In general, what would be considered the least match-up dependent playstyle in the OU meta at the moment? I think in the past this used to be stall, but nowadays even stall seems pretty matchup fishy overall. I remember back in earlier gens, you could basically just build one team, and it would have at least a chance of beating pretty much any team you would come across, but currently the meta seems to have shifted more toward building teams and just accepting that you're playing a statistical long game and that you will outright lose against certain threats.
That being said, is there any kind of team that sort of minimizes matchup fishing in general?
In my opinion, I'd say rain teams. Unless you run into a very good player that has grass type and electric type coverage on the same mon, like Grass Knot + Tbolt Tapu Koko, you have a very high chance of winning. Rain is a very easy playstyle to play, as most teams only have one or two switch ins to rain which you can mostly predict. Once those walls like Ferrothorn or Toxapex are gone, you just go into Barraskewda and spam Liquidation. This is why rain is very prominent on high ladder.
There are a few threats to rain, but can generally be managed.
Some offensive threats being:
Some defensive walls to rain:
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Obviously I'm listing a lot of threats, but you don't see more than 3 on a single team, which most can be revenge killed by something.
And also:
since these 4 can switch up the weather.
When running rain, you need 4 mandatory pokemon in your team:
and any electric immunity. Pelipper is the best rain setter, screw Politoed. Barraskewda absolutely abuses rain. Ferrothorn just benefits so much, and is a great switch in to common threats like Rillaboom and Tapu-Koko and more
Not criticizing rain teams or anything as I love playing them, but seriously...rain isn't that tough to play for the majority and you most likely just end up winning by spamming Liquidation on Barraskewda lol. I'm not saying it takes no skill, but it's one of the easiest playstyles to learn to play.
Let me know if you think I'm wrong or if there are other teams that "minimize matchup fishing"