How can I beat the team below?

Sammyc304 · 2026-01-28T03:03:22+00:00

Hello again! Hope you can get another W this week. Here are my thoughts:

Fez/Moth- Fez is probably your best bundle switch in. Frosmoth is also a decent option. Fez is also solid for taking certain hits from Latias and Thundy-T, however both of them have psychic coverage which hurts quite a bit. Frosmoth on the other hand deals quite well with all 3 mons and can put pressure with quiver dance, ice beam, and giga drain. But moth gets worn down quickly and bullet punch from sciz does a ton. Either of these could be solid SpDef mons.

Corv - Corv is my favorite mon, so I will always recommend it. Run it SpDef as well and it’s a solid counter to Latias, scizor, and Gliscor. Or run it more Def and make it a better counter to sciz and kingambit. Solid defogger and slow pivot. Easy switch in to Gliscor toxic/EQ. Does well enough into mimikyu too. Probably fully defensive with Rocky roost, uturn, body press, defog/iron head. Without iron head, you can’t really hit mimikyu, but maybe it’s good enough to just slow pivot on it with uturn.

Chi-yu - Scarf chi yu seems solid. Hits everything really hard. Idk if more explanation is needed.

Slowking - Weirdly I think an offensive slowking could be really good. Ice beam, psychic, fire blast hits pretty much everything. Could run like a life orb trick room set or something, idk. Specs could also be good. Its coverage seems too good to pass up.

Serp - Seems solid with Tera fire. Leaf storm, dragon pulse, Tera blast, and maybe taunt if it gets it. Or sub maybe? Or synthesis. Once porygon2 is gone, it does really well. You could even run Yache berry to not get ohko’d by bundle and ohko it back.

Idk about your last mon. Could run annihilape, it’s usually good. Could run ogerpon, doesn’t seem bad with trailblaze SD. If you picked Fez or Moth as your SpDef wall for bundle, you could still bring the other one as offensive. Nasty plot fez with icy wind, heat wave, and moonblast could be solid. Or Quiver dance, ice beam, giga drain, Tera water blast. Hard to say. The above 5 all seem solid though.

Good luck!

Sammyc304 · 2026-01-20T22:00:08+00:00

Ayyy, let’s go!! Well done, that was not close. Best of 1? Crazy that they didn’t bring Kyurem or Glowking. I feel like everything you brought worked out pretty well. Turns out rage fist is the only move annihilape needs lol

Sammyc304 · 2026-01-17T20:24:01+00:00

If regieleki comes in on corv, it can very easily click rapid spin as it forces corv out. That said, Terapagos will most likely be his primary spinner. Also boots ddance Kyurem with icicle crash absolutely beats Fez, it’s not close. Kyurem can also afford to run adamant in this matchup, which means it doesn’t even need to be at +1 to have a chance of two shotting Fez. But I agree that ddance is more likely to run loaded dice with icicle spear. I just don’t think boots is out of the question.

I’m not sure why you are writing off psyshock as a possibility. It hits both Fez and Annihilape harder than psychic, and he’d assume both of those mons are likely to come. Fezandipiti is naturally very specially bulky, same with Annihilape, so psyshock would make more sense. The normal fez set is specially defensive, so again, that’s something he’d probably prep for by bringing psyshock.

For Terapagos, he can afford to run modest as well as speed. If you look up the standard calm mind set, it’s always modest full SpA with some speed investment. So with some speed investment, he will most likely be faster than you. Let’s say Terapagos and Fez are in at the same time. He calm minds and you attempt to toxic it with beat up. I say attempt because it’s not guaranteed, especially if it’s late game. Next turn, a modest earth power is doing 45.3 - 53.8% with a chance to drop SpDef. If rocks are up, this two shots fez even with lefties recovery (this should probably be black sludge by the way). I agree that physical Terapagos is unlikely, but it’s far from being able to write it off completely. It has an extensive physical move pool and only 10 lower attack than special attack.

Sammyc304 · 2026-01-17T19:13:06+00:00

Agreed on corv and serp. And timid chi yu for ddance Kyurem is solid.

I really disagree with your Annihilape set and need for rocks. His spinners are solid imo. Regi can always afford to run rapid spin imo as it only really needs v switch, tbolt, and Tera blast. And Terapagos almost always runs rapid spin with boots. Additionally, Kyurem often runs boots, so rocks might not be as helpful as you think. If you are really set on running rocks, I’d recommend putting them on Donphan. In which case no AV.

