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OP Stolen from the SS National Dex Monotype Sample Teams Thread
OP Stolen from the SS National Dex Monotype Sample Teams Thread
Welcome to Scarlet & Violet National Dex Monotype Sample Teams, your primary place to get, well, National Dex Monotype sample teams!
The purpose of this resource will be to provide teams that are easy to use and represent the type fairly well for newer players to learn the metagame with. These teams can also be used as a base in order to try out new options in teambuilding. As such, sample teams will be held up to a high standard.
If you're thinking of contributing, great! Please take a moment to read the following.
We will exercise very high standards over which teams are approved. We will not feature teams using sub-optimal archetypes, such as Hyper Offensive Poison. Submitted teams must be broadly effective and viable in the meta, however, this does not mean that niche tech sets and non-conventional builds (such as those in RMTs) are not entertained.
The teams showcased in this thread should be representative of the various, viable, relevant play-styles and archetypes present in the National Dex Monotype metagame.
Here are the guidelines for submissions:
1. Make sure submissions are in the [Gen 9] National Dex Monotype format.
2. Provide an importable for your team. Don't use nicknames for your Pokemon.
3. Accompanying sprites and art are appreciated, but not mandatory. All of the sprites can be found here.
4. Replays are highly encouraged and are a great way to demonstrate that the team is effective in the metagame. Make sure your teams are tested.
5. This is not the RMT forum; this thread is not the place to seek feedback on undeveloped teams and concepts.
6. Do NOT Post Memes. They will be deleted.
7. Finally, if you edit your submission based on feedback (or any reason), please make a note of it at the bottom of the post so we know to re-evaluate. You can also PM me (or members of the council) here, on Discord as ASKid#8695 or on Pokemon Showdown! as Bka Onon.
Here is a sample submission for example:
[Ice] Standard Veil Offense
Ninetales-Alola @ Light Clay
Ability: Snow Warning
Tera Type: Ice
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Aurora Veil
- Freeze-Dry
- Encore
- Moonblast
Weavile @ Darkinium Z
Ability: Pressure
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Triple Axel
- Knock Off
- Ice Shard / Low Kick
Piloswine @ Eviolite
Ability: Thick Fat
Tera Type: Ice
EVs: 244 HP / 12 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Earthquake
- Stealth Rock
- Rock Slide
- Toxic
Baxcalibur @ Loaded Dice
Ability: Thermal Exchange
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Glaive Rush
- Icicle Spear
- Earthquake / Ice Shard
Avalugg @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Sturdy
Tera Type: Ice
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Rapid Spin
- Recover
- Iron Defense
- Body Press
Darmanitan-Galar @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Gorilla Tactics
Tera Type: Ice
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Icicle Crash
- Flare Blitz
- U-turn
- Earthquakeis the backbone of the team, acting as the weather and screen setter with it's Snow Warning and Aurora Veil, while also being a switch in to Dragon-type moves such as Kommo-o's Clangorous Soulblaze and can also check Fighting-types such as Iron Valiant.
has come back after Chien-Pao's ban to prove it is still good, here it uses a Swords Dance set with Darkinium Z using Ninetales' veil and snow to make setting up easier and beating many common pokemon with it's STABs and even has fighting coverage.
is one of the defenses for the team, with eviolite and thick fat, it is a great check to the fire types that would otherwise threaten Ice, mainly Volcarona which it can OHKO with Rock Slide. It is also the hazard setter for the team.
is the new pseudo legendary that uses a combination of Dragon Dance and it's great attack to become a threatening sweeper. Its ability Thermal Exchange also lets it punish Fire-types and ignore burns from the likes of Corsola-Galar and Mega Sableye. Loaded Dice lets it have a great physical Ice Move with an Icicle Spear that always hits 4 to 5 times.
is the hazard control for the team, with its great defense, boosted even further by snow, it can even beat the likes of Mega Scizor with Iron Defense and Body Press, and has reliable recovery in Recover. Though it has to be careful about Ghost-types.
is the last but not the least, it is the Choice Scarf user for the team acting as the speed control. With its ability Gorilla Tactics granting it a built in Choice Band, it can run a Choice Scarf to both be fast and strong, it has good coverage options and even U-Turn to pivot.
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A member of the immunity core, providing a ground immunity while also being a good physical defensive wall, allowing to take a myriad of neutral physical hits from the team as a midground, such non-banded close combats when required. Roost gives it the longevity needed to remain as a sturdy ground immunity and shrug off physical attacks. Spikes adds more hazard pressure which works in tandem with ferrothorn's stealth rock and gholdengo's ability. Body press gives it good damage which comes off of its physical defense stat. Whirlwind allows skarmory to reset pressure vs certain set up sweepers and ruin the momentum of opposing teams, while also shuffling opposing pokemon to rack up more hazard damage.
