Can I get out of Ultra with this team?
https://pokepast.es/0ec4816e047e464d

is there a discord for the sand freaks? I feel like people have been jamming ttar exca and pressing rock slide for over a decade at this point and should have some insights. I'm looking for the most 50/50 matchup shit in the universe. I want to run the potato salad of teams just all good stuff and fundamentals

>>59235924
>no protects
Probably not

>>59235924
No.
Protect should be on at least 3 mons.

>>59235924
Is this for singles?

>>59235930
>>59235931
But it's for singles

>>59235938
I don't know what a good singles team looks like.

Last thread >>59231688

>>59235888
By the way, something that surprised me and should be corrected in the OP, the starter pack doesn't include 30 quick coupons but 30 teammate tickets which is much better.

Shit Game

Do you try to avoid playing in ways that could be considered lame or unfun for the opponent?

>>59235965
Lame or unfun for me, yes. I don't care if it's lame or unfun for opp (opp means opponent)

>>59235965
No. You are playing to win. That is the entire point of the game. Who cares that some random japanese child may get angry at your strategy.

>>59235965
Hell no. If they aren't having fun, then im having more fun.
I wont purposefully drag games out with pure stall though thats just boring

>>59235965
No. The exact opposite, actually.

>>59235965
I tried to and all I got are Sneaslers and Milotics in return. They don't deserve my efforts.

Is the ranked battle daily cleared by forfeiting or do I have to go through the whole battle?

>>59235965
Most of those playstyles, I'm not very good at anyway. I tried Perish Trapping before and I'm a brainlet

>>59236041
You can just show up and forfeit, yes.

okay but what if support gallade
coaching and life dew

>>59235965
A little bit, but some of that is for my own health too.
Early format sun teams were basically just Charizard+Venu aiming to just sleep powder everything. I don't like relying on 75 acc moves even if it forces my opponent to respect it.

>>59236114
Sounds trash. Gallade is hella frail and not nearly fast enough for a support set to work well.

>>59236114
He was already played as a half support mon in SV with Trick Room and Wide Guard.

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>on a losing streak with Perishtrap
It really sucks when people know how to play around it. Where do I even go from Perishtrap?

About 250k people participating in the global challenge, is this a healthy amount or no? Alive game?

>>59236182
Just replace perish song with disable on gengar and watch your winrate immediately improve. It's not worth going through all these hoops to kill with perish when you already have a 170 spatk mega.

The next big thing? You know it's gotta be Special Attack Infernape.

>>59236210
Scarf/Sash Ape lowkey probably does go bananas into certain comps. I've even considered going a bulky set for fast Will-O's.

>>59236217
>Fake Out
>Will-O-Wisp
>Encore
>Coaching

We must return to monke.

>>59236184
That's really good for a Global Challenge because nobody signed up for those fucking things in SWSH or SV. (which also had the additional issue of needing you to lock your team in in advance)

>>59236184
I didn't bother to enter since there's basically no reward for participating. At least the warm up tourney gave out some tickets

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Altaria will carry me to masters in doubles at this rate. Also, gotta say, as a singles fag for the longest time, doubles is pretty fun.

>>59236262
You get a venusaur for playing 3 games

>>59236262
You do get 100 quick coupons, nice for anyone who started late and relies on the ranch.

>>59236268
Venu is trivially easy to get, not a very enticing "reward"
>>59236275
Are you sure? The event never said anything about tickets

>>59236290
Serebii says so.

>>59236290
It'll be in a Cherish Ball, if you care.

>>59236301
The in game info says nothing about tickets, so I am inclined to say Serebii is wrong
>>59236313
I hate Cherish Balls

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Taking a question from >>59235700
How would you rebalance the missing starters before they are added to Champions?
>Sceptile + Mega
>Blaziken + Mega
>Swampert + Mega
>Rillaboom
>Cinderace
>Inteleon

>>59236326
>lightning rod mega sceptile
They can never fix my boy, but draco meteor and spore is a good start

>>59236326
>Rillaboom
>Cinderace
>Inteleon
These three returning will be when they add gigantimax into the game.

>>59236326
>Sceptile
Earth Power, HHP, swap out Unburden for Tough Claws
>Mega Sceptile
give Draco Meteor and replace Lightning Rod with Tinted Lens or something. It has never been a better Electric deterrent than Raichu, Alolan Marowak, or Primal Groudon so they should stop forcing it to compete
>Blaziken+Mega
Honestly this archetype is never gonna be great in Doubles without ridiculous overtuning, leave it be and just let it have it's role in Singles
>Swampert+Mega
It's fine honestly, it's never gonna be hugely meta in games where Gastrodon exists so it can just be it's own thing
>Rilla
Honestly I don't even know, they already gutted Grassy Glide. Removing either Fake Out or U-Turn from it's movepool would be a start.
>Cinderace
Ditto Blaziken, let it have it's place in Singles
>Inteleon
Make it a coverage and spread move monster. Give it Snarl/Night Daze, Sludge Bomb and Wave, Thunderbolt/Discharge, Rock Slide, etc. For a Pokemon that's supposed to be a walking Swiss-army knife with all of it's anatomy-turned-tools (nictitating membrane as scope, tail frill as knife, gliding membrane) it's movepool is disgustingly shallow

>>59236210
Ehhhhh

>>59235965
No, that's exactly why I play.

