Teambuilding Competition Thread!
Curse Gastrodon very fat balance i swear Semi-Stall
Cool team I whipped up after seeing someone on the ladder use a team with Sableye and Gastrodon as well. Now this isn't a top tier team or anything, more of a fun alternative to semi-stall, a playstyle where teams can get a bit redundant.
So as I said, I started with Sableye-Mega and Gastrodon because Sableye could use Will-O-Wisp to help Gastrodon's weaker Defense and prevents hazards with Magic Bounce, which is why Sableye is almost mandatory on any form of stall; preventing its teammates from taking chip damage from entry hazards is huge. I added Celesteela next since it covered Gastrodon's weakness to Grass while Gastrodon could deal with some problematic Fire types for Celesteela. Then, I added Heatran to better check Fire types since a lot of them run Grass coverage, such as Giga Drain Volcarona and Solar Beam Charizard-Y, and to set up Stealth Rock. It can also effectively wear down bulkier teams with Taunt + Toxic, which is great. Then, to deal with stallbreakers in general, I added Dugtrio since it can trap a lot of annoying things and help against opposing stall teams by trapping Chansey and Toxapex. Finally, Zapdos was added to check physical attackers better while providing Defog, and it can also use Pressure in conjunction with Roost to PP stall things like Tapu Fini. I originally had Sp Def Gastrodon to deal with special attackers better, but I decided to go with Curse Gastrodon since it can pressure some things like defensive Landorus-T and Tapu Fini and because its an overalll decent wincon. I also had a faster Zapdos to deal with Landorus-T better, but since it wasn't too troublesome against my team in practice, I went with a bulkier spread since it checks a lot more physical attackers which is pretty useful. Hope you guys enjoyed this team even though it's not offense, and East Gastrodon > West Gastrodon.
