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Rock Slide Edition

Pokémon Champions is a free to play online battle simulator available on Switch with a mobile release later. It features ranked, casual and private battles for both singles and doubles, and will be used for VGC tournaments in 2026.

>/vp/ Champions Tournament
The first of hopefully many /vp/ Champions tournaments will be held soon in early June. All anons are invited to participate in a no-banlist, single elimination, BO3 bracket following standard rules, where the winner will be declared the reigning Champion.
Anons interested in joining are advised to list their time zones to determine the best possible tournament time for everyone involved. Registration will be performed with Challonge.

>News
Enter the code DRAG0NDANCEPTC26 for a free Gyarados.

>Resources and useful links
Community Tournaments usage data: https://pikalytics.com/
Ladder usage data: https://pokechamdb.com/en
New Player Guide(NEW PEOPLE READ THIS):
https://rentry.org/pcg-guide (now taking suggestions and feedback)

Quick FAQ
>Do I need my own Pokémon to play?
No, the game features a recruitment system, but transferring from Home is recommended to save time and resources.
>What makes the game so much more accessible than before?
All aspects of a Pokémon are customizable with VP, a currency earned simply by playing the game. IVs are also removed.
Ask in the thread if you want any specific Pokémon, and someone will respond.
>Is there single player content?
No.
>Do I need a Nintendo Online subscription?
No.
>What's the starter pack?
US$6.99 one time purchase for 50 training tickets (fully train for free), 30 Teammate Tickets (recruit Pokemon without using VP), 50 extra box space and the LGPE trainer music.
>Is anything locked behind a paywall?
So far everything gameplay relevant is also purchasable with VP. Mega Kalos starters and E-Floette require ZA transfer.

