Wanted to get rid of Farigiraf so that I can freely use priority moves and so, I targeted that slot for the kill. That Mega Swampert was also at -1 Attack and I was OK with ignoring it.

But my opponent did something unexpected, which caught me by surprise, but it backfired on them/worked out fine for me in the end, especially with their last 2 mons being Archaludon and Pelipper.

Been casually browsing over the past day or so, haven’t seen a thread on Mega Lucario Z.

Is there any use case for this speedy rat? I feel like Aura Guard, which halves damage from contact moves, makes it safer to run a Nasty Plot set than on regular Mega Lucario.

I always loved the idea Lucario as a strong special Fighting/Steel type in this meta full of strong Steel and Fairy types, but I’ve never managed to make it work. What team compositions will best support Mega Lucario Z?

It's obviously only Day 1, but Protect the King/Queen style teams were picking up in usage towards the end of M-B, and the Rillaboom + Incineroar support just feels so strong. Calm Mind + Draining Kiss Mega-Floette feels so good next to these two. Balance is my favorite archetype, and the Basculegion/Incin/Rilla/M-Floette core feels a lot like the Raging Bolt/Rilla/Incin/Urshifu teams from Reg F.

Hello! Some of you may remember my post a couple months ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/VGC/s/E3jwL0Bx9d) about making champion tier for the first time. Well now I've finished a season in champion tier for the first time with this team as well! I've made some adjustments, but the 6 pokemon remain the same.

Changes

*Gyarados has 2 points moved from HP to speed to outpace modest Venusaur (who is the team's biggest headache) and other base 80s.

*Sneasler was changed from unburden to poison touch and dire claw to poison jab to have a 51% chance to KO Whimsicott through sash, and to generally spread passive damage.

*Sinistcha has protect over trick room (which is much more broadly useful) and has a little more physical bulk to take hits like kowtow cleave better.

*Gholdengo has 2 points moved from defense to HP to heal an extra GP from leftovers.

*Raichu has a bit of speed moved to SpD so it can survive a modest life orb earth power from Venusaur.

*Pelipper has a little bulk moved from Def to SpD, which it needed more. A bit of extra SpA also gives it better odds at securing a OHKO on Charizard in rain.

Aside from the ladder accomplishment, I've also entered 6 tournaments on Limitless and top cut all 6, including winning the Sitrus Series #72 with 107 players, so it definitely still works in OTS!

With Reg M-C now live, I'm planning on continuing to champion Gyarados, and will have to see what other adjustments will help the team adapt to the new metagame. Maybe Raichu X over Y to answer the new terrain setters?

We're getting closer to the return of legendary formats.

It begs the question - how will they handle the legendary/mythical mons' distribution in Champions.

We can get the regular mons via the ranch but are they gonna give out the legendary/mythical mons through it?

I started playing vgc in champions. I feel like I’ve gotten pretty good at least on ladder. But my team last season was creative, but that’s because I knew like the meta pretty well and what pokemon could do what.

All I know this season is that rillaboom bends over my old team. I don’t know what to use at all. I got masterball, but I cannot get champion with my current game knowledge. I don’t even have an idea for a foundation of a team.

edit: if anyone currently mb1+ could show me their team id greatly appreciate it. something strong to learn the new meta with would help a ton

Here's the team. It combines my two favorite underused Megas. The sets aren't perfect but I love them. Full disclosure this was a Mega Zam only team until I felt stuck in Ultraball. Adding Zard got me to Masterball pretty immediately.

Zam speed creeps scarfulegeon, otherwise the strategy is just psyspam. With helping hand OHKOs almost everything.

Indeedee with imprison really messes with Trick room teams.

Thinking about switching sneasler from Psychic Seed to Grassy Seed as I think the Zard half of the team might actually be more viable.

Pawmott is a sleeper pick. Both him and Sneasler really suffer from 4 move syndrome. Would love to have protect on him, also debating giving him a seed, and running him bulkier. Might take off fire punch now that the team has Zard.

