Resource SV PU Sample Teams

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Hi and welcome to the SV PU Sample Teams! This thread's goal is to provide good and easy to use teams for players unfamiliar with the metagame. This is a community driven project, so all submissions are appreciated!!

Posting Guidelines

• While not mandatory, please add a description to your submissions. These make it easier for people new to the tier to understand how to use them
• Sample teams should be representative of the metagame. As such, teams with very niche Pokemon or sets have a lesser chance of becoming samples. Also, don't submit teams with unranked Pokemon!
• not a posting guideline but if you ever have any questions / concerns about a team here, or if you want to submit a team and are unsure, feel free to reach out to me or anyone else on council!

av golurk + cm glowbro by asa
https://pokepast.es/6422901193bd0724

np heatom + spell tag decid by asa
https://pokepast.es/a4ad69b1fd47422b

cm florges + salazzle balance by sensei axew
https://pokepast.es/4615b4e62c8ef874

sd rhydon + toxtricity HO by sensei axew
https://pokepast.es/d662fbe99335f21b

grimmlazzle 4ever by ishtar
https://pokepast.es/393fa964807ca646

np delphox balance by ishtar
https://pokepast.es/2a493ae9da0c642b

glunk (skuntank hazard stack) by zS
https://pokepast.es/67b623f7bb28a9ff

choice specs meloetta BO by MZ
https://pokepast.es/48d66f53761f3b7e

lead smeargle HO by S1nn0hC0nfirm3d
https://pokepast.es/4ff800f726c4a08f

: cb wet bull + curse salt by S1nn0hC0nfirm3d
https://pokepast.es/e98d141d11841309

inteleon + dd scrafty hazard stack by DugZa
https://pokepast.es/fb6cfa5b65d4e7dd

cm spam + scarf bruxish by DugZa
https://pokepast.es/d95b35a265b599d1

 

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pre-home teams

swords dance cacturne + swords dance dugtrio by Chloe
https://pokepast.es/a9855189442c14e2

specs indeedee + setup spam by rien
https://pokepast.es/6d9e5a262871b03d

scarf flapple + pyroar by gum
https://pokepast.es/29e7f87b3bbe0f49

psychic spam by rien
https://pokepast.es/2ff10c2824a47267

quilladin hazard stack by asa
https://pokepast.es/7a827f0cf4d33c24

squawkabilly balance by Chloe
https://pokepast.es/e57248e407c176df

pre-teal mask teams

gogoat + nasty plot alolan persian by Shaneghoul
https://pokepast.es/55caacfb82f75fb6

nasty plot rotom-frost + swords dance dugtrio by gum
https://pokepast.es/2aa054f57aff3b98

cb alolan dugtrio + tera steel masquerain by asa
https://pokepast.es/5e10c49964d2c077

wyrdeer terrain by Togkey
https://pokepast.es/ff6db9a2c8054ea7

nasty plot spiritomb + swords dance 3 attacks klawf balance by gum
https://pokepast.es/b517c3538abc8703

subcm misdreavus spikes by rien
https://pokepast.es/665bdb7f5a25ef20

lead swords dance lycanroc heavy offense by gum
https://pokepast.es/a9ecf65d03d47fa8

pre-indigo disk teams

veluza + otr farigiraf heavy offense by gum
https://pokepast.es/c78df458e0a0d11b

specs arboliva voltturn by fish anemometer
https://pokepast.es/9a05ffb0490c019f

subsd sneasel-hisui + pyroar by zS
https://pokepast.es/aa5f464e03a00405

post-indigo disk teams

specs mesprit by DugZa
https://pokepast.es/d0dda5342095113f

specs mismagius spikes by gum
https://pokepast.es/01399dc7dd2e1278

subsd glastrier + bulk up hariyama by asa
https://pokepast.es/b202de311d3076fa

setup spam by avarice
https://pokepast.es/68c058059aa34741


arboliva + bu hariyama by gum
https://pokepast.es/75b48a87b6a9d04a

grassy terrain by asa
https://pokepast.es/a3070aea34203e49

specs whimsicott + bu hariyama by asa
https://pokepast.es/58f1b8695a1f1338

frosmoth + scarf grafaiai by gum
https://pokepast.es/8adf44bb1d69b413

choice specs florges + qd taunt oricorio by asa
https://pokepast.es/d3b3413ac5a3f6e9

bulk up scrafty + choice specs whimsicott by asa
https://pokepast.es/2c605d8ce2cb44c1

cm glowbro + cb flamigo by asa
https://pokepast.es/eb8bf5a0243d1d3d

 

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samples have been updated following tier shifts + the recent bans. we're still looking for teams though, so feel free to share them!!

