APOLOGIZE EditionPokémon 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 TournamentThe 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.>NewsEnter the code DRAG0NDANCEPTC26 for a free Gyarados.>Resources and useful linksCommunity Tournaments usage data: https://pikalytics.com/Ladder usage data: https://pokechamdb.com/enNew 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 pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/d2FJZdPh Previous: >>59318141
tfw i'll have to stop using my steelix now to not look like a wolfeyfag
>what do i do against fake out trick roomDragapult dragon tail is the answer
>>59325275calm down nigga the last thread is still on page 5
>"Oh, you ain't using Charizard Y?">"Y not? Looks like you ain't winning."
>>59325291I got banned and you fuckers took a whole ass day to make a new thread. I'm not taking chances.
>>59325296I noticed that missing day.....
>>59325289I thought it was a meme, but it legit matches up well into nearly everything meta right now OTHER than Zard Y.
Why is sleep powder vivillion a thing
>his whole team is shiny
>>59325296nigga I made the thread like 9 hours after it died and that's because I didn't even wake up until like 4pm
>>59325275Aggronfags in SHAMBLES
Its really fun fighting a mini rain boss every time you fight archaludon!
>>59325347Because the faggot devs didn't add Safety Goggles.
>>59325356>doesn't have anything to at least hit for neutral on the special sideyou're doing it to yourself, pal
I am once again asking what is the current feedback on the tournament happening.Do i just yolo it for east coast US and my time? I have yet to have anyone else say they would like to join, which brings our total tentative applicants to about five or six
>>59325356They really should’ve removed Stamina
>>59325275>tries to force steelix against a team it's useless against in the finals>gets raped 8-0
>>59325356>start using Choice Scarf Last Respects Lucario to nukefuck with my opponent and set up Trick Room>find out Archaludon dies hard to LR>use it on my latest Arch opponent>>>>>>>>>Sturdy
>>59325356>>59325372why does a BRIDGE have STAMINA, the ability that was previously unique to the HORSE.
>>59325379Forced metamon to sell the DLC.
>>59325348Mine are all in luxury balls >:)
>>59325374Right then the time he didn't the guy would have Floette out so what did you want from him?
>>59325379Duraludon's biggest fan works at gamefreak and thought people would love his steel dildo if it had a better ability than light and heavy metal.
>>59325388m-mine too... except for a couple i haven't gotten in luxury balls yet because i dont have the dlc and dont have save files for swsh or sv rn
>>59325389Dude isn't gonna bring Floette vs a team with Sneasler, Steelix, and Talonflame. Wolfe had plenty of ways to handle of Floette without Steelix.
>>59325371I am also interested and I am also east coast US
>>59325367I have 3 dedicated special attackers but they havr to get through fairy berry sableyes walls and the rest of the team before we get the PRIVILEGE of hurting archaludon
>>59325411what are you running
>>59325416Rotom w espathra volc whims
>i use le epic mega floette, surely my mommy will love me now
>>59325434I cant be assed to do that hamster wheel
Why is brightpowder in the game
>>59325438To ironically counter powder moves
I genuinely find people who use teams like fake out trick room blastoise to be low iq and i am generally made correct when I whirlwind the giraf and they quit
>Kleavor misses Stone Axe 3 times in a row>Next match misses twice and is frozenGuess I'm not skilled enough, guys
>>59325459Yea i binned kleavor it sucks
>>59325462you ever think that you might suck?
>>59325471Im not the one missing 90%s
>>59325388I was going to do that with shinies, but then I realized when shinies are less rare, luxury balls will become the new ultra ball and nothing will have uniqueness. So I went with the color match strat.
>>59325337Wolfey's a fag, but he's not retarded enough to bring full-on joke mons to a tournament that actually matters.
>>59325449Nobody uses Whirlwind but you, nobody should plan for Whirlwind on closed team sheet, your win rate will be better by planning for the common moves and simply allowing the small % of losses from low % moves.
>>59325475That's what he did though lol.
>>59325478No
>want "Charizard the Champion" in a luxury ball>cant get Charizard in luxury ball until gen 7
>>59325476Nobody uses whirlwind because theyre retarded and dont think for themselves waiting for some brown guy on YouTube to tell them how to play pokemon
Holy fuck I hate the giraffe. Every single time I hit it it has that fucking dark berry. Except the one time I put it in range of 2hk0 now it just has the fucking sitrus because fuck me
>>59325371I'd like to join.t.yuropeean.Though I work night shifts so if it is currently midnight in the east coast if I am correct after a quick google search.Somewhere in the evening would work for me the best.Can't play after midnight.
