1. SD Breloom Webs by Zangoose5000
2. Anti-Lead Cinccino HO by LTTM
3. Steel Overwhelm HO by POM
2. Anti-Lead Cinccino HO by LTTM
3. Steel Overwhelm HO by POM
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Project NU Teambuilding Competition - Season 3, Week 10: Dollar Store Legendaries
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1. Fight Spam Hazard Stack (It's kind of funny how dominant this team was in replays 
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2. Scope Gallade
3. Anti-Cincc Lead
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3. Anti-Cincc Lead
1. Anti-Lead Cinccino HO by LessThanThreeMan
2. Deoxys Hazard Stack by Shengineer and Rabia
3. Fight Spam Hazard Stack by Davon
2. Deoxys Hazard Stack by Shengineer and Rabia
3. Fight Spam Hazard Stack by Davon
1. Sheng + Rabia
2. Zangoose5000
3. Davon
2. Zangoose5000
3. Davon
1. Anti-Lead Cinccino HO by LessThanThreeMan
2. Deoxys Hazard Stack HO by Shengineer & Rabia
3. Fight Spam Hazard Stack HO by Davon
2. Deoxys Hazard Stack HO by Shengineer & Rabia
3. Fight Spam Hazard Stack HO by Davon
With the votes in, both Shengineer and Rabia blew everyone else out of the water with an astounding 15 points, only contested by LessThanThreeMan's 12. Congratulations to both, and the new week AND SEASON should be up shortly!
Deoxys Hazard Stack
Deoxys Hazard Stack
Season 1, Week 1: Breloom
Now that we are through the tier shift (with an extra week of a buffer) it is officially time to Start Season 1! Moving forward all NU legal teams can be used in the upcoming Season 1 Tournament! (dates and details to come later!) Without further ado our featured pokemon for Season 1 Week 1 is.... Breloom! I promise we didn't plan to sync up with NBT on this... but hey you could potentially use 1 team for both!
Band? Sub seed? Toxic? Balance? Offense? The choice is yours! Breloom is a very powerful attacker in the new NU meta. It has strong priority in technician boosted mach punches, technician boosted bullet seeds, some nice coverage options, and plenty of poison heal shenanigans! Use any set on Breloom and construct the best team possible! Don't forget to read through the formatting requirements if you are unfamiliar and to include at least one replay!
Submissions close for Season 1 Week 1 on Tuesday, July 16th at around 10pm EST (GMT -6). Happy building!
Now that we are through the tier shift (with an extra week of a buffer) it is officially time to Start Season 1! Moving forward all NU legal teams can be used in the upcoming Season 1 Tournament! (dates and details to come later!) Without further ado our featured pokemon for Season 1 Week 1 is.... Breloom! I promise we didn't plan to sync up with NBT on this... but hey you could potentially use 1 team for both!
Band? Sub seed? Toxic? Balance? Offense? The choice is yours! Breloom is a very powerful attacker in the new NU meta. It has strong priority in technician boosted mach punches, technician boosted bullet seeds, some nice coverage options, and plenty of poison heal shenanigans! Use any set on Breloom and construct the best team possible! Don't forget to read through the formatting requirements if you are unfamiliar and to include at least one replay!
Submissions close for Season 1 Week 1 on Tuesday, July 16th at around 10pm EST (GMT -6). Happy building!
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Teleport Deoxys Offense
Teleport is a really cool move that is basically unreleased in gen9. I built this team mainly to test the deodorant set Taunt | Night Shade | Teleport | Recover. The idea here it stall break/deny the bulky psychics (and deny a lot of bulky mons in general) with deo, while still having a slot for teleport to get in some crazy breakers. Enter band loom and sd lycanrock-dusk! Both very scary mons with similar checks and plenty of priority! Scarf flygon cleans and fits rocks, tent is my favorite role compression (and denies vileplume recovery), and rotom-h punishes talonflame which annoys loom and provides some pivoting support!
Replays: 1 2
Deoderant
I won't elaborate too much more here since it is in the general description, but taunt night shade deo-d beats a lot of the bulky set up mons that are popular inplaguing this meta. It beats cm cress, demon bronzong, and does well into opposing deod. It also 1v1s basically all of the defensive mons slower than it [plume, vaporeon, umbreon (has to get in safely or be tera'd), amuk (has to tera typically), etc.] Teleport is here to support our breakers that have trouble coming in! Item could just as easily be colbur berry as well to better tank knocks offs.