>>59236326
Sceptile got Shed Tail and Swampert got Liquidation and Bulk Up since the last time they had megas.

So today I learned Alcreamie's Decorate goes through Protect and now I want to use it. What's a good Pokémon to use it on? I was thinking Espartha or any other Psychic with Stored Power

>>59235965
I run into someone trying to run hazards/forced switchout moves with dragon tail mega dragonite spamming roost.
But every single time I see a hippo I just taunt it on principal. All it ever does is support slop.

I hate Sableye. That is all.

>>59236395
I fucking pray that Smeargle loses access to Decorate in Champions.

>>59236403
I hate that whenever I run sableye I run into Teams that kill it with ease.

>>59236182
Buddy why are you even perish trapping. Just play the game instead of relying on dumb gimmicks

>first shiny is a rotom mow
can I do anything with this mon?

Last respects is honestly fucking retarded God damn what a stupid fucking move

>>59236495
It made me want to start packing a normal type but they all suck ass

>>59236486
You can rape Swampert and Gastrodon after they get added.

>>59236326
>sceptile
belly drum fixes this dude for singles.
>mega sceptile
earth power, draco meteor, nasty plot, and a better grass stab (I hate that shaymin hogs seed flare) would do wonders but I'm honestly not sure how you'd make it a good doubles mega without a warchest of new moves. Based on the fact that steelix and audino have the same abilities, I think it's sadly stuck with lightningrod.

>>59236499
I'm about to start putting heliolisk on my team just to cuck these faggots scarfed bascs. The amount of times I've lost just because of last respects is insane

>>59236495
Why are all exclusive Ghost types moves broken as fuck

>>59236520
Trick-or-Treat isn't saving Gourgeist

Wish the faggot Bass was part of the Cut mons

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Today on "Things that saved my ass:" Did you know that Heracross loses speed when Mega Evolving? Goes from 85 to 75 which is enough to let it get outsped by a Mega Meganium about to oneshot it with a Weather Ball.

Jeeze man I keep getting outplayed it's just one of those nights

>Max bulk min speed Trick Room Gengar
Now I've seen everything

>>59236552
The newfags yearn for Gothitelle.

>>59236552
Being unexpected is how you climb.

Oh man I'm just getting dumpstered. Dropped from 1800 down to 1600

>other team gets all the lucky hits

tried to make a team with my favorites and lost 4 times in a row

>>59236574
Post team.

i made a team with my favorites and won 3 times in a row

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>>59236565
>Trick Room Gengar uses Icy Wind
>I now "outspeed"

So how would I improve the Tyranitar starter team?

Replace Arcanine with Hisuian Arcanine? Replace Sylveon with Floette?

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>>59236576
pikachu, alolan ninetails, whimsicott, ceruledge, dragonite and lopunny

How bad will things be when Chien and Chi enter the game with megas

>>59236586
No, I meant post the actual team list in-game with the sets. That team isn't great but you could probably get to Master pretty decently off the back of D-Nite, Tailwind Whimi, and Aurora Ninetails.

>>59236585
You don't have to directly replace each mon with a similar one. The starter teams aren't built to be functional balanced teams, it's just a handful of 6 freebies.

>>59236545 (Me)
I now realize how much worse my opponent screwed up than I did: his other mon was Sinistcha and for whatever reason he didn't Rage Powder me in the 2v1.

>>59236574
Glass half-empty
>>59236580
Glass half-full

>>59236585
Try and get a primarina and sinistcha. Btw slyveon is actually pretty good right now. Stick a fairy wing on it and those hyper voices are chunking anything not 4x resisted

>>59236580
My favorites? Why of course, Pelipper, Archaludon, Basculegion, Sableye, Sneasler and Incineroar.

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>>59236591
I think this team would work better in singles maybe

>>59236617
archaludon is nobodys favorite

>>59236617
i only have two of those on my team
>>59236624
i like duraludon a lot but archaludon is a downgrade imo

>>59236618
Nice adamant Pikachu

>>59236618
Lewd.

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>>59236618
>adamant pikachu with full spatk
>no lightning rod

>>59236618
Your big hitters all lack any defensive merit without Protect. One or two of them without it could work, but your carries being forced to go all in and or die immediately puts you at a disadvantage when running down turns of an opponents weather, TR, Tailwind or just mind-gaming your opponent. Also, you have a lot of redundant coverage or unwieldy moves you really would be better off without, imo. Such as Hypnosis on Ninetails, T-Punch and Aerial Ace on D-Nite, and Psycho Cut on Ceruldge.
Replace Draining Kiss on Ninetails and Hypnosis for Moonblast/Aurora Veil. Nine is far too weak offensively and defensively to make good use of Kiss.
If you're trying to go all in on Ceruledge most games, you might want to consider Focus Sash just to ensure you'll always get at least one Weak Armor off. Personally, I think you might have to use Swords Dance too since it's just a little too low attack wise to get some crucial KO's on most things.
T-Punch of D-Nite isn't the worst thing, but barring one-shotting Pelipper, Dragon Claw would fulfill the same person 99% of the time on whatever you're trying to hit it with it anyway. Aerial Ace is just outright ass, replace it with Protect or E-Speed to finish off weakened mons.
Some of your EVs and natures are wack as shit too. There's zero reason Lopunny should have max HP over speed or Pikachu being Adamant over Modest/Timid.