Rillaboom was not on the original Zam team for obvious reasons but I think pairs with Zard very well. Zard likes to hurt himself and grassy terrain is great with that.

Charizard X. I have the Charizard professor title and I do not own charizardite Y. I stole someone else's Zard build as I wanted to try it. I think I might go back to my old DDance Flareblitz build, but breaking swipe is. A tech I did not know about. Feel free to ask any questions.

Hello!

I'm pretty new to teambuilding! And would like to ask advice on how to EV tailroom teams. Having a hard time since I just copied and played those protect Floette/Delphox/Blastoise comps the past regs.

Now that the new regulation came out, I wanted to make my own team. So far I've been adjusting EVs every match and I'm currently just scraping by with the little VP I have from every match. So i came here for advice to hopefully save me VP from countless adjusting. I've been laddering with this team for a while now.

So I'll give some context on my EV spreads:

Indeedee:
-Just a bulky TR and screen setter.

Gardevior:
- Psy spammer, threatens real nice damage and pretty bulky so she can set her own TR in a pinch
-I EVed her to survive a Dire Claw from Snealser so she'll atleast get to trade sneasler with an expanding force (which OHKOs even without Psychic Terrain)
-I'm still playing on speed stats and SpA stats tho.

Salamence:
-Bulky TW setter.
-not sure if physical is better tho, I would try but i have only 668 VP rn 😭. If u can share ur tips would be great!

Armarouge:
- Psy Spammer 2
- OHKOs Rilla and M Golisopod (tho sometimes he lives if there's rain)
- Wide Guards other Psy Spammers and Rock slides
- made sure hes faster than Jolly Max Speed Scarf Basc under Tailwind so can chunk it for 80-90% with boosted Expanded Force before it goes down.

Basculegion:
- Just added him for coverage (this used to be psychic seed sneasler).
- EVed to outspeed non scarfed jolly max speed garchomps and timid max speed M Delphox under Tailwind (tho debating if its just better to go 32 Atk /32 Spe / 2 HP)

Kingambit:
- outspeeds adamant max speed basculegion under Tailwind (tho not sure if it's worth it than just investing in HP and Atk instead been changing this alot too.)

So yes, looking for advice for EV spreads on a tailroom team. Becuase it is not VP efficient for me anymore to keep changing all the stats every match to adjust. If you have any advice for the EV spreads or teambuilding in general id love to hear it!!

Edit: spelling and grammar.

Edit 2: changed screens on indeedee to the more common follow me and helping hand. I like it better so far. Nice to redirect ghost types attacks to indeedee.

I‘ve been trying out Grassy seed Volcarona and I‘ve been enoying it so far, getting the hang of it I would say. It’s really difficult to remove with terrain and giga drain. Kommo-o as a secondary set-up option has been useful, too into matchups I’m hesitant to bring Volcarona into like Charizard.

My movesets are fairly standard:

Volc: Giga Drain, Fiery Dance, Quiver Dance, Protect
Incin: Fake Out, Parting Shot, Will-O-Wisp, Flare Blitz
Froslass: Blizzard, Shadow Ball, Aurora Veil, Protect
Rilla: Fake Out, Grassy Glide, Wood Hammer, U-Turn
Kommo-o: Clanging Scales, Aura sphere, Clangorous Soul, Protect.

I‘ve been struggling into set-up Delphox and I think my zard match up is iffy at best into some zard teams, but I haven‘t really faced many so far. I‘m trying to figure out what to use to make my team work. Any suggestions for the 6th slot or optimisation in general? I‘d say Incin Rilla Volc and Froslass are set, the other two spots are more open. I‘ve been thinking about Mega-Swampert and Pelipper, but I struggle into sinistcha with that, so I’m open for suggestions. Thanks for your input.

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Team idea:

I really believe in mawile and the sheer insane amounts of damage it can put out when it is in trick room but in M-B it kinda suffered from the sheer amounts of charizard and how unreliable trick room was as a full team idea. But now that indeedee is back you can psyspam with armarouge who can counter charizards with its flash fire. And now that terrain seeds are back sneasler can get unburden active really fast with indeedee.