>/pcg/ OP pastebin
https://pastebin.com/d2FJZdPh

Previous: >>59309987
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Indy almost here, what meme are you expecting to go far?
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Did some youtuber make an arch/pelliper video or something? Last couple weeks I only saw a couple people using it, but like 2/3 of the people I've fought today had them.
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>>59318252
Had the same experience. It falls out and in it seems. Might just be a good time to come back to it when its threats become targeted themselves but dont also hit arch.
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>>59318164
Sash Kleavor, Scarf Basculegion, and Blackglasses Kinggambit. Rocks turn 2HKOs into OHKOs and break sash.
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Damn these threads are dead. We need more mons added + mobile release ASAP
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>>59318420
Yeah I noticed it took 9 hours for a new thread to be made after the last one
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>>59318420
The fact that they officially announced roster changes would only happen every 3 months killed the hype for future updates.
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>>59318420
Its up to us to make our own fun then.
So how the expected turnout for the planned small tourney? Any more attendants and timezones?
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>>59318527
I don’t mind lack of roster change, there js still a good amount of experimenting to be done. But adding zero customization stuff kinda made me go
>ok this is a maintenance mode game forever then
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>>59317137
I cloned a Japanese one I traded for, so I can dap you up with one.
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ded game EoS soon
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>>59318706
I'm working to get Professor on all my favorite Pokemon that are in this game, but once that's done this is likely going to be maintenance only for me too unless I just feel like hopping on for a few battles.
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I'm just waiting for mobile release because playing some battles during lunch break is the main reason I picked the game up. I was only playing on Switch in the meantime to get back into the groove of things after a decade long break from pokemon.
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>Noivern Switcheroo his choice scarf and receives my choice scarf
People are so funny sometimes.
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>>59318903
???
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>flinch
>crit
>flinch
>crit
>miss!!
>flinch
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>>59318420
This game deserves to flop, they tried to appeal to causals and fell flat on their faces
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>>59319056
>they tried to appeal to causals
Huh? If anything it's the complete opposite. Champions is a game built for tryhards.
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>>59318420
>>59318496
yeah man, I was startled when I went to check the catalog at 4PM and there was no thread, so I took it upon myself. I think lack of content really killed a lot of hype and enthusiasm.m around this game, which I hope they fix they won't
>>59318564
the draft tourney? did we ever figure out how we'd organize that?
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>>59319065
Removing items and removing a lot of mons was to not over stimulate normies in team building, all it did was made them even more bored with limited options
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>>59319072
Its the open tournament.
We still havent had a consensus on draft yet, and without a test run of any tourney, there is no reason to figure it out so much.
We need as much support as we can in the OPs tournament, since this sort of dictates the timing of future tourneys.
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I am so absurdly tired of seeing rock slide.
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>opponent missed Fire Blast twice
>opponent has forfeited!
Dude, maybe don't use any non-100 acc moves?
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>>59319163
your wide guard??
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Holy Dead Game
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>>59318420
I'm waiting for the mobile version of the game before I try it
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Everyone is waiting for regulation M-B anyway. It's coming in 2 weeks from now. Game will make or break depending on how many new stuffs they are adding
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>>59318420
They should’ve been far more active with balance updates
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Im about to start documenting the amount of procs against me vs what I get
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>>59319263
They gotta add all the new megas and shelves these ones or is over
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Archaludon is the gayest fucking thing
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Indianapolis Regionals begin today, this is the first western tournament using Champions. Scarlet and Violet's tournament days were finished last weekend at Melbourne.
Stream starts at 9:15 EST.
Day 1:
https://www.youtube.com/live/NR6eRjJqxQU
Day 2:
https://www.youtube.com/live/yEvyVhuwJtA
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I miss heatwaves constantly but these charizards hit me flush every time
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>hit a meganium
>it was a h-zoroark
>opponent switched it out for another pokemon
>dealt with that pokemon
>meganium (40% HP) showed up
Didn't expect the the illusion to work more than once. Could have fooled me
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>>59319146
Recruit draft would be a shitshow, but also fine if we embrace that it's a casual tournament for fun. Draft draft sounds like too much work for me to workshop a new team but it's not a dealbreaker.
Could just do a banlist, but getting us to agree on a banlist might be funny. Could just throw hands with whatever and suffer through the retarded meta teams.
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>>59319384
An actual draft would go hard, and we can even open team building workshops if needed, but my worry is, and has always been, coordination. We dont have, and will never have, a discord so we are limited in what we can do on that front. Again, unless one of us find how they do draft in showdown or a dedicated website or something, we can toss that idea out for now.
The next step is logically the long awaited monotype tourney, which should coincide with the phone release.
Then we can start talking about banlists.
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>>59319400
Yeah I'd be game for monotype
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Volcaona just missed two heatwaves on scovillain very cool
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My 90% accuracy moves miss 90% of the time. I just put kleavor on my team and now it misses stome axes regularly AND I GOT IT FOR THESE FUCKING CHARIZARDS AND OOPS IT MISSED SO NOW CHARIZARDS COMING IN FREEFREE
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This is why I keep non-100 acc moves at minimum or think ahead in case they fail
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The game just actively keeps me from progressing i just got crit flinched and then flinched the next turn but I cant hit a 90%
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>>59318527
Basically confirms this game is gonna be dead for anyone who isn't a super serious vgc player. Every f2p mobile game under the sun needs constant updates to keep players engaged.
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>>59319603
Meanwhile I think Pocket overdoes it with a new set every month. It's easy to get overwhelmed
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>>59319400
drafting is easy, just make a dedicated thread and take turns picking mons. I even have a spreadsheet with pt totals for all the mons, the hard part is getting people to play each other every week.
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>>59319613
Pocket isn't that overwhelming. The meta changes slowly because 99% of cards in a new set are fucking useless.
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>>59319618
Im always in the stance that talk is cheap, a proof of concept is better. If we can drive a small 4man draft, we can show the main populace in the general that we arent just hot air
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>>59319619
I just refuse to play it now that I heard there's a deck that can just spam sleep and kill you on turn 1. I suppose you can just go with Arceus but nah, just not worth it. If anything, I'd probably drop Pocket when Champions gets onto mobile since I no longer enjoy it
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And now im being crit through intimidates
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>>59319588
I missed enough Stone Axes and Ceaseless Edges I just went back to Stealth Rock on my singles team. Doesn't help that Kleavor and H-Rott are both slow and rely on Scarf or Sucker Punch
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>>59319603
>Every f2p mobile game under the sun needs constant updates to keep players engaged.
They do those Competitions every month(?) and if they'd give them fun little themes to make it stand out from ranked, I think it'd go a long way.
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>>59319333
Swiss 1 LIVE
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Raghav, who does in fact have a rag, was the winner of that really big Skraw tournament.
He isn't having any of that disruption/perish nonsense. Very good calls.
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>bro how do I beat perish?
clinic
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Just woke up, did I miss anything good? Knowing TPC events, I will have ample time to watch previous matches before next round lool
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>>59320353
You have lots of time, just catch up.
We're headed to Swiss 4
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>>59320055
He's a funny dude, he does videos on the battleroom channel with that guy
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Oh this one is going to be big. Can the oldheads hang in the new meta?
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I do not care for the Oranguru child. I have been hearing about him for so long. Get a new video.
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>>59320493
>bro remember Pachirisu!
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>>59320504
I can't remember the last time I saw that one...
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>>59320517
There are quite a lot of memorable games to cover too, like Choice locked Aqua Jet Basc vs Porygon 2 that needed a crit to win and got it at the last possible turn.
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>>59320522
Didn't it freeze too?
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Rooting for Giovanni because he has titles you get from actually playing the game
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>casters reveal the teams they'd have brought if they were playing
>one TR team
>the setter is Galarian Slowking

