Soup-er Effective! Tournament Champion Team Report
Zuppa di Frutti, the “The Fruit Soup Team”!
Hola! I’m Lorenzo Profeta. I am a 25-year-old from Italy. I started playing Pokémon during the Scarlet and Violet era. This is the team that my friends (Shao, Mava, Ghiso, Francy) and I used for the Bologna Special 2025, where I finished 31st overall! I also have won the Number One Fanatics Pride Tournament in June!
Team Building Process:
For our building process, We’re huge fans of Terapagos, but since the turtle became weaker due to meta and format shifts, we decided to use another Calm Mind user and started building around Lunala.
The 🍇 to our Soup!
Lunala @ Leftovers
Ability: Shadow Shield
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 92 HP / 204 Def / 124 SpA / 4 SpD / 84 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
Moongeist Beam
Moonblast
Calm Mind
Protect
If you’re familiar with Terapagos, you know that Calm Mind users benefit greatly from having Grassy Surge.
The 🥝 to our Soup!
Rillaboom @ Assault Vest
Ability: Grassy Surge
Level: 50
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 76 Def / 172 SpD / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature
Wood Hammer
Grassy Glide
U-turn
Fake Out
Rillaboom is a fantastic Pokémon for Calm Mind gameplay, providing utility with Fake Out to help set up Calm Mind safely and U-turn for positioning and mid-turn pivoting. Its Grassy Terrain helps Lunala recover HP, restoring its Shadow Shield and allowing Lunala to stick around much longer.
The 🍎 to our Soup!
Incineroar @ Safety Goggles
Ability: Intimidate
Level: 50
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 244 HP / 4 Atk / 92 Def / 76 SpD / 92 Spe
Careful Nature
Knock Off
Taunt
Parting Shot
Fake Out
The next Pokémon we added was Incineroar. With its great typing and supportive moveset, it helps Lunala set up Calm Minds using Fake Out, and provides Parting Shot to lower the opponent’s Attack and Special Attack. Taunt is excellent for stopping opposing setup-dependent Pokémon like Terapagos and Leech Seed Calyrex-Ice, while Knock Off adds solid damage and utility. Incineroar’s Intimidate further lowers the opponent’s physical damage output, helping Lunala take even less damage.
The 🍋 to our Soup!
Miraidon @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Hadron Engine
Level: 50
Tera Type: Electric
EVs: 140 HP / 36 Def / 124 SpA / 4 SpD / 204 Spe
Modest Nature
Electro Drift
Draco Meteor
Volt Switch
Snarl
At this point, we added Miraidon. Its Electric Terrain was useful in many scenarios, and Miraidon itself is a super powerful restricted Pokémon. Since we don’t like gambling on speed ties, we chose to give it Choice Scarf to consistently outspeed opposing Miraidon, while also retaining the ability to OHKO Koraidon. Snarl provided another layer of support by lowering the opponent’s Special Attack, further helping Lunala survive longer.
The 🥥 to our Soup!
Volcarona @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Flame Body
Level: 50
Tera Type: Dragon
EVs: 252 HP / 228 Def / 28 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
Fiery Dance
Rage Powder
Will-O-Wisp
Tailwind
During testing, we found that our team struggled against Calyrex-Shadow and Zamazenta compositions. To address this, we added Volcarona, which perfectly walls Zamazenta by resisting both Steel and Fighting-type attacks, while dealing damage with its Rocky Helmet item, whilst having a chance to burn opposing Pokémon from its ability, Flame Body. Rage Powder provides redirection support, helping Lunala set up Calm Mind or allowing other offensive threats to get damage off safely. We included Will-O-Wisp to further reduce the damage output of physical restricted Pokémon like Calyrex-Ice and Zamazenta by burning them, while Tailwind helped us gain speed control in situations where Lunala was slower than the opposing Pokémon.
The 🫐 to our Soup!
Urshifu-Rapid-Strike @ Focus Sash
Ability: Unseen Fist
Level: 50
Tera Type: Stellar
EVs: 4 HP / 236 Atk / 84 Def / 4 SpD / 180 Spe
Adamant Nature
Surging Strikes
Close Combat
Aqua Jet
Detect
In testing, we found the need to add something for the Kyogre matchup. We decided on Urshifu Rapid-Strike, as it’s already one of the strongest Pokémon in the format. Its ability to hit through Protect and its signature move, Surging Strikes, which always lands critical hits AND bypasses Sturdy and Focus Sash, made it too good to leave out. Adding Urshifu also completed the team’s Fire-Water-Grass core, creating excellent offensive and defensive synergy between the team’s support pieces. We rounded out Urshifu’s moveset with Close Combat, its strongest Fighting-type move, and Aqua Jet, which provides priority to finish off weakened targets. The Focus Sash ensured Urshifu could take at least one hit.
Using The Team:
Pokepaste: https://pokepast.es/37ffa9d06ef67c77
Rental Code: WR73BQ
The team is very strong, and Calm Mind Lunala is effective in almost every matchup. For example, it performs exceptionally well against Miraidon, Calyrex-Shadow, and Zamazenta. In most cases, with double Fake Out support, you can safely set up a Calm Mind and then spam damage with Moonblast and Moongeist Beam. Volcarona is a strong redirector, and with the help of Rocky Helmet and its ability, it completely walls Zamazenta. What about the matchups where you can’t play the Calm Mind mode? No problem! Tera-Stellar Urshifu and Miraidon are here to provide massive damage from turn one whenever you need to play aggressively.
If you want to use the team, the Poképaste and rental code are above. A special shoutout to Ghiso (@Ghiso on X), who posted the full paste on Twitter after the Bologna Special Championships. The team is solid, and if you like Terapagos, you’ll love Calm Mind Lunala. I want to thank my friends again for helping with the team, and a huge shoutout to my team, SAX (@SaxTournaments on X). They’re basically a second family to me.