The mega for the team. Has good defensive qualities for the team with its extra fairy typing. A bulky utility set is ran here to support the team, where it can spread paralysis with body slam boosted by pixilate (which is also decent spammable stab), and its newly gained will o wisp allowing it to cripple opponents and grant opportunities for set up for the team. Alternatively Altaria can take status (usually a burn is fine), if running facade to obtain a high powered stab. Roost provides longevity whereas defog gives it an additional support role to remove hazards when called for. The ev spread allows it to outpace adamant dragonite, adamant diggersby and jolly breloom. The rest goes into HP and physical defense to maximise its bulk and allow it to take hits more comfortably.
The main sweeper or wincon of the team. Kommonium z allows it to gain a plus 1 boost in all its stats and can prepare for a late game or early pressure depending on the scenario. Soundproof is the ability to prevent ditto from using kommo-o as an opportunity to sweep it back. A mixed set of drain punch and flamethrower allows it to pressure steel teams. Drain punch also helps with recovery and when paired with clanging scales helps for a good stab combo that has good damage output when boosted. Clanging scales is also required to activate its signature z. The final move is taunt to prevent haze, whirlwind and crippling status effects which would otherwise limit kommo-o's effectiveness as a wincon. As it is a mixed set, the ev spread has max speed, max special attack, and the remaining 4 evs going into physical attack to enhance strengthen its capability as a sweeper while also running a naive nature to not lower its offensive potential.
The physical tank for the team. Holding a rocky helmet and paired with its rough skin ability, it can rack up a lot of residual damage from contact moves, most important, rapid spin, which works in favour of it as it is the main stealth rock setter of the team. Stab earthquake is important and allows for decent damage. Roar allows it to phaze opponents to either reset the positioning (vs something that tries to set up) or rack up residual damage with stealth rock. Dragon Tail is the attacking alternative of roar, which can bypass methods that stop roar such as taunt, at the cost of 90% accuracy and inability to phaze fairy types. The last move is fire blast to allow it to pressure skarmory and ferrothorn from just using tank chomp as hazard set up fodder. Alternatively, chomp can run spikes to add more hazard pressure on the opposing side. The ev spread maximises HP for bulk and the speed and jolly nature is so that it can outspeed base 100s, with the remaining going into special defense, allowing it to live a choice specs dazzling gleam from tapu koko.
The main specially defensive pivot for the team. The main draw is its additional poison typing allowing it to notably shrug off moonblasts from threats such as iron valiant and tapu lele, while being able to threaten them with its poison stab. Adaptability is the main ability to allow its poison stab to provide enough damage vs the threats its tasked with handling. Flip turn what allows it to be a pivot for the team, getting its teammates in safely. Toxic spikes is another utility move it has to punish switchins depending on matchup to allow for more residual damage to rack up. Protect can be used to rack up some black sludge recovery while scouting choice locked pokemon and allow for better positioning. Gunk shot is the poison stab of choice, doing good damage and allowing it to get past certain calm mind users in a pinch such as tapu fini and hatterene if called for. The ev spread maximises special bulk while also minimizing speed to make the most out of its slow pivoting capability, most notably underspeeding toxapex.
The special breaker of the team. The set is designed to deal with bulky waters such as toxapex while being able to pressure passive walls with a combination of freeze dry and earth power (mostly unresisted through the entire tier), and its ability pressure to pp stall certain threats. Freeze dry is the obligatory stab on kyurem, which also allows it to hit the bulky waters like toxapex or fini for super effective damage. Earth power complements it nicely, hitting the steels that resist freeze dry such as heatran. Substitute allows it to avoid status while roost provides kyurem with longevity. Together they can be used to pp stall targets or set up scenarios where kyurem can heavily pressure the opponent without being pressured too much itself. The given ev spread allows kyurem to avoid an OHKO from mega charizard y's focus blast, and provides maximum speed while also allowing kyurem to form 101hp substitutes against seismic toss and night shade, which further accentuates its ability to pp stall the bulky walls that use this as their main source of direct damage. Heavy duty boots gives it more freedom to play around hazards since it is immune whilst holding the item
The special breaker of the team. Hydreigon is tasked with breaking down bulkier structures, such as those on water, poison, grass, ground, steel and potentially more. The levitate ability being able to give it a niche ground immunity which can be helpful at times. Leftovers gives Hydreigon a bit of longevity and works well with granting it the ability to make the most out of its first move. Substitute allows it to dodge status moves or punish forced switchins to gain momentum which works in tandem with its next move nasty plot, which helps it break vs the most bulky cores. Dark pulse is its stab of choice, spammable with no immunities and even more threatening vs most after a boost. Flamethrower complements it and allows hydreigon to dish out more immediate damage vs bulkier pokemon on grass and steel. The ev spread maximises speed and special attack.
