Raikou's wild volt turn ride
I've talked before about how Raikou and Gardevoir make good partners. Raikou can volt switch on its most common answers and bring in a threatening Gardevoir, and meanwhile Raikou also switches in on Jirachi really easily. And with twave, you can completely destroy a lot of the common special-defensive setups in the tier. I went with Cyclizar because this is RU and Noivern because I wanted some speed and also a way to beat Suicune. Taunt Noivern is just really really good vs annoying setup mons and it can keep hazards off. Thanks to FlamPoke for suggesting the final two mons of Jirachi and Slither-Wing. I tried a bunch of other configurations to be original and not blindly follow his orders, but everything I tried either led to me thinking "I need something that actually switches into other Gardevoirs" or "I need something that is good vs Krookodile and has priority. I experimented with both encore and wish Jirachi, and wish seems to fit the team better since I already have Noivern for slow setup mons. I'm running twave over body slam because I don't like relying on those 60% rolls and also don't like blanking into covert cloak mons.
I've talked before about how Raikou and Gardevoir make good partners. Raikou can volt switch on its most common answers and bring in a threatening Gardevoir, and meanwhile Raikou also switches in on Jirachi really easily. And with twave, you can completely destroy a lot of the common special-defensive setups in the tier. I went with Cyclizar because this is RU and Noivern because I wanted some speed and also a way to beat Suicune. Taunt Noivern is just really really good vs annoying setup mons and it can keep hazards off. Thanks to FlamPoke for suggesting the final two mons of Jirachi and Slither-Wing. I tried a bunch of other configurations to be original and not blindly follow his orders, but everything I tried either led to me thinking "I need something that actually switches into other Gardevoirs" or "I need something that is good vs Krookodile and has priority. I experimented with both encore and wish Jirachi, and wish seems to fit the team better since I already have Noivern for slow setup mons. I'm running twave over body slam because I don't like relying on those 60% rolls and also don't like blanking into covert cloak mons.
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scarf gengar as my speed control and spin blocker, keeping hazards up is pretty important for this team to make sure your sweepers checks are constantly under pressure and to get that sheist on empoleon, I perfer dbond over tspikes/fblast for the last slot because it has some surprise factor and is better into cm sweepers
bu zap is one of my favorite zap sets as it sets up on non fangs dog and with tera steel can set up on itself (I forgor to put tera steel on in the paste), lefties or boots is really personal choice, I went with boots cause zap is my knock switchin, I was thinking about making it banded but it gets knock just about every game
I swear this guy is good, dd scale shot tera steel does hella damage every game if not outright sweeping, with eq it can lure steel types for gard too, if the opponent thinks you're scarf and switches in an empoleon or fairy on the dd, tera steel blast or click eq and clear the path for cm gard
we spike and spin, spiker, nice twave support too
Week 23: Amoonguss
The subject of this weeks teambuilding comp, usually amoonguss is a physical wall that provides utility to its team through various status moves. But amoonguss has good special defense as well, in fact its higher then its physical defense. So why not utilise its special defense to the fullest? AV amoonguss is able to wall a ton of special threats pretty easily and use various moves to chip the opponent or stop them from setting up. It can easily take a bug buzz into a +1 air slash and clear smog off the damage, and if it tera's then amoonguss can do it even easier. +2 blastoise ice beam will never 2hit KO amoonguss and it can clear smog into 2 giga drain's in order to beat it always (unless you get frozen). It can even take a +1 armarouge armor cannon from full and clear smog away the boost. I could go on and on about how it take so many special hits, but I think you get the idea. Foul play helps deal with tera steel flyers and does more damage then stomping tantrum would probably do, clear smog can remove any boosts the opponent uses, giga drain and sludge bomb are good stab moves, with the former helping amoonguss keep itself healthy and tera water is a good defensive tera. 
Slowbro was chosen next as it is an excellent partner to amoonguss. In this case, it is able to take on the physical threats amoonguss usually would take on, while temporarily dealing with psychic and flying types that amoonguss might be too low health to deal with. Standard set, because its already perfect.
I needed another defensive mon, rocks, and a ground type. And would you look at that? Hippowdon fills all of those roles. Standard set, but tera dragon to help against rain teams a lot more.
I wanted some hazard control and some more offense on my team. So I decided to use conkeldurr for the first time in a while, and it brings the hurt to many teams. Standard set except for a few changes, defog can help a bit in the hazard removal department and since we are not using facade, tera steel can help against fairy types and maushold if needed.
I wanted a setup sweeper and some level of speed control, and revavroom could help in both departments. This is just the standard set that can help deal with mons that otherwise might be a bit difficult to wall for the rest of the team by dealing with them early through offensive pressure. Also helps against HO teams which may try to overwhelm you through hazards+power to deny conk from defogging.
Finally, I wanted another mon that could help against special threats and could also act as a late game wincon. Rotom Heat could provide both of those aspects, able to take on threats and sweep. This is the standard nasty plot set, with will-o-wisp changed for pain split to keep rotom heat healthy. Tera steel helps against yanmega and is a good general typing.
The speed control of the team. Originally had Life Orb, but I decided to change it because there needed to be speed control, although Life Orb still works really well as it lets you ball all over the stall matchup by being immune to passive damage, and still hitting like a truck. Clicks buttons and makes progress, 'nuff said. Really good into the meta atm, but does need some skill to not immediately fold, which is where the other guys come in
The special wall of the team, with a 4 attacks set. Can set up the infamous future sight + fighting type pincer move with Mienshao, and has just generally good coverage to hit whatever is infront of it.
You already know, it's the guy. Runs Draco over D-Tail because of big damage numbers and generally wanting to make progress in some MU's that D-Tail doesn't really help with.
I can't really explain his presence. I could not begin to tell you why I put him on there. I just know he fits. How does he? I don't know. But the vibes were right and I so I said "fuck it lets ball" and slapped quagsire onto a balance team. You could run water absorb, but most of our waters can hit him anyways, so I would recommend you don't do that.
Week 24: Flygon