>>59236630
>>59236634
I messed up the nature. My thinking was that I don't encounter too much electric types to justify lighting rod...but now I realize I would work against electro shot archaludon...

>>59236638
wow thanks for all the recommendations

>>59236552
I got my ass handed to me by a Charizard Y Focus Sash Gengar with Trick Room lead

>>59236499
Mega Kangaskhan is fine thoughever

>>59236628
>>i like duraludon a lot but archaludon is a downgrade imo
biggest contrarian on the board goddamn

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What should be the last mon on this team?

>>59236326
>Sceptile + Mega
Unsure. Sharpness for base and mega? Rebalancing its stat spread?
>Blaziken + Mega
Nothing really needed desu
>Swampert + Mega
Replace Damp with something that isn’t completely situational
>Rillaboom
Now gets Soundproof instead of Grassy Surge.
>Cinderace
Nothing needed.
>Inteleon
I don’t even know anything about this guy.

I love the little cutscene for grav apple

>>59235965
>do you try to avoid making the bull uncomfortable when he is fucking your wife?

I decided to cave in and finally try Sneasler and I'm one-shotting everything.

my reaction:
https://youtu.be/KJtopGwXJH8?t=32

>>59236184
The ones in SwSh and SV used to max out close to that number, but usually only early in a game's lifespan, so it suggests that, for people interested in competitive, Champions is as exciting as a new game, but for Pokemon fans as a whole, not too many new people jumped into competitive (beyond the slow consistent growth we've seen all the Switch era games).

>>59236597
Meganium ignores Rage Powder

>>59235965
I love pissing people off so I'll use the most annoying and easiest strategies

>>59236786
Disgaea ass cutscene

>Barely any trainer customization

The irony is I’d drop money if there was stuff for me to buy, this shit is awful even worse than the mainline game customization. I also hate that you don’t get to keep the ribbons you get in Champions, annoying.

Otherwise I’m at 1700 elo chilling and love the game. More of you should nickname your pokemon though dont be boring.

>>59236827
Oh yeah, forgot about the Powder immunity. So he was done regardless.

Can opponents see our Pokemon's nicknames? I named my Umbreon Nigga.

>>59236885
if you are not hiding your trainer name and shit, yeah

>>59236885
They can, yeah. I fought some homo who named his Archaludon “Trade Center”. Idk if curses or slurs show up though.

Corviknight is quickly becoming one of my favorite pokemon

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>>59236872
I always name my mons when I can remember too.

>>59236885
Yes.

>>59236885
ur lucky theres no report function yet, punk

>>59236895
What moveset are you using? I was going to use Brave Bird, Roost, Bulk Up, Tail Wind but I ended up switching it out for Aegislash at the last minute for the online competition.

>>59236904
There isn't a report function. Otherwise most would complain about stall until draw in singles

so if i name my pokemon "kill niggers" i wont get banned?

>>59236969
I think you should try it

https://pokepast.es/32d11d7626ac8ec8

Is my trick room team shit? I made it to masterball as a VGC newfag but have been plateauing

>>59235965
>Baited out 11 japs
Nice work

>>59237060
The problem isn't your team, it's hard Trick Room. It's a very rigid, flow-charty strategy. It's great for beginners to learn the basics and ladder, and for crushing other beginners, but against higher level opponents, they'll see your linear game plan and know how to counter it. You're, at best, banking on hard reads and 50/50s, and even if you win those, you can still lose to your opponent going for a double protect on the last turn of TR and then reverse sweeping you 2v4 after TR ends. Trick Room works best when it's treated like speed control, like Tailwind. Something you set up if your current Pokemon underspeed your opponent's current Pokemon; not something you build your entire team around.

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Azumarill is the fucking grim reaper in BSS

>>59235888
okay, I need THE premier archaludon killer, I keep seeing this fucker every game

>>59236794
>ask a question about video games
>get answer about cuck porn
maybe take a break from the net lil bro

I sorta feel bad for my Baton Pass Espathra but then I think about giving it Psychic Terrain over Dazzling Gleam.

>>59237279
Should you not ever use super slow things, just mid tier speed mons with tailwind and TR?

I ran into an Agility/Cotton Guard Lopunny into M-Garde with Stored Power that made me laugh. (Mirror Coated it with Milotic)

>>59237353
as someone who plays it, just double into it with special super effective damage. char y with scorching sands/venu with earth power/aura sphere on whatever. archaludon is the heart and soul of every team that has it, take it down with pressuring special super effective damage and you win.

