hello, this is where u can steal quality outdated ag teams. they are pretty creative and i used new teams for most of my games.
ill do shoutouts and cry about my 2-4 record later in the post
here are the teams + a little explanation:
week 1: vs hunterstorm
im pretty sure this was hunterstorms first game after a long break. I saw him spamming HOs on ladder and roomtours so I figured that ill try to keep my builds anti HO. I also tried to throw in random stall breakers cuz he also likes to use stall.
g1
if you cant tell already, this team is super super anti HO. zygarde + ferro is such a solid defensive core and walls most of the offensive stuff in ag. i also had a magearna cuz he uses vivillon sometimes. idk if i mentioned this before but I also saw hunter using this lance stall variant without steelceus, which meant that band rayquaza can get free kills. i decided to use the volt switch to band mega ray tech here. waterceus walls dm and zygarde. didnt feel like running ice beam because i had haze glare zygarde for dd zygarde matchup. i think this was really anti hunter in general and i worked super hard on this team and glad that i got rewarded. I was pretty sure that this team was a guaranteed win vs hunter in g1 but if he brought something thats not his standard stuff i wouldve had a hard time.
g2
another anti HO, idek what i had in mind when i was building this. marsh + ditto makes sense but i really have no idea why i added a waterceus and rest pdon on a team like this. but ya ok, this 1 had ditto + marsh for the HO matchup. Ditto also beats stall so thats super cool. CM ID steelceus was the super cool arushi tech at that time. plus i nommed steelceus for A rank for whatever reason so i had to use it in a tour to prove that its good. I had a pretty bad MU in this game but I wouldve 100% won if he didnt crit my waterceus with his ho-oh turn 2 or turn3. idr now but ya the result of this match made me pretty sad because I played fine and shouldve won.
g3
this is probably the worst team ive ever built and used in a tour lol. i genuinely do not remember what i was doing here. like, unecro with just photon eq?? REST DON again? rest don kinda makes sense because i was addicted to this set for whatever reason and im pretty sure this costed me the game but not as much as the 12.5% roll on darkceus. cant really blame hax for this tho, i really dont know why i used this. please do not steal this one unless u wanna lose games t1.
yeah i was super demotivated after this week. g2 result especially made me really sad because i shouldve won it. same goes for g3 but now that i look back, i kinda deserved losing this game because the team was just super bad lol.
anywayyy onto week 2
week 2: vs purplegatorade
my strategy was to counter standard balance because PG was in full recycling mode. his most solid teams were the triple arc, band ho-oh, scarf ray and primal kyogre and the cm groundy + ttar + scarf ray. i was 100% expecting these and based my prepped accordingly but looks like he secretly built a few new teams. fortunately i had pretty ok matchups and won yay!
g1
this team is actually pretty good. its a standard webs team with a couple of cool sets. this one is super simple and you literally just have to click buttons to win unless you have a garbage matchup. i chose shuckle as my web setter because at the time z move dusk mane was getting really uncommon + pg never used it anyway. had double z here like most of my teams because imagine running just 1 lol (this was obviously a mistake ofcourse, life orb ekiller makes much more sense). also had this cool yveltal evd to tank a super effective judgment at 91%, disable, taunt and then get a free kill. pg played this game really well but i made some weird plays and the mu was slightly in my favour so this turned out to be a win for me.
g2
obviously had to use arc spam atleast once. i initially built the team around wisp gar + cm rere fairy as it was broken at that time (still is). decided to add an ekiller to trap skarms/steelas/support arcs. defensive core is obviously pretty weak but i covered pretty much all the threats i think. something like a stall/sab balance MU wouldve been hard but he brought a standard balance team which didnt trouble me at all. had to make one play with my gengar to ensure win, which i made. also i choked towards the end but still managed to win fair & square.
g3
made this one for g3 but i won in 2. pretty meh team but yeah again works well vs pg stuff
week3: vs skarph
yeah so uh i really had no idea what to do here, skarph is really good and uses pretty much everything. idk i just used solid teams.
g1
The Arushi HO. i was super excited to use this, mainly because of the dusk mane set. pretty sure im the one who used it for the first time. rest of the team is pretty standard. rayquaza is a must on screens. naga was pretty underused at the time and is broken anyway. obviously had to use deoxys with reflect / light screen. xern & ekiller are also pretty standard. I did not get a chance of use any of these because the necrozma swept which made me super happy. i knew this set was either gonna sweep or just completely fail. glad it worked out tho. this team was super fun to make, i remember i had like tapu koko screens + rocks eleceus here initially so the final team was a massive upgrade. i still use it a lot and its one of my most solid HO teams atm.