 

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we now have art, huge thanks to UberSkitty!!

 

[Stories]

Grassy Seed Wyrdeer Offense

^ click for the paste ^

overview:
I wanted to use a Calm Mind + Grassy Seed Pokemon since Home gave us Thwackey, trying to use Hypno even up in NU and other goofy sets. I always knew a Pokemon with stats like Wyrdeer (525 BST) had to be secretly good despite everyone's initial first impressions of the Pokemon rating it quite poorly. I had the opportunity to test it at a relevant level when NJNP reached out to me asking if I could assist Giannis this week for NU in grand slam, and I told him I play PU a bit too so I started making drafts of this team.

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Obviously this team is designed around the Grassy Terrain set by Thwackey, but this Pokemon has a ton of utility outside of setting terrain and dying (I'm looking at you Pincurchin..) With just an Eviolite + 252 HP, and no defensive investment, Thwackey avoids a 3HKO from Alolan Dugtrio's Iron Head, with speed for Timid Glimmet and Whiscash to get the edge on them with Taunt and Wood Hammer respectively. Knock Off is amazing in the tier and Thwackey's surprisingly good bulk makes it a solid pivot for the breakers on the team.

I decided Wyrdeer was best off with Sap Sipper. With Tera Ground this allows it to bait Grass-type attacks and also turn Gogoat into setup fodder. Sap Sipper also dodges Leech Seed and Sleep Powder, and the attack boosts can add to Stored Power's BP. 244+ Speed outpaces Scarf Basculin after an Agility. Tera Ground hits Skuntank and Steel-types like Tinkatuff and Perrserker, while also avoiding Thunder Waves.

Perrserker serves as a pivot that greatly appreciates Grassy Terrain reducing Earthquake's damage and passively healing it. I have Seed Bomb on here for Whiscash, but honestly I never used that or Close Combat. Tera Dragon is just all all-around amazing typing for pivots in the tier, resisting FWG attacks from Charizard/Pyroar/Basculin/Leafeon/etc...

Dachsbun is the necessary real Fire resist on the team, and also just naturally makes progress with it's amazing coverage. Wish can keep Perrserker healthy. Dachsbun also checks Fighting- and Dark-types like Tera Lycanroc and Persian-Alola.

Pyroar introduces an amazing speed tier as a wallbreaker, and with Taunt + Endeavor it can actually create outs against unfavorable MU's like IronPress Swalot and Chansey. Grass Tera Blast is boosted by Terrain to get more favorable rolls on targets like Carbink and Klawf.

Adamant Basculin is a perfect cleaner for a team that so perfectly takes advantage of bulky Grass-types. Not much to say about these last few Pokemon, they kinda just fill the void for an offense team. Tera Wave Crash can usually sweep super easily if Wyrdeer and Pyroar can weaken teams and take out Grass-types.

thx for reading s.o's gum and asa and chloe for being cool PU ppl shoutouts to dave for getting me for PUPL yay​

 

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samples have been updated for august metagame, huge thanks to the people that submitted teams!! with the dlc coming up, as well as the october tier shifts soon after, there's a chance this might be the last update for a while, so apologies for that

 

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we've updated our sample teams, but submissions won't be open until we go back to tier shifts happening once every 3 months; from our experience the past months, it can be rather treacherous when every metagame is so short-lived. however, we'll continue to update these once per month!!

 

[asa]

The samples have been updated again, though not as drastically as in April. Big thanks to S1nn0hC0nfirm3d for being willing to provide two of his teams!

Feel free to post any teams you think are sample-worthy! We didn't formally announce that you could do that last month, but with PU Open underway and the tier finally stabilizing, we're interested in providing users with as many team options as possible. We'll try to review them as quickly as we can, so thanks in advance!

 

[leoperi99]

Balance hazard stack team (click on the pokemon for the paste)

Overview: ive been testing out hazard stacking alongside phazing and i think this team is quite simple to pilot for new players since it centers around stacking hazards , spinblocking alongside slow wall but bulky wallbreakers.


Its a great pivot , status spreader alongside setting spikes just be aware of knock off although u kinda can trade sometimes gligar into skuntank or belibolt if u really feel like is necessary even if cuts alot of the bulk wish support should be good enough to keep longevity just make sure to dont let mons hit u with psychic noise because cancels out the wish

it will be ur main wall agaisnt fast and slow paced offensive mons like snorlax and scyther/flamigo and phazing is really great here to do even more chip with hazards if u knock their boots just be aware of tera fairy as it can be tough. And with its great spdef it can tank special hits nicely usually

it will help alot keep teamates alive and overall just a great bulky mon to help do progress with psychic noise and pass wish , encore to give ur mons set up opportunity/ disrupt other mons also always nice

will be setting rocks for you but can also spin hazards , punishing some moves like locked staraptor into bb/double edge with flamebody is good , body press helps alot vs wo chien. You can run more spa investment if youd like more power over less bulk but im unsure if is worth the tradeoff

