Congratulations to NuttyRabbit for winning……again by default! Your team will be added to the Hall of Fame.
Before the next round, I’m holding a poll to decide whether to continue this project. This isn’t actually due to freative burnout — I’m still excited to lead the project! But the lack of recent submissions is a bit concerning, as this is ultimately a project that requires your help. So should I continue the project or no?
Before the next round, I’m holding a poll to decide whether to continue this project. This isn’t actually due to freative burnout — I’m still excited to lead the project! But the lack of recent submissions is a bit concerning, as this is ultimately a project that requires your help. So should I continue the project or no?
Since i dint wanted to imitate almost all the Kommo-O´s that would appear on these cores i decided to try other options. With the experience i had in ND RU i put Zarude into use, went for a BU JHealing set in order to handle waters (Specifically Ash Greninja) and potentially bait pokemon like Zapdos or Corviknight, i still dont have enough experience with stuff in general but as for the small testing i did it did fairly well.
I needed a Kart check and a bit more of momentum, this also gives me something that can switch into Sub Kyurem at least once even if its not that good at it. Also needing something to switch into U-Turn Gliscor or Landorus-T because otherwise my whole team gets abused hard.
Specially Defensive Tran specifically for Serperior and Non-HP Ground Volcarona, at first its a normal spdef tran until you see his moveset, Heavy Slam allows me to beat CM Clef and not risk a miss on the stuff that can easily be killed on a 1v1 like Weavile (got this idea when i saw one of adam teams having one for it).
Zarude alone wont help me with Ash Gren if it runs U-Turn or just not being able to heal enough, this also gives me a hard volt blocker for Electrics and the Ash Gren switch i needed.
While i do have a Corv, if its Specs i have to pray that i can outplay it and SubRoost is still gonna be a pain
Okay so you may be asking "Wait what the hell is an Azelf doing here?". The answer is that I wanted to try some different HO leads, and I thought there was no better time to try it than with this team in particular. Azelf has a few things that make it unique amongst HO leads: a blistering speed tier that puts it above every other HO lead outside of Ribombee (and makes it faster than every rocker and defogger in the tier, and most interestingly puts it speed wise above Mew, which would be its direct competition for this very specific niche ), the combination of Taunt + Boom with that speed that serves to help it prevent both opposing hazards and Defog, and Levitate which helps it match up well vs the Grounds. In terms of the set, it's pretty basic, with rocks being rocks, Taunt and Boom helping it keep momentum and prevent hazards/Defog, and finally Psychic to give it a strong spammable offensive move that hits most rockers/leads at least neutrally. Skill Swap is an option to counterlead Stall and M-Diancie teams but the team has more than enough outs for the latter (and Azelf can force a kill/rocks vs it anyways). Originally I wanted to put Ice Beam but since it doesn't get Ice Beam for some reason, I figured Psychic was best, but u can go HP Ice if you really, really hate Grounds. In terms of spreads, I've chosen to go max Speed and SpA to maximize power, but u can go max HP to improve the Lopunny MU.
Grimmsnarl is the screener of choice on the team both because it's the best screener, because I'm doing something diff with Koko, and because it helps shore up the team vs both Lop and Greninja which are otherwise massive threats. Set and spread are pretty standard, with max Spdef being nice here to buffer vs Fairies and Gren but max Def can be used to buffer vs Lop and Rilla
Originally this slot was Hawlucha to abuse Koko's screens and improve certain MUs, but the GOAT 
And finally, rounding out the team is Volcarona, who's here to provide the team with a Fighting and Fairy resist, secondary Grass resist, and something that can just click the funny Quiver button behind Screens and win. In terms of coverage, I've elected to go STABs + HP Ground to cover Heatran because the team doesn't have enough Tran answers and because it helps Serp a ton (and because it really doesn't need coverage for Pex). Timid> Modest because +1 Modest misses key speed tiers and Boots because Boots.
This is the big one. Lopunny can be extremely annoying to deal with since it outspeeds the entire team, chips it with Fake Out, can pivot around pretty freely with U-turn, and just generally be a massive pain in the ass. Can't come in on anything but it's very annoying, especially if you don't have Rocks. That being said, chipping it into +1 Volc range or Medi Bullet Punch isn't hard and it can't come in hard on anything like I said so you can keep it at bay. That and worst case Grimm can take a hit and revenge with Spirit Break. 
Same deal as Lopunny except its slower but way goddamn stronger. Grimm can work as a last resort vs it and Koko can generally revenge if it hasn't evolved
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Given that I was going for a more balanced team, I knew I couldn't go with SD or Mixed LO Blaziken since those are complete dick on anything that isn't hard HO, so instead I went with something with a bit more utility and splashability in CB Blaziken, trading its sweeping potential for more of an immediate breaker/pivot. In terms of moves, STABs+Knock+Turn cover a good amount of stuff and prevent it from completely thudding into random shit/forcing bad 50/50s (as opposed to encouraging those with banded EQ/T-punch/etc), instead allowing it to always make some form of progress between Knock and U-turn even against builds that just wall out its STABs. Jolly>Adamant because +1 Adamant is slower than goddamn Koko and I ain't having that
Chomp's here to do Chomp things, i.e get up rocks and break stuff with +2 Continental Crushes. Chomp slots in perfectly here thanks to not only those qualities, but also its ability to come in on Electrics, break stuff like Pex, and just apply insane offensive pressure in general. In turn it absolutely loves not only Gren's Spikes, but also Gren and Blaziken's ability to pressure its very few checks and pivot into it (especially Blaziken's ability to do so since it lures in Pex and Fini which Chomp can scare out or in the latter's case, heavily, heavily chip.
Fini is arguably the lynchpin of the team and why it's able to work at all, not only providing a bulky Water resist, but also a solid Tran answer, Gren answer, Weavile check, opposing Blaziken check, and Misty Terrain support so the team's offensive threats don't have to worry about Scalds and Toxics. However, more than that, Fini gives the team a reliable way to deal with the defensive pivots that otherwise annoy the shit out of it in opposing Finis, Gliscors, and most of all: Toxapexes. It's able to do this thanks to the combination of Whirlpool, Taunt, and Nature's Madness, letting it lure in the aforementioned Pokemon and slowly but surely eliminating them, freeing up the other members of the team to run wild.
I was gonna say I have no idea how this team beats Stall but ig Fini just kinda goes nuts. If Fini goes down it's ogre though
This thing can force a kill every time it comes in but half the team revenges it or pivots on it coming in so honetly just play aggressive and you'll be fine
Same shit as Zard but Corv just kinda beats it in general. 
is in the back as a wincon once blaz and ttar get rid of the waters, steels, and psychics. also is a fighting resist.
eats psychics and does the rocking for the team.
is the speed control and volt blocker since blaz is just wayy too slow.
is the main spiker and checks the grasses and provides a ground immune.
This the only real big threat to the team since CC/Ice Punch just kinda fucks up everything and Bulk Up is scary as shit. But between Gren, Maw, and Lando u can handle this
. But I more than made up for it with this game, which demonstrates how it can navigate seemingly obnoxious matchups in Mega Lopunny and oddly enough Celesteela
