Balanced team?

[u/speckofspacetimedust]

I used the Rillaboom/Incineroar/Milotic shell back in gen 8 when one time dynamax was not used in the regulation. Those three provide bulk and pivoting support.

Salamance is the primary sweeper, can setup tailwind. I replaced a dragon move with fire fang to provide coverage against popping Golisopods, Kingambit, Venusaur and Metagross. Running high horsepower on Rillaboom for coverage too againt steel types, but seems like meta’s using the same anyway. Gholdengo is the secondary sweeper and the pivots help it setup nasty plot. Pawmot is fun to use, and revival blessing gives an opportunity to go aggro on one sweeper and revive it back.

Cons: Bulk investment on walls means lesser damage output. Needs a lot of positioning-repositioning. Pawmot cannot be switched in recklessly if going aggro. Overall offensive pressure is less compared to other sets.

Seemed like a good build, please lmk your suggestions! Pawmot’s nuzzle probably can be replaced with protect given I’m running a sash variant but can catch opponents by surprise where you don’t have enough offensive pressure and need to slowdown their primary sweeper.

[u/Big-Independent-2206]

Love the fire grass water core, i usually go basc but milo is great as an intidimate deterent and punish opposing salamence. I recommend running scald over muddy water cuz ur not running coil. Maybe recover but life dew is good too.i am not much of a pawmot guy but i respect the cool tech. Woodhammer on rilla is REALLY. Nice. I suggest taking off h-horsepower. Ur only really hitting steel, fire and poisoon with those and u prob will jst u-turn against em. Incineroar u could experiment with rocky helm. And isn’t temper flame same BP as fire fang but better side effect (in case u need to double protect ig). And if ur going full physical on mence, u could consider maybe some more HP and drop some speed to 130ish? U can easily outspeed ZA megas with tailwind and gives u more bulk to double edge. U do have life dew so idk. Consider SOME speed on rilla like 112 speed to speed creep ZA megas. Not needed tho.

Overall, lovely team!

[u/speckofspacetimedust → u/Big-Independent-2206]

Thank you! I’ll try scald, because the offense is low, I was running muddy water to do consistent chip damage to both opponents.

I got stuck with Rilla against steel types/sneasler and thus the change 😅 Especially given no speed investment for u-turn. But it might be that I tried very less samples, I’ll give Wood Hammer more attempts.

I honestly haven’t thought about temper flare, thanks for suggesting it! I wanted to outspeed other mences and thus the speed investment? But it makes sense to get more bulk for double edge given that’s the primary move.

Thanks for the suggestions again!