Gen 9 Ubers UU is an amazing place for creative team building, moveset experimentation, and varied competitive compositions thanks to the unique metagame, lack of certain threats, and well-defined top-meta roles. This thread is dedicated to discussing the underdogs; niche Pokepicks such as lower-tier Pokemon, unconventional specialized sets, team cores, strategies, and more! If you're looking to talk about creative sets for your Ubers UU favorites that fulfill unique team needs, or you're looking to talk about Pokemon below Ubers UU that carry some valuable weight for your team, look no further than this thread!
What this thread is for:
Post some heat and we'll put it up!
What this thread is for:
- Viable sets of OU or below Pokemon that occupy a unique role in Ubers UU due to role compression, handling specific meta threats (anti-meta picks), or fulfilling the specific needs of a playstyle (such as Balance, Stall, or Hyper Offense).
- Viable unique sets of OUBL/Ubers UU Pokemon that either utilize unconventional moves or Tera-typings to change their functionality in the meta.
- Viable team cores, combinations, and strategies that are otherwise underutilized (for example, Regenerator Trick Room + Snow Combination Offense).
- Posting detailed information or cited information about your unconventional Pokepick; replays, damage calculations, and explanations of the role the Pokemon or set occupies are all wonderful options and highly encouraged so people understand exactly how your Pokepick functions.
- "Meme" sets; this isn't a thread for obvious joke picks such as LC Pokemon, Choice Specs Palafin, or Trick Room Sweeper Spectrier. Operate under this rule of thumb, "if you have to force the set to work, rather than the set working for you, it likely needs work or a refocus."
- Common meta sets with only a single change or two; aka swapping one commonly used move to another commonly used move (for example; Palafin switching between Wave and Liquidation).
- Deriding players who experiment with unconventional Pokemon or sets. Everyone is at different stages of competitive understanding, and the only thing that making fun of them accomplishes is giving Smogon and the competitive Pokemon community as a whole a negative reputation for gatekeeping and not being beginner friendly. Every single person on this site was a beginner at one point including those of us who have been playing for a decade or more, please treat people with the respect you'd want to be treated with yourself.
- One-liners asking people to test your favorite lower-tier Pokemon for you, this isn't a request thread. If you'd like to talk about a Pokemon, please test your Pokemon set on Showdown in the OU meta, learn what works and what doesn't, and then come here to talk about it!
Post some heat and we'll put it up!
Greninja @ Choice Scarf 
