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As UUbersPL starts to wrap up for some teams, feel free to use this thread for sharing teams and your thoughts on the metagames included!

Have fun, and thanks to everyone who participated!
 
Almost forgot to post here after asking for it sorry Celeste, but here is my team dump from UUBPL!

Week 1: https://pokepast.es/dddba73186832cbd
For week 1, I wanted a solid team that could deal with the perceived brokens, with the starting point being a Celesteela/Toxapex/wisp-Arceus core. We messed around with dropping the wisp on Arceus for fog, dropping Toxapex, but we ended up with Gliscor as a groudon w/ fire move was proving to be way too good into the previous structures. The final build was to give me options into most strong pokemon, as said, that people would immediately see and probably try and slam since the opposing team had 0 experience in the tier from what I saw, and I feel like I was right, Groudon, Mewtwo, Pheromosa, and Skymin all on the opposing team. More detail into the team, I had jolly life orb Groudon to outpace other offensive Groundons, most of which were adamant from what I saw through the tier, and with life orb at +2 it also ohko’s most of them. No earthquake Gliscor is something new for me, but earthquake almost always feels like the wrong click right now. The set gives me a chance to push Groudon into favorable ranges for the rest of the team with toxic while also being able to fit all the other moves I wanted (wanted fog 100%), the Toxapex is pretty classic just with sludge over my classic Rocky Helmet, Arceus-Dark is the aforementioned wisp set, scarf Reshiram with sun is an absolute menace and gave the team more speed, def a mon people were not expecting but it is insanely strong, and then z-ground Pheromosa (big shout outs PeachyVision for the idea), since Arceus-fire was lowkey giving some problems so slamming it (and Toxapex/Arceus-electric) for around 80-90ish is super good. Big fan of this team.
Also wanted to bring up one of the teams I made that ended up on the samples getting brought which is cool, but seeing it misplayed due to lack of tier experience made me sad :(.
Week 2: https://pokepast.es/1f7c272984da57ae
This week I wanted smth comfortable and able to deal with most things, but also something that wasn’t really on my scout, and so the first time I brought a structure like that without fog. And I load up into webs :(. Team idea was to chip or break teams with the triple attacking pokemon, with another z-ground Pheromosa (I am a huge fan of this set right now) and scarf Mewtwo + double dance lum Groudon all together trying to find breaking or sweeping points. I had a version of the team with a mixed physical defense bias fog Mega-Scizor but it felt a lot weaker than the Pheromosa version, especially as Pheromosa helped with the big two arcs who stop a scarf mewtwo cleaning, and I wasn’t really clicking defog even with hazards up. Skymin ev’s are to kill offensive Groudons with seed flare, this Toxapex was specifically for as solid anti Reshiram + anti bugs as you can get, with baneful bunker specifically because I showed mozonite z-ground Pheromosa the previous week and I’m pretty sure he was helping the team so just in case it comes back on me. Went with an anti cm war Arceus-dark with roar, a little bit of a gamble vs a possible toxic Arceus but it’s a classic rock-paper-scissors (Toxic-roar-refresh/sub) that I hadn’t seen a lot of yet so I was hoping to maybe get into a war and roar them out at +3/+4. Overall proud of the team as a whole, especially since it gave me more experience and experimentation into fogless teams and even into a nightmare match-up it was closer than I expected. (I would put this more-so to the opposing team not being a great webs build imo more-so than anything I built but I’ll still take it).
(https://pokepast.es/fd39fb8cf40615ac https://pokepast.es/f215aa0f5ed9741c the scizor teams)
Week 3: https://pokepast.es/fe9cdd8acb6880ab
I didn’t play so I won’t comment too much on the team, it was mostly a mileage build but I helped test and refine some stuff, such as changing the dnite’s z.
Week 4: https://pokepast.es/2d9d09f162a295d1