Im enjoying vgc, but is it weird to say that theres not enough “good pokemon” in this game? You have options but they feel limited. Some pokemon are real bad and seriously have no utility

>>59237415
Which ones? Shitmons survive more in Doubles because spread moves halve the damage taken. Also you can full invest in bulk and defences if it's pure support.

Look at Sableye's stats lmao. It doesn't usually get targeted and downed on turn 1 though.

>>59237353
He has 65 Special defense. Even neutral special moves can chip him for 30% damage.
Just make sure he's not in the rain.

>>59237415
There's not enough good pokemon that fulfill specific roles.
Like sinistcha is the only mon with trick room and rage powder, but then it also gets hospitality, a signature spread move that can burn and heal and way better stats than it deserves because why not. The other redirectors just don't stack up to that in terms of general usability.
There's plenty of good mons that are just designed to do damage though for example

>>59237415
If you add more "good" pokemon to the game then all it'll do is push the others down. Every meta, without exception, centralizes around only a handful of pokemon. Besides, we're most likely getting more pokemon next season anyway. Probably the rest of the missing megas too.

>>59237415
There's really not many genuinely useless Pokemon in the game, lots of uncommon Pokemon still have niches that make them usable with the right team building.

Rock Slide needs a nerf so bad. Take away its flinch and give it 80 BP and 100 Accuracy.

>>59237526
Or you know, just wait for covert cloak to come back

I feel like I'm back in ultra ball 2 in masters 1800 some of the fucking teams are just insane

>>59237534
I'm at 1797 rn. Unfortunately I have a trick room team and a lot of people lead Gambit and Aerodactyl into Sneasler and Farigiraf. Fortunately I put ally switch on Farigiraf lol.

Unfortunately again, trick room doesn't last long enough.

Fortunately, Golurk can hit through protect and make more of the turns than anything else.

>>59237538
I just fought a trick room team and I turned a free win into a loss cause I forgot to taunt the giraffe AHHHHHHHHHH

>I lead sableye
>I click willowisp
>If they protect they get encored next turn
>I win the game
For the love of god guy bring some special attackers. I can't handle these free wins

>>59235965
No. You aren't playing against people you know, you're playing against faceless nobodies as a faceless nobody, go as busted and as annoying as you want.

>>59236486
You can click scarf leaf storm, electroweb, or volt switch

>yesterday
>14-4 with a 10 win streak
>today
>go 6-12 with a 7 loss streak in my first 10 games
>one of my losses was to THREE consecutive rock slide flinches in the first three turns of a game
>another was to a last turn dire claw para proc into full para
I should have quit when I was ahead.

>>59236520
Because ghost type is broken as fuck offensively

>>59237572
covert cloak can't come soon enough kek

>>59237526
80BP 100ACC no flinch would be a buff. It should be 10% flinch chance with the same 75BP and 90ACC.

>>59237575
It's ridiculous it was cut for M-A. Like I understand cutting the choice items and life orb and assault vest; they want a low power format. But purely defensive items like the cloak? The only good argument I've heard is they want this reg to be "beginner friendly" and a beginner not knowing why Fake Out sometimes fails to flinch might be confusing, but you know what? Just have the item notification pop up the way sash or safety goggles does. Instead of
>Pokemon flinched and couldn't move!
>Pokemon was protected by its Covert Cloak!

>>59237369
No, super slow Pokemon have their place. Look at Kinggambit, Torkoal, Amoongus, Sinistcha, or Iron Hands. They can deter your opponent from setting up TR. They can be a TR option for you if you see your opponent has a fast, frail hyper offense team. They can also support your other Pokemon. And they can even just sit on your bench while your faster Pokemon come to a battle in a matchup that would be bad for them.

The big take away is don't put all your eggs in one basket. If you were making a rain team you wouldn't bring six Pokemon that ONLY worked if it was raining, right? So don't do that with Trick Room.

>>59237421
>halve
75%

>>59237589
If you don't want to get flinched then maybe invest in some speed control friendo

>>59237589
Putting in Cloak would've been a huge mistake, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if GF regretted making it in the first place with how little counterplay there is to it.

>>59237643
Buddy this is the same company that made last respects and gave it to a mon with adaptability.

>>59237644
Basc is also a mistake, but a much more manageable one as it's the only Pokémon worth running with Last Respects, and there's counterplay against it.
Cloak just outright makes Fake Out worthless and lets your opponent do their business unimpeded. It's not like Soundproof or Levitate where only a specific set of mons can have it; anything could have Covert Cloak.

>>59237655
>it's the only Pokémon worth running with Last Respects
It's literally the only Pokemon that GETS Last Respects aside from Houndstone who isn't even in the game.

Is Assault Vest Fluffy Houndstone a thing?

About to reach a new 100 mark ELO. Opponent gets two rock slide flinches in a row. Game is over.

Bullshit.

>>59237595
Are you advocating for the hybrid? So you have something with trick room as a move, as well as something with tailwind type thing?

