what's up guys this is pink across today I'm going to be going over the general team building process that I use and I'll be walking you guys through an example now for more specific guides like how to build offense balance Hazard stack hyper offense Etc these videos will be coming in the future but this is a process you can apply to all of these play styles step one is always going to be selecting a viable Pokemon or core to build around now in this case I chose sinistra I really like it in the current metag game really good against a lot of score sets a lot of body press setup Pokemon in the tier right now it's an incredible spin blocker really really nice with the uh heat proof plus strength saap combination it can actually even with certain terot types really annoy gouging fire can set up on even cinderace really massive defense stat combined with that strength saap and combind uh can make it really really difficult for some teams to deal with and with the signature move of matcha gacha you can even inflict status when facing bulk your teams so but the the main appeal is the spin blocking capabilities this thing is the best spin blocker I can think of which is going to influence uh how I select this next step so step two really big step this is the one most people most newer players Miss is identifying which play style suits your Pokemon best so and there could be multiple this could be this is the point at which you can start to Branch off into multiple versions cuz there are many different ways to execute One play style maybe you think sinisterra would be great on a hyper off offense but the one I'm going to try today is Hazard stack and what immediately came to mind for me was just one of these these classic tinglu leads like the the Dual Hazard because I think H the uh offensive Hazard stack would probably suit Sinister best but there are a ton of things we could do I mean there are a lot of versions so I could take this and I could say well maybe I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket maybe I I don't want to do that I could do something like landras you know with Stealth Rock and maybe a uh Samurai R that's that's another way this is another good solid offensive Hazard stack core and there there are more I could maybe I don't like landras maybe instead I want to go with landeras plus say or maybe I don't like samod I can go with an ogre Pawn Wellspring and run spikes on it like there are a lot of things I could do uh for the sake of this video so you don't see me making tons of different versions although normally I would I'm just going to focus on this Ting loo one so let's hone in on this one for a moment now step three is going to be identifying the best supporting partners for your Pokemon this is another step where people really get tripped up because they think defensively really quickly they'll think okay well Sina and tinglu oh they're both weak to ice maybe I should add on like a Heatran or some kind of like a king Gambit and we might end up adding that this a good Pokemon but that's not how you want to think at the beginning you want to think offensiv L you want to think what's going to suit this core best in the process of breaking and actually winning the game CU if you start thinking defensively uh you're going to regret it later if you start with a bulky core finding offensive Pokemon or ways to break later is much harder and a more Awkward way to build so as a rule offensive Synergy first defensive Synergy later and one thing that really jumps out to me is weile reason for that is Sina is kind of notorious for letting in Roaring Moon as you can see you know the double stabs it's probably we're going to be running some ghost coverage Shadow baller hack and um as the last com so this is double not very effective against raring Moon kind of set up fodder so we want to have something that can punish that and weile is the best at doing that ice Shard being able to Super effectively hit rowing Moon before Terra flying and after Terra flying is really nice and this also actually does another great thing it gives us knockoff on the hazard stack and another great thing remember I I um because Sina is really good at blocking spin but it can't do anything against defog we can actually go Terra ghost on weile and really take advantage of corvite if we run a Terra ghost set so this this could be really good now one other thing I like to do is I don't generally put in sets until I'm finished with the team I like it keeps my mind open but in this case I can tell that Terra ghost weile is going to be really fantastic because of how well it synergizes with Hazard stack as a whole but in particular how sinista can cover all of the rapid Spinners and weile can really take advantage of the defogger of corvite so this is what I've thought is the best notice how weile works on so many levels with Sina and works so well on Hazard stack that's what made this jump out of me you don't just want to find something good you don't want to be like okay well you know Sina