Attention gentlemen and the 3 women playing pokemon.
Tired of losing to Gliscor stall?
Do you suffer embarrassing defeats to hyper offense?
Are you sufffering from a brain tumor and somehow still lost to Zamzenta recently?
Tired of seeing Gliscor on the goddamn field of play?
Suffering from erectile dysfunction?
Well, I have the Cure for you!
Dr. Garg
Dr. Garg (Garganacl) @ Leftovers
Ability: Purifying Salt
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 52 Def / 204 SpD
Careful Nature
- Salt Cure
- Stealth Rock
- Protect
- Recover
Dr. Garg is noted by patients as being humorless and intimidating. However, his serious demeanor is a just a reflection of how intensely he takes care of each and every one of his patients. Dr Garg spent many sleepless nights tinkering in the lab, doing overtime researching a cure to treat all of his patient’s ailments. He was never able to get a good night’s rest knowing that while he relaxed someone was in pain anyway. He vowed to make sure they would never have to be in pain again.
Finally, Dr. Garg stumbled across a method capable of curing all of his patients for good. The Salt Cure. The Salt Cure is an innovative technique using the Canadian healthcare approach to depression treatment and Veteran healthcare, Death! The Salt Cure is guaranteed to put the afflicted patient of their misery in 16 turns or less!
The forefront expert of MAID, it is recommended to keep Dr. Garg as long as possible on the field spreading the cure to your opponents pokemon. Protect and recover keep the doctor safe as the patients lash out in fits of insanity. This team is built around supporting the doctor so he can stay in as long as possible to cure as many pokemon as possible. When the doctor is in there is very little that can be done to stop his cures.
Using the tera fairy in most games, Dr. Garg can greatly expand the pokemon he can cure. Fairy types are forced out by very little currently. Dr. Garg can also keep up stealth rocks against great tusk, iron treads, corviknight and others. The EV spread is calculated to live a +2 tera water ivy cudgel from the virus known as ogerpon. Salt cure and protect allow the doctor to take on the virus quite well.
Salt curing dragonite and raging bolt before either are capable of getting +a billion is a highly recommended course of treatment.
Nurse
Nurse (Weezing-Galar) (F) @ Black Sludge
Ability: Neutralizing Gas
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Will-O-Wisp
- Strange Steam
- Defog
- Pain Split
Nurse is Dr.Garg’s the coworker who has been around the doctor the longest and his most trusted teammate. She always admired the doctor’s relentless commitment his patients. Whenever Dr. Garg passed out at 4 am at the lab looking over data sheets, she was there to put a blanket over him.
Nurse works in perfect synergy with Dr.Garg to make his cures more effective. The few pokemon capable of resisting Dr. Garg’s cures include the variant of cancer known as gliscor and regenerative cancer clumps. The nurse neutralizes these threats by deactivating the cancer’s regenerative abilities including toxapex, slowking galar, and hydrapple.
Sometimes the order of the natural world sends a horribly malformed individual attempting to stall the doctor’s curing efforts. Unfortunately, being a stall player is a terminal illness and the only known cure is DEATH. Nurse can painlessly and quickly administer this relief to the suffering, insane individual by removing the cancer of gliscor from the team. Nurse puts the insane, cancer ridden individual who believes that toxic waste is beneficial to consume rather than deadly out of their delusions by administering neutralizing gas which makes the unfortunate soul slowly put out of their misery by their own toxic.
Nurse combats misinformative, scam Eastern medicine from halting Dr. Garg’s work. When Hisuian Samurott or Ting Lu come on the field and start throwing around rhino horns and elephant tusks claiming they cure Lou Gehrig’s disease, Nurse swiftly removes the spiky objects with a defog.
Nurse is all around fantastic and an underappreciated member of the team. Nurse can remove hazards on gholdnego. Burn and fog on Lu and Hammurott. Burn opposing Garganacl’s showing them who the real doctor is.
Maximum defense is appreciated to better take on supereffective hits and burn the offender such as kingambit, roaring moon, and ting lu. Black Sludge is chosen to ruin trick pokemon and Nurse essentially never needs the tera.