What does Scott Glaza know that the rest of us don't?
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>>59319182
>bro just put wide guard on all of your pokemon bro
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>>59320652
>thought you'd underspeed me? think again
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There was an anon here who mentioned a set for Tsareena. I thought I took a screenshot of it so I could get to it today, but I guess I didn't?
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>>59320684
You want the dire claw surviving one?
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>>59319009
>play into Mega Golurk Team
>lead Mega Garde and Sinistcha
>counter the Trick Room with Trick Room
>double up on Mega Golurk with Shadow Ball
>he gets Trick Room off
>KO his Farig and his Sinistcha
>Trick Room still up for 3 turns
>Hatterene Dazzlings
>crits and KOs both Mega Garde and Sinis
>go Talonflame and Rotom-W
>Acrobatics the Hatterene
>get her ass down to more than half
>Sitrus Berry
>Dazzling again
>crits both Talonflame and Rotom-W
>lose
I won today by Double Rock Slide spam into Mega Scizor, but that shit had me legit mad af.
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>>59320689
Yes
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As a fellow delphox-floette chad, the move for lorcy is to bring delphox-mega, and if he thinks opp (opp means opponent) is bringing Floette, bring his as well to get the aura boost
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>>59320706
22HP +17Def survives 32Atk Adamant Dire Claw
18Atk KOs uninvested Basc
9Spe outspeeds Aero under TW.
I ran Trop Kick, Triple Axel, Zen Headbutt, protect + Sitrus.
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Add 1 hold item that will save the game
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DELPHOXCHADS RISE
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Massive misplay.
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massively wp by Lorcy
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>>59320726
Flame Orb
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Wtf is going on? Why are we having 3 round 4 games? Do they really not have bathrooms?
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link tourney please
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>>59320839
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy7N6io_tqs
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>>59320839