>pulled shiny A-Raichu
this lad usable?

>>59237735
With no electric terrain setter in the format? No.

>>59237736
Even if there was a terrain setter, that just makes it fast, but doesn't fix the frail and weak part.

>My Feraligatr Double Edges into my opponent's Garchomp at 5 HP
>both die
>I still get the W
Was it always like this? Thought it'd end as a draw

>>59237451
>Besides, we're most likely getting more pokemon next season anyway.
no
https://champions.pokemon.com/en-us/gameplay/
new mons aren't happening until the next ruleset (mid-june?)

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>recruited a shiny Dragapult
How do I build around him? I haven't played Pokemon since gen 5 but I really like this guy.

So we can't transfer pokemon to Champions, change their EVs and nature, then return them to our other game? That seems like a huge mistep.

>>59236761

I'm running Sneasler and Tsareena minus Sinistcha

>>59237752
You win because his mon died first.

>>59237769
You can return them, they just won't have the stats that were changed in Champions due to the separate EV system

>>59237752
It's based on whose HP hit 0 first. For example if you use Explosion to double KO, you still lose because Explosion drops your HP to 0 before going off.

>>59237780
Oh that's a relief. Still a shame ae can't use Champions to manipulate stats. Seems like a nobrainer for them to get people to play Champions and spend VP.

>have M-Aggron on the field with 0 buff
>use Heavy Slam on Ninetales that set up Snow
>they switched out for Froslass
>OHKO into a forfeit
Guess M-Aggron fears no Snow team

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>>59236326
>>Sceptile + Mega
Which ability would be best for Sceptile?
>Physical moves use the Special Attack stat in damage calculations (Still physical though)
>Slicing moves hit twice, with the second hit at 50% power (Pre-nerf Parental Bond)
One allows Sceptile to use its great physical movepool, the other is just very thematic.
I do not see GameFreak ever adjusting Sceptile's stats unfortunately.

>>59236763
>Now gets Soundproof instead of Grassy Surge.
Way to completly kill Grassy Terrain as a mechanic and Rillaboom as a pokémon, retard. Glad you aren't balancing the games.

>>59237765
Go to battle > battle data ingame and you can see the most popular builds for any mon

>>59237815
Nevermind what that anon suggested, but Rillaboom is as unbalanced as Incin.
Together the bara bros were way too centralizing. It was nice to have a way to stop Miraidons, but grassy terrain needs to be more widely distributed and not given to a mon with high base attack, fake out, and U-Turn.
Too much utility not to be meta.

>Firigaraf surviving a double up from M Floette and Archaludon
Is there any way to kill this thing turn 1 before Trick Room goes up?

>>59237850
Run light of ruin on your floette

>>59237835
Incin has been balanced by removing knock off and u-turn and promoting a meta where lots of mons counter it (White Herb Sneasler, Kingambit, Milotic, Corvinight...). We'll see what they do with Rilla, but it won't be removing the n°1 reason people take it. At most, they'll take away a couple of moves like, idk, U-Turn or High Horsepower. Lack of Terastal also means Rilla can't just turn into a Fire mon and sit in front of Incineroar anymore.

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>>59237850
Bug Bite

>>59237850
Tryanitar

Will the reset drop us down 1 tier or bring us back to Pokeball? I should've farmed the bots for badges.

>>59237877
I've only seen the version of this picture where Scizor punched Flutter Mane.

>>59237964
Scizor is competitively known as "The Fairy Fucker" for more than 1 reason.

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>>59237877
He carries the hopes and dreams of every bug type on his back...

>on the second week, reach MB3 after a 12 win streak
>be so afraid to keep playing that I just leave it there since my team sucks now on casuals
>try new team and win, making it a 13 win streak
>get demoted to MB4

Ah shit, I didn't realize, but yeah, after you get into MB, you are ranking with everyone, so the less you play, the lower you will go, even if you won them all. You have to play for hours a day, every single day, just to keep your ladder position.
Yeah, it's my first time on this kind of ranked games, I used to play in tournaments, once a month at most, really different.

Also, Bright Powder Sableye from now on. Praying to the RNG gods from now on.

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>>59237850
>Hit it with a strong dark type attack
>It has a Colbur Berry
>Taunt it
>It has Mental Herb
>Put it to sleep
>Lum Berry

>another game where Casual Mode is treated as a testing ground for Metafags
You stupid faggots need to kill yourselves. What kind of data are you getting when your rain team stomps an anime team?

>>59237850
Hitting trick room turn one on your own giraffe is an option. Imprison sacrifices a slot. It's more dangerous though.

>>59238052
My elo is more important than your good vibes mono grass team Erikafag.

I'm in top 100K now. I'm afraid to ask how many players there are in total and how many of those are adults.

>>59238052
I do this but my team is off meta at least. I'm not bringing fucking kingambit basc peli arch teams to casual.
I usually just do it after i swap a pokemon on my team and I just wanna give it a test run just to see if a theory has potential

I must have beat a super world champion while he was high on drugs/blackout drunk because my ELO does not match my knowledge of the game. I still Will o Wisp Amourage.

