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Project National Dex OU Teambuilding Competition - Cycle 43: Ogerpon-Cornerstone
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Tera Fighting DD Pult+Cyclizar Bulky Offense
This Dragapult set is the gold standard as to why Tera is stupid because you literally just...beat the DD Pult answers? It's less consistent otherwise but rocking unsuspecting Kingambit and Mega TTar with this will never not be funny. You can't really fit Sub though, so Cyc works well as a stopgap that also spins. It also works as a Heatran midground as its fairly threatening to this otherwise. Fight Z CM Lele crushes a lot of traditional defensive answers to it and is generally really good. Mega Scizor checks Lele and is a good option into a lot of special attackers, Urshifu-RS is a good option offensively right now and is very hard to consistently answer, and Lando is the rocker that checks Zama. Urshi and Sciz don't synergize that well with Lele but you can work around it and they're mostly Pult's supporting cast to be honest, as is Cyc. This Pult set can just turn games on its head immediately ban Tera lol.
This Dragapult set is the gold standard as to why Tera is stupid because you literally just...beat the DD Pult answers? It's less consistent otherwise but rocking unsuspecting Kingambit and Mega TTar with this will never not be funny. You can't really fit Sub though, so Cyc works well as a stopgap that also spins. It also works as a Heatran midground as its fairly threatening to this otherwise. Fight Z CM Lele crushes a lot of traditional defensive answers to it and is generally really good. Mega Scizor checks Lele and is a good option into a lot of special attackers, Urshifu-RS is a good option offensively right now and is very hard to consistently answer, and Lando is the rocker that checks Zama. Urshi and Sciz don't synergize that well with Lele but you can work around it and they're mostly Pult's supporting cast to be honest, as is Cyc. This Pult set can just turn games on its head immediately ban Tera lol.
Shed Tail BO ft. Alaskan Bull Worm
- Orthworm is a very rare Pokemon to use, but I think it can have potential even with its severe passivity due to it being a nifty Ground-immune and passing slow Shed Tails to our teammates. Tera Ghost is used for funny hijinks against Great Tusk while also providing a Fighting-immunity infront of Zamazenta and Mega Medicham, allowing it to get a safe Shed Tail off.
- Clefable is here for our HO matchup as it deals with Volcarona and Iron Valiant, two Pokemon who would otherwise be a major threat to this team. Wish support lets Orthworm and Kingambit regain more HP so they can function more easier, and Calm Mind lets it turn into a wincon that can be potent with Shed Tail support and with the utility of WishTect. Tera Water gives us a resistance from Steel-type attacks from Gholdengo and Mega Scizor while also providing a nice defensive typing in general against the likes of Volcarona and Urshifu-R.
- Gholdengo possesses a Fightinium Z to break through the Dark-types it baits in like Ting-Lu and Kingambit, while also immediately threatening Heatran and Ferrothorn. Shed Tail support exuberates the baiting of the Dark-types even further, allowing it to safely drop an All-Out Pummeling and enable Mega Latias. An alternative spread that can be used here is the standard defensive set with Tera Ghost to deal with Iron Valiant and Tapu Lele even better.
- Mega Latias is another bulky wincon that functions here well, as once Gholdengo baits and removes the Dark-types that Mega Latias would usually struggle with, it can go wild. Safeguard is used to not let Pokemon threaten it and its teammates like Clefable and Buzzwole with status, which is generally debilitating to them. However, if you believe that Shed Tail covers it up enough, feel free to use Reflect Type, at it can be used to copy the typing of Pokemon with Pursuit like Kingambit and Mega Tyranitar to ensure a safe switch out.
- Kingambit is our Dragapult and opposing Gholdengo counterplay, our Knock Off spreader, and has Swords Dance to be even more annoying. Pursuit can be used over Iron Head, but leaves you vulnerable to Fairy-types like Mega Diancie and opposing Clefable. Tera Dark is used to bolster its already deadly STAB, but Tera Ghost can be used to annoying Zamazenta and Great Tusk, or Tera Flying to deal with Landorus-T and the aforementioned Great Tusk again as well.
- Buzzwole is our own counterplay to opposing Kingambit if it gets out of control, while also dealing with Great Tusk, Kartana, and Mega Lopunny. It is turned into another wincon in combination with Bulk Up and Shed Tail, letting it neuter opposing threatening setup sweepers like Kartana and Mega Gyarados. Tera Water lets us deal with the aforementioned Mega Gyarados even better, while also improving our Rain matchup.Threatlist
Just play very, very carefully around this, loop between Clefable and Mega Latias until you get to the point where it is exploitable.
