BDSP OU Workshop 01/02/2022
This time, our workshop was for BDSP OU. Shoutouts to adem and Lalaya for organizing, writing descriptions, and hosting. They even made time to complete three separate teams!
Scizor + Weavile Offense
Replay: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8bdspou-1484031880
Double Dance Torterra Screens HO
Replay: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8bdspou-1484035216
Double Dance Torterra Hazard Stack
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This time, our workshop was for BDSP OU. Shoutouts to adem and Lalaya for organizing, writing descriptions, and hosting. They even made time to complete three separate teams!
Scizor + Weavile Offense
This is a team built around a core of fairly standard Pokémon in the BDSP OU Metagame, Weavile and Scizor. The former's phenomenal offensive presence is well complemented by the latter's defensive profile, not to mention Scizor's ability to pivot Weavile safely in. This core struggles against Heatran and other steels, and thanks to the presence of Assurance Band Weavile the next step was to add hazards and something dealing with said Steels; Stealth Rock SD Garchomp was the first answer, with Yache Berry helping up keeping hazards up against Starmie, and Magnezone was the best tool complementing Scizor's presence and giving us the ability to get rid of Skarmory. Next up, noticing we're very weak against hazards, hurting all of our Pokémon's staying power - especially Weavile's -, we added Starmie, the best Rapid Spin user a offense can have, giving us another Heatran switch-in that lasts as well as the usual bulky water. Finally, we were weak to Stall, we lacked a Breloom answer, and a way to deal with any kind of Manaphy; a Pokémon that covered all these weakness was the unusual Rotom-Mow, here in Scarf fashion with TrickPlot.
Double Dance Torterra Screens HO
This team is a Dual Screens Hyper Offense centered around Double Dance Torterra, and we picked the best Screens lead in Azelf, and gave Yache Berry to Torterra to allow it to get many more setup opportunities on stuff like Latias and Starmie, and deny revenge killing from the likes of Weavile. Next, we added Life Orb MixChomp as it lures and breaks 2 common Torterra stopgaps in Skarmory and Tangrowth, and pressures Unaware Clefable, while breaking holes in teams for Torterra to clean. Then, we added Azumarill which we made into Mystic Water since it helped us basically secure the Stall MU (which Tort struggles in) as well as break down the opposing team for Tort, while also being able to clean late game as well. Haban Berry Support Tias is a really nice binding piece on HO’s, as it offers Healing Wish which is extremely useful for both Garchomp and Azu as they tend to get worn down easily, as well as function as a secondary check for Garchomp. Lastly, Sash Zam gives us a neat revenge killer vs stuff like Gengar and opposing Zam which can be troublesome.
Double Dance Torterra Hazard Stack
This is an alternate route we went with our Torterra, a hazard stack team, and we went with an interesting lead combo with double Sash Qwilfish and Mamoswine, as TSpikes is extremely useful for putting UnaClef into Tort range, as well as potentially taking down a key mon with Destiny bond. Mamo is also a great anti lead, as it is immune to Taunt and can force out stuff like Garchomp and Lati, and functions as a solid breaker in its own right on teams lacking hard counters. CM Latios is a great breaker, and in conjunction with the great hazard support can easily break / wear down opposing teams for Tort. Magnezone is a key member of the team, easily removing opposing Skarm (frees up Tort and Mamo), and Sciz (frees up Tort and Latios), and Specs boosted attacks make it scary in its own right. Lastly, Feraligatr gives us another breaker for the team as easily cleaves through them once weakened, and it synergises especially well with TSpikes poisoning Clefable, Quagsire, and Tangrowth, letting it break past them much easier.
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