Breloom
Breloom here is breaker number 1! Band loom hits hard and the team is designed to get this in to click moves! Loom here is breaking for dusk and/or flygon to clean.
Lycanroc-Dusk
Dusk is here for speed, additional priority (since we don't have many solid defense answers to things), and because what better to abuse the free switch? SD dusk is ridiculously strong and not much can revenge kill it at +2. Dusk doesn't have the most opportunities to SD, but in a more passive meta it is finding more and more times to set up.
Flygon
Standard choice scarf flygon here. Has lots of useful resists, cleans late game, revenges things, provides ground/electric immunity, and in this case sets rocks. Scarf rocks flygon is maybe not the ideal rock setter, it gives us the space to run teleport on DeoD which we value here!
Tentacruel
I've really been enjoying fast tent lately. Tent has great synergy with loom/dusk/flygon denying vileplume's recovery with liquid ooze. Tent also knocks, pivots, and has a fast toxic which deod enjoys. For what we can't always muscle through, we can toxic/deod through! Toxic isn't essential to this team it's mainly to punish cress/deod, so it could be sludge bomb or another move here. I just like toxic in this meta.
Rotom-Heat
Rotom provides another pivot, wisp support (catches a lot of gallade and flygon which the teams enjoys the burn on), a talonflame punish, and a special attacker to round out the team! I think rotom should keep wisp for sure, but you could also go pain split over nasty plot. I think this slot could be changed potentially if you want to experiment with the team though. OTR diancie makes sense but I didn’t like the 1 time nature of it here. A different electric type like raikou could be used potentially, but I like the wisp and levitate.
Teleport is a really cool move that is basically unreleased in gen9. I built this team mainly to test the deodorant set Taunt | Night Shade | Teleport | Recover. The idea here it stall break/deny the bulky psychics (and deny a lot of bulky mons in general) with deo, while still having a slot for teleport to get in some crazy breakers. Enter band loom and sd lycanrock-dusk! Both very scary mons with similar checks and plenty of priority! Scarf flygon cleans and fits rocks, tent is my favorite role compression (and denies vileplume recovery), and rotom-h punishes talonflame which annoys loom and provides some pivoting support!
Replays: 1 2
DeoderantI won't elaborate too much more here since it is in the general description, but taunt night shade deo-d beats a lot of the bulky set up mons that are popular in
BreloomBreloom here is breaker number 1! Band loom hits hard and the team is designed to get this in to click moves! Loom here is breaking for dusk and/or flygon to clean.
Lycanroc-DuskDusk is here for speed, additional priority (since we don't have many solid defense answers to things), and because what better to abuse the free switch? SD dusk is ridiculously strong and not much can revenge kill it at +2. Dusk doesn't have the most opportunities to SD, but in a more passive meta it is finding more and more times to set up.
FlygonStandard choice scarf flygon here. Has lots of useful resists, cleans late game, revenges things, provides ground/electric immunity, and in this case sets rocks. Scarf rocks flygon is maybe not the ideal rock setter, it gives us the space to run teleport on DeoD which we value here!
TentacruelI've really been enjoying fast tent lately. Tent has great synergy with loom/dusk/flygon denying vileplume's recovery with liquid ooze. Tent also knocks, pivots, and has a fast toxic which deod enjoys. For what we can't always muscle through, we can toxic/deod through! Toxic isn't essential to this team it's mainly to punish cress/deod, so it could be sludge bomb or another move here. I just like toxic in this meta.
Rotom-HeatRotom provides another pivot, wisp support (catches a lot of gallade and flygon which the teams enjoys the burn on), a talonflame punish, and a special attacker to round out the team! I think rotom should keep wisp for sure, but you could also go pain split over nasty plot. I think this slot could be changed potentially if you want to experiment with the team though. OTR diancie makes sense but I didn’t like the 1 time nature of it here. A different electric type like raikou could be used potentially, but I like the wisp and levitate.
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As to not let LessThanThreeMan automatically win, here's a team of mine for the thread.
CB Loom + Cosmic Deo-D
This team uses Breloom to break stuff down for Mienshao to clean while utilizing a strong defensive core to not be overwhelmed.
: CB Breloom helps wallbreak for Mienshao, as it can weaken down Dragalge, Talonflame, and Sylveon for it. I chose Aerial Ace as an easy way to hit Vileplume. Tera Fire helps Breloom absorb Will-O-Wisp and take any Fire-type attack once.
