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NAIC Rental + Team Explanation
🕑 Added 2024-06-20 19:25:39 +0000 UTCHey all, here's the team I used to finish 22nd with 11 wins and 4 losses at NAIC. Apologies for the delay, I was travelling after and only just got home.
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Calyrex: I started with Calyrex-Shadow because I liked using it on my Clefairy team and thought astral barrage + nasty plot was really strong. I decided to go with tera water tera blast because I didn't like draining kiss and wanted another damaging option. Because of this, Calyrex is forced to terastalize most games. The EVs are enough to outspeed modest ursaluna in tailwind, a little special attack to try and KO Incineroar with +1 tera blast, and the majority in bulk to survive +1 Terapagos tera starstorm in tera water if they have a medium amount of investment. It's worth noting I lost to both Terapagos I played. I liked covert cloak because getting flinched by scarf dark pulse sucked, plus flutter cant drop your speed with icy wind.
Incin: Added Incin next because it's the best mon in the game. Intimidate and Fake Out help you set up, and goggles gives me an Amoonguss immune, something my team desperately needs. I went with Helping Hand because I never found myself using taunt or will-o-wisp, but if you want to shore up a specific matchup you could use those instead. Incin almost never teras so I went with ghost as it can help vs Zamazenta, Terapagos, and Fake Out. Incineroar is slow, 77 stat - it's actually the exact same Incin I brought to Charlotte. You can find the explanation for the speed stat in that post/video. It wasn't as good here if I can be honest.
Rillaboom: Double fake out core + grassy terrain for calyrex. Some teams just cant handle Incin/Rilla/Calyrex and so you can get some free wins. Assault Vest helps shore up the matchup into special attackers like Calyrex and Miraidon. I used tera grass because I never terastalized defensively, and grass tera wood hammer can KO Calyrex-shadow. Moves are standard, EVs are optimized for bulk and power - because I had Farigiraf I was less concerned about outspeeding other Rillaboom.
Pelipper: Couldnt figure out how to beat Koraidon, so I added Pelipper. Room Service is to help with the hard trick room matchup - like Ursaluna, Farigiraf, Iron Hands + Miraidon or Calyrex + Ursaluna. Wide Guard also helps vs Terapagos though again, I wasn't able to beat either Terapagos I played (I also lost to the only hard TR team I played LOL). Pelipper is trained to survive powerful special moves like tera ghost Astral Barrage and maybe a specs, non-tera, terastarstorm from Terapagos. Enough special attack to get the nature bump. Tera ghost to allow it to hard wall Specs Terapagos. 72 speed stat is used to ideally outspeed ursaluna both inside and outside of Trick Room.
Farigiraf: Because Tera Water Calyrex is weak to Thunder Clap and Grassy Glide, I added Farigiraf. It's also useful against Calyrex-Shadow. This is also the same Farigiraf from Charlotte, though I changed the EVs slightly - I forget what for though in all honesty, maybe something with Urshifu? I went with the set I'm most comfortable with, the same moves and tera type as Charlotte. Farigiraf is intended to work as a priority blocker and if you set it up correctly, a trick room sweeper. It's kind of hard to pull off against the restricted Pokemon but when it works it's good. I thought about psychic noise > psychic right before the tournament but without time to test I decided to stick - psychic noise also activates throat spray which is cool, not sure if it's better though.
Urshifu: I was worried about Terapagos, Regidrago, and Kyogre so I added Urshifu. Tera Stellar to let it hit Terapagos for more damage, focus sash so I didn't just lose vs Whimsicott Regidrago. Some people run taunt over aqua jet but I really like the priority. Urshifu could work as a standalone mon or with Pelipper boosting it, and it also takes advantage of the dual fake out core. EVs are standard.
This was a fun team! I hope you enjoy using it.
Comments
Yoohoo
Room Service Pelliper sweeping in there trick room is so satisfying
Sakuya
Def an interesting team, I was really curious about room service too, sad you still lost vs the only hard trick room team you played lol
K2
Been hanging out hard for this, thanks Wolfey!
