Blast
Member of the Alien Nation
Approved by Raseri and taken over from Lord Alphose (original thread here). OP partially stolen from Superpowerdude in the LC version.
Hello and welcome to the second edition of the Neverused Teambuilding Competition! The goal of this project is to observe and better understand how experienced NU players go about building their teams around a particular core. It's also a great way to improve and refine your own teambuilding skills, or just simply learn how others do it! Anyone is free to participate and I encourage as much discussion as possible; however, I'd like to point out that you do not have to post a team to contribute to this thread. Contant feedback is allowed and actually preferred in this thread, so if you have comments or concerns about someone's team, don't be afraid to post it! The process is as follows:
Each round, I will choose a core of two Pokemon. It is then up to you to build a team around it, designing sets, teammates, roles, and everything in between. Identifying weaknesses, strategies, and so forth are key parts of teambuilding and I'm quite interested to see how that carries through in this thread. I also hope to emphasize a lot of creativity with this as well—new gems and underrated Pokemon and cores are popping up all the time, and hopefully this thread can bring about a lot of new discoveries about the metagame! After the submission period is over (which will be after around give or take a week) I will announce the voting period, where you will get a couple of days to vote on what you think is the best team. By the end of the voting period, the votes will be tallied and team with the most votes will be pastebinned and archived in the Hall of Fame I will be posting below, and the process will start again with a new core.
Some ground rules:
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Flareon and Lilligant go together to make an interesting offensive core. Flareon, particularly offensive variants, serves as a powerful wallbreaker that can just generally whack away at many defensive cores to pave the way for a Lilligant sweep. It's far from flawless however—in particular, it heavily struggles with bulky Water- and Rock-types which Lilligant easily checks, while in return Flareon hard-checks various Ice-, Grass-, and Steel-types that can trouble Lilligant. Lilligant can even potentially opt to run Healing Wish to give Flareon a second lease of life, which Flareon loves due to its reliance on Flare Blitz as well as SR weakness.
The winner will also be rewarded with a voice on the NU PS! room as long as you remain active and helpful, and consistent, quality discussion will be also be logged for the Community Contributor badge everyone wants
Neverused Teambuilding Competition
Hello and welcome to the second edition of the Neverused Teambuilding Competition! The goal of this project is to observe and better understand how experienced NU players go about building their teams around a particular core. It's also a great way to improve and refine your own teambuilding skills, or just simply learn how others do it! Anyone is free to participate and I encourage as much discussion as possible; however, I'd like to point out that you do not have to post a team to contribute to this thread. Contant feedback is allowed and actually preferred in this thread, so if you have comments or concerns about someone's team, don't be afraid to post it! The process is as follows:
Each round, I will choose a core of two Pokemon. It is then up to you to build a team around it, designing sets, teammates, roles, and everything in between. Identifying weaknesses, strategies, and so forth are key parts of teambuilding and I'm quite interested to see how that carries through in this thread. I also hope to emphasize a lot of creativity with this as well—new gems and underrated Pokemon and cores are popping up all the time, and hopefully this thread can bring about a lot of new discoveries about the metagame! After the submission period is over (which will be after around give or take a week) I will announce the voting period, where you will get a couple of days to vote on what you think is the best team. By the end of the voting period, the votes will be tallied and team with the most votes will be pastebinned and archived in the Hall of Fame I will be posting below, and the process will start again with a new core.
Some ground rules:
- Make the post presentable, use XY sprites and have the team in importable format so it can be used and tested by voters.
- Make sure you have a paragraph describing how your team functions and how it supports the core.
- Don't insult users if their teams aren't up to standard, feel free to question why people are running certain things. In fact, I highly encourage discussion but don't be rude about it. Basically, just don't be a jerk.
- Use hide tags when posting your team, otherwise we will all hate you.
- You can only have one of the following Pokemon on your team: Feraligatr, Mesprit, Crustle, or Kangaskhan. I want to emphasize creativity in this thread so this helps prevent the same stuff from being posted every round.
- I will post when you have a day left to get your teams posted. Don't procrastinate. It will only go badly.
- You are allowed to edit your teams with testing and / or feedback from other people, however be sure to make note of these edits in the original post (i.e. keep an edit log or something in your post). Once the voting period begins however, you cannot edit your teams anymore.
Flareon and Lilligant go together to make an interesting offensive core. Flareon, particularly offensive variants, serves as a powerful wallbreaker that can just generally whack away at many defensive cores to pave the way for a Lilligant sweep. It's far from flawless however—in particular, it heavily struggles with bulky Water- and Rock-types which Lilligant easily checks, while in return Flareon hard-checks various Ice-, Grass-, and Steel-types that can trouble Lilligant. Lilligant can even potentially opt to run Healing Wish to give Flareon a second lease of life, which Flareon loves due to its reliance on Flare Blitz as well as SR weakness.
The winner will also be rewarded with a voice on the NU PS! room as long as you remain active and helpful, and consistent, quality discussion will be also be logged for the Community Contributor badge everyone wants
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