can't really break immediately and uh well a choice banded dragapult can that's not really a great reason you want to find something that works on many levels with the Pokemon you're building around like weile does now step four is deciding on additional supporting Pokemon this is the most awkward team building stage you're not quite at the point where you're patching up holes or adding in stuff like hazards and Hazard control so you know exactly what you need to add uh cuz as you get to where the end the last one or two Pokemon you're usually forced to add certain things but you're not you don't have the same Freedom you do when adding the first couple of Pokémon so this is always a bit of an awkward stage usually at this stage I just pick something that feels right and kind of jump right into it so in this case something that's that's appealing to me is Raging bolt and I like this because it puts pressure on corvite and remember since Sina is not Gango it's not blocking defog I like that it gives us immediate power which we lacked before weile doesn't have the doesn't have crazy attack like 120 without high base power moves I'm not running triple axle um it's not ideal so having this gives us additional priority strong stronger priority uh pressures corvite really just a good General Pokemon and the other thing I like about raging bolt here is that the ground types that really threaten and uh bully raging bolt you think things like Tingo things like specially defensive glcore Tusk Treads Lando all of these are setup fod for our boy sinista so never forget the original Synergy of the core so I I think raging bolt is a pretty good fit here now can we support this I see we've got some major weaknesses we've got Dragon weakness fairy weakness emerging can we cover it we'll find out maybe I'll end up having to take raging bolt off the team before we continue if you guys are liking the video please subscribe like leave a comment all of that really helps out so now we're getting into the later stages uh this is where you got to add the basic requirements that if your team doesn't already have them so things like removal Revenge Killers uh assault cure switch in immediate power hazards Hazard control resistance to all types similar things like that and we're doing pretty well on most of those counts although uh we don't have a resistance to all types so that's mostly what we're going to need to cover now I would say especially in generation 9 you don't want to call anything a team requirement right like you don't need removal if you're running a boot spam you don't necessarily need you don't need Revenge killers on a stall team you don't need assault cure switch and if you're running hyper offense so use your best judgment and see if something is absolutely necessary or just generally a good idea uh cuz it's not going to be not going to be the same all the time one thing that I actually really like the look of here to fix at least our our Dragon problem is King Gambit and I feel like I want to run an air balloon given just how this how ground weak this team is we might end up adding a flying Pokemon for last uh but we also definitely if we add on a king Gambit we definitely need our last to be a Fire Res I mean a fairy resist and I don't like Corvin ier scarm here too passive so it looks like we're probably we are going to have to go with air balloon Gambit Ian we can check levitate no nothing with levitate is really doing what we want either laddio is a bit too slow a bit too frail so one thing that really does jump out of me here is V Corona gives us a speedy setup Pokemon I I really really like what it does for just adding that additional thread of a sweeper to the team and also um really just a nice nice fairy resist like everything on this if you look at the fairy types in the tier a bulky and we're probably going to go with a bulkier morning Sunset bulky Morning Sun Volcarona shuts down almost all of these the one it doesn't that does look very threatening for the team is primarina uh but I think we can handle primarina okay we do outp spe with raging bolt we can put on pressure with King Gambit we'll probably run out a speedy King Gambit so as to not be outsped by primarina but I think Prim Marine is a little scary so we'll keep our eye and see how the team does in testing but I would say this is looking pretty solid now at this stage we're going to move on to step six so this is check if you lose to anything and patch up holes so let's see is there anything we lose to I'm just going to look through the tier is there anything that you think wow I just get completely Smoked by this Pokemon I don't love facing dragul but I guess what team does think we're okay against it as far as a team can be gcore is pretty scary depending on what terot type and what set it is but I don't think there's any particular any one gly score set that can really ruin our day no mear probably primarina is the biggest threat we've seen so far we can handle roaring Moon we can handle Superior uh Volcarona