>>59325496>taunt giraffe>it is the one giraffe on the ladder with mental herb
>>59325483They don't have whirlwind (or roar) because you're giving up another move people use more often because it's better in more situations. Not every team is trick room or stacking calm minds lol.
I dont understand how i can miss 90s constantly but the faggot across from me can just click rock slide until its gg
>>59325371UTC-5 in America. I can try and make similar enough timezones work, but anything in the early mornings is a no-go.
>>59325502>Not every team is trick room or stacking calm minds lol.No just ones liek blastoise and floette two very common teams
>>59325480>until gen 7Charmeleon appears in XY's Friend Safari
>>59325496>>59325501I run Imprison. Works everytime.
>>59325392But he will bring Floette vs a team with Ttar, Rotom, and Sinistcha. Wolfe lost at the team preview screen, but it could have very easily gone the other way. You can just say "oh he won't bring 'thing that sweeps my team' so I don't need to plan for it."
>>59325516Interesting. I still cant get that combo though, and I have a tiny number of 3DS friends. I guess I could get "the tried and true", "the master", "the veteran", or "the kalos/hoenn champion", but those don't work as well.I was gonna put "the master" on a bisharp -> kingambit, but I went with "the royal master" in the end.
>>59325300I run scorching sands to kill opposing fire types and glimmora.
>>59325530Yeah I was thinking of doing that, but I have earth power on my Venusaur, which is paired with zard 99% of the time.
>finally finish za>find out i need to do the za royale 15 more fucking times before i can get floette for the team i want to copy/try outfuck my life
>>59325527>Kingambit the Royal MasterNice
Real big dick OGs use Hurricane and Focus Blast on their Charizard. If fate isn't on your side, do you really deserve to win?
>>59325564I still have like 8 more I just caint coach
Yes, well done, Arsal, well done. But this begs the question: is Pokemon a brown person's game? Why can't us whites compete?
>>59325564>>59325568Just use the berichan bot on twitch to trade you one.
>>59325572White people are too creative and ADHD, they just can't help themselves but try out *cool new move* on their Pokémon instead of *tried and true move*.Brown people literally just Google "best Pokémon", put the top 6 on a team, Google "best movesets for _" and that's every moveset, then go in a game and click *powerful move* over and over and over and over, without any innovation ever.It's why Africans still live in huts. But you see in some avenues it's actually helpful. So maybe in this you can see the evolutionary advantages in each approach to life. Being a soulless robot person with absolutely zero inventiveness or flair and possibly no consciousness, and ADHD schizophrenics who can't help but do new things all the time.
>>59325572Whites are busy playing better games.
Have you seen any Rotom that weren't washing machines? I saw a fridge the other day, but that's all.
>>59325578You have to buy the shit Z-A game and do the hours of tutorial first or no?
>>59325640To trade for stuff? You should only need the game and play up the point where you can trade, which shouldn't take that long. Then you can use tradebots to get whatever you want.
>>59325624Heat is kinda common in singles
Another PokéTuber vampire just made a video claiming ARBOK is actually good. At least Cybertron hasn't sunk THAT low for money.
>The mutt won because he was a meta fagWolfe did not deserve to lose to that sand mutt. Meta fags need to get hanged
>>59325693Wolfe played like shit and deserved the L for it
>>59325697There was nothing he could have done. The announcers dissed that shitter's team before the match because they knew it was over for Wolfe.Wolfe needed to face down other "Pimpnite Specials", and instead came across a tryhard Indian who just copy pasted something from Google.
>>59325675I wish it were true, I just pulled a fast ball arbok from the ranch
>>59325721Damn that sucks lol. It's so bad I might even release it. On that note of box clutter, I am beginning to get VERY annoyed by the fact the sorting order keeps reverting back to "Date Acquired" instead of alphabetical order.
wolf beat half a dozen charizard meta teams to get to the final, he made some bad reads in the final thats all.
>>59325710Wolfe could have won if he benched Steelix for Sneasler or Rotom. He was too worried about making sure his shitmon was played in the finals despite 5 out of 6 mons on the opponents team hard countering it.
bros I just beat a team of sneasler, pelipper, charizard and sinistcha with the mega steelix team, I thought you said it was shit
>>59325743It's shit if you pilot it like Wolfe did during the finals.
>>59325739>He was too worried about making sure his shitmon was played in the finals Lol do you think that's actually the reason he brought it? It really was shit when he pulled it out but the crowd was clearly pleased every time.
