Hey! So the season is over and even though we didn't win, we still did
really well during the tour IMO. Anyways, I'm going to dump all the teams I've built:
Week 1:
Haven't even contributed to teambuilding this week, so ignore it.
Week 2 (vs Gravity)
(W):
replay
(click the sprites for the team's link)
When preparing for Gravity, the first thing we thought of was building a relatively fat team able to beat HO and more offensive-based teams overall and this team felt quite nice overall as it had no glaring weaknesses while I also felt comfortable when playing with it, plus to be fair I also wanted to debut with a Sylveon team, as I think it was quite underrated back then and it had some neat traits over Clefable in Lovely Kiss, Sparkly Swirl and better stats, which came in clutch during the battle. As for the match itself, it was good, I had an anxiety attack during the last 3 turns but it was fine, we both played it quite well (especially Gravity to be fair) and that was shown during the match, as it was
really close, but either way I'm very proud for this win.
Week 3 (vs Xrn)
(L):
I don't have the actual replay
(click the sprites for the team's link)
Honestly, when building this team, we wanted to take advantage of the
relative inexperience of Xrn in the tier by using a stall team with some specialized sets (Corrosion Umbreon, GalarCuno, and BU Scizor-Mega rather than SD). This team also net some wins during testing since CM Unaware Clefable goes nuts against many teams. I lost the match as Xrn played
really well and I choked a few times, plus the match itself wasn't that favorable for me to start with, however, this team is still quite solid overall and it almost won the game.
That being said though, after the recent changes you should run Heat Wave over Toxic or U-turn on GalarCuno, as now you can hit Steel-Types.
Week 4 (vs Beaf Cultist)
(L)
replay
(click the sprites for the team's link)
This team was 100% made to catch Beaf Cultist off-guard, as they tend to bring some creative and varied teams so specifically preparing for them is really hard. Don't wanna go too in-depth about the team cause it's just OU balance with some tweaks and the game was...tough to say the least (tho I kinda enjoyed it even tho I shamefully lost).
Went benched for week 5 and semis since I didn't want to play at all, but I still contributed to building, so will just leave the teams:
(W) (honestly don't use Alcremie, so I'd use Defog Gliscor + CM Clefable here instead probably, good concept tho).
(L) (it was a win :/).
Finals (vs dex)
(W)
replay
(click the sprites for the team's link)
(click the sprites for the team's link)
I'm posting both teams since both were ridiculously good and I was so fucking undecided (I literally choose the first team like, 1 minute before the battle
yeah dex if you're reading this, now you're aware of why I took 20 minutes to accept the challenge request). I'll try to explain both teams as well as possible (although the first one wasn't built by me).
First team: It was meant to overall cover most kinds of offensive stuff (especially weather) while it's also got a decent match-up against most of the metagame (although less so). Bobsican wanted to slap some meta staples together while also choosing Beedrill-Mega and Rillaboom as fillers due to their great MU into most offensive teams (Rillaboom smashes Rain and MBee kills the rest of offensive teams, whereas I also had a good MU against Hail with Wishiwashi + Heatran) and it did well enough on both testing and battling (I won!!), so it was surely solid.
Second team: While it didn't get chosen for the dex's match-up, it did equally if not better in testing and the team is overall solid enough against most teams anyways. Although this team wasn't fully made to cteam dex (and that's probably why I intuitively chose the first although this team was winning as well), it still had a solid match-up against bulky teams and most offensive teams (although it didn't perform that well against Hail unlike the first), as Kyurem Soul Blade is lethal against most of the metagame and it overall had solid support with 4 pivots + Lovely Kiss user in Sylveon.
Now it's shoutouts time! I know most people didn't do that but I'll start with the helpers and friends that weren't on the team (you'll see why at the end)
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dex Xrn Gravity Monkey call me insane or anything, but I also want to shoutout my opponents as trust it or not, y'all helped me to improve and you also played
great in the matches and I really hope to get to battle with y'all again.
Beaf Cultist no u stupid ass clown, hate u so muchhhhh (but fr, while we didn't get to talk each other during the tour at all, you're still a great person overall and our battle was the shit lmao, like it wasn't anything but hilarious and I really hope we get to team together sometime, as you're both a great player and person, seriously tysm because maybe you didn't really help us because you literally were... playing lol and all but meeting you was seriously nice).
adem ok so, you were literally the most annoying prescence during the tour and I still find you quite nice, what a life! Seriously jokes aside, I really think you're quite funny and the fact that you rooted for me against dex despite of my obvious disadvantage is really cute. Hope we actually get to meet each other, though.
PalpitoadChamp hello nice to meet you! I love how you always trusted on us (comrades) even though you were just an spectator, like I appreciate it so much and like I said with adem, I hope we actually get to met each other.
And now the team
Gekokeso you joined kinda late on the season, but especially in late weeks you were such a great help for us, plus you're also a great mate, hope we get to team together as well.
Yoshiblaze I know you weren't a teammate nor a helper per-se, but you still helped us so much! You even helped me when choosing a team against dex and you were still there to answer all my (stupid) questions about the tour, seriously thank u so much.
Paulluxx what can I say really? You were the best capitain I could've ever asked for, I don't even have words to express my gratitude for you, seriously thank you so much.
Quantum Tesseract Bobsican Putting you both together since I hate to admit it, but when I first saw you both in Smogon forums I really didn't have the best impression of you both (don't ask me why I just didn't), but after chatting a little and in bob case also helping me
a lot during finals, I have to say that I really regret thinking that way of you at first and I really hope I get to interact with u both much more.
ausma girl, you had a great-short run during the tour and you were always up to help me despite of your overall quite busy life plus you always were an overall supportive prescence on chat. Seriously, thank u!
anique met you in ND RU and since then we didn't really talk a lot, that being said though, I consider you as a quite nice person and I really appreciate the fact you were willing to help us like always. I'm also sorry you didn't get to play as much as you deserved during the tour, you're a great player.
STICKY FINGAA we also didn't get to chat a lot during the tour, but you really greatly contributed in finals with your inputs, plus you always were willing to help and you overall were quite nice.
BlueRay SEA NFQ (don't know ur Smogon account sorry)
bynum BitBitio Mossy Sandwich Rezzo I know we didn't get to interact during the tour, but I'm still thankful you all were willing to join and help in a way or other and I hope we get to interact at some point. Also Rezzo, you really were a great co-manager as even though you didn't have enough time to be super active, you always were willing to rate teams and play.
Honestly imma thank all my teammates at this point since I'm quite sure I missed someone.
EeveeGirl1380 Ok so, you literally were the teammate I interacted with the most and I'm so grateful for that, like you're not only a great cheerleader or player but you're also up to actually listening
or more like read lmao all my dumb rants, plus we both were the Jolte core and nobody can deny it (seriously, we literally brought some heat shit stuff). Also, you draw really well, here's the proof:
this drawing made me fucking cry, like I don't really deserve it lol, like it's so cuteeee.
I really felt quite comfortable with my team and all of u were seriously nice. Thank you all for this great run!!!
DEEZ NUTS WILL RETURN-Oh oops, thought this was UUSD.
COMRADES WILL RETURN
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