Metagame - SV Ubers UU Metagame Discussion (Lunala and Arc-Ghost, and Shaymin-Sky are Banned) (2024)

Good whatever it is at your place.

How was your new year? Mine was a bit busy, being wombo-comboed in UNO like a new/bricked YGO player, listening Tommy Rey's "Un año más" for the 20th year in a row or so, struggling to sleep properly due to my brother playing up until 2 AM, hearing scared dogs due to obnoxious and illegal fireworks, fumbling pretty badly a tour match's scheduling multiple times through the week, traveling to meet some members of my Vin Diesel/gypsy-sized family, getting addicted to the Forger's hearthwarming fake family, tense game of lies and somehow actual kids in animation (Even with proper babbling for Anya, while still clear in message. I'm actually impressed by that one considering english didn't got it)...

Whatever, It was tiresome so I REALLY thank a Fairy for helping me out in this one. Without further ado, let's see the matches...

+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- + ----- +| Rank | Pokemon | Use | Usage % | Win % |Net WR|+ ---- + ------------------ + ---- + ------- + ------- + ----- +| 1 | Magearna | 65 | 55.08% | 43.08% | -9 || 2 | Zacian-Hero | 59 | 50.00% | 50.85% | +1 || 3 | Dialga | 30 | 25.42% | 30.00% | -12 || 4 | Landorus | 29 | 24.58% | 51.72% | +1 || 5 | Rillaboom | 26 | 22.03% | 46.15% | -2 || 6 | Cyclizar | 24 | 20.34% | 50.00% | ±0 || 6 | Palkia-Origin | 24 | 20.34% | 45.83% | -2 || 8 | Sneasler | 22 | 18.64% | 50.00% | ±0 || 9 | Gholdengo | 21 | 17.80% | 66.67% | +7 || 9 | Dondozo | 21 | 17.80% | 47.62% | -1 || 11 | Arceus-Dark | 20 | 16.95% | 55.00% | +2 || 11 | Dragapult | 20 | 16.95% | 45.00% | -2 || 13 | Slowking-Galar | 19 | 16.10% | 68.42% | +7 || 13 | Arceus-Poison | 19 | 16.10% | 63.16% | +5 || 13 | Giratina | 19 | 16.10% | 47.37% | -1 || 13 | Palafin | 19 | 16.10% | 36.84% | -5 || 17 | Arceus-Fire | 15 | 12.71% | 40.00% | -3 || 18 | Garchomp | 14 | 11.86% | 78.57% | +8 || 29 | Chi-Yu | 13 | 11.02% | 61.54% | +3 || 20 | Arceus-Grass | 12 | 10.17% | 41.67% | -2 || 21 | Ursaluna | 11 | 9.32% | 54.55% | +1 || 22 | Corviknight | 9 | 7.63% | 55.56% | +1 || 22 | Arceus-Dragon | 9 | 7.63% | 55.56% | +1 || 24 | Masquerain | 8 | 6.78% | 75.00% | +4 || 24 | Roaring Moon | 8 | 6.78% | 62.50% | +2 || 24 | Zamazenta-Crowned | 8 | 6.78% | 62.50% | +2 || 24 | Zamazenta-Hero | 8 | 6.78% | 62.50% | +2 || 28 | Garganacl | 7 | 5.93% | 