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llamaledgend Cryoxetic llamaledgend wrote on Cryoxetic's profile.
ur a bird, nerd!
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King Choco PokeRyo King Choco wrote on PokeRyo's profile.
hello mono ssnl im -5 prefer to play asap when works for u
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Dwagon TenileDysfunction Dwagon wrote on TenileDysfunction's profile.
when do you want to play for mono seasonal? im -7
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ilikeplayingroblox aim ilikeplayingroblox wrote on aim's profile.
I've come to share a Veil Team that uses tera ground tera blast alolan ninetales and covert cloak darkrai
https://pokepast.es/992910c7a94c5201
This isn't an impressive OU team by any means, I only got around the low top 250 range with it. But it's incredibly fun to use and win with I'd say. There are some odd techs in this team that I don't think are immediately clear so I'll explain them here. Biggest issue right now is that this team is very weak to tyranitar, with or without a sand core surrounding it.
This team used to struggle a lot against sun and garganacl along with many booster energy sweepers like iron valiant, iron moth, and raging bolt.
To fix the garganacl issue, I decided to just swap a covert cloak onto darkrai. Since darkrai's item was always kind of not as impactful as I wanted it to be beforehand, I decided that putting covert cloak on it wasn't a huge deal. It's very easy for opponents to switch in garganacl after something dies and then just click salt cure, this turns garganacl into an opportunity to win the game right then and there. If the garg has body press, tera poison makes darkrai completely wall garganacl and gives it free setup or damage. Covert cloak also helps with being able to switch into glowking and pecharunt without fearing poisons, nuzzle paralysis from hatterene, and stat drops from moves like shadow ball or moonblast on switch in/tera respectively.
Typically alolan ninetales runs moonblast and a more defensive tera like water or steel and a more defensive EV spread to get more veils up but offensive tera ground tera blast was way more impactful in games than max hp moonblast and tera water (which is what I used to run). Tera ground tera blast is able to snipe iron moth, torkoal, ceruledge, and kingambit, while still doing good damage to targets that moonblast hits also. (Ttar mainly) Freeze dry also hits what moonblast hits also (Hisuian-Samurott, Great Tusk, Raging bolt) along with important must-hit targets like gliscor, landorus, and ogerpon-wellspring. So I felt like moonblast was fine to cut. Tera ground is able to completely neutralize any late game reverse sweep by raging bolt with the use of encore.
Why is cinderace not libero and why is it tera fire?
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 252 HP / 228+ Def Pecharunt: 190-224 (50 - 58.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO (Defensive pech)
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Pecharunt: 240-284 (75.7 - 89.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO (Offensive pech)
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Slowking-Galar: 432-510 (109.6 - 129.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 244 HP / 36 Def Gliscor: 290-342 (82.3 - 97.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Poison Heal
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 20 HP / 236 Def Alomomola: 168-198 (35.2 - 41.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO (Av Alo)
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Alomomola: 216-255 (40.4 - 47.7%) -- guaranteed 3HKO (Max Sp. Def Alo)
-1 252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Landorus-Therian: 262-310 (68.5 - 81.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO (OHKO if revenge kill)
https://pokepast.es/992910c7a94c5201
This isn't an impressive OU team by any means, I only got around the low top 250 range with it. But it's incredibly fun to use and win with I'd say. There are some odd techs in this team that I don't think are immediately clear so I'll explain them here. Biggest issue right now is that this team is very weak to tyranitar, with or without a sand core surrounding it.
This team used to struggle a lot against sun and garganacl along with many booster energy sweepers like iron valiant, iron moth, and raging bolt.
To fix the garganacl issue, I decided to just swap a covert cloak onto darkrai. Since darkrai's item was always kind of not as impactful as I wanted it to be beforehand, I decided that putting covert cloak on it wasn't a huge deal. It's very easy for opponents to switch in garganacl after something dies and then just click salt cure, this turns garganacl into an opportunity to win the game right then and there. If the garg has body press, tera poison makes darkrai completely wall garganacl and gives it free setup or damage. Covert cloak also helps with being able to switch into glowking and pecharunt without fearing poisons, nuzzle paralysis from hatterene, and stat drops from moves like shadow ball or moonblast on switch in/tera respectively.
Typically alolan ninetales runs moonblast and a more defensive tera like water or steel and a more defensive EV spread to get more veils up but offensive tera ground tera blast was way more impactful in games than max hp moonblast and tera water (which is what I used to run). Tera ground tera blast is able to snipe iron moth, torkoal, ceruledge, and kingambit, while still doing good damage to targets that moonblast hits also. (Ttar mainly) Freeze dry also hits what moonblast hits also (Hisuian-Samurott, Great Tusk, Raging bolt) along with important must-hit targets like gliscor, landorus, and ogerpon-wellspring. So I felt like moonblast was fine to cut. Tera ground is able to completely neutralize any late game reverse sweep by raging bolt with the use of encore.
Why is cinderace not libero and why is it tera fire?
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 252 HP / 228+ Def Pecharunt: 190-224 (50 - 58.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO (Defensive pech)
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Pecharunt: 240-284 (75.7 - 89.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO (Offensive pech)
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Slowking-Galar: 432-510 (109.6 - 129.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 244 HP / 36 Def Gliscor: 290-342 (82.3 - 97.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Poison Heal
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 20 HP / 236 Def Alomomola: 168-198 (35.2 - 41.5%) -- guaranteed 3HKO (Av Alo)
252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Alomomola: 216-255 (40.4 - 47.7%) -- guaranteed 3HKO (Max Sp. Def Alo)
-1 252 Atk Blaze Tera Fire Cinderace Pyro Ball vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Landorus-Therian: 262-310 (68.5 - 81.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO (OHKO if revenge kill)
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Incognition DeMarvelous Incognition wrote on DeMarvelous's profile.
Hey we face each other for Monotype Seasonals
I'm +0
What's your availability? (We have until next Sunday)
I'm +0
What's your availability? (We have until next Sunday)
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LUCASQUAQUE G-vyle LUCASQUAQUE wrote on G-vyle's profile.
I on in lucasquaque You can call me whenever you can.
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Onyx Onix 7 lag=bad Onyx Onix 7 wrote on lag=bad's profile.
Sorry for not asking you earlier, forgot about our game. When are you avaliable for our game?
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Snaky_Feet MaxDileon08 Snaky_Feet wrote on MaxDileon08's profile.
hello , when do you want fight for winter monotype ? I'm GMT+1
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SBAP ilikeeatingcrayons SBAP wrote on ilikeeatingcrayons's profile.
Hey crayons sorry its so late into the week lol, -7 when do u wanna play? I'd prefer sunday but Saturday should work too
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MattandMello Dharma MattandMello wrote on Dharma's profile.
hey, we paired for ssnl mono, can Yu do it sunday my 11 pm? I am +1.
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Therostheog 5Dots Therostheog wrote on 5Dots's profile.
GMT-6 here, available most of tomorrow and Sunday and whenever after that, when would you like to do our match?