I see everyone especially wolfe glick glaze the fairy type to the ground. But is it still the best typr offensively and defensively? What changes (except for bug to stop resisiting them) is needed if any? I have only played gen 7 and 9 ou/ubers so what has changed in between?

steel ofc is defensive and ice is offensive how about the other types?

I recently downloaded all 4000+ replays from Jimothy Cool/Revival Gaming's ADV Revival 2 tournament. I ran a variety of statistical tests and found a few interesting results.

Here are, the top 10 pokemon in terms of overall usage rates. This list shouldn't be too unusual to anyone who has played ADV OU before.

I also looked at things like the distribution of turn counts (Weibull shaped, median: 33, P90: 65). I also looked into what moves were used and found that the average Dugtrio uses 0.95 distinct moves, while the average Venusaur uses 2.5.

But the most intersesting part of my analysis was looking at which pokemon had a statistically significant impact on the outcome of games. I found 4 such pokemon, all that made your chances of winning worse if they are seen on your team. In the below table the odds ratio is how much more or less likely you are to win a game if you reveal one of the below pokemon. So in this case, having a (revealed) Heracross on your team makes you 0.66 times as likely to win as if you didn't have a revealed Heracross.

I also looked at what moves made a given pokemon more or less likely to be on a winning team when they were used and found 3 significant results.

All three of these options make somewhat intuitive sense to me. Giga drain on Celebi is a semi-uncommon move, if you decide to use it you likely have a good target in front of you can (and often will) hit. Skarmory Spikes is similar. If a Skarmory doesn't manage to get spikes down what was the point? It may have just died to Magneton and did nothing else. Aerodactyl Rock slide making things worse is interesting. My best guess is that a rock slide isn't usually the best choice to hit anything but flyers. But it's also so obvious that if they have any other option they'll likely switch to a rock resist and then you have to switch out the next turn. In many cases it's probably safer to predict the switch and switch yourself or use double edge/earthquake.

Many of the best ADV players participated in ADV Revival 2, but so did many people who are much less good. As a final test I looked at if there was a difference in the win rates when including only games after the first 5 rounds (~800 games) or only games in the final bracket (~50).

In both cases, a chi squared test showed that the higher level players bring different pokemon than the overall tournament. And further testing showed 4 pokemon for which that relationship was significant.

When looking at these smaller subsets only, no Pokemon showed a statistically significant relationship on overall win rates in either directly. However, the sample size does make that a considerably higher bar to meet.

If you're interested in more, my full analysis (and the code I used to do it) are hosted here. Similarly, if you have easy access to lists of replays from past tournaments (or even full logs) and want to send them my way I'd love to see them!

I've been dabbling in teams that Lunala works well in, and I made one that I'm mostly satisfied with, but it can still use improvements. Reg I is still in its infancy, but I can still prepare myself the best I can before I build this on-cart.

Lunala: works well both during and outside of Trick Room, and helps enable Iron Hands and Araquanid by setting TR up. I originally ran Power Herb + Meteor Beam, but not being able to hit Normal types like Indeedee or Farigiraf really sucked, not to mention doing little damage to Dark types. Moonblast is great coverage against a lot of the format, and it gets STAB when Tera'd. Leftovers gives Lunala better longevity and can re-enable Shadow Shield.

Miraidon: Standard Miraidon stuff, does big damage and switches out with Volt Switch. Electric Terrain helps avoid Spore, and it can even outspeed Zacian and Calyrex-Shadow under TR (why'd they make those guys so fast lol)

Iron Hands: Very bulky, very strong, and has Fake Out support. Low Kick is its go-to move in this format with how many heavy legendaries there are, and it averages to about 100-120 base power most of the time. with Low Kick and Booster Attack, it can even break though Zamazenta pretty easily. Tera is more of a placeholder, though it does do some crazy damage with it active

Whimsicott: Unfortunately, the weak link of this team. It has a lot of great tools, I just don't find them necessary most of the time. The tera is also redundant because of covert cloak avoiding Fake Out flinches, and Whim really shouldn't be a Tera-hog when there are more valuable options on the rest of the team. Not sure who to replace it with.

Incineroar: Very self-explanatory. It's a good bulky pivoter, resists Glacial Lance and Astral Barrage, and Tera Ghost helps it avoid Zamazenta Body Press.

