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Welcome to the new UU Cores thread! The purpose of this thread is for the community to post and discuss various cores that work well in the metagame.
As you all know, a core is a group of (usually 2 or 3) Pokemon in the team that work together toward a specific goal. These goals include breaking through opposing teams (Offensive), covering each other's weaknesses while providing the team with a solid set of resistances (Defensive), and checking important threats in the UU metagame while providing offensive pressure to the opposing team (Balanced). All cores are welcome in this thread, as long as we have to follow these certain guidelines:
- Make sure to test out your core before posting it here to ensure that it performs well in the metagame. Try to keep slashes to a minimum.
- Include a short but concise description or explanation of the core, which include:
- how the core works
- how to use the core
I realized that keeping this thread up and running all alone is quite hard to pull off. Therefore, I made some decisions to make this thread organized.
- I have put up a Council to help me decide whether the certain cores are worth archiving (though this shouldn't stop the masses from discussing). For now, let's welcome YABO, Sacri', Shiba, Pearl, and Spoof to the council, with moderators Hogg and King UU being the overseers of the thread.
- I, along with the Council, will handpick cores from previous threads that could still work in the current metagame and, with the approval of the Council, I will put them up here as well.
I encourage everyone to follow this format for easy archiving:
Type of Core: Balanced
These two Pokemon cover each other's weaknesses well. Crobat handles Grass-types, Heracross, and other threats to Swampert while Swampert takes care of Electric-, Rock-, and Steel-types that trouble Crobat. Swampert is EVd to be as physically bulky as possible to take hits from Pokemon such as Mega Aerodactyl and Entei. Crobat is EV'd to outspeed Adamant Feraligatr after one Dragon Dance, while still retaining enough bulk to check threats such as Mega Beedrill and Heracross. They provide their team with good hazard and hazard-clearing support and together, check many relevant threats in the metagame.
Swampert @ Leftovers
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 240 HP / 16 Atk / 252 Def
Relaxed Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Scald
- Earthquake
- Roar
Crobat @ Black Sludge
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 248 HP / 44 Def / 212 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Brave Bird
- U-turn
- Defog
- Roost
Here are the cores worth using; feel free to search them by play style!
OFFENSIVE || BALANCED || DEFENSIVE
Looking for the cores in the past metagames? Here are some of the archived cores!
MAY-JUL 2016 || FEB-APR 2016
OFFENSIVE || BALANCED || DEFENSIVE
Looking for the cores in the past metagames? Here are some of the archived cores!
MAY-JUL 2016 || FEB-APR 2016
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