Plague Doctor
Plague Doctor (Corviknight) (M) @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Pressure
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
- Brave Bird
- Body Press
- Roost
- Iron Defense
With the rise of the antivax movement, diseases thought to be extinct since the middle ages are making a comeback. The modern medical establishment is at a loss of how to combat these epidemics, even Dr. Garg himself is at a loss. So the doctor reached out and recruited a specialist.
The Plague Doctor soothes his patients with a soft warm voice, to put them at ease after being unsettled by his traditional mask. A quiet, pious, devout Catholic, Plague Doctor says a prayer before every treatment, believing that the Lord will give him strength to make his patients better.
The dancing disease epidemic is a particular disease very threatening to the current OU population, and Dr. Garg and Nurse are unequipped to handle it by themselves. Luckily Plague Doctor knows the perfect method to treat the disease. When Kingambit, roaring moon, certain dragonite’s begin busting moves and getting stronger, the Plague Doctor knows the perfect method to halt the disease.
Plague Doctor injects 50cc’s of iron defense and begins slamming his body against the afflicted individual hoping to make them bleed and cough up blood to balance their humors. While it might seem “barbaric” and “old-fashioned” Plague Doctor boasts a 99% success rate in treating the dancing disease while only resulting in a risky but reasonable 99% mortality rate.
Plague Doctor is maximum defense to handle the dancing disease better. Rocky helmet is preferred, especially important against the breakdancer kingambit. Brave bird takes tare of the ever increasing tera ghost epidemic, Plague Doctor also moonlights as an exorcist for his side hustle.
Specialist
Specialist (Dragapult) (M) @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Infiltrator
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Will-O-Wisp
- Dragon Darts
- Hex
- U-turn
When things get a bit dicey sometimes Dr. Garg has to call his good buddy the Specialist.
Considered frothingly insane by most. Muttering curses directed at everybody and everything under his breath. Specialist is not liked by many people. However, Dr. Garg sees through him. Specialist gets the jobs done that no one else wants to do. When Specialist was laughing maniacally at a burning village of orphans that he set fire to, Dr. Garg put his hand on his shoulder. Dr. Garg knew that it was a coping mechanism to get through his taxing but extremely important job. After all if Specialist wasn’t there to quarantine and immolate those orphans, then the Chicken Pox could have spread to other towns! It had to be done.
Specialist is a pokemon to bring out when the doctor is struggling to make progress or when there is a threat on the field that only the specialist can take care of. Specialist is also a tool to use to block rapid spin and keep up hazards when the time is right.
Specialist can quickly administer euthanasia to teams especially after Dr. Garg has gone through and done a lot of chip.
The will-o-wisp hex dragon darts uturn set is notably tough to deal with for many teams. Burning would be checks, making them take residual damage then uturning on them to wear them down. Casting his hexes for huge damage or going for the dragon darts depending on the opponent. The greatest hurdle for Specialist would be opposing garganacl’s however, nurse makes those not too big of an issue.
Max attack tera dragon is preferred to do more damage to the checks to Specialist. Such as the Eastern wizard Ting Lu.
Trudeau-king
Trudeau-king (Slowking-Galar) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 248 HP / 84 SpA / 176 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Future Sight
- Sludge Bomb
- Flamethrower
- Psychic Noise
Of course, Dr. Garg’s innovations in the field of medicine would be for naught under a regressive regime where MAID is banned. Trudeau-king comes in to fund Dr. Garg’s research and healing efforts.
Trudeau-king is the team’s answer to many special disease variants. When tera’d glowking can handle the threat to this team that is np dual stab recover gholdengo, a billionaire working tirelessly to end the team’s efforts of curing diseases for good, because he makes millions of dollars from treating patients with SSRI’s rather than killing them. A horrifying individual. Trudeau-king is unrealiable but the answer to raging bolt with the doctor’s cure doing damage to it while Trudeau-king stalls.
