Tournament Smogon Snake Draft 2020: OU Discussion

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Hey everyone! This thread will be used to discuss everything related to Snake - players & rosters, current metagame trends, predictions, etc. Remember to keep the discussion civil & have fun! I'll update this thread as the tournament goes on.



Potential OUers:

Rumble Hall Rattlers:
lax, kebab mlml, Samqian, Fear, bugzinator, talah, Excal, Hockey1
Ambrette Astrotias: Finchinator, Tace, Raiza, BIHI, devinn
Shinto Ruin Serpents: Star, watashi, Tamahome, Jrdn, Nat, Malekith, Askov, Vaboh
Lake of Range Leviathans: John W, BK, Rexus, ramboss, Hamhamhamhamham, the pharoah
Black City Mambas: xray, Gefährlicher Random, Bobby Dagen, Relous, ZDen, KingKdot, LittleBigPlanet2
Lanakila Nagas: robjr, Sacri', ima, Ninjadog, Storm Zone, false, Regnite
Celadon City Cobras: mncmt, Sjneider, FMG, 1 True Lycan, Steve Angello, TPP, HANTSUKI
Sky Tower Lindworms: Eo Ut Mortus, Ewin, beatiful, Jytcampbell, Shogarth
Terminus Taipans: dice, Eeveeto, Void, le LLiolae, High Impulse, AdvanceShip
Berry Forest Bushmasters: Lopunny Kicks, Santu, Bloody alfa, frisoeva, CyberOdin, MetalGro$$, Leo​
 
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[Week 1]
[Week 2]
[Week 3]
[Week 4]
[Week 5]
[Week 6]
[Week 7]
[Week 8]
 
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Hello all, It appears this thread isn't really active so how about we fix that with some week 1 reflections.

Overall Usage Stats Week 1

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |   34 |  85.00% |  52.94% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |   20 |  50.00% |  55.00% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |   14 |  35.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Tyranitar          |   11 |  27.50% |  63.64% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |   11 |  27.50% |  54.55% |
| 6    | Amoonguss          |   10 |  25.00% |  80.00% |
| 6    | Magnezone          |   10 |  25.00% |  40.00% |
| 8    | Toxapex            |    9 |  22.50% |  55.56% |
| 8    | Blissey            |    9 |  22.50% |  44.44% |
| 10   | Tangrowth          |    8 |  20.00% |  37.50% |
| 11   | Gastrodon          |    7 |  17.50% |  57.14% |
| 11   | Rhyperior          |    7 |  17.50% |  57.14% |
| 11   | Skarmory           |    7 |  17.50% |  42.86% |
| 11   | Zeraora            |    7 |  17.50% |  14.29% |
| 15   | Mantine            |    5 |  12.50% |  80.00% |
| 15   | Urshifu-*          |    5 |  12.50% |  40.00% |
| 15   | Rotom-Heat         |    5 |  12.50% |  40.00% |
| 18   | Aegislash          |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 18   | Reuniclus          |    4 |  10.00% |  25.00% |
| 20   | Togekiss           |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 20   | Kommo-o            |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 20   | Ditto              |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 20   | Scizor             |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 20   | Kyurem             |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 20   | Ferrothorn         |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 20   | Hippowdon          |    3 |   7.50% |  33.33% |
| 20   | Mandibuzz          |    3 |   7.50% |  33.33% |
| 20   | Rillaboom          |    3 |   7.50% |   0.00% |
| 29   | Gengar             |    2 |   5.00% | 100.00% |
| 29   | Volcarona          |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 29   | Hydreigon          |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 29   | Hatterene          |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 29   | Crawdaunt          |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 29   | Weezing-Galar      |    2 |   5.00% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Conkeldurr         |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Mew                |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Marowak-Alola      |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Porygon2           |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Torkoal            |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Venusaur           |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Charizard          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Xatu               |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Talonflame         |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Chandelure         |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Heracross          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Jirachi            |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Azumarill          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Magneton           |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
It’s a famous saying, one popularized by either Mark Twain or former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli depending on who you believe: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” In spite of this we may as well talk about some notable stats.

1) Clefable's staggering 85% usage belies belief. I can guarantee many a boomer never thought they would see the day where Clefable is arguably even more prominent than in ORAS OU. With the meta for week 1 clearly trending towards balances clefable became practically a necessity to provide an adequate switch in to Urshifu-Single Strike. The panda despite only seeing 5 usages, one of which from memory was definitely Rapid-Strike (even if it SHOULD HAVE been a Single Strike), really does force bulkier teams into running regen mons+dark resist/rocky helmet/Clefable just ensure one of either band or bulk up dont just entirely 6-0 you. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues into week 2 (it likely will) and if it does should the Panda need looking at in the near future to promote building and diversity?

2) Dragapult being the next most used pokemon should come as no surprise to anyone actively playing the tier. It acts as speed control, Volcarona check, status spreader, wallbreaker in both a physical and special capacity. It may be one of the most splashable pokemon pretty much ever and is a nightmare to play around for many teams trying to figure out the set. Especially those without a ghost resist :psynervous:

3) Amoongus finished out the week with an 80% win rate, the highest of any pokemon with at least 10 usages. We have thankfully also seen the evolution from double status which holds issues of its own at the moment and seen foul play Amoongus be used. Amoongus acts as a Dragapult/Aegi/Water Panda/Keldeo/Pex/etc..... check or counter and with regen just holds an insane amount of defensive utility. We will surely see this win rate drop due to more progressive building and exploitation but Amoongus looks like a defensive trend that will be here to stay. Maybe we even see a synthesis Amoongus appear at some point.......

4) Last takeaway is the OLT hangover producing many sand builds that were used in week 1. Tyranitar having a slightly above average win rate is impressive and is showing its chops in SS OU for the first time really. Expect usage or win rate to drop next week when people inevitably realise and adapt to exploit its drawbacks as a special wall but it clearly did work week 1. Excadrill was pretty much bang average in win rate but remains a threat anyways, Corviknight usage does provide a deterrent to excadrill at present so it'll be interesting to see how it adapts :blobthinking:

Matchups








Rumble Hall Rattlers (2) vs (2) Berry Forest Bushmasters

SS OU: Kebab mlml vs Santu
SS OU: Fear vs Lopunny Kicks
SS OU: lax vs Bloody alfa
SS OU: Samqian vs frisoeva

Usage Stats

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    6 |  75.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Tyranitar          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 4    | Skarmory           |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 4    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 4    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 4    | Reuniclus          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Mantine            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Gastrodon          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Corviknight        |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Hippowdon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Ditto              |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Rhyperior          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Scizor             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Conkeldurr         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Hydreigon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Kommo-o            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Magnezone          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Weezing-Galar      |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Torkoal            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Venusaur           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Charizard          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Xatu               |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Mandibuzz          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
SS OU: Kebab mlml vs Santu

This series match saw Santu run out as the winner vs Kebab in a game that saw both players use interesting teams. Santu loaded up dual sand with a banded heavy slam Tyranitar allowing him to immensely pressure Kebab all game. With the excadrills death on turn 4 to the focus blast Reuniclus signalling the beginning of a difficult game for Kebab as the opposing Togekiss pressured him time and time again, but the timely crit on the reuniclus rendering it pretty much useless for the rest of the game was a clutch moment to keep it from pressuring the rest of the team with future sights. Overall just a standard 69 turn SS game where one play really did make it an easy pilot win.

SS OU: Fear vs Lopunny Kicks

Who could have predicted this. Arguably nicest user on site Lopunny Kicks rolled up with extreme fat and............. still won. Fear the greek gsc mastermind actually brought a team dice used in WCOP that matched up very well vs Lopunny but unfortunately or rather fortunately for the bushmasters the more comfortable SS OU player won out piloting an excellent game and taking advantages of the minor misplays along the way. This matchup had led to two of the more interesting narratives in week 2 for SS OU. WIll someone take advantage of Lopunny in the builder AND have the play to stand up to him and can Fear take the next step in his evolution from old gens phenom to a top tier SS OU player.

SS OU: lax vs Bloody alfa

Current stand out SS OU player Bloody Alfa vs the number 1 draft pick and arguably best player in the tour Lax was a hot matchup in week 1 for the spectators. Both for the narrative and for the completely insane sun team Bloody Alfa decided to bring presumably prepping for Lax's preferred offensive style. Unfortunately I would argue Lax's team choice was on point. Rhyperior heavily pressured the sun team while the combination of foul play Amoongus/Mantine/Dragapult provided enough offensive and defensive pressure to neuter the offensive core. The torkoal dying early enough helped stop Venusaurs threat too. Well played by both parties. Best game of this series by far.

SS OU: Samqian vs frisoeva

Whats most sad about this game is that it had all the making for a rarely seen Reuniclus 6-0. Unfortunately a crit knock off from the Conkeldurr left this game entirely unwinnable for Frisoeva. Cool team choice from both with some rarely seen picks on both sides but this was a dead rubber once the Reuni died.

Overall takeaway from this series, 6 Clefables, 3 Tyranitars, and 2 Reuniclus. The weather heavy bushmasters narrowly missed out on having a 3-1 OU core going into week 2 and used made great use of some underated pokemon and sets. The Rattlers OU will be looking to bounce back regardless as they will probably admit there was an underperformance compared to what would have been expected. Its in safe hands guided by Lax however. Keep an eye on both these teams for Week 2.








Ambrette Astrotias (4) vs (0) Terminus Taipans

SS OU: Tace vs le LLiolae
SS OU: Raiza vs Eeveeto
SS OU: BIHI vs High Impulse
SS OU: Finchinator vs dice

Usage Stats

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    8 | 100.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Corviknight        |    4 |  50.00% |  75.00% |
| 2    | Blissey            |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Amoonguss          |    3 |  37.50% | 100.00% |
| 4    | Dragapult          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Tyranitar          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Skarmory           |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 9    | Gastrodon          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 9    | Magnezone          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 9    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Gengar             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Crawdaunt          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Hatterene          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Talonflame         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Reuniclus          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Rhyperior          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
SS OU: Tace vs le LLiolae

Well this is the beginning of a trend for this series. This game was kind of a wash with LLL bringing what can only be described as Stall ft. Zeraora and Tace using 4 pokemon to break it. LLL had very little chance with his CM TBolt Clefable counterplay being praying his Hat boosted and won first. It did not work. Very good team choice by Tace exploiting a flawed build to its fullest extent while also using what I would like to assume was some hot ass Pult and Panda sets but guess we'll never know. Structurally the team was good outside the long term weakness to Rapid Strike Panda surging striking or a Sub Kyurem but it had counterplay for both so :blobshrug:

SS OU: Raiza vs Eeveeto

Honestly this game was fantastic. It had everything, early game reads, mid game mysticism, and a wonderfully tight end game that came right down to the wire. I know Eeveeto doesn't want to be playing OU in this tour but he put up a great showing here with one of the more interesting teams this week. Highlighting both the positives and downsides of specs magnezone immensely to break open Raiza throughout the game but credit where credit is due. Raiza played it immaculately to get his excadrill back to nearly full health after an early game body press set him back. Both team choices incredibly solid with very few weaknesses outside like Bisharp. Excellent stuff from both. Expect wins to come there way in the coming weeks.

SS OU: BIHI vs High Impulse

The return of High Impulse to the center stage of CG OU did not go as planned. He brought your typical sand balance team that saw so much success in other series. However BIHI prepped excellently and brought the crab. The early game trick of sticky barb on to the Tyranitar also left High Impulse with very little counterplay to the Specs Dragapult long term and honestly spelled doom for him. A matter of excellent prep work and an early game trick decided this game.

SS OU: Finchinator vs dice

This was a strange one I feel. The serene grace Blissey let Finch recover his Clefable to full after an early game timely Corviknight flinch. Then he navigated the Aegi matchup excellently via Corv and Amoong. Used the Magnezone effectively to pressure Dice's team too. Overall it would be nice sentiment to say that the Blissey ability mistake was Dice's biggest issue but Finch pressured better offensively and put out a thoroughly dominant performance over one of the player who many assumed would be atop the SS OU pile at the end of this tour. Deserved win and hopefully a sign of things to come for Finch.

Overall takeaway from the series is that the Astrotias OU core is going to bring solid teams every week and their players are going to pilot them to the best of their abilities and those can be some high ceilings. Taipans were unfortunate to not have at least 1 win so they will be looking to bounce back week 2 but will need to work on their prep more than anything else.









Shinto Ruin Serpents (2) vs (2) Sky Tower Lindworms

SS OU: Star vs Eo Ut Mortus
SS OU: watashi vs Garay oak
SS OU: Tamahome vs Ewin
SS OU: Malekith vs Jytcampbell

Usage Stats

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    8 | 100.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Corviknight        |    4 |  50.00% |  25.00% |
| 3    | Toxapex            |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Dragapult          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Zeraora            |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 6    | Mantine            |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Aegislash          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Excadrill          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Tangrowth          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Tyranitar          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Magnezone          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Blissey            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 13   | Amoonguss          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Kommo-o            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Rhyperior          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Scizor             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Chandelure         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Reuniclus          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Ditto              |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
SS OU: Star vs Eo Ut Mortus

Presumably a superstar showdown between franchise players. Both players entered this game with solid teams and a smile on their face. "Have fun" they both said. Only one man had fun. Eo spent the better part of 180 turns getting what he needed to win after Star utilised the rarely seen post the German WCOP wall falling block Toxapex to trap the Amoongus and opening the door for some of his pokemon to break or sweep. Unfortunate game which remained close to the end but ultimately futile. Star will hope his fortune improves while Eo will hope for more of the same. One interesting thing was Stars form of offense. It relied heavily upon getting reads correct vs the opponent. This was highlighted in the Mantine matchup in this game. Eo is probably one of the players this could work best against in the pool but seeing whether this was a logical team choice or a inherent flaw in Stars building will leave building enthusiasts eager to see more.

SS OU: watashi vs Garay oak

The Serpents OU core arrived with a plan vs The Lindworms. Bring block Pex to exploit Eo's building tendencies and facilitate sweepers. This worked perfectly here. The early burn on Garays Rillaboom due to a flame body proc did probably take the game away from him and reduce alot of his options but I dont think it would have changed the outcome much. Once the Gastrodon was trapped and the Dragapult was revealed to be specially biased will'o wisp the game was over. A game lost in the builder. This game does however highlight alot of peoples issue with toxapex as a pokemon in the current metagame which is an interesting watch. The ability to safely pivot around an offensive core with ease using a pretty basic defensive structure is kinda problematic but then again, whys your offensive core lose to Blissey+Rillaboom counter not named Corviknight or Skarmory.

SS OU: Tamahome vs Ewin

To quote former tyrannical tournament director and new contender for the meanest user on Smogon TonyFlygon "Ewin, simply put, got smashed. The Aegislash moveset was admittedly a rough match-up, but even then. My faith will have to be won again should Ewin want to be bolded once more in the future" In all honesty and to be less of a dick than Tony, Ewin probably couldn't win this matchup but he also didn't necessarily shower himself in glory. Tama will likely not get as easy a win this tour and I'm sure Ewin will be determined to bounce back in week 2. Tama probably brought the worst sand team of the bunch this week and Ewin brought one of the worst semi stalls. Only upwards trajectory in the teambuilding department.

SS OU: Malekith vs Jytcampbell

JYT brought something similar to what Kebab brought vs Santu but with far stronger immediate offensive presence so I liked it more. Malekith brought a niche pick in Chandelure and it was the UU set at that. However, this game felt more like Malekith beating himself rather than JYT playing remarkable or anything of the sort. The crit on excadrill and the spdef drop on Clefable were unfortunate and what I can only assume was a low roll with Excadrill? Otherwise I dont understand the immediate need to try kill the Kommo-o when Excadrill couldve put in work in the late game. Overall JYT deserved the game and we can hope for better from Malekith in week 2 and hope JYT can keep it up.

So this was the second series in a row to feature 8 Clefables, but this time we as the spectators also had the pleasure of enduring block Pex being used by the Serpents. For this reason alone I'm glad these sadistic demons got haxed but they're clearly a very good OU core and were unlucky not to go at least 3-1. Both of these teams will be fun to watch in week 2 and see how they adapt and overcome where they went wrong this week.








Lake of Rage Leviathans (2) vs (2) Celadon City Cobras

SS OU: ramboss vs FMG
SS OU: the pharoah vs Steve Angello
SS OU: John W vs mncmt
SS OU: BK vs 1 True Lycan

Usage Stats

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    6 |  75.00% |  50.00% |
| 1    | Dragapult          |    6 |  75.00% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Amoonguss          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Rotom-Heat         |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 6    | Excadrill          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Magnezone          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 8    | Gengar             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Rhyperior          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Tyranitar          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Mew                |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Marowak-Alola      |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Porygon2           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Kommo-o            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Hatterene          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Heracross          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Jirachi            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Azumarill          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Magneton           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Hippowdon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Toxapex            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
SS OU: ramboss vs FMG

Ramboss deserved this win for team choice alone. The stones on a man to bring trick room post Magearna ban, but not only bring it, but bring a good trick room at that. I'm a fan. FMG brought exactly what you'd expect FMG to bring in SS and loaded up a superior version of LLL's stall ft. Zeraora. Unfortunately for him ramboss brought SD Alola Wak, Trick Scarf Plot Toge, and CM Hat. He was probably within a couple of no flinches to winning this but ultimately the odds were in ramboss' favour. Keeping an eye on Ramboss in week 2 is to be advised and can FMG bounce back and claim some wins in a relatively even pool? He should. but who knows.

SS OU: the pharoah vs Steve Angello

Look, this was a dead game vs a substitute that mattered absolutely 0. Double Mag is not viable and shouldn't be run. It's not even a funny meme. Literally the funniest thing about this team is that Tony said he needed a Rotom-Freeze to stick his magnets on. The grudge Dragapult was a cool tech and its a shame it was wasted here. Steve brought a solid sand team and piloted to a relatively easy win. Hopefully the false pharoah can get a game that matters this tour so he can show his credentials with a serious team because clearly his meme game is weak as fuck.

SS OU: John W vs mncmt

mcnmt brought a Devinn team in this game that he had been spamming in tours prior to this game so that was a bit disappointing from the newly anointed Mr. Jamvad. John w did an adequate of job of prepping for him and this type of team and really should have won. Two late game paras totally took the game away from him and then he lost a speed tie to prevent what presumably would have been a Dragapult 2hko on the Clefable with hex and a non-ohkoed Dragapult of his own unless he has a strange spread. Expect far better from the Brazillian Jam in future or it'll be a disappointing tour for him. John in contrast will surely bounce back and prove his worth as a first round pick in the coming weeks.

SS OU: BK vs 1 True Lycan

1TL back in action for the first time since Team UK's disappointing WCOP qualifiers exit and his own 0-2 in qualifiers. Meanwhile BK has been busy raging on ladder and timer stalling half the competition so this was always going to be an interesting watch and both brought different team to rest of the field except themselves. BK brought weatherless excadrill which is vomit inducing and a Sub Plot Gengar, while 1TL brought the only Heracross of the week and a Plotless Rotom-H. Both players are good in their own right but 1TL is one of these players that has to build up steam to really get good. If he can pick up a few wins in the next 2 weeks I would expect a very good record, if not he will struggle to recapture that form. There isn't much to say about the game itself. Some arguable misplays around the sleeping Corviknight early game from Lycan really put him on the back foot in the long term, meanwhile the Heracross for Amoongus trade didn't work out nor was it necessarily the best path to a win. Better performances will come from Lycan and I'd expect BK to continue bringing solid Italian teams and collecting wins here and there.

This series actually featured alot of diversity in pokemon picks even if the majority of it came from The Leviathans and it will be fun to see what these can come up with in week 2. The Leviathans had a deceptively strong week 1 showing in OU even if their team couldn't grab any more than 1 win in every other tier. It will hopefully form the foundation of their source of wins going forward as they look to improve elsewhere week by week.










Black City Mambas (1) vs (3) Lanakila Nagas

SS OU: Gefährlicher Random vs Storm Zone
SS OU: ZDen vs ima
SS OU: Relous vs Sacri'
SS OU: xray vs robjr

Usage Stats

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    6 |  75.00% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    5 |  62.50% |  60.00% |
| 3    | Tangrowth          |    4 |  50.00% |  25.00% |
| 4    | Rhyperior          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Magnezone          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 6    | Gastrodon          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Excadrill          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Tyranitar          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Ferrothorn         |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 11   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Scizor             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Amoonguss          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Ditto              |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Corviknight        |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Toxapex            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Crawdaunt          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Hippowdon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Weezing-Galar      |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Hydreigon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
SS OU: Gefährlicher Random vs Storm Zone

Fresh from haxing me on the ladder Storm makes his snake debut looking to capitalize on second to none metagame knowledge and make that difficult transition many have struggled with. Random is coming off a strong WCOP and loaded up several pokemon that usually counter style Storm: Ditto, Gastrodon and a Kyurem. It was a great team choice for him as he gladly collecting his free win. Storms team actually has so much to love about it. It has a Rhyperior, a Weezing Galar, AND a Urshifu Rapid-Strike. Not even to mention the fact he brought a ghost resist unlike so many others. However when using a Water Panda you really need to pair it with grasses or powerful Pex abusers which team did not have. A taunt Weezing may have gone some distance to weakening the Random's Pex for the Urshifu but sadly this was a case of Single Strike being a better fit for this team in the form it was brought as it could have actually chipped the pex enough in combination with the Weezing to actually pressure the stall team. His choice of high horsepower>earthquake also came back to bite as the Kyurem lived what presumably was a roll and managed to further pressure Storm. Good game and it will be enjoyable to see can Storm collect a few wins or will he fade into obscurity like the Co5tas of the world

SS OU: ZDen vs ima

ZDen brought an interesting Hippo sand that aimed to take advantage of banded Excadrill paired with trapper Magnezone. There was however no real way of knocking off a shed shell outside a sleep powder Tang if he ran into one so it was a risky choice. Ima however brought a team previously used with a Mantine that consistently gave ZDen issues. Honestly ZDen played this well right up until the end game where he lost a pretty crucial Rock Slide vs EQ 50/50 when in vs Scizor and then neglected to wisp the Scizor first time around and instead opting to hex in case ima went for speed tie which would've been sub-optimal on his part. Ima played well overall though and was good value for the win. This game really highlighted the massive issue with CB Excadrill as a breaker. If you pick the right move you kill a mon or deal a massive amount of damage. Dont and you're useless. Not great as the sole breaker on a team with plenty of scope to have been far more offensive than eventually settled upon and leading to issues down the line.

