Hi All,
Long time reader, first time poster. I recently made a bulky ogerpon-w OU team that I think is very interesting and very easy to use; I'm by no means the best battler out there and I got to top 30 quite quickly, getting that silver medal for the first time since I've been playing showdown. I've had a blast playing with this team and I hope you will too.
The team:
Proof of peak:
The abbreviated backstory:
A little while ago I made a specs enamorus team with araquanid, pecharunt, tusk, iron crown, and a scarf max attack adamant hoopa-u that was super fun and surprising (the scarf hoopa would often tera and ohko ogerpon, cinderace, etc). I made it to the top 100 with this team but never broke into the 1900s.
Fast forward a few weeks and I'm watching a foolycl video (big shoutout, the vid is called "this ogerpon set feels like cheating!") and he uses a bulky ogerpon-w team with this set and slightly different evs. Then, just after that I watched a blimax video (another big shoutout, the vid is "1870+ the highest rated team in gen 9 ou : pokemon indigo disk"), in which he uses a really cool team that uses two other incredible cores: pech, tusk, and alomomola, along with a band, scarf, specs core.
These videos, combined with my earlier team, gave me the idea to use the pech-tusk-alomomola core but swap out alo for the bulky ogerpon-w I had seen earlier. I also thought of good scarf, band, specs cores, and settled on a tried and true trio of scarf lando, banded samurott, and specs crown. Pretty quickly I realized the team needed more spdef, so I swapped banded samurott for AV samurott.
Fast forward a few weeks and I'm watching a foolycl video (big shoutout, the vid is called "this ogerpon set feels like cheating!") and he uses a bulky ogerpon-w team with this set and slightly different evs. Then, just after that I watched a blimax video (another big shoutout, the vid is "1870+ the highest rated team in gen 9 ou : pokemon indigo disk"), in which he uses a really cool team that uses two other incredible cores: pech, tusk, and alomomola, along with a band, scarf, specs core.
These videos, combined with my earlier team, gave me the idea to use the pech-tusk-alomomola core but swap out alo for the bulky ogerpon-w I had seen earlier. I also thought of good scarf, band, specs cores, and settled on a tried and true trio of scarf lando, banded samurott, and specs crown. Pretty quickly I realized the team needed more spdef, so I swapped banded samurott for AV samurott.
How the team works (overview):
As the title suggests, the team is based around two great cores: the first is tusk, pech, and woger. The other is crown, lando, and samurott.
I think the interesting thing about the team is that it's the synergy that makes it feel extremely powerful, not necessarily the fact that any individual mon is unique or extra great. The pivoting between lando, pech, samurott, and crown lets you wear down opposing teams really quickly, and the hazard support from tusk and samurott usually lets you get in an equal-or-better position than your opponent in terms of hazards. Then, because you're switching so much and forcing so many switches, everything gets worn down and eventually you can sweep with either wogerpon, scarf lando tera blast flying, or occasionally crown.
I think the interesting thing about the team is that it's the synergy that makes it feel extremely powerful, not necessarily the fact that any individual mon is unique or extra great. The pivoting between lando, pech, samurott, and crown lets you wear down opposing teams really quickly, and the hazard support from tusk and samurott usually lets you get in an equal-or-better position than your opponent in terms of hazards. Then, because you're switching so much and forcing so many switches, everything gets worn down and eventually you can sweep with either wogerpon, scarf lando tera blast flying, or occasionally crown.
More notes on each member:
Pecharunt:
-Rocky helmet is super useful to punish u-turners like scizor and opposing ogerpons.
-Parting shot allows pech to form an incredible core with landorus-t, cutting the attack stats of opposing physical mons by two stages just by parting shotting into lando and forcing a bunch of switches.
-Foul play wrecks most dragonite sets (except for fairy which often loses to malignant). This team has a fantastic matchup into dragonite which is great considering how dragonite is dominating the meta right now, and this is especially true if you can lower dragonite's attack with parting shot and intimidate, preventing it from getting out of control with setup.
-A lot of the time Pech ends up just staying in against opposing great tusks, eating a headlong rush and clicking parting shot to get out either to ogerpon to surprise set up or going to crown to threaten big damage.
-This Pech gets walled by ghold really hard, so sometimes you will want to double into samurott when you're expecting the ghold to come in.
Great tusk:
-This set is intended to be a support set.
-often times you'll face zapdos or moltres who switch in hoping to paralyze or burn you, not realizing that you don't really care about that. You can click rocks, then knock off, and maybe spin at some point in a game, and tusk has done its job. you usually don't actually need to do damage with this mon (unless it's to pick off a weakened gambit late in the game).
Ogerpon-W:
-this is the highlight of the team, and I feel like I might be ahead of the curve here with it - remember that roaring moon was relatively balanced UNTIL people figured out that you could run a shit-load of bulk on it, at which point it overwhelmed the tier.
-the speed evs allow you to outrun dragapult after one trailblaze. The rest are poured into max hp and defense.
- Part of what makes this set so good is the element of surprise. People think they can stay in and chip the wogerpon down, not realizing you have synthesis to replenish yourself and bring yourself out of range of most revenge killing options.
Iron Crown:
-has a really useful speed tier.
-specs tachyon cutter can really poke holes in the opponent's team.
-some prediction is required to figure out when to click volt switch versus when they'll be bringing in a ground type.
Landorus-T:
-forms and incredible core with pecharunt, checking tons of physical attackers in the tier.
-scarf tera blast flying can clean up a lot of endgames.
-often will be your best option to lead.
Hisuian Samurott:
-the AV ends up being really important because this team has generally very low spdef.
