knocked out of spl unfortunately, finished with a fine but mediocre 4-5 which doesnt make me feel too happy but it also wasnt terrible i guess

i failed to really get into the whole bo1 reads aspect of spl this season and ended up with bad matchups quite a few time, but still i came up with some teams i enjoyed and was asked earlier on to post teams on here so might as well
https://pokepast.es/89842575b09af97b
first week of spl against poek i had 0 idea what to expect, because he would use extreme offenses or very fat teams and very little in-between, it also began a chain of me worrying about every single threat or type of team possible which really hurt my ability to teambuild properly
the idea was to use mega manectric + sand to cover offense matchups which included some cheeses he sometimes liked using while subcm keldeo is able to cover matchups against teams that carry water grounds like gastrodon, i went back and forth between hippo or ttar for this but ended up settling on hippo as rocks regular tyranitar just felt extremely useless to me a lot of the time and hippo at least blanket checked stuff like fires and diancie and it has a solid deffensive backbone alongside it with clef + torn which allows me to play longer games if needed
https://pokepast.es/d7cb0e82725ef72f
for ruffles i decided to go with a more deffensive approach with some ferrothorn mega latias balance, ferro in particular is excellent against offense barring being threatened by the many fire types of the tier so heatran is a somewhat necessary partner as its able to keep rocks up much more reliably than other options that fit on this kinda team(another option i considered was rocks taunt gliscor but i never ended up using that)
ferro has toxic for zapdos mainly but its just nice in general especially against wallbreakers or fire type setup sweepers that love switching into a non-attack from ferro
crawdaunt is really mainly because i wanted a way to revenge kill volcarona to justify this type of heatran i was using, and i didnt feel the need to use the less threatening azumarill for weavile insurance on this team
https://pokepast.es/a1da712db2e23567
not much to say for this tbh, zapdrill has been demonstrably(at least imo) the best way to run medicham for the current meta and this was my take on it
keldeo in theory allows you to not need thunder punch for slowbro necessarily and i really dislike using medicham without zhb and bp currently
https://pokepast.es/9037f71dc564c17e
the idea here was using sticky barbs clefable to trick excadrill and any other ground type gets volt switched on by thundurus, allowing the maximum amount of turns possible for adamant lopunny to break
this team functions fine if you just run focus blast on thundurus and had i run that in my game vs pj i would have had a much easier time than i did which is just another hilarious self sabotage moment from me this spl which im sure my teammates were pleased about
i believe in the original idea of the team tho and i also would have won that game if i clicked trick turn 2 when it was free despite not having focus blast on thundurus so im allowing myself to be stubborn with this one
other teams i used in spl i ended editing heavily later or were given to me by other people so i dont feel the need to post those on here, overall the tournament was a fun experience and i wish i didnt get so many nerves in a lot of my games and could have performed to what the standard i set for myself is
absolutely loved my team though and i have been on record bitching about how negative my other spl experiences were on here so its cool to experience an spl that was actually quite fun
so heres my tiny little team dump of 4 teams for anyone who may care, i think oras ou is in the best place its ever been and im looking foward to playing it on other tournaments for the remainder of the year
one last shoutout to this rain team i made and enjoyed but was too much of a pussy to ever load
https://pokepast.es/a327403c136c8f5a