g2
another really weird team, idr what i had in mind while building this honestly. pretty sure i was trying to build around cm groundy. eventually added a grassceus to absorb the leech seeds/origin pulses. rest of the team is really arushi. idk what went wrong here tho, i really didnt mess up at all. his roar toxic fairyceus was kinda annoying but i managed to deal with it. theres just 1 play which he made in the entire game and im guessing thats the one which won him. or maybe it was just one of those games where both players have an equally good matchup and the better player just wins. who cares anyway, i had fun :shrug:
g3
im pretty sure he wasnt going to expect double HO in a series cuz ive always used balance for g3. so i decided to reuse the webs team which i made for my game vs pg. MU was kinda in his favour but it wasnt unwinnable for me for sure. A couple of doubles here and there wouldve won me the game but ya w/e.
obviously i was pretty disappointed but i got RO'd later this week so it was fine. not for long tho, cuz my series vs zenithial sent me back into depression
week4: vs zenithial
yeah idk what i was going to do this week. this zenithial dude just beats me every time in a bo3 unless i bring psyspam. i was also super sick this week which wasnt helping. whatever, i used some okayish teams. obviously got owned again.
g1
i wasnt in a condition to build because of bad health so i just stole a Pigeons team last minute. zen dodged a whirlpool which made the matchup really hard and i lost.
g2
he brought spikes skarm + mmx and won. i dont even wanna talk about this. shoutout Thimo for building this for me tho <3 and im sorry that i lost :(
he straight up outprepped me.
week5: vs zard
g1
cookie cutter gothitelle team. i watched his replays and figured that most of his teams are super weak to dd zygarde. goth seemed like a nice option because he uses fairyceus pretty often. i had a dd glare zyggy + gar team which i wanted to use but i accidentally brought this cuz i forgot about it. but this one worked out as well so its fine.
g2
brought this 1 again because it wins vs his scarf marsh fairy poison pogre team and i was pretty sure that he was going to bring it. he did bring it and i won. ive written the description for this team 2-3 times already so not gonna bother doing it again.
Finals vs Skarph
got subbed in pretty late but i really really wanted to win this one. massive shoutout to HunterStorm , hes the only one who helped me with this series. im super tired rn so ill go over the teams pretty quickly
g1
this team is so fire. hunter tested this vs me for his agpl game and i decided to steal it and use it for my own game instead. this is probably the most anti meta team ive ever seen. sab was a weird choice but ive literally never used it before so why not. double hazards ferro is such an annoying mon. edgequake arc core covers most of the things as well. curse ho-oh really benefits from this solid team support. he also added a ditto which takes care of everything which is not covered by these defensive mons. this was curse ho-ohs debut in a tour game and it swept which is super cool. im officially obsessed with ho-oh now btw, sorry gengar.
g2
just realized that i accidentally brought Skarph 's team vs him... in a team tour finals, but im pretty sure that you didnt notice it so its fine. anywayy, uh yeah skarph teams are usually pretty solid. I changed this to taunt 3 attacks and cm rere dark in my own builder but i accidentally used the wrong version which had wisp gar and cm fairy. also missed 3-4 toxics and a couple of other moves so this wasnt a great game. i was pretty annoyed because it lost us the finals but ye cant really blame my luck lol.
g3
basically my g1 team again, except gar > sab and darkceus > ho-oh as the wall breaker. gar was sub disable, darkceus was cm rere and ferro was double hazards again. super good team. I did pretty well, won 3 50/50 towards the end but choked the fourth one because i misread the HP on my darkceus. I couldve sworn that it was 12.8 but ya w/e, idk how this happened. still wish that poisonceus didnt get every poison from jab but theres rllly not much i can do about it
garbage luck, garbage record, hours of prep wasted and yeahh thats why i didnt wanna play in agpl. little did i know that my garbage luck curse will pass on to my team, but ill talk about that in the ag subforum. this tour itself was super fun cuz i played vs the best ag players and had the best games of my life. huge shoutout to Skarph Zenithial BaconEatinAssassin HunterStorm Thimo ice-master-523 for helping me with teams. idk how i wouldve managed this without you guys. big thanks to Chloe Pigeons for drafting me and im sorry that i couldnt live upto the expectations. s/o to rest of my team for doing great as well and cheering for me. hope to play with u guys again soon
rushi out o/
ill do shoutouts and cry about my 2-4 record later in the post
here are the teams + a little explanation:
week 1: vs hunterstorm
im pretty sure this was hunterstorms first game after a long break. I saw him spamming HOs on ladder and roomtours so I figured that ill try to keep my builds anti HO. I also tried to throw in random stall breakers cuz he also likes to use stall.