>>59238052
I wish casual gave VP points, that would make it worthwhile to go try fun teams

>>59238079
Casual should give points based on how little useage the pokemon you bring has. No points for sneaseler, max points for castform
Give it a sensible cap though just to avoid pure shitter sandbagging vp farming teams

>>59238085
That's what a company who isn't greedy would do lol.

Should be in the weekly missions. Like "bring X into a casual battle and win".

>>59238052
This happens to literally every single "casual mode" in any competitive video game ever. How are you retards still falling for this?

>>59238091
How the hell is having an unranked mode greedy?

>>59238091
I'm not gonna say gamefreak/nintendo aren't greedy, but champions could be so much worse in that department.
I'm not even sure how its possible to run out of vp atm unless you constantly waste it on clothes and shit

>>59238085
They should just have a Underrated Tier where you can only Pokemon below 50% usage in Ranked. It would be a nice change of pace and get people to use VP on shitmons.

>>59238105
It's not, but they could reward VP for it. It would be fan friendly because you know people really like rollout milk drink miltank meme fights.
>>59238110
Rolling on the gacha game a lot because you keep getting shit and you don't pay for the extra home slots, and experimenting a lot. I've run out. Lol.

>>59238149
I feel like it would be pretty difficult to have enough active mons to the point where you can't rotate mons back out through home.
Are you just a complete scatterbrain or a giga vgc autist?

>>59238147
>tier that bans nothing except maybe Sneasler

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>Scarf Basculegion outspeeds Dragapult by 1 point
It's one thing after another with this fucking fish

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>Soul
Politoed, Ludicolo, Kingdra

>Soulless
Pelipper, Basculegion, Archaludon

>>59238258
You know what I mean, asshole. It doesn't have to be strictly 50%. Stop being autistic.

>>59238196
Yeah I like making new things all the time.

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I think I'm always going to be stuck between 1700-1900 elo. I wanted to try hard and climb to champion rank but that's not possible, it's probably never possible. Guess there isn't much incentive to play after reaching Master Ball I guess

>>59238370
You can do it easily if you have severe enough autism. You can begin memorizing the speed tier of everything and their usual speed EVs, which if you have crippling autism should be something you can definitely do.

>>59236326
Making sceptile a physical attacker is all it needs and nothing else

>>59237815
Good, Rillaboom should be killed as a pokemon. Give Grassy Surge to something else.

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>>59238342
>Make a Trick Room Team with Torkoal/Farig/M-Golurk
>Golurk dissapoints me
>see that a M-Kanga did well on a tournament with a Brave Nature and Hammer Arm.
>try it out
>8 win streak
Sucks when it misses though, but getting what is essentially a "+2 Speed" in Trick Room is awesome.

>>59238370
Unless you're a streamer or actual VGC competitor why would you ever want to enter the tier of actual autistics running spreadsheets and having calculators on hand for every battle?

You could just play the game because it's fun to battle, man.

>>59238370
I will be staying at 1800 for now, its too painful to keep climbing. Trying singles now

>>59238393
People way overestimate how slow you need to be in TR, there’s no Amoongus to be an asshole you can use even middling speed Pokemon

Is it a good idea to carry a pokemon with aromatherapy to cure burns? For all the willowisps and scovillain

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>>59238375
>crippling autism
>remembering a simple math equation and like 30 mons' base speed

>>59238441
You're so smart, anon! (I'm telling you this because your parents never did.)

>>59238386
That's not how GF thinks and you know it. Like it or not, Grassi Gorilla is here to stay.

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Anyone get any good use out of the Meowstics? Is female preferred for potential competitive boosts?

>>59238495
a lot of psychic megas are held back by no psychic surge users in the game.

>>59238495
The mega is terrible. Ironically Meowstic's best use is being paired with Mega Alakazam for Prankster Psychic Terrain + Expanding Force.

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I can't do the "win 3 games without losing a mon" weekly. I can't just demolish a toddler at this point because I'm not in Super Ball so I need to have someone ragequit after I get a good turn 1 and they just won't do it

>>59235888
>tranny pic
cringe

>>59238511
They should really change that mission, it only punishes you the higher you get

>>59238495
Go full bulk and spam prankster yawn. The mega stinks.

>>59238495
>mega
No. Mega Meowstic is completely and utterly outclassed by Mega Alakazam. There is no reason to use mega meow because of that. But its regular male form is still ok for setting screens and Psychic Terrain.

>>59238490
Wow anon, really? You’re so smart. Are you going to tell me Gamefreak has a penchant for Charizard next?

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I kinda wanna vent, but man basulegion is a really scrubby broken pokemon. It forces so many end game scenarios into 50/50s.
>me and my opponent are on our final 2 Pokemon
>opponent or i have basculegion
>entire game suddenly boils down to if i click protect on the right pokemon
>if bascu attacks the pokemon that uses protect, they lose. Otherwise they win
last respects is some low iq move design along with matcha gotcha

>>59238563
It doesn’t help when they don’t run scarf and you lose pokemon to it assuming they’re scarfed on ladder. Incineroar can be good to prevent themselves from locking into last respects but if they run sitrus that plan is gone.

