Posted by M1dnight00
Hey everyone! I got drafted in French Community League back in September, and this was one of the best teamtours I've been part of. I played USM OU every week of this tournament and built a lot of teams, which is probably my favorite aspect of competitive Pokémon.
I'm gonna share today an edit of one of my absolute favorite teams that I built to face Dflo on the 7th week of this tournament. We were guaranteed to make playoffs at this point, I didn't feel like building a standard team and I just wanted to use Nidoking, since it's one of my favorite Pokémon to use competitively. I ended up losing this game because of something really dumb (that's foreshadowing, you'll see what I'm talking about), but I really liked the team so I edited it and improved it a bit.
Posted by M1dnight00
The foundation of this team is the Regenerator Core (
,
,
), designed to outlast the opponent through passive healing and constant pivoting.
was added to cover the special defensive gaps that the Regenerator trio couldn't handle alone. To prevent the team from being too passive,
and
were chosen as "Bulky Offense" threats that benefit from the chip damage provided by the core. Finally, the move choices specifically Teleport and Future Sight on
were picked to create a synergistic offensive pressure that forces the opponent into uncomfortable positions while your sweepers set up