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Hey, we're matched up for Autumn seasonal draft. I'm not available from Friday afternoon to Sunday. When would you be up for the game between Monday and Friday morning? I'm GMT+2
We got a combo post, since both new OMs are pretty interesting.
Bad 'n' Boosted has won the OMOTM vote by a landslide. This brand new OM has a very simple concept: every Base Stat of every mon that is 70 or lower gets doubled. This meta looks incredibly fun, with a ton of potential different ideas to work with, and I have been working on a few different team theories.
Ursaluna becomes a powerful physical attacker with 140 base attack and dual 120 STABs, plus Fire Punch to hit the few mons that resist those. Ursaluna, Iron Hands, and Calyrex-Ice all get their Speed doubled to a decent amount, but still too slow for this meta. The simple solution is Webs. Ariados gets insane bulk, and has a solid support movepool on top of Webs. Magnezone works to check opposing Flying types immune to Webs, as well as trapping Skarmory, the meta's premier defensive threat.
Ludicolo and Poliwrath both get their speed and an offensive stat doubled to 140. Ludicolo also learns Swords Dance and has an okay physical movepool. Pelipper becomes extremely bulky, making it a better switch-in to most opposing weather setters than Kyogre. This is probably the weakest of the teams, but I just find the idea of Ludicolo being potentially usable hilarious.
If you use this team, the video has to have the Miror B music.
Torkoal gets stupid bulk. Scream Tail doubles Special Attack, so offensive Calm Mind sets become very strong, with Psychic Noise also helping it to break through defensive checks more easily. The EVs are for Proto Speed. Gouging Fire also doubles Special Attack, so that + Specs + Sun Boost + Protosynthesis = big number. Fire Blast is a STAB for outside of Sun. The Speed EVs can maybe be moved to HP, as Gouging Fire still too slow to outspeed most relevant things, even with Timid. Hatterene spreading Paralysis through Nuzzle can help with this. the Speed on Hat make you outspeed min-speed Paralyzed Skarmory, allowing you to stop it from Roosting with Psychic Noise.
The Leader's Choice is Revelationmons, which essentially amounts to OU, but with every mon having STAB on everything. This allows us to ask a very simple question: What if Iron Valiant had Fairy-type Close Combat? https://pokepast.es/8c9e8687181d2b44
I will reply to this with replays and updates after the metagames drop and I can do some testing on ladder.
Hello, we play in the Draft Autumn Seasonal. My timezone is GMT -7, and I will be available weekdays (except monday) from 4PM-7PM. I can play Sunday at any time between 9AM-7PM, and I will likely be able to play Saturday but I don't have specific times rn.