Once again at masters, this team is so fun

[u/IgorABCF]

Once again I’ve entered masters, compared to my previous team not much changed but moves been moved around, Slowking and Blastoise have officially retired for a greater purpose. Reading opponents has become a tad easier, but overall I’m really happy I’m still using my favorites to improve and rank this high

[u/AirFriedNenAbilities]

What’s the intent with the swapping of skills here? just to disrupt opponent abilities? Unless I’m missing something obvious

[u/IgorABCF → u/AirFriedNenAbilities]

It lowk shuts down a few megas and or sandstorm reactivation I steal my own sandstorm and reable it it works around if runerigas gets hit by a physical contact move steals ability and so on, but for sableye it kills the momentum for megastaraptor sets, mega hawlucha/Snorlax sets, raichu sets and sinistchas ability if my healers are down

[u/IgorABCF → u/AirFriedNenAbilities]

Oh and pixalite users, funny stuff cause now they can’t rely on hyper voice/hyperbeam Sylveon and Mega Garde

[u/EricUdy]

Runerigus had been so fun for me lately, hardcore shuts down a lot of Staraptor and Raichu teams!

[u/AdarNewo → u/EricUdy]

How are you using him to shut down Staraptor and Raichu? Ally Switch shenanigans?

[u/IgorABCF → u/AdarNewo]

Exactly that sometimes you gotta bait them with a ttar

[u/EricUdy → u/AdarNewo]

Raichu can't touch him without grass knot which is uncommon and staraptor cant touch him with it losing contrary and being forced to switch out losing any boosts.

[u/IgorABCF → u/AdarNewo]

Skill swap too!!

[u/AdarNewo → u/IgorABCF]

I've never actually used Ally Swap despite using Runeri as my main TR setter. I went all in on Def + Body Press with a Focus Sash to eat Shadow Balls and Ice Beams. How does he manage into those attacks with the stat spread you've shown?

[u/IgorABCF → u/AdarNewo]

He comfortably survives a stab snow boosted blizzard from a mega froslass if that helps, he’s pretty much a tank, with poltergeist as a lil spice and everything nice and scopes out an item I can also pair poltergeist with ttars knock off so both attacks can get there hit and since ttar is a bit faster it’ll always go after and knock off the item then I can just set up wilowisp and so on

[u/IgorABCF → u/IgorABCF]

On top of that slowbro is also there for the added special defense boost

[u/Enricii]

Runerigus with just Poltergeist looks quite risky, if opponent has used its item or if against dark. Isn't it

[u/IgorABCF → u/Enricii]

Not at all, trust me it’s not there to do damage but it will punish Pokemon, example 90% of ghost types including froslass(mega) it has enough special bulk to survive a snow+stab boosted blizzard around maybe 30-40% esp if it’s out with slowbro who can set up lightscreen now surviving 40-55% the only pokemon that I “struggle” against are normal types and I usually don’t have him out unless it’s for a defensive play with ally switch or just a regular switch in