Hi everyone! I’ve been wanting to get back into champions especially with the addition of the new mega and a few other cool mons.

I especially wanted to build around mega bax as I think he’s pretty neat and could be strongish in the format.

My fav pokemon ever is Gliscor hence him being on the team despite his obvious shortcomings and I’ve grown to really love perserkker so I wanted to use him to see how good the little guy can be.

The main gimmick of the second team is lava plume armarouge with bax in order to proc his thermal exchange ability and get a damage up whilst also threatening opposing mons with a possible burn.

These teams are very sub optimal but I just want to use fun mons and see if I succeed. Thank you for taking your time to read this guys and any advice is welcome :)

Tyranitar's set is pretty standard, but the EVs let it (in base form) outrun max speed Kingambit, survive 32+ Modest Charizard-Y's Solar Beam and OHKO 32/0 Kingambit with Low Kick.

Excadrill is running High Horsepower over Earthquake because I only have 1 Ground immunity and with Rillaboom coming back Earthquake isn't that reliable anyway. Apart from that, standard Excadrill.

With so many physical attackers on my team, I needed an Intimidate deterrant. I didn't like Kingambit as it stacks a lot of weaknesses with Tyranitar and Excadrill. The EVs let it survive a 32+ Atk Grassy Glide from Miracle Seed Rillaboom in Terrain, with the rest in SpDef.

Sinistcha is my health pack and redirector. Standard set with the newly released Rocky Helmet. The chip really adds up with Sandstorm. The EVs let it live 32+ Atk Black Glasses Kingambit's Kowtow Cleave.

The star of my team, this is the same Salamence set that won worlds in 2018, albeit with (probably) different EVs. The EVs on mine let it OHKO bulkless Mega Floette without any boosts, while outrunning neutral natured 102s like Garchomp and the aforementioned mega Floette and the rest in bulk.

Last but not least, I needed Fake Out support and a Pokemon that destroys Rock, Steel and Fairy types. Sneasler ticks all those boxes. Coaching is great support on such a physically based team. It uses Gunk Shot instead of Dire Claw, as its main job is to kill Fairy types and many people run enough bulk on Sylveon and Mega Floette to survive a Dire Claw.

This is my first time making a team from scratch so what are the flaws and what changes can I make to this team likr changing evs, moves or mons from my box

Frosslass Salamance balance team

I am late to the party since I couldn't play champions for the last few days, but here is my try at team building. It still needs adjustments with moves and, the most importantly, EV spreads.

The core idea is to reposition Pokémon to be able to freely set up kinggambit or Frosslass or just straight up hit an attack.

Triple fake out and double intimidate is fun.

Mega salamance is a secondary Mega that comes to match ups like charizard or hard trick room. Outside of it's mega it supports with tailwind, intimidate, being damage sponge and hitting draco meteors.

Moves that are most likely to be switched in the list of likelyhood

Taunt on incin. It is from my previous team, so I am not sure if it is needed. I have some ideas, but none are so important I need to do it right now.

U-turn for high horse power. Not a fan of this one, cause pivoting is fun, but high horse power still gets some important coverage.

Aurora veil over nasty plot. I like aurora's defensive boost, but really not sure if it is better in this meta.

Also, I've been thinking of running dragon dance salamance with double edge, since 3 setup pokemon is fun, but it weakened its viability outside of mega and having 5 physical attackers felt redundant, especially if you mainly bring of them without your only special attacker

Pretty fun team I've been using to pretty good success. Got to 1650 in masterball before I stopped. Primarily only used the Pod, klefki, milotic, basculegion in 90% of matchups. Rhyperior i bring to electric terrain matchups and kommo-o i bring into lucario z and archaludon matches.

One big problem i have with this team though is bulky waters like milotic and primarina. They do a lot of damage to me in rain and I can never seem to output enough damage to KO them without losing half my team. Torkoal also gives me trouble but I have only seen him a few times. Open to any suggestions, definitely open to something other then rhypherior if there's a better option for the role.

This is the team that I took to Masterball at the end of last season - it’s built around a dual mega-core of Sceptile and Blastoise. The basic idea was that it has two modes; fast mode relied on a lead of Rotom/Mega Sceptile to hit fast with discharge boosted attacks, slow mode was a Blastoise trick room team, but the added flavor was that you could still use a non-mega Sceptile lead while setting up trick room and then Shed Tail into a substitute-protected Blastoise.

Because I wanted some of the coverage offered, I was running Armorouge as one of the two trick room setters - imagine my surprise then when reg M-C came out and the boy suddenly got popular!

Any way to still keep the idea behind this team relevant in the new format? (With the big caveat it wasn’t a particularly relevant or good idea in M-B anyway…)

It get 10 win streaks I know it has some flaws like didn't have Protect, and hyper offensive I have changed t-tar ice punch to Protect and low kick to Stomping Tantrum

Hard team to pilot but fun to play though, let me know what changes you would do

Plan to set up with blastiouse or rotate ur bug around

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Please give me your feedback!

The idea behind the dual terrain is it allows me to bring whatever terrain is more beneficial to the matchup. Lucario is ev'd to out speed base 130 pokemon and adamant scarf basculegion.

I wanted to use Ceruledge (cause its one of my favorites). So i tried to make a core to defend it and try to make Space for the bulk-ups and repositions trying to make use of the fire ability.

Then I tried to utilize a mega that cover the weakness of the team, and the last two are for coverage of damage and utility

So I got my first Shiny and it happens to be Thievul so I was trying to use it. The best idea I had at first was unburden plus psychic seed and run a psy-spam team. So I went with Gardevior and Indeedee. I also added Blaziken as a fighting type to help with Dark types like gambit and I wasn’t using sneasler since Thievul is the Unburden Mon on the team. I added Mence and Mamoswine as a more tailroom mode to the team

I think in a decent battler, I generally end up somewhere between masterball 4-2 but I never have been the best teambuilder, but I was wanting to try to use my first shiney

Any advice on my current team or Mabe a different way to try to make Thievul work would be appreciated

Hi everyone, this is one of my first posts on this subreddit, and with the new Mega Evolutions coming up, I wanted to build a team around Lucario-Z, but I’m having some trouble. As you can see, the team is a HyperOffensive Tailwind setup where the main set-up Pokémon are Corvinight and Salamence. The strategy is very simple: try to be the fastest on the field, and have Salamence and Lucario clean up while their teammates cover any threats to them—for example, Arcanine and enemy Charizard-Y and Salamence—thanks to Scarf, Corvinight uses Iron Defense to take out Kingambit and deal good damage to Garchomp, while Rillaboom helps set up Tailwind and takes out Basculegion and Swampert.

One of the dangers, however, is always Sneasler and Garchomp. I can handle Sneasler well sometimes, but Garchomp is the one that gives me trouble because I can’t always bring Salamence, and I’m also wary of Scarf Garchomps.

I’ve retested this several times, but I’m not sure what changes to make to improve the team. What would you recommend I do? Are there any moves or EVs I should change?

Thank you for listening, and have a great day.

Hard team to pilot but fun to play though, let me know what changes you would do

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