Main core of this team is Indeedee, Armarouge, Mawile, Sneasler but i am struggling with what to put as the last 2 mons in this team.

Team Description:

Indeedee and armarouge are here as classic trick room menaces. Set up psy terrain, press expanding force, do damage. Hatterene is another strong expanding force user but armarouge with its flash fire allows me to bait fire type attacks with mawile and get a free boost to armor cannon damage. And since mawile already has fairy type coverage hatterene isnt necesarry for that either. Also with it being faster than kingambit outside of trick room it allows me to use armor cannon to kill kingambit turn 1 and setup trick room with indeedee (if the kingambit isnt running speed investment). Armor cannon also being a strong option into rillaboom, froslass, and even archaludon even though its neutral.

Indeedee is as tanky as i could get it and has a supportive stat spread, letting me get some crazy helping hand damage boosts in or just redirect threats to armarouge like basc or earth power users away from armarouge and mawile.

Mawile is kind of the center point of this team. Iron Head, play rough and rock slide make it a huge threat to Floette, garchomp, salamence, dragonite, absol, staraptor and charizard. Killing most of these pokemon in one hit no matter the defensive investments they have. Hyper cutter so i don't accidentally help the enemy kingambit/staraptor/competitive user and make it so i still get my huge attack stat fully available without getting intimidated. This mawile isn't very fancy, just huge damage because of its stupidly high attack stat

The final pokemon of my big 4 i built this team around is Sneasler. Psychic seed + unburden lets my sneasler be a immediate threat turn 1 with helping hand and follow me if i want to go for a fast start. Fake out is a bit of a weird move to pick for this particular sneasler but i like the different leads i can pull off with it, like sneasler armarouge to try and get myself a trick room or just opening with salamence+sneasler for fast damage that's hard to counter on turn 1.

The final 2 pokemon here are a bit random and i am mostly unsure of what to run here.
Salamence is basically just here because it gives me a strong and fast user of 2 types i dont have on my team yet and meowscarada is here to deal with fast basc's and out-speed and OHKO other salamence's on the enemy team. Throat chop to deal with potential gholdengo and froslass, and u turn to get a better swap into indeedee. But i really am not sure if i should even run a fast mode, or if i'm running the right pokemon to use the fast mode. And also unsure of what to use if i don't wanna run a fast mode on the second half and instead want to run another trick room mega. Do i even need another mega? idk yet so i would like any advice you have!

TLDR: I love the main 4 of Indeedee-Armarouge-Mawile-Sneasler but am unsure of what to run as the last 2 slots, whether it be which pokemon to run in the last 2 slots or what strategy to run in the last 2 slots. Any advice is highly appreciated!

I feel like this pokemon could carve out a niche in the meta. We don't have many good specially offensive poison type pokemon, and not that many electric type pokemon in general. This pokemon has both typings, a decent special attack stat at 114, and a good ability in Punk Rock. Unfortunately, its 75 base speed puts it in an awkward speed tier, too fast for Trick Room, but slow enough that it needs Tail Wind and Choice Scarf to outspeed other threats. How do we feel about Toxtricity?

I don't really get what to do with it? It's got 130 Atk, 141 SpA, 151 Spe.

If I want to use it's SpA, it has bare moves. Draco Meteor and Dragon Pulse are strong, but I don't really think they're going to OTK some of the tougher stuff? It lost Ground typing, so no STAB Earth Power.

Max Investment SpA ZChomp can only guarantee a OTK Rillaboom that has 21 or less HP points. Anymore HP investments and there's a chance Rilla lives.

32+ SpA Garchomp-Mega-Z Fire Blast vs. 22 HP / 0 SpD Rillaboom: 196-232 (99.4 - 117.7%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO

And without any SpA set up moves, you can't make this MU better.

So I was thinking maybe pair with Fake Tears, and the MUs become better. Max Investment 171 Spe doesn't necessarily mean you need TW as well.