is terrifying for our team like if it sets up before ours does we're pretty much toast so we're definitely going definitely going terier on King Gambit here but doesn't look like we lose to anything so now it's time we're going to just fill in the sets so I'm thinking we want to go if we don't have removal on this team so we're going to want to run a lot of boots not all but definitely mostly I think we can just go Max defense on this I don't I don't see a particular need to do anything else Terra type I like steel get a toxic Community I would say especially with the the heat proof I do like it I could I could go p poison poison could be cool here and what that would also do is allow us to have a really good Sun match up into things like a gouging fire it's a tough call Steel or poison I think jeez that's that's a really tough it's a really tough one I think I'm let's let's give poison a try let's give poison a try and see what happen actually no that's well yeah let's give poison It Go Tingo um I guess we'll go probably Terra ghost it's just if we like really really want to Stack hazards up on an iron Treads or something Whirlwind earthquake I would say is always pretty much the best moves on this because of the prim primarina weakness normally I would run defensive on this but because of how weak we are to primarina I think I actually want to go specially defensive and I do like the red card here weile as we've EST we got to go boots on this guy Terra Ghost with the I prefer pickpocket that's just me and yeah this set looks good I think definitely this Terra ghost um you can the fact that you can just sweep through body press Pokemon with this is hilarious raging bolt definitely just booster energy dragon pulse Thunderbolt thunder clap and comine and we we'll go with the standard Terra fairy I usually don't try to go too crazy with my terot types actually we will do we want to go flying here I think we actually do want to go flying cuz we only have air balloon King gabit as our flying res or uh flying immunity and that is not a great one so we want to outspeed King Gambit of course hit that that 219 there we go Max modest and we can put the rest in HP and a little bit in defense just so we have the uneven HP got to make sure the Pokemon are female almost forgot don't want to show off that you don't have contact moves don't want to lose to cute charm Supreme Overlord ability check he Pro V pick bucket and there's there's nothing worse than loading up into a game and realizing you forgot the ability like you've got a defiant King Gambit or worst of all a glcore with Hyper cutter so standard set here Iron Head Sucker Punch as I said I think we do want to go faster on this guy so we're not getting outsped by primarina and I definitely like a bulkier Volcarona here so I think the Terra dragon set fits pretty well Terra Blast fiery dance Morning Sun and these guys like to go timid and they like to hit 282 that means you can outspeed outspeed uh dragapult after one quiver Dan 248 HP and the rest in defense so now we're going to move on to step seven and this is the step that's going to take the longest which is test and adjust so I'm going to go on ladder and let's see how this team does okay loading up into one fast so this is this is an interesting I'd say we definitely faced um a team that will give us a challenge right off the bat I I feel like I actually really like sinistra here sinistra seems great but let's let's see I do think we just start off with tinglu and stack hazards I I don't see any removal so let's do it let's do that we do have to be aware here we do have to be aware of this ogre Pawn this is going to be a big pain the good thing is it can only tear a grass so our weave V could definitely go crazy this game if we can find some way to wear down the gargan acle yeah I see a lot of ways to win this I I could see Volcarona winning I could see sinisterra winning I could see weile winning even King Amit I could really see winning so let's I'm I'm going to just not get uh bogged down in the possibilities too fast this can superpower me if it's life orb that'll do a chunk see how much but okay he's just going to go into glcore I'm really happy with this I do not mind trading okay so toxic if this is not if this is toxic EQ our can Gambit completely walls this and might just straight up win the game that would be that would be incredible news and it's also not sword dance which is good because I would say sword dance is probably the hardest set for my team to deal with the one problem though is we will need to start knocking stuff off cuz I would say based on how this team is Orient oh it's U-turn okay so the it's not going to be walled but uh interesting let's just get up the final we're probably going to get superpowered here but it won't kill okay the guard comes in and it's not boots that's awesome so I'm going to Whirlwind that GAR just so it's taking even more damage the next time and I'll go for um go for Whirlwind here why not we're probably just going to die just