Approved by: 2xTheTap
Hosted by: 2xTheTap
Approved Builders: 2xTheTap tlenit Skankovich gum avarice chlo Drud TONE HJAD Milah Specs
Status: ACCEPTING REQUESTS
Art: By Zephyr2007 (thank you!)
Welcome! If you're having trouble building a team around something, this is the place to post. A few other well-established PU players and I will be building teams around specific movesets and/or cores at your request. We'll post the team for you, accompanied by a description of our teambuilding process and a couple of replays, both of which will detail how the team works in depth. This thread's primary aim is providing newer players with an entry point to the tier, and hopefully by watching us play and learning how we build, we'll be able to teach new users some of the basics. That, and it's just a good time to ladder with a team made by someone who knows the tier well. Use responsibly!
Joining the teambuilding lab:
If you would like to join the teambuilding lab, simply send me a message either here on Smogon or on Discord. We'll generally try to limit the number of builders for the thread though, as 'too many cooks can spoil the broth.' I'll ask you for a sample of what you've built recently, and if it looks good and we have room for new builders, you're in! If I know who you are and have seen some of your prior contributions, that will make things easier too.
Rules for requesting teams:
To see gen 7's iteration of this thread for some SM builds, click here.
Hosted by: 2xTheTap
Approved Builders: 2xTheTap tlenit Skankovich gum avarice chlo Drud TONE HJAD Milah Specs
Status: ACCEPTING REQUESTS
Art: By Zephyr2007 (thank you!)
Welcome! If you're having trouble building a team around something, this is the place to post. A few other well-established PU players and I will be building teams around specific movesets and/or cores at your request. We'll post the team for you, accompanied by a description of our teambuilding process and a couple of replays, both of which will detail how the team works in depth. This thread's primary aim is providing newer players with an entry point to the tier, and hopefully by watching us play and learning how we build, we'll be able to teach new users some of the basics. That, and it's just a good time to ladder with a team made by someone who knows the tier well. Use responsibly!
Joining the teambuilding lab:
If you would like to join the teambuilding lab, simply send me a message either here on Smogon or on Discord. We'll generally try to limit the number of builders for the thread though, as 'too many cooks can spoil the broth.' I'll ask you for a sample of what you've built recently, and if it looks good and we have room for new builders, you're in! If I know who you are and have seen some of your prior contributions, that will make things easier too.
Rules for requesting teams:
- Post a short description with the moveset / core you want us to build around and a slight idea of what kind of team you want the end result to be (ex. Balance with specially defensive Togedemaru or Hyper Offense with an offensive core of Archeops and Alolan Exeggutor). Keep in mind that there may be a more optimal set than the one you requested, so the final product will be subject to change at the builder's discretion.
- Requests for Pokemon ranked low in terms of their viability, i.e. C rank and below, will be low priority (to see what will be considered low priority, please consult our viability rankings thread).
- Requests for totally unviable Pokemon will denied (ex. Snom or Cosmoem).
- Please refrain from requesting teams built around Pokemon new to the tier right after they've dropped; just like you, the builders probably have not gotten a chance to use the new drop yet, so please wait a minimum of 1 week before making these requests.
- Please note that we can choose to ignore requests for Pokemon that have had teams built with them recently.
- Each user is allowed one request per every two weeks, and posts with users making more than their allotted requests will be ignored and these users may be subsequently disallowed from requesting teams from the thread in the future.
- Please remember that these teams are not guaranteed to be without weaknesses - all good teams still have a few. Edit them as you please.
- On that note, you are free to suggest changes to posted teams that you feel improve them.
- You are not allowed to post your own teams here to have us modify them. We're here to build new teams, not modify older ones. If you want your own teams critiqued and modified, post them in the RMT forum instead.
- To ensure that the requests are built within a reasonable timeframe, please first post a rough draft in our Discord Teambuilding Lab channel via a PokePaste. If you've received no feedback after one week, please assume the team is okay to post.
- To ensure quality, please be mindful of the feedback you receive and do not post the team if it needs a significant overhaul.
- Please update our running spreadsheet after you've built the team by marking the request as complete.
- Post at least one replay against a competent player with your finished team - doing so will inform how you build, and it's important to ensure these teams are functional in practice, so that the requester is happy with the final result.
- If you've been inactive for a noticeable period of time, your meta knowledge will most likely become outdated, and you'll be removed from the list of approved builders.
To see gen 7's iteration of this thread for some SM builds, click here.
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