boy have I been waiting for this
https://pokepast.es/de69026b5eb0bef8:
bulu balance, used this game 1 vs Confide. Kart could have done a lot but alas, played like crap. Really like this team cause of it showing off some stuff that was still rather new at the time; Steelium Z tran, m-lati, spdef SD bulu.
https://pokepast.es/242797c67ad207e1
an untested Magearna team, was going to be used g3 vs jay but i brought teams in the wrong order. Not really sure how solid it is but it was always fun to play
https://pokepast.es/2dedeeb84edcc3ac
one of my FAV teams from this year. Serp is amazing, glare zyg was a cool OU tech. Really liked getting ideas from OLT this year and it showed here a ton, even down to Fini which spiked in usage i wanna say cycle 2 of that. I've had a few moments where i realize sometimes you load a team and a mon just wins; I feel this team has a lot of potential for that. Play careful into Lucha; lele eats an acro at +2 but barely and won't always threaten an OHKO back, so if it's stretched too thin lucha can just do lucha things. See this vs Gross Sweep week 2. (tran is modest btw, this paste is incorrect with that)
https://pokepast.es/11de73779c3ae49c
Building for Jay was a highlight of the tour for me, I feel like I brought the right teams in the wrong order. This is the game I brought game 1 vs Jay, a spin on an old classic/favorite of mine and some friends, Cruci Krill. Again, more OLT tech- the second shellfish of the team, Crawdawnt, helped a few people qualify, and I doubled down on beating up fatter teams Jay's known for bringing. Gliscor could be defog but I find it hard to fit on the set and it's only needed for Blace really which just dies to anything ever anyway.
https://pokepast.es/64a2378efe7dd03e
g2 vs jay team. Honestly was a bit inspired by ESM bringing Zard-X and saw synergy between it and Drought Jumb, another thing on a long list I wanted to play around with. Did not play this team well enough, frankly. One of my favorite builds, and has some of my favorite sets too: Scarf Jumb, Band Glare Zyg (just para clef and win), and that fast rev set- it's enough speed to glare I wanna say Lando, Scizor, Hawk and a few others before they can u-turn out or what have you.
https://pokepast.es/a9469829495770f6
team is probably hot garbage but its far too fun not to share. Kommo-O webs, fun mon, fun archetype, doesnt take too much thought.
https://pokepast.es/2493ac639e5a937f
built this to play Jordy; one of my fav teams and one of my favorite games. I love Koko+kyub as a core just in general, hadn't really built with it in a while, ended up making this. Medi Gren beats a lot of stuff, and this team also turned me into a Kitsunoh fanboy; threw it on here more or less just for fun in early stages of testing and then realized that sometimes, you def drop the check, and it's not a check, and you click shadow strike a bunch and win. The game vs Jordy ended up being a game of 50/50s and threats vs threats, and even though I lost p much all of those 50/50s, it's probably one of my favorite tour games ever.
https://pokepast.es/583068f3df821e9a
let this team serve as a warning: Test, always test. Wanted to build with that new z-dark hydra set; turns out this team loses to everything and hydra never did anything. Posting it both for the warning and in case somebody sees it and makes it good
https://pokepast.es/76e4021acc990083
i caught wind of the cune wave about a week later than some of us (offler) but I fucking love cune so I had to build with it. Cune+Bulu stood out to me as being a really fun core, and also really losing hard to plasmanta and mollux, which was nice. Also saw a favorite Mega of mine, Diancie, stand out as a big Snake Draft popularity spike, and wanted to build with that, therefore this was born. It's a bit under-tested for my liking, but I appreciate how there's multiple ways to win: cune vs fatter teams, DD Zygarde, CM Diancie. S/O to Snake for the set on Diancie; CM beats Jumbao and he got the attack to 2hko Roak.
https://pokepast.es/9f39bd39cda95e1b
THE CLINCHER.
I would rate this as one of my favorite and best builds, ever, hands down. Zam has really never worked for me before this week, and it def is super strong so i wanted to bring it. That's not really where the team started out, though; desperately tried to make a z-focus blast torn work all week, but couldn't. One of the shells of those builds was torn+zam and I went from there. Paj had been talked up all year and I never actually brought z-move Paj, which surprised me, so that was the next add, and next Tran was there for utility. Zygarde was an interesting idea I had that DD WP Zyg is a lot less common; with a team that beats up on hazers AND reveals a z-move, it created a bit of a mind game where DD Zyg is less expected and less answerable. Band TTar was another cool sorta option; more trapping against scary shit like choiced Lele that hurt the team bad and just helped clear a path for Zam/Zyg. I fucking adore this team; I am so happy to have gotten a win with it.