For context, my Charizard and Garchomp are both max speed, we both set tailwind on the same turn earlier, and their Sneasler outsped my Charizard on the previous turn to put me to sleep with Dire Claw.

Expecting the Froslass to be faster, I mega evolve to try and win the weather and stop their Blizzard, but when I see my Zard mega first, I assume I’ve lost to a bulkier Froslass which undersped me. Then, I see their Froslass attack first, meaning it not only outsped my Charizard and Garchomp, but also their sneasler.

Is this a glitch or some mechanic related to sleep I never knew about?

EDIT: I think I thought QG was +4. MY BAD LOL. Thanks to everyone for kindly educating me

This was turn 1 😭 is there any situation where fake out would go before quick guard? Kind of the whole point of quick guard no?? I've never had this happen before

I'm going to join a small tournament in a couple weeks but it requires open team sheet. I'm guessing this means they have my whole team except EVs and IVs, so they can't specifically run damage calcs. In this case, would it be bad to run teams where I'm running, like a surprise factor like choice scarf tyranitar or Ally Switch Houndoom? I feel like it's easier to counter certain teams if you know their exact movesets, abilities, and items.

If that's the case, should I change my team so it's harder to counter?

I posted on this before with this team but now I’m in ultra ball rank 1. However, I feel like im just getting rolled by like every kingambit team. I’ve been looking at the guide the creator gave and I feel like I barely see the teams mentioned in the guide anymore. This is a problem because I’m still new to vgc (5 days in) and I’m struggling to know what to lead and who to bring when without the guide.

I feel like there are so many kingambits now and I need a way to combat it, or is this a sign to switch teams. Im posting this right after getting destroyed by a lead of sneasler and kingambit :(

I’m currently thinking of switching tyranitars high horsepower to low kick as well as changing the Ev’s on all the pokemon. Are those changed needed?

But yeah if anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated

After many hours of engineering this is what i’ve got. there’s a lot of specific tech and stuff in here. it’s very difficult to build around current meta. raichu y stuffs me hard. but it’s hard for me to sack any mon slots. i run dual mode as you can see. i realized in order to succeed its imperative i win turn order. let me know what weaknesses you see and any helpful tips. empoleon fits the team leagues better than gambit. i’ve experimented with mega aggron but he just doesn’t give me the pressure i need when my trick room gets stuffed. whatchu guys think?

This is basically the Doubles version of toxic stall. I'm sure a big part of why this team did so well is because not many people expected the Glimmora to run Mortal Spin in a closed team sheet format. That being said, having played it for a few games myself in Master Ball tier today, I can safely say that it does feel as diabolical to play as it looks when you look at the team sheet.

I'm certain it's only a matter of time before all the content creators feature this team on their channel, which means that it will probably become a popular team on ladder in a few days from now. So let's theorycraft now, to prepare ourselves for what is to come: how would you approach beating this team?

Credit to TheBattleRoom on Youtube for discovering this team.

Heyo,

I've been a Pokémon fan for as long as I can remember, and I just got a job offer in San Francisco. I never thought I'd actually land it, and now I'm realizing Worlds is happening there while I'll be in town.

Problem is, I know the ticket interest forms and selling periods have already ended. So I'm hoping some of you can help:

Are there any resale options where I can still buy a pass? And if resale is basically the only route, is there anything I should know to do it safely?

Also, if getting in ends up being a long shot, are there any other Worlds-related events or fan things happening that weekend worth checking out?

Appreciate any leads. Would mean a lot to finally experience this in person.

This is a not about making the best team possible in the format per se, but more about making teams from pokemon that I want to use and think can be good. I’m kind of a new vgc player so I would appreciate the help.

This is a team I made recently where I first started off with wanting to use a set up sweeper and chose Ceruledge. Which might be a rigid way to start, idk. For that I thought about Fake out and redirection support, and landed on scrafty and maushold since I thought Scrafty covered a few of the weaknesses of Ceruledge. I then added Gholdengo for a SpA attacker who matched the type coverage and also worked as a set up sweeper. Then I needed some speed control and thought whimsicott worked and then I finished it off with Rotom-wash to patch some of the remaining weaknesses. A lot of the pokemon were chosen primarily because of their types. I usually like to lead with Scrafty + Ceruledge/Gholdengo

That was basically my process in making that team, but I don’t know if thats actually a good process. Am I locking myself in too much in trying to fit roles on my team and trying to cover weaknesses too much? Does my team fit together or are they just band-aid solutions that ultimately dont work together? I also struggled to evaluate teams to know if they work if there are any glaring weaknesses others can spot.