SS OU: Relous vs Sacri'

Sacri brought a standard sand team here, meanwhile Relous used a team very similar to BIHI. The key difference in the game between High Impulse and BIHI and this one is that Sacri had better Crawdaunt counterplay in Phys Def Tangrowth, Toge>Barb Clef makes pressuring sand harder and quite frankly just outplayed Relous. Put it this way, a 16% Excadrill, while suffering from paralysis, managed to toxic a Tangrowth, deal 93% damage to a Dragapult, and force a Magnezone sack. All without ever dying. I'd call that a successful beatdown. I enjoyed this game for those reasons, teambuilding choices were uninspired but Sacri brought solid and outplayed to a win. Can't ask for more really.

SS OU: xray vs robjr

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Where do I start? The nuzlocke continues and I am in love with how it has. Banded Rhyperior is such a natural escalation from the SD Crash sets we've seen around and it is PHENOMENAL. Robjr truly doing the lords work and highlighting exactly why offensive rhyperior is such a good pokemon in this meta. I could say xray just lost in the builder but it was more than that. This was just ascension. Xray didnt convince me in WCOP with alot of Germans doing better really but hes clearly an excellent player and should bounce back from this but quite frankly I don't know how anyone could bounce back from the raw big dick energy of robjr crushing them. Good luck to both in future but I am officially on the robjr train.

At the end of the day series ended 3-1 and it was an incredibly deserved 3-1. The Nagas have a threatening OU core and will hopefully continue to perform like they did this week. General team diversity was decent without many overlapping weaknesses so kudos for that too. Mambas however generally lost their games just due to being outplayed in game or in the builder in the case of Xray. That could be worrying but also a net positive. Just means they faced better opponents this time around meaning their trajectory should be upwards from here vs some of the seemingly less well rounded teams or less on form teams. Mambas OU badly needs a bounce back week in week 2 to justify some of the early picks.


Possible Week 2 Trends



Bisharp @ Life Orb
Ability: Defiant
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Knock Off
- Iron Head
- Sucker Punch

Many of the teams used rely on incredibly slow backbones and utilize mono dark resist Clefable. Swords dance Bisharp will naturally either sweep these teams outright with enough chip or break apart essential parts of the defensive core for other pokemon to take advantage of.



Corviknight @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Bulk Up
- Roost
- Substitute/Taunt
- Brave Bird

Entirely arbitrary ev's aside alot of week 1 teams really struggle to deal with this Corv outside pp stall. Yes it would mean likely packing another remover but the upside of the metal bird being an incredible set mon right now may be too difficult to pass up for some.

Generally speaking steels are just very good right now due to the prevalence of Clefable balance and this should and will probably look to be exploited by many a team in week 2. Aegi could see more usage as an effective way to beat sand balance also while Urshifu Single Strike will eventually be used again to really pressure these slow teams and allowing the panda user to really take advantage of passive Clefable play due to the need to softboiled pretty much every time. I actually hated alot of how the meta is being perceived by Snake players right now personally so I'll be interested to see how week 2 goes.

Anyways if you got this far thanks for reading, I badly needed a distraction today and this provided some. If anyone else has some thoughts on week 1 or building trends please post here too and lets try have some fun discussion n_n
 
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Hey everyone! Here's the usage stats of Week 2.

Week 2 Usage Stats

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
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| 1    | Clefable           |   36 |  90.00% |  52.78% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |   20 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |   15 |  37.50% |  46.67% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |   11 |  27.50% |  63.64% |
| 5    | Skarmory           |    9 |  22.50% |  66.67% |
| 5    | Mandibuzz          |    9 |  22.50% |  33.33% |
| 7    | Amoonguss          |    8 |  20.00% |  75.00% |
| 7    | Zeraora            |    8 |  20.00% |  62.50% |
| 7    | Urshifu-*          |    8 |  20.00% |  62.50% |
| 7    | Rotom-Heat         |    8 |  20.00% |  50.00% |
| 11   | Toxapex            |    7 |  17.50% |  71.43% |
| 11   | Gastrodon          |    7 |  17.50% |  57.14% |
| 11   | Blissey            |    7 |  17.50% |  28.57% |
| 11   | Hippowdon          |    7 |  17.50% |  28.57% |
| 15   | Tyranitar          |    6 |  15.00% |  83.33% |
| 15   | Ferrothorn         |    6 |  15.00% |  50.00% |
| 15   | Rhyperior          |    6 |  15.00% |  50.00% |
| 18   | Magnezone          |    5 |  12.50% |  80.00% |
| 18   | Reuniclus          |    5 |  12.50% |  40.00% |
| 20   | Hydreigon          |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 20   | Jirachi            |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 20   | Kyurem             |    4 |  10.00% |  25.00% |
| 23   | Conkeldurr         |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 23   | Tangrowth          |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 23   | Aegislash          |    3 |   7.50% |  33.33% |
| 23   | Volcarona          |    3 |   7.50% |  33.33% |
| 27   | Alakazam           |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Rillaboom          |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Zarude             |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Pelipper           |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Obstagoon          |    2 |   5.00% |   0.00% |
| 27   | Kommo-o            |    2 |   5.00% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Seismitoad         |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 33   | Primarina          |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 33   | Marowak-Alola      |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 33   | Ditto              |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Chandelure         |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Xatu               |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Azumarill          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Scizor             |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Keldeo             |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Weezing-Galar      |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Incineroar         |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Quagsire           |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Necrozma           |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Toxtricity         |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Crawdaunt          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 33   | Togekiss           |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
Here are the results and usage stats of each matchup!




Terminus Taipans (1) vs (3) Rumble Hall Rattlers

OU: dice vs Kebab mlml
OU: Eeveeto vs Samqian
OU: High Impulse vs Fear
OU: le LLiolae vs lax

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    8 | 100.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Skarmory           |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Excadrill          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Zeraora            |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Dragapult          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 4    | Hippowdon          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 7    | Tyranitar          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 7    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 7    | Magnezone          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 7    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Gastrodon          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 13   | Alakazam           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Hydreigon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Reuniclus          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Obstagoon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Corviknight        |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Berry Forest Bushmasters (0) vs (4) Sky Tower Lindworms

OU: Bloody alfa vs Jytcampbell
OU: Santu vs Eo Ut Mortus
OU: frisoeva vs Ewin
OU: Lopunny Kicks vs Garay oak

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    8 | 100.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Corviknight        |    5 |  62.50% |  40.00% |
| 3    | Dragapult          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Urshifu-*          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 5    | Magnezone          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Gastrodon          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Blissey            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Rhyperior          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Reuniclus          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Jirachi            |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Conkeldurr         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Seismitoad         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Tyranitar          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Excadrill          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Obstagoon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Ditto              |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Hippowdon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Chandelure         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Xatu               |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Ambrette Astrotias (1) vs (3) Celadon City Cobras

OU: BIHI vs mncmt
OU: Raiza vs FMG
OU: Tace vs Steve Angello
OU: Finchinator vs 1 True Lycan

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    7 |  87.50% |  57.14% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    6 |  75.00% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Mandibuzz          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Ferrothorn         |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Rotom-Heat         |    3 |  37.50% |   0.00% |
| 6    | Gastrodon          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Corviknight        |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Hydreigon          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 6    | Rhyperior          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Jirachi            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Tyranitar          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Excadrill          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Reuniclus          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Azumarill          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Scizor             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Zarude             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Conkeldurr         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Alakazam           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Hippowdon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |






Shinto Ruin Serpents (1) vs (3) Lanakila Nagas

OU: watashi vs robjr
OU: Tamahome vs Sacri'
OU: Star vs Storm Zone
OU: Malekith vs ima

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    6 |  75.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Zeraora            |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Corviknight        |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Dragapult          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Kyurem             |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 6    | Urshifu-*          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Pelipper           |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Hippowdon          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Skarmory           |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Blissey            |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Excadrill          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Primarina          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Marowak-Alola      |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Hydreigon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Keldeo             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Weezing-Galar      |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Incineroar         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Kommo-o            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Mandibuzz          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Quagsire           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |




Lake of Rage Leviathans (2) vs (2) Black City Mambas

OU: the pharoah vs ZDen
OU: ramboss vs xray
OU: BK vs Gefährlicher Random
OU: John W vs Relous

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    7 |  87.50% |  57.14% |
| 2    | Excadrill          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Corviknight        |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 5    | Rotom-Heat         |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Rhyperior          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Tyranitar          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Tangrowth          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Volcarona          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 11   | Jirachi            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Zarude             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Conkeldurr         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Toxapex            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Reuniclus          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Magnezone          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Mandibuzz          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Necrozma           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Toxtricity         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Crawdaunt          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Kommo-o            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |


And finally.. here are the cumulative usage stats of the past 2 weeks.
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+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |   70 |  87.50% |  52.86% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |   40 |  50.00% |  52.50% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |   29 |  36.25% |  48.28% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |   22 |  27.50% |  59.09% |
| 5    | Amoonguss          |   18 |  22.50% |  77.78% |
| 6    | Tyranitar          |   17 |  21.25% |  70.59% |
| 7    | Toxapex            |   16 |  20.00% |  62.50% |
| 7    | Skarmory           |   16 |  20.00% |  56.25% |
| 7    | Blissey            |   16 |  20.00% |  37.50% |
| 10   | Magnezone          |   15 |  18.75% |  53.33% |
| 10   | Zeraora            |   15 |  18.75% |  40.00% |
| 12   | Gastrodon          |   14 |  17.50% |  57.14% |
| 13   | Rhyperior          |   13 |  16.25% |  53.85% |
| 13   | Urshifu-*          |   13 |  16.25% |  53.85% |
| 13   | Rotom-Heat         |   13 |  16.25% |  46.15% |
| 16   | Mandibuzz          |   12 |  15.00% |  33.33% |
| 17   | Tangrowth          |   11 |  13.75% |  45.45% |
| 18   | Hippowdon          |   10 |  12.50% |  30.00% |
| 19   | Ferrothorn         |    9 |  11.25% |  55.56% |
| 19   | Reuniclus          |    9 |  11.25% |  33.33% |
| 21   | Aegislash          |    7 |   8.75% |  42.86% |
| 21   | Kyurem             |    7 |   8.75% |  42.86% |
| 23   | Hydreigon          |    6 |   7.50% |  50.00% |
| 24   | Mantine            |    5 |   6.25% |  80.00% |
| 24   | Kommo-o            |    5 |   6.25% |  40.00% |
| 24   | Jirachi            |    5 |   6.25% |  40.00% |
| 24   | Volcarona          |    5 |   6.25% |  40.00% |
| 24   | Rillaboom          |    5 |   6.25% |  20.00% |
| 29   | Conkeldurr         |    4 |   5.00% |  75.00% |
| 29   | Togekiss           |    4 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 29   | Scizor             |    4 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 29   | Ditto              |    4 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 33   | Crawdaunt          |    3 |   3.75% |  33.33% |
| 33   | Weezing-Galar      |    3 |   3.75% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Gengar             |    2 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Marowak-Alola      |    2 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Hatterene          |    2 |   2.50% |  50.00% |
| 35   | Alakazam           |    2 |   2.50% |  50.00% |
| 35   | Zarude             |    2 |   2.50% |  50.00% |
| 35   | Pelipper           |    2 |   2.50% |  50.00% |
| 35   | Xatu               |    2 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Chandelure         |    2 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Azumarill          |    2 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Obstagoon          |    2 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 45   | Mew                |    1 |   1.25% | 100.00% |
| 45   | Porygon2           |    1 |   1.25% | 100.00% |
| 45   | Seismitoad         |    1 |   1.25% | 100.00% |
| 45   | Primarina          |    1 |   1.25% | 100.00% |
| 45   | Heracross          |    1 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 45   | Torkoal            |    1 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 45   | Venusaur           |    1 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 45   | Charizard          |    1 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 45   | Talonflame         |    1 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 45   | Magneton           |    1 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 45   | Keldeo             |    1 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 45   | Incineroar         |    1 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 45   | Quagsire           |    1 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 45   | Necrozma           |    1 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 45   | Toxtricity         |    1 |   1.25% |   0.00% |


I had to put Moves and Teammates in a seperate pastebin because this post was exceeding the character limit by far. You can find it here.

With all of these stats posted, does anything stand out to you? Are certain Pokemon more popular than you'd expect? Why or why not? Are any specific sets worth highlighting in your opinion? What about games? I'll leave these questions open for discussion.
 

power

uh-oh, the game in trouble
With all of these stats posted, does anything stand out to you?
I think the following stat, which is not directly present in the data but that can be directly derived is pretty interesting:

Clefable's win rate is naturally close to 50% because after all, in most games most players have a Clefable. The more interesting stat is people who did not use Clefable have a 30% winrate (33% Week 1 and 25% Week 2)
 
I suck and was slightly later this week and got sniped by Jordy :blobsad: but I gotta do 16 games and hiked all day so better late than never. I'll just comment on the stats and matchups anyways cause I had most of this written at like 4am last night anyways.



"Facts are stubborn things, Statistics are pliable"- Mark Twain. Lets see how many similarities and differences there are between week 1 and 2 on the surface and maybe mention an outlier or two along the way before we dive into each series.

1) The top 4 most used pokemon from week 1 remain kings of week 2. Clefable's usage has actually somehow managed to rise to 90% which is just incredible. We're seeing very similar usage patterns to Snorlax in modern RBY, just shy of Tauros RBY and Snorlax GSC from Clefable in Gen 8 and it makes complete sense. We seemed to see every Clefable set possible this week with Stealth Rock support sets, Calm mind sets, Wish pass and Sets with a combination of both or Trick. Clefable's ability to beat common defensive cores and providing probably the best defensive utility in the metagame by far means its usage is justified. Dragapult got the exact same usage as week 1 for the exact same reasons. Amazing utility and set variation with an ability to break apart defensive cores through raw power if it so pleases. Especially with even less Tyranitars this week :x Corviknight went up in usage slightly but had only a 46.67% win rate. Corviknight usage remains high purely through necessity as an answer to its fellow week 1 alumni Excadrill, whos usage remained the same this week but had an incredible increase in win rate up to 63.64%. Corviknight's inability to one hit KO Excadrill, the fact it remains quite prone to status users, and the flinch chance of iron head paired with paralysis spreaders really does make Excadrill one of the premier breakers in the entire tier.

2) Some notably high win rates from a decent sample size include:
- Amoonguss back at it again with an epic 75% win rate on 8 usages. We've seen sets like AV recently to counteract trick mons such as Clefable being able to dent a team in meaningful ways. These sets can still run spore in the veent they run into trick just due to the free slot at times but generally speaking a coverage of Giga Drain/Sludge Bomb/Clear Smog/Foul Play seems to be ideal in the current meta.
- Toxapex managed to get a 71% win rate on its 7 usages which is pretty impressive from the defensive bane of everyone's existence. We actually only saw 1 instance of the block set this week meaning the Serpents OU core decided not to be dicks this week. It has some pretty immaculately frustrating bulk on both the physical and special side, Regenerator utility is phenomenal, and pretty much every possible annoying move it could have. Toxapex kind of reminds me of a defensive version of gen 6 Aegislash. It's not really broken but it tends to polarize a meta around itself to a point of limitation that is pretty inherently broken. The issue is distinguishing between the difference in defensive versus offensive ban worthiness.
- Tyranitar sitting pretty at an 83.33% win rate off of 6 usages. Tyranitar is truly such an excellent partner for Excadrill. Bulky sets can spread paralysis to facilitate iron head flinches on Corviknight, Banded can break for it. A specially biased set could even lure some extra stuff for it too if one would wish to do so. This can probably expect to see a steady usage for the entirety of snake and or at least until people discover better ways of handling Excadrill and breaking apart sand cores defensively.
- Lastly Magnezone has amassed an 80% win rate on its 5 usages. Magnezones offensive capabilities extend from just its ability to trap the premier flying steel types in the tier. ID Body Press sets can sub up and trap any ferrothorns you may come across and still trap the birds with Discharge. Specs analytic sets can break apart pretty much any defensive core you can come up with outside one containing a Gastrodon or Seismitoad. Even though we've yet to see it Magnezone can even run Air Baloon Magnet Rise to trap Excadrill, something incredibly valuable in this current metagame. We will probably continue to see a solid win rate posted from this mon for the rest of the season.

3) Some notably low win rates from a decent sample size include:
- Mandibuzz may just have posted one of the most pathetic stat lines we may ever see from a mon in a team tour like this. 9 usages, 33.33% win rate. It's still a very good mon but it being incredibly prone to status can hinder it quite a bit, the slow nature of the meta kinda making it knock bait in the long run, and then Clefable being so incredibly prevalent are just some of the reasons Mandibuzz is struggling right now.
- Oh no it is somehow getting worse, Blissey managed to post up a GARGANTUAN 28.57% win rate. Truly incredible. Blissey is really struggling with sand being everywhere and alot of teams focusing on packing Physical Breakers to break teams open rather than special. Blissey still holds some great utility but clearly the way its being used at the moment may need a rethink, even if the sample size isn't huge.
- Hippo has somehow also managed to match Blisseys stat line perfectly with a 28.57% win rate also off of 7 usages. Hippos actually a pretty good mon right now so this could be a bit misleading. It does historically and currently still have issues with how passive it can be. Dragapults are also now running more wisp sets meaning it cant sufficiently switch in to a decent amount of Dragapults now. It still however checks a lot, sets rocks, and offers up a ground typing that isn't seen as much in SS.

Matchups








Terminus Taipans (1) vs (3) Rumble Hall Rattlers

OU: dice vs Kebab mlml
OU: Eeveeto vs Samqian
OU: High Impulse vs Fear
OU: le LLiolae vs lax



OU: dice vs Kebab mlml

Oh this game was not a good look for Dice who really needed a win to bounce back the week 1 loss. He was already off to a bad start when weatherless Excadrill made an appearance in his builder. It was also his only answer to Clefable while he wielded a Kyurem that never saw the field to pressure Kebab's own Clefable, A sub wisp Dragapult which was always going to have an uphill task at breaking a Tyranitar sand team, and a Taunt Mandibuzz. All extremely prone to a clefable coming in and immediately forcing them out. The teams logic is sound in that either dragon should break for the other but it only really takes into consideration one element of a defensive core, not the entirety of one causing it issues. Kebabs team is very sound and noone can really go wrong with bringing sand at this moment in time. This game was always going to be difficult once dice let his Clefable eat an iron head for a sticky barb trade that probably could've been gotten on the switch. Excadrill was obviously going to cause a long term threat without that trick due to Mandibuzz being the counter but idk. Anyways this game probably needed to be played way more aggressively after that trick as that specific Kyurem set dice brought definitely could have pressured Kebab. Unfortunately dices Excadrill committed seppuku entirely via rocky helmet chip instead and Kebab got to take home his win versus the triple weakness to a mon with 90% usage team.

OU: Eeveeto vs Samqian

So...... selfishly I am entirely glad Eeveeto won. He brought the more interesting team and I hate stall ft. Zeraora builds with a passion. HOWEVER, this was robbery of the highest order. Sam prepped incredibly well in anticipation of Eeveeto using a team with a similar premise to last weeks and he wasn't dissapointed. Eeveeto also seemingly forgot how badly Alakazam needs nasty plot to break apart teams such as these and dropped it in favour of recover. Knock off Zam + Magnezone is a cool concept but ultimately a plot Alakazam can break most anything a trapper Magnezone helps with anyways and if it was just regular Analytic Mag he probably could have just dropped knock. There was alot of key points in this game that contributed to Sam slowly losing every advantage he had and all of it was luck based. Unfortunate game but maybe a little bit of retribution for that crit knock off last week I suppose. Both players go into week 3 1-1 and its probably a fair reflection on both at this point.

OU: High Impulse vs Fear

Fears back to farming but I'm sad to see it's versus High Impulse who's coming off the back of a rough week 1 into a round 1 playoffs elimination in Grand Slam. Structurally we got to see another Banded Rillaboom + Magnezone team but this one ran into a far better matchup and had way better answers to untrappable Rilla switchins. This was a good matchup for Fear where he managed to both outplay High Impulse and get outplayed long enough for the Skarmory to avoid being trapped but some really awkward sequences were forced purely due to the structural issues with High Impulse's team. Realistically his Urshifu Rapid-Strike had such massive potential to get a kill every time it came in but his team didn't really facilitate its breaking too well outside potential spike stack. It also just lacked a tonne of offensive pressure while using 3 mons in Hippo/Skarm/Pex that are incredibly passive. There really is a worrying trend developing from the Taiapans ou core in terms of building that they will definitely have to overcome soon to prevent the core from continuing its downward spiral.

OU: le LLiolae vs lax

I am having a pretty major case of de ja vu watching this game. Don't get me wrong, lax played great and LLL didn't really misplay either, but somehow this is now the second team in a row LLL has brought that just accepts the loss versus a calm mind thunderbolt Clefable. If not for a flinch this game probably would have ended even quicker. For lack of actual interesting in battle content to mention I would rather point out some key differences between Lax's and High Impulses teams as they use the same defensive backbone but with tweaks offensively. Lax uses Hydreigon Zeraora over Urshifu Rapid-Strike and Excadrill. Zeraora as the speed control over sand Excadrill really does help with typing redundancies here and offers an extra Magnezone switchin and crucially adds an element of momentum to the team which in tandem with Hydreigon is designed to break teams down. In contrast Excadrill and Urishifu Rapid-Strike don't particularly help each other out too much as their checks are quite similar but neither really breaks through them for the other cause their switchins are incredibly sturdy. It leaves High Impulse with more immediate power but far less offensive and defensive synergy. Hydreigon being a Rotom-H counter is pretty great for these archetypes.

Overall this series wasn't really close at least in terms of OU and the Rattlers will probably be dissapointed not to have had a clean sweep. Once again lax proved why he was picked number 1 overall in the draft and has been very consistently good in the past two weeks. More pressing is the Taipans dire record in OU thus far with their more risky picks not paying off, their first round draft pick being 0-2, and the man they have placed in OU against his initial wishes as per his sign up fortunate to have notched a win this series vs Samquian. It can only get better really but from these first two weeks the outlook is quite bleak for a team who unfortunately has a lower tiers core primed with playoffs potential.