>>59325743So what though? You could beat those with Morpeko too.
>>59325762It's 100% the reason. The only mon Steelix does sort of well into was Floette which the guy was unlikely to bring. Wolfe also didn't bring Sneasler or Rotom game 2 despite Incineroar obliterating him game 1.
>>59325765do it and report back to me
>>59325498>>59325507Okay lets try and finalize the timing in the next 24 hours. >https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20260606T210000&p1=tz_hkt&p2=3919&p3=179&p4=137&p5=16Does this work for all that is interested?Calling anyone who is considering joining, do reply if this works with your time. Ill try and figure out how to format the challonge in the meanwhile
>>59325624I like mow rotom but too many Charizards rn
>>59325773I did that's why I said Morpeko. Aura Wheel annhialates Charizard, Pelipper, and Sinistcha.
>>59325774I work every weekend so that's unfortunately a no from me. Such is the life of a 40+ hour a week wagecuck
>>59325771>Floette which the guy was unlikely to bringFloette cuts through most of Wolfe's team. It would a perfectly good choice for game two as a mixup.
>>59325774Is there like a discord or something where we can sign up?>using pisscordFor things like this it's actually kind of useful.
>>59325800I am working in the constraints to avoid discord as best as I can.>For things like this it's actually kind of useful.100% correct. However, if youve ever been into a general which condones, much less encourages discord, there will exist a split within the general itself. I think namefagging is just sort of unavoidable when it comes to generals when people actually do things. But push it too far and we start having cliques, or doxxing people.Case in point, i used to dip my toes in /dng/ in /vg/ just to join some waifu yugioh tournament, but then i start seeing some girl's asshole being posted because they have their discord spat.Basically im personally against it, but if someone is willing to step up, and try to moderate, we can do it if we want
>>59325779were your opponents residents of planet retard?
Charizaaaard from Kantoooooooo, the paywall, and the other Kantoooooooo mon that happened to hit every sleep powder in top cut. TPC must be really happy with the winning team. Fuck this shit ass Kantooooo casino format. They better add every new nonlegendary ZA mega and every item with Reg M-B, otherwise this game's dead.
Whimsicott has so many options its hard to pick what to use
Magnet rotom can ohko mega blastoise with thunderbolt
>>59325564It's fun and works towards your 1000 battles for the request for the eventual shiny charm.>>59325599It's just Spike vs Timmy.
>>59325864They updated fhe shiny charm quests with the dlc so u don't have to do all that gay shit lol
>>59325798And Charizard rapes his entire team. He's a veteran to know by now that if your opponent sweeps you 4-0 in game 1 , you can bet they will play the same game for game 2, yet he made 0 adjustments for that. He threw game 2 on purpose.
>>59325865Yeah I haven't bought that shit yet cause I haven't completed everything in the base game and I'm still waiting for a sale.
It's time to buff base rotom.
>>59325886Mega rotom
>>59325774Ideally it would be an hour or atleast 30 minutes later, but I can work with this.
>>59325800>>59325811If you wanna use pisscord then you might as well join an established pokemon discord.We wouldn't be battling anon if we were not in fact anonymous.I also expect everyone to change their avatar to wear a hat and sunglasses
14 win streak in ranked lost because of sleep powder its so gay
>>59325811I've been in a few generals like this too, if we absolutely had to set up a chat, it would be better to use element/matrix. I don't think any of you other fags in here are using it, so at least it would be a client just for this small segment of your identity.
>>59325936do tell anon, we are all open to any options.What is element/matrix?
>>59325976It's pisscord but for linux nerds. It's open source, so lots of tech people use it. I just think that if your anon identity is more segmented, there's less risk of drama that inevitably comes from dealing with people online. Less likely that you be gangstalked if you use an entirely different identity (you should do this with every game you play) with no connections to your IRL.Also, it should be used mostly for things that need more immediate responses, as you said, if there is a chat and a general, they start to develop their own cultures and separate a bit. We should try to minimize it as much as possible by encouraging discussion to stay here rather than in a chat.
>subhumans keep simping for a jew proven cheaterSAD!
>>59325976discord for pedos
I fucking hate Basculegion
>>59326020>brown>>59326045This is also true unfortunately, but given the nature of this board this would be a point in favor of using it. Personally I like the racist groups that use who mostly talk about their infernal lust for nonwhite women.
>>59326060BroYour sucker punch kingambit?
>>59325861Can it OHKO Basc.