g1
if you cant tell already, this team is super super anti HO. zygarde + ferro is such a solid defensive core and walls most of the offensive stuff in ag. i also had a magearna cuz he uses vivillon sometimes. idk if i mentioned this before but I also saw hunter using this lance stall variant without steelceus, which meant that band rayquaza can get free kills. i decided to use the volt switch to band mega ray tech here. waterceus walls dm and zygarde. didnt feel like running ice beam because i had haze glare zygarde for dd zygarde matchup. i think this was really anti hunter in general and i worked super hard on this team and glad that i got rewarded. I was pretty sure that this team was a guaranteed win vs hunter in g1 but if he brought something thats not his standard stuff i wouldve had a hard time.
g2
another anti HO, idek what i had in mind when i was building this. marsh + ditto makes sense but i really have no idea why i added a waterceus and rest pdon on a team like this. but ya ok, this 1 had ditto + marsh for the HO matchup. Ditto also beats stall so thats super cool. CM ID steelceus was the super cool arushi tech at that time. plus i nommed steelceus for A rank for whatever reason so i had to use it in a tour to prove that its good. I had a pretty bad MU in this game but I wouldve 100% won if he didnt crit my waterceus with his ho-oh turn 2 or turn3. idr now but ya the result of this match made me pretty sad because I played fine and shouldve won.
g3
this is probably the worst team ive ever built and used in a tour lol. i genuinely do not remember what i was doing here. like, unecro with just photon eq?? REST DON again? rest don kinda makes sense because i was addicted to this set for whatever reason and im pretty sure this costed me the game but not as much as the 12.5% roll on darkceus. cant really blame hax for this tho, i really dont know why i used this. please do not steal this one unless u wanna lose games t1.
yeah i was super demotivated after this week. g2 result especially made me really sad because i shouldve won it. same goes for g3 but now that i look back, i kinda deserved losing this game because the team was just super bad lol.
anywayyy onto week 2
week 2: vs purplegatorade
my strategy was to counter standard balance because PG was in full recycling mode. his most solid teams were the triple arc, band ho-oh, scarf ray and primal kyogre and the cm groundy + ttar + scarf ray. i was 100% expecting these and based my prepped accordingly but looks like he secretly built a few new teams. fortunately i had pretty ok matchups and won yay!
g1
this team is actually pretty good. its a standard webs team with a couple of cool sets. this one is super simple and you literally just have to click buttons to win unless you have a garbage matchup. i chose shuckle as my web setter because at the time z move dusk mane was getting really uncommon + pg never used it anyway. had double z here like most of my teams because imagine running just 1 lol (this was obviously a mistake ofcourse, life orb ekiller makes much more sense). also had this cool yveltal evd to tank a super effective judgment at 91%, disable, taunt and then get a free kill. pg played this game really well but i made some weird plays and the mu was slightly in my favour so this turned out to be a win for me.
g2
obviously had to use arc spam atleast once. i initially built the team around wisp gar + cm rere fairy as it was broken at that time (still is). decided to add an ekiller to trap skarms/steelas/support arcs. defensive core is obviously pretty weak but i covered pretty much all the threats i think. something like a stall/sab balance MU wouldve been hard but he brought a standard balance team which didnt trouble me at all. had to make one play with my gengar to ensure win, which i made. also i choked towards the end but still managed to win fair & square.
g3
made this one for g3 but i won in 2. pretty meh team but yeah again works well vs pg stuff
week3: vs skarph
yeah so uh i really had no idea what to do here, skarph is really good and uses pretty much everything. idk i just used solid teams.
g1
The Arushi HO. i was super excited to use this, mainly because of the dusk mane set. pretty sure im the one who used it for the first time. rest of the team is pretty standard. rayquaza is a must on screens. naga was pretty underused at the time and is broken anyway. obviously had to use deoxys with reflect / light screen. xern & ekiller are also pretty standard. I did not get a chance of use any of these because the necrozma swept which made me super happy. i knew this set was either gonna sweep or just completely fail. glad it worked out tho. this team was super fun to make, i remember i had like tapu koko screens + rocks eleceus here initially so the final team was a massive upgrade. i still use it a lot and its one of my most solid HO teams atm.