>>59319333
>>59319333
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>Chosen One Shiny Arch
based
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>>59320846
>>59320847
thank you
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That was a hardcore T1.
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>>59319588
Ive been playing a lot of kleavor and I think Ive only missed stone axe twice. Those two times were turns that would make or break the game, of course.
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>>59320871
It's always when you need them to hit.
I hit every 90acc move when it's just chip, but I'll miss them everytime it's on a mon I need to KO as a win con.
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Last respects is so busted.
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If you have a particular player/team you want to follow, you can find them here.
https://www.pokedata.ovh/standingsVGC/0000187/masters/
Tomorrow they'll have teams updated.
There are 1013 players in this Regional, the last time Indianapolis was held in 24 there were 688 players.
I bet NAIC will be bigger too.
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>>59320913
>There are 1013 players in this Regional, the last time Indianapolis was held in 24 there were 688 players.
Champions is super easy to get into, and related to this, super easy to use old mons/mons you like instead of needing to invest a lot of time or resources in getting something fit for comp. Loving people bringing shit like Gen 4/5 caught pokemon with ribbons to the stream.
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IT'S REAL! ROUND 5 IS REEEAL!
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she cute
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>referring to one (1) player
>"they"
wtf
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>>59321006
You get banned from the circuit for accidentally misgendering a tranny, so it's safer to just use "they" singularly
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if yo girl got "banette admirer" you better watch out or you gonna wake up dead
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>>59321014
don't step on the mentally ill landmine!
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based floette off-meta team
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>>59321014
>You get banned from the circuit for accidentally misgendering
no way
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>>59321022
but imagine the sex tho
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>>59321048
>he doesn't know
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>>59321048
There was that one tcg player in charlotte who got dq'd for nervously chuckling when asked for his own pronouns.
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yeah, thats a troon
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>euphoria
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>Joey 3-2
it's over, singlesbros...
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>>59321109
I'm not going to pick on them too much. He could still win his next 3 games, he made top 8 in Reg I, Freezai won a Reg I regional.
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>>59321120
He's doing fine. Look at who else is 4-1 or 3-2, a lot of big names like Cybertron's brother, Aaron Traylor, Zheng.
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>Wolfe is 5-0 yet
What do you think he cooked up or is it fairly standard?
Won't see it until Pokedata updates.
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>>59321144
something with perish meme but actually its just dps and tricks people. he's addicted.
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That SV bumper made me think. When Winds and Waves comes out, they kind of have to drop some sort of Home compatibility pretty soon if they want people to use the new pokemon in Champions, no? We might finally see the end of the 6mo waits.
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>>59319285
Will M-B add more items or is it unknown? I think the game's longevity is gonna be helped until they eventually add more gimmicks if we just get more items already. I need my Assault Vest arch.
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>>59321157
I'm sure they'll slow walk it like they always do. Prepare for 6 months before compatability arrives.
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>>59321144
>wolfe con perish
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Made it to Master 3 after a winning streak in Ultra Ball tier with Zheng Sableye/Arch team, but now I'm just struggling after falling to Master Ball 4/1600. Might swap up my team completely since Arch counters seem a lot more present and people are more prepped for it, but I'm not sure where to go. I'd love to take Sableye to Champions tier though might have to sacrifice it for a more meta team.
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>>59321177
You're gonna have trouble with a sableye the higher you go since it's something people who have played longer and are better are way more familiar with and know how to deal with while also playing around the trouble it causes. Even switching to something like the season 1 meme Gravity Flapple team might work better since people won't be as familiar with its gimmick, especially when compared to one of the top noob friendly teams.
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>>59321196
Unfortunate, but what I expected. I've been thinking of swapping to this team, maybe changing Substitute for Aurora Veil. I'd love to make it to Champ tier just to know I'm at least somewhat good at this game and could maybe eventually enter regionals, but also to get the title.
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Did anyone here play the monthly challenge series? I just finished my games for today.
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>>59321367
Wasn't particularly interested since it's singles, and only 6v6 singles interests me versus the 3v3 format.
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test
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>>59321367
I really can't muster any motivation for singles.
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>>59321382
Honestly i kinda prefer the match limit system over a general ladder since it makes spamming alot of games less necessary.
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>>59321384
congratulations
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>>59321295
Floette is good for what I assume is your playstyle, with one big sweeper you protect/boost and one or two secondary threats in back
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Zheng went 4-3 in Indianapolis, is he washed? Are his teams worth using still? Or is it possible he was just fucked by this RNG meta?
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>wolfe using mega steelix and not perish trap
STEELIX BROS HOW WE FEELING?
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>>59321600
>7-0 with mega steelix
Genuinely amazing, but also how?
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>>59321618
He's also running Mega-TTar so there's the possibility Steelix is a niche pick for certain teams, and TTar is the primary mega threat.