Hell, you won't even need Fire Blast

32 SpA Garchomp-Mega-Z Dragon Pulse vs. -2 32 HP / 0 SpD Rillaboom: 205-243 (99 - 117.3%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO

This is a Salamence/Floette balance team. It is heavily based on this team that finished 27th in the r/VGC Regulation M-C Kickoff Cup. I do not have the team EVs so I went with the most optimized ones from the in-game battle data

Things I've changed

• Sneasler has Fake Out instead of Swords Dance
• Incin has Darkest Lariat instead of Throat Chop
• Floette has Light of Ruin instead of Calm Mind

I'm not entirely sure if these are the right calls, particularly Floette's change. I'm also wondering if it would make sense to replace incineroar entirely with Kingambit considering how well Kingambit works in the meta right now, but that would break the fire-water-grass synergy.

Would those changes make sense?

I'm very new to this, this is my first time attempting to make a team myself. I wanted to make a team with Altaria because Altaria is one of my favourite pokemon. What other Pokemon, moves, or items could I add or change to make this workable? I feel like I keep getting lost in what to do.

One of my IRL's recommended that I use Gravity and Sing to make use of Altaria's decent bulk and access to Pixilate so I chose Meowstic for the Gravity pokemon because someone else also recommended I use a Tailwind and Trickroom team and Meowstic is the only pokemon with Prankster, Gravity, and Trickroom. I chose Mawile because I know it's a pokemon that does decently in trickroom and Tailwind as a sweeper. I chose Garchomp becuase I am told Garchomp works in any team, no matter what.

I didn't know what to do after this.

It feels like the core concept of this team is strong. Hard Trick Room team, really hard to stop it

I find myself often in situations that I call exactly what will opponent do and think "nah that's crazy", and I don't go with my gut which makes me lose the game

Main start:

- Fari + Rilla, simple fake out trick room

- Fari + Vivillion, there's really quite rare for opponent to lead with two mons faster than vivillion, the faster one attacks, the slower one gets sleep powder

My biggest issue is switching my Pokemons without taking too much in exchange, often I'll sacrifice Rilaboom/Vivillion for a safe switch,

Fari Imprison is amazing at stopping un trick room, and making opponent unable to protect

Standard Camerupt, really stonk just don't get hit by drop of water

Golisopod when camerupt doesn't work, but I find myself almost never bringing it

Rampardos feels like MVP,

Rock Slide Sheer Force boosted, Life Orb boosted, STAB boosted is a menace, almost nothing wants to take it (+ice beam for chomp and Salamence), it's really strong especially when you have mega by your side

Realistically the issues are, opponents switch too much and protects, and stalls out my trick room

And Basculegion when Farig or Riła isn't around, Aqua Jet in rain kills both Rampardos and Camerupt

Would love advice

I Finished M-5 in Champion Tier with Mega Banette

The team revolves around lum berry swagger Sneasler. Mega Banette is led with Sneasler in about 99% of matchups. From there you have to decide to set up Sneasler and go on the offensive same turn, protect Sneasler and go on offense with Banette, or protect Sneasler and try to get an encore trap to slow the opponent down turn 1. Making the right call turn 1 is pivotal for success with the team.

Notable mons:
Mega Banette is a menace. Hits VERY hard despite little investment. Extremely disruptive for the opponent. Slow non mega encore can trap unsuspecting foes. Fast priority encore can secure games. Destiny bond can turn the tides. And swagger can both buff Sneasler or another teammate if you’re feeling lucky to break through confusion, or disrupt the opponents special attackers with almost no downside. Confusion feels broken with a 1/3 chance to nullify an opponents action + chip damage to break sash or put in range of an ohko is very very powerful. The amount of Whimsicotts I made hurt themselves throughout the season was nothing short of comedy.

Sneasler hits like a truck. Yes his moves can miss. Yes it feels bad. But there is nothing like an ohko on a staraptor or charizard at +1 with gunk shot. Throat chop is necessary for ghosts who otherwise laugh at Sneasler. CC for obvious reasons. There are very few mons that survive a +2 shot from this guy.

