figured id make a post since i had tons of fun playing oras esp after it was unfairly nuked in oraspl and cldnt play it there. some of the pastes aren't what i turned up in game with, but what i believe are more optimised versions of those teams, will explain changes in the descriptions.
w1 vs luck o' the irish (L)
old team but has been one of my favs to use for a long while. was having trouble deciding what to use with irish public replays scout being quite dated and had a lot of like fatter stuff that the other teams i was testing seemed to have trouble playing into during tests, so i just figured id default to this and see how it goes. sash viv is rly fun to use cuz u own a lot of stuff, bar like vital spirit mons, pilo, cheops lead, and xatu mindgames. eball can be flexed w endeavor to chunk stuff like lix to ease breaking w specs mesp. can't rmb what lum lilli was for, but p sure its to play into fatter status stuff so u can force more pressure by getting 2 qds. i think in the actual game, i played rly obvious, but still had a chance to win in end game with the combination of miss / roll / freeze all being odds, but i ended up losing to miss into crit which eliminated the possibility of roll, which i thought was rly funny but irish played well.
w2 vs garay oak (W)
i asked to get dropped some stuff as ideas as i thought i was becoming too predictable for team trends across the tours ive been playing oras nu as i tend to default to comfort when i cant decide what to use. was passed
this from bughouse and just went from there. also, ps: im bad and asked why we had hp grass and was informed gastro was in the tier, didnt know till then LOL. anyways, couldn't live with av lanturn being the only fire check AND no hazard removal which made it rly prone to getting worn down, so i changed it to cleric lanturn + av spin chan for added fire insurance. at this point, we realised we had no normal resist which is fked up with kanga tauros being q good + didnt want rocks on my breaker. additionally, specs swellow did not pan out well into garay's scout which was more diverse and also in tests, so we made it a steelix. however, our normal resist getting rolled by pyroar was not smth that was going to pan out well (garay ended up bringing pyroar) so we changed it to a regi instead. in the game, i think i got unfortunate initially by getting para'ed on the moonlight turn (altho that's partially due to bad sequencing on my part) and then ended up getting bailed by ice beam crit on malamar. didnt have signal like i initially had when i made the edits (its signal in the import cuz its better) cuz i let my team convince me into replacing it with hwish (for sure a bait here; got swayed cuz they mentioned it and i let them make the choice)
w3 vs robjr (L)
think this week i had army duty through the week, and just asked for teams (ya, this is somewhat of a trend this season i think). thought kangaspikes / normal spam looked good into robjr's scout so i just picked this one up and used it. in hindsight + during the game, realised that having 5 physical attackers with a scarfer as the only special presence is a no go, and have since changed it from lum sd samu to special, which would have also helped a lot in the game (i feel its genuinely much better in this team). also, during the game, i think i got hit with every status that's not psn, so that was funny i guess, definitely not my best game w the wrong variant of samu and my luck in that game, though it was quite a bad mu regardless, not much to say cuz i didnt have much input / adjustments this week.
w4 vs kiyo (W)
i was 1-2 at this point and had more free time, so i wanted to spend more time picking what i would use. at a glance, i thought kiyo's scout was a bit ice weak (4x yama / no pilo), so i picked 2 teams from when oras was cg, one with aurorus i made with tony a LONG time ago (so long that he probs wont even rmb this happened at all) and another one with cryogonal. i guess it was also cuz i faced 3x peli in the previous weeks (altho i dont rly recall this being a deciding factor, but it might've been i guess). think cryo's rly neat vs non pilo yama heavy scouts and also pairs rly nicely with busken here because it prevents it from being too worn down by hazards + lo which is nice for sure. got a rly good mu with kiyo not rly having much for busken / cryo / lilli combined, although at one point was genuinely worried about phys skunk and stayed in with cryo to get chipped (thought he'd pursuit on switch and i wld get turbo fked). honestly, if u wanna pick this team up cuz it looks cool, replace the haunter, i have no fking clue what it does, and u can have a better skunk mu that way.
w5 vs drud (W)
drud was subbed in this wk for highways who wasnt rly doing so hot, and his public scout didnt have much info on what he liked to use, so i decided to use smth that i was comfortable with in this pinsir lead ho. think it was an eternally team from like 2 yrs ago (?) that i edited to use earlier this year (2021) for nupl. lead pinsir to guarantee rocks is rly neat (except if ure
GW who doesnt know how to guarantee rocks with lead pinsir - hint: u click it t1). changed the skunk to lum fog to have an easier time into lilli / hazard stack. got a bit lucky with edge dodge on lilli which made the game easier, but apart from that, think it was for sure winnable anyways. def a cool team i love using.
w6 vs spl4sh (W)
think i was at army duty through this week also, so i just picked some stuff that was dropped in my channel. well, also cuz spl4sh's scout was fking random as shit LOL, so figured bringing smth tried and true > prepping smth that might be ass. rolled up into a 6-0 jynx mu, which i then in typical gorex fashion, proceeded to not 6-0 cuz i tried to be smart and np on mantine instead of going for the safe sleep cuz i didnt wanna get played by a double switch into magmortar (which in hindsight wasnt even worth cuz i have a fking regirock). ended up playing it a lot closer than i had to imo and won because regigigas is an oras zu legend but does not do so hot in oras nu o.o.
w7 vs abejas (-)
handshaked with abejas for best reg ssn oras record. he proceeded to jinx me for poffs, which i then got unlucky in (will touch on this later), tf
Abejas, u did me dirty
semis vs kiyo (L)
seeing as this was semis, i actually tried to build smth new! tried to get some inspiration from what i used vs kiyo earlier on in the tour, and just made some
new version of archeops ho thinking i was cool. till i tested it... and safe to say, the team was ass lol. klinklang for sure shitmon and i didnt rly know what to replace it with + scarf malamar def looked better on paper but it flopped in tests. so as the game was coming up soon, i just turned back to something i was comfortable with and confident in piloting to a win. at preview, was definitely glad i chose to reuse this team and not the cryo one cuz he brought pilo + yama this time, man rly decided he wasnt losing to an ice-type this time around. things were going well till i missed the first megahorn on ferro, which made it not as autowin as it was supposed to be in that spot. things proceeded to go downhill from there, 2 lower rolls (than what was necessary) with +4 torrent jet on his samu, crash crit on rotom, and also got the 5050 wrong on turn 20 with drain vs ice punch. at that point in game, i thought i got cucked more with what looked like a low roll on pilo to wrap up the game, but based on his dump, appears to be an ok roll (actly quite high), but yea, game sucked q hard, frick u
Abejas.
well, thats me done with my team dump, hope yall enjoyed reading thru my thoughts. hope i get picked up to play oras again in future tours, where i ideally build more than i lazily ask for teams cuz this meta is honestly rly enjoyable!