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>>59321630
NEVERMIND HE'S RUNNING BOTH ON THE SAME MATCH
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>>59321618
https://youtu.be/h6kqjI2qvXM?si=HdXCetfTUXy8YRB6&t=40
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>>59321638
It'd be weird if he didn't bring sand for his Sand Force mon
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>>59321662
holy kek he's gonna reveal that was him in the future video
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>>59321662
>shiny rotom wash just like on stream
That's him alright
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>>59321666
checked satan, though im wondering the mentality for essentially having a situational item with the mega stone rather than something more consistent on ttar
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>>59321683
One of the big upsides of Mega-TTar is that TTar is still a good mon even without his item. I'm sure there are plenty of matchups Steelix can't come for, while TTar pretty much always comes.
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Wolfe... I kneel...
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Alright, I need to know the sets
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Never going to call Steelix a shitmon again
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>>59321767
>>59321612
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>>59321662
HAHAHAHAHA
>>
STEELIX BROS HOW ARE WE FEELING RIGHT NOW?
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>>59321854
HARD
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>>59320720
Thanks chief.
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I really fucking hate vivilon
>vivillon blastoise lead
>vivillon sleeps my mon
Kill vivillon
>blastoise shell smash
>switches in farig
>now team gets sweeped by helping hand water spout
What the fuck am I supposed to do against this?
Kill blastoise and vivillon just sleeps my entire team and if I kill vivillon he just sweeps with blastoise.
I can't even go for a priority move
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>>59322022
>Kill blastoise and vivillon just sleeps my entire team
And then what will they do?
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>>59322048
Pick me off with the rest of their mons while they sleep spam?
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Communicating...
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>>59322054
With their main damage dealer gone early in the game, and with one slot on their side of the field taken up by Vivillon spamming sleep powder, you should have time to wake up.
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6 trick room opponets in a row..
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>>59322022
Kommo-o fucks those types of leads pretty hard
>Immune to Sleep Powder if you have Overcoat
>Can damage both with Clanging Scales
>Resists Water Spout
It gets completely fucked by the mere presence of fairy types but it usually does pretty well into most other things.
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I'm ghosting a girl to get drunk alone and ladder using Mega Houndoom.
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>>59322125
the problem with this is that a lot of vivilons are scarfed, but i see where you're coming from. A fake out user and something with spread just absolutely dicks on vivilon leads, but you have to account for blastoise using fake out
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>>59320888
It really should be base 40 power. A one KO Last Respects is already better than most other spamable, no drawback moves (80-90 power), and a 2KO one is spamable Hyper Beam. I know, once we get to higher power formats it won't be as big a deal, but it is meta warping right now. Pokemon should be "Basculegion and its counters until non-restricted Legendaries and Urshifu Dark join the format.
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>>59322206
not cool bro
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>>59322230
Mega Houndoom is totally cool, what?
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>>59322206
Do you not like her or are you just afraid of putting yourself out there
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>>59321157
You will recruit gacha for the new mons and you'll like it.
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>>59322206
>I'm ghosting a girl to get drunk alone
Based
>and ladder using Mega Houndoom
Cringe
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>>59321157
Nah. That's when your Quick Coupons will actually matter.
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We are going to see videos of "Why Mega Steelix is the best counterpick", right? Like damn, that talonflame set
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>>59322396
Huh, DD T-Tar is pretty neat
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>>59322206
2x based
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>>59322396
>sharp beak
>swords dance
>no tailwind
That Talonflame is out for blood
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>>59322407
>twice the recoil
Kek a literal suicide bomber
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So an interesting interaction was caught on-screen
https://x.com/playpokemon/status/2060784035203277215
>M-Delphox used a status move to prevent Sucker Punch from opposing Kingambit
>opposing Whimsicott used Encore targeting M-Delphox to force it to use Heat Wave, the move it previously used
>however, since the initial chosen move wasn't an attack move, Sucker Punch won't register
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WRITE YOUR APOLOGY LETTER
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>>59322439
I'm stealing the team rn, can't wait to pilot it like shit
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I pray that anyone running minimnize+sand veil sandaconda gets sodomized by a hot curling iron
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>>59322586
Good luck hitting it.
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>>59322407
The bravest bird.
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>>59322586
Just click 1 blizzard nigga
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If you "won" using rock slide, you didn't really win.
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>>59322703
Whatever makes you feel better, Charizard.
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>unburden sneasler is somehow slower than tailwind pelipper
Uhhhhh
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>>59322744
its a zoroark
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>>59322745
It was a pelipper though
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>>59322755
It sure would look like that hehehe
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Ive played 4 games tonight
Game 1: whimsicott gets poisoned at 1hp from dire claw
Game 2. Rock slide flinch loses me the game
Game 3. Dragonite gets a confusion on both hurricanes it uses. Lose the game to hurting myself
Game 4. Two thunderwaves and a rockslide flinch hit me. I still somehow win.

