Resource SV PU Sample Teams

[tom holland]

Scarf Dazzle Bruxish BO

https://pokepast.es/121d7f1efb865183

Band Arc+Heasel BO

https://pokepast.es/500f888ef9ca2568

Above are two teams I built which I believe to be strong standard options into the torterra meta we currently find ourselves in. I think Arcanine+Arcanine Answer+Florges is a really strong starting point right now in the current meta, and I usually make my Arc answer the team's ground type. My motto is you cannot go wrong running florges in sv pu, so you will find it on all of my teams. Of the two I think the scarf bruxish team is the strongest, because I managed to top ladder pretty easily with that one, but both felt pretty consistent and I never really found myself autolosing unless it was bad luck. the snorlax feature in that one btw is because I wanted a ghost resist that could take special attacks if i had to, and was still threatening back. This ended up becoming snorlax, who is actually really impressing me right now. Off of band, double edge and earthquake is really threatening, and body slam can be a nice midground at times that offers paralysis chance, and crunch I find to be good coverage midground as well. I run tera dark to deal with psyshock mons in a pinch, as I forgo defense evs for special defense on this snorlax.

Anyways, just wanted to drop some teams that have a good matchup into a lot of stuff that's strong rn for those who may be suffering like I was initially with the rises. I think tort+arcanine makes building pretty restrictive rn if you want consistency but it is at least still achievable!

 

[TONE]

SS Torterra Webs


Here we have some webs HO with all the tools needed to abuse them. Torterra is best put on Sticky Web teams in my experience to make up for its low Speed, and with the recent tier shifts, I've found it extremely potent with support from Vikavolt. Thunder Wave is mainly to catch the Flying-types and Levitate mons that are unaffected by webs which makes it even easier for Torterra to sweep. Tera Ghost deters Rapid Spin and blocks priority from both Ambipom and Arcanine. Agility Pawmot provides extra breaking power and can handle opposing Torterras and other Grasses and Flying types with Ice Punch and Double Shock respectfully, G-Articuno deters Defog and is just broken in general, Mismagius blocks Rapid Spin and is faster than scarf variants of Bruxish and Tauros-PB and provides Memento support for the other sweepers. Lastly CB Arcanine provides additional breaking for Torterra and strong priority overall. A very straightforward team with multiple ways to just click buttons and dish out massive damage.

 

[sugar ovens]

are we posting samples? neat!

https://pokepast.es/ceed6dcfb2760534


This is a bulky offense made by adapting the dipplin+copper+cuno+some random filler spikes team for the fact that we don't have any good spikes setters now, sooo there's no spikes. Articuno-Galar is still the main focus and usually the win condition - if the opponent doesn't have one of the fast physical breakers (Redbull, Pawmot) that can revenge it, try to whittle down opposing Steel- and Rock-types even at the cost of trading your other mons. It has a standard set, Steel tera may be boring but it's just the best type for it, Psyshock lets it beat opposing CM users, Air Slash is less stressful than Hurricane. Rotom-Heat can switch into the main Steel-types that go in againt Guno with ease, chips the Rock-types, forms a fantastic volt-..flip? core with Bruxish (speed control, Dazzling is, well, the obviously correct choice, why even run Strong Jaw) and occasionally functions as an effective wallbreaker. Dipplin counters Rock-types Guno switchins and chips the Steel-types that come in on it with Dragon Tail - ideally after you set up Stealth Rock. It's also a solid secondary wincon in some matchups with Growth. It's also a Florges magnet, which is dealt with AV Copperajah (and Heattom, and Guno, and Rhydon, to an extent. Copperajah and Rhydon provide some more defensive backup, and they can do good damage when they get in - again standard sets with minimal speed creep.

 

[DD Joe]

I'd like to resubmit my team, works very well, even better since Melo has been shifted up:

https://pokepast.es/7f009c3d6f915873

https://pokepast.es/7f009c3d6f915873

Hello everyone.

I recently have had great success on the ladder with this team and got reqs for Meloetta with over 80 GXE with it.

Pre-Scyther ban, this team wouldn't have been as effective but due to its ban and the prominence of Meloetta and the waning of Tauros F, this team has achieved relative strength right now.

Arcanine serves multiple purposes on the team. Firstly, due to the teams semi limited speed control, Extremespeed serves as a great revenge killer as well as being able to hit weaker, quick mons like Salazzle for big damage. Arcanine also functions as a fantastic check to regular Decidueye with intimidate as well as access to Morning Sun and Curse. Arcanine can do massive damage with Flare Blitz and also serves as an excellent late game set up sweeper.