With a big spdef , good typing and swords dance + roost it can be a nice check to stuff like florges, gbro , tatsugiri , brozong and other fast and frail mons like delphox you might be wondering why spirit shackle over poltergeist well my problem with that move is 1. The PP and 2. Anti knock off synergy even if is weaker its consistent and trapping ocassionally helps

A great endgame mon as it can heal its own status with ability also immense bulk and knock off rly helps if they let it set up it will
become rly hard to stop if u lack coverage or a mon to handle it

Thanks for reading :3 ive got this team also into finals of the second toxt suspect tour hosted last week and Shoutouts to aurist , Bella , Uberskitty for giving me some advice while building this team

 

[RyuSnowシ]

Toxitricy Bulky Offense
https://pokepast.es/9ddca36fe6fd7279

I used this team to qualify for the pult playoffs, I used it in the first game of round 1 and won, just some of this team's achievements.

the team's proposal is to abuse the raw power of toxitricy in a safe way, with slow pivots and wish passes, in addition it can be a hazard stack also considering rocks gligar + spikes alola lash.

 

[Melt Gibson]

Double Flying BO


fat rock setter that pivots around, provides a nice general one-time stopgap to a lot of things and helps with forcing progress through knock and toxic. immunity is also great to deny other gligar and bellibolt, although you do need to watch out for knock on the former. tera water as an emergency wetbull check/more favorable defensive typing against stuff like k9.


scarf raptor for speed control, can beat up the enemy team early on or clean up after virizion and k9 have done some damage, just gotta be careful about rocks since your health is a resource with brave bird and double edge.


curse espeed is broken lol, just comes in and eats hits and after one or two curses you're doing a lot of damage. morning sun for recovery in case you get knocked/can't clear rocks/lefties just aren't doing it fast enough, blitz for stab, everything else is standard ordinance.


spins, offers some special breaking power that the team needs, and functions as a backup form of speed control if raptor ends up imploding. tera fairy is there to wall out other tatsu since it gives this team a bit of a rough time if it speeds up, but ghost to prevent spinning is also probably viable.


fills out the fwg core and offers a solid check to steels when it's too early to bring k9 in, helps out with stuff like wetbull, scrafty, gastro, and golurk as well. lum is here mostly to protect you from coalossal/bellibolt as well as random toxic/willo/twave and scald burns from milo.


general defensive blob mon, regenvest offers this team a lot of stopgaps against things like toxt, phox, wetbull, etc and the damage is pretty solid, shellside helps to not be a complete dud into florges and other special walls while eq makes you not useless into coal and electrics.

 

[Viccc12]

https://pokepast.es/bedb90786e032d2e (1492 Elo- 5/20/2024)

Overview: I tend to take Hyper Offense in the most literal sense when I'm trying to emulate it in the teambuilder. This team is so easy for new players because it doesn't require you to switch around. Get as much progress as you can each turn and the next mon that comes in usually picks off the weakened opponent and either chunks or trades with something during the following turn. The snowball potential or BD Hariyama and Shell Smash Minior is easy to see off of team preview if you know how a type chart works. The team is also fairly customizable, although that kind of defeats the purpose of this thread.

Hariyama: Belly Drum has become a forgotten threat. Beats a lot of different leads in the current metagame. It can come in early to break or late to clean after faster resistances have been chipped for BP. Guts provides lots of easy switch ins for it as well.

Rotom: Spin-blocks, chips or cripples something, and provides a free switch in to one of the many threats on the team. Max SpA because you need the chip on Tatsugiri and other spinners that you're trying to block. It also finds a lot of ins vs the bulky grounds in the tier which can set up Minior or Hariyama later.

Minior: Eats a lot of strong hits thanks to its ability + grass tera. Gets a lot of opportunities to Smash or just attack once it's ability is activated (Or deactivated?) Tera blast is for the bulky waters, namely Gastrodon and for Mudsale hoping to roar.

Staraptor: IMO the strongest scarfer in any of the lower tiers. Probably the strongest Flying type I've ever seen in PU. Provides great speed control and late game cleaning power. Chunks a lot of it's switch ins, which are mostly offensively checked by the other mons on the team. Can also pivot out with U-Turn, and finds times to switch in occasionally on Ghost moves from Decidueye or Golurk.

Arcanine: I love the power of Adamant Life Orb. This mon usually picks off something low, then chunks or flat out kills the next switch in. The recoil is well worth it in my opinion to ensure the potential damage output. Water types don't particularly enjoy +1 Close Combats either, scoring a 2HKO at +1 on Physdef Milotic and Gastrodon.