This team originally had boots Trudeau-king but the assault vest put the team of medical professionals over the edge and acknowledged as the best in the world, because without the vest, Iron Moth easily burns down the hospital and gholdnego shuts the team down and continues his for profit healthcare activities. This could not stand, so Trudeau-king gave a psychic speech calling Iron Moth a Nazi and froze and repossessed gholdengo’s assets.
Trudeau-king provides great value having regenerator on a bulkier team. Trudeau-king handles special kyurems very well. His ability to destroy things in the future is a great boon combined with the doctor’s salt cure, the specialist’s attacks, or the Acupuncturist’s attacks. Sludge bomb flamethrower is fantastic coverage that can punish a switch with a poison or a super effective hit on gambit or gholdnego.
EV's are to live 2 raging bolt attacks while doing good damage to gholdengo
+1 252+ SpA Protosynthesis Raging Bolt Thunderbolt vs. 252 HP / 174+ SpD Assault Vest Slowking-Galar: 157-186 (39.8 - 47.2%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
84 SpA Slowking-Galar Flamethrower vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Gholdengo: 166-196 (43.9 - 51.8%) -- 69.5% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
Acupuncturist
Acupuncturist (Samurott-Hisui) (F) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Sharpness
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Ceaseless Edge
- Razor Shell
- Flip Turn
- Knock Off
Acupuncturist is an authoritative, caring individual. Some patients are put at ease knowing that their Acupuncturist knows what they are doing and is doing everything she can to do it right, others are put off calling her bossy.
Many Eastern medicine practitioners are written off by Dr. Garg and the medical establishment as snake oil selling scammers. However, acupressure techniques have studies proving their efficacy. Dr. Garg calls her one of the good ones.
Acupuncturist can come in on resisted attacks and administer her needles to patients that need treatment. Particularly effective against gholdengo whose affluenza is swiftly cured with a pressure needle directly applied to the cerebral cortex. Great Tusk suffers from extreme delusions of grandeur, even calling himself Great, he believes he is so Great that he is a switchin to her. Apply a large razor needle directly above the eye socket and hammer it in to cure the pokemon of its fits of hallucinations.
The spikes can be invaluable to get up with a spinblocker in Specialist and Dr.Garg who easily takes advantage of defoggers. Her moves are chosen to do as much damage as possible and wear down checks like corv and skarm over time by flipping into Specialist who forces those pokemon out. Currently, Acupuncturist is the supreme spiker, I am seeing too many hatterene’s and teams well equipped for ting lu.
Her stylish scarf gives her a better speed tier, giving her more opportunities to use her needles. It comes at very little cost, she wants to come in do one or two things then leave almost every time.
Threats
Gholdengo- the billionaire can wear down Trudeau-king and eventually punch through with a tera fairy to render Acupuncturist feckless against him. Possibly look into saving tera for Trudeau-king if able and it should be fine.
Sub Cmer’s- without sub they have to deal with salt cure and a poison from Trudeau-king sludge bomb. With it they are safe from both. It entirely depends on the situation. Many times I go Trudeau-king and wear it down, then Plague doctor comes out and finishes the pokemon off as it outspeeds primirana and hattrene. Covert Cloak- in general this is a very tough matchup. Luckily it is very rare. Dr. Garg becomes a passive wall in these games rather than the star of the show so rely on Acupuncturist and Specialist to make progress.
Raging Bolt- Salt cure with Dr. Garg first then sack and play around as needed. The team should be able to handle ho well enough even missing a few.
Fast glasses kingambit- if it is last mon and you have preserved nurse’s hp, nurse ignores supreme overlord so can take a hit and will o wisp it.
Sun- absolutely must tera Trudeau-kingReplays:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2313903295?p2 average game
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2313423215?p2 solid game
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2313444681?p2 vs sun
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2313423215?p2 vs hoopa u
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2314779565-5lqprrem2p793ekqa6h9uaf1evgf07wpw?p2 vs ho
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2308027273-go9jna6oivswsp2bmqrli41ytgbvojxpw?p2 nah I'd garg vs sun
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2309391012?p2 easy win vs the best stall player
The team: https://pokepast.es/eda49bfc83546822
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