>>59325774UCT-5 here. I'd be an hour late due to work, but that's definitely workable for me otherwise. Tbh I do think Discord or some sort of other actual identifier is required for these kinds of things, just because trying to make proper time for a battle with wildly different timezones is insanely difficult when on a pin-point schedule without at least a little bit of time to err.
>>59325774Works for me, and my schedule's pretty flexible anyway
>>59326136Is it really?The duel links general used to have pretty active duel rooms and usually someone just posted a code to a room and anons just joined in.Maybe we should start with someone just making a room and then just wait and see who joins in
>>59325991Alright fair. Ive skimmed some youtube videos talking about it and it does seem great. I still have reservations though, mainly with friction. As anon said here, >>59325914 there is a reason why we arent already in discord.Unless someone disagrees, lets try using just the thread and challonge as our forefathers didI am scouring through the archives and monoguy always asks to post team on discord for locking in your team, so maybe this argument is failing me.>>59326259true, used to be a dlg-head.Though for his argument, with brackets and such, you have someone in SEA region in 5 in the morning trying to coordinate with someone in 5 in the afternoon in new york, hoping that neither is asleep or having dinner. Notifications only exist if you yell out in the general, which is an issue
>>59326277I mean how long could this possibly take?I say we just do back to back to matches for an hour or three untill we have a winner tenkaichi budokai style.
>>59326336best case scenario;everyone attends in the planned time (and if someone is late, we pull in a random anon to place for them)we do the best of 3, notifying in the thread whether we win or lose all the way to finals.would take about a bit over an hour for 8 contestants, and over 2 hours for 16.This would assume everyone is active in the thread and talks properly with everyone namefagging and no lying
>>59326349You know what.I'll make a room in approximately 10 hours and see how many anons are willing to join then.Let's just see how many people are joining there.Just bring whatever team and play against your fellow anons.Also a good opportunity to test out whatever meme team you got going on and get pointers from your opponent(not that I am an expert).Be there or be square.
>>59325811I just meant for this tournament. Spin up the discord, use it to schedule and coordinate, shut it down after. No long term namefaggotry, just a one-off place to manage one event.
>>59326380ill join, lets do this small test just to see how it will look like later
>>59326400I'll gib a headsup an hour or so prior before I rev up the room.
>>59326380I'll join if I don't end up walking to the liquor store, just depends on how long the room is open for
another day stuck in ultra ball thanks to being matched against only the oddest shit
>signed up for the online tournament but didn't know it is already overDamn, I should have paid more attention. At least it's just a Gallade
>>59326629I played one game, realized it was singles and never looked at it again.
>>59326629I really did try and give it a fair shake, despite me shitting on it on this thread.I even copied a good singles team from blunder, got a feel from it and went in, working with my knowledge of smogon singles from playing randbats.It was supercancer times infinity. Everyone in the four games I played, was playing some version of stall cancer, be it bulky toxic stall venusaur, to the usual hippowdon. I cannot stand any more games and just dipped
>>59326629Oh I completely forgot about that
>>59326688Surely you weren't BORED by the definitely very fun and definitely not mind numbingly dull Singles?!
>>59325828Aura Wheel one shots a really large number of things and does enormous damage to a lot of neutral stuff, so if your opponent is slightly out of position it's bad for them.Will take out Basculegion, Charizard, Aerodactyl, Froslass, Pelipper, and do big damage into Milotic, Sinistcha, Dragonite, Floette, and if you wanted you could use Endeavour as you're going to outspeed a lot of stuff after an Aura Wheel.
>>59326688I just used 3 sweepers from my doubles team. It's just 3 games man.
>>59325275>retard champions general>is a worse version of showdown with MTX slop in it and items you buy from the store it won't even show up in your inventory.
>>59326824Showdown is a joke, it's not a real game and you have to sit at your PC to play it.
>>59325730Finally somebody says it. This is my number one gripe with the game: why the FUCKING SHIT can’t I manually rearrange my box however I want???I’m the type of autist to spend three hours putting my dudes in a custom order that makes perfect sense to only me. What is the purpose of depriving me of this
>>59326084Yes
>>59325275Was Mega Steelix the only interesting choice in the tournament? The rest all looks pretty generic.
Just learned dsp is on the ladderhttps://x.com/wiltank/status/2061469546834169958
ME GA ZARD YSME GA ZARD YS
>>59326824>items you buy from the store it won't even show up in your inventoryPress R.
>>59326882>I’m the type of autist to spend three hours putting my dudes in a custom order that makes perfect sense to only me. What is the purpose of depriving me of thisThe vast majority of normies are disorganized and never sort anything to the point many ui designers don't even bother adding the feature anyone.
