Approved by Estarossa || Banner by A Cake Wearing A Hat || Hosted by DraconicLepus and Estarossa || OP adapted from Gen 8 Break This Team
Welcome to Break This Team: SV UU Edition! This project follows a simple layout, with the submission and voting stages taking place on a week by week basis. Most metagame-defining teams may seem perfect on the surface, but they all have their undeniable flaws, and this project aims to help point out those weak links. Each week, I'll post a team that was built by someone invested in the metagame, and the participants will then try to break this team with a core made of just two Pokémon.
As stated earlier, the project will have two phases each week: the submission phase and the voting phase. The submission phase will have a duration of five days and participants are allowed to post a core with two Pokémon within that time. Then, the voting phase will last two days and people can vote for 1-2 of their favorite cores (this number is subject to change, depending on the number of submitted cores). Lastly, if you win a week, you will be placed in the Hall of Fame, and if you happen to win three weeks, you'll be able to PM me with your own team and it will be submitted in this thread for other people to try to break it!
RULES:
- Please attempt to not post one-liners. This includes extremely short descriptions. You don't need to write an elaborate essay, but try to at least provide a satisfactory description of the core. Don't post "these Pokémon work well together and I think that it will break this team ", try to elaborate on a good post with an explanation of how the core performs against the team.
- This is not a counterteaming competition. This is an attempt to get the community to find viable, functional cores that work generally well in the meta that the team of the week is weak to. So, for example, don’t post a Polteageist+Blissey as your core, because that blatantly doesn’t work well when not against the team you’re breaking.
- Tera is allowed but it still falls under the jurisdiction of "don't counter team with it".
- Again, participants are only allowed to post one core with only two Pokémon.
- Please don't vote on your own core, or I'll ask forum moderators to delete your post.
- Don't rally people to vote for your own core. This is not fair at all to the other participants, and if you're caught doing this then you won’t be allowed to post or even offer any ideas in this thread.
- A small explanation would be appreciated when voting.
- Participants are allowed to do reservations, but if they don't post the sets with the explanation within 48 hours, other participants are allowed to take it.
- In order to encourage creativity and originality between submissions, the same Pokemon can only be used two times maximum per submissions round.
- Most importantly, have fun!
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**Insert explanation here**
Current Week (Week 3):
https://pokepast.es/a88a0fe2ee7ceca8
This team was built around Competitive Kilowattrel with Spike Stack. It works best on a double bird core with Talonflame, since otherwise you'd be losing the defensive utility of Talonflame. Talonflame can still use and abuse spikes, while also being a potential spinblocker with tera ghost. Both of them together give great speed control in the current meta. Gastrodon is an amazing spiker in the current meta with Covert Cloak + Sticky Hold. It can also spinblock with tera ghost while handling certain threats like Grafaiai or Gengar well. Coalossal finishing the hazards core while being an underrated pick currently. It's able to compress rocks+spin in the same slot while being able to beat most removers or spinblockers like Talonflame, Gengar, and Brambleghast. It has the option to tera if it wants to beat tinkaton or spin on the slowtwins as well. Wo-Chien gives a secondary answer to Sandy Shocks while being another great spikes abuser. Lastly is Grafaiai with pivot, another knock off user, and switcheroo + black sludge lets it wear down mons like Gastrodon or Tinkaton to allow Kilowattrel and Wo-Chien to make better progress.
If you want to see the team in action, there will be a replay below!
https://pokepast.es/a88a0fe2ee7ceca8
This team was built around Competitive Kilowattrel with Spike Stack. It works best on a double bird core with Talonflame, since otherwise you'd be losing the defensive utility of Talonflame. Talonflame can still use and abuse spikes, while also being a potential spinblocker with tera ghost. Both of them together give great speed control in the current meta. Gastrodon is an amazing spiker in the current meta with Covert Cloak + Sticky Hold. It can also spinblock with tera ghost while handling certain threats like Grafaiai or Gengar well. Coalossal finishing the hazards core while being an underrated pick currently. It's able to compress rocks+spin in the same slot while being able to beat most removers or spinblockers like Talonflame, Gengar, and Brambleghast. It has the option to tera if it wants to beat tinkaton or spin on the slowtwins as well. Wo-Chien gives a secondary answer to Sandy Shocks while being another great spikes abuser. Lastly is Grafaiai with pivot, another knock off user, and switcheroo + black sludge lets it wear down mons like Gastrodon or Tinkaton to allow Kilowattrel and Wo-Chien to make better progress.
If you want to see the team in action, there will be a replay below!
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