g2
another really weird team, idr what i had in mind while building this honestly. pretty sure i was trying to build around cm groundy. eventually added a grassceus to absorb the leech seeds/origin pulses. rest of the team is really arushi. idk what went wrong here tho, i really didnt mess up at all. his roar toxic fairyceus was kinda annoying but i managed to deal with it. theres just 1 play which he made in the entire game and im guessing thats the one which won him. or maybe it was just one of those games where both players have an equally good matchup and the better player just wins. who cares anyway, i had fun :shrug:
g3
im pretty sure he wasnt going to expect double HO in a series cuz ive always used balance for g3. so i decided to reuse the webs team which i made for my game vs pg. MU was kinda in his favour but it wasnt unwinnable for me for sure. A couple of doubles here and there wouldve won me the game but ya w/e.
obviously i was pretty disappointed but i got RO'd later this week so it was fine. not for long tho, cuz my series vs zenithial sent me back into depression
week4: vs zenithial
yeah idk what i was going to do this week. this zenithial dude just beats me every time in a bo3 unless i bring psyspam. i was also super sick this week which wasnt helping. whatever, i used some okayish teams. obviously got owned again.
g1
i wasnt in a condition to build because of bad health so i just stole a Pigeons team last minute. zen dodged a whirlpool which made the matchup really hard and i lost.
g2
he brought spikes skarm + mmx and won. i dont even wanna talk about this. shoutout Thimo for building this for me tho <3 and im sorry that i lost :(
he straight up outprepped me.
week5: vs zard
g1
cookie cutter gothitelle team. i watched his replays and figured that most of his teams are super weak to dd zygarde. goth seemed like a nice option because he uses fairyceus pretty often. i had a dd glare zyggy + gar team which i wanted to use but i accidentally brought this cuz i forgot about it. but this one worked out as well so its fine.
g2
brought this 1 again because it wins vs his scarf marsh fairy poison pogre team and i was pretty sure that he was going to bring it. he did bring it and i won. ive written the description for this team 2-3 times already so not gonna bother doing it again.
Finals vs Skarph
got subbed in pretty late but i really really wanted to win this one. massive shoutout to HunterStorm , hes the only one who helped me with this series. im super tired rn so ill go over the teams pretty quickly
g1
this team is so fire. hunter tested this vs me for his agpl game and i decided to steal it and use it for my own game instead. this is probably the most anti meta team ive ever seen. sab was a weird choice but ive literally never used it before so why not. double hazards ferro is such an annoying mon. edgequake arc core covers most of the things as well. curse ho-oh really benefits from this solid team support. he also added a ditto which takes care of everything which is not covered by these defensive mons. this was curse ho-ohs debut in a tour game and it swept which is super cool. im officially obsessed with ho-oh now btw, sorry gengar.
g2
just realized that i accidentally brought Skarph 's team vs him... in a team tour finals, but im pretty sure that you didnt notice it so its fine. anywayy, uh yeah skarph teams are usually pretty solid. I changed this to taunt 3 attacks and cm rere dark in my own builder but i accidentally used the wrong version which had wisp gar and cm fairy. also missed 3-4 toxics and a couple of other moves so this wasnt a great game. i was pretty annoyed because it lost us the finals but ye cant really blame my luck lol.
g3
basically my g1 team again, except gar > sab and darkceus > ho-oh as the wall breaker. gar was sub disable, darkceus was cm rere and ferro was double hazards again. super good team. I did pretty well, won 3 50/50 towards the end but choked the fourth one because i misread the HP on my darkceus. I couldve sworn that it was 12.8 but ya w/e, idk how this happened. still wish that poisonceus didnt get every poison from jab but theres rllly not much i can do about it
garbage luck, garbage record, hours of prep wasted and yeahh thats why i didnt wanna play in agpl. little did i know that my garbage luck curse will pass on to my team, but ill talk about that in the ag subforum. this tour itself was super fun cuz i played vs the best ag players and had the best games of my life. huge shoutout to Skarph Zenithial BaconEatinAssassin HunterStorm Thimo ice-master-523 for helping me with teams. idk how i wouldve managed this without you guys. big thanks to Chloe Pigeons for drafting me and im sorry that i couldnt live upto the expectations. s/o to rest of my team for doing great as well and cheering for me. hope to play with u guys again soon
rushi out o/