Zoroark serves as your main source of Special Damage. Its excellent speed tier means it can outrun any variant of Melo apart from Scarf and Night Daze is a great option in terms of both power and hax. The accuracy drop chance can come in massive handy for momentum and also puts dents in teams that aren't ready for it. It has amazing coverage in sludge bomb and grass knot, meaning that Mudsdale, Gastrodon and Rhydon all suffer at the hands of Zoroark when unprepared for it. It can also deal significant damage to fairy types and pivot reliably with U turn, meaning that even Wo Chien isn't a safe check. The main strength lies in Illusion. You can gain the upper hand by choosing a weak phys attacker as your last mon to trick the opponent into a false sense of security and hit for massive damage with specs.

Goodra serves as your special wall. Super strong and can easily build momentum with Acid Spray. Draco Meteor hits very hard and the coverage can be tweaked for your needs. This thing can even run Knock Off as well as Power Whip for Gastro. Gooey can come in clutch for revenging and is an excellent ability late game for slowing things down. I would also recommend adding tbolt for flamethrower if you're having problems playing around Cramorant.

Mudsdale is your physical wall as well as rocks setter. Consistent switch in to tons of mons in the tier. Walls Tauros F, tanks psyshocks, walls Ambipom, deals well with Rhydon etc. It can also deal a lot of damage with its high attack stat as well as stop sweeps in their tracks with roar. Overall it's incredibly versatile and covers tons of bases as well as stopping a ton of mons in their tracks!

Sandslash is great for walling key threats such as Meloetta, Braviary-H and Articuno Galar and Florges. Psychic Types hate this thing! It has access to Spikes which can apply tons of hazard pressure and Tera Ghost can stop people removing those hazards efficiently. It has very nice defensive typing as well as being able to deal decent damage with Ice Spinner and Iron Head. Overall, it's a utility mon for setting spikes but functions nicely as a check to special attackers.

Finally, Decidueye Hisui is your cleaner upper. The strength lies in Triple Arrows of course, which, when combined with the Hazard Stacking of Muds and Alolan Sandslash, means you chip away at fat mons and clean up nicely. This thing can 1v1 Bellibolt easily and outspeeds 95% of the tier. The only things to watch out for are Mudsdale, Salazzle and Ambipom who can all hurt it. However, with a well timed Tera and some guile, this thing is dangerous and extremely consistent at breaking teams down. Scrappy is also fantastic for avoiding intimidate.

Hope this finds some use! :)

 

[PorygonBG]

SS Torterra Webs


Here we have some webs HO with all the tools needed to abuse them. Torterra is best put on Sticky Web teams in my experience to make up for its low Speed, and with the recent tier shifts, I've found it extremely potent with support from Vikavolt. Thunder Wave is mainly to catch the Flying-types and Levitate mons that are unaffected by webs which makes it even easier for Torterra to sweep. Tera Ghost deters Rapid Spin and blocks priority from both Ambipom and Arcanine. Agility Pawmot provides extra breaking power and can handle opposing Torterras and other Grasses and Flying types with Ice Punch and Double Shock respectfully, G-Articuno deters Defog and is just broken in general, Mismagius blocks Rapid Spin and is faster than scarf variants of Bruxish and Tauros-PB and provides Memento support for the other sweepers. Lastly CB Arcanine provides additional breaking for Torterra and strong priority overall. A very straightforward team with multiple ways to just click buttons and dish out massive damage.

Rip :(

 

[asa]

Samples have been updated, a huge thank you to everyone that submitted teams this time around! Feel free to continue posting your teams, having more samples going into PUBD and our winter seasonal would be ideal, and PM me if you have any questions.

 

[tom holland]

I have been doing a ton of building lately between pubd and ssnl, so I figured I'd drop some more teams for those who yearn for sv pu teams. I'm also pushing my Lurantis agenda forward.


toxic toxt+arcanine
https://pokepast.es/4adbb32ecc6598b7
This team is super tom-coded, with lurantis removal, rhydon rocks and a scarf bruxish. The objective of the team is to position yourself to get toxtricity in, toxic on the switch, and usually the switch is also an arcanine answer. Therefore, the arcanine wins longterm bc the counter to it is toxic'ed. I used this in ssnl and a ton on the ladder to success, since I have used it publicly in a tour setting already here ya go. Go lurantis!r

custap glastrier BO
https://pokepast.es/3215f3e564b7541b
This team was built around custap glastrier because I really wanted to use glastrier. It is a goated mon, can guarantee at least a trade usually if not break the defensive core down. Lurantis is here yet again for reliable removal because i wanted ground resist and no rocks on my side for glastrier. Copper+Rhydon alleviates any guno concerns that may arise, and florges is florges. Very fun team, I also used this publicly in ssnl already so here, free team! Go Lurantis!

