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s/os to the 5 people that actually followed stunfisk team tour, (shameless plug r/stunfiskcircuit)

this was the team I brought to finals to secure the win for team lucky and bad.


Now this team was made for the purpose of dealing with Cralimon who was my opponent for that game.

##What is counterteaming

counterteaming or cteaming is a common practice that is seen in tour play as people tend to like certain cores and being able to exploit then with a good match up is beneficial. ADditionally, building along a person's playstyle is another form of cteaming. If you know someone struggles dealing with fat teams bring something fat. Games can be decided at the teambuilder so getting the advantage there is important.  You usually wanna look at replays to find stuff out. For example I knew that Crali liked using thundurus-T plus water types so I decided that bringing electric+ice coverage was the call. My teammate and friend jhon passed me a rain team with AV lando+ SD mzor and I took swapped the lando out for a Scarf Mamoswine and the Mega Scizor for a Mega Metagross, as the immediate power was better vs his prefferred bulky offense teams. You wont see counterteaming that much at PCs and ladder play where you are team-locked, but in tour play where your opponent changes from round to round cteaming is an important aspect to consider. Changing your team to better deal with your opponent is perfectly acceptable and considered a part of the game.

##the team:

> Jhon (Politoed) (M) @ Eject Button
> Ability: Drizzle
> Level: 50
> Shiny: Yes
> EVs: 252 HP / 228 Def / 28 SpD
> Sassy Nature
> IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
> - Helping Hand
> - Scald
> - Encore
> - Haze

Rain wouldnt be rain without a setter, and politoed functions better as a support mon when compared to something like peli, which has more of an offensive presence. Haze helps dealing with set up sweepers such as komno-o and Tapu Fini, Encore functions as a decent TR answer as well as punishing fake out attempts on Ludicolo. Helping hand allows the hard hitters to hit even harder. And Scald makes it so Politoed isnt completely passive as rain boosted scalds hit decently hard and have a nice burn potential. I really liked Eject Button here as it gives u an upper hand in the weather war, and allows you to bring out something offensive and scary off the bat. I knew that Crali liked T-tar so this was a great pick. Also since helping hand has a ton of priority toed can still do something the turn it is forced out, despite being super slow. The lack of protect on Toed was mainly because the team needs all these moves and it forces u to play aggresively with the frog.
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> alex jones (Ludicolo) (M) @ Waterium Z
> Ability: Swift Swim
> Level: 50
> EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
> Modest Nature
> - Hydro Pump
> - Energy Ball
> - Ice Beam
> - Fake Out

Ludicolo is the best rain abuser available in the format, and a Z-Hydro in the rain can take out most neutral mons. with a helping hand boost from toed something will just die. Energy ball is the obligatory stab to deal with water types and Ice Beam allows an accurate means to deal with birds and grounds. Fake Out is one of the best moves in the format so that's obligatory.
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> fret reference (Metagross-Mega) @ Metagrossite
> Ability: Clear Body
> Level: 50
> EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
> Jolly Nature
> - Iron Head
> - Hammer Arm
> - Ice Punch
> - Protect

Metagross is one of the better megas that is available this year. Jhon suggested running Hammer Arm as that allows Gross to deal with Kartana, Ferrothorn and Incineroar which are all mons that commonly give it trouble. Ice Punch and Iron Head are pretty much standard on gross and Protect is protect so like you gotta have it lol.
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> im gay lol (Tapu Koko) @ Life Orb
> Ability: Electric Surge
> Level: 50
> EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
> Timid Nature
> IVs: 0 Atk
> - Thunder
> - Volt Switch
> - Dazzling Gleam
> - Protect
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Koko is Koko. In my opinion this is the best Tapu due to it's speed and sheer versatility. Life Orb Koko is a tried and true set. Rain+Koko is a tried and true combination as a Thunder that never hits is very nice. Volt Switch allows u to pivot out of bad situations as koko is often moving first and gleam is nice secondary stab which helps chip opponents for something stronger to pick off.
> yo girl (Mamoswine) (F) @ Choice Scarf
> Ability: Thick Fat
> Level: 50
> EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
> Jolly Nature
> - Icicle Crash
> - Stomping Tantrum
> - Ice Shard
> - Superpower

Mamoswine was probably the most innovative part of this team. Mamoswine is one of those mons that is super scary in the teambuilder, but it is so rare that u just act like it doesnt exist. Ice+Ground is amazing dual stab and Stomping Tantrum gives Mamoswine a good single target attack. During building I was thinking about TW plus Mamoswine bc my dumbass forgot that choice scarf was an item. Jolly Mamoswine allows it to outspeed Adamant Landorus-T meaning that it can just remove it from play before it gets a chance to do anything. Ice Shard and Crash are the obligatory ice moves and superpower helps with the ferrothorn match up as that mon can give this team lots of trouble.


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> Wildcat (Amoonguss) (M) @ Wiki Berry
> Ability: Regenerator
> Level: 50
> EVs: 244 HP / 212 Def / 52 SpD
> Sassy Nature
> IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
> - Spore
> - Rage Powder
> - Sludge Bomb
- Giga Drain

The last member and second half of the team support is Amoonguss. Amoonguss can put stuff to bed and offers redirection. I went with giga drain over protect mainly because I forgot to put protect on it lol.





##Import


http://pokepast.es/4097ddab08ecb6f9


##Replays

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7vgc2018-739500524

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7vgc2018-739498001

##Shoutouts/other stuff

Yeah so special thanks to everyone on my team, yall made playing this game fun

If the nicknames are weird that's bc I put a lot of love into them so dont hate

someone pls free me /u/sylveoplath is holding me at gunpoint and forcing me to write stuff for her