let the Ting loo go down I'm liking how the team is it it it feels good it's functioning well I mean if I ran into a hatterene with the Ting loot lead that would be unpleasant but I'm so far I'm liking how the team is playing we just got to get if we get a little bit of chip on that tinglu well I guess tinglu and the gcore we need to chip before a Volcarona win so maybe that's a little little bit more of a distant possibility than I would like to admit is it time to just go Sina and go for this I feel like it might be ah but this thing it's gets Encore it gets a whole bunch of annoying stuff let's go raging bolt here and click Dragon pulse because that's going to chip the Tingo and I think we we might we might even actually beat this Tingo on switch in actually let me yeah I I I was considering the crits there is bad I think that means we guaranteed die to earthquake from Ting luno but I would say I was was considering clicking comine but with this thing having Encore that's not worth the risk okay but we're going to just Dragon pulse cool I say we just Thunderbolt I don't think Gango can kill us with anything but okay well played and we see this is Boots so I I actually I see no reason not to just go into the teapot here and I don't I don't see this Ting Le staying in I don't see it's staying in I'm going to go into weile on what I predict will be the gly score okay the Gango comes in I think I think it would be worth just taking the Tera here and losing weile would it yeah let's let's go for the knockoff actually H weile is good Weil's good let's yeah I'm going to knockoff if he teras he teras he'll Tera a Gango and it probably won't live the next entry Hazard so he'll really be tossing away his Tera if he decides to go for this play which I is valid I could see it happening but that would uh that would definitely open up the door for sinista big time he's thinking about it I think he's actually not going to teror usually when people weigh like this they're trying to go you into thinking that they are going to make some big play and then he's just going to like sack it or something and click Make It Rain or Focus blast hoping I make some kind of switch but no I'm just going to stay in keep it simple click knockof lot of time lot of time on this turn well while just sitting here I hate electric terrain as a play style I think it's just awful just an awful okay there we go as I figured he was kind of waiting to make it seem like he was going to make some big play that was never coming sinistra how would sinistra take a psycho boost I'm going to venture a guess and say not well what is this set I'm looking at okay well anyway let's let's get rid of this psycho boo boost and it's not life orb it's sash works okay it wouldn't take it well not well at all let's go raging bolt I think that's pretty Expendable at this stage and uh yep I kind of figured that would be what was coming out so part ofy wants to just go into Sinister right here I feel like that's not actually not not a bad call the other option is actually going weile and and hitting the terror ghost which could be something uh I'm just going to go Sina and go for the Comm mind here I think that's pretty solid because if the gly score comes in I'm clicking Terra poison okay let's do this I think it's got to be Terra poison and then matcha gotcha and earthquake is doing not much okay and that does come out but but I think I can think I can catch something coming in here I don't think anything on his team can take this machacha well at all I did get red there a little bit but I I don't think it's the end of the world okay the ogre Pond comes in that's fine uh let's let's Shadow Ball hits everything pretty well I don't think the tinglu would come in here I I don't think the U-turn is happening I think you've got to commit and Encore would be fine I don't mind spamming Macha gotcha be Encore SD knockoff yeah probably just going to let it go and you know thing is this is so likely to have Encore I'm not sure if I want to go for the strength sap here know let's um I think I can just strength sap this thing absolutely into Oblivion if it decides to to Encore me so okay it's just going to Encore me to Shadow Ball which is solid I'll take that I definitely do see King Gambit as being a very likely way that this game ends I believe the Deoxys is going to kill me with a psycho boost yeah 100% does uh let's let's go weile and Volcarona on the superpower because this Volcarona is just not that helpful and if we get a uh if we get a flame body that would be very very nice no flame body that's that's fine fine can't really complain about that and I think I'll go into Sina here on the okay on that and let's um let's strengths up Earthquake is not going to do that much now the probably the the Deoxys comes in h but he might be yeah okay so well played well played uh and this time I think I will go into V Corona because I think I I think the uh yeah superpowers is coming off I'll fiery dance here try to get a little bit of damage off if I can