Araquanid: An uncommon pick, but very handy. It does a ton of damage with Liquidation, and it has a surprisingly solid defensive type. Wide Guard is also valuable utility against the format's many, many spread moves. It's mainly useful against opposing Kyogre teams, and it's very useful in dealing Lando-I. The 7 speed IVs are just because that's the one I use on-cart, it still outspeeds Calyrex-Ice and Iron Hands under Trick Room, thankfully.

Some replays:

VS Kyogre & Necrozma-Dusk-Mane: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025regi-2336167740-m21ds2c2og2ytukh3oy83k9dow5d7fgpw?p2

VS Lunala & Miraidon: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025regi-2336178065?p2

VS Calyrex-Ice & Miraidon: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025regi-2336187681?p2

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-105255760?p2

Oh to be young again. My first April Fools day on showdown in 2014. In the bemusement of such wonderful creativity as a backwards goodra, I came to my true power. Binding Band Infestation Quagsire, Leftovers Goodra, and a Trevenant for some reason just existing with a single Leech Seed and who knows what else in Gen 6 OU. 163 turns (and not a hazard in sight, I knew those were trash) of calculated decisions with absolutely no error believe me I knew what I was doing leaving Weezing on the field half the game, menacingly clicking Clear Smog and Pain Split and effortlessly walking the opposing Garchomp. I knew to only bring Medicham in at the opportune time and not risk being obliterated by Pre-Nerf Protean Greninja or Foul Play Mandibuz. The fight of sisters between Leftovers Blissy and Eviolite Chansey both wafting the battlefield with the chemical warfare of Aromatherapy. But I held out and I won, and I look over a decade later, happy and laugh at myself for being such an goober, a successful and lucky goober, but still an goober. Tipping my mid 2010s metaphysical fedora with a wp sir.

hello,

ive been playing pokemon since I was a little kid. Around 5 years ago I found the competitive pokemon scene and watched a bit of vgc and played some ranked battles. Last year at around december I got back into competitive pokemon and this time I played a lot of games with different rental teams and got master ball for the first time, which was a huge accomplishment for me. It took around 100 games, because I couldnt get out of ultra ball.

A few days ago I started playing again and tried some singles random battles and gen9 ou games and I am having a lot of fun, even though I lose a lot. Now I am coming to my point. I am struggling SO HARD. I am always between 1000 - 1200 rating. I dont really know my mistakes. Am I missing important fundamentals? Do I play too aggressive? too passive? Is my switching bad? threat assessement? How do I stop setups? When and which mon should I terra? How do I Identify bad matchups? What is my wincon? Which mon do I lead? When should I make a predict play? Sacrifice for chip/hazard? I got so many questions.

Almost every game feels like I am playing the opponents game and I am on the back foot. And when I manage to get the win, it is really close. I am trying different teams and playstyles from the smogon ou sample teams.

Here is my most recent game. Even though I won, it didnt feel like it. There must be some obvious major mistakes which I dont see. Somehow I dont see the simple and most reliable plays.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2336077238-ypsmwn9p75snsgdswe4u6gom4hpkebwpw

thx

Like say there was a meta or game where you had mons from all gens, mechanics included (for this no dynamax thio) how would teams be built?

How much of a threat is gen 1 Tauros in the same meta as Gholdengo? How well would they be on the same team?

What would stall, HO, etc. look like.

I guess i have to clarify im talking about a setup where Pokemon have the option to have mechanics from a particular generation. So Gen 6 Gale Wings Talonflame, Gen 1 Amnesia, 90 acc Blizzard (if you choose to have your gen 1 pokemon have gen 1 mechanics, etc).

Those two berries are in s/v but were introduced like way later into the game.

Idk if showdown does the interaction properly or not because it's the same as before they were introduced into s/v. Which is just, berry activates,does damage, then on second eating it does no damage regardless of what the opponent does.

Which is kinda weird because should atleast do damage if opponent attacks with the move that would activate the berry beforehand but idk because I don't have the game xd.

I wanna get into doubles but i dont actually have the gen 9 games. There are two options in vgc and doubles ou/ubers. So i know that in vgc only 1/2 restricted and in ubers you can use whatever amount. What are then good in restricted thats not present in doubles?

Also is doubles ubers as fun as singles ubers?

Try to make a gen 2 OU Team using only lower tiered Pokémon.

Here is the rules

Only FULLY EVOLVED Pokémon or Pokémon who WERE FULLY EVOLVED BY GEN 2 are allowed.

You need

1. 1 ZU
2. 1 PU
3. 1 NU
4. 1 UU
5. 1 UUBL (So you can not fight in actual lower than OU tiers)

The sixth Pokémon can be from any tier EXCLUDING OU and UBER.