Lead Slot: I decided to leave this slot empty in this post because I've used 3-4 different leads while laddering. I have settled on Smeargle recently because of Burning Bulwark perfectly countering Ambipom, Which I found to be particularly annoying for this team. Froslass and Lycanroc both set up hazards, but Smeargle at least provides the opportunity for you to choose turn 1 whether you want spikes, rocks, or if you wanna just annoy your opponent with Mortal Spin.

Conclusion: Offensive pressure is everything with this team. Making the correct switches will dismantle your opponents team no matter how bulky. There is no one mon that can handle all the powerful attacks on this team. Keeping hazards up on your opponents side of the field is paramount for Staraptor and Minior, as they don't threaten OHKOs from full as often as the others. Most of the games I played ended before turn 25, and I meant for that to happen.

 

[Scarf Kricketune]

Triple Tera Normal Offense

https://pokepast.es/b899505fd6c332db

Have been meaning to share this team publicly for a while because it is really fun to play and also quite efficient at getting wins on ladder through good positioning, picking a good wincon and letting the rest of the team do the hard work of setting up the win. I also managed to complete my Toxtricity suspect test requirements using this team with a 30-2 record.


Standard lead that imo is the best in the tier at the suicide lead role. Outside of setting up rocks and dying, lycanroc can be a potential early/mid game wallbreaking tool with the use of endeavor. Tera ghost for spinblocking should be used very rarely since the team is based around tera normal sweepers. Dont be afraid of setting up rocks turn one then switching out lycanroc because it has good potential of setting up the next pokemon on the team.


While adamant seems to be greedy at first sight, it does not miss out of much in the speed department only missing out on tatsugiri (for which we have a decent offensive switch in), jolly skuntank, bombirdier and max speed goodra. While there are others, they are not too commonly seen. The reason why i chose to run adamant over jolly and, should be of no surprise to anyone, is the beloved frog . Adamant allows you to 2h ko bellibolt with facade into cc while jolly heracross has a much harder time winning as it allows bellibolt to trade taking 45 and volt switching out and now your heracross is quite useless. Endeavor lycanroc can offer good setup opportunities for heracross with trailblaze since nothing realistically wants to switch into heracross and saccing your 1 hp mon tends to be the better play for the opponent.


The best spinner in offense so it definitely wants to be slotted here. White herb allows it to keep its spA neutral after firing off a draco allowing it to remain threatening and not having to rely on nasty plot to bring back its spA to neutral. While tatsugiri is the stronger spinner on offensive teams, it wants to hit the field at an appropiate moment due to its poor bulk. A good spin mid game and some damage can be all the team needs to easily sweep with the rest of the team. Another asset that tatsugiri brings for the team is the move memento which can give a pretty good opportunity for setup (watch out for competitive and defiant abilities however). Tera can be switched around depending on your playstyle but i have found fairy a bit more consistent.


While AV is an uncommon set, it is surprisingly efficient at taking hits. The new technology here is endeavor on this set. The only way to dodge endeavor is well...being a ghost and houndstone just so happens to have the coveted poltergeist stab to dissuade ghosts from switching in if they somehow read this description and know it is coming. Houndstones role is to spinblock tatsugiri being able to live a surf into a draco meteor with this spread, and to weaken opposing walls and clicking sneak when needed.


I want to start talking about the 4th slot because the 1st three moves are very straight forward. Many players will opt for either encore, substitute, or a 3rd attacking move. A very cool tech i found while testing this team was disable. While arguably harder to use than encore and substitute, disable offers a very cool tech for offense teams which is to straight up abuse choiced mons like staraptor, flamigo, intelion, etc.. that look to dish out as much damage as possible to be able to revenge kill scream tail due to its crazy base bulk for a mon in offense. Disable also has other nice applications such as disabling haze/clear smog allowing you to get two turns of calm mind which (if tera normal is available) can deal with spdef milo and gastrodon. Disable also allows you to beat calm mind florges 1v1 and prevent setup that could hinder the rest of your teammates to win.


By now everyone fears the tera normal curse arcanine set, no need to explain what it does. It is best used as a late game cleaner but can also be used throughout the game as an intimidate pivot and a pseudo wallbreaker if there are no fire resists on the opponents team.

Final Thoughts:
As far as offensive teams go, this team might be a bit unorthodox due to its ways to deal damage and how it allows for setup opportunities but once you get the hang of the team, it is quite fun to pilot and very straightforward. The key to victory using this team is to always prioritize having speed control and to have a plan regarding to which pokemon is going to be your endgame sweeper and let the rest of the team do the hard work.