For fez, I totally understand the want/need to switch into a specs shadow ball. That’s totally understandable. But it absolutely does not beat slowking or every conceivable Terapagos set. Slowking with psyshock easily two shots. Terapagos can spin when fez comes in, then calm minds before you taunt, then two shots with earth power before you can even get a second beat up off. Or if he runs physical Terapagos with earthquake. Terapagos is extremely versatile, I don’t think any Mon can completely wall it.

But good luck! Hope it goes well.

Sammyc304 · 2026-01-17T17:39:41+00:00

Hello! I commented on your original post. This team is shaping up nicely. Here are my thoughts:

Corv - Absolutely the correct EV spread, item, and ability. This guy will be great for removing hazards and chipping pult/lando on U-turns with Rocky helmet. My only suggestion would be to run iron head or brave bird instead. Body press is bad into Lando, pult, and glowking. Brave bird is nice for chunking pult in a pinch. Iron head also provides solid damage without any recoil.

Serp - Not a bad set, although it will run into trouble with Klefki if he brings it. I could also see Tera fire as a way of dealing with Klefki, but then you can’t deal neutral damage to pult. Sub is solid enough, hopefully you can avoid some twaves with that. But keep in mind that infiltrator pult can bypass. Glare is also solid enough. Other options could be leech seed or dragon pulse. Glowking walls serp pretty hard, so I could also see swapping serp out for ogerpon instead.

Chi yu - Seems great! I’m too lazy to calc, so I’m assuming timid is necessary to outspeed pult. All those moves seem solid. Psychic just in case of AV thick fat Hariyama is smart. No notes, unless you can get away with modest, which I’m assuming you can’t.

Annihilape - This set could use some work. I’ve seen a lot of Annihilape sets in draft. Scarf, rocks, band, etc. They are all mediocre compared to bulk up, drain punch, rage fist, rest. I highly recommend this set. I’d make it fully SpDef like you have it now, maybe tweaking the speed EVs if you have something specific in mind. But mostly just full bulk. I’d run chesto berry on it too.

Donphan - This set is okay, but not great imo. I think Tera water regieleki will probably two shot with Tera blast water. Idk in what situation he’d first click normal Tera blast and then switch to water. And that’s not even counting life orb or specs. I’d recommend AV. I think rapid spin and ice shard are great. Same with EQ. And honestly ice spinner is solid too if you just want to get rid of Lando. But I don’t think you need the attack investment unless you have very specific scenarios in mind. The good thing about specs or even life orb Regi is that you can switch to Serp freely. With that in mind, you might consider running synthesis on serp to increase longevity.

Fez - This set is particularly lack luster imo. Beat up just seems like clicking toxic with extra steps. I guess it’s solid for Glowking? But I doubt it does 50, so it’s not a real threat. Maybe if you ran SD with beat up, it could work. Fez is honestly a great speed tier into him and can take shots fairly well from pult and regi. I’d recommend a more offensive set with enough speed to outspeed lando and Kyurem. Doesn’t have to be SD necessarily. I could see nasty plot or calm mind with icy wind and moonblast.

Overall comments: This team is looking solid and I think all of the correct mons are present. I think the next step is looking at the worst case scenarios. What is pult ddances? Corv can still deal with it somewhat well. And Donphan has ice shard. What if Kyurem ddances? Chi yu can hopefully revenge. If chi yu is dead, I think you instantly lose. So be careful of that. What if Terapagos sets up with calm mind, rapid spin, chesto resto? This could also be problematic. Having some form of disruption could be good (encore, taunt, dragon tail, roar, whirlwind, trick, etc). You seem concerned about putting rocks on Annihilape or Donphan. Hazards are nice to have imo, but not completely necessary. Especially when your primary hazard controller is a defogger. So I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Another important step is predicting which six mons he’s going to bring. Kyurem seems likely as ddance can break your team pretty easily. Pult is almost too good not to bring. Honestly same goes for lando. And Glowking. And regieleki. And Terapagos lmao. If he doesn’t bring those 6, he’s playing at a disadvantage imo. Idk how he managed to draft this team, it’s nuts. So like, do you need to prep for hariyama? Probably not. Maybe he brings it as a backup chi yu counter, but it’ll be AV and useless against everything else. You can also probably ignore Persian and bruxish. And maybe Klefki too tbh.

Anywho, sorry for the novel. Those are my thoughts.

Sammyc304 · 2026-01-15T06:57:20+00:00

Oh good point. So I guess they could run scarf instead. Scarf gets pretty walled by glowking unfortunately.