Im not getting any beneficial procs during these games and I have to constantly fight off the back foot like I immediately get a knockout punch when we go to touch gloves
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>>59322586
I used an honest, hardworking Sand Spit Sandaconda all last season, and I have no respect for any who tar his name with that shit.
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>take 3-week long break from Champions
>come back
>Basculegion still raping everything left and right
I'm tired boss
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Fucking can't stand Niggerchaludon anymore.

Gastrodon and Palossand when?
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Yeah this semen-slurping sport isn't for me.
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I'm bored of this game
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Holy shit, singles suck so much. Fuck this event. I'm finishing this with a 1200 elo on purpose
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>it's a "can't climb out of Ultra Ball because the game throws five straight games of hard counterpicks at me" episode
I just want the last Pokemon slots for fuck's sake.
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Teams have been updated, worth perusing.
https://www.pokedata.ovh/standingsVGC/0000187/masters/

Day 2 of Indianapolis Regional begins soon, broadcast starts in a few minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/live/yEvyVhuwJtA
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Nerf Faggotsculegion into the fucking dirt.
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>>59323078
>only 3 TR teams in Day 2

Is TR bad in Bo3? I figured it would have more success given that it's pretty easy to win with it on ladder.
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>>59323081
Take solace in that 6 of the top 10 teams at Indy are not currently running Basc.
There's also only 3 Charizards in top 10. people really built to stop it.
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>>59322978
You can cope with Glimmora for now. It's actually rather effective with Earth Power
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>>59323076
Yeah, ultra ball has been nothing but complete meme trash teams that just happen to hard counter everything that I do for me as well.
It's crazy, it's like this game is rigged against me specifically.
I've started to just quit the game on pokemon selection whenever I encounter shit like Kanghaskan
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>>59323081
All they need to do is make Last Respects 40 BP x number of fainted allies. Until that happens I suggest using Kingambit or just gittin gud.
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>>59323084
I'm trying to think of a mon that wants TR and also has a very powerful spread move and I'm coming up short. Camerupt? not my idea of a brokenly powerful mon.
Hard TR is a more viable strat when something really busted is in the format, like Caly Ice. Counterplay to TR includes stopping it, mitigating it, or reversing it and a lot of teams will have some sort of counterplay.
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>>59323076
>>59323090
There's no excuse for being stuck in ultra, you are either just not good enough or your team has crippling flaws
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>>59323098
I've been running hard TR with dual mega Crab and Camerupt and it seems fine, but I'm also a Master Ball 3 shitter and would probably go something like 3-5 at a tournament of this size.
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>>59323106
Describe your T1, how are you setting up TR? Farig + ?
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>>59323108
Generally lead Azumaill/Farig, Protect Farig and take enough of a chunk out of one of their leads to threaten a KO with Aqua Jet the next turn. T2 I'll either pick off the weakened mon and set up TR or HH and pick off said mon, then be in position for TR T3.