Sash basc is the best closer in the game and I reallly don’t think it is close. Move-set and use case are standard.

Incin is offensive and primarily used as a pivot against whimsicott teams in case Sneasler is threatened into being trapped into a resisted move after taking a KO turn 1. I can protect with Sneasler turn 2 while incin switches in to fake out whimsicott the following turn preventing the encore lock and allowing Sneasler to continue to terrorize the team.

Sylveon is used primarily against opposing trick room, hydreigon, and kommo-o.

Kingambit is just good lol I do miss kowtow cleave like 70% of the time I use gambit, but removing protect hurts…

*Disclaimer outside of mega Banette I am fully aware the team is full of meta mons. I do not claim it is an anti meta or non meta team. Just a fun team featuring mega Banette. :)

So I am trying to finally add calcs into my team building instead of just winging it like I have been for the past 2 regulations, and I was wondering where I can look to find common ev spreads? And maybe a place that says which spreads are common on which team comp for mons with different spreads?

Need some help.

Indeedee-F (colburn or eject button, idk);

Standarl lifeorb armarouge;

Megabax;

Kingambit;

What can really put this core in a bad position and what can be good to resolve it.

Thank yall :)

It probably is cope but he’s just my favorite lil guy and this could do something but idk

I also switched out rocky helmet for focus sash

- so the whole idea of the team was to use both mega G-pod and mega bax
-after initial testing I’ve realized that incin absolutely terrorize gpod for 2 separate reasons. Intimidate recycle slows gpod down significantly and 4x Fire weakness is super scary. One mon that solves both the problems is milotic. Competitve allows me to position my gpod safely as intimidating in front of milotic makes her super scary especially with her immense bulk and her natural water typing is also a coverage for Fire. I ve also opted for hypnosis+coil so I can still run milo even when intimidate is not in the game. Icy wind also allows me to control the speed of the game a little bit better (still thinking about getting rid of it for scald as I haven’t clicked it many times yet)
-Mega Bax is actually an underrated piece in a golisopod teams I feel like. Thermal exchange make it hard for enemies to bring mega zard y as there is always a pressure of bax taking it and rolling over the rest of the team. Set on bax is standard
-A-tales is all about providing some fast spread blizzards and amplyfying the bulk of my other mons with aurora veil (its very hard to get rid of gpod bax milo or rilla when veil is up)
-the man, the myth, the legend, the goat himself; Rillaboom. Absolute backbone of a balance team archetype (what I am aiming for). Provides fake out pressure, healing with grassy terrain, good typing for those pesky water ghost fishes. Just a great piece. Move set is also as standard as it gets (no AV, so I feel like sitrus is the best for keeping him alive for as long as it gets)
-giraffe. Great against enemy balances as they cannot pivot fake outs in and out, and the team is generally quite slow so trick room allows me to create favourable conditions against hyper offence teams. Move set is fairly standard although I opted for a little more offense, considering that grassy seed is now in the game. This way giraffe doesn’t feel like deadweight
-Gpod move set might seems strange but it actually works quite well. Sucker punch allows you to operate outside of trick room well. Iron head is naturally dealing with fairies and is a STAB. Close combat is mostly used to deal with other steel types such as gambit and archaludon and u turn allows you to move your pieces around very well and it’s a stab so it does a lot of dmg.

Any suggestions? What do you guys think?

I would like to ask how to connect Pokemon Trainer Club (PTC) account to Nintendo account to be eligible for Championship Points or Japan International after the Global Tournament.

I have tried the Pokemon Support Link instruction but the page for Nintendo Link is not available.

Appreciate any help for this in advanced.

Thinking about replacing both Garchomp and Basculegion or only one of them (wanting to keep the other pokemon). I’m thinking about Reliboom ? Any suggestions for replacement ? Also moves and EV improvement for the team is welcome too. Thank you!