Berry Forest Bushmasters (0) vs (4) Sky Tower Lindworms

OU: Bloody alfa vs Jytcampbell
OU: Santu vs Eo Ut Mortus
OU: frisoeva vs Ewin
OU: Lopunny Kicks vs Garay oak



OU: Bloody alfa vs Jytcampbell

Well, both these players brought entirely disgusting teams that I hope get thrown in the dumpster coming into week 3. One big key difference between the two teams was apparent throughout the game. Jyt managed to bring a team that could actually break an opposing Gastrodon, Bloody Alfa decided he would not take up this option. Water resist Dragapult semi stall to noones surprise really struggled to deal with Urshifu Rapid-Strike throughout the match and while JTY brought a defensive core that could actually handle a sub 3 attacks Aegislash and mixed Dragapult which honestly doesn't seem that difficult. The issue with both of these teams is that they hedge their bets on their breakers being able to break an opposing fat and that their limited defensive core can handle the opposing offense. Its fine, just a bit matchup fishy i suppose. Pretty handily played out win with no chokes to speak of.

OU: Santu vs Eo Ut Mortus

A note on the team before the juicy gameplay. Eo brought a team that makes far more effective use of a Mandibuzz as a defensive pokemon first and foremost which is to be appreciated. The idea behind Wisp Hex Pult + Conk to properly pressure teams relying on Clefable as a significant part of their defensive backbone is a very good pick, particularly versus someone such as Santu. Santu brought some cool mons in Obstagoon and PUP Jirachi with speed control Ditto to have a decent matchup versus possible HO or I guess versus Eo a pp war of some kind. Its an interesting squad with not a whole lot of issues. Surprising to see a Ditto balance be pretty well built so this was a good start. Unfortunately the match wasn't as issue free. It was kind of leaning in Eo's favour early game as his banded Rhyperior was making progress vs Santus team but a pretty significant point came on turn 22 when Santu seemingly trying to avoid chip on his Rhyperior, or PP Stall overheats, attempted to 1v1 a Plot, already revealed to be discharge, Rotom-H with his Clefable. Now I don't want to say this was an unnecessary risk entirely cause hey, if it works Rotom's slowly losing pretty crucial pp but like, there was a Rhyperior right there, and Discharge meant he would never win that trade so it was strange to see Santu go for it. There was then a 3 hit rock blast vs Mandibuzz which forced the Rhyperior out but that isn't exactly odds in his favour to get the 4+ he needed. A turn 40 zen headbutt miss vs a Rotom-H sealed the win for Eo pretty much but Santu's only hope there was a flinch not in his favour again so saying Eo robbed is kind of just unfair. Eo played an optimal game that put himself in the best position to win and avoid being haxed himself. He robbed Star last week but this was fine. A strong 2-0 start from Eo and Santu has to untilt in week 3.

OU: frisoeva vs Ewin

Ewin has tagged me about 5 times since he played Friso asking when I would make this week 2 post so clearly he is absolutely thrilled to have made a pretty good turn around in fortunes from his week 1 game. He brought something a little more matchuppy versus Friso due to his familiar nature with Frisos preferred style of building and play and it paid off with some crucial reads making this a pretty one sided game. All 3 of Friso's Urshifu, Clefable, and Corviknight went from 100-0 in a single turn each and that was that. Friso has a tough matchup in week 3 to try and get his head back in the game. Meanwhile this is Ewin's first win since r1 of wcop so he will be hoping to build on it.

OU: Lopunny Kicks vs Garay oak

Lop Kicks brought very slow fat as predicted by everyone who has ever seen him play. This one had a cool offensive core with Meteor Beam Jirachi + Specs Chandelure though which was nice but again, incredibly slow and really does place so much pressure on Jirachi to beat opposing sand teams. The combination of a Spdef Hippo and Mandibuzz was not enough to stop a late game Excadrill sweep from Garay which he position very nicely. Garay brought a consistent sand archetype and ran into a tilted Lop Kicks who got some early game reads very very wrong. This was a dead rubber of a game at the end of the day but Garay gets his win, Lop Kicks is handed his first loss and has seemingly been figured out a little in the builder for now. Well played Garay.

So this series was surprisingly very one sided and it wasn't even really close. The only one who has an argument they might have won if circumstances were different is Santu. The Lindworms all brought very solid teams this week that held up versus the more creative thinking from the Italian Duo of the Bushmasters. Bushmasters OU underperformed significantly this series and will be looking to do much better week 3 in the playing department. Meanwhile the Lindoworms have somehow steam rolled both teams they have come across thus far, even if they were a lil fortunate week 1. Excellent stuff from an OU core I doubt many would have expected to do this well this early.








Ambrette Astrotias (1) vs (3) Celadon City Cobras

OU: BIHI vs mncmt
OU: Raiza vs FMG
OU: Tace vs Steve Angello
OU: Finchinator vs 1 True Lycan



OU: BIHI vs mncmt

This is the first game we've covered featuring a HO archetype and it is wielded by week 1 High Impulse slayed BIHI. Its a fairly standard archetype that saw a fair amount of ladder usage during OLT with the only significant deviation being Zarude as a niche pick for a stallbreaker in tandem with Rillaboom providing Grassy Terrain. mncmt brought another team he ripped from someone and used the team JYT brought but with Urshifu Single-Strike>Rapid-Strike. Noone really did anything wrong this game. BIHI was rather unfortunate to lose out on a speed tie in the end game on Dragapult vs Dragapult which brought it down to a 50-50 on whether he belly drummed with Azumarill on the Clefable switch or Play Roughed the Dragapult as it hex'd. The 50/50 went mncmt's way and that was that. Played fine by both if not a little safe towards the end by mcnmt where a more aggressive player probably wins but he just doesn't seem to lose lol.

OU: Raiza vs FMG

FMG did what he does in most generations of pokemon and once again brought a fat ass team to hopefully pilot to a victory vs the man who thoroughly outplayed Eeveeto last week. These type of games upset me purely from a building aspect. Raizas team is actually very solid and would work versus quite a few of the teams that got used this week, but it also seems to completely ignore the fact that FMG is going to be the opponent. With no real immediate breakers the team relies so heavily on fishing a paralysis versus Clefable for Pult to break any opposing cores featuring it. Especially when the only other offensive options are relatively slow and are badly required to set up to actually do anything versus fat. Some set changes on this team and this would've been pretty much been a guaranteed win and its just unfortunate to see it. They played 255 turns with the only significant gain outside pp management being Raiza trading his Rhyperior for FMG's Jirachi and Dragapult. Then it devolved into a pp war that ended in a Raiza timeout in a game FMG's Clefable likely won anyways. FMG bounced back and played it exactly how he had to to win versus what could have been an awkward matchup and opponent. Raiza played this fine too there just wasn't much else he could do that he wasn't already doing to try and win.

OU: Tace vs Steve Angello

Tace brought a variation of the team Tamahome brought last week with the significant improvement of Corviknight over Toxapex. I don't know if this was intentional or not but it's appreciated. The most unique thing about this team is the choice of itemless Tangrowth to avoid extra knock off damage from the likes of BD Azumarill and Bisharp which Steve as a "wildcard" is definitely possible to bring. Steve brought the same team Eo used which I spoke about earlier. Tace played the early game well after two different Tangrowth crits had already set him back and he was making significant enough progress. Unfortunately for Steve pokemon is a fickle game and on turn 27 the gods saw fit for his Conk to fully paralyze on the Mach and force it to eat a Brave Bird from Corv for 72% of its health. Steve and Tace kinda just went back and forth then for another 20 odd turns until a key moment came on Conk versus Clefable where a CC to the Clefable over a facade left his conk dead and buried and with no way to win from there. This is the definition of a what could have been game for both players as early game and mid game set backs for both really limited the options available to them.

OU: Finchinator vs 1 True Lycan

I'll be honest and say I don't want to write about how this game actually played out, not because it wasn't a good game, but mostly because 1TL's win post should have seen him have his win taken away from him and given 3 infraction points. Finch did an excellent job of self commentating this game and he is well aware of the aspects of this game that led to him letting himself down. None of which was in the builder as outside a pretty blatant Urshifu Rapid-Strike weakness its a very nice Hippo Clef balance that offers up significant offensive presence in the form of Life orb roost Hydreigon and Trick Scarf Alakazam. This is on top of the Calm Mind Psyshock Clefable and Plot Rotom-H. Ill be honest and say I am unsure of the merits of psyshock over say stored power unless you are certain you won't play a non Jirachi stall. Psyshocks immediate pressure on Pex and the guaranteed win in calm mind wars is a decent niche though and fits here nice enough. 1TL's team in contrast was fine but he was fortunate to win here. Reuniclus is kind of being overrated at the moment seemingly by alot of Snake players and it kinda shows here with Lycan using a team that doesn't really facilitate it sweeping in any way and more so just trying not to lose and hoping Reuni can either win straight up or the defensive core has enough to stop an opposing team from breaking it or pp stalling it. On another day Finch is in the bold here. Lycan has got his first win and thats pretty much as foreboding as it comes for people prepping to play him now.

I was actually quite surprised to see the Cobras OU win out this series even if it likely should have been at best a 2-2 series for them. As assumed though, the Astrotias' all brought solid teams and with Finch even breaking out some very good techs to keep his future opponents on their toes. The Cobras in contrast brought two teams already used in the week while FMG and 1TL just loaded up comfy fat and got their wins in some comfortable games for them. Lets see can The Finchinators bounce back or not and whether the Cobras have a greater variety in their builds in week 3.









Shinto Ruin Serpents (1) vs (3) Lanakila Nagas

OU: watashi vs robjr
OU: Tamahome vs Sacri'
OU: Star vs Storm Zone
OU: Malekith vs ima



OU: watashi vs robjr

Noooooo all that hype last week for this :( Rob got backfooted pretty early and couldn't get it back during the game at all. Fooly consistently outplayed all game versus a team that actually matched up pretty well versus him. Assuming that lefties Keldeo is sub calm mind robjr clearly over prepared for the possibility of a block pex appearance and instead was bamboozled by a Dragapult, Urshifu balance. In spite of this had FLCL not played it very well the Specs Pelipper + Keldeo combination would have been far more threatening than it ultimately was. R2 Pick Watashi 2-0 is off to a good start. Robjr now has to be even more creative with his builds due to the Nuzlocke rules in place for himself.

OU: Tamahome vs Sacri'

Tama brought a very strange team that even right now I cant really decide whether or not it was actually good. It seems the premise is for Incineroar/Kyurem to break for each other but neither appreciate sand being present, nor does Weezing really. I don't know, Sacri's team was just significantly better and one of the better teams this week. Alot of good synergy on both the defensive and offensive side with Primarina seeing some usage too which is always cool. Sub Wisp Hex Dragapult breaking in tandem with Calm Mind Primarina is a solid concept, while Banded Urishifu Single-Strike provides some much needed immediate pressure that the others are lacking and further overloading Clefables alongside Dragapult. Similar to the previous game, Sacri just looked much better than Tamahome this game and collected his win with little to no fuss. This was Tama's first real test and he unfortunately he didn't pass.

OU: Star vs Storm Zone

This was by far one of the highlights of the week. Star loaded up an iteration of Stall ft Zeraora which really does need to be abolished from the metagame as a team choice that ever pops into peoples heads. Storm took absolute full advantage of this and loaded up some pretty great techs that really did a number on Stars team. It all started off with a turn 1 scarf Kyurem earth powering Star's Zera and ended with a Calm Mind Zera sweep, a set that hasn't been seen much since DLC 2 dropped. Storms team takes full advantage of the usual mons Zera forces in and just beats them down with unique breakers that appreciate each other greatly in specs Pelipper and Focus Punch Alola Marowak. Storm had some good reads in this game versus a team that was never really going to trouble him. Star has had it rough since SPL in SS OU and badly needs a change in fortunes to come his way. His team choice here did him no favours and will have to be improved upon going forward. Ladder hero Storm Zone however finally has his first win on the sheet and looked every bit the danger man the Nagas were expecting him to be this game.

OU: Malekith vs ima

Ima wins again, using the exact same team Lax used in his game.....again. This perfectly shows the lethality of Hydreigon versus certain builds. In this case Hydreigon with dragon steel coverage managed to 6-0 the stall team that had no steel type and neglected to run Unaware Clefable when it had the possibility to do so. It also did not have a status move on the Blissey which was strange and meant that any kind of boosting special attacking mon that can win the pp war or power through Toxapex or Quagsire was going to win. I really did not like this stall team, it has alot of structural issues and move set issues and really needed some serious tweeking before being used in a tour game. It seemed far more typical of a ladder stall than a consistent tournament stall team. The paralysis on Volcarona did speed this game up by probably a 100 odd turns depending on how ima wanted to play it but the result was going to be inevitable by the looks of things. ima now heads into week 3 2-0 while Malekith is 0-2 with 2 poor showings under his belt thus far.

By far the best SS OU player on the serpents managed to get the only win this week for them. Their team choices were poor in this series and it will definitely need correcting in week 3 if their OU wishes to finally have a positive week. The bakers however continue to bake and had an excellent showing this week. Their SS OU core has surprising strength across the board and if they can continue to get matchups like this week ima might even do better than his last snake record, which I unfortunately have forgotten what it was, someone remind me thanks.










Lake of Rage Leviathans (2) vs (2) Black City Mambas

OU: the pharoah vs ZDen
OU: ramboss vs xray
OU: BK vs Gefährlicher Random
OU: John W vs Relous



OU: the pharoah vs ZDen

The pharoah got subbed in again but this time didnt bring double Magnevolutions which is a good sign. He brought a pretty standard Reuniclus sand thats seen usage but again the trouble with these builds is that people are using the pokemon without a method of really supporting its sweep or using it to facilitate another mon breaking post Reuniclus doing its thing. This sand is very much one of the weaker sands that has been used during the week for this reason alone. One of the other reasons he struggled this game was the entirely non existant Rhyperior counterplay. Zdens team is very very aesthetically pleasing which means it is obviously good. Volt switch Rotom-H into Banded Rhyperior is a pretty great breaking core to have versus any team, let alone a sand build lack a means of actually do anything to Rhyperior in the first place. I'd like to be able to elaborate more on this team but we didn't actually get many set reveals. Structurally it is very sound however. There isn't actually much to say about the match itself really, straight forward win for ZDen here versus a player who has honestly been given a shitty time of it being asked to sub in when the weeks already won both weeks so far now. Rhyperior clicked 3 moves 8 times and netted an easy win. Hoping to either see the pharaoah start a week at some point or the Leviathans actually just have all their starters play :angry:

OU: ramboss vs xray

This was personally a match I was looking forward to alot after week 1. Ramboss had pretty epic win versus FMG using trick room and xray was in dire need of a comeback game after he feel victim to the nuzlocke professional robjr. Ramboss' team is actually incredibly similar to the team Seperation used to qualify for OLT structurally speaking with some key differences in personnel. This is a spike stacking sand BO that uses two incredibly bulky and powerful setup sweepers to break opposing balance cores open in BU Zarude and QD Volcarona, with CM knock Clefable providing its typing, an auxilliary Toxpaex switchin, and another wincon. Xray brought a team without a clear goal that I can see, or at least not one distinguishable or consistent enough to pull off. The trick Clefable and Pult are supposed to wear down Urshifu Rapid-Strikes switchins over the course of the game with what I assume was a trapper Magnezone to provide immediate Toxapex pressure and a way of dealing with Ferrothorn for this team. The issues with this team though are buy and large quite difficult to overcome. Mandibuzz as the sole Excadrill switchin without a way of forcing consistent chip on it in this meta is just not ideal. Theres a real struggle to actually get the Urshifu-Rapid strike in versus teams too. I dislike the weakness to Tangrowth+Clefable too assuming that Magnezone is trapper and not Specs which would carry the issue of Ferrothorn with it instead. The short story of how this game went is that it lasted 35 turns with Zarude positioned perfectly to break apart xray's team for a Volcarona win. Ramboss executed the game plan pretty perfectly versus a team and player that will want to see improvements in week 3.

OU: BK vs Gefährlicher Random

This game is a mess and it's probably the most difficult one to actually talk about purely for what was wrong with it. BK brought a team thats consistent and solid. Pretty much exactly what people should expect from Italians at this point. Felix on the other hand brought a pretty much carbon copy of the Toxtricity HO's we saw during OLT. To not even get into how completely uninspired this is as a hyper offense choice, Felix also played this game like a man who was not comfortable at all using the team in front of him. It started off badly on turn 2 when Togekiss went for the flinch versus Rotom-H for some chip that wasn't really needed for anything in this game. It got even worse on turn 3 when the only mon that could actually break the defensive core BK was using got essentially sacked to an Excadrill Earthquake into Iron Barbs+Life orb chip. Then BK was allowed to freely one v one Felix's Necrozma with his Rhyperior, only ever running into an issue when his Rhyperior got burned by a heat wave. BK both outplayed and got handed the Kommo sequence following this which ultimately led to Volcarona being parad by a Dragapult and Excadrill sweeping with ease.

A word from my editor KlefkiHolder : Honestly, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is alot wrong here from Felix that requires a more in depth review of everything that went wrong. This game belongs in the tier of DISASTERCLASS and now Felix is severely hindered moving forward as he has telegraphed to everyone that he cannot pilot offense.

OU: John W vs Relous

We actually seem to have seen quite a few Conkeldurr in week 2, on builds very reminiscent to that of the Pre Dlc teams we saw running around. Relous' team is no exception here except it makes use of Bulk Up Conk to break open fat with the sacrifice of not being able to Mach Punch faster threats. As such, it is an absolutely perfect pick to bring versus John W who seems to specialise in bringing either sand or a team whos only goal is to try not to lose. The team John brought to this game comfortably falls into the latter category and is quite similar to those brought by Bloody Alfa and Jyt in the Bushmasters/Rattlers series. In the game itself Relous played very well throughout to earn his win. On turn 9 he revealed bulk up as John W went for the 1 turn sleep to ensure he would lose his Corviknight and take 54% chip onto his Tangrowth by turn 12 with Conk ending that sequence on 89% health. John used the mid game to make as much progress as possible with his Dragapult but Relous' Conk remained a threat, claiming the Tangrowth by turn 54 and still having about half its HP left and wish support. Once again the mid game sequences commence back with John W trying his best to get his Dragapult to do enough damage as it is quite literally his only way of doing so versus anything. A good turn for John and a bad but passable turn for Relous came when he clicked Knock off versus the Clefable on a Dragapult read, losing his Conk in the process on turn 103. This ended up not mattering thanks to a speed tie win on Clef versus Clef 20 turns later ensuring the job was done and Relous had won comfortably, even if they did feel like playing out another 50 turns pretty pointlessly.

A 2-2 ou series showcasing the extreme good and extreme bad from both these teams respective OU cores. The mambas largely improved upon last weeks showing bringing some much better teams in the two games they won. I enjoyed this series for the simple reason that the better teams from a building aspect actually won each game. The Leviathans are winning weeks before all their OU even have to play, and with their first round draft pick being 0-2. Its too early and unfair to criticise their ou depth based on their subs performances thus far but their starting core appear to be very good players who are bringing good teams every week with the exception of Dragapult stall this week. Mambas appear to be improving so hoping for a positive return in OU week 3 and to see all starters play from the Leviathans n_n


Possible Week 2 Trend



Terrakion @ Choice Band
Ability: Justified
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Close Combat
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
- Rock Blast

I love Terrakion as a breaker. Phenomenal speed tier in this generation with enough power to blast through even the sturdiest of defensive cores being used right now. With most Clefables running a mixed spread that can't really handle being hit with stone edges using this could prove fatal for your opponent in week 3.

Overall this week actually saw the better teambuilders being rewarded very frequently and I found it very enjoyable as a spectator. As a team I was most impressed by the Nagas and individually speaking I find lax to be demonstrating a higher level of play than every other player in the tour thus far with ramboss probably the closest runner up. We saw alot more one sided OU pairings this round down to a number of factors but the team who will probably be most dissapointed will be the Astrotias who under a a few different circumstances would have been looking at a 4-0 sweep in their favour.

I took a much closer look at the teams being used this week because certain patterns began to emerge in the building. This is a 20 OU games per week tour so some reusage of teams is bound to happen but the more worrying trend is in the goals of teams used and whether players are actively trying to win or just trying not to lose. If I got any details wrong in teams used or you'd like to provide further insight into why particular plays or team choices were made please post and help all us spectators out n_n Also a quick thank you to Jordy for posting all the usage stats above and KlefkiHolder for helping stop my scatter brain from going on tangents and letting me spam his inbox with edits.
 
