the tier that you need to account for, you actually cannot really afford a covert cloak without the sacrifice of losing to something, hence all this thing's sets are crazy rn, i made a balance with glisc garg gweezing av hoopa zama and corv, that i sent in my wcop team dump months ago, (and i think it was in slainey doc) ewin used it to qualify, any garg team is crazy rn and i am very surprised it doesnt have more usage.
To Conclude this post i wanna state some really nice mons that i believe should get more usage:
Tinkaton: i was the first one using this mon day 1 of sv to check chien pao, and now and then youll still see me use it throughout the year on ladder, and some people had the genius idea to bring it back out to check stuff like glim HO and darkrai/valiant, like that sheist Vert team that was used in wcop.
Fezandipiti: vert put me on this, amazing mon, roost, toxic chain and pivot, walls zama, beats rbolt, poisons stuff, and walls darkrai.
Mandibuzz: i had a suicune sand with this in february, that peaked #1 was rly successful, sits on most physical based teams rn, with toxic fp idef or knock fp idef.
Suicune: on that same sand i got loads of sweeps with sub protect cm cune the classic, fire mon just needs to be paired with a wellspring lure.
Volcanion: ive been on this mons wave since swsh and dlc1 and its always been fire, every game it does something and threatens a hard hit.
Iron crown: this is already getting usage, my specs tera steel set was crazy in ost, and its crazy on any BO comp.
Weavile: its already getting some usage, i havent used weav much recently, but im starting to , its crazy af, i had a couple teams with it in march and i think i used it once in ost.
Assault vest toxapex: i was pretty big on this in april, i got inspired watching old sv replays of home meta and dlc1, where they used av pex, such a fire mon rn, checks non shock darkrai.
Cresselia: i was a cress fanboy in dlc1, i qualified last olt using cress + enamorus therian, i just love how it sits on zama and tusk, and lando/glisc post tera, its underexplored, dont just try the cm stored set, try the boltbeam set, tera electric tbolt/ice beam.
Lokix: this pokemon is crazy rn with tinted lens, pivoting/unique priority, my crown lokix BO that was used for the pokeaim vid with pecharunt has popped off in olt, i even saw people using pult variants (which is not better you need fp tera dark pech not only for tspike absorb but wellspring/physical threats too).
Pecharunt: spook(not spookyz, the "me and the rza" guy), put me on this , i saw his webs and i was like that shit is cool , i had pech teams before that but he was the one who showed me that it got foul play which is a massive game changer.
Sinistcha: i did not discover this mon, HYper brought it up to me cuz he had to prep for shifu in oupl and used it as a counter, thought it was cool so i used it in ost finals it was such a fire spinblocker, setup sweeper, and can sap most threats, i love that its getting more usage but its not enough imo, yall use it more :p
Tornadus therian: i had a rain with specs torn and basculegion i believe i showed it to pinka awhile back, but it hits like a free train under rain.
Overqwil: ever since dlc1 ive been on the overqwil wave when i made my newest alt and got stomped by a 1300s dude using it around like september last year, ever since ive been spamming it , its a fire absorber for rain that can also be an abuser with sd, it gets aqua jet too so u can use band tera water jet.
Manaphy: i had a rain with this shit, tail glow rest surf alluring voice tera fairy, peli tinka tusk mana overqwil pult, and i was like o shit, its hard to build around this ig ill just stick to this rain whenever i wanna use it, till vert showed me that crazy fire set take heart + alluring voice acid armor, and i was like o shit id def build this more.
Scizor: another mon ive had crazy success with throughout the year, have loads of comps with it and yall should try the set i used in wcop vs yovan, tera flying wingbeat, leng also had a team with that set that did rly rly well, tera steel bp is fire too but sd lifeorb wingbeat tera flying on webs is insane.
Ursaluna: ive had a couple trick rooms with this mon including the gambit waterpon one, this mon very crazy, i encourage yall to try to build around it.
Iron hands: this pokemon checks alot of stuff rn especially booster energy with sd tera flying bulky(and the booster ghost set i used last olt) , just anti meta in general, and yall shud use it more.
Mamoswine: my friends have all called this shit but idc, its so fire, nothing really resists its stabs if u predict right, and can run thick fat for kyurem
Cornerstone: everybody is preparing for the water one, and im surprised nobody has used it more since i have been very successful with cornerpon teams throughout the year, maybe the u turn set i use atm, but sd cornerpon is fire, u can even run horn leech + counter to leech up to the sturdy and click counter.
deoxys defense: knock + twave + night shade spdef is pretty crazy vs special threats rn, you can even sit on darkrai if you tera.
Slither wing: i was a big slither fan back in dlc1 but what really made me see it as good was when i saw a friend (idk if he wants that alt known so i wont say) use defensive wisp, and the av slither sun, and i was like o shit that was kinda cool.
Okidogi: i tested this pokemon its great vs shockless darkrai and zama teams, with the ability guard dog, not only do you get a defiant boost on intimidate, you are immune to roar and whirlwind, so you actually wall and setup on zama and actually 1v1 all zama sets, also with tera flying you beat lando.
And last but certainly not least: ttar + drill, sand is good rn in every capacity, used it a fair amount this olt, and empo has been successful with it too.
Ive been trying to branch out and be more versatile, use more balance, Semistall, and some of these mons do help, so yall try them too, outside of that, loads of heavy nukes on standby for the playoffs.
But yeah use these mons, and ban what i said to ban, and the meta will be fine, its not a bad meta finch did a great job mostly in dlc2, they calling this the worst meta but they must of forgot how much they hated gen7 when it was cg, to the point abr stepped down as tier leader, and then as soon as it ended evryone called it goated, yall gonna miss gen9, its like they think they want something until its actually gone, and on that note, after my runs this olt/scl , ill mostly be gone too(or very inactive or afk most times) for irl reasons, and i will prolly be back full time around mid gen10 to learn the meta/enter some gen 10 tours.
Thats about it, pce.
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