get this into ice Shard range that would be really nice okay and that that's going to happen let's go for another one why not probably going to get poisoned here oh no not even that's wonderful oh I'll go for another one the gargan akle comes in that's fine I can go into sinistra on that very easily and just start spamming Macha Goa until a tera happens yeah I'm liking the fact that this team is doing well CU usually the more bulky Hazard Stacks beat the more offensive Hazard Stacks so okay the GL score goes down that's wonderful news and this is going to have to Psycho boost to take me out here so I feel like is this a foolish play to go into let's let's go into weile and I can go into Volcarona here and fish for another flame body CU that's kind of all Volcarona is going to do at this point un fortunately we don't get the flame body there but I can FY dance this turn and then yeah the psycho boost eventually is going to just come out and take take that going to go Gambit and I think switch into Sina because I'm expecting a tera here either a tera or a switch and either way I think Sinister just is the the man for the job in retro respect maybe going into we violent ice sharding would have been a little bit better cuz that would kind of force the chip I need for King Gambit sucker so probably in retrospect not a great call but the team is on trial here not my midnight lading decisions this guy is really taking his time okay let's see what's going to happen here and yep sure enough the uh the Tera comes out and it's fighting which is cool let's go weile here okay and the tinglu comes out yeah I mean let's SD why not right actually okay how much is that's let me let me think a little harder about that play okay no icicle crash is the better play here okay guard comes in let's see I think I can if I hit this we're we're good against gar holy crap that's a fat Pokemon I'm going to sword stance here cuz protect is likely yeah okay that's really good that's really really good I figure the protect would be happening and if it didn't you know worst case uh scenario uh Weil got salt cured and I would have been able to survive that um I would have been able to take out the gar and survive that 1,000% I Shir here just get this thing into Sucker Punch range so I go k Gambit here and I'm going to double into sinista this is actually kind of like this is a pretty much guaranteed win situation for me because if he predicts it and takes out the sinista then I can't get Whirlwind okay so actually no ah but the um this is now a little bit tricky cuz there yeah there is the ruination I'm going to machacha here or no that's a joke Shadow Ball in case of the the the um cuz I I do have two chances to Flinch the Tingo in retrospect though I'm I'm thinking maybe not this was not the best call okay so yeah the psycho boost does come off I can go k gabit here and I I definitely Sucker Punch here okay and the Tingo comes out so I don't need any boosts to kill the Deoxys I don't believe yeah so it's time to Iron head and I just need one Flinch okay or that that'll do so that should be game I don't think there's anything yeah I'm just going to Iron Head Iron Head twice yeah the with the odds of ruination missing the two iron had chances to get the Flinch the odds were in my favor there and this will this will finish off the Deoxys he's got all there's no way this thing has like Stealth Rock I don't know what what game he's uh what who who who he thinks is fooling I'm not clicking swords stance good game okay yeah so well that is one of many when you test this I would need to do that so many times to determine that this team is really good and eventually I'm probably going to run into something that's going to make me say oh gosh maybe I need to change something and when I do I don't know maybe I get destroyed by a gouging fire or something and then I decide to go maybe ter a fery on sin to help with the gouging fire match up right so there are things you can change but um and that that's step eight is repeating steps right sometimes you need to go back sometimes you might determine that even though as many tests as you do and as many adjustments as you make the team just isn't working it could be the initial core you had wasn't able to be made into a great team so the team building process is uh iterative and you'll probably cycle through many times before you get an ultimate product that you're happy with so just to kind of go over what those steps are again step one select a viable Pokemon or core to build around step two identify a play style that suits your chosen Pokemon best step three identify the best supporting partners for your Pokemon and make sure to focus on offensive Synergy first step four decide on additional supporting Pokemon step five add basic requirements if your team doesn't already have them step six check if you lose to anything just go through the tier and patch up holes step seven test and adjust and step eight repeat steps it's a cycle I'll see you guys next time and have a great day