I do recognize this kind of strategy would be harder to pull off in Bo3, since on ladder people tend to tunnel vision into trying to knock out the TR setter immediately.
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>>59323103
t. Bascusoilent rain memer
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We don't get to see any of swiss round 9 because they play it before the stream even starts, what are they doing with these broadcasts?
They did it with Swiss 1 yesterday too.
Wolfe's Steelix team won another battle, still undefeated.
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Someone sum up Wolfe's Steelix strat, I was trying to run Steelix a couple weeks back, but was having issues. I can't bring myself to watch him because of his massive creepy ducklips.
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>>59323103
I, too, love Incineroar. He's the best.
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>>59323123
He's not on stream much so you should watch the match. He was featured Swiss Round 8.
The only bit of tech insight I can give is that Ttar + Steelix board state basically stops the normal Zard Y set from attacking. Wide Guard stops heat wave, weather ball becomes a rock move, and solar beam takes 2 turns and does 1/2 damage.
It's a dragon dance Ttar which is wild.
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>>59323109
Any reason you use azumarill over basculegion? How do you handle opposing weather?
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What are the chances of:
>Mega Darkrai being in the next update?
>Mega Darkrai being legalized, alongside swathes of other Mythicals?
>Mega Darkrai having Dark Aura for an ability, or a new ability that nullifies/nerfs Fairy and Fighting for defensiveness?
>Mega Darkrai retaining the Dark Boid change from ZA, in which it becomes a Dark Drain Punch with Yawn?
>me coping hard and running Mega Darkrai anyways when it's innevitably clowned on by half the game?
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>>59323112
>>59323124
I always use shitty teams in the early season and get to master without any trouble, just admit you need to improve and there is no counterteaming boogeyman in the low ranks
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>>59323162
>guys I use Runerigus and Florges to win I swear
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archaludon was a mistake
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>>59323171
You joke, but I actually used a successful Runerigus+Mega Ampharos combo that terrorized the low ranks
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>>59323173
You lie like a mat. But also post it because I'm genuinely curious how that went.
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>>59323155
I'm just netdecking the team that was featured on Cybertron's channel. I'd imagine the original team builder used Azumarill for the better Kingambit matchup and so it can match up better in TR. As far as weather goes, Crab beats Sand pretty handily, Camerupt ironically beats Rain, Sun can be dealt with by either Mega, and Crab likes Snow.
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>>59323178
The idea was set up TR and click Fake Tears + Parabolic Charge, it also had Primarina as another spread move user to combo with Fake Tears, and Incin to help position. It was fun, I don't know if it's harder to make work in the current meta though
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I would get into a fist fight with some players if I could
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if you want to win single battles just come up with some degen stall subsitute sets, just like how japan players do it. become the schizo player
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Is there anyway to make machamp good?
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>>59323288
He is just discount mega golurk right now.
If you really want to, he is semi okay in singles behind substitute with spamming dynamic punch, since you always can get that confusion off.
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can someone explain why in the goddamn fuck rock slide is 30% flinch chance and still a 90% accurate spread move
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>>59323063
Same
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>special M-Garchomp with Earth Power, Power Gem and Flamethrower
Man, singles can be a fever dream
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>miss 6 (SIX) 100% accurate moves in a row after 1 accuracy drop
im done with this dogshit
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>>59323158
Mega mythical season will probably be a thing but it’s ~9 months away we need to do
>new megas
>sub legends
First
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>>59323382
I just wonder how accessible they would be. In fact, I am wondering if players will get alternative methods to get Floette and the Kalos starters
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Variety has been good, more than just the Zard/Basc/Gambit/Chomp core.
https://www.pokedata.ovh/standingsVGC/0000187/masters/
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I made it to master ball in doubles!!! :) my team was garchomp, mega aerod, sneasler, bascu, gyarados :)
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>>59323484
post trainer
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>>59323386
Is the Kalos Mega Stone + Floette Stone event over? I did Chesnaught, because I was curious how running it'd go over (spoilers, it was shit), but didn't bother with the other three because:
>Mega Greninja looks cool, but isn't worth it at all with the ability
>Mega Delphox is nice on paper, but I've never been a major fan of Delphox at all
>Eternal Floette is beyond gay
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>>59323499
Id?



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