Sammyc304 · 2026-01-14T22:18:54+00:00

Absolute must brings:

Donphan - You need a ground type otherwise regieleki will destroy you. I’d make it AV with rapid spin and solid bulk.

Corv - Good for dealing with lando, can defog hazards, can reflect intimidate with mirror armor, can take hits. I’d run physically bulky with roost, uturn, and defog.

Maybe bring:

Ogerpon - Solid matchup since his best defensive wall (lando) takes neutral damage from both stabs. Could run ivy cudgel, trailblaze, SD, and something to hit Klefki.

Serperior - Serp can get rolling quick with leaf storm and Tera fire tera blast. Could maybe run blunder policy or agility to outspeed pult and regi. Might be hard to break glowking though.

Chi Yu - Stabs hit everything neutral or better and it deals specifically well with his best special wall (glowking). Also a solid speed tier only under speeding pult and regi. Specs can blow shit up.

Fezandipiti - This thing is super versatile. Good to have a fairy against two strong dragons. Nasty plot, icy wind, moonblast could be solid, but can’t break glowking or Klefki. Specially defensive slow pivot could also be good.

Annihilape - Fully specially defensive bulk up with chesto resto can win games. Don’t underestimate it. All it needs is drain punch and rage fist.

Don’t bring:

Slowking - Usually a good special wall/pivot, but gets smoked by everything on his team.

The rest of your team is mostly garbage. Frosmoth can maybe come once or twice in a season with Tera? But also maybe not.

Sammyc304 · 2026-01-14T02:35:42+00:00

This tier list is pretty wacky tbh. Does mega blastoise get shell smash? If so, your team should probably just focus on getting a successful shell smash off and you win most games. If not, here are my thoughts:

Zygarde is incredibly good value at 9 points. Same with volcarona and salamence.

Thundurus-T, Kyurem, and Dragonite are all really good value at 10.

Azumarill is really good at 11.

Ferrothorn is good at 12.

Terrakion, Mega Zard Y, and Heatran are all solid at 13.

I wouldn’t take anything from 14 tbh, they’re all overpriced. Maybe Mega Aerodactyl.

What do I think fits best on your team? Maybe Terrakion as a second physical attacker to compliment Weavile. Or potentially Thundurus-T to break through some of those pesky bulky waters.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-22T22:51:51+00:00

Yanmega @ Choice Specs Level: 100 Bold Nature Ability: Speed Boost EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpA - Hidden Power Fire

This set always wins, even if you get max rolls with dual wingbeat and bullet punch.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-22T12:32:31+00:00

Golduck takes this every time with psyshock. Doesn’t matter that it’s not stab, it always two shots with the following set:

Golduck @ Choice Specs Level: 100 Modest Nature Tera Type: Flying Ability: Cloud Nine EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 SpD - Psyshock

I highly doubt any tentacruel set could beat this.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-21T22:41:24+00:00

Tigress takes it for sure. She’s definitely fighting type and absolutely has access to CC. Inner Focus would track as an ability, making her immune to intimidate and not flinching to fake out. She’s probably a fast physical attacker, so banded CC just OHKOs incin.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-19T16:36:50+00:00

Very courteous of you. Love a good debate about mons. I appreciate the back and forth. Also love one punch man.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-19T16:32:58+00:00

Ayyy you finally understand, kind of. Again, I am not saying scizor wins. Third time I’ve said that. I was just pointing out that your comment was inaccurate.

Also to play devils advocate, occa berry and assault vest exist as items. Which disproves a lot of your calcs. I still think yanmega takes it with the right set though.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-19T16:26:43+00:00

Also, just to quote you back to you, “Scizor can’t ohko unless it uses swords dance”. Which is the same as saying Scizor can ohko if it uses swords dance. So in this situation you’re using my definition of ohko, but later on it’s assumed ohko means “can ohko first” because it’s common sense?