More stats! :bloblul:

Week 3 Usage Stats

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |   35 |  87.50% |  48.57% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |   17 |  42.50% |  47.06% |
| 3    | Excadrill          |   15 |  37.50% |  53.33% |
| 4    | Corviknight        |   13 |  32.50% |  46.15% |
| 5    | Tyranitar          |   12 |  30.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Amoonguss          |   12 |  30.00% |  33.33% |
| 7    | Rillaboom          |    9 |  22.50% |  66.67% |
| 7    | Zeraora            |    9 |  22.50% |  55.56% |
| 7    | Urshifu-*          |    9 |  22.50% |  33.33% |
| 10   | Magnezone          |    7 |  17.50% |  71.43% |
| 10   | Skarmory           |    7 |  17.50% |  57.14% |
| 10   | Tangrowth          |    7 |  17.50% |  42.86% |
| 10   | Aegislash          |    7 |  17.50% |  14.29% |
| 14   | Rotom-Heat         |    6 |  15.00% |  83.33% |
| 14   | Mandibuzz          |    6 |  15.00% |  66.67% |
| 16   | Volcarona          |    5 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 17   | Primarina          |    4 |  10.00% | 100.00% |
| 17   | Ferrothorn         |    4 |  10.00% |  75.00% |
| 17   | Hydreigon          |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 17   | Toxapex            |    4 |  10.00% |  25.00% |
| 21   | Zarude             |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 21   | Mantine            |    3 |   7.50% |  33.33% |
| 21   | Reuniclus          |    3 |   7.50% |  33.33% |
| 21   | Alakazam           |    3 |   7.50% |   0.00% |
| 21   | Gastrodon          |    3 |   7.50% |   0.00% |
| 21   | Blissey            |    3 |   7.50% |   0.00% |
| 27   | Conkeldurr         |    2 |   5.00% | 100.00% |
| 27   | Kyurem             |    2 |   5.00% | 100.00% |
| 27   | Slowbro            |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Cobalion           |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Togekiss           |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Marowak-Alola      |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Heracross          |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Kommo-o            |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Hawlucha           |    2 |   5.00% |   0.00% |
| 36   | Weezing-Galar      |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 36   | Chansey            |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 36   | Hatterene          |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 36   | Slowking           |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 36   | Rhyperior          |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 36   | Hippowdon          |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 36   | Ditto              |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 36   | Jirachi            |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 36   | Obstagoon          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 36   | Azumarill          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 36   | Ninetales-Alola    |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 36   | Toxtricity         |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |

Rumble Hall Rattlers (1) vs (3) Sky Tower Lindworms

OU: Samqian vs Eo Ut Mortus
OU: lax vs Garay oak
OU: Fear vs Jytcampbell
OU: Kebab mlml vs Ewin

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    7 |  87.50% |  42.86% |
| 2    | Amoonguss          |    6 |  75.00% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Zeraora            |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Dragapult          |    4 |  50.00% |  25.00% |
| 6    | Magnezone          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 6    | Urshifu-*          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 8    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 8    | Slowbro            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 10   | Weezing-Galar      |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Chansey            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Hatterene          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Tyranitar          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Excadrill          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Conkeldurr         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Primarina          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Alakazam           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Cobalion           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |





Terminus Taipans (2) vs (2) Celadon City Cobras

OU: dice vs 1 True Lycan
OU: Eeveeto vs Steve Angello
OU: le LLiolae vs mncmt
OU: High Impulse vs FMG

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    8 | 100.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Excadrill          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Rillaboom          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Tyranitar          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Tangrowth          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 6    | Corviknight        |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Urshifu-*          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Aegislash          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 6    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Primarina          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Heracross          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Slowking           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Rhyperior          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Conkeldurr         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Dragapult          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Hydreigon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Magnezone          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Ditto              |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Marowak-Alola      |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Jirachi            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |




Berry Forest Bushmasters (2) vs (2) Lanakila Nagas

OU: Leo vs Sacri'
OU: Santu vs ima
OU: frisoeva vs robjr
OU: Lopunny Kicks vs Storm Zone

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    6 |  75.00% |  33.33% |
| 2    | Tyranitar          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Excadrill          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Dragapult          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 5    | Rotom-Heat         |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Volcarona          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Corviknight        |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Ferrothorn         |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Reuniclus          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Tangrowth          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Skarmory           |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Hydreigon          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Zeraora            |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Mandibuzz          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Primarina          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Marowak-Alola      |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Obstagoon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Alakazam           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Toxapex            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Ambrette Astrotias (1) vs (3) Black City Mambas

OU: Finchinator vs xray
OU: Raiza vs Relous
OU: Tace vs ZDen
OU: BIHI vs Gefährlicher Random

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    8 | 100.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Amoonguss          |    4 |  50.00% |  25.00% |
| 4    | Tyranitar          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 4    | Aegislash          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 4    | Corviknight        |    3 |  37.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Skarmory           |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Zeraora            |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Magnezone          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 8    | Urshifu-*          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Primarina          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Kommo-o            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Zarude             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Hydreigon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Reuniclus          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |




Shinto Ruin Serpents (2) vs (2) Lake of Rage Leviathans

OU: watashi vs ramboss
OU: Star vs Rexus
OU: Malekith vs John W
OU: Tamahome vs BK

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| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    6 |  75.00% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    5 |  62.50% |  60.00% |
| 3    | Excadrill          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Rillaboom          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 5    | Rotom-Heat         |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Urshifu-*          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Zarude             |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Skarmory           |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Corviknight        |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Hawlucha           |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Hippowdon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Tyranitar          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Toxapex            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Mandibuzz          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Magnezone          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Cobalion           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Kommo-o            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Azumarill          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Ninetales-Alola    |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Toxtricity         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Heracross          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Alakazam           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
Here are the usage stats of the past 3 weeks!
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+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |  105 |  87.50% |  51.43% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |   57 |  47.50% |  50.88% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |   42 |  35.00% |  47.62% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |   37 |  30.83% |  56.76% |
| 5    | Amoonguss          |   30 |  25.00% |  60.00% |
| 6    | Tyranitar          |   29 |  24.17% |  62.07% |
| 7    | Zeraora            |   24 |  20.00% |  45.83% |
| 8    | Skarmory           |   23 |  19.17% |  56.52% |
| 9    | Magnezone          |   22 |  18.33% |  59.09% |
| 9    | Urshifu-*          |   22 |  18.33% |  45.45% |
| 11   | Toxapex            |   20 |  16.67% |  55.00% |
| 12   | Rotom-Heat         |   19 |  15.83% |  57.89% |
| 12   | Blissey            |   19 |  15.83% |  31.58% |
| 14   | Mandibuzz          |   18 |  15.00% |  44.44% |
| 14   | Tangrowth          |   18 |  15.00% |  44.44% |
| 16   | Gastrodon          |   17 |  14.17% |  47.06% |
| 17   | Rhyperior          |   14 |  11.67% |  57.14% |
| 17   | Rillaboom          |   14 |  11.67% |  50.00% |
| 17   | Aegislash          |   14 |  11.67% |  28.57% |
| 20   | Ferrothorn         |   13 |  10.83% |  61.54% |
| 21   | Reuniclus          |   12 |  10.00% |  33.33% |
| 22   | Hippowdon          |   11 |   9.17% |  36.36% |
| 23   | Volcarona          |   10 |   8.33% |  70.00% |
| 23   | Hydreigon          |   10 |   8.33% |  50.00% |
| 25   | Kyurem             |    9 |   7.50% |  55.56% |
| 26   | Mantine            |    8 |   6.67% |  62.50% |
| 27   | Kommo-o            |    7 |   5.83% |  42.86% |
| 28   | Conkeldurr         |    6 |   5.00% |  83.33% |
| 28   | Togekiss           |    6 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 28   | Jirachi            |    6 |   5.00% |  33.33% |
| 31   | Primarina          |    5 |   4.17% | 100.00% |
| 31   | Zarude             |    5 |   4.17% |  60.00% |
| 31   | Ditto              |    5 |   4.17% |  40.00% |
| 31   | Alakazam           |    5 |   4.17% |  20.00% |
| 35   | Marowak-Alola      |    4 |   3.33% |  75.00% |
| 35   | Scizor             |    4 |   3.33% |  50.00% |
| 35   | Weezing-Galar      |    4 |   3.33% |  25.00% |
| 38   | Hatterene          |    3 |   2.50% |  66.67% |
| 38   | Heracross          |    3 |   2.50% |  33.33% |
| 38   | Crawdaunt          |    3 |   2.50% |  33.33% |
| 38   | Obstagoon          |    3 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 38   | Azumarill          |    3 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 43   | Gengar             |    2 |   1.67% | 100.00% |
| 43   | Slowbro            |    2 |   1.67% |  50.00% |
| 43   | Cobalion           |    2 |   1.67% |  50.00% |
| 43   | Pelipper           |    2 |   1.67% |  50.00% |
| 43   | Hawlucha           |    2 |   1.67% |   0.00% |
| 43   | Toxtricity         |    2 |   1.67% |   0.00% |
| 43   | Xatu               |    2 |   1.67% |   0.00% |
| 43   | Chandelure         |    2 |   1.67% |   0.00% |
| 51   | Chansey            |    1 |   0.83% | 100.00% |
| 51   | Slowking           |    1 |   0.83% | 100.00% |
| 51   | Mew                |    1 |   0.83% | 100.00% |
| 51   | Porygon2           |    1 |   0.83% | 100.00% |
| 51   | Seismitoad         |    1 |   0.83% | 100.00% |
| 51   | Ninetales-Alola    |    1 |   0.83% |   0.00% |
| 51   | Torkoal            |    1 |   0.83% |   0.00% |
| 51   | Venusaur           |    1 |   0.83% |   0.00% |
| 51   | Charizard          |    1 |   0.83% |   0.00% |
| 51   | Talonflame         |    1 |   0.83% |   0.00% |
| 51   | Magneton           |    1 |   0.83% |   0.00% |
| 51   | Keldeo             |    1 |   0.83% |   0.00% |
| 51   | Incineroar         |    1 |   0.83% |   0.00% |
| 51   | Quagsire           |    1 |   0.83% |   0.00% |
| 51   | Necrozma           |    1 |   0.83% |   0.00% |


Here's also the cumulative Moves and Teammates stats!

As per usual, I'll leave interpretation of what stands out to everyone else.
 
Here are the usage stats of Week 4!

Week 4 Usage Stats

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |   30 |  75.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |   24 |  60.00% |  54.17% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |   17 |  42.50% |  41.18% |
| 4    | Amoonguss          |   13 |  32.50% |  53.85% |
| 5    | Rotom-Heat         |   10 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Excadrill          |    9 |  22.50% |  55.56% |
| 6    | Urshifu-*          |    9 |  22.50% |  44.44% |
| 8    | Zeraora            |    8 |  20.00% |  50.00% |
| 8    | Toxapex            |    8 |  20.00% |  37.50% |
| 10   | Mandibuzz          |    7 |  17.50% |  57.14% |
| 10   | Blissey            |    7 |  17.50% |  57.14% |
| 12   | Aegislash          |    6 |  15.00% |  66.67% |
| 12   | Kyurem             |    6 |  15.00% |  50.00% |
| 14   | Rillaboom          |    5 |  12.50% |  60.00% |
| 14   | Rhyperior          |    5 |  12.50% |  60.00% |
| 14   | Hippowdon          |    5 |  12.50% |  40.00% |
| 14   | Gastrodon          |    5 |  12.50% |  40.00% |
| 14   | Hydreigon          |    5 |  12.50% |  20.00% |
| 19   | Ferrothorn         |    4 |  10.00% |  75.00% |
| 19   | Volcarona          |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 19   | Primarina          |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 19   | Tyranitar          |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 23   | Slowbro            |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 23   | Magnezone          |    3 |   7.50% |   0.00% |
| 25   | Weezing-Galar      |    2 |   5.00% | 100.00% |
| 25   | Togekiss           |    2 |   5.00% | 100.00% |
| 25   | Mantine            |    2 |   5.00% | 100.00% |
| 25   | Skarmory           |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 25   | Reuniclus          |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 25   | Slowking           |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 25   | Mew                |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 25   | Scizor             |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 25   | Azumarill          |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 25   | Tangrowth          |    2 |   5.00% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Terrakion          |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Bisharp            |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Chansey            |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Cobalion           |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Hatterene          |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Kommo-o            |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Ditto              |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Centiskorch        |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Torkoal            |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Venusaur           |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Charizard          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Mamoswine          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Toxtricity         |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Cloyster           |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Druddigon          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Slowbro-Galar      |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Scolipede          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Alakazam           |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Marowak-Alola      |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |

Sky Tower Lindworms (2) vs (2) Lanakila Nagas

OU: Jytcampbell vs Sacri'
OU: Eo Ut Mortus vs Storm Zone
OU: Ewin vs ima
OU: Garay oak vs robjr

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    5 |  62.50% |  60.00% |
| 1    | Dragapult          |    5 |  62.50% |  60.00% |
| 3    | Rotom-Heat         |    4 |  50.00% |  75.00% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Mandibuzz          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 6    | Hippowdon          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Kyurem             |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Ferrothorn         |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Hydreigon          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Weezing-Galar      |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Primarina          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Terrakion          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Torkoal            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Venusaur           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Charizard          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Corviknight        |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Tyranitar          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Mamoswine          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Reuniclus          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Celadon City Cobras (1) vs (3) Rumble Hall Rattlers

OU: 1 True Lycan vs Fear
OU: FMG vs lax
OU: Steve Angello vs Kebab mlml
OU: mncmt vs Samqian

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    7 |  87.50% |  42.86% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    5 |  62.50% |  80.00% |
| 2    | Corviknight        |    5 |  62.50% |  40.00% |
| 2    | Amoonguss          |    5 |  62.50% |  20.00% |
| 5    | Gastrodon          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Rillaboom          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Primarina          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Urshifu-*          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Hippowdon          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 5    | Excadrill          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Bisharp            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Slowbro            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Chansey            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Weezing-Galar      |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Cobalion           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Hatterene          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 11   | Hydreigon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Magnezone          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 11   | Tyranitar          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Ambrette Astrotias (2) vs (2) Shinto Ruin Serpents

OU: BIHI vs Star
OU: Raiza vs Vaboh
OU: Finchinator vs watashi
OU: Tace vs Tamahome

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    8 | 100.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Blissey            |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Corviknight        |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Zeraora            |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Toxapex            |    4 |  50.00% |  25.00% |
| 7    | Rhyperior          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Urshifu-*          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Rotom-Heat         |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Hydreigon          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Kommo-o            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Reuniclus          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Toxtricity         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Slowking           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Magnezone          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Lake of Rage Leviathans (2) vs (2) Berry Forest Bushmasters

OU: Rexus vs Santu
OU: BK vs Lopunny Kicks
OU: John W vs frisoeva
OU: ramboss vs Bloody alfa

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Dragapult          |    6 |  75.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Clefable           |    5 |  62.50% |  60.00% |
| 3    | Aegislash          |    3 |  37.50% | 100.00% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Urshifu-*          |    3 |  37.50% |   0.00% |
| 6    | Rhyperior          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Rotom-Heat         |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 10   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Ditto              |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Cloyster           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Druddigon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Slowbro-Galar      |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Slowbro            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Excadrill          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Scolipede          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Magnezone          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Primarina          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Alakazam           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Mandibuzz          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Hippowdon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Black City Mambas (1) vs (3) Terminus Taipans

OU: xray vs High Impulse
OU: Gefährlicher Random vs le LLiolae
OU: ZDen vs Eeveeto
OU: Relous vs Void

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    5 |  62.50% |  40.00% |
| 2    | Amoonguss          |    4 |  50.00% |  75.00% |
| 2    | Corviknight        |    4 |  50.00% |  25.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    4 |  50.00% |  25.00% |
| 5    | Excadrill          |    3 |  37.50% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Tyranitar          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 6    | Mew                |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Volcarona          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Scizor             |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Azumarill          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Zeraora            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Rillaboom          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Slowbro            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Slowking           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Mandibuzz          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Centiskorch        |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Rhyperior          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Marowak-Alola      |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |


Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |  135 |  84.38% |  51.11% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |   81 |  50.62% |  51.85% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |   59 |  36.88% |  45.76% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |   46 |  28.75% |  56.52% |
| 5    | Amoonguss          |   43 |  26.88% |  58.14% |
| 6    | Tyranitar          |   33 |  20.62% |  60.61% |
| 7    | Zeraora            |   32 |  20.00% |  46.88% |
| 8    | Urshifu-*          |   31 |  19.38% |  45.16% |
| 9    | Rotom-Heat         |   29 |  18.12% |  55.17% |
| 10   | Toxapex            |   28 |  17.50% |  50.00% |
| 11   | Blissey            |   26 |  16.25% |  38.46% |
| 12   | Skarmory           |   25 |  15.62% |  56.00% |
| 12   | Magnezone          |   25 |  15.62% |  52.00% |
| 12   | Mandibuzz          |   25 |  15.62% |  48.00% |
| 15   | Gastrodon          |   22 |  13.75% |  45.45% |
| 16   | Aegislash          |   20 |  12.50% |  40.00% |
| 16   | Tangrowth          |   20 |  12.50% |  40.00% |
| 18   | Rhyperior          |   19 |  11.88% |  57.89% |
| 18   | Rillaboom          |   19 |  11.88% |  52.63% |
| 20   | Ferrothorn         |   17 |  10.62% |  64.71% |
| 21   | Hippowdon          |   16 |  10.00% |  37.50% |
| 22   | Kyurem             |   15 |   9.38% |  53.33% |
| 22   | Hydreigon          |   15 |   9.38% |  40.00% |
| 24   | Volcarona          |   14 |   8.75% |  64.29% |
| 24   | Reuniclus          |   14 |   8.75% |  35.71% |
| 26   | Mantine            |   10 |   6.25% |  70.00% |
| 27   | Primarina          |    9 |   5.62% |  77.78% |
| 28   | Togekiss           |    8 |   5.00% |  62.50% |
| 28   | Kommo-o            |    8 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 30   | Conkeldurr         |    6 |   3.75% |  83.33% |
| 30   | Weezing-Galar      |    6 |   3.75% |  50.00% |
| 30   | Ditto              |    6 |   3.75% |  50.00% |
| 30   | Scizor             |    6 |   3.75% |  50.00% |
| 30   | Jirachi            |    6 |   3.75% |  33.33% |
| 30   | Alakazam           |    6 |   3.75% |  16.67% |
| 36   | Slowbro            |    5 |   3.12% |  60.00% |
| 36   | Marowak-Alola      |    5 |   3.12% |  60.00% |
| 36   | Zarude             |    5 |   3.12% |  60.00% |
| 36   | Azumarill          |    5 |   3.12% |  20.00% |
| 40   | Hatterene          |    4 |   2.50% |  75.00% |
| 41   | Cobalion           |    3 |   1.88% |  66.67% |
| 41   | Slowking           |    3 |   1.88% |  66.67% |
| 41   | Mew                |    3 |   1.88% |  66.67% |
| 41   | Heracross          |    3 |   1.88% |  33.33% |
| 41   | Crawdaunt          |    3 |   1.88% |  33.33% |
| 41   | Toxtricity         |    3 |   1.88% |   0.00% |
| 41   | Obstagoon          |    3 |   1.88% |   0.00% |
| 48   | Chansey            |    2 |   1.25% | 100.00% |
| 48   | Gengar             |    2 |   1.25% | 100.00% |
| 48   | Pelipper           |    2 |   1.25% |  50.00% |
| 48   | Torkoal            |    2 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 48   | Venusaur           |    2 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 48   | Charizard          |    2 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 48   | Hawlucha           |    2 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 48   | Xatu               |    2 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 48   | Chandelure         |    2 |   1.25% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Terrakion          |    1 |   0.62% | 100.00% |
| 57   | Bisharp            |    1 |   0.62% | 100.00% |
| 57   | Centiskorch        |    1 |   0.62% | 100.00% |
| 57   | Porygon2           |    1 |   0.62% | 100.00% |
| 57   | Seismitoad         |    1 |   0.62% | 100.00% |
| 57   | Mamoswine          |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Cloyster           |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Druddigon          |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Slowbro-Galar      |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Scolipede          |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Ninetales-Alola    |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Talonflame         |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Magneton           |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Keldeo             |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Incineroar         |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Quagsire           |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |
| 57   | Necrozma           |    1 |   0.62% |   0.00% |


Here's also the cumulative Moves and Teammates stats!
 
