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Calyrex-Shadow Tournament Winning Team
🕑 Added 2024-04-21 17:05:07 +0000 UTCHey all! I entered a tournament this weekend with this Calyrex-Shadow team I built, and ended up winning the entire thing. Here's the rental, EV spreads, and explanation for the team:
Showdown Export: https://pokepast.es/9b2abb88e72a9d8d
Caly-S was my starting point. I wanted to use Focus Sash because Astral Barrage is already really strong, and not being forced to terastalize to survive hits seemed like a good way to get more attacks off. Since I was Sash, I could use my tera offensively to boost Astral Barrage. Protect is 100% needed, and I chose Nasty Plot for setup as I wanted to build the team around it. The last move I had a few choices - pollen puff hits dark types and farigiraf, draining kiss gives you some healing and hits certain dark types, but I chose Psychic as it was the strongest move in a vacuum. This made certain Pokemon like Farigiraf and all dark types harder, but I figured I could just boost my satk and smack them with not very effective moves a bunch. EVs are straightforward for a Sash Pokemon.
I added Rillaboom next. I knew I wanted to use a more balanced Calyrex team instead of a more aggressive one (IE Indeedee, Mienshao). Rillaboom provides fake out, a little healing, and grass typing which is important. Assault Vest gives it a decent matchup into restricted Pokemon like Miraidon, Calyrex-Shadow, and Kyogre. I'm not sure if Wood Hammer is needed but I like it generally so I went with it. The EVs are truthfully a little random - max HP, enough speed to outspeed Calyrex/Zacian in tailwind, the nature bump on attack, rest dumped into special defense. Tera fire to resist fire and ice seemed worthwhile (plus burn immunity).
I was playing seriously so I knew I wanted Incineroar. Two fake out users to pair with Calyrex would allow me to really bully teams when I got a lead, and intimidate/parting shot could improve Calyrex's survivability against Pokemon that weren't doing super-effective damage. I added Will-O-Wisp over Flare Blitz at the last second because I felt like I could get away with dropping a damaging move and Will-O-Wisp + Tera Water would allow Incineroar to really bully Calyrex-ice, as well as pressure Groudon and Koraidon to terastalize when they wouldn't otherwise need to. I went with Sitrus for overall survivability - this was very helpful against Terapagos teams. In all honesty I have no idea what the EVs do - max HP, enough speed to outspeed Groudon/Kyogre in tailwind, and I have no idea why I have all this special bulk or what the physical bulk is for. If you find out let me know!
I wanted a redirection user now, as fake out is good to stop a single opponent but Follow Me/Rage Powder can protect Calyrex from all non-spread moves. Normally people run Amoonguss, but I was interested in Clefairy. Friend Guard would improve Calyrex's survivability, Follow Me would keep it safe, Helping Hand could boost its damage, and After You was a good anti-Trick Room tech. Tera Water is just a really good defensive type right now. No idea what the EVs do but I definitely calced for SOMETHING, and overall the spread didn't let me down. Fun fact - helping hand tera ghost astral barrage KOs opposing Calyrex AFTER they've terastalized - I used this to win a game in the semi-finals.
I wanted speed control now, and since Calyrex doesn't benefit from Trick Room, I decided to go with tailwind. With Calyrex's high base speed and tailwind support, I can outspeed all Pokemon that aren't in tailwind or trick room, allowing me to outrun even Scarf Pokemon. I went with Tornadus as it's the most consistent tailwind setter. Covert Cloak meant I couldn't be stopped by Fake Out, and allowed me to not run Protect or Tera Ghost. Tailwind and Bleakwind are self explanatory, rain dance could weaken Groudon/Koraidon, protect RIllaboom, and boost Urshifus damage (and make bleakwind 100% accurate), and taunt was useful against Terapagos and Amoonguss to name a few. Tera Dark resists astral barrage and makes you immune to opposing Prankster Taunt Pokemon, an interaction that came up a few times. I made Torn fast enough to outspeed Groudon and Kyogre, maxed HP, and put the rest in defense to try and survive Urshifu surging strikes.
Lastly, Urshifu. I wanted another source of damage and as I already had a fire and grass type, water made sense. Scarf Urshifu outspeeds Calyrex and Zacian, making me less reliant on Tornadus against those Pokemon. I would've liked to run more bulk on Urshifu but this much speed is needed to outspeed Calyrex and Zacian, and this much attack is needed to KO Caly-S with tera water surging strikes (assuming they dont have bulk). I put the rest in Special Defense for more survivability. In all honesty tera-water probably isn't needed, and ghost or grass or another tera type would probably work too, but since I'm most comfortable with water I stuck to it and the moves I was used to.
I recorded all my games so I'll eventually turn the tournament into a video. Hope you all enjoy the team!
Comments
Christian Howard
Do you have any advice for playing into Raging Bolt with this team?
Skye Rhodes
Will the recordings be up before Indy to watch for those of us using it at Indy? Out of curiosity
Ian Lee
Thanks for sharing! Any tips with dealing with AV Bolt? Nothing hits it well except for Caly-S, and snarl makes life difficult.
Wolfe Glick
I haven't played any Rayquaza but it should be possible to use Clefairy to get a nasty plot up and then just try and KO everything
Wolfe Glick
HHP can work in theory though Wood Hammer is my preference in a vacuum
Kendall Wolf
I made master ball tier for the first time with the Charlotte rental just in time before reg g takes over!! the team is awesome, I had a blast! definitely looking forward to seeing how this reg g team develops
K2
Youβre in great form! Thanks for sharing this team so quickly
Noah Smith
The team feels so much fun to play. I love the double fake out + setup core and the after you Clef makes Trick Room mu's so much easier.
Wolfe Glick
The rental code is now uploaded! Sorry, I put the wrong image in by mistake.
Roberto
I've been playing an almost identical team, just with amoonguss instead of Clefairy. Gonna try with that change. How do you deal effectively with a tera normal extreme speed swords dance rayquaza paired with incineroar? I switched my choice scarf urshifu to tera ghost, but I miss the tera water damage tho
Nikola-Aleksandar Djukic
Nice balance, also the sash on Caly over additional damage. Do you by chance have a rental code?
Nathan
Hell yeah Wolfe! You been winning tourneys left and right. Keep up the hard work. Love the effort
Andrew Foutz
Wolfe is going sicko mode this year baby!
Julian La Vallee
I noticed you talked about not necessarily needing wood hammer. Would you possibly think about high horsepower? or something like tera blast to be able to hit opposing Rillaboom and take advantage of the sun from Groudon teams?
Callum Johnson
Canβt wait for the video of this one!!
Wolfe Glick
Maybe over Clef! I liked friend guard/follow me, but if you want more damage you can run it. I like Clef more because it adds something new to your type chart. You def need Urshifu because the damage source is important.
Diego Maytorena
Another world champ difference! One question would you think Waterpon would work instead of Urshifu or Cleaf?
Layne Neiber
Nice job! Too bad there was no stream but looking forward to the video
Gary
Another day another Wolfe tournament win π