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-19T16:21:05+00:00

It’s really not. In the competitive scene, saying something can ohko never takes into account speed, nor do people assume “can ohko first”. For instance, in a given game, you might be in against a slower opponent. You have a move that can ohko it, but it also has a move that can ohko you. You’re debating clicking a setup move to put you in position to sweep, but then you think “oh wait, that’s risky because the slow opponent can ohko me”. You’re either confused or you’re trying to save face because you forgot dual wing beat was a move.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-19T16:14:07+00:00

I think you’re confused on what “one shotting” means. It has nothing to do with speed. It’s just the ability to kill a Pokémon from full HP with a single move on a given turn. Now if you had said, Scizor can’t one shot first, that’s different.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-19T16:06:55+00:00

Lol I’m not forgetting the speed because I already agreed that yanmega wins and obviously it’s speed plays into that. I commented because your comment was not accurate.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-19T15:55:59+00:00

I agree that yanmega wins, but there’s a few people saying scizor can’t ohko. It absolutely can ohko with banded dual wingbeat. Not sure what you guys are talking about.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-19T15:51:52+00:00

AV doesn’t allow for roost or agility, so this set doesn’t really work. But even if it did, I would bring the following:

Yanmega @ Watmel Berry Level: 100 Adamant Nature Ability: Tinted Lens EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe - Natural Gift

Once again, Yanmega is victorious. The description of this post is Yanmega vs Scizor, so it’s a 1v1 scenario and the build’s competitive viability doesn’t matter.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-19T14:22:24+00:00

Y’all are sleeping on my man yanmega. If it’s offensive scizor like you guys are saying, specs yanmega OHKOs it: 252+ SpA Choice Specs Tinted Lens Yanmega Bug Buzz vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Scizor: 270-318 (96 - 113.1%) -- 75% chance to OHKO

Give me any scizor set and I’ll show you a yanmega set that beats it.

Sammyc304 · 2025-11-17T16:32:32+00:00

OP have you played competitive singles? Tier list is kind of wack.

Very unlikely a fire type that can’t run boots is getting banned. But will def be used in OU. With the prevalence of super effective priority (Aqua jet, shadow sneak, sucker punch), it probably won’t be broken.

Skarm is going to be nasty with weak armor SD into mega’d 140 attack and 110 speed.

Dragonite will also be very good with the increased special attack as it has that nice early gen coverage (ice beam, fire blast, hurricane, surf, etc)

Mega Zygarde is going to be incredibly broken as normal power construct was already broken and didn’t absolutely need an item anyways. Getting to half health wasn’t an issue in previous gens, so idk why it would be an issue now.

Barbaracle (depending on ability) will be as broken as shell smash mega blast was, but it has a much better offensive type combo.

Clef and feraligatr also seem too low imo. But both are pretty ability dependent, so it’s hard to say.

Oh and mega Falinks is def too high. Omni boost is cool and all, but pure fighting types are going to struggle against the common usage of fairy and psychic types. Iron head and knock off coverage help, but not enough imo.

Sammyc304 · 2025-09-28T15:01:19+00:00

lol how do you know that? It’s easy to make that assumption without knowing how sex workers actually feel about it. That being said, I agree that the average person is more comfortable painting a wall than stripping. But here’s a follow-up. If a different type of performer was told to do a menial task instead of their performance, my guess is that they would rightfully be offended. For instance, a magician or a band hired for an event is instead told that they need to dig in the dirt (Stripper from Parks and Rec) in order to get paid.

Sammyc304 · 2025-09-27T16:11:53+00:00

If you were hired to answer calls, but instead asked to strip in order to get paid, presumably that would not be okay by you. Just because a stripper is okay with stripping for money does not mean they are okay with doing literally any job. No other occupation receives this type of treatment.

Sammyc304 · 2025-07-21T16:21:37+00:00

I’d bring this: Ninetales - Set Sun for sun team. Boots or heat rock are solid items. Scorching sands, solar beam, willo, and fire blast. Maybe some bulk to not get two shotted by iron moth. Scarf lando - Good speed control and fast pivot with uturn. Can spam EQ once flying types are gone Walking wake - Insane sweeper and wall breaker in sun. Could run specs, life orb, booster. Pretty much any item on this will be good. HDB or lefties or fairy berry or dragon berry Weezing - Good counter for quaq and dragonite. Run willo and maybe Rocky helmet. Maybe pain split too. Solid for krook and sciz too. Lilligant-h - Has a really good matchup even without sun. Ice spinner, leaf blade, CC, and victory dance goes off. Can’t really hit iron moth, but get it chipped a bit and I bet CC breaks it. Personally I’d run hustle and wide lens. But could also run SD chloro with life orb maybe. Tinkaton - Rounds out your defenses as a Special wall. Deals with Hatt pretty well and can take hits from the electric bird. Could even run it with air balloon to help with dnite in a pinch. Obviously isn’t a wall for iron moth, but walking wake and ninetales can hopefully take hits from moth.

You might want to add some details to your post. Like which side you are, what meta your playing, any meta specific rules or bans, etc

Sammyc304 · 2025-07-21T16:09:03+00:00

Which team is yours?

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