: Roar over Knock Off helps versus the fat setup sweepers and Swampert provides a reliable Fire-type switch-in. As a physical wall, Tera Fairy also helps it take Fighting-type attacks better, and it can help against Flygon.
: Defog + U-turn lets Talonflame provide hazard control and it can bring Breloom in on Rock- and Water-types alike. The EVs help outpace Inteleon while being as bulky as possible. Tera Ghost avoids Extreme Speed from Lucario.
: This is a sturdy Fighting-type switch-in. Psychic Noise + Night Shade gives Cresselia no breathing room while Cosmic Power lets Deoxys-D act as a wincon in some games. Rocky Helmet punishes the Fighting-types—and, from experience from facing this team, it makes Cinccino annoying to load up with. The EV spread outpaces max Speed Cresselia with the rest dumped into Special Defense with Tera Steel for the best chance versus it.
: This is a good Ghost-type switch-in. RestTalk with Tera Water lets it reliably take stray Hydro Pump and Fire Blast from Inteleon and Chandelure, respectively.
: Choice Scarf Mienshao acts as a strong Speed control option. Stone Edge hits Talonflame, and Tera Dark is chosen as a strong defensive Tera type just in case.
CB Loom + Cosmic Deo-D
This team uses Breloom to break stuff down for Mienshao to clean while utilizing a strong defensive core to not be overwhelmed.
: CB Breloom helps wallbreak for Mienshao, as it can weaken down Dragalge, Talonflame, and Sylveon for it. I chose Aerial Ace as an easy way to hit Vileplume. Tera Fire helps Breloom absorb Will-O-Wisp and take any Fire-type attack once. : Roar over Knock Off helps versus the fat setup sweepers and Swampert provides a reliable Fire-type switch-in. As a physical wall, Tera Fairy also helps it take Fighting-type attacks better, and it can help against Flygon.: Defog + U-turn lets Talonflame provide hazard control and it can bring Breloom in on Rock- and Water-types alike. The EVs help outpace Inteleon while being as bulky as possible. Tera Ghost avoids Extreme Speed from Lucario.: This is a sturdy Fighting-type switch-in. Psychic Noise + Night Shade gives Cresselia no breathing room while Cosmic Power lets Deoxys-D act as a wincon in some games. Rocky Helmet punishes the Fighting-types—and, from experience from facing this team, it makes Cinccino annoying to load up with. The EV spread outpaces max Speed Cresselia with the rest dumped into Special Defense with Tera Steel for the best chance versus it. : This is a good Ghost-type switch-in. RestTalk with Tera Water lets it reliably take stray Hydro Pump and Fire Blast from Inteleon and Chandelure, respectively.: Choice Scarf Mienshao acts as a strong Speed control option. Stone Edge hits Talonflame, and Tera Dark is chosen as a strong defensive Tera type just in case.Rabia's Games
Pokeaim's Games
Note: The team used in these games has slight modifications:
- Tera Rock + Rock Tomb > Tera Fire + Aerial Ace on Breloom
- Clear Smog > Poison Jab on Alolan Muk
- max Speed on Talonflame
- Tera Fighting > Tera Dark on Mienshao.
this is a new team, clearly :)
Pokeaim's Games
Note: The team used in these games has slight modifications:
- Tera Rock + Rock Tomb > Tera Fire + Aerial Ace on Breloom
- Clear Smog > Poison Jab on Alolan Muk
- max Speed on Talonflame
- Tera Fighting > Tera Dark on Mienshao.
this is a new team, clearly :)
Shagg 51 presents to you…
Breloom+Dragalge Balance! Or, as I call it, Dragaloom!
This team uses the offensive prowess of breloom and dragalge to break through the opposing team, with breloom and dragalge luring in checks for eachother, while the rest of the team holds the fort down long enough.
with an adamant nature, breloom hits incredibly hard, and without the restrictions of a choice band, it becomes very flexible and difficult to switch into if you aren’t using a vileplume or Galarian slowbro. Breloom usually capitalizes on a team’s rocker, and it especially enjoys seeing Swampert on the opposing team, as that is often the team’s switch in to dragalge. Breloom is just fast enough to outspeed a max speed modest sylveon, and the rest went into bulk. Tera ghost is for the lucario matchup, which I will happily over prepare for with a team like this.