-This will often be your best option to lead.
-Flip turn ends up being really spammable and the max attack adamant often catches people off guard.
-Rocky helmet is super useful to punish u-turners like scizor and opposing ogerpons.
-Parting shot allows pech to form an incredible core with landorus-t, cutting the attack stats of opposing physical mons by two stages just by parting shotting into lando and forcing a bunch of switches.
-Foul play wrecks most dragonite sets (except for fairy which often loses to malignant). This team has a fantastic matchup into dragonite which is great considering how dragonite is dominating the meta right now, and this is especially true if you can lower dragonite's attack with parting shot and intimidate, preventing it from getting out of control with setup.
-A lot of the time Pech ends up just staying in against opposing great tusks, eating a headlong rush and clicking parting shot to get out either to ogerpon to surprise set up or going to crown to threaten big damage.
-This Pech gets walled by ghold really hard, so sometimes you will want to double into samurott when you're expecting the ghold to come in.
Great tusk:
-This set is intended to be a support set.
-often times you'll face zapdos or moltres who switch in hoping to paralyze or burn you, not realizing that you don't really care about that. You can click rocks, then knock off, and maybe spin at some point in a game, and tusk has done its job. you usually don't actually need to do damage with this mon (unless it's to pick off a weakened gambit late in the game).
Ogerpon-W:
-this is the highlight of the team, and I feel like I might be ahead of the curve here with it - remember that roaring moon was relatively balanced UNTIL people figured out that you could run a shit-load of bulk on it, at which point it overwhelmed the tier.
-the speed evs allow you to outrun dragapult after one trailblaze. The rest are poured into max hp and defense.
- Part of what makes this set so good is the element of surprise. People think they can stay in and chip the wogerpon down, not realizing you have synthesis to replenish yourself and bring yourself out of range of most revenge killing options.
Iron Crown:
-has a really useful speed tier.
-specs tachyon cutter can really poke holes in the opponent's team.
-some prediction is required to figure out when to click volt switch versus when they'll be bringing in a ground type.
Landorus-T:
-forms and incredible core with pecharunt, checking tons of physical attackers in the tier.
-scarf tera blast flying can clean up a lot of endgames.
-often will be your best option to lead.
Hisuian Samurott:
-the AV ends up being really important because this team has generally very low spdef.
-This will often be your best option to lead.
-Flip turn ends up being really spammable and the max attack adamant often catches people off guard.
Difficult matchups:
Stall. I have never won a game against stall on the high ladder. I think probably the best strategy is flip/volt/uturn around until you can try to use crown, tera steel and psyshock and at some point and see if you can break blissey. But I think the team might need to be modified to even stand a chance. I'm definitely open to feedback on this. I think maybe the samurott set could be modified to help break stall too, maybe instead of AV and last move sucker it could be banded with knock off, or boots and swords dance. The lando especially feels completely useless versus stall, so maybe I could try running tera fire terablast to catch some corvinights on the switch.
Replays:
this one really showcases the ogerpon w snowballing out of control: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2411239436?p2
against ho: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2412500166
I didn't play great here but a win is a win: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2412507332
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2412519249
another great example of wogerpon getting out of control: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2412809503
against ho: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2412500166
I didn't play great here but a win is a win: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2412507332
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2412519249
another great example of wogerpon getting out of control: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2412809503
Options for modifications:
Great tusk:
You might try switching up the tusk item. I think boots, helmet, or even some uncommon options like lum berry or red card could all work pretty well. I have also used booster attack with some success, which is my favorite tusk set. Tera steel could be swapped out for tera ghost. you could even swap tusk out completely in favor of a support iron treads, (maybe spdef lefties set) which is an option I'm thinking about exploring.
Landorus-T:
I'm running adamant and just hoping to win speed ties against max speed dragapult, but you could run jolly to win these every time, as well as outspeeding most deoxys-s. You could also try another tera type like fire or electric to try to catch corvinights which always come in against you and can be difficult for this team to deal with.
Samurott-H:
I think there's potential to modify this set, but I think ceaseless, jet, and flip are all really good. tera water could be changed to something else defensive, and I think sucker punch could be replaced with knock off or razor shell. I also think running torrent could be really cool, since I'm usually doing damage with the water moves and ceaseless usually ends up being more for the spike than for the damage. You could try switching the AV for something else more offensive like band, life orb, mystic water, or even boots or leftovers, but the loss of spdef on the team will be noticeable.
You might try switching up the tusk item. I think boots, helmet, or even some uncommon options like lum berry or red card could all work pretty well. I have also used booster attack with some success, which is my favorite tusk set. Tera steel could be swapped out for tera ghost. you could even swap tusk out completely in favor of a support iron treads, (maybe spdef lefties set) which is an option I'm thinking about exploring.
Landorus-T:
I'm running adamant and just hoping to win speed ties against max speed dragapult, but you could run jolly to win these every time, as well as outspeeding most deoxys-s. You could also try another tera type like fire or electric to try to catch corvinights which always come in against you and can be difficult for this team to deal with.
Samurott-H:
I think there's potential to modify this set, but I think ceaseless, jet, and flip are all really good. tera water could be changed to something else defensive, and I think sucker punch could be replaced with knock off or razor shell. I also think running torrent could be really cool, since I'm usually doing damage with the water moves and ceaseless usually ends up being more for the spike than for the damage. You could try switching the AV for something else more offensive like band, life orb, mystic water, or even boots or leftovers, but the loss of spdef on the team will be noticeable.
Thanks for reading and I hope you all enjoy!
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