[Guide] Stall: SLAC Guide

[Tanamar]

My my, it heartens me to see that the Uranium Comp. scene is actually alive and well beyond the veil I rarely pierce! Especially when it creates such a lovely stall team such as this, one of my favorite styles of comp. teams beyond Weather centric ones! Who needs offense when you can slooooowly force your foe's Pokemon to suffer a painful, prolonged defeat, and endure whatever they dish out?

I have a few questions about the SLAC composition itself, though. Namely, why is Corsoreef used instead of an Evolite Corsola? Unless that Item isn't implemented in the sim, I don't see the reason to run it's Evolved form, in all honesty. I'm also curious to know more of your thoughts on the future outcome of Stall Teams when everything you mentioned is implement, but I suppose that can wait until then.

With all that said, I'm looking forward to future posts like this, mate! Honestly wish there was more of them here, as that would go a long way of rekindling my interest in Comp. beyond the occasional foray, tbh...

Eviolite Corsola and Corsoreef actually have pretty similar bulk.
252 SpA Chimaconda Hidden Power Grass vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Corsoreef: 156-184 (40.7 - 48%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252 SpA Chimaconda Hidden Power Grass vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Eviolite Corsola: 120-144 (38.3 - 46%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
The reason I've chosen Corsoreef is, that it can hold Leftovers, isn't totally incapacitated by Knock Off and can deal more damage through Mirror Coat then Corsola can.

As to future changes: Honestly Corsoreef will most likely be replaced by Gargryph when it's fully functional. It can more or less do the same and has at least a bit of offensive pressure with Stone Edge (yeah Corsoreef can not do damage at all without Sharp Coral. Earth Power even with full investment and modest nature fails to OHKO uninvested Chimaconda). Other changes will most likely include Roar on at least two different members of the team to prevent Substitute from ruining everything as well as a way to deal with Infernal Blade once Luxelong gets hit super effectively by that. Other than that we honestly have to wait and see as I can imagine a few things that could happen. Stall in Uranium just has the pretty big problem that there are no Unaware pokemon that could stand in the way of boosters.

Btw if you want to see SLAC in action: Here are two replays for you ^^
https://sim.pokemonuranium.org/replays/a...bae17ce4ab
Unfortunately a sim update kinda broke old replays and therefor the chat in the replay is a bit of a mess, but it still shows off strenghts and weaknesses of SLAC stall rather well (especially Antarki when there are only physical attackers around lol).  Gliscor was a huge problem here obviously since once it activated Poison Heal it's a huge problem for Antarki.
https://sim.pokemonuranium.org/replays/3...84a7c4349c
Back when Vinii and I had this battle, we had Gen 5 weather which means the rain in this battle never went away. This replay shows how vital and at the same time flawed Corsoreef is for the team. Took special hits all day long but also gave relatively free switches every time. It kinda forces you to predict switches in some scenarios.

I used to have more replays of SLAC, but the replay limit on the sim forced me to delete some for the UCS ^^

Btw if you want to use weatherteams: In the latest update Stormbringer was basically made into Drizzle for now, which means it can be boosted by Damp Rock. Rain is a fantastic playstyle atm because of that.