eject pack delphox+copycat florges
https://pokepast.es/93582f7ec155b2be
This team is FUN, basically florges gets copycat so I built a scarf copycat florges team that takes advantage of this fun fact. Eject pack overheat from delphox allows you to revenge kill something with it, switch to florges, and then copycat the overheat for the incoming steel type switch if that's their florges answer. There is also synergy with magician+eject pack, and slow volt switch+fast copycat for double pivoting. The rest of the team gives speed control and defensive core. I used this multiple times in ssnl so I am retiring the team here.
Anyways that's all i got for now the rest of my cooks i'm saving for tours.

 

[DD Joe]

Hi guys,

I made this team the other week and it feels pretty strong!

This is my Scrafty Balance.

https://pokepast.es/f04012fe7d89cca8

Reason I'm posting is because the team makes the most of some very standard mons in the meta right now so feels good for a sample build.



This team focuses on strong pivots in Belli (soaking up phys def, spreading para), Rotom H, (checking fairies, setting up on passives) and Bruxish (Speed Control) in order to set up either Rhydon (goat) or Scrafty for an endgame sweep.

Altaria works as hazard control and can wisp annoying phys attackers+defog has great synergy with Hurricane.

Give this team a try!

 

[yandaud]

Hello, I’d like to submit two of my teams. They have mons that deserve to be featured in the sample teams like Salazzle, Uxie, Hecid, Grimmsnarl.

Toxic and sub Grimmsnarl

https://pokepast.es/5577a13fef3c8448

Old team, I used it for the Scyther suspect test. It went through a lot of changes. I think it’s still good. Spam Toxic, stall with recoveries or Substitute Grimmsnarl. Guno is another win condition.

Teras : tera Dragon Palossand is useful for Fire types and gives it a Water resistance to make better use of Water Compaction. Tera Fairy Bellibolt can be useful when facing Zoroark, Hecid etc. Tera Steel Grimmsnarl gives a better matchup vs fairies, Guno.

Weezing Jolteon spikes

https://pokepast.es/181aa565ecabed51

Levitate mons fit well vs and with spikes imo. No need to run boots on them. Weezing is a nice physical wall that’s able to punish U-turn with Rocky Helmet. It has a good matchup vs most U-Turn users like Hecid, Bombirdier, Ambipom, Passimian. Psybeam is used to not give some poison types a free switch-in.

Spreads : Coalossal tanks two +2 Psyshock from Delphox. Copperajah Ohkoes Frosmoth with Heavy Slam even after it Teras to Ground.

Teras : tera Fairy Weezing handles Scrafty better. Tera Electric Uxie isn’t walled by Steel types. Tera Water Jolteon beats grounds as well as Rotom-Heat. Tera Ghost Flash Fire Coalossal spin blocks and completely walls some Fire types. Tera Water Copperajah gives it a good typing to fight some Quiver Dance users like Frosmoth, Oricorio.

Hf

 

[LOOR]

https://pokepast.es/36df4633d6ce2b46

 

[Phantomistix]

This team is broken and sun is broken. Also 4 of the 5 current samples autolose to this on preview lol

 

[Heatranator]

This is a HO team which I've made and has been doing well on ladder. Its built around double hazard prevention in order to allow otherwise rock weak pokemon to utilise much more powerful items.
Havalugg is the suicide lead of the team, with rock blast to beat cramorant and other havalugg leads, otherwise standard set.
Espeon is using a CM set with mirror herb, allowing it to beat other CM mons such as Florges a lot easier. Shadow ball is chosen in order to hit opposing psychics and alolaslash for good damage, with tera fairy draining kiss allowing for good recovery to allow espeon to get more boosts.
Focus sash salazzle is able to revenge kill anything, which is really nice against other HO teams (I saw a lot of sand during my laddering). I went with tera blast grass in order to hit rhydon and milotic extremely hard, but tera blast ground is also nice to hit dragalge and glowbro for good damage, its just up to personal preference on this team.
LO sneasel hits like a truck, with its hits doing insane damage at +2 (it does 70% min to max defense milotic, which most aren't going to be, but shows how much damage it does). Tera ice makes triple axel a nuke while boosting the power of ice shard.
Alcremie is here to be a devestating double dance sweeper. Only difference is kee berry to help it take physical hits better so it can click CM more often, though acid armor is still a really good move for it to beat opposing physical setup sweepers.
Finally, decidueye hisui is another breaker/cleaner of the team. Sucker punch can deal with glowbro, uxie, garticuno and dragalge that might otherwise wall it. Roseli berry can allow hecidueye to tank a moonblast from florges and deal massive damage back. Tera dark boosts the power of sucker punch to allow it to clean a lot easier while also letting hecidueye avoid psychic type moves easily.