You usually should play around the former with Kingambit and Gholdengo, and the latter with Gholdengo itself. However, it can be a bit sticky against these two.
The lack of a Ground-type here can be somewhat of a nuisance against this, but playing around it with Mega Latias and Kingambit shouldn't be a problem.
Calm Mind or Reflect Type with Mega Latias and pray, this Pokemon is just super fucked up against bulky teamstyles generally.
Anyways, with all of that said, I hope you enjoy the team!
ALASKAN BULL WORM!
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Triple-Setup Terrain HO Ft. Cresselia
This team is based off of three highly dangerous sweepers which all appreciate being behind both screens and a Substitute, with the very niche but unexpected choice of Electric Seed Calm Cresselia, being able to be very bulky on both sides of the spectrum allowing it to set up Calm Mind in peace until Stored Power can easily sweep through the opponent's team. With that said, let's have a look at the specific members of this Hyper Offense team!
While one may think Tapu Koko to be outclassed by Grimmsnarl now that the Electric Seed-wielding Espathra is gone from the metagame, I still choose to use Koko on this team for two purposes: to activate Cresselia's Electric Seed as well as to alllow Iron Valiant to become blazing fast, outspeeding most Scarfers and even some Pokemon which double their Speed, like Mega Swampert. It also is able to taunt Kingambit, something that Grimmsnarl struggles to do, at times enabling Kingambit to use Swords Dance.
This Pokemon mainly serves as speed control as well as a powerful breaker for the team. With its Mixed set, no Pokemon is able to safely switch into it aside from heavily defensive ones like Toxapex, which get easily exploited by the other members of my team. One oddity about this Iron Valiant in particular is Energy Ball; I use this in order to smash through fully healthy Mega Swampert in rain, also outspeeding it, along with obtaining a massive hit on Rotom-Wash and certain other Water types, like Gastrodon, for the benefit of my other team members.
I have one main thing to say about Cresselia: let her cook. With massive bulk under screens, with Calm Mind as well as Electric Seed boosting Defense, very few Pokemon can stop her from her inevitable sweep [some that can include Pokemon like Water Bear, which can ignore its Defense boost]. Behind a Substitute, this Pokemon does especially well, as it does not need to use its Tera Poison to avoid a Toxic, freeing up Dragonite to use it at a later juncture of the battle. Aside from that, the only other interesting thing about the Cresselia that's worth mentioning is Hidden Power Fighting to hit Kingambit and Tyranitar, which will otherwise suck momentum out of a Cresselia sweep.
The star of the show. This team is specifically meant to showcase Shed Tail, as all four of the sweepers are helped (not hindered, like Annihilape is) by a Substitute at full health. Specifically, Iron Valiant loves a Substitute allowing it to get an extra hit in; Cresselia loves Substitute not being broken by a myriad of attacks, Mega Gyarados being able to avoid Will-o-Wisps and other annoyances with Substitute along with itself not running Sub [instead choosing Taunt], and Dragonite having Screens and Multiscale and Substitute being able to set up Dragon Dance easily.
This Pokemon is one of the most bulky Pokemon in the game, especially under screens. Shed Tail grants it a free Substitute allowing it to avoid any Toxic or Will-o-Wisp shenanigans, and Taunt disallowing Toxapex to Haze its boosts away or Kingambit trying to set up Swords Dance. Aside from that, the combo of Waterfall and Crunch deals massive damage to many Pokemon, especially if it has a Dragon Dance up.
Dragonite's Multiscale puts even Arceus to shame with its ExtremeKiller moveset. It has immense bulk, allowing it to take almost any hit with its Substitute intact and therefore being able to get two Dragon Dances up at times(!) Using Fire Punch on Dragonite allows it to power through Ferrothorn, which can otherwise be very annoying for this team. However, Roost is also a good option to keep itself healthy and Multiscale intact, and other moves can also work on this Pokemon, such as Dragon Claw and Dual Wingbeat [with Dragon Claw providing high damage output against neutral targets.]
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oops I forgor, voting time!