To the Game Freak Employee trying to push the shitty bridge dragon to being relevant, FUCK YOU

>>59238577
I like how cancerous it is but fuck, you couldn’t have designed it better?

>>59238577
You should thank the person who removed Body Press instead.

>>59238577
They did it with Duraladon to by making him the Ace mon of the most popular character in Galar, somebody really wants this line to be popular lol

>>59238607
That’s funny because that thing bombed out of the pokemon of the year results both when westerners were involved and when it was Japan-only. Maybe they thought turning it into a stapler with broken attributes would save it.

Is there any point to playing the game once you reach Master Ball rank in both Singles and Doubles?

>>59238668
You've completed the tutorial. Now you are in the real ladder.

>>59238678
Yeah but what do I get for playing the "real ladder", I only grind to Master Ball Rank for the extra box space, without that I really have no incentive to keep playing. Hopefully next season gives more box space for grinding.

Man it feels bad to have a near useless 2nd typing. Give Meganium some signature Fairy move that's boosted by Sun GF.
It is funny to run Solar Beam/Weather Ball/Earth Power/Ancient Power at least.

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>>59238686
>playing only for extra box space
>no intention of actually playing the game and utilizing the box space
Why even play the game at all

Should I quit if I lost a battle in Pokeball?

>>59238770
No. You can still get dunked on by a real player if you haven't made a good team yet.

>>59238511
At least it's only 24 recruit tickets

>>59238563
It's a Last Respects problem

>every single team on ladder is just pelipper, basculegion, archaludon, sableye

>>59238577
Imagine acting like being strong competitively = GF is trying to push it when Landorus has been a premier in each gen's meta at SOME point regardless of it's form despite never being popular with no effort on GF's part to change that and Rillaboom was by far the most neglected Gen8 starter merchandise-wise. Sneasler, Ursaluna, and Basculegion were all less pushed than H-Zoroark despite them being by far the strongest mons to come out of PLA.

>>59238794
Glad I'm keeping the soul of this game alive with my Sneasler

>>59238794
I like Klefki in Sableye's spot but the lack of Encore and WoW sucks

they should keep stats on shiny pokemon
there's shit like sableye, charizard and gengar where seeing a non-shiny one is rarer than facing somebody with a shiny but there's stuff like archaludon that are hardly ever shiny despite being common

>guess which 4 of the 30 useful moves I have!
Sableye is cheating

>There has now been two separate cases of a single veteran player using a mon, which results in in catapulting into the spotlight as people bandwagon onto it
Luhmao

>>59238808
That reminds me, does anyone have a shiny Gengar they'd be willing to trade me? I love the way the mega looks.

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>8/15 wins until I can get Mega Floette
ZA Royale is so damn repetitive. Who even likes this game?

>>59238860
I completed the ZA Royale shit over the course of, like, a month while also working towards the Shiny Charm. I rate ZA about 8/10 but I fully admit that it's repetitive postgame is the worst part about it.

>>59238860
>shit game comes out
>everyone tells you it's shit
>(You) buy it anyway
>game turns out to be, as expected, shit
>"how could this be happening to me?"
you deserve fecal scented misery and suffering

>>59238860
Just use the berichan bot on twitch to trade you one

>>59238875
Okay I'll admit I bought the game for access to mega evos and easy shinies. I didn't think trying to get Shiny Charm and going through ZA Royale would be mundane

>>59238860
I liked it. I got my Floette before Champions was out too and I played the DLC. It's a bit repetitive but I had fun.

>>59238860
Just gen one bro, save yourself the pain of having to play ZA.

>Youtuber cooks up the most cancerous thing they can think of
>Makes a video on it
>Infests the game until the new cancer comes along
Is this gonna be the game forever

Hit master ball in singles by abusing mega Starmie
Still can't climb much in doubles

>>59238686
>Yeah but what do I get for playing the "real ladder",
https://youtu.be/tg2PD-dwsIwEl3_d-VkmacTVqfy

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>>59238860
Funniest part was pre-DLC when this quest was necessary for getting the shiny charm

I actually haven't used my floette once yet

>>59238973
I have the exact opposite problem.
I have a decent elo in masterball in doubles, but struggling in great ball tier in singles.

I see the truth gamers. Literally just click rock slide and you can win. What are some fun other pokemon to pair with ttar exca? I wonder if there is a universe where you run slow tar and build more of a trick room team that sometimes leverages exca to outspeed shit outside of TR

>>59238860
ZA is such a shit game

>>59238794
This Meta was a mistake

I'm master ball in both singles and doubles

Should I waste my time trying to get to Masters in singles?

>>59239030
If you want more vp from end of season rewards yes

>>59239041
where can you see the season rewards?

>>59239018
post teams

>>59239030
If you think it's a waste of time probably not. Also singles tilts me like crazy more than doubles ever could.