This week I wanted to bring a real, full offense team finally, just to change up my scout (if people even are looking at them lol). Needed to be careful of opposing offense, since thats what the opposing team had only brought so I messed around with some ideas of sub Groudons, support Tapu Kokos, Mega-Scizor, and then finally to something double dragon with a bulky Groudon. The aforementioned Scizor and Koko duo was on the original version, providing fairy, pivot, and fog, but Termnal (shouts) brought up Mega-Diancie, as I was worried about some stack or webs (as seen in the scout and since it beat me w2). Filled the need for fog and a fairy in one, and let me slot back in another pivoting bug, Pheromosa (again). The team felt good in testing, the only major change from the original Termnal idea was making the Arceus adamant, thank you Mileage for that call out. Going through the team, standard M-Diancie with protect to scout choice sets and to allow me to get the mega active for later in case it’s needed, Life orb Kyurem-black with enough special attack to kill offensive Groudons with ice beam, what I think is the best non sd Groudon set right now, enough SpD to live scarf Skymin seed flare after rocks and killing it back with fire punch, double bug move Pheromosa since Mewtwo looked quite strong into the team and i wanted a guaranteed ohko onto it, scarf Skymin for more anti offense, and 3 attack z-Arceus-dragon to round out the double dragon and attempt to exploit lack of defensive fairies and steels in the scout, have a strong extreme speed for priority, and to have a healing wish abuser. The team that the opponent brought was not what i expected obviously and actually looked quite strong into the team but, I got a few turns right and due to finally bringing non z-Pheromosa I had enough power to clean after a speed boost.
Week 5: https://pokepast.es/9453a02725540b6a
https://pokepast.es/1c965740618f2b0e
Two teams listed here, the Blaziken team was the one I had built for the match-up specifically into Crayons but due to my team having already been eliminated from playoffs I decided to bring an untested team that I had built to test for playoffs, which is just a modified version of the electric terrain sample team I built. As said it wasn’t really tested but I had planned on bringing something similar into the first playoff series (which I believe would have been versus Terra) so I don’t have a lot to say about it besides 2 electric types and Groudon hate. I think there are a lot of changes that could be made to the team but I had this version as a baseline to build off of. I can talk more in depth about the team that I didn’t bring though, as it was mainly built due to talks between me and Mileage about how ash-gren is really nice into offense and we should bring it at some point, scrambling on a friday to build something as the original idea wasn’t panning out (Mega-Kang semi stall if anyone was curious https://pokepast.es/095e4a5ad63eace7). Taking it mon by mon, the Ash-Greninja set is a classic specs set with u-turn, the Groudon set is the one I have used previously for similar reasons, a physically defensive will-o Arceus-flying to help with Groudon (Crayons really likes double dance from when we’ve played in the past so it lives an adamant z-stone edge and gets the will-o off), scarf Mewtwo making its return again to catch Pheromosa and Skymins out, defog Mega-Scizor with phys def to help with pheromosa more and have priority for any offense match ups, and the swag bring, Blaziken. I really wanted a strong z physical attacker and Blaziken felt really good actually, went with 3 attack protect with the idea of coming in on something it kills and then allowing it to click protect the turn after to basically outpace anything it needed to and with z-flare blitz to abuse Groudon’s sun. Build was this way as I’ve mentioned like 5 times or something already but Crayons in this tier from all we’ve played really likes offense, HO especially it felt like, and I wanted to be able to catch any of that that came. I also was kinda sus on their builds that leaned more to balance from the previous weeks (even though those were maybca loads not Crayons) and kinda just wanted to lock down the offense match up and then just sorta hope something on the team would find a hole if a defensive core was brought.

Thanks for looking at the teams and for reading my rambling thoughts on why and how I built the teams, first teamdump so sorry if its a bit of a messy read I kinda just wanted to get basic thoughts out on each of them. Big s/o to everyone who helped, 0mileage and terminal especially for all the tests through the weeks and to my managers Rasche and afairy for drafting me and letting me have an opportunity to show off this metagame that I care for a lot. :)
 
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