>>59327180>>59327170
>>59327236Oh he has more it seemshttps://x.com/wiltank/status/2061458973245542898
>>59327169The only standout thing that did well. If you look at the people that went x-3 or worse on day one you usually find some weird stuff.
>>59327169In term of mega, other than the outsider Steelix, they were a few uncommon pick in top16 like garchomp or gyarados.
>>59327169https://www.nimbasacitypost.com/2026/05/indianapolis-regional-2026.htmlNothing as crazy as Steelix, but just looking at the top 16:>H-Arcanine>2 Palafin>Mega-Garchomp>Mega-Gyarados and regular Gyarados (only two Gyarados in the top 256)
I'm making the room in 1(UNO) hour.Join if you want to battle your fellow anons.Don't worry too much about being a meta slave or needing to create soulful™ team.Just bring whatever team you feel like.I'm just gonna use a rando e-celeb team as well since I am ass at this game.
>>59327566Do I have to stay for the whole time? My kids are going to be home in a bit and I'll need to make them dinner.
>>59327571order a pizza
>>59326259There's a pretty big difference between a casual duel room and a proper tournament, anon. There's a kind of common courtesy and consistency required for an actual competition that the casual hop in at your own time nature of a duel room typically has. >>59326277Yeah, Monoguy always holds invitation threads, but the actual battling and results are always kept to the Monotype Tournament Discord. It resets every tournament and everyone is basically kicked out and the server is emptied until the next one. To avoid specifically all the drama a dedicated Discord server for a board like /vp/ would predictably bring.
>>59327571Just play however many matches you want.I'll just leave it up on my screen for a few hours and play whoever joins.
>>59327575There are no good pizzerias near me. I have to make my own dough using water from Long Island the few times a year I go there. Tonight is burgers anyways.
>>59327566Post the room.
>>59327678Get in lads
I'm joining but not for long since it's already 1am here.Have fun against my meme team.
3 people in!
>>59327702aight just woke up ,, gibe a moment
7 people in!ggs anonI am sorry if my team was too metaslaveyI'll try to come up with a team that doesn't use too many metamons like garchomp and gambit next time.
>>59327758You're fine, anon. No worries.
>>59327758well everyone is playing meta anyways, aint no biggie
>>59327758im just playing with my ladder team as i didnt know this was going on
Ggs I got completely outplayed.I did not see that feint coming
Shit I timed out didn't want to CC. Anyway sorry this team isn't working I'll switch to my normal team.
>>59327775>Tauros-Water
I've got time for one more quick one if someone is almost ready.
GG should have went for the guaranteed ko
>>59327780I like making my bull nice and wet if you catch my drift.
>Mega-Pidgeotbruh
GGs, I'm glad the bamboozler still works sometimes.
Okay good to see there are logs to show who beat who.Would show proof of who won what
Currently room has 8 attendees
Tinkaton is spooky.
Shoulda used fakeout
Gg bro, love the bravest bird, damn he is spooky.So where are the shitters that is stuck pokeball i keep hearing about?
Ggs I should have known you were using bitterblade.I used the same team as well in the match before you.
>>59327844I think you'd actually have to be braindead to get stuck in pokeball.I'm sure you could escape pokeball running just 6 mons with 4attacks. You'd brute force it eventually.
Classic weather war.
It makes me kind of sad that wherever I go check for the indianapolis regional 98% of the talk is wolfe should have won :c, muh steelix, charizard le bad, wolfe only lost because [insert cope here].Basically no one is talking about the dude who actually won the thing or how well he played in those finals. The most you see the jeet being talked about is that "he got lucky with sleep" to dismiss his win.The dude is undeniably good at game but the shadow he's cast over vgc as a whole is depressing at times.
>>59327864fair take.if we want to actually promote meritocracy, then the winner should be celebrated. not to take anything from wolfe, but as of right now it just sounds like the only reason anyone cares is because OF wolfe
>>59327844>Gg bro, love the bravest bird, damn he is spooky.Thanks. That was my Gen 6 Talonflame back when you'd just slap a Choice Band on it and it was good to go. Bro has been to multiple regionals.
Phew that was a close one.I was scared the shit out of getting last respected
GGs Tink bro. Poor Aurorous is so slow...
>>59327864Fuck off jeet.
>>59327864To be fair, the winner's team is super gay turbo-cancer, but I respect him because Wolfe's even gayer.