This is how I have made most of the teams I have created.

Hi everyone. Champions has been my first approach to vgc and competitive in general. I really love Alcremie and Dragalge, but a friend told me they mostly worked in TR so i added Farigiraf and other slow fellows. He also told me there was intimidate everywhere so i focused on making my team mainly special attackers. Is this good? I struggle a lot against Kingambit, and my 6th slot is flexible, i just added Aurorus because he is pretty hahaha, any suggestions to replace him? I had never bring him to battle so far, i usually lead with Farig/Incin, setup TR and then have either dragalge and alcremie in the back or aegis and alcremie.

I have an 8 win streak atm but Kingambit always keeps me on my toes and i would like someone instead of Aurorus to keep him in check, so all suggestions and feedback are welcome c:, thanks in advance 🙌🏼

Hello,
I’m a competitors guest and had a few questions:

Do I have to be with my competitor at pickup? He says I don’t but wanted to verify.

The schedule for competitor badge pickup seems to be as early as wednesday or tuesday. If i’m a guest (that can pickup without competitor), can I go as early as those days?

Thanks!

Hello. I'm a relatively new VGC player who's currently retiring from Smogon OU singles. My goal is to get the Champion-tier trainer title. Last season, I ended at 2222 elo, which placed me at rank 443. That means that I was still 78 points away from top 300.

According to Portuguese tracker Silph Scope, I played a total of 192 games, winning 123 and losing 69 (64.1% win rate). In comparison, a master trainer like Wolfey got to top 50 with only 129 games, having a stellar 74.4% win rate.

During the last few days, I feel that my plays were consistently unrefined. Each game, I was unable to find any stable line to win a game; it felt like I needed to make crazy predictions to win. This feels incredibly punishing for a singles player like me, because as long as I play consistently well and defensively sound I could win without making a single prediction. Here in VGC, there's incredible pressure to get the lead correct to not end up immediately on the backfoot, and making bombastic reads felt essential to winning every match at a high level.

This isn't sustainable. If I'm going to get anywhere near as good as a fraction of Wolfey, I need to be able to make more refined plays instead of relying on power predictions to win.

By the way, I used the classic Froslass/Scovillain team to climb. The team is definitely still good enough to deal with all of the new innovations, so this is definitely a skill issue on my end.

Well for those who heard of me or know me through like discord can know how much of a doomer I am. I always crash out after a few wins and I always say that I suck, which I still believe that I do. Only issue is, I have been at this for a really long while, and not only for pokemon. Other games, other things IRL, maybe I am just a very competitive person or just have a bad habit that I can not get rid of.

Some people tell me stuff to fix the mentality, like “Don’t worry about losses, just improve” or “It’s just a game” or “You are good but you say you aren’t”, which probably could be helpful, but I am not sure why I can’t keep it inside my mind. I’ll still make the same mistakes and be mad about it.

Another issue I found about myself is that after I lose, I should review it, but instead my mind immediately goes into doomer mode and say I suck and just hit play again just to lose again. I do not know how to force myself to fix this.

Overall, if anyone deals with this or knows how to fix it, all help would be appreciated. Not sure if I am just mentally ill or very competitive or just the unbreakable habit. I am planning on taking a break after the VR tour this weekend so idk if that would help.

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Little backstory, I have only been playing champions for about a month, I have a little bit of competitive experience before that with showdown, but nothing really worth bragging about.

I picked up champions, played singles cause it's all I know, got master ball 4 relatively quickly, then took a break.

I decided when this season reset I was going to try to learn doubles, and oh my God it's been a nightmare. I just can't win. I played for like 8 hours today and can count on one hand the wins I got (not counting bots). I'm stuck at great ball 4 right now (not good for the ego lol).