Team A
Team A
Team BTera Fighting DD Pult+Cyclizar Bulky Offense
This Dragapult set is the gold standard as to why Tera is stupid because you literally just...beat the DD Pult answers? It's less consistent otherwise but rocking unsuspecting Kingambit and Mega TTar with this will never not be funny. You can't really fit Sub though, so Cyc works well as a stopgap that also spins. It also works as a Heatran midground as its fairly threatening to this otherwise. Fight Z CM Lele crushes a lot of traditional defensive answers to it and is generally really good. Mega Scizor checks Lele and is a good option into a lot of special attackers, Urshifu-RS is a good option offensively right now and is very hard to consistently answer, and Lando is the rocker that checks Zama. Urshi and Sciz don't synergize that well with Lele but you can work around it and they're mostly Pult's supporting cast to be honest, as is Cyc. This Pult set can just turn games on its head immediately ban Tera lol.
Team C
PROFESSOR PUNCH gets in behind a screen and is unable to be intimidated, usually claims a kill and can get a cheeky trailblaze speed boost to end games
checks fighting dog, fighting rabbit, and other fighting things while getting rocks for the team
the phantom whip passes subs to the threatening associates in the back and allows them to destroy any "opps"
speed control also psyterrain synergizes well with mmedi and makes rkiling sd gambit easier!
gambit sw/i, traps ghold for mmedi n lele, traps infiltrator pult from smashing shed tail teams, and is knock user for the squadron
modest volc behind a sub=its joever. could do psy > hp ground but i hate heatran with all my heart...
Team D
Shed Tail BO ft. Alaskan Bull Worm
Threatlist
Just play very, very carefully around this, loop between Clefable and Mega Latias until you get to the point where it is exploitable.
You usually should play around the former with Kingambit and Gholdengo, and the latter with Gholdengo itself. However, it can be a bit sticky against these two.
The lack of a Ground-type here can be somewhat of a nuisance against this, but playing around it with Mega Latias and Kingambit shouldn't be a problem.
Calm Mind or Reflect Type with Mega Latias and pray, this Pokemon is just super fucked up against bulky teamstyles generally.
Anyways, with all of that said, I hope you enjoy the team!
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ALASKAN BULL WORM!
Voting ends Wednesday 5th April, 8pm gmt+2
Triple-Setup Terrain HO Ft. Cresselia
This team is based off of three highly dangerous sweepers which all appreciate being behind both screens and a Substitute, with the very niche but unexpected choice of Electric Seed Calm Cresselia, being able to be very bulky on both sides of the spectrum allowing it to set up Calm Mind in peace until Stored Power can easily sweep through the opponent's team. With that said, let's have a look at the specific members of this Hyper Offense team!
While one may think Tapu Koko to be outclassed by Grimmsnarl now that the Electric Seed-wielding Espathra is gone from the metagame, I still choose to use Koko on this team for two purposes: to activate Cresselia's Electric Seed as well as to alllow Iron Valiant to become blazing fast, outspeeding most Scarfers and even some Pokemon which double their Speed, like Mega Swampert. It also is able to taunt Kingambit, something that Grimmsnarl struggles to do, at times enabling Kingambit to use Swords Dance.
This Pokemon mainly serves as speed control as well as a powerful breaker for the team. With its Mixed set, no Pokemon is able to safely switch into it aside from heavily defensive ones like Toxapex, which get easily exploited by the other members of my team. One oddity about this Iron Valiant in particular is Energy Ball; I use this in order to smash through fully healthy Mega Swampert in rain, also outspeeding it, along with obtaining a massive hit on Rotom-Wash and certain other Water types, like Gastrodon, for the benefit of my other team members.
I have one main thing to say about Cresselia: let her cook. With massive bulk under screens, with Calm Mind as well as Electric Seed boosting Defense, very few Pokemon can stop her from her inevitable sweep [some that can include Pokemon like Water Bear, which can ignore its Defense boost]. Behind a Substitute, this Pokemon does especially well, as it does not need to use its Tera Poison to avoid a Toxic, freeing up Dragonite to use it at a later juncture of the battle. Aside from that, the only other interesting thing about the Cresselia that's worth mentioning is Hidden Power Fighting to hit Kingambit and Tyranitar, which will otherwise suck momentum out of a Cresselia sweep.
The star of the show. This team is specifically meant to showcase Shed Tail, as all four of the sweepers are helped (not hindered, like Annihilape is) by a Substitute at full health. Specifically, Iron Valiant loves a Substitute allowing it to get an extra hit in; Cresselia loves Substitute not being broken by a myriad of attacks, Mega Gyarados being able to avoid Will-o-Wisps and other annoyances with Substitute along with itself not running Sub [instead choosing Taunt], and Dragonite having Screens and Multiscale and Substitute being able to set up Dragon Dance easily.