71.43% | +3 || 28 | Milotic | 7 | 5.93% | 71.43% | +3 || 28 | Ursaluna-Bloodmoon | 7 | 5.93% | 28.57% | -3 || 28 | Cinderace | 7 | 5.93% | 0.00% | -7 || 32 | Ceruledge | 6 | 5.08% | 83.33% | +4 || 32 | Blissey | 6 | 5.08% | 66.67% | +2 || 32 | Dragonite | 6 | 5.08% | 66.67% | +2 || 32 | Volcarona | 6 | 5.08% | 50.00% | ±0 || 32 | Espathra | 6 | 5.08% | 33.33% | -2 || 37 | Meowscarada | 5 | 4.24% | 60.00% | +1 || 37 | Moltres | 5 | 4.24% | 40.00% | -1 || 37 | Clefable | 5 | 4.24% | 20.00% | -3 || 40 | Gastrodon | 4 | 3.39% | 75.00% | +2 || 40 | Arceus-Psychic | 4 | 3.39% | 75.00% | +2 || 40 | Ogerpon-Wellspring | 4 | 3.39% | 75.00% | +2 || 40 | Samurott-Hisui | 4 | 3.39% | 50.00% | ±0 || 40 | Spectrier | 4 | 3.39% | 25.00% | -2 || 45 | Dialga-Origin | 3 | 2.54% | 100.00% | +3 || 45 | Arceus-Rock | 3 | 2.54% | 100.00% | +3 || 45 | Torkoal | 3 | 2.54% | 33.33% | -1 || 45 | Walking Wake | 3 | 2.54% | 33.33% | -1 || 45 | Gothitelle | 3 | 2.54% | 33.33% | -1 || 50 | Quagsire | 2 | 1.69% | 100.00% | +2 || 50 | Tornadus-Therian | 2 | 1.69% | 50.00% | ±0 || 50 | Arceus-Ice | 2 | 1.69% | 50.00% | ±0 || 50 | Palkia | 2 | 1.69% | 50.00% | ±0 || 50 | Articuno | 2 | 1.69% | 50.00% | ±0 || 50 | Quaquaval | 2 | 1.69% | 50.00% | ±0 || 50 | Amoonguss | 2 | 1.69% | 50.00% | ±0 || 50 | Cresselia | 2 | 1.69% | 50.00% | ±0 || 50 | Zapdos | 2 | 1.69% | 50.00% | ±0 || 50 | Pelipper | 2 | 1.69% | 0.00% | -2 || 50 | Baxcalibur | 2 | 1.69% | 0.00% | -2 || 50 | Ninetales-Alola | 2 | 1.69% | 0.00% | -2 || 50 | Breloom | 2 | 1.69% | 0.00% | -2 || 50 | Vikavolt | 2 | 1.69% | 0.00% | -2 || 50 | Crawdaunt | 2 | 1.69% | 0.00% | -2 || 50 | Alomomola | 2 | 1.69% | 0.00% | -2 || 66 | Arceus-Fighting | 1 | 0.85% | 100.00% | +1 || 66 | Indeedee | 1 | 0.85% | 100.00% | +1 || 66 | Armarouge | 1 | 0.85% | 100.00% | +1 || 66 | Espeon | 1 | 0.85% | 100.00% | +1 || 66 | Urshifu-Single-Strike | 1 | 0.85% | 100.00% | +1 || 66 | Mandibuzz | 1 | 0.85% | 100.00% | +1 || 66 | Dugtrio | 1 | 0.85% | 100.00% | +1 || 66 | Urshifu-Rapid-Strike | 1 | 0.85% | 0.00% | -1 || 66 | Sandy Shocks | 1 | 0.85% | 0.00% | -1 || 66 | Mamoswine | 1 | 0.85% | 0.00% | -1 || 66 | Hoopa-Unbound | 1 | 0.85% | 0.00% | -1 || 66 | Donphan | 1 | 0.85% | 0.00% | -1 || 66 | Darkrai | 1 | 0.85% | 0.00% | -1 || 66 | Iron Moth | 1 | 0.85% | 0.00% | -1 || 66 | Barraskewda | 1 | 0.85% | 0.00% | -1 || 66 | Heatran | 1 | 0.85% | 0.00% | -1 || 0 | Total | 708 | 600.00% | 50.00% | ±0 |