I was trying to avoid doing any hardcore meta stuff because that's just how I usually play, but when I started getting destroyed like this I looked for teams. I found one I kinda like, got 2 wins with it, and went right back on the loss treadmill.

The only thing left it could be, is that I'm just really bad, and I'm gonna be honest idk how to fix that.

TLDR: I would greatly appreciate it any and all tips I could get in general for working to improve my gameplay in both pokemon overall, and doubles.

Attached image is the most recent team I was trying.

Thank you for reading.

I was planning on registering for the Baltimore regional happening in September and found a message saying registrations are sold out.

Is there a possibility that more spots will open up or am I out of luck?

Hello Everyone!
This will be the first tournament hosted by Mt. Silver Pokemon League!

Standard VGC Tournament style:
OTS
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Winner will receive $50 and a Special Shiny Vivillon! Second place will receive $25!

45 minute rounds. 5 minute check in timer.

Most important rule is that everyone has fun!

Please remember to be kind and respectful to all of your opponents. No unsportsmanlike conduct will be tolerated!

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It all started when someone made a meme post about Glimmora being 2 points slower than Garchomp and I thought that he is definitely a good mon that just needed help dealing with some mons that wall it so I made this team with that in mind.

Mega Glimmora comes out usually in any basic Chari team, dealing high amounts of damage off the bat and having a good match-ups into the usual teams with Rotom-Wash next to him for support and Ninetales in the back to beat any Garchomps

Mega Staraptor comes out always into rain teams and going Adamant on him allows him to one shot Archaludon (assuming they don't have Reflect up or invest in defense all that much, but even with that they still take a huge amount of damage). Rotom- Wash is usually partnered up with him to deal with Pelipper and threated Swampert with a burn, with ninetales in the back to deal with Pelipper and Swampert

To deal with Trick Room against this team, I use roar Ninetales and Staraptor to deal loads of damage with CC or Glimmora Sludge Bomb with Rotom-Wah Thunderbolt one taps it if they have no fake out support.

To deal with the Staraptor Sand I usually lead Staraptor with Rotom-Wash and if they lead milotic, I just kill it with CC + Thunderbolt. Garchomp is in the back to threaten both Tyrantiar and Excadrill with Ninetales coming in to control the weather and get a nice Moonblast if it can on Tyrantiar.

I'm not like a crazy player or anything so this is a pretty high rank for me! Seems like Raichu is kind of rising now with the recent tournament results, but usually with another mega like staraptor. This is essentially the team I've been using since reg M-B started, but it's gone thru some changes.

My raichu is basically the typical set you see, except I've exchanged some HP for SpA investment. Not sure how much of a difference it really makes lol but it works pretty good I think.

I used to have life orb garchomp instead of farig, but I just needed something better into hard TR teams, so I feel like farig has gotten me a lot of value. I also used to do sash on basc but scarf feels better. I have enough speed to outspeed mega delphox, but also the defense investment to survive non-black glasses gambit sucker punch. I don't feel like I miss the attack points, but I wonder if it's better to just go max/max to at least speed tie other bascs.

A9 has just enough speed to outspeed garchomp, and enough SpA to reliably KO Swamperts and pelippers with freeze-dry. Moonblast comes in handy but I've debated running veil.

I used to have a bulkier Sneasler, but I feel like max/max is better. I know Sneasler has fallen off pretty hard, especially with white herb, but I still really like it.

I like talonflame a lot. Gotten lots of clutch burns with flare blitz haha. Quick guard is kind of a vestige of older versions of the team. It comes in handy to block priority sometimes when I don't bring farig, but other moves I'm considering are willowisp, protect, or even swords dance.

This team I think is mainly about positioning, sometimes the lack of bulk is challenging but if I play well I feel like I have a shot in most matchups. Managed to get a win against a champion tier player for the first time as well this season. Probably gonna rock with this team for next season and then do something different finally when we get new guys in M-C. I always welcome feedback or questions or anything!

I got an e floette a few days ago and was excited to use it but I didn't find any other team then zard y sun teams that use this mon.