every time someone sends out their vileplume to check breloom, this menace comes in and claims a kill. Specs dragalge is absolutely badass and can easily take advantage of and conquer pokemon that give breloom trouble like vileplume, toxicroak, and Galarian slowbro if necessary. Dragalge hits hard enough with it’s stabs, so I opted for Tera blast ground as my coverage option, as it’s fully capable of bringing down pesky checks like klefki and alolan muk. This dragalge is just fast enough to outspeed vaporeon. This Mon has genuinely surprised me and I think more people need to use it. Its amazing! the team’s psychic check and special wall as well as the rocker. Copperajah keeps the former 2 members safe from strong psychic types like Deoxys defense, cresselia, munkidori, Indeedee, and other mons like sylveon and opposing dragalge. While it does struggle against the plethora of strong fighting types and physical attackers in the tier(Lucario rahhhhhhhhhhhhh), the defensive utility and support it’s able to provide makes up for it usually. Not to mention that it can hit quite hard with iron head and knock off. my hazard removal, revenge killer, and usual fighting check. Not much else to say about it. It does what you expect talonflame to do. the primary physical wall of the team. Like talonflame. There’s nothing special or flashy about this vaporeon. Just simple and reliable. It’s vulnerable to being overworked in some matchups, but it usually gets the job done just fine. lastly, we have my primary revenge killer, scarfer, and ground type: Flygon. The moveset is quite self explanatory. Flygon’s speed allows it to offensively check dangerous threats like chandelure, lycanroc dusk, and opposing Flygon if need be. Stone edge is good for deleting talonflame and Tera normal is specifically for taunt Deoxys defense, assuming it’s running night shade.Replay #1 vs hammer798: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9nu-2160353765?p2
Replay #2 vs Shengineer: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9nu-2160951178
Jack of All Trades Breloom
Breloom loves having Technician to power up its moves, but hates being statused. Poison Heal mitigates that, but many sets with that ability tend to be more passive/stally. This team's Loom uses an offensive Facade set with Tera Steel to enable SD setup on Vileplume and, potentially, Tflame (if no Blitz). The rest of the team is standard Webs + Gatr, scarf Gon with rocks, and Taunt Tflame to help mitigate DeoD et al. Finally, Klefki is there for more hazards, Foul play for setup mons like Cloyster sans Drill Run (although you can Tera Water), and Iron Defense to allow you to boost alongside physical attackers you want to Foul Play if necessary.
Glowbro Balance + Dice Loom
by Wadley and Shengineer
This fat balance build seeks to break the opponent with SD Dice Breloom and SD Incineroar, while using Scope Lens Inteleon as a pivot to complete the FWG core. Avalugg is an exceptionally bulky wall to check grounds like Flygon, while Slowbro-Galar is a status-spreading Regenerator pivot that helps versus fighting types. Finally, specially defensive Gastrodon rounds the team out with a water immunity, hazard setting, and Clear Smog to slow down dangerous sweepers. This slot was initially a flygon, but the priority was not as necessary with Breloom on the team, and Diancie was a bit problematic.
by Wadley and Shengineer
This fat balance build seeks to break the opponent with SD Dice Breloom and SD Incineroar, while using Scope Lens Inteleon as a pivot to complete the FWG core. Avalugg is an exceptionally bulky wall to check grounds like Flygon, while Slowbro-Galar is a status-spreading Regenerator pivot that helps versus fighting types. Finally, specially defensive Gastrodon rounds the team out with a water immunity, hazard setting, and Clear Smog to slow down dangerous sweepers. This slot was initially a flygon, but the priority was not as necessary with Breloom on the team, and Diancie was a bit problematic.
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S1W1: Breloom Voting
Submissions are now closed and voting is now open for Season 1 Week 1! As per usual vote for your favorite 3 teams in ranked order! This time the choices are:
Teleport Deoxys Offense by LessThanThreeMan
CB Loom + Cosmic Deo-D by Power Of Memes
Dragaloom by Shagg51
Jack of All Trades Breloom by ralts_boy
Glowbro Balance + Dice Loom by Wadley and Shengineer
Voting ends Thursday, July 18th at around 10pm EST (GMT -6). May the best team win!
Submissions are now closed and voting is now open for Season 1 Week 1! As per usual vote for your favorite 3 teams in ranked order! This time the choices are:
Teleport Deoxys Offense by LessThanThreeMan
CB Loom + Cosmic Deo-D by Power Of Memes
Dragaloom by Shagg51
Jack of All Trades Breloom by ralts_boy
Glowbro Balance + Dice Loom by Wadley and Shengineer
Voting ends Thursday, July 18th at around 10pm EST (GMT -6). May the best team win!