The mega of the team. Additional grass typing provides a water resist for the team alongside a ground neutrality which can act as an effective midground. Tasked with handling threats such as swampert, urshifu rs, great tusk, breloom, and mega diancie. Giga drain is the stab of choice, doing good damage to most of the aforementioned pokemon that it checks while giving it some recovery based on how much damage was done. Sludge bomb is secondary stab that hits most other targets neutrally where giga drain may not be enough, important for pressuring threats such as breloom, kyurem (to pressure it from using substitute if required), tapu bulu and tapu koko. The additional 30% poison chance can create more pressure with a bit of luck and reduce a switchins opportunities in being able to answer mega venu. Leech seed can be used instead over sludge bomb to provide a way to punish the switches it can force while acting as a support move that heals itself and the team, while wearing down the opponent. Hidden power fire threatens certain steels that take the combo of its stabs well, such as mega scizor and ferrothorn. Synthesis is manual and reliable recovery to keep venusaur healthy where giga drain isn't enough. The ev spread maximises physical defense while having enough speed to outpace adamant max speed azumarill.
The ground immunity of the team courtesy of its flying typing, acting as a good switch in to choice locked pokemon using ground moves. Infiltrator as its ability to allow it to bypass substitute users to sabotage their attempts at breaking down the poison or at least deter them from doing so. The first move being toxic, makes use of that, allowing crobat to pressure pokemon such as substitute nasty plot hydreigon or substitute roost kyurem. Brave bird is its main stab and helps pressure pokemon such as mega gallade, while also doing good damage to the frail pokemon it can revenge, such as non-scarf greninja, base alakazam, cinderace and tornadus therian. Roost gives it the longevity to last and keep checking these threats and remain as a ground immunity for the team. Defog allows it to remove hazards for the team to avoid unwanted chip and keep the team healthier, which works in tandem with its item heavy duty boots to allow it to defog without fearing taking stealth rock chip itself. The ev spread is given such that it outspeeds the threats listed above, maximum HP for bulk and the rest going into special defense to better take on threats such as kyurem and hydreigon.
The special breaker for the team to avoid the team from being too passive and allow some return pressure to at least directly combat the offensive threats, while also putting progress on defensive threats that try to outlast or play around and limit poison. Sheer force paired with life orb gives it big boosts in its damage output with no recoil. Earth power its main stab that helps it dent opposing steel, poison and fire teams and just providing consistently high damage overall vs most neutral targets. The next two moves form bolt beam coverage, which allow it to do good neutral damage to most targets, especially the flying types that are immune to earth power. Flamethrower is additional coverage that can pressure steel, while also being able to pressure some grass types that might take ice beam, most notably ferrothorn (which can take an earth power at full and leech seed back usually). Stealth rock can be used instead to provide support for the team with utility whilst being able to place pressure on opponents long term.
The specially defensive wall for the team. With assault vest and regenerator, it can scout strong special attacks and help the team reposition for a better spot or allow slowking to throw out attacks depending. Here slowking is also an assault vest user that has regenerator, and combined with toxapex allows it to form a regenerator core than can continually switch between each other to accumulate hp in some scenarios without using up resources. Future sight usually its go to move, allowing for good chip damage vs most foes and can form powerful pins with other teammates to deal massive damage in one turn. It is most important for making progress on defensive pokemon such as toxapex. Sludge bomb is its other stab that it utilises that does consistent damage and can potentially poison the opponent, especially the switchins that usually slowking usually can't threaten immediately. Earthquake is an option that allows slowking to pivot into magma storm heatran and pressure it with. Ice beam is coverage that allows an OHKO on threats such as landorus incarnate in a 1v1 and can catch certain switchins that want to take advantage of slowking such as garchomp, gliscor and landorus-therian. Flamethrower is an alternative that can utilised alongside earthquake to place some pressure on steel teams. The ev spread maximises special bulk and the attack evs ensures that earthquake is a 2HKO against max hp heatran.