This Pokemon is one of the most bulky Pokemon in the game, especially under screens. Shed Tail grants it a free Substitute allowing it to avoid any Toxic or Will-o-Wisp shenanigans, and Taunt disallowing Toxapex to Haze its boosts away or Kingambit trying to set up Swords Dance. Aside from that, the combo of Waterfall and Crunch deals massive damage to many Pokemon, especially if it has a Dragon Dance up.
Dragonite's Multiscale puts even Arceus to shame with its ExtremeKiller moveset. It has immense bulk, allowing it to take almost any hit with its Substitute intact and therefore being able to get two Dragon Dances up at times(!) Using Fire Punch on Dragonite allows it to power through Ferrothorn, which can otherwise be very annoying for this team. However, Roost is also a good option to keep itself healthy and Multiscale intact, and other moves can also work on this Pokemon, such as Dragon Claw and Dual Wingbeat [with Dragon Claw providing high damage output against neutral targets.]
B>D
B>D
B>C
Volc+Kyu BO
https://pokepast.es/7de6dbb8bf0448b0
another version where volc is offensive to help with urshifu if it gets a little tricky
https://pokepast.es/19b36404edaacc0
I think Volc+Kyurem has nice synergy because kyurem can cover water types, dragonite and such and volc can help with kyurem’s weakness such as mega scizor, fairies, fighting, steel and such.
Kingambit traps gholdengo, mlati if it doesnt run sub and such also is a nice rock resist helping kyu and volc’s weakness.
Rwash is a nice fogger, can wisp stuff like urshifu and other physical attackers and a pivot overall a nice mon.
Lando is our stealth rocker and an electric immune also resists fighting if volc gets too worn down.
Mega lopunny is our speed control, helps vs HO.
https://pokepast.es/7de6dbb8bf0448b0
another version where volc is offensive to help with urshifu if it gets a little tricky
https://pokepast.es/19b36404edaacc0
I think Volc+Kyurem has nice synergy because kyurem can cover water types, dragonite and such and volc can help with kyurem’s weakness such as mega scizor, fairies, fighting, steel and such.
Kingambit traps gholdengo, mlati if it doesnt run sub and such also is a nice rock resist helping kyu and volc’s weakness.
Rwash is a nice fogger, can wisp stuff like urshifu and other physical attackers and a pivot overall a nice mon.
Lando is our stealth rocker and an electric immune also resists fighting if volc gets too worn down.
Mega lopunny is our speed control, helps vs HO.
Electric Terrain + Volcarona Offense
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Description:- This team is mainly based on electric terrain and screens. Tapu koko can set up both screens and terrain while some strong sweepers are there waiting for this moment.
Volcarona is a strong Pokemon and it's access to quiver dance helps it become bulkier + stronger every time it uses it.
Iron Valiant in the back can sweep with its lo + terrain boost on speed and Tera fairy makes moonblast even stronger so it becomes unstoppable.
Lopunny can easily counter gholdengo with its scrappy and kingambit loses to it.
Dragapult is a set up sweeper. Ghostium Z + dd + dragon darts can kill anythin except kingambit. However Lopunny can do so.
Koko can set up both terrain and screens and then switch out usin u-turn. It can also taunt to stop status moves.
Great Tusk is a strong and bulky Pokemon. The set I'm running is based on bulk up sweep. Ice spinner is for Lando and rapid spin for speed boost. Eq is for hitting hard after getting boosted
Final Team:- https://pokepast.es/dfa098796afef4f2
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Description:- This team is mainly based on electric terrain and screens. Tapu koko can set up both screens and terrain while some strong sweepers are there waiting for this moment.
Volcarona is a strong Pokemon and it's access to quiver dance helps it become bulkier + stronger every time it uses it. Iron Valiant in the back can sweep with its lo + terrain boost on speed and Tera fairy makes moonblast even stronger so it becomes unstoppable. Lopunny can easily counter gholdengo with its scrappy and kingambit loses to it. Dragapult is a set up sweeper. Ghostium Z + dd + dragon darts can kill anythin except kingambit. However Lopunny can do so. Koko can set up both terrain and screens and then switch out usin u-turn. It can also taunt to stop status moves. Great Tusk is a strong and bulky Pokemon. The set I'm running is based on bulk up sweep. Ice spinner is for Lando and rapid spin for speed boost. Eq is for hitting hard after getting boosted Final Team:- https://pokepast.es/dfa098796afef4f2