 

[tom holland]

Hello here are some teams I used to get past 1500 so far in ladder tour with a decent gxe:


https://pokepast.es/20ecd17d5dc239a5
Specs Timid Dragalge
The idea is timid dragalge with these evs outspeed offensive rhydon and opposing dragalge, and the team pivots around and gets dragalge in who claims kills pretty easily once its in. Frosmoth is a decent temporary answer to Dragalge, which the rest of th team does not let in for free or pivots on it. Dragalge has a habit of nuking bulky grounds which is great for scarf tera pawmot. Arcanine still feels great in this meta btw.


https://pokepast.es/394091176d10d8bb
Offensive Mudsdale Paraspam
This one is fun and I climbed with it for a while despite the lack of a psychic resistance, due to the defensive teras i have. Anyways, I built it around glowbro and the team was weak to rotom-heat so i made mudsdale offensive so now it ohkos rotom-heat with stone edge. Paraspam feels really nice and setupsweepers really appreciate the status spread. Rotom-Frost is really nice when it hits blizzard, missing blizzard is why i finished my day 2 PULT climb with this next team.


https://pokepast.es/595b6311549937fb
CM Espeon Stack
I wanted to build with CM Espeon because I kept losing to it, so I started with that and added rapid spin+competitive milotic after that because I wanted to try it with spikestack since espeon answers hate entry hazards, milotic is nice momentum and easy defog punish, and sandslash is better right now imo with copper gone. Qwilfish-hisui is real with psychic types so strong right now, and poison point is better ability imo. Lastly, specs helectrode with terablast is a threat with entry hazards, even when stuff like goodra and dragalge exist since hazards put them on a timer. This team got me past 1500s so I recommend using this one.

That's it for now, I figured I should drop these since Love tour is happening soon.

:

 

[Django]

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Grassy Terrain
This is what I've been running in PULT reaching 1500+ before crashing out. This playstyle is extremely strong atm, with Hitmlonee and Graf outspeeding everything with Unburden, and given them one free turn to click Swords Dance and very little is holding them back. Oricorio steals games it has no right to, and stops regular counters to Grassy Terrain like Roar, Haze, Encore etc. Espeon is probably the most underwhelming part of this team and could easily be replaced - Drifblim, Hecid and others are likely viable options. Avalugg-H normally just trades well, gets Rocks, and prevents opposing rocks.

This can definitely be counterteamed - Dragon Tail Milotic, Dragalge in general, Mold Breaker Encore / T-Wave / Skitter Smack Tinkatuff (LOL), Rhydon and Mudsdale all give this a lot of issues. I've already seen mons run High Horsepower instead of Earthquake as well.

Have fun!

 

[asa]

Love is in the air, and I'd love nothing more than to post some cool, imperfect teams. These are mostly for PU Love Tour tomorrow, but getting teams up for a new meta is always good anyway.

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I will be adding these teams, as well as those posted above and those posted in council chat, to the OP. With PU Love Tour coming up and all of PU Ladder Tour, SSNL, and other tours with PU like FCL ongoing, we want players to have as many options as possible going into this new meta. Enjoy, and have fun

 

[Oofhixd]

Submitting this team to samples because sychillz told me to.

https://pokepast.es/ed50239c148e6992

I’m not gonna elaborate much since none of these mons are really out of the ordinary.

Just your standard HO lead havalugg set, weve all used this guy, nothing unique here. But for people who haven’t used it, havalugg is a fantastic HO lead due to access to both rapid spin and stealth rock whilst also having a fantastic defense and a great attack stat.

Oh hey this new kid is actually p good. Good speed tier + fantastic Spatk makes this a great mon on HO (avoice is interchangeable w/ dkiss). Good breaker and can wreck unprepared teams.

Typical scarf Pawmot.

main special breaker alongside espeon.

main physical breaker alongside pawmot.

bulky special breaker.