1. Dragaloom by Shagg51
2. Jack of All Trades Breloom by rats_boy
3. Glowbro Balance + Dice Loom by Wadley and Shengineer
2. Jack of All Trades Breloom by rats_boy
3. Glowbro Balance + Dice Loom by Wadley and Shengineer
1. Dragaloom by Shagg51
2. CB Loom + Cosmic Deo-D by Power Of Memes
3. Glowbro Balance + Dice Loom by Wadley and Shengineer
2. CB Loom + Cosmic Deo-D by Power Of Memes
3. Glowbro Balance + Dice Loom by Wadley and Shengineer
1) Dragaloom by Shagg51
2) Teleport Deoxys Offense by LessThanThreeMan (oddly familiar, innit?)
3) CB Loom + Cosmic Deo-D by Power Of Memes
2) Teleport Deoxys Offense by LessThanThreeMan (oddly familiar, innit?)
3) CB Loom + Cosmic Deo-D by Power Of Memes
1. Shagg
2. Shengineer & Wadley
3. LTTM
2. Shengineer & Wadley
3. LTTM
S1W1: Breloom Results
That's all for the first week of Season 1! The votes are in and the winner is...
Dragaloom by Shagg51
Congrats to Shagg51 for winning this week of NUTC! Shengineer and Wadley's team was a close second only 1 point behind! This team will be added to the archive and we will be back soon for Season 1 Week 2! Stayed tuned!
That's all for the first week of Season 1! The votes are in and the winner is...
Dragaloom by Shagg51
Congrats to Shagg51 for winning this week of NUTC! Shengineer and Wadley's team was a close second only 1 point behind! This team will be added to the archive and we will be back soon for Season 1 Week 2! Stayed tuned!
Season 1, Week 2: Porygon-Z
With the loss of Rhyperior, Assault Vest Reuniclus, and the slappable Magnezone, Porygon-Z has singlehandedly rose from a middle-of-the-road wallbreaker to one of the best. And, with three amazing abilities to choose from it can take advantage of physical walls, nuke stuff with Tri Attack, or pressure switches. Alongside this, Porygon-Z also has quite a few sets to be used! Choice Specs and Choice Scarf easily come to mind just like Nasty Plot (or you can pull shenanigans with Agility). Who knows? You could be like Shengineer and use Choice Band! Don't forget to read through the formatting requirements if you are unfamiliar and to include at least one replay!
Submissions close for Season 1 Week 2 on Tuesday, July 23rd at around 10pm EST (GMT -6). Happy building!
With the loss of Rhyperior, Assault Vest Reuniclus, and the slappable Magnezone, Porygon-Z has singlehandedly rose from a middle-of-the-road wallbreaker to one of the best. And, with three amazing abilities to choose from it can take advantage of physical walls, nuke stuff with Tri Attack, or pressure switches. Alongside this, Porygon-Z also has quite a few sets to be used! Choice Specs and Choice Scarf easily come to mind just like Nasty Plot (or you can pull shenanigans with Agility). Who knows? You could be like Shengineer and use Choice Band! Don't forget to read through the formatting requirements if you are unfamiliar and to include at least one replay!
Submissions close for Season 1 Week 2 on Tuesday, July 23rd at around 10pm EST (GMT -6). Happy building!
Specs PZ + Oricorio-Pom-Pom
The idea behind this team was that Porygon-Z and Incineroar were very good at softening up and taking care of the Flying-resistant Rock- and Steel-types of the tier, creating an opening for Oricorio-E late-game.
Games in which my Hurricane did not miss at a crucial time:
PZ softens up Alolan Muk for Oricorio-E endgame
vs CB Hitmontop?
PZ Trick + Adaptability softens up Shengineer's Granbull stall for Oricorio-E sweep
Taunt & Trick becoming useful against HO
Oricorio-E abusing Deoxys-D | + pt. 2 electric boogaloo
PZ weakening Incin for Oricorio win
PZ softens up Alolan Muk for Oricorio-E endgame
vs CB Hitmontop?
PZ Trick + Adaptability softens up Shengineer's Granbull stall for Oricorio-E sweep
Taunt & Trick becoming useful against HO
Oricorio-E abusing Deoxys-D | + pt. 2 electric boogaloo
PZ weakening Incin for Oricorio win