Another week of stats. :smogduck:

Week 5 Usage Stats

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |   28 |  73.68% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |   21 |  55.26% |  47.62% |
| 3    | Mandibuzz          |   12 |  31.58% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Rhyperior          |   12 |  31.58% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Corviknight        |   11 |  28.95% |  45.45% |
| 6    | Rotom-Heat         |   10 |  26.32% |  60.00% |
| 6    | Excadrill          |   10 |  26.32% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Urshifu-*          |   10 |  26.32% |  30.00% |
| 9    | Toxapex            |    8 |  21.05% |  37.50% |
| 10   | Magnezone          |    5 |  13.16% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Ferrothorn         |    5 |  13.16% |  60.00% |
| 10   | Mew                |    5 |  13.16% |  60.00% |
| 10   | Tangrowth          |    5 |  13.16% |  60.00% |
| 10   | Amoonguss          |    5 |  13.16% |  40.00% |
| 10   | Scizor             |    5 |  13.16% |  40.00% |
| 10   | Kommo-o            |    5 |  13.16% |  40.00% |
| 10   | Zeraora            |    5 |  13.16% |  40.00% |
| 10   | Rillaboom          |    5 |  13.16% |  40.00% |
| 10   | Slowbro            |    5 |  13.16% |  40.00% |
| 10   | Tyranitar          |    5 |  13.16% |  20.00% |
| 21   | Volcarona          |    4 |  10.53% | 100.00% |
| 21   | Hippowdon          |    4 |  10.53% |  50.00% |
| 21   | Togekiss           |    4 |  10.53% |  25.00% |
| 21   | Aegislash          |    4 |  10.53% |   0.00% |
| 25   | Skarmory           |    3 |   7.89% |  33.33% |
| 25   | Kyurem             |    3 |   7.89% |  33.33% |
| 27   | Toxtricity         |    2 |   5.26% | 100.00% |
| 27   | Azumarill          |    2 |   5.26% | 100.00% |
| 27   | Blissey            |    2 |   5.26% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Ditto              |    2 |   5.26% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Chansey            |    2 |   5.26% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Quagsire           |    2 |   5.26% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Alakazam           |    2 |   5.26% |  50.00% |
| 27   | Mantine            |    2 |   5.26% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Mamoswine          |    1 |   2.63% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Grimmsnarl         |    1 |   2.63% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Darmanitan         |    1 |   2.63% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Zarude             |    1 |   2.63% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Chandelure         |    1 |   2.63% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Reuniclus          |    1 |   2.63% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Slowking           |    1 |   2.63% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Conkeldurr         |    1 |   2.63% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Hawlucha           |    1 |   2.63% | 100.00% |
| 35   | Bisharp            |    1 |   2.63% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Primarina          |    1 |   2.63% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Marowak-Alola      |    1 |   2.63% |   0.00% |
| 35   | Gastrodon          |    1 |   2.63% |   0.00% |


Rumble Hall Rattlers (0) vs (4) Lanakila Nagas

OU: Samqian vs ima
OU: Kebab mlml vs Regnite
OU: Fear vs robjr
OU: lax vs Sacri'

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    8 | 100.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    5 |  62.50% |  40.00% |
| 3    | Mandibuzz          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Rhyperior          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 5    | Volcarona          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Hippowdon          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Excadrill          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Skarmory           |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Urshifu-*          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Ferrothorn         |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Corviknight        |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Kyurem             |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Scizor             |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Mamoswine          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Toxtricity         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Bisharp            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Amoonguss          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Kommo-o            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Celadon City Cobras (2) vs (2) Black City Mambas

OU: FMG vs ZDen
OU: TPP vs LittleBigPlanet2
OU: mncmt vs Gefährlicher Random
OU: 1 True Lycan vs xray

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    7 |  87.50% |  42.86% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    6 |  75.00% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Rhyperior          |    5 |  62.50% |  80.00% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |    5 |  62.50% |  40.00% |
| 5    | Rillaboom          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 5    | Excadrill          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 7    | Rotom-Heat         |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 7    | Urshifu-*          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Amoonguss          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Mew                |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Grimmsnarl         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Darmanitan         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Mandibuzz          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Zarude             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Tyranitar          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Primarina          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Slowbro            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Hippowdon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Sky Tower Lindworms (2) vs (2) Lake of Rage Leviathans

OU: Jytcampbell vs Rexus
OU: Eo Ut Mortus vs BK
OU: beatiful vs Luigi
OU: Garay oak vs the pharoah

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Tangrowth          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Mew                |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Rotom-Heat         |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 2    | Clefable           |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 6    | Blissey            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Corviknight        |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Kommo-o            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Chansey            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Quagsire           |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Excadrill          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Togekiss           |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 15   | Ditto              |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Chandelure         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Alakazam           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Magnezone          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Scizor             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Azumarill          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Toxtricity         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Rhyperior          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Marowak-Alola      |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Slowbro            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Tyranitar          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Terminus Taipans (1) vs (3) Shinto Ruin Serpents

OU: Void vs Star*
OU: High Impulse vs Tamahome
OU: Eeveeto vs watashi
OU: Indigo Plateau vs Vaboh

* Act win

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Dragapult          |    5 |  83.33% |  40.00% |
| 2    | Clefable           |    4 |  66.67% |  75.00% |
| 3    | Mandibuzz          |    3 |  50.00% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Magnezone          |    2 |  33.33% | 100.00% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |    2 |  33.33% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Rotom-Heat         |    2 |  33.33% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Ferrothorn         |    2 |  33.33% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Urshifu-*          |    2 |  33.33% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Slowbro            |    1 |  16.67% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Amoonguss          |    1 |  16.67% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Tyranitar          |    1 |  16.67% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Tangrowth          |    1 |  16.67% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Corviknight        |    1 |  16.67% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Reuniclus          |    1 |  16.67% | 100.00% |
| 9    | Alakazam           |    1 |  16.67% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Hippowdon          |    1 |  16.67% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Aegislash          |    1 |  16.67% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Toxapex            |    1 |  16.67% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Mew                |    1 |  16.67% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Rillaboom          |    1 |  16.67% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Togekiss           |    1 |  16.67% |   0.00% |
| 9    | Scizor             |    1 |  16.67% |   0.00% |




Berry Forest Bushmasters (1) vs (3) Ambrette Astrotias

OU: Santu vs BIHI
OU: Bloody alfa vs Raiza
OU: Leo vs Finchinator
OU: Lopunny Kicks vs Tace

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    6 |  75.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Urshifu-*          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Zeraora            |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Rhyperior          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 5    | Magnezone          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Rotom-Heat         |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Dragapult          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Slowbro            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Kommo-o            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Tyranitar          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 5    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Slowking           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Conkeldurr         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Azumarill          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Hawlucha           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Scizor             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Toxapex            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Ditto              |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Excadrill          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Corviknight        |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |


Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |  163 |  82.32% |  50.92% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |  102 |  51.52% |  50.98% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |   70 |  35.35% |  45.71% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |   56 |  28.28% |  55.36% |
| 5    | Amoonguss          |   48 |  24.24% |  56.25% |
| 6    | Urshifu-*          |   41 |  20.71% |  41.46% |
| 7    | Rotom-Heat         |   39 |  19.70% |  56.41% |
| 8    | Tyranitar          |   38 |  19.19% |  55.26% |
| 9    | Mandibuzz          |   37 |  18.69% |  54.05% |
| 9    | Zeraora            |   37 |  18.69% |  45.95% |
| 11   | Toxapex            |   36 |  18.18% |  47.22% |
| 12   | Rhyperior          |   31 |  15.66% |  54.84% |
| 13   | Magnezone          |   30 |  15.15% |  60.00% |
| 14   | Skarmory           |   28 |  14.14% |  53.57% |
| 14   | Blissey            |   28 |  14.14% |  39.29% |
| 16   | Tangrowth          |   25 |  12.63% |  44.00% |
| 17   | Rillaboom          |   24 |  12.12% |  50.00% |
| 17   | Aegislash          |   24 |  12.12% |  33.33% |
| 19   | Gastrodon          |   23 |  11.62% |  43.48% |
| 20   | Ferrothorn         |   22 |  11.11% |  63.64% |
| 21   | Hippowdon          |   20 |  10.10% |  40.00% |
| 22   | Volcarona          |   18 |   9.09% |  72.22% |
| 22   | Kyurem             |   18 |   9.09% |  50.00% |
| 24   | Reuniclus          |   15 |   7.58% |  40.00% |
| 24   | Hydreigon          |   15 |   7.58% |  40.00% |
| 26   | Kommo-o            |   13 |   6.57% |  46.15% |
| 27   | Mantine            |   12 |   6.06% |  58.33% |
| 27   | Togekiss           |   12 |   6.06% |  50.00% |
| 29   | Scizor             |   11 |   5.56% |  45.45% |
| 30   | Primarina          |   10 |   5.05% |  70.00% |
| 30   | Slowbro            |   10 |   5.05% |  50.00% |
| 32   | Mew                |    8 |   4.04% |  62.50% |
| 32   | Ditto              |    8 |   4.04% |  50.00% |
| 32   | Alakazam           |    8 |   4.04% |  25.00% |
| 35   | Conkeldurr         |    7 |   3.54% |  85.71% |
| 35   | Azumarill          |    7 |   3.54% |  42.86% |
| 37   | Zarude             |    6 |   3.03% |  66.67% |
| 37   | Marowak-Alola      |    6 |   3.03% |  50.00% |
| 37   | Weezing-Galar      |    6 |   3.03% |  50.00% |
| 37   | Jirachi            |    6 |   3.03% |  33.33% |
| 41   | Toxtricity         |    5 |   2.53% |  40.00% |
| 42   | Chansey            |    4 |   2.02% |  75.00% |
| 42   | Slowking           |    4 |   2.02% |  75.00% |
| 42   | Hatterene          |    4 |   2.02% |  75.00% |
| 45   | Cobalion           |    3 |   1.52% |  66.67% |
| 45   | Chandelure         |    3 |   1.52% |  33.33% |
| 45   | Quagsire           |    3 |   1.52% |  33.33% |
| 45   | Hawlucha           |    3 |   1.52% |  33.33% |
| 45   | Heracross          |    3 |   1.52% |  33.33% |
| 45   | Crawdaunt          |    3 |   1.52% |  33.33% |
| 45   | Obstagoon          |    3 |   1.52% |   0.00% |
| 52   | Gengar             |    2 |   1.01% | 100.00% |
| 52   | Bisharp            |    2 |   1.01% |  50.00% |
| 52   | Mamoswine          |    2 |   1.01% |  50.00% |
| 52   | Pelipper           |    2 |   1.01% |  50.00% |
| 52   | Torkoal            |    2 |   1.01% |   0.00% |
| 52   | Venusaur           |    2 |   1.01% |   0.00% |
| 52   | Charizard          |    2 |   1.01% |   0.00% |
| 52   | Xatu               |    2 |   1.01% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Grimmsnarl         |    1 |   0.51% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Darmanitan         |    1 |   0.51% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Terrakion          |    1 |   0.51% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Centiskorch        |    1 |   0.51% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Porygon2           |    1 |   0.51% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Seismitoad         |    1 |   0.51% | 100.00% |
| 60   | Cloyster           |    1 |   0.51% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Druddigon          |    1 |   0.51% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Slowbro-Galar      |    1 |   0.51% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Scolipede          |    1 |   0.51% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Ninetales-Alola    |    1 |   0.51% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Talonflame         |    1 |   0.51% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Magneton           |    1 |   0.51% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Keldeo             |    1 |   0.51% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Incineroar         |    1 |   0.51% |   0.00% |
| 60   | Necrozma           |    1 |   0.51% |   0.00% |


The Cumulative Usage Stats for Moves and Teammates can be found here.
 
:smogduck:

Week 6 Usage Stats

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |   26 |  65.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |   14 |  35.00% |  57.14% |
| 3    | Urshifu-*          |   13 |  32.50% |  69.23% |
| 4    | Corviknight        |   11 |  27.50% |  27.27% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |   11 |  27.50% |  27.27% |
| 6    | Zeraora            |   10 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Toxapex            |   10 |  25.00% |  40.00% |
| 8    | Rillaboom          |    9 |  22.50% |  66.67% |
| 9    | Magnezone          |    8 |  20.00% |  62.50% |
| 9    | Rotom-Heat         |    8 |  20.00% |  62.50% |
| 9    | Kyurem             |    8 |  20.00% |  37.50% |
| 12   | Hatterene          |    7 |  17.50% |  71.43% |
| 12   | Blissey            |    7 |  17.50% |  28.57% |
| 12   | Tangrowth          |    7 |  17.50% |  28.57% |
| 15   | Mandibuzz          |    6 |  15.00% |  66.67% |
| 15   | Tyranitar          |    6 |  15.00% |  33.33% |
| 17   | Ferrothorn         |    5 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 17   | Azumarill          |    5 |  12.50% |  80.00% |
| 17   | Rhyperior          |    5 |  12.50% |  60.00% |
| 17   | Scizor             |    5 |  12.50% |  40.00% |
| 17   | Gastrodon          |    5 |  12.50% |  20.00% |
| 22   | Volcarona          |    4 |  10.00% |  75.00% |
| 22   | Slowbro            |    4 |  10.00% |  25.00% |
| 24   | Jirachi            |    3 |   7.50% | 100.00% |
| 24   | Aegislash          |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 24   | Hawlucha           |    3 |   7.50% |  33.33% |
| 24   | Kommo-o            |    3 |   7.50% |  33.33% |
| 24   | Skarmory           |    3 |   7.50% |   0.00% |
| 24   | Togekiss           |    3 |   7.50% |   0.00% |
| 30   | Druddigon          |    2 |   5.00% | 100.00% |
| 30   | Weezing-Galar      |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 30   | Cobalion           |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 30   | Slowbro-Galar      |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 30   | Cloyster           |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 30   | Slowking           |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 30   | Amoonguss          |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 30   | Hydreigon          |    2 |   5.00% |   0.00% |
| 38   | Chansey            |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 38   | Chandelure         |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 38   | Mamoswine          |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 38   | Hippowdon          |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 38   | Mantine            |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 38   | Scyther            |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 38   | Pelipper           |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 38   | Ditto              |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 38   | Gengar             |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 38   | Mew                |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 38   | Indeedee           |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 38   | Terrakion          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |


Rumble Hall Rattlers (1) vs (3) Black City Mambas

OU: Samqian vs ZDen
OU: lax vs Gefährlicher Random
OU: Fear vs xray
OU: Kebab mlml vs LittleBigPlanet2

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Rillaboom          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 1    | Clefable           |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 1    | Dragapult          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Kyurem             |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 5    | Hatterene          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Weezing-Galar      |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Scizor             |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Magnezone          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Blissey            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Urshifu-*          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Azumarill          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Volcarona          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Corviknight        |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 5    | Gastrodon          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Chansey            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Chandelure         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Mandibuzz          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Mamoswine          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Rhyperior          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Druddigon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 15   | Hawlucha           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Cobalion           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Ditto              |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 15   | Toxapex            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Shinto Ruin Serpents (1) vs (3) Celadon City Cobras

OU: Tamahome vs FMG
OU: Vaboh vs TPP
OU: Star vs mncmt
OU: watashi vs 1 True Lycan

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    7 |  87.50% |  42.86% |
| 2    | Urshifu-*          |    4 |  50.00% |  75.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    4 |  50.00% |  75.00% |
| 4    | Toxapex            |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 4    | Magnezone          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 4    | Corviknight        |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |    3 |  37.50% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Tyranitar          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Hippowdon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Jirachi            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Druddigon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Slowbro-Galar      |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Cloyster           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Rhyperior          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Amoonguss          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 10   | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Slowking           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Hydreigon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Hatterene          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 10   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Ambrette Astrotias (3) vs (1) Sky Tower Lindworms

OU: BIHI vs beatiful
OU: Tace vs Garay oak
OU: Finchinator vs Jytcampbell
OU: Raiza vs Eo Ut Mortus

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    7 |  87.50% |  57.14% |
| 2    | Ferrothorn         |    3 |  37.50% | 100.00% |
| 2    | Rotom-Heat         |    3 |  37.50% | 100.00% |
| 2    | Zeraora            |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 6    | Urshifu-*          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Slowbro            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Scizor             |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Excadrill          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Gastrodon          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Slowking           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Kommo-o            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Rhyperior          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Cobalion           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Gengar             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Hydreigon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Corviknight        |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Mew                |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Cloyster           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Slowbro-Galar      |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Lake of Rage Leviathans (3) vs (1) Lanakila Nagas

OU: Rexus vs Sacri'
OU: BK vs robjr
OU: John W vs ima
OU: ramboss vs Storm Zone

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Urshifu-*          |    4 |  50.00% |  75.00% |
| 2    | Hatterene          |    3 |  37.50% | 100.00% |
| 2    | Rillaboom          |    3 |  37.50% | 100.00% |
| 2    | Magnezone          |    3 |  37.50% | 100.00% |
| 2    | Clefable           |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Zeraora            |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 7    | Azumarill          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 7    | Jirachi            |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 7    | Corviknight        |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Kyurem             |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Togekiss           |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 7    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 7    | Excadrill          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Scyther            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Pelipper           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Rhyperior          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Dragapult          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Slowbro            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Mandibuzz          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Kommo-o            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Hawlucha           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Indeedee           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |




Berry Forest Bushmasters (3) vs (1) Terminus Taipans

OU: Lopunny Kicks vs Eeveeto
OU: Santu vs High Impulse
OU: Bloody alfa vs le LLiolae
OU: Leo vs Void

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    6 |  75.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Urshifu-*          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Zeraora            |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 2    | Rhyperior          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 5    | Magnezone          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Rotom-Heat         |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Dragapult          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Slowbro            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Kommo-o            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Tyranitar          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 5    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Slowking           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Conkeldurr         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Azumarill          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Hawlucha           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Scizor             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Skarmory           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Toxapex            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Ditto              |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Excadrill          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Corviknight        |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |


Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |  189 |  79.41% |  50.79% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |  116 |  48.74% |  51.72% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |   81 |  34.03% |  43.21% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |   67 |  28.15% |  50.75% |
| 5    | Urshifu-*          |   54 |  22.69% |  48.15% |
| 6    | Amoonguss          |   50 |  21.01% |  56.00% |
| 7    | Rotom-Heat         |   47 |  19.75% |  57.45% |
| 7    | Zeraora            |   47 |  19.75% |  46.81% |
| 9    | Toxapex            |   46 |  19.33% |  45.65% |
| 10   | Tyranitar          |   44 |  18.49% |  52.27% |
| 11   | Mandibuzz          |   43 |  18.07% |  55.81% |
| 12   | Magnezone          |   38 |  15.97% |  60.53% |
| 13   | Rhyperior          |   36 |  15.13% |  55.56% |
| 14   | Blissey            |   35 |  14.71% |  37.14% |
| 15   | Rillaboom          |   33 |  13.87% |  54.55% |
| 16   | Tangrowth          |   32 |  13.45% |  40.62% |
| 17   | Skarmory           |   31 |  13.03% |  48.39% |
| 18   | Gastrodon          |   28 |  11.76% |  39.29% |
| 19   | Ferrothorn         |   27 |  11.34% |  70.37% |
| 19   | Aegislash          |   27 |  11.34% |  37.04% |
| 21   | Kyurem             |   26 |  10.92% |  46.15% |
| 22   | Volcarona          |   22 |   9.24% |  72.73% |
| 23   | Hippowdon          |   21 |   8.82% |  42.86% |
| 24   | Hydreigon          |   17 |   7.14% |  35.29% |
| 25   | Kommo-o            |   16 |   6.72% |  43.75% |
| 25   | Scizor             |   16 |   6.72% |  43.75% |
| 27   | Reuniclus          |   15 |   6.30% |  40.00% |
| 27   | Togekiss           |   15 |   6.30% |  40.00% |
| 29   | Slowbro            |   14 |   5.88% |  42.86% |
| 30   | Mantine            |   13 |   5.46% |  61.54% |
| 31   | Azumarill          |   12 |   5.04% |  58.33% |
| 32   | Hatterene          |   11 |   4.62% |  72.73% |
| 33   | Primarina          |   10 |   4.20% |  70.00% |
| 34   | Mew                |    9 |   3.78% |  55.56% |
| 34   | Jirachi            |    9 |   3.78% |  55.56% |
| 34   | Ditto              |    9 |   3.78% |  44.44% |
| 37   | Weezing-Galar      |    8 |   3.36% |  50.00% |
| 37   | Alakazam           |    8 |   3.36% |  25.00% |
| 39   | Conkeldurr         |    7 |   2.94% |  85.71% |
| 40   | Zarude             |    6 |   2.52% |  66.67% |
| 40   | Slowking           |    6 |   2.52% |  66.67% |
| 40   | Marowak-Alola      |    6 |   2.52% |  50.00% |
| 40   | Hawlucha           |    6 |   2.52% |  33.33% |
| 44   | Chansey            |    5 |   2.10% |  80.00% |
| 44   | Cobalion           |    5 |   2.10% |  60.00% |
| 44   | Toxtricity         |    5 |   2.10% |  40.00% |
| 47   | Chandelure         |    4 |   1.68% |  50.00% |
| 48   | Gengar             |    3 |   1.26% |  66.67% |
| 48   | Pelipper           |    3 |   1.26% |  66.67% |
| 48   | Mamoswine          |    3 |   1.26% |  66.67% |
| 48   | Druddigon          |    3 |   1.26% |  66.67% |
| 48   | Crawdaunt          |    3 |   1.26% |  33.33% |
| 48   | Heracross          |    3 |   1.26% |  33.33% |
| 48   | Quagsire           |    3 |   1.26% |  33.33% |
| 48   | Cloyster           |    3 |   1.26% |  33.33% |
| 48   | Slowbro-Galar      |    3 |   1.26% |  33.33% |
| 48   | Obstagoon          |    3 |   1.26% |   0.00% |
| 58   | Terrakion          |    2 |   0.84% |  50.00% |
| 58   | Bisharp            |    2 |   0.84% |  50.00% |
| 58   | Torkoal            |    2 |   0.84% |   0.00% |
| 58   | Venusaur           |    2 |   0.84% |   0.00% |
| 58   | Charizard          |    2 |   0.84% |   0.00% |
| 58   | Xatu               |    2 |   0.84% |   0.00% |
| 64   | Porygon2           |    1 |   0.42% | 100.00% |
| 64   | Seismitoad         |    1 |   0.42% | 100.00% |
| 64   | Centiskorch        |    1 |   0.42% | 100.00% |
| 64   | Grimmsnarl         |    1 |   0.42% | 100.00% |
| 64   | Darmanitan         |    1 |   0.42% | 100.00% |
| 64   | Scyther            |    1 |   0.42% | 100.00% |
| 64   | Talonflame         |    1 |   0.42% |   0.00% |
| 64   | Magneton           |    1 |   0.42% |   0.00% |
| 64   | Keldeo             |    1 |   0.42% |   0.00% |
| 64   | Incineroar         |    1 |   0.42% |   0.00% |
| 64   | Necrozma           |    1 |   0.42% |   0.00% |
| 64   | Ninetales-Alola    |    1 |   0.42% |   0.00% |
| 64   | Scolipede          |    1 |   0.42% |   0.00% |
| 64   | Indeedee           |    1 |   0.42% |   0.00% |


Here are the Cumulative Usage Stats for Moves and Teammates.
Here are the Cumulative Usage Stats for Combos.
Here are the Cumulative Usage Stats for Leads.
 
