Merry Christmas risin_glory and here's your team:
The prompt he gave was a Croconaw with either DD or SD, which was a pretty cool idea and I got to approach it in a couple of different ways. I initially thought of SD Torrent Jet wincons, but that felt really inconsistent into all the potentially grasses and waters and it was very difficult to set up winning positions. DD worked pretty well as an immediate breaker and sweeper with Tera. DD would never sweep between Croc's low speed and susceptibility to hazards, so pairing it with multiple sweepers with the gameplan of overwhelming physical checks was my angle.
Lynchpin of the team, with evio and monowater Croc was pretty bulky for a DDer and had solid power with sheer force. Liquidation for stab, Ice punch is important coverage for grasses like Flapple and Leaf, and I chose Trailblaze over Tera blast because I would often need to Tera other Pokemon and having the grass move always available allowed me to push through waters in a pinch. I unfortunately needed to run Jolly, but the benchmark allowed me to outrun scarf ndd and Golduck at +2.
A good way to set the pace and Inherent speed control if I chose to keep it around, Dugtrio clicked rocks, softened up walls like gabite with eq, and clicked memento. Pretty straightforward stuff on these offenses. Losing the tie to opposing dugtrio offense t1 really blew ass tho.
Very solid speed tier and good coverage made this a solid early game wall breaker to force progress. I opted for Tera normal to push through with a huge double edge, but in retrospect Tera water or steel would be better for general typing and sneasel resist. A grass type gave me a lot of important resists to eq, grasses, elecs, and waters as well.
Felt pretty lacking on this team, and maybe in retrospect a set of SD twave gunk eq with speed for sneasel after twave would have better better, but I wanted knock to pressure potential misdreavus, although twave does that just fine. Regardless, this was an important midgame pivot thanks to it's typing and great bulk and knock resist.
Speed control with good utility options like hwish and trick made this a really easy fit on offense. Pretty straight forward although the ability to block prio was surprisingly relevant.
Krab rounded this out with some solid resists and a broken ability to destroy fatter teams. This was initially salac, which worked surprisingly well, but rock blast accuracy and ability to flip webs matchup (which was obnoxiously common) was really appreciated. Either set would work though and I think the team is arguably better with salac klawf and just fishing webs.
ZU secret Santa is probably my favorite secret Santa ran on this website. Hope you like the team, and happy holidays bro
(Sorry I'm late my builder got wiped lol)
The prompt he gave was a Croconaw with either DD or SD, which was a pretty cool idea and I got to approach it in a couple of different ways. I initially thought of SD Torrent Jet wincons, but that felt really inconsistent into all the potentially grasses and waters and it was very difficult to set up winning positions. DD worked pretty well as an immediate breaker and sweeper with Tera. DD would never sweep between Croc's low speed and susceptibility to hazards, so pairing it with multiple sweepers with the gameplan of overwhelming physical checks was my angle.
Lynchpin of the team, with evio and monowater Croc was pretty bulky for a DDer and had solid power with sheer force. Liquidation for stab, Ice punch is important coverage for grasses like Flapple and Leaf, and I chose Trailblaze over Tera blast because I would often need to Tera other Pokemon and having the grass move always available allowed me to push through waters in a pinch. I unfortunately needed to run Jolly, but the benchmark allowed me to outrun scarf ndd and Golduck at +2.
A good way to set the pace and Inherent speed control if I chose to keep it around, Dugtrio clicked rocks, softened up walls like gabite with eq, and clicked memento. Pretty straightforward stuff on these offenses. Losing the tie to opposing dugtrio offense t1 really blew ass tho.
Very solid speed tier and good coverage made this a solid early game wall breaker to force progress. I opted for Tera normal to push through with a huge double edge, but in retrospect Tera water or steel would be better for general typing and sneasel resist. A grass type gave me a lot of important resists to eq, grasses, elecs, and waters as well.
Felt pretty lacking on this team, and maybe in retrospect a set of SD twave gunk eq with speed for sneasel after twave would have better better, but I wanted knock to pressure potential misdreavus, although twave does that just fine. Regardless, this was an important midgame pivot thanks to it's typing and great bulk and knock resist.
Speed control with good utility options like hwish and trick made this a really easy fit on offense. Pretty straight forward although the ability to block prio was surprisingly relevant.
Krab rounded this out with some solid resists and a broken ability to destroy fatter teams. This was initially salac, which worked surprisingly well, but rock blast accuracy and ability to flip webs matchup (which was obnoxiously common) was really appreciated. Either set would work though and I think the team is arguably better with salac klawf and just fishing webs.
ZU secret Santa is probably my favorite secret Santa ran on this website. Hope you like the team, and happy holidays bro
(Sorry I'm late my builder got wiped lol)
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I had the pleasure of building for 
needed speed control and a pivot to ensure my team doesn’t sink momentum in disadvantageous matchups.I went with an AOA attacking set to make use of its offensive potential, and went with static to deter contact moves. Tera Fighting empowered Focus Blast.
I went with Klawf next, as I needed a stealth rock setter, and to form a regenerator core. 96 Speed EVs ensured it outsped non-jolly cacturne. Having a second knock off user was also helpful, and having Edgequake coverage made it a neat offensive tank.
Not a common pick at all, but the defensive phazing sets work quite well, especially since most phazers struggled with longevity. An even better status absorber, haka brings a lot of defensive utility with bulletproof, typing, and nice defensive stats. The potential to drag in a swalot to future sight is exciting to think about it.
is very useful to avoid getting para by common mons such as 
. This mon is able to deal massive damage, and overwhelm physical walls. Moreover, it has great defensive synergy with 
+ 
. After searching for a check that wouldn't be passive af, I decided on using 
. Not much to explain here tbh, Tera Fairy is a generic defensive typing in case of an emergency.
and 
. That's why I gave it a 
is a great fit for this. It's typing means it covers well the 2 rock types's weaknesses. Grassy terrain means earthquake won't hurt them too hard, and they can regen a bit of health, which can be very useful. Moreover, it adds a layer to the "I'm going to break physically defensive mons" that the rest of the team will appreciate.
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