 

[DD Joe]

Double Trick Specs Hoopa Balance

https://pokepast.es/59952416f350bcae



Hi guys, having just qualified for ladder tour I thought I'd drop a sample.

This is a team I made for breaking the absurd core of Glowbro-Milotic by abusing Hoopa's breaking power and ability to trick away its choice item.

Glowbro functions as a general wall and nuisance, soaking up pressure from Bellibolt, Helec and other special attacking pivots.

Hoopa is a terrifying special attacker which doesn't have too many consistent switch ins right now. Skuntank cannot wall this thing on its own for long and with trick and tera fighting, you can ohko with tera blast. This thing blows through Milotic and Glowbro and is for those reasons an excellent meta pick right now.

Milotic does Milo things. It phases, pivots and serves a crucial densive purpose.

This Zoroark is a bit special, it is inspired by my ex teammate Xiri as ultra fast knock offs whilst pretending to be a slow, bulky mon can get you a lot of a mileage. This and Roark can pass off his scarf to cripple fat.

Rhydon is the third piece of the defensive core and simply chips everything and gets your rocks up. It also has megahorn as a sneaky Wo Chien counter.

Finally, Hecid is your primary defogger and has surprisingly good bulk. It can harass Milotic and pivot easily on the fighting resistant mons who want to free switch on it.

 

[DD Joe]

Hello,

Thought I'd just chuck another in the ring cause it's actually a really fun team.

Sawsbuck Sun Team



https://pokepast.es/970780b53440c980

This started from randomly theorycrafting on Sawsbuck and I realised that it actually has a very deep movepool, good attack and okay bulk.

Sawsbuck can run a multitude of moves, megahorn for Wochien, Horn Leech for recovery, Double Edge for huge STAB damage, Play Rough for nice fairy spam, even the very niche Smart Strike for Fairy Types.

The team essentially revolves around spamming the two very strong life orb users in Venu and Sawsbuck and cleaning with Typh.

The team also has a very bulky espeon set which can sit on most rockers!

 

[Heatranator]

Here to submit two sample teams.


This one is a bit old, but when I tested it out recently, it still works very well. CM hyploshion is genuinelly broken, especially with infernal parade being extremely spammable due to the burn chance helping it wallbreak later on, with something like milotic not like +1 double power infernal parade. Protect allows hyploshion to not only scout out opposing teras, but also rack up status chip and scout what move a choice scarf user wil lock itself into. An overall really great move on it.
I don't remember what benchmark the milo evs are for (I think I took them from the old RU milo set), but mixed defense milo is legit busted with its ability to sponge physical and special hits. Dragon tail allows milo to phaze out setup sweepers while racking up hazard chip and ice beam can hit altaria for large damage.
Skuntank just spreads a lot of passive damage, not much more to be said.
Rhydon is rhydon, it sets up rocks, takes hits and dishes them out.
Altaria I think is hella legit in this meta with some milos going alluring voice over ice beam and haze over dragon tail of which altaria sits on for days. Standard set, not much more to be said, altaria helps keeps hazards off for the team.
Finally, pawmot is the cleaner of the team and can do pretty well with the constant chip this team throws around. Standard set.


This team is a bit weird (like for example, having no volt blocker), but I do still think it works pretty well if played offensively enough.
Arcanine is still amazing, stop using curse sets you are never sweeping in this meta. Wild charge can hit both cram and milo for big damage (cram straight up dies and milo is 2hit ko'd), while tera fighting CC can do similar things against milo, OHKO'ing coalossal and dealing massive damage to rhydon. I did experiment with other options such as morning sun and even facade, so the last slot is def flexible.
Milotic's defense investment allows it to survive 2 tauros paldea CC's from full always. Haze+alluring voice means setup sweepers are never winning against this set.
Hecidueye is the hazard removal of the team and while it can be somewhat unreliable against guno teams, those can usually be dealt with via smart switching. Standard set.
Bombirdier HP investment is to always survive a LO espeon alluring voice from full, which might not come up often, but is a nice little benchmark to hit. Speed invest is to always outspeed max speed emboar, frosmoth and haviary. Bombirdier can get up rocks and generally keep them up, while keeping itself healthy with roost.
Espeon is the other breaker of the team, with LO boosted hits doing a lot of damage.Tera fairy draining kiss also gives it a nice bit of recovery to keep itself healthy.
Finally, rotom heat gives some more defensive backbone while also acting as a setup sweeper. Just a standard set.