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OU SS OU Teambuilding Competition - Cancelled - On Hiatus, Feedback Survey
- Thread starter pulsar512b
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While I do support anyone with a cyber in their name I think I'll go with NeonJolteonWasUsed Koko+Zone team.
The next mon is Gastrodon
Deadline is the 14th
Deadline is the 14th
gonna extend the deadline to the 17th
sorry for this being inactive, gonna null the last round as we only got one entry
The next mon is Dragapult
This formidable force defines many offense teams and forces extensive preparations on bulkier teams. How will you take this?
The next mon is Dragapult
This formidable force defines many offense teams and forces extensive preparations on bulkier teams. How will you take this?
deadline is the 9th of september
This team aims to take advantage of the specially defensive switch-ins choice specs Dragapult forces before surprising opponents with a choice band set. Ferrothorn, Zapdos and Toxapex stave off most offensive threats in the metagame to give the team some breathing room, with Ferrothorn providing entry hazard and knock off support to chip Dragapult's checks into range while Zapdos is capable of pivoting Dragapult in safely with volt switch. Mamoswine has a unique combination of traits as the ground type of this team - it is a surprisingly good Artozolt check, which otherwise gives this team problems when Ferrothorn is chipped, provides item removal with knock off as well as a near-unresisted STAB combination that can chunk defensive cores for Dragapult to clean up. Finally, choice scarf Tapu Lele provides speed control and future sight support.
A big thank you to cyberacc as well as pulsar512b for advice while building this team
Side Note: Consider running shed shell on Toxapex since this team struggles with Heatran as well as the fact that specially defensive Toxapex should not be your knock off absorber. Specially defensive Zapdos is also a very viable alternative (shoutout to sealoo for this innovation in National Dex), but this would leave the team weak to swords dance Kartana.
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going to put up a new round tomorrow or monday, since clearly this one didn't really fire.
if this one doesn't get more than 2 submissions over the time i put, i think this project might unfortunately have to shut down
if this one doesn't get more than 2 submissions over the time i put, i think this project might unfortunately have to shut down
I refuse to let this project die in the meantime so I will offer one of my teams as tribute 
https://pokepast.es/f64801cb7950c167
Basic idea was pulled from an RMT, however I can't find it so credit to whoever that was. Spam status into some of Pult's most splashable checks and click Hex, basically. The team largely relies on offense to pressure stuff like Lele, Timid Dragapult, and Kartana but it has the tools to circumvent their threat with careful play. Light Screen Toxapex helps the team fend off FS spam, Zapdos, Dragapult, and Blacephalon. The team has an obvious hole against Trapper Fini variants and Heatran, so Shed Shell quickly patches both. The Heatran and Toxapex spreads are both super optimized but I don't even remember why they were given those spreads, they work though. If you want to forfeit Flamethrower to get momentum in front of Blissey you can, but honestly I think 4 attacks fits Modest Dragapult better in this team for the average matchup. Blissey will however drain your momentum really quickly so it's a game of chip when you see it. You need to leverage Weavile very well and make the most of Heatran and status spam.
In general Modest Pult is a monster that most teams can barely manage if at all, and when you position it right it does get some insane kills.
https://pokepast.es/f64801cb7950c167
Basic idea was pulled from an RMT, however I can't find it so credit to whoever that was. Spam status into some of Pult's most splashable checks and click Hex, basically. The team largely relies on offense to pressure stuff like Lele, Timid Dragapult, and Kartana but it has the tools to circumvent their threat with careful play. Light Screen Toxapex helps the team fend off FS spam, Zapdos, Dragapult, and Blacephalon. The team has an obvious hole against Trapper Fini variants and Heatran, so Shed Shell quickly patches both. The Heatran and Toxapex spreads are both super optimized but I don't even remember why they were given those spreads, they work though. If you want to forfeit Flamethrower to get momentum in front of Blissey you can, but honestly I think 4 attacks fits Modest Dragapult better in this team for the average matchup. Blissey will however drain your momentum really quickly so it's a game of chip when you see it. You need to leverage Weavile very well and make the most of Heatran and status spam.
In general Modest Pult is a monster that most teams can barely manage if at all, and when you position it right it does get some insane kills.
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forgot about this: will post a new round in the next few days (bother me if i forget)
apologies for the delay, forgot about this
The next mon to build with is Zapdos
This titan of metagames from RBY to SS, SV, and hopefully beyond is a force to be reckoned with, whether it goes defensive or offensive. Hopefully you can work with the immense power this mon provides and make full use of it's many and varied bag of tricks
Deadline is October 11th
reminder if this one doesn't get more than 2 submissions I will most likely put this project on hiatus, probably until the end of the fall semester (so early-mid December)
The next mon to build with is Zapdos
This titan of metagames from RBY to SS, SV, and hopefully beyond is a force to be reckoned with, whether it goes defensive or offensive. Hopefully you can work with the immense power this mon provides and make full use of it's many and varied bag of tricks
Deadline is October 11th
reminder if this one doesn't get more than 2 submissions I will most likely put this project on hiatus, probably until the end of the fall semester (so early-mid December)
A special thank you to Corazan for the spread + set (I tweaked the speed for a bit more bulk as Zapdos can afford to be slower nowadays) as well as Carkoala for sharing it with me
https://pokepast.es/75f0ce4e016a79a0
The whole idea of this team is to facilitate pads shifu in picking off/chipping threats, allowing for pult, zapdos and landot to take advantage. Zapdos plays a large role here as it wears down checks to shifu such as clefable and pex, then being able to pivot out into shifu with volt switch. The offensive synergy between zapdos and shifu carries most games and overall it's a very solid team where zapdos can shine.
The whole idea of this team is to facilitate pads shifu in picking off/chipping threats, allowing for pult, zapdos and landot to take advantage. Zapdos plays a large role here as it wears down checks to shifu such as clefable and pex, then being able to pivot out into shifu with volt switch. The offensive synergy between zapdos and shifu carries most games and overall it's a very solid team where zapdos can shine.
Double Bird + Urshifu Rain
This is a team I built a long time ago, and is based on allowing Rain to patch up its worst matchups and make them a lot more playable, and thus make the playstyle a lot more consistent.
What it essentially boils down to is abusing the combination of Zapdos and Thundurus Therian for two factors, one of which being Thundurus' excellent matchup into bulkier teams, as well as its ability to overwhelm shared check with Zapdos, making it much harder to simply wall out rain.
The team does lack a Ground type, but that's because Thundurus Therian's Volt Absorb is already the Electric immunity, on top of their being a very sturdy Eject Button Ferrothorn to pivot in on and snag momentum from Electrics. In my opinion Rain can afford to bend the rules a bit in that regard because...come on look me in the eyes and tell me Seismitoed is a stopgap to Electric types.
Scarf Urshifu is here to provide both another pivot, specific defensive utility VS Tyranitar to offer more wiggle room with a double bird core, and a means to revenge kill threats outside of Rain without relying on Barraskewda as much.
Again, this is quite an old team, but I still quite like it and think while Zapdos on Rain is already great, there is a small bit of room for exploration on the structure to allow for facilitating it in its weaker matchups, with Zapdos and Thundurus combine helping to accomplish that.
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sorry for the late end of round- voting starts now! simply indicate what team you think is best - as always, only one vote and you can't vote for yourself
Voting for RTM's team - I like the balance of the team while NeonJolteonWasUsed not providing a Pokepaste does not help his cause 