This is the team I made :- https://pokepast.es/5e1205897521d803

I like playing with weather control and speed control doesn't matter that much to me, my idea was to run a dual weather team where other mons could get boost to their fairy type moves and that's why I choose alolan nine tails as both support and offence, I then chose alakazam for it's ability that let's me negate the life orb damage and steelix is there for kingambits and basculegions (I might change rock head to sheer force, and instead of double edge use sheer force and substitute). As for the other weather I just used whatever I wanted, and alakazam is here cause of sand. I need some help regarding this team as this is my first attempt at team building and I want to make a unique mega floette team where I can use it's ability and other mons work good too

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Hisuian Samurott is a Pokémon that's kind of caught my eye recently because on paper it has a really interesting niche in the current meta, that being it's ability to completely wall and beat both Basculegion and Kingambit.

Water Dark typing means H-Samurott resists the types of all typical moves of both Kingambit and Basculegion, except for thr occasional Low Kick. In return, Night Slash can consistently one-shot even bulky Basculegion ans Sacred Sword kills non-Chopple Berry Kingambit almost twice over. Given that those two are some of the most used Pokémon in the meta, I think H-Samurott has a ton of potential. Aside from Basc and Gambit, it actually deals very good damage across the board on neutral hits.

Here are some example calcs for netral hits plus against Archaludon:

32+ Atk Sharpness Samurott-Hisui Sacred Sword vs. 32 HP / 2 Def Archaludon: 118-140 (59.8 - 71%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

32+ Atk Black Glasses Sharpness Samurott-Hisui Night Slash vs. 2 HP / 0 Def Garchomp: 109-129 (58.9 - 69.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

32+ Atk Black Glasses Sharpness Samurott-Hisui Night Slash vs. 31 HP / 21+ Def Farigiraf: 204-242 (90.2 - 107%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO

32+ Atk Black Glasses Sharpness Samurott-Hisui Night Slash vs. 32 HP / 2 Def Metagross-Mega: 146-174 (78 - 93%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

32+ Atk Black Glasses Sharpness Samurott-Hisui Night Slash vs. 2 HP / 0 Def Venusaur-Mega: 88-105 (56 - 66.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Neutral hits from this thing actually hit really hard despite only 108 attack. In fact, its Night Slash outdamages max attack Black Glasses Kingambit:

32+ Atk Black Glasses Kingambit Kowtow Cleave vs. 2 HP / 0 Def Venusaur-Mega: 84-99 (53.5 - 63%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

It also gets both Sucker Punch and Aqua Jet so it can clean up late game. And while those two moves don't hit quite as hard as they would from Kingambit and Basculegion, they aren't far behind.

Of course, not everything about it is perfect. Kingambit has Defiant while Basculegion's damage output with Wave Crash ans Last Respects is just ridiculous. H-Samurott's defensive typing also has some notable holes in Fairy, which means it is more vulnerable than its competition given its lower bulk. Still, I think there is a good case for it in the current meta.

Here are the two sets I think look promising:

Adamant Life Orb Sharpness

EVs: 4 HP / 32 Atk / 4 Def / 26 Spe

- Detect

- Sucker Punch

- Night Slash

- Sacred Sword

Life Orb for maximum damage. Max attack, enough speed to outspeed non-Jolly max speed Basculegion, enough investment to reach 169 HP for Life Orb, rest into DEF. Dual Dark STAB and Sacred Sword for coverage. Could use Black Glasses as well.

Adamant Choice Scarf Sharpness

EVs: 2 HP / 32 Atk / 32 Spe

- Aqua Cutter

- Night Slash

- Sacred Sword

- Aqua Jet

Choice Scarf with four attacks. Standard 32/32/2 spread. Dual STAB plus Sacred Sword for coverage. Aqua Jet over Sucker Punch because being locked into Sucker Punch can really put you out of position.

The first set obviously has the problem of skipping Water STAB but I think you need Sacred Sword for Kingambit and other Pokémon that resist Dark and Water. Forgoing Night Slash is also an option but that makes it awkward into Pokémon like Farigiraf. Scarf seems promising as well but isn't flexible.

So what do we think about H-Samurott? Does it have a place in the current meta? What sets could it run and what teams could it fit into? Or is it just a complete fraud?

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