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Week 7 Usage Stats

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |   30 |  75.00% |  46.67% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |   17 |  42.50% |  35.29% |
| 3    | Urshifu-*          |   14 |  35.00% |  42.86% |
| 4    | Mandibuzz          |   13 |  32.50% |  46.15% |
| 5    | Zeraora            |   12 |  30.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Rotom-Heat         |   10 |  25.00% |  60.00% |
| 6    | Scizor             |   10 |  25.00% |  40.00% |
| 8    | Kommo-o            |    9 |  22.50% |  66.67% |
| 8    | Excadrill          |    9 |  22.50% |  55.56% |
| 10   | Corviknight        |    7 |  17.50% |  42.86% |
| 11   | Tangrowth          |    6 |  15.00% |  50.00% |
| 11   | Amoonguss          |    6 |  15.00% |  50.00% |
| 11   | Aegislash          |    6 |  15.00% |  50.00% |
| 11   | Rhyperior          |    6 |  15.00% |  33.33% |
| 15   | Blissey            |    5 |  12.50% |  60.00% |
| 15   | Rillaboom          |    5 |  12.50% |  60.00% |
| 15   | Kyurem             |    5 |  12.50% |  40.00% |
| 18   | Volcarona          |    4 |  10.00% |  75.00% |
| 18   | Hawlucha           |    4 |  10.00% |  75.00% |
| 18   | Magnezone          |    4 |  10.00% |  75.00% |
| 18   | Toxapex            |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 18   | Mew                |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 18   | Weezing-Galar      |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 18   | Zarude             |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 18   | Gastrodon          |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 18   | Tyranitar          |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 18   | Ferrothorn         |    4 |  10.00% |  50.00% |
| 28   | Reuniclus          |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 28   | Azumarill          |    3 |   7.50% |  66.67% |
| 28   | Slowbro            |    3 |   7.50% |  33.33% |
| 28   | Hydreigon          |    3 |   7.50% |  33.33% |
| 32   | Togekiss           |    2 |   5.00% | 100.00% |
| 32   | Mantine            |    2 |   5.00% | 100.00% |
| 32   | Chansey            |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 32   | Hippowdon          |    2 |   5.00% |  50.00% |
| 32   | Jirachi            |    2 |   5.00% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Quagsire           |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 37   | Indeedee           |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 37   | Chandelure         |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 37   | Slowking           |    1 |   2.50% | 100.00% |
| 37   | Mamoswine          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Cobalion           |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Hatterene          |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |
| 37   | Shuckle            |    1 |   2.50% |   0.00% |



Rumble Hall Rattlers (1) vs (3) Lake of Rage Leviathans

OU: lax vs Rexus
OU: talah vs BK
OU: Samqian vs John W
OU: Kebab mlml vs ramboss

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    5 |  62.50% |  40.00% |
| 2    | Scizor             |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Rotom-Heat         |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Kommo-o            |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Zeraora            |    3 |  37.50% |   0.00% |
| 6    | Mew                |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Tangrowth          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Gastrodon          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Dragapult          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Tyranitar          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 6    | Corviknight        |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Toxapex            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Chansey            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Quagsire           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Mandibuzz          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Zarude             |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Excadrill          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Volcarona          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Reuniclus          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Hawlucha           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Indeedee           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Amoonguss          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Weezing-Galar      |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Slowbro            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Mamoswine          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Black City Mambas (1) vs (3) Shinto Ruin Serpents

OU: xray vs Tamahome
OU: Relous vs Vaboh
OU: LittleBigPlanet2 vs Star
OU: Gefährlicher Random vs watashi

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    7 |  87.50% |  42.86% |
| 2    | Urshifu-*          |    4 |  50.00% |  75.00% |
| 2    | Mandibuzz          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 4    | Zeraora            |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Rotom-Heat         |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 4    | Dragapult          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 8    | Kommo-o            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 8    | Ferrothorn         |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 8    | Kyurem             |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 8    | Rhyperior          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Hydreigon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Magnezone          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Azumarill          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Hawlucha           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Amoonguss          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Tyranitar          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Jirachi            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Toxapex            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Corviknight        |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Zarude             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |


Lanakila Nagas (2) vs (2) Ambrette Astrotias

OU: ima vs BIHI
OU: Regnite vs Raiza
OU: robjr vs Tace
OU: Sacri' vs Finchinator

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    8 | 100.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    4 |  50.00% |  25.00% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Mandibuzz          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Urshifu-*          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 3    | Aegislash          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 7    | Kyurem             |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 7    | Kommo-o            |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 7    | Hippowdon          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Toxapex            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Blissey            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 7    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 7    | Rhyperior          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Excadrill          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Magnezone          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Mantine            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Zeraora            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Chandelure         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 14   | Cobalion           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 14   | Scizor             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Celadon City Cobras (2) vs (2) Berry Forest Bushmasters

OU: FMG vs Lopunny Kicks
OU: mncmt vs Leo
OU: 1 True Lycan vs frisoeva
OU: TPP vs Bloody alfa

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Urshifu-*          |    5 |  62.50% |  40.00% |
| 2    | Clefable           |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    4 |  50.00% |  25.00% |
| 4    | Volcarona          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 4    | Scizor             |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 4    | Mandibuzz          |    3 |  37.50% |  33.33% |
| 8    | Tangrowth          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 8    | Zeraora            |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 8    | Weezing-Galar      |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 8    | Rillaboom          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 12   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Reuniclus          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Tyranitar          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Togekiss           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Mew                |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Azumarill          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Hawlucha           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Slowking           |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 12   | Chansey            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Hatterene          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Shuckle            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Kyurem             |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Rotom-Heat         |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 12   | Slowbro            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |



Sky Tower Lindworms (4) vs (0) Terminus Taipans

OU: Eo Ut Mortus vs dice
OU: Jytcampbell vs High Impulse
OU: beatiful vs Void
OU: Garay oak vs Eeveeto

Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |    6 |  75.00% |  50.00% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |    4 |  50.00% |  50.00% |
| 3    | Zeraora            |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 3    | Rotom-Heat         |    3 |  37.50% |  66.67% |
| 5    | Kommo-o            |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Rhyperior          |    2 |  25.00% | 100.00% |
| 5    | Zarude             |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Scizor             |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Magnezone          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Amoonguss          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Mandibuzz          |    2 |  25.00% |  50.00% |
| 5    | Hydreigon          |    2 |  25.00% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Weezing-Galar      |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Aegislash          |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Blissey            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Corviknight        |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Slowbro            |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Ferrothorn         |    1 |  12.50% | 100.00% |
| 13   | Gastrodon          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Tangrowth          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Urshifu-*          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Excadrill          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Rillaboom          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Hawlucha           |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Mew                |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Azumarill          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Reuniclus          |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |
| 13   | Jirachi            |    1 |  12.50% |   0.00% |


Code:
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| Rank | Pokemon            | Use  | Usage % |  Win %  |
+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- +
| 1    | Clefable           |  219 |  78.78% |  50.23% |
| 2    | Dragapult          |  133 |  47.84% |  49.62% |
| 3    | Corviknight        |   88 |  31.65% |  43.18% |
| 4    | Excadrill          |   76 |  27.34% |  51.32% |
| 5    | Urshifu-*          |   68 |  24.46% |  47.06% |
| 6    | Zeraora            |   59 |  21.22% |  47.46% |
| 7    | Rotom-Heat         |   57 |  20.50% |  57.89% |
| 8    | Amoonguss          |   56 |  20.14% |  55.36% |
| 8    | Mandibuzz          |   56 |  20.14% |  53.57% |
| 10   | Toxapex            |   50 |  17.99% |  46.00% |
| 11   | Tyranitar          |   48 |  17.27% |  52.08% |
| 12   | Magnezone          |   42 |  15.11% |  61.90% |
| 12   | Rhyperior          |   42 |  15.11% |  52.38% |
| 14   | Blissey            |   40 |  14.39% |  40.00% |
| 15   | Rillaboom          |   38 |  13.67% |  55.26% |
| 15   | Tangrowth          |   38 |  13.67% |  42.11% |
| 17   | Aegislash          |   33 |  11.87% |  39.39% |
| 18   | Gastrodon          |   32 |  11.51% |  40.62% |
| 19   | Ferrothorn         |   31 |  11.15% |  67.74% |
| 19   | Skarmory           |   31 |  11.15% |  48.39% |
| 19   | Kyurem             |   31 |  11.15% |  45.16% |
| 22   | Volcarona          |   26 |   9.35% |  73.08% |
| 22   | Scizor             |   26 |   9.35% |  42.31% |
| 24   | Kommo-o            |   25 |   8.99% |  52.00% |
| 25   | Hippowdon          |   23 |   8.27% |  43.48% |
| 26   | Hydreigon          |   20 |   7.19% |  35.00% |
| 27   | Reuniclus          |   18 |   6.47% |  44.44% |
| 28   | Togekiss           |   17 |   6.12% |  47.06% |
| 28   | Slowbro            |   17 |   6.12% |  41.18% |
| 30   | Mantine            |   15 |   5.40% |  66.67% |
| 30   | Azumarill          |   15 |   5.40% |  60.00% |
| 32   | Mew                |   13 |   4.68% |  53.85% |
| 33   | Hatterene          |   12 |   4.32% |  66.67% |
| 33   | Weezing-Galar      |   12 |   4.32% |  50.00% |
| 35   | Jirachi            |   11 |   3.96% |  45.45% |
| 36   | Primarina          |   10 |   3.60% |  70.00% |
| 36   | Zarude             |   10 |   3.60% |  60.00% |
| 36   | Hawlucha           |   10 |   3.60% |  50.00% |
| 39   | Ditto              |    9 |   3.24% |  44.44% |
| 40   | Alakazam           |    8 |   2.88% |  25.00% |
| 41   | Conkeldurr         |    7 |   2.52% |  85.71% |
| 41   | Chansey            |    7 |   2.52% |  71.43% |
| 41   | Slowking           |    7 |   2.52% |  71.43% |
| 44   | Marowak-Alola      |    6 |   2.16% |  50.00% |
| 44   | Cobalion           |    6 |   2.16% |  50.00% |
| 46   | Chandelure         |    5 |   1.80% |  60.00% |
| 46   | Toxtricity         |    5 |   1.80% |  40.00% |
| 48   | Quagsire           |    4 |   1.44% |  50.00% |
| 48   | Mamoswine          |    4 |   1.44% |  50.00% |
| 50   | Gengar             |    3 |   1.08% |  66.67% |
| 50   | Pelipper           |    3 |   1.08% |  66.67% |
| 50   | Druddigon          |    3 |   1.08% |  66.67% |
| 50   | Crawdaunt          |    3 |   1.08% |  33.33% |
| 50   | Heracross          |    3 |   1.08% |  33.33% |
| 50   | Cloyster           |    3 |   1.08% |  33.33% |
| 50   | Slowbro-Galar      |    3 |   1.08% |  33.33% |
| 50   | Obstagoon          |    3 |   1.08% |   0.00% |
| 58   | Terrakion          |    2 |   0.72% |  50.00% |
| 58   | Bisharp            |    2 |   0.72% |  50.00% |
| 58   | Indeedee           |    2 |   0.72% |  50.00% |
| 58   | Torkoal            |    2 |   0.72% |   0.00% |
| 58   | Venusaur           |    2 |   0.72% |   0.00% |
| 58   | Charizard          |    2 |   0.72% |   0.00% |
| 58   | Xatu               |    2 |   0.72% |   0.00% |
| 65   | Porygon2           |    1 |   0.36% | 100.00% |
| 65   | Seismitoad         |    1 |   0.36% | 100.00% |
| 65   | Centiskorch        |    1 |   0.36% | 100.00% |
| 65   | Grimmsnarl         |    1 |   0.36% | 100.00% |
| 65   | Darmanitan         |    1 |   0.36% | 100.00% |
| 65   | Scyther            |    1 |   0.36% | 100.00% |
| 65   | Talonflame         |    1 |   0.36% |   0.00% |
| 65   | Magneton           |    1 |   0.36% |   0.00% |
| 65   | Keldeo             |    1 |   0.36% |   0.00% |
| 65   | Incineroar         |    1 |   0.36% |   0.00% |
| 65   | Necrozma           |    1 |   0.36% |   0.00% |
| 65   | Ninetales-Alola    |    1 |   0.36% |   0.00% |
| 65   | Scolipede          |    1 |   0.36% |   0.00% |
| 65   | Shuckle            |    1 |   0.36% |   0.00% |


Here are the Cumulative Usage Stats for Moves and Teammates.
Here are the Cumulative Usage Stats for Combos.
Here are the Cumulative Usage Stats for Leads.
 

FlamingVictini

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There's probably not too much interest in DLC1 metagame discussion right now, but there's one set/team that I just HAD to post: Misty Terrain Weezing HO.


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This is a team I made for qsns in week 8, in which he won a dominating game. Part of the origin for this team is a meme back from SPL earlier this year, where mid season around the time OST started, I started building a bunch of teams, and one of my more ambitious ideas was misty terrain offense. In that rendition, some of the key offensive wincons I was toying with were Hawlucha, talah's dragonless Adamant DD Haxorus, non-lum Bisharp, and Cloyster. The main idea behind terrain was to enable clean set-up opportunities with status immunity. For example, Bisharp is immune to Dragapult's WoW/Twave, Haxorus can set-up all over toxapex, etc. A secondary but also important idea at the time was giving hawlucha a sdef boost, which could be useful to tank moonblast from clefable and break it without prior chip. While I felt the concept held promise, my offensive composition lacked the consistency I usually look for in HOs and I never ended up bringing it to a tournament match.
As an aside, another HO team that I made around the same time and DID use several times in OST, was
. The reason I bring this up because I was experimenting with this build for a long time, and Rhyperior was the key idea that made this team as good as it was, and many of those same ideas made a return for this new team that made the offensive combo click. In the OST rendition I was running Lum berry for things like Rotom-H toxic and scald burns, and Dragon Tail as my 3rd atk with SD + EdgeQuake due to the popularity of whirlwind hippo, which was a large threat and an important Pokemon to weaken. Now with Misty Terrain support, this gave me the freedom to run Weakness Policy, which is fantastic for achieving the 2hko on Hippowdons (which nowadays tend to favor toxic), and generally tanking a SE hit from faster mons like CB Urshifu and KO'ing back.

One of the biggest things that changed between the first time I conceptualized misty terrain HO and this rendition of it, were the offensive Pokemon available. Urshifu is a fantastic abuser of terrain, using its great natural stats and bulk-up to set-up in the face of scald and toxic from defensive pokemon like Pex and Hippo, where ordinarily you would be forced out. Furthermore, a nice underrated aspect of terrain is the weakening of dragon moves, which makes Shifu a perfect swap in to Pult, which can generally be a large threat to HO teams. Speaking of, Volc was another new addition that again abuses terrain fantastically, and also enjoys the weakening of dragon darts apart from dodging tox and twave. Finally, Azumarill. This pokemon is simply fantastic on offense, it doesn't need any support, it either sweeps or breaks and is hard to justify dropping ever. Lucha is the final linchpiece, using the terrain for unburden and generally acting as the final wincon in many games where the others break first, though occasionally this can be done in the opposite order where lucha breaks for shifu/volc as well.

I also want to talk specifically about my weezing set and other options, as it has several fantastic resources for HO.


Weezing-Galar @ Terrain Extender
Ability: Misty Surge
EVs: 216 HP / 40 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Strange Steam
- Taunt
- Destiny Bond
- Memento

This set has gone through many iterations, before I finally settled on this. Strange Steam provides some of Weezing's regular defensive utility, and Memento is perhaps the most important move of the set, providing a free switch-in opportunity at the opportune moment (also much better than misty explosion). Taunt allows you to limit defensive resources, one of the more important ones being defog to remove terrain/rocks if its too early to memento. Finally, DBond along with this very fast spread allows you to make great value out of difficult positions where your opponent's position is better. For example, say someone doubled out of shifu into aegislash, you could dbond then go lucha to clean up instead of having to try and pivot or sack another member, or memento when you can't make much use of it. It can also help remove some bulky and annoying pokemon like Pelipper, which is difficult to swap into and also checks several members on the team. DBond is far less useful once its known, however; one other option I played with a lot was overheat. Early on I was experimenting with Eject Pack, but the consistent 8 turns of terrain with extender I found to be better overall. Even so, Overheat is still a great option, and with some satk investment can land some surprise KOs on mons like ferrothorn, apart from just generally landing heavy damage on steels coming in like Exca, Zone, and Corv.

Finally, my weezing hype man starry blanket tagged me earlier today a few days go to let me know that Tricking, the madlad that he is, brought this TWICE to OLT finals and won both games. It honestly made me really happy to see terrain weezing succeed on a big stage like this. I'm not sure if Tricking created his version independently or based it off mine, but the only difference I could perceive was Drain Punch on Hawlucha, which I think was a great tech.

As a bonus, I'll add a new DLC2 Pokemon that I've been having a TON of fun with. You guessed it, more terrain...


Tapu Fini @ Leftovers
Ability: Misty Surge
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 32 HP / 224 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Surf
- Draining Kiss
- Taunt
- Calm Mind

I really love misty terrain, what can I say. This set is like Primarina on steroids, where the combination of Taunt + CM and the Recovery of Draining Kiss allows you to abusive defensive Pokemon, and also get past offensive checks with a lot of extra health, which can often snowball into a full sweep. I really like to run max speed right now as it gets the jump on adamant shifu, ada CB Zyg, etc. and I also like to run a lot of special attack to make the most out of draining kiss. Apart from terrain providing fini itself with so many free turns to do its thing, its also fantastic support right now for pokemon like Kyu-B and Melmetal, telling scald that no matter how hot the water is, there won't be any burns.

I'm cautiously dubious of anyone else posting, considering this meta will be fully dead in a week. Even so, it would be really nice to see, and if you're thinking about it I strongly encourage it! I'll give a shoutout to Lopunny Kicks for pioneering offensive Scizor, and ima for making that sand team that I've never seen lose. I really hope you guys post about these things, but if not I wanted to at least give you guys props for these ideas, as I think they really pushed the boundaries of this metagame. That's all from me, thanks for reading!
 
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This Snake I feel like I had a better grasp on the metagame than ever before. Over the course of the tournament, I used a number of sets that were seen as fringe or never before seen that I believe had a place on certain teams in the metagame. While I may (rightfully) be known as a standard player, there has been a ton of room for creativity most of this generation and I feel like I was able to display some of it firsthand this Snake. Below are some examples. After these examples, I will go over some games and teams of my own as well (at length).

Week 1 and 5:
Mr. Roboto (:Magnezone:) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 24 Def / 252 SpA / 232 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Volt Switch
- Flash Cannon
- Body Press
- Thunderbolt

Absolutely not a set I came up with historically here; this one has been around since its debut in generation 4. Scarf Magnezone never really took off this generation though; prior to SSD, the only time I saw one was when ABR briefly had it on a team on the OLT ladder. With this said, I saw a lot of promise in it on teams that relied on Pokemon like Excadrill under Sand or Alakazam as their "fast" Pokemon. While you do lose the breaking power of Choice Specs, you are able to trap fast Corviknight, which surged in usage throughout Snake to try to outpace normal Magnezones, and pick off fast SD Scizor, which also picked up later in the tournament. It also was a great surprise revenge killer against Gengar, Rillaboom, Kyurem, Crawdaunt, Hydreigon, etc. after chip. Finally, one big thing is that this paired especially well with CM + Thunderbolt Clefable, which I used it with during week 1. Oftentimes, Magnezone lures in Excadrill and with Body Press being a clean 2HKO, you are able to eliminate Excadrill in most match-ups if you play it well, which opens the door for CM + Thunderbolt Clefable to clean sweep if they lack a secondary measure, which both teams do as we were already strapped to cover all of the different CM Clefable variants as is.

Week 2:
Aja (:Clefable:) @ Life Orb
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 240 HP / 204 Def / 64 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Moonblast
- Psyshock
- Soft-Boiled

"FinchFable1" - Eo. Stored Power is better in most match-ups, including the one I played unfortunately, but CM Psyshock hits harder right off-the-bat / early in CM wars, which goes a long way against things like AV Amoonguss, Volcarona, Primarina, Gastrodon (forcing Recover PP), Toxtricity, and Gengar. In general, CM + Psyshock or Stored Power works well on more teams than we give credit. You lose the flashy super effective coverage and instant gratification progress of a coverage move like Flamethrower or Thunder(bolt), but you gain the ability to win a lot of CM wars and this opens up totally different structures in teambuilding if you are a stickler for covering the most you can overall. The main drawback of lacking the aforementioned coverage is that it can be more challenging to muscle past things like Corviknight, which is one of a plethora of reasons why I paired this with the Alakazam set below in my Week 2 game against 1 True Lycan.

Golden Lady (:Alakazam:) (F) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Magic Guard
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Psychic
- Focus Blast
- Recover
- Trick

This Alakazam set was probably one of the most interesting brings of the tour for me. The main premise, as I alluded to above, was to cripple Corviknight as it was seeing absurd amounts of usage earlier in the tournament. However, it is also a great anti-cheese measure as it can outrun many Swift Swim or Chlorophyll Pokemon, getting a surprise revenge kill. This was still pretty close to when OLT's ladder phase was concluding, so those playstyles were more "in" than they may have been towards the tail-end of Snake, too. Anyway, another benefit of this Alakazam is that it can completely ruin set-up sweeps from things like Reuniclus, offensive Clefable, opposing Alakazam, and even Volcarona, all of which my own Psyshock Clefable, which I alluded to above, was less capable of handling in a 1-on-1 scenario. This duo made me feel safe and given that Trick also was capable of handling things like SDef Hippowon, Mandibuzz, Mantine, Blissey, and the rare Jirachi, I knew that this set was a good fit. It actually did its job very well in the game, too, detering an otherwise threatening Reuniclus.

Aqualung (:Hydreigon:) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Flash Cannon
- Flamethrower
- Roost

This one is nothing special and I was hesitant to even include it, but I feel like most people did not look at Hydreigon for what it truly could be this generation. Everyone saw it got Nasty Plot and tunneled in on making sure every set included it, to the point that Hydreigon was: NP, Draco, Flame/Flash/Roost x2 for a while now. 1 True Lycan and various others did not use things like Blissey, so I did not see much of a need for NP when Flash Cannon hits Clefable, which was on every team at the time, Flamethrower hit Corviknight, Skarmory, Ferrothorn, Excadrill, and Aegislash, who were all super common at the time, and Roost helped with longevity against Rotom-Heat, which was also very common at the time. At one point in the game, I had revealed Draco, Flash Cannon, and Roost I think, so I actually got a surprise kill with Flamethrower, which helped me quite a bit, too, as he expected Nasty Plot to be my last move.

Week 3:
Up to Me (:Clefable:) (F) @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 248 HP / 232 Def / 28 Spe
Bold Nature
- Moonblast
- Soft-Boiled
- Knock Off
- Seismic Toss

"FinchFable2" - Eo. Rocky Helmet Clefable actually saw a significant amount of usage after I brought this set week 3 vs xray, which was super cool. I'm glad that it caught on and I think it deserved to, too, as it punished Urshifu, U-turn spam, and random physical moves on Pokemon lacking recovery in general. Seismic Toss did not catch on nearly as much, but I still find it to be cool. It forces recovers from Toxapex, does plenty to Excadrill and Rotom-Heat, and can cheese past Calm Mind sweepers that are paralyzed if used on the right team. I admit Seismic Toss is a luxury more than a necessity on some builds, but it can do very well in longer games and with paralysis/Spikes support I feel. Rocky Helmet is absolutely the main takeaway from the set though and I am glad it picked up in usage as the weeks of the tournament went by.