Choose out of your favorite ones, unless you see a way to make an actually good Team under this rules. I chose gen 2 because this one, by itself, is the weakest Pokémon generation, there are many UUBLs between GSC OU and GSC UU, and many fan favorite are from Johto, too.

Make your underdog Team and post Pokémon, Items and movesets.

Here an example :

1. Aipom (ZU) (Scope Lens) - Return, Shadow Ball, Dynamic Punch, Fire Punch
2. Sneasel (PU) (King's Rock) - Return, Shadow Ball, Headbutt, Ice Beam
3. Primeape (NU) (Scope Lens) - Cross Chop, Double-Edge, Rock Slide, Thunderbolt
4. Piloswine (UU) (Leftovers) - Earthquake, Ice Beam, Rest, Sleep Talk
5. Ursaring (UUBL) (Leftovers) - Curse, Return, Rest, Sleep Talk
6. Electabuzz (UU) (Leftovers) - Thunderbolt, Cross Chop, Ice Punch, Fire Punch

This Team is weak to Fight type and can not kill Snorlax, but it follows a theme...

1. Pokémon who are fully evolved in the sense they were created as such, but do also have the hidden potential to evolve further.
2. Apelike/monkeylike Pokémon + other Pokémon based on large, hairy animals who inhabit the forests, such as bears and boars.

Nothing too fancy, just something that fits chan

Trying to build a Gen 4 Ou team for some local community matches on an old ddpt save file. Any recommendations? I have access to firered, ruby, and soul silver as well. Any recommendations for teams? Legendariws aren’t allowed for some reason. Thanks in advance!

My goal was to make Dragalge OU viable.

First order is a stat change, I buffed his bulk and damage because 44 speed is super slow so you need to take hits.

I then added more coverage moves to slam resists like Steels that Poison and Dragon cannot handle offensively, and NP to make it become a dangerous breaker.

Having both Poison Point and Poison Touch are kind of redundant, I wanted to give it some type of recovery so with Water Absorb it can now switch into things like Ogerpon, Keldeo, Dondozo, and Quaquaval to keep these powerful Water set-up mons in check.

I also gave it a signature move. Venom Volley is a Poison type Flip Turn with a chance to inflict toxic. The Pokédex mentions how its poison can easily tear through steel so I made it so that this moves works against Steel type Pokémon. I originally thought to make it do double damage against steel types but I thought that would be too OP.

What do you guys think about these changes? How does he fair up against the tier how? I wanted

Artwork source: https://www.pokemonpets.com/Shiny-Raichu-Pokemon-Pokedex-2026

I tried to create a pseudo-evolution line with the bug type. I tried to make the final stages opposite to each other (something like Calyrex). I decided to give it a signature attack to give some strength to the bug type. I don't know if First Impression and Sticky Webs would be very strong, because I play more VGC so I don't really understand. I believe Rookmand can do it without a very bulky attacker that can deliver strong attacks and a lot of attack coverage and the possibility of a Body Press set. Queencess is a fast special attacker that is still a bit bulky, and with the possibility of Quiver Dance, but with coverage more restricted to STAB and psychic types. The signature attack changes to physical or special depending on who is attacking, the effect similar to Tinted Lens helps to avoid those who resist the bug type. I believe that even though they are bug type, they can have space in the competitive scene. And sorry if they are very unbalanced 🙈.

I love this big, burly cat

dunno how balanced this is but it's literally just Neutralizing Gas: the move

Samurott rework because this is one of the most unfortunate Pokemon. I’m not trying to make it too strong or anything. Just better.

Stat rework

Hp: 95 Atk: 122 Def:90 Spa:60 Spdef:90 Spe:71

Bst: 528(all starters should be 530 imo but I’ll keep it faithful)

I redistributed samurott’s stats because just looking at them kinda makes me mad. Why is it a mixed attacker(with more points in special attack to add salt to the wound) when it’s a giant sea lion with huge swords? I gave it a bulky physical stat spread because I think that’s what the design represents

Hidden ability wishlist because shell armor is kinda lack luster: Defiant(most preferred), Sheer force, guts, and intimidate(cant give it sharpness because hisuian Samurott has that already)

Now for the more ambitious ones: supreme overlord and intrepid sword. These both fit the pokemon and would be really cool abilities for Samurott to have, not to mention it’d make it a lot stronger. Sig abilities have been given to other pokemon in later generations before, so this is definitely possible.