What are all the viable team archetypes in Gen 8 LC?

Basically the title. Team archetypes include things like Hyper Offense, stall, weather subsets, terrain teams, etcetera. I want to know which ones are the most viable and what makes them viable (team staples, matchups, etc). Thanks in advance.

Side note: Don’t tell me to ask this on Smogon, thanks.

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PlaystyleLC is an offense oriented meta compared to defense, because of the level 5 mechanics favor offense and it scales much higher compared to defense which is why stall is not existent at all. I suggest watchingthis videowhich goes into in-depth of why stall is bad.

With lots of sweepers and wallbreakers, it naturally becomes a HO meta. The best set-up sweepers and breakers at the moment areGrookeyandScraggy.

WeatherSun is the best weather with Vulpix being its setter. Second is hail which is also usable as Amaura also providing Aurora Veil support. While Sand has a natural setter in Hippopotas, Grookey is very troublesome which is why sand isn’t that good and popular. Finally, Rain sucks a lot due to 1. Not having a Drizzle Pokemon means you’re relied on Rain Dance 2. Grookey wrecks you.

Terrain teamsTerrains aren’t that great. They don’t offer much power now compared to the 1.5x boost back in SM, and they just end quickly. You can’t run a Terrain Extender over Life Orb / Eviolite because you lose a lot in power/bulk.

Still, if you had wanted to try a Grass Spam team here’s a team withSD Unburden Treecko + Grookey.

Hyper OffenseThe best HO right now is undoubtedly Webs. After Vullaby ban, It’s been even considered to be suspected or can be quick banned. Just a tl;dr is that Scraggy under Webs is broken and easy to spam. The best Web setter isDewpiderand abuser isScraggy.

While using Webs, you have to take care of stuff like Magic Bounce Natu which is problematic, though with a bit of right plays you can get around it. Apart from Webs, there’s also Onix and Dwebble HO which are just as good with mainly comprising of hazard stack aka Spikes. Here’s aSun HO + Dwebblethat’s very easy to use and good as well.

That’s all, hope I helped!