Kashmir (:Tyranitar:) (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 240 HP / 248 SpD / 20 Spe
Careful Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Rock Blast
- Toxic
- Thunder Wave

As the tournament went on, Rest Tyranitar dipped in usage due to things taking advantage of free turns more and more (see: rise in CB Rhyperior, HO teams, Bug Buzz Volcarona becoming the main set, and Urshifu's prevalence). I also feel like Tyranitar's niche shifted a bit. While it was still a good switch in to special Kyurem not clicking Focus Blast, Ghost moves, Rotom-Heat, and Volcarona in the early game, it had to accomplish more than just setting up SR to warrant running Sand structures as they oftentimes mandated Excadrill, too, and that limited team compositions quite a bit. Because of this, I noticed that Toxic hitting Hippowdon, Rhyperior, Kommo-O, Gastrodon, and Slowbro tilted a ton of those match-ups from being uphill to favorable. Putting Rhyperior on a timer in particular is huge, especially when Excadrill is the main Stone Edge resist or Tyranitar is your main switch in to CB Heat Crash. Needless to say, if you run something like Tangrowth, this eases up a ton, but I did not have that luxury here and Toxic was wonderful in that regard.

Shoot to Thrill (:Aegislash:) @ Leftovers
Ability: Stance Change
EVs: 224 HP / 252 Atk / 32 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shadow Sneak
- Swords Dance
- Iron Head
- Shadow Claw

One of the first SD Aegislash showings. It died out for months after it surfaced in SPL earlier this year, not seeing much usage at all after DLC1 or during WCOP/OLT. To me, it felt super underrated with Mandibuzz usage taking a nose-dive during the earlier period of Snake and Corviknight being super common. It sets up all over Defog Corviknight and I liked running a slower spread so that they could not U-turn on SD, but had to risk their pivot taking an attack and oftentimes had to go to something more passive on the SD because of this. Of course, you still want to be quicker than slow Clefable and Tyranitar, so it leaves you in a fringe speed tier, but it still works. The spread is really what makes this stand out, too. In my game against xray, this spread would have actually won me the game pretty easily by luring him into a false sense of security after a roll if not for him getting absolute max damage. People thought I was just losing a 50/50 and honestly that was very incorrect. Nobody expects this much bulk on Aegislash, especially if it is not SubTox, and xray almost definitely thought Brave Bird killed from his position. I absolutely lost hours of sleep after this game when public perception went in the total opposite direction than it should of and I did not get rewarded for being outside the box here with some unfortunate luck. But that's the game we play sometimes.

Week 5:
#TPWK (:Urshifu:) (M) @ Black Glasses
Ability: Unseen Fist
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Bulk Up
- Wicked Blow
- Iron Head
- Sucker Punch

Nothing too crazy, but everyone had been using LO up to this point since the start of Snake (even during OLT when HO was at its peak, Black Glasses was still fringe at best). Imo, Black Glasses has and always was the best item on BU Urshifu in this metagame. There are only a few calcs you miss out on with Iron Head damage and most of them you are not missing out on a ton with anyway as the idea is to pair this Urshifu with other things that appreciate Clefable, Tangrowth, or G-Weezing being weakened. Hawlucha was the best example that came to mind and was what I picked to use against Leo when I pretty much 6-0d with this set. Not taking LO allows for bluffing (Ada Black Glasses is close to CB damage output) and longevity, which enables sweeps such as the one I had in that game. Black Glasses picked up a little after this, but also my HO or 5/6 Pokemon variants of it saw a solid amount of usage in later weeks and it was cool to get that part of the metagame back-in-business.

Week 6:
The Grand Illusion (:Clefable:) @ Life Orb
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 212 HP / 200 Def / 96 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Moonblast
- Grass Knot
- Soft-Boiled

"FinchFable3" - Eo. CB Rhyperior was really hard to keep in check without using Tangrowth + a Rock resist, which was not in the cards for that week given the schemes I liked. In addition, I had multiple weeks where I was quite vulnerable to Rhyperior and I figured Jyt would continue going with the trendy, hot teams he normally does without trying to reinvent the wheel. With Rhyperior being a top 10-15 pick at the time, I wanted to have technology for it on deck. This was the solution. It OHKOs Rhyperior and outruns CB Rhyperior always. The famous Teleport into CB Heavy Slam Rhyperior combination dicking Clefable was rendered impossible by this. Unfortunately, I ran into cheesy HO instead, but I was hoping this would work and it worked in numerous tests. It is also worth noting that if you are not knocked, you can 1v1 Mantine with Grass Knot on the Roost (and if they are 0 speed Mantine fsr, +1 Moons do a lot, too, so it tilts the field in your favor either way in that match-up PP wise as they will exhaust their Roosts quicker than otherwise). Grass Knot also is able to hit Gastrodon, which was cool. The main idea was trying to enable Rotom-H as a win condition, which this Clefable does super well as it takes out Rhyperior and at worst keeps Gastrodon very low (at best it takes it out eventually, leaving teams Rotom-H vulnerable). Really wish this one hit and got the LOOOOOOL SmogTours chat moment it deserved as I thought it was super practical with both Rhyperior and Gastrodn trending, but it never ran into either and I did not want to whore out the set in case we wanted to recycle it for a future week.

Songbird (:Mandibuzz:) @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Overcoat
EVs: 248 HP / 84 Def / 120 SpD / 56 Spe
Impish Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Taunt
- Foul Play
- Roost
- Defog

This one is not rocket science or anything super crazy. In fact, we saw Taunt Mandibuzz surface in SPL a few times, but never really since then. People slapped on U-turn a ton post-WCOP for momentum purposes as Mandibuzz was on more proactive teams that did not mind a Defog user that lot to Spikers like Mandibuzz did. Taunt helps mitigate that and other problems -- Clefable, Blissey, etc. healing up, bulky-set up sweepers using you as fodder, and status infliction from slower Pokemon. The main issue with Mandibuzz during the early stage of SSD was that people tried overly compressing it and team structures with it were just less consistent than Corviknight because of this. I could write a novel on the comparison between the two and why one trended while the other fell and vice versa over time honestly, but I feel like Taunt enabled Mandibuzz on more dedicared balances and I was glad to use it. U-turn Mandibuzz still was perfectly viable and so was Toxic or Knock Off, but Taunt helped it fit onto different teams that usually had to pick between Spikes coverage (Corviknight) or Ghost resist (Mandibuzz) with some other pros and cons weighing in on both ends as well.

Week 8:
Here Today (:Aegislash:) (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Stance Change
EVs: 80 HP / 252 SpA / 176 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- King's Shield
- Shadow Ball
- Flash Cannon
- Steel Beam

Hatterene and CM Clefable were super problematic to a team I brought. Unfortunately, I faced a 220 Clefable and no Hatterene, so this did not come into play, but the idea was that if either got a CM up and saw I was Leftovers, they knew they were in the clear to trade 60-65% net health for a clean kill on Aegislash. Steel Beam killed both and also had some funny scenarios against Kommo-O, which opened up for my Zarude I brought this week. All in all, I did not really need filler and this one ended up giving me a surprise out in multiple relevant match-ups. I do not think it would fit on many teams, but the few that it fits on can now rest a little easier when it faces these Pokemon, knowing a surprise KO is pretty likely and very easy to set-up under normal conditions.

Week 8 and 9:
Inner City Blues (:Kommo-o:) (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Bulletproof
EVs: 248 HP / 184 Def / 76 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Stealth Rock
- Body Press
- Flamethrower
- Clanging Scales

Substitute Dragapult is a pain in the ass for a lot of balance teams, including the ones I had planned for the last two weeks. With other forms of status on my teams, I elected to go with Clanging Scales. It goes through Substitute and kills Dragapult. Most of them are Dragon Darts nowadays, too, so it is easy to tank a hit and kill back, having a great chance to kill even if they are at 100% health coming in. Seeing as Dragapult oftentimes believes the most Kommo-O can do is get off a Toxic or a neutral, non-STAB EQ without any attack investment, it was great having this in-hand to tilt that match-up in my favor. Unfortunately, I did not face a Dragapult, but this won me test games singlehandedly (especially by catching it on the switch-in) and I think it should have been semi-standard on Kommo-O for months prior. Surprised not many others picked up on it in all honesty, but it's really good.

Week 9
to (:Rhyperior:) (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Solid Rock
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Heat Crash
- Megahorn

Last one here is nothing remotely crazy, but Megahorn > Heavy Slam changes how Rhyperior plays a bit and it ripped the game wide-open for me. Had I not gotten haxed out 2-3 times over, it pretty much won me the game singlehandedly honestly. The initial idea was that Megahorn made it so that I did not lose 6-0 to Reuniclus, which seemed like a good bring vs me. However, on top of this, it also hits Tangrowth and Slowbro, meaning that no Regenerator pivots actually scouted Rhyperior all too well and this means it was able to force progress with a single correct prediction in almost all match-ups. Having this sort of instant progress paired with Teleport Blissey on a balance team with a durable enough backbone defensively is amazing. Of course, all bets are off when a rogue Togekiss lucks you and your Rhyperior goes blind. Yes, I am very salty, but regardless this set is amazing and nothing is safe switching in to Megahorn Rhyperior. The only note is that you need a check to both CM variants of Clefable (Flamethrower and Thunderbolt) in order to afford dropping Heavy Slam. This is hard enough as is and most Rhyperior teams rely on something like TWave + Teleport Blissey into Heavy Slam CB Rhyperior to minimize the issue. Obviously this cannot be done without Heavy Slam, so you must be conscious with your build overall if you wish to change up the moves.

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Week 1: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-516155 | team: https://pokepast.es/18b236406d16a07d

dice forgot Natural Cure on his Blissey and that opened the door for me. I made some nice, momentum based plays to help speed up the process and assure that he could not make up a relatively early deficit I feel, so ultimately I was able to suffocate his team and win in routine fashion. My match-up would have been harder if he had the right Blissey or he did not play his Rhyperior in such an aggressive fashion early on, tossing out lots of health to a Giga Drain from Amoonguss, but thankfully I had both of these things going in my favor. I did not feel too threatened beyond this point and sometimes the game just smiles at you like this. Of course, dice is a great player and while this may not be his best generation, he could've won for sure with the right set or a few turns going differently, but I was confident walking away with a decisive w1 victory here.

Week 2: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-516451 | team: https://pokepast.es/fd45898d991cad5b

This was one of my most creative teams conceptually and I describe this at length in my descriptions of Psyshock Clefable, TrickScarf Alakazam, and non-Nasty Plot Hydreigon above, so I'll spare you guys that blurb once more. As for the game, I think I played this one really well aside from turn 74. I clicked Recover with Alakazam as his Foul Play took me out with Mandibuzz after I tricked him a Life Orb. To be fair to me, if I clicked Focus Blast there as he attacked and we essentially traded, then I had the game virtually won and I really believed 1TL was going to Roost, but either he predicted me to be Recover last + predict him to Roost and get greedy or he did not see this through the same way I did, so I got burnt because of this. I believed that when I took this risk, even without Alakazam I was strongly favored in that position and it still was true. Just did not play out super fortunately from there. If I got either of two 50/50s with Rotom-H correct, then I also won the game on the spot. And getting my Clefable crit + dropped in a super untimely fashion made a would-be winning long-term gameplan no longer possible as the Toxapex was able to escape with 1 Recover ultimately. That one is less easy to pinpoint as there were countless chances for crits and drops on both sides, even if I fished a little more, so that was more the cherry on top than anything else. I cannot really say I got "robbed" here and I am not trying to take any credit away from a very deserving opponent, but this game felt like I had a pretty good long-term plan in mind and the little things just all went the wrong way. I was happy with everything I did besides the one risk I mentioned above and knew that despite odds not going my way, I had a lot of confidence moving forward and 1TL is a great player, so there is no shame in losing to him. Massive props his way for another strong season, btw.

Week 3: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-518255 | team: https://pokepast.es/7cffb0fd9fe9127f

Really don't know what to say here beyond what I described above. I got myself in a pretty great position and knew he would not expect the amount of bulk I had on Aegislash given the situation, so I baited the Brave Bird I lived barring absolute max damage and he got it. I remember reading an Eo prediction post the following week calling it a 50/50 and got so upset about this in private because my spread not being clear was the reason I risked the entire sequence as I did and was why he confidently Brave Birded there -> didn't know it was a roll after, as the battle chat obviously showed. Instead of a clear-cut victory, I slowly bled out to death over the next 100+ turns and then got made fun of for weeks. I think the loss was something I could tolerate, even if it was unfortunate, and same with the mocking of me for xray's "Max Attack Skarmory" joke -- sure, it's all in good fun at the end of the day and while I was salty at the time because it was a rough week for my team overall, I can appreciate a good joke and even joked about it myself. But a lot of people took it too far and resorted to personal insults and that wasn't cool. You guys know who you are and I spoke to you about it, so I hope you do not do this to anyone else in the future if you're reading this. It's best to keep that shit far away from Smogon. Honestly, that was a bit of a turning point for me and absolutely motivated me for future weeks and it got to the point where I just started coming up with different motivators each week to try and make sure I was not going to let any nonsense derail my season (spoiler: it ended up doing so at the end anyway, but at least it was nonsense that was largely out of my hands). I think a big part of these longer team tournaments is the mental game and finding a way to keep yourself motivated to be at your absolute best. There have absolutely been big games I just have not shown up for at 100% and had to reinvent myself to win, which is possible, but it is much easier when you are levelheaded and at your best because the competitors in these tournaments are the best in the world after all.

Circling back to the game and away from my tangent, xray played well after he managed to keep his Skarmory. He did not need to risk the Trick and if I went to Amoonguss on that turn, giving him an Assault Vest, he actually had a lose condition, but he got it right, was favored regardless, and played the end-game super safe/properly overall. While I feel I should have won this far earlier clean and do not believe I made any outright misplays after going over this multiple times with multiple people, xray played the whole game well and the main issue was just his match-up earlier on. xray went on to turn his season around during some weeks with some strong performances, much like his SPL showings. Was glad to see he went positive ultimately.

Week 4: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-518513 | team: https://pokepast.es/ee06d91d02034c62

Came in to this with a bit of a chip on my shoulder at 1-2, wanting to salvage a season I felt like I had been playing well in thus far. FLCL had a lot of similar structures or balance in his scout, so I tried my best to take advantage of it. I knew I liked Reuniclus with Spikes, the rest just fell into place from there without as much attention to his specific trends I admit. Thankfully, Reuniclus was the right call. There's a lot less to discuss here as this was just a 1-mon-show. Reuniclus got in and never left, winning handily. Not much FLCL could have done, absolutely not his fault. Was glad my prep worked after I feel like it should have in prior weeks and felt like I was back in business, but did not really feel like I had to do too much playing wise.

Week 5: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-520267 | team: https://pokepast.es/2055369754c2b595

Leo and I had probably seen better days coming into this, but it was still really fun to play him as we had worked together quite a bit in the past. He knew me for my high-attention to detail that virtually forced standards onto me at times and I knew he had a knack for trying to take advantage of that, which led to his key victories against Eo in SPL and Sacri' earlier in Snake. I was by no means going to take this one lightly as I knew Leo wanted to keep his starting slot and keep up his good start to the season after the aforementioned victory. I noticed that despite his awareness of what the opponent uses, he still did not deviate a ton outside the realm of conventional bulky-o/balance teams with a few specific calls to be catered towards the opponent. Because of that, I felt very comfortable pulling out HO without fearing an unwinnable MU. This HO in particular had very few of these and this 6 and 5/6 ended up being used a number of times later on in the season because of this I feel. I love the Urshifu + Hawlucha synergy and, thankfully for me, they did the trick here. With the latter getting some chip in, the former was able to clean sweep with the aid of Black Glasses not making Urshifu slowly die like Life Orb. This one went just according to plan and I was very happy with the result and execution, aside from a little bit of regret for picking Volcarona as a lead in a match-up it also did pretty well in. I would have been better off with something else there in hindsight, but thankfully it did not cause me much of an issue.

Week 6: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-522197 | team: https://pokepast.es/20783bc788521d36

Another week, another game against a teammate from Snake the year prior. Felt like I had some good momentum off of the past two weeks and I knew I wanted to stay on top of my old teammates, so I was excited here. Jyt was another strong opponent. I penciled him in for using pretty standard stuff without a ton of attention to specific detail, but rather a more general idea of what the opponent would use and plan to tackle that. It was the gist I got from talking to some people familiar with him and also preparing with him during the Snake prior. It turned out he just said fuck it and used the cheesy G-Slowbro HO, which seemed to be a variant of the Lil Pigg team. I am not sure if he was using this all along or deviated to using it after they clinched the week with a prior victory, but either way it was an ok, but not amazing, match-up. I got a bit luckier overall and had one turn I regret sequence wise with my Excadrill, but thankfully nothing crazy happened from that misstep and I think I won in a close one. I say I think because I sure as hell am not watching that cheesy HO anymore now that I am done with it for the time being with DLC2 being the current metagame, so don't catch me rewatching these anymore than I already tirelessly did during Snake itself to reflect on my play then and there.

Week 7: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-523122 | team: https://pokepast.es/8c2b81b7bcba9404

This was the most frustrating loss for me probably. This was the last OU game played between my team and the Nagas and all week they were clearly a step ahead in prep. We got fortunate in one game and their player mishandled another game, so we managed to break even, but regardless they clearly had a leg-up in figuring out what we had planned and this was due to taking some great risks in the builder. Knowing what I saw in the three prior games, I wanted to change up my squad, but ultimately we decided against it because it was the night before. Then I ran into Chandelure, rest is pretty much a wrap. I also got outplayed pretty hard in the mid-game and honestly even in a neutral match-up, Sacri absolutely wins this if we both play the same because he was all over me, but yea this was the one that got away for me. Wish I just swapped teams and did not pull the trigger on that. Don't think I made any outright misplays, but Sacri had momentum and used it amazingly. Major credit to him for some smooth gameplay and a strong team choice, well played.

Week 8: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-523865 | team: https://pokepast.es/839ec03c9a00af37

There are some pre-game antics about this one that still leave a bad taste in my mouth and I wish I was not as generous in shifting a scheduled time, but just to throw a free team at yall: https://pokepast.es/f2b57595e8017f68 -- I was initially planning on this, but ran out of time trying to fix some minor holes like a Hatterene vulnerability, so ultimately I went with the team I used. For my teammates listening to me going crazy about losing the extra day to prep after working all week, I am so sorry you guys had to witness my literal descent into full-on anger for hours LOL oops

Anyway, the game itself was actually just as much of a shitshow. I fell behind early because he had 220 Clefable, which did well against the team I had picked ultimately and was the main reason why the team I mentioned in the first paragraph had Haze Weezing-G honestly. Yea, I'm salty. Rexus proceeded to make some really weird plays in the mid-game that gave my Kommo-O an opening after his Weezing-G was no longer able to check it, but it did not quite get the job done as he outplayed me in one of the closing sequences to make up for it, which was really well done on his end. I had to get quite a few sequences right to cover the ground I needed to there anyway. My only misplay was when the game was already over because I blanked on Power Whip being contact -- my main excuse is that I was exhausted as I had to wake up early on my day off to play the guy, but please let the record show the game was already lost by then and this is not an excuse for the result obviously. This one just annoyed me because I regret accommodating to their scheduling forgetfulness, so catch me playing a substitute next time my opponent has issues in a team tournament because I hate knowing that hurt my team's chances instead of just my own. I apologize to my team for that sincerely.

Week 9: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8oudlc1-525228 | team: https://pokepast.es/a6675064fa981cb2

Season was pretty much on the line here and I had this won if not for lame stuff, but it happens. I'm not going to go on a rant about how I feel he played or the game should have gone. I'm just tired at this point -- it was fitting that this was the end of the tournament. I'm happy with how I played for the most part, so that's what's in my control and that's my take-away. Just gotta focus on what you can control when all else fails to meet your expectations. Luck will always even out over time, so you just need to give it time and it will. Not going to go quit or burn bridges over a single lame game, like some would, when you can end up getting fortunate to win a game or multiple games the next day or week or month etc.

Overall, I was happy with how I played all but 1-2 weeks and I was happy with how I prepared all but 1 week. I know this will go down as another mediocre showing with a below average 4-5 record for me and the sheet does not lie, but I feel like I was really thriving in this metagame and that record did not match my performance. That happens sometimes and it is probably why I did not post this sooner, I just wanted some time to distance myself from the whole result. But now that I have reflected, I still wanted to share all of my thoughts and the sets above. It was a blast preparing and playing still. My teammates were amazing, the tier was fun despite Urshifu being pretty busted, and these officials will always get my heart pumping, for better or worse. This was a great experience and I find myself learning lots of new things every tournament even if I have been playing this game since 2011. Thanks to everyone for everything, cannot wait to play more SS in tours.
 
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Going over some of the more interesting sets I used this season:



Heracross @ Flame Orb
Ability: Guts
EVs: 40 HP / 252 Atk / 216 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Facade
- Knock Off

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-515715

The main benefit heracross has over another wallbreaker like obstagoon is the stronger close combat, allowing it to cleanly 1hko mons like skarmory at +2, and also being a bit more threatening without setup. It also has a slight niche in that it resists both urshifu STAB moves. I wanted to bring this week 1 since BK is a notorious stall lord and I was sure this thing + wish on clef would let me beat stall easily. If I had taken the risk on corv not being brave bird early I would have won quite easily since I had a lot of momentum in the early game, but I chose to be more conservative. Unfortunately I ended up min rolling the amoonguss with +2 knock to lose when I think I had a good shot to win if I got it.



Clefable @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Stealth Rock
- Moonblast
- Aromatherapy
- Soft-Boiled

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-516451

Aromatherapy is a cool last on rocks clef. I had pokemon like toxapex, ferrothorn and mandibuzz that were all prone to being statused so aroma was helpful, but the main reason for it was to ensure dragapult can still check rotom-heat even if it gets parad by discharge early. Turned out to be pivotal in game and helped me pull out a victory vs a fully teched-out Finchinator.


Primarina @ Leftovers
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 248 HP / 20 Def / 152 SpD / 88 Spe
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Substitute
- Scald
- Moonblast

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-518282

Main thing to note here is the spread which lets you sub on amoonguss at +1. Some teams just rely on amoonguss to counter this, so it is a threat vs basically any team that doesn't have blissey. I also had grassy terrain to help this thing basically never die, which was fun. Unfortunately dice had a blissey so it couldn't shine, but the other synergy the team had in rilla breaking for exca worked perfectly.


