SV OU Someone please rate my physical Garganacl team

Would you want a pet rock like Garganacl

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 100.0%
  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    8
Today I was thinking that I wanted a pet rock so i decided to make a team around a physical Garganacl. This was difficult since Garganacl doesn’t have much of an ability to do real damage. I did the best I could so don’t just roast me in the comments (looking at you TheDuckChris).

My Pet Rock (Garganacl) @ Leftovers
Ability: Purifying Salt
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 156 HP / 176 Atk / 100 SpD / 24 Spe
Brave Nature
- Curse
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Tera Blast

I thought a curse set would work best since it worked really well for my Clodsire team. It’s meant a bulky physical attacker who can take hits and dish out damage. Tera Grass helps out a lot with rock type weaknesses and can hit many of them super effectively. Earthquake is there for coverage and stone edge for stab.

Delphox @ Life Orb
Ability: Blaze
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Flamethrower
- Psyshock
- Tera Blast

Now I know Delphox isn’t in OU but it’s still good and can catch many people off guard with its sweeping potential. The Nasty plot set can quickly get out of control and soon we can knock out most pokemon since we also out speed most pokemon in this format. Tera Grass also helps with its weaknesses.

Loooong neck (Raging Bolt) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Protosynthesis
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 28 HP / 48 Def / 112 SpA / 68 SpD / 252 Spe
- Thunderclap
- Dragon Pulse
- Tera Blast
- Thunderbolt

This pokemon probably isn’t being used right but I wanted to go for another bulky offensive pokemon. Tera fairy helps with its weaknesses. It’s over all just here to be the Garganacl but on the special side.

The Clod (Clodsire) @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Flying
EVs: 148 HP / 32 Atk / 184 Def / 136 SpD
- Stealth Rock
- Poison Jab
- Recover
- Earthquake

In Clod we trust. This is my bulky boy who can set up stealth rocks. I have both earthquake and poison jab since both moves are immune by a type. I don’t wanna risk it since otherwise I can’t them those types at all.

Lovedisc Evo? (Alomomola) @ Leftovers
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 168 Def / 64 SpA / 188 SpD / 88 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
- Protect
- Scald
- Wish
- Substitute

Alomomola is my other bulky mon. Substitute and protect can save it. Wish can help both it and my teammates. Scald is a good move plus the burn is nice.

Doge (Zamazenta) @ Leftovers
Ability: Dauntless Shield
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 Def / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Iron Defense
- Iron Head
- Body Press
- Crunch

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT ZAMAZENTA IS IN OU!!! I thought this was in Ubers and now it’s my new favorite pancake maker. Iron defense makes us incredibly stronger and harder to hit. Iron head plus Tera steel and our speed means most things get flinched. Crunch is for those pesky psychic types.

Our biggest counter that I’ve noticed is Gliscor so any help to beat that thing would be much appreciated.
 
I don’t understand Substitute Alomomola. I’d recommend Flip Turn instead so you can pivot and make it really slow (-speed nature and 0 speed ivs)
 
Ok I’ll get down to business here.

1. The :garganacl: set is very sub optimal and so is the Tera. Tera grass garg makes you worse bs things you want to check like standard :cinderace:

2. :Delphox: is completely outclassed offensively by other special attacking fires such as :iron moth: its speed is middling and so is its bulk.

3. Why substitute :alomomola: what is that doing? It doesn’t even learn toxic in gen 9to even do that let alone do its job effectively because for whatever reason this doesn’t have flip turn.

4. Tera flying clod also makes no sense you llimit walling capability to be stealth rock weak. Yeah you might land a toxic on :great tusk: but now you are suddenly dying to things like ice spinner from tusk. Additionally you lose out checking stuff like :raging bolt: I’d go back to the drawing board here personally.

Here are some examples of balance

https://pokepast.es/5958e21865311555

https://pokepast.es/6eb062cfd2dcec1d

Best of luck
 
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