[Moveset & Teammates] [Combos] [Leads]

Before continuing, I need to say some important stuff.

1. To find something specific I recommend you to use Ctrl + F to search a pokémon name or move. That should help you to get the info you want because the pastebin is quite big all things considered.
2. Yes, my name is Fernando. Whatever, that's a VERY common name in my country. The dangerous thing would actually be to tell one of my surnames, which is actually scarce outside my family, even in my country.
3. Sorry for not telling you before, A Fairy, but I feel I can handle this going forward with smaller datasets, that's why I'm using the data I extracted instead of yours. Thanks to you I've learned how to use Pastebin, and also became more aware of the faults of the website. I'm very thankful for this and I swear I'll continue doing those up until the finals, because I'm a man of word.

After all of this, I think a summary of all those numbers into easier to undersand data should be helpful.
Stats spotlights

• It's becoming pointless to get data from usage at this point, but it's also too large to get all teams a proper report, not to mention they're mostly the same due to the lack of meta shake. The middle weeks are just the worst for this kind of content.
• The best performing pokémon are Garchomp, Gholdengo, Slowking-Galar and Arceus-Poison.
  • Garchomp is just a great hazard setter, with a great stat distribution and hability to play outside the lead slot due to all-rounded stats and defensive utility.
  • Gholdengo is just an evil pokemon, the ultimate spinblocker made to create a nasty hazard envorinment created so Gamefreak would convince people to switch into Scarlet/Violet over regular 1v1.
  • Slowking-Galar is a big reason why Balance works, if not the main one due to its sheer resiliance on the special side and access to future sight + slow pivoting.
  • Arceus-Poison just matches very well against a lot of the meta, most notably Zacian, Rillaboom, Sneasler and Magearna if packing ground moves.
• The worst performing pokémon were Dialga, Magearna and Cinderace.
  • The former 2 suggest there's a bit of glue syndrome of people putting pokémon on suboptimal teams, which is to be expected with those kind of swiss knifes, as well as a result of the high amount of Landorus-Incarnate on the round specifically to target those two.
  • Cinderace being this low suggests there's an adaptation who is indirecty targetting it, either via +speed Arceus, bulkier teams or more dragons (specially Garchomp) who eat this thing alive.
• Lead-wise, now Dialga became the most popular one, overtaking Magearna and Cyclizar, and so kinda did Landorus-I. In terms of leads who actually win Landorus-I, Magearna and Masquerain are the best ones. Outside of that we're still seeing Garchomp, Palafin, Cyclizar and Rillaboom like always.
• The most common teams are unironically the same as the week prior, all 3 with 5 victories btw.
  • Arceus-Dragon / Magearna / Rillaboom / Sneasler / Ursaluna / Zamazenta-Hero. This is the same team as always, the semi trick room team with Ursaluna and Rillaboom who can be very fast or very slow at will.
  • Arceus-Poison / Ceruledge / Garchomp / Gholdengo / Masquerain / Roaring Moon. This team was mentioned last week, the Ceruledge webs team as before, literally sticky due to Gholdengo and 3 potential sweepers.
  • Arceus-Dark / Dondozo / Landorus-Incarnate / Milotic / Slowking-Galar / Zacian-Hero. The semistall team I mentioned before and dedicated like 3 hours of my life to understand. 4 Boots, 2 powerful wallbreakers, double water, regenerator.

Team of the round (TotKR)

First of all, this is not technically the team who deserves to be in that podium, but the would be team of the round, Milotic Semistall, was already covered last week. Also, I feel I have to answer 3 things before proceeding.

1. Yes, it's indeed 4 dragon types. No, It's not a team made by an 8-year old, nor by Seto Kaiba (A multimillionaire with a 8-year old mind who made a Blue-eyes JET dragon). The reason is that the main answers to dragon types lack reliable recovery, therefore can be brute-forced with coverage. Its triple weaknesses to ground, Dragon, Ice and Fairy are cleverly covered.
2. You might be wondering, WTH IS DIALGA-ORIGIN DOING HERE?! Well, this needs a bit of explanation, but I think I have it. Dialga-Origin has stronger Draco Meteors, and being able to OHKO Palafin is no joke. Second, it's heavier, reaching better base damage on Zamazenta, Dragonite, Roaring moon, Baxcalibur and Garganacl with heavy slam (Although against every other relevant target it is worse due to lower attack). Aside from that it's your typical Adamant Orb Dialga with slightly better stat distribution. That being said, I'm more of a Flash cannon fan with Dialga origin due to its guaranteed OHKO against Zacian, but I'm one of the losers who got kicked out round 1 so...
3. Why out of all types of good Arceus types are we using ROCK, let alone physical with Stone Miss? Likely because of how underwhelming earth power can be at times and wanting strong extreme speeds, and they wanted a fast wallbreaker with QuakeSlide who wasn't weak to rocks.

Aside from that is another offense team; wouldn't call it HO due to its high base resiliance of their individual members and 2 pokémon being likely to have recovery. It packs physical Arceus-Rock with EdgeQuake + Extreme Speed, Tera Fairy Dialga-Origin, Double Status Infiltrator Dragapult, Dragonite, Focus Sash Dragon Tail + Scale Shot Garchomp and Encore Air Baloon Magearna.

From what I've noticed, the team doesn't seem very reliant on Tera, and in fact it oftentimes seemed to prefer its original typing; If I had to guess it's because tera is used defensively to deal with clear checks, like many "pseudo gym leader" teams do, and in most cases those weaknesses were irrelevant because it relies more on 2HKOs and just beating most stuff reliably in a 1v1.
Seems like a rather intuitive team in terms of gameplay, with Dialga and Garchomp for leads, Magearna and Dragapult for support, Arceus and Dragonite for setup, and relies on basic resistances for switches. Also and if my logic doesn't fail me, that arceus is running swords dance while Dragonite is using roost and extreme speed and Dragapult Dragon Darts, but that are just suppositions.

Conclussion
This was the end of a year. While the tournament will not change, the meta will. The process of making those will, and my life itself, mostly learning about myself and why I'm the way I am. I think no analysis will be complete without quoting the previous weeks.

And that would be it. Farewell and sorry for causing a mess in QotD due to insisting on my point; even if it was true, one should not try to cause aggressive conflict, because no one wins in a war... Yeah, I watched too much anime last week.