Bisharp @ Leftovers
Ability: Defiant
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Knock Off
- Iron Head
- Sucker Punch

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-519196

Bisharp was actually pretty underrated, it can really punish defog so I paired it with spikestack. Additionally, once it is in vs something like clef, it can esentially get a kill due to its great dark-steel coverage. Leftovers help with longevity since I don't feel life orb is required. I paired it with wisp dragapult just to make sure bisharp doesn't have to fear switching into a potential body press corviknight.


Mew @ Weakness Policy
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 32 HP / 236 Atk / 240 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Psychic Fangs
- Close Combat
- Roost

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8ou-522713

With the ubiquity of boots and magic guard mons, entry hazards are a lot less effective this gen. I wanted to take advantage of the fact everyone assumes mew is a hazard lead, so came up with this set. The idea is to bait dragapult/zeraora to attack me and try to limit hazards. Weakness policy allows me to KO them back. Dragapult is the main target for this as killing it opens up rilla, volc and azu immensely. I chose DD roost for the overall set because it is actually a pretty underrated sweeper vs the right team. Roost allows you to set up on pokemon such as clefable, and the dream would be to dd on corv as it u-turns.


Quagsire @ Leftovers
Ability: Unaware
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Haze
- Recover
- Toxic

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8oudlc1-525210

I didn't have room for body press on corviknight so I needed something to check excadrill as well as other mons like scizor and magnezone. Quagsire ended up as the perfect fit. I had haze in order to beat cm clef in conjunction with blissey. Quag is actually pretty underrated and can shut down a lot of different mons, and is also good at spreading status for my pult. The main regret I had this game was that I actually had brave bird on corviknight and could have killed his rillaboom at one point, but I expected him to u turn that time to scout.


Jirachi @ Power Herb
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Rash Nature
- Meteor Beam
- Iron Head
- Psychic
- Aura Sphere

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen8dlc1ou-526031

Not going to pretend that I created this set, but I did bring it back from the depths of the OLT ladder. It is actually surprisingly difficult to switch into, and you can always rely on it to do jirachi type things in a bind, especially if the opposing mon is toxiced (I had toxic on mandi). It was excellent this game, killing off a scizor which I was pretty scared of at team preview, weakening zera and still coming back to check clefable.
 

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hey! not gonna make a very long post, this being a dead meta and all (and also I deleted all my teams, oops), (never mind) but I did really wanna make one about the team I used vs Garay in finals. it's definitely my fav team from this tour, as well as one of the best teams I've made in SS so far:

:jirachi::rillaboom::haxorus::volcarona::hawlucha::urshifu:
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the idea was pretty simple and I didn't start with much specific in mind. it's an adaptation of a 'general HO' framework that I was toying with around...week 6 or week 7? I honestly can't remember really, but it started out v differently. mainly, I was just trying to find what "use 6 sweepers and win" looks like when optimized and over the weeks I ended up w/ these 6. any HO worth its salt in SSD meta needs RillaLucha + Urshifu-S, it's legitimately too good to not use, so that was the starting point (I also do think Urshifu-S ended up just being the best pokemon in the tier tbh, its incredibly oppressive and consistently so)

I also wanted to use Haxorus; not only is the mon itself really synergistic with Urshifu and Hawlucha, considering the combined pressure they put Clef under, I also think it's been a really solid HO tool since SPL, albeit underutilized. it has 2 very powerful sets, DD LO Adamant STAB-less (so DD / CC / EQ / PJab), and the one this team's using, SD LO Scale Shot.

so I don't just turn this to a mini RMT, for the last 2 slots I needed things that:
1) pummeled the structures the physical breakers could have trouble with
2) help beat scizor, dragapult, cobalion
3) switch into clefable

after a lot of variations I settled on offensive Volc and specifically this set bc it breaks SpDef Hippowdown in Grassy Terrain, something that emerged as a strong Volc answer among other things, but the last slot was still up in the air. for the longest time it was occupied by a Jirachi but it was a WP Cosmic Power set. now I thought that it was good, as it could bluff Rocks/Meteor Beam and lure Dragapult which helped the team a lot while also having the potential to auto-win some MUs. makes sense right? well, what I realized after testing the team a bit is that while it COULD sometimes lure Dragapult, in most games it was just dead weight. I also realized that nothing really fit that slot very well in terms of just being a consistent sweeper, so what I ended up doing was trying out Healing Wish and man I am glad that I did.

Healing Wish this generation is probably just straight up broken on HO, the end-game options it gives you are absolutely ridiculous and it's a game-changer in roughly every matchup. it allows you to completely nullify trades that teams would rely on to beat one of your sweepers, and while that sometimes may not seem like much at first it's honestly very overbearing to deal with for most teams. having to deal with one Urshifu is enough, but having to deal with two of them is just so hard for like, every structure. you Toxic the Volcarona with something and die in exchange but well, at least you stopped the Volc sweep! nope, it's now back to full. Haxorus, Volc, and Urshifu are all incredible abusers of HW, as they force the opponent to trade with them multiple times, and open up for everyone else with a lot more ease than they would otherwise.

tl;dr: HO thrives on trades, and this generation's Healing Wish mechanics allow you to trade favorably and on your own terms, because you can basically nullify a trade later on in the game without breaking tempo.

after making it HW, I tried a few things, but ultimately settled on that Trick + Lagging Tail set. it lured Dragapult very consistently, which was a very important part of the gameplan, had Rocks, and Encore was very useful for taking advantage of situations that you wouldn't be able to get both Rocks and HW in. it's also very central to the HO mirror matchup: Jirachi eats Hawlucha's +2 CC, which means if you switch into Hawlucha with Jirachi as it uses anything you get a free Encore. a Jirachi with an unrevealed set would never be a Taunt target, but they could Sub, or even SD again. regardless, Encore makes the enemy Hawlucha either setup fodder for my own, or it makes it useless for the rest of the game.

I played somewhere in the ballpark of 40-50 test games with the finalized version of the team in finals week alone (the vast majority of them with Tace, a major, MAJOR shoutout to him for his ridiculous help during playoffs) against all kinds of archetypes, and I didn't really ever run into a matchup that I couldn't beat (I won around 75-80% of said test games, for reference). there is 1 matchup that's nearly impossible, which is Ditto stall, but like that's a very bad archetype and it's still kinda winnable so who cares! regardless, this team had a matchups ranging from Great to Decent, and I never really found one that was worse. it destroyed common balance cores, it was too much for BO to handle, and it was favored in the HO mirror. i'm very proud of this team, and so I'm glad it worked as well as it did in finals.

lastly, a shoutout to my managers and the Rattlers for giving me my best Smogon experience yet. even if we didn't end up getting the pixels, the ride was well worth it.

also, Eo is gonna post abt his HO(wow it's actually not even his, and he won't say what he's posting about but it's probably fucking Weezing Blissey) under my post but make no mistake, his "solving the meta" (his words) was worse than mine
 
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Now that dlc1ou is gone forever, i just wanted to end with some considerations about the peculiar things we have seen in this metagame. I am using this thread because it is more active than the OLT one, but I will indiscriminately refer both to Snake and OLT. I'll just go with some thoughts in random order.

1- The classic balanced team is the worst team choice you can make. We can see that, apart from a few exceptions in both tournaments, those who loaded more offensive stuff won against balanced users.
2- Weather (and particularly Sun) have been overlooked in the latest phases of Snake. For instance Eo was one of the few players who hardly ever brought sand and the lack of Centiskorch in his builds made him the perfect target for Sun basically every week. Yet, nobody went for that. Dragapult is the other annoying Pokemon to face when loading Sun, especially sets with substitute. Surprisingly again, Dragapult made no appearances in Snake and OLT finals.
3- As a consequence of point one, Clefable is not a good Pokemon when you want to win. Don't get me wrong, it is an excellent glue for balanced teams and it is so easy to put a random Clefable, but in most team structures Clefable needs to check so many Pokemon against threat spams that will be used as a dead slot most of the times, barely being able to attack against more offensive team structures. Though, it is worth noting that there is a particular set I liked a lot despite not being a Clefable fan which was CM Clef with 220 speed. The main problem with CM Clef is that if you choose the wrong coverage, your Clefable is basically useless. That set, though has seen particularly good results in light of the Toxapex usage drop.
4- This point is about the new item we got, Heavy-Duty-Boots. I have heard a lot of people saying that boots are broken and there is no drawback in using boots. That is partially true if you haven't got reliable hazards control, so people have been using boots hippo, boots ttar, boots kyurem, even boots amoonguss. All of these are to me examples of wrong boots usage. Where boots are used basically without any significant drawback are on Pokemon like Volcarona, Togekiss, Blissey, Mandibuzz, and Rotom-H. Boots Dragapult is probably its worst set and I would never use it without Wish, though it helps make sticky web unviable, whereas Boots Zeraora is very good, but we have seen that some Magnet/Life Orb/Itemless sets have their own merits. However, I don't think the aforementioned Pokemon are viable because of HDB (Mandibuzz and Blissey are probably the only ones which would see little to no usage without HDB), but in all the other cases there has been evidence of different items being used with success.
5- As various people have noticed, CB Rillaboom and Urshifu are incredibly good and probably the real winners of the later phases of OLT and Snake. Many people, including myself, have been reconsidering these two Pokemon which were (in my opinion) suboptimal choices in the World Cup metagame with Cinderace and Magearna being around. The OLT ladder really made these archetypes popular and that translated to tournaments usage as well.
6- Status spam has been incredibly dominant. The silly example would be Little Pigg's team, which is not a good team choice, but it has still its merits. It can be seen how Kebab, despite having made several mistakes managed to have a slight win chance with his Slowbro-Galar and Twave spam. The team could have been played better obviously, but the matchup was just not good. People are overpreparing for Volcarona, which is still mandatory on that team to try to punish Rillaboom, one of the powerhouses of the metagame.
7- Stall is viable. Stall is good. The post above says that Ditto stall is bad, wrong take. Ditto stall is good especially when HO is thriving. There are a few problems with Ditto stall though, one being Hawlucha, the other being Urshifu without a fighting move and other threats that you can't revenge-kill with ease. And nobody made a good Ditto stall (probably my World Cup finals team is the closest thing to a good Ditto stall but it is outdated). However, the best stall team is clearly I like pink mons' stall. This is the best team in dlc1ou in my opinion.

:mew: :rotom-heat: :mandibuzz: :toxapex: :chansey: :quagsire:

This team has won almost every tournament game, it has seen usage in the World Cup metagame and has become much better with the removal of some threats. Toxapex is incredibly good and people have been using suboptimal sets in my opinion. While Scald is always Scald, Toxic Spikes are literally the answer to beat every non-Toxtricity HO. Rotom-heat is super good with Leftovers here because it never dies. Heal Bell Chansey helps ppstall annoying Toxic users, Synchronize Mew can be switched in to inactivate Gastrodon/Quagsire if they try to Toxic Rotom. You can easily check Future Sight + physical breaker thanks to Toxic Spikes. Psychic Mew stops Conkeldurr, Taunt Hawlucha and Zeraora. Zarude doesn't win either if you manage to keep Rocky Helmet on Toxapex. Basically, it is incredibly hard to find an offensive way to break this stall. The main offensive threats were NP Alakazam, SD Mold Breaker Excadrill, which is why I put Trick Scarf Mew over WoW. This particular tech also helped against the main "defensive" threats which were SR Toxic Clef/Chans/Bliss. Rotom-heat is obviously super underrated because people have been spamming the suboptimal defensive set with Toxic, but NP Rotom is for sure one of the best win conditions available in dlc1ou. I also have been playing around by trying out other breakers over Rotom-heat and the team structure obviously still works and Toxic Spikes can support most breakers effectively.
 
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Like everyone else, I am ready to move on from this dead meta, but I enjoyed it for most of the season. Yeah, we should have banned Urshifu, and building felt constraining at the end, but the past metas all inevitably optimized around something overcentralizing (Boots spam, WishPort, Clef/Pex/Bird and rain), and this one felt no worse to me in that regard. People will have their own favorites, but I thought this meta featured sufficient diversity without being too overwhelming.

Entering this tournament, I wanted to build as offensively as possible. As Tricking said, more offensive teams will beat balance every time, with the caveat that stall starts winning when teams allocate the majority of their resources into beating other offenses. The logical consequence of this metagame was always destined to be the OLT ladder meta polarized around stall and HO. That said, SSD was always lagging behind the OLT meta by several weeks and never really caught up until the end, if it did at all. My main approach was to take common defensive cores and consolidate them into fewer slots; only by running more lightweight defensive backbones could I fit more offensive threats into a single team. Staples like Corviknight and Toxapex offered inadequate defensive coverage by themselves and would always pigeonhole builds into balance/stall, so I opted to drop them in favor of Pokemon who could play more roles at once.

:weezing-galar:
I initially started building with Weezing just for the Regenerator denial that enabled Urshifu and Rillaboom, but after preparing for Storm Zone and seeing how he used it on his teams, I realized how much it facilitated offense beyond that. Weezing provided Defog/TSpikes absorption without having to use a bird/Mantine, not to mention its ability to check Rillaboom, both of which opened up more flexibility in an offensive build than a Clefable generally did. The key tradeoff, its inability to reliably check Dragapult, could be absorbed by a team with enough offensive presence to consistently deny Dragapult status-spread opportunities. Granted, I generally sidestepped this issue by constantly pairing Weezing with Blissey. Tricking beat me to this point, but I also valued Clefable less and less and stopped using it altogether after week 6. The CM set, in particular, was a trap throughout this entire season; in addition to what's already been said, it was repeatedly OHKOed by paralysis and any form of offensive presence. There's also the issue where the builds it finds itself on seem to want to use it to sweep while still checking both Urshifu and Dragapult, and without Leftovers/Rocky Helmet or without SpA/Spe investment, it's guaranteed to do one of those jobs poorly, if not both. The best adaptation I saw was Punny running offensive CM Clefable and pairing it with Weezing and Kommo-o to check Urshifu instead.

:blissey:
I found Blissey constantly necessary to check Specs Kyurem, Volcarona, and Primarina, all of whom had a limited pool of answers that forced the same builds. Teleport + the correct recipient completely obsoleted one of the lazier ways of dealing with Blissey, which was Calm Mind + anti-status, and it was generally as simple as using Rillaboom, who could OHKO all three of Clefable, Hatterene, and Reuniclus. The most common response to BlisseyPort was Substitute (particularly SubPult), but there were a lot of recipients available to offset that, including Urshifu-R, Chandelure, Zeraora, and Toxtricity. In my final build, in fact, I was initially using Snarl Toxtricity for SubPult but realized I could drop Seismic Toss for Shadow Ball (apparently now standard due to the busted ghost horse), as I had both Toxtricity and Zeraora for Primarina. I'll be honest, though: this style was a crutch for me throughout this entire tournament, and I found myself largely unmotivated to build anything without Teleport by its end. In the present meta, people are discussing banning the move, and I'm not sure I agree it's broken, but it does feel a bit restricting. Just as how most people would second guess a non-stall/HO team built without Stealth Rock, I would second guess a non-stall/HO team without Teleport. But maybe that's more of a personal issue.

:cobalion:
When I first used this in OLT, I didn't fully understand what made it good, but building more and more with it helped me realize its key offerings to a team. It's one of the only offensive Stealth Rockers and checks to a number of Pokemon, including Urshifu, Kyurem, Scizor, and the matchup monkey. Fighting/Steel offensive coverage is extremely difficult to cover outside of Pokemon like Toxapex / Slowbro, who will, as mentioned above, pigeonhole most builds into something defensive that can be abused by an offensive team. We saw this put to test in various teams that used 2-3 of Urshifu / offensive Kommo-o / Cobalion, including the HO our team loved to spam. With its speed and Volt Switch, Cobalion was much more effective at preserving momentum than a common competitor for its slot, Scizor, and enabled VoltTurn builds much more. This ended up being a pretty polarizing Pokemon, but I think many people just saw it take 45% from Clefable while greeding Rocks and overlooked all the other situations where it shined.

I won't talk about all the teams I built since they are obsolete now, but I do want to comment on my favorites.

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https://pokepast.es/55bafd2c76358eb2

This was my favorite team I built; there are so many synergies here at work. Rillaboom/Urshifu-R/Zeraora pair with Weezing to deny Regenerator from their common checks Tangrowth and Amoonguss. All three also pair well with Teleport; Rillaboom/Zeraora cover Primarina, and Urshifu-R covers Volcarona, so I can safely drop Seismic Toss and run Stealth Rock on Chansey. Teleporting into Rillaboom covers all the common Calm Mind users, who are OHKOed by Wood Hammer, and Urshifu-R can receive a Teleport to kill an Aegislash behind a Substitute. Hatterene ensures that Skarmory can't use Rillaboom for free Spikes, and the hazard control provided by Magic Bounce + Defog allows me to drop Boots on Zeraora for Magnet and run Chansey > Blissey, both of which help against Sub Pult (Magnet Volt broke Sub before Pult started running bulk). Finally, Grassy Terrain and Teleport allow me to keep everything healthy, especially Hatterene; in my game, I played very recklessly with Hatterene but healed it from 10% to 57% exclusively through Terrain + Leftovers. Then I healed it to 100% because of Draining Kiss. Final note: Low Kick Urshifu was for SubKyurem.

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https://pokepast.es/dc7cca321609648b

The final evolution of the Cobalion team I brought in OLT and also gave to tama. The second iteration dropped the unreliable CM Clefable for Wish and paired Rillaboom with Magnezone; this third iteration went completely Fairy-less and relied on a core of Cobalion/Mandibuzz/Dragapult to check Urshifu. I think these types of teams are what the meta would/should have started to look like given more time, featuring more Cobalion and Kommo-o and less Clefable.

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https://pokepast.es/a921a132cbd76a00

I knew it would be predictable, but I wanted to do BlisseyPort + breaker one last time. I decided to play into expectations but adapt my team to anticipated responses. I drew some inspiration from Sacri's only non-boring team, the Rillaboom + Chandelure team; I figured that the Rattlers would prep against Rillaboom + Magnezone with stuff like fast Corviknight or Zeraora, both of which Toxtricity would handle. Toxtricity also required less support than a Chandelure and allowed me to support it with something more offensive like Zeraora rather than Corviknight. It also matched up well into the Cobalion sets the Rattlers had been running and their SD Kommo set, as it turned out. As I said earlier, I ran Shadow Ball on Blissey to cover SubPult, and Play Rough Zeraora was an adaptation I made specifically for offensive Kommo, which both of our teams were spamming; I had Rilla to Knock most of the same switch-ins, and Knocking Clef was not as necessary since this team had the option to just Volt to Toxtricity. Finally, I threw Strange Stream on my Weezing just to not auto-lose to SubKyurem, but I was mostly counting on it to not show up due to my Cobalion usage.

This game was funny, but I honestly fucked up the lead and got put on the backfoot early as a result. Zeraora, not Weezing, should've always been the lead here. I wanted to bait out Kommo later but didn't consider how I would set up that situation (I couldn't, not without taking some risks I was unwilling to take anyway). Even though I got the W, I wish I could've played this one a bit better, especially since I ended up dodging the final tiebreaker.

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https://pokepast.es/597d69dcf4a15774

We had a week and a half to prepare, and bea came to me two days before his match asking for a team. :) I decided I could give him Rillaboom + Magnezone, and people would be less likely to expect that from him than me. I also knew he was the only person who could be convinced to fulfill my dream of using Coalossal, which I'd been trying to build with since Week 1, and which I almost used vs. Storm Zone during Week 4 to cteam the expected sun (yes, obvious jokes will be made here). The original plan was to use Spikes and bluff SR Kommo, but this mindgame was too advanced for him, so he changed it to SR. As for what Coalossal brings to a team beyond checking sun, it is basically a discount Tyranitar, but with no sand and additional utility in Spikes/Rapid Spin. It hard counters pretty much all Volcarona sets, checks Hatterene in a pinch with Heat Crash due to its resistance to Draining Kiss, and trips up Dragapult with Flame Body and Wisp immunity. Tar Shot was a viable option I explored for beating CM Clefable. Overall, it was a cool but niche Pokemon that could find use on some very specific builds.

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This isn't even my team; I just ripped it from Star's game vs. LBP2. I had to mention it because it went 4-0 for us, three of those wins in playoffs, and my biggest contribution to the team was insisting that everyone use it. During Week 8, we'd secured playoffs, and I decided it was the time to invest into picking up HO; I tried several builds, but this one was the most consistent. It is pretty self-evident how it works; you fish on the Clefable that is on most teams and either flinch it or set up Hawlucha for a sweep. The most critical part of this team was its ease-of-use, because on no less than three occasions, our players decided to bring this team on the day before their scheduled match, having spent the entire week practicing with other builds only to ditch them at the last second.

A few final brief takeaways from watching all the games: people need to use their timer more, think about lead more, and take more risks, both in team choices and play. It felt like the playerbase was on the whole largely risk-averse, and I'm not sure why; maybe it'll change as the generation matures and the SS mainstays who stick through the churn develop a bit more confidence.

So long to dlc1ou, and thanks for reading!
 

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Hello everyone, so while I don't have any teams or opinions to share about the metagame, I decided to go post what I was working on throughout snake. When the tournament began, I was behind on the SS OU metagame, and in order to quickly get up to speed, I decided to keep track of every team used from start to finish. I did this every week in addition to my usual scouting, and I normally don't go this far, but looking back, I think it was a nice thing to do at least once. Below you'll see teams posted by weeks with their matchups and replay links, and then you'll see an overall team compilation for each of the 10 teams in snake in alphabetical order. While I was doing this, I wanted a way to record if Urshifu-Single Strike or Urshifu-Rapid Strike had been used, so I added a bit of blue to Urshifu's headband in order to represent Urshifu-Rapid Strike. With that out of the way, I hope you guys enjoy. Also, in case anyone was curious, I'm only posting 8 posts in a row because I broke the character count limit 6 different times and was forced into 8 posts minimum to display everything.
 
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is a Tournament Directoris a Community Leaderis a Community Contributoris a Tiering Contributoris a Top Dedicated Tournament Hostis a Top Tutor Alumnusis a Top Team Rater Alumnusis a Senior Staff Member Alumnusis a Past SPL Championis a Past WCoP Champion
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Overall Team Compilation Part 3/3
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That's all from me. I hope you guys enjoyed Snake, DLC1OU, and I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the day.
 
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