>>59238799
To be fair Archaludon gets some weird things that other pokemon don't get. It's the only non legendary non pseudo 600 BST Pokemon in the history of the game. It was one of only two mons added to Indigo Disk that wasn't a legendary and, for not being the champion pokemon, it is clearly the stronger one. It gets crazy good abilities and a signature move that makes it a competitive monster and it is the evolution of a pokemon that was already considered a final stage, he even had a Gigantamax form.
It's not hard to see someone in the dev team really liking the line to give them all those toys to play with.

>>59239055
>Singles
>M-Gardevoir, M-Lopunny, Dragonite, Azumarill, Talonflame, Mimikyu
Wallbreak with the megas and setup and sweep with the rest. Talonflame is to bait my opponent into bringing Stealth Rocks so I can get a free turn of setup. I almost never actually bring it to a match.
>Doubles
>M-Froslass, Glaceon, Kingambit, Inceleroar, Garchomp, Milotic
Set up veil and fire off Blizzards. Garchomp exists only to counter zardY

>>59238982
>great ball tier in singles.
I made it within one win of ultra ball using nothing but a bunch of ranch recruits that I didn't train at all
and also I have 0 experience with competitive Pokemon
I guess it is just a coin toss down there

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I love CHADvillain

God I’m so sick of bulky Rotom wash give me my fucking Rillaboom

>only 3 team slots unless you want to pay
fucking really? its not like im gonna pay money just so I don't have to manually switch out some pokemon

>>59239280
bro your meganium?

>>59238577
I honestly don't mind Arch at all simply because of how much of an improvement he is compared to Duraladon. Legitimately one of the worst designs I've ever seen in anything.

fuck i barely touched this shit after getting to master ball. i hope they shake up the meta a little bit. i'm tired of sneasler/basculegion/kingambit/incineroar

>>59239338
you literally don't need more

>>59239338
You can use the Replica Teams feature to "save" extra loadouts to swap between. Its not the intended way to use the feature but it works.

>>59239338
100% they will sell shit like extra team slots and more box space when mobile releases. There is no chance in hell the mobile version launches with such a barebones shop.

Just found out my Mega Aerodactyl build speed-tied with Scarf Basculegion and it has been like this for 100 matches.

>>59239404
Sounds like you EVed it to be 1 point faster than Dragapult which is exactly where scarf Basc ends up.

>>59239413
You got it in one.

>>59239084
hopefully that person on the dev team gets fired

They really should require Last Resort to require a full set of moves to work

>lose because of a flinch
xD

How many more hours is the Battle Comp live for? Only have 32 games completed.

>>59238860
I put 400 hours into the game, most of that shiny hunting. I was all but done with it and the DLC by the time the 4th season of online rolled around.
The game is a 6/10. There's parts to like, but not a huge amount of content variety, the battling is mediocre and I was wishing I could just avoid it by the end.

>>59239505
3 hours I believe.

>>59239505
3 hours I think

>>59238495
It could POTENTIALLY do something, either with Male's prankster on turn one or fishing for a Competitive boost with Female on turn one, but it wants a psychic terrain support and at the end of the day it's a slightly worse Mega Alakazam with the only benefit of choosing Meowstic instead being that it won't get killed quite as easily by weak priority moves (but if psychic terrain is down then priority is moot anyway)

>>59239546
Does a Meowstic with Prankster and Imprison + Fake Out go before Fake Out users on turn 1? Would be funny.

>>59239583
Fake Out has higher priority, so no. Prankster just adds a flat +1 to priority to status moves.

What are the odds they buff M-Meowstic with Psychic Surge next season? Maybe just female Meowstic could get it?

>>59239546
>the end of the day it's a slightly worse Mega Alakazam
It has some benefits over mega zam
>better hp and def
>more coverage options (zams are horrendous)
>competitive before mega evolving to hard fuck intimidate leads

>>59239711
0%. They’re stingy as fuck when it comes to anything other than moveset tweaks.

>wide lens isn't in
damn, I was gonna do some singles maushold bullshit

>>59239758
Unfortunately the most prevalent Intimidate user is a Dark type so it can't really do anything versus one. A shame it didn't have a better ability since it's pretty much a win aesthetics-wise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs04c6rDLRA

>>59238393
That's the team that is disappointing me rn also. It seems like it should be good for TR given people try to protect out the turns but it's total intimidate bait. After intimidate it can't even one shot Charizard which is pathetic.

>>59238804
Klefki can be fake outed.

>>59238563
>>59238570
>>59238778
Get rid of Last Respect, how much would this change Basculegion, both male and female?

Alright, about to hit bump limit. Gimme a reminder as to what to add to the next OP.

>30/45 games
>Top 2800
>15 minutes left
Should I keep going or keep my position?

>>59239943
archaludon = gay

>>59239946
>not 45/45
Doesn't count

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>>59239964

>>59239711
Literal Zero, it's stuck forever with that shit ability just like most of the ZA Megas getting squat

I'm tired of being on a losing streak. I need that flower to break it.