Sometimes I think "I don't need to bring Aero against Zard". I don't know why.>>59327769>>59327888GGs
GGs, was fun. Good night.
>>59327864I just don't respect sleep powder simple asfor some reason champions made competitive super fucking gay with everyone using innacurate moves they wouldn't dare use in a mainline game
Damn, sad I missed the event. Will try to catch one next time, so please host again!
>>59327932>they wouldn't dare use in a mainline gameanon pls. I dont wanna be the guy who keeps using, whats that term, campaignshitters? But playing through a mainline game barely scratches the surface of what moves do. There is a reason why the meme goes that you only click surf and earthquake to win all the way to the elite four.If anything, Id argue the increasing complexity of moves in pokemon is purely catered to competitive. There is no reason to gimp moves like gigaton hammer for instance if you only care about the story in a mainline game
>>59327943Bloodmoon and gigaton are cool because of how they work with stuff like instruct and encore. Sneaky
>>59327935I'll battle you if you want.4 people are still playing.
I overpredicted, should have just killed Scizor. Or brought Rotom. GG
whats everybodys elo that played?
>>59327957I haven't gotten to MB this season, but I was bottom of 1800's last at the end.
Ggs.Should have maxed into speed with rotom instead of following that e-celeb's spread
ggs but im stinky so I shower now thanks for games>>593279571850 last season1550 this season
>>59327957High 1800's right now, but with a standard team. The Meganium team peaked in the low 1800's last season.
>>59327957Haven't checked, but I am the bottom end of masterball 2.Also I'm tapping out for tonight, but I had tons of fun.Wanna do it again saturday around the same time?
I'll leave the room open for another hour or untill everyone is gone
>>59327957I am in Ultra 4
>it's a "Fissurenigger ruins my run to Master Ball on a 30% horseshit chance" episode
>>59327961>>59327963>>59327968>>59327970>>59327983atleast half of you kicked my ass and i was 2100 last season
>>59328000You win some you lose some.Besides 2100 was masterball 2 last season and masterball 2 is currently around 1800 as of now so we're all in the same ballpark.
>>59328009>2100 was masterball 2 last season and masterball 2 is currently around 1800It's crazy how hard this game dropped off after season 1. They really fucked up by having multiple seasons of the exact same meta.
I need to build a Doubles team, I've been running pure Singles for a while now.
>>59328021I mean, that's literally every online game after the first month. Bobby Boomer was never going to keep playing beyond the adrenaline rush of getting to click Flamethrower on CHARIZARD FROM KANTTOOOOO in another.
>>59328021I mean it's still rekatively early in the season.Elo inflates over the course of the season.Pretty sure I'd be out of masterball 2 if I stopped plsying for a week.
Ggs should have doubled into blastoise.
Green and I had fun reaching master ball rank in double battles
I'm gonna switch teams and then I'll really tap out
>>59328073u too. ggs. i goofed with the sinistcha lead and didn't have a good switch in
>>59328027pick a meme, slap 4 meta mons in it, and youre good to go>>59328080I had fun with green grinding elo all night long yesterday if you catch my drift
Ugh ugh I'm stroking my big steely hard Archaludon, it's raining all overUgh ugh +1 Stamina boost, +1 Stamina boost, +1 Stamina boostAGHH EEEEELLEEEECCTROOO SHOTTTT
if it's alright with you I would like to call it here. I'm still noob at team building so sorry if i didn't put up much of a fight. Thank you for the games
>>59328033I really dont get the appeal of never attaching to anything and always fucking off to the next flavor of the month product. Then these zoomer retards complain about a lack of meaningful relationships and everything being slop. While at the same time demonizing anyone who actually gives a fuck about anything in their lives.
>>59328113Don't worry about it.Most of us just ran meta slave teams, because we can't teambuild for shit either.Just see it as an opportunity to test out your teamNext time I'll try to come up with a theme for the room like only using mons that are ranked at 100 and below.
Well anons? Did you have fun? I went 1-2 but had a good time. >>59328127It's just how things are. Some people are bandwagoners, some are curious to see what it's like but find out its not for them, some are genuine comp Pokemon players but got bored of the meta, etc. The "real" population of a game that's not infinitely appealing to the broadest demographic like your average high budget FPS game will always be a fraction of the amount of people playing it the first couple weeks.
Okay so many thanks to >>59326380 anon for hosting the room.What we learnt from this is that people are receptive to the rooms, the infrastructure is 'good enough' to take note of who won and/or lost using the logs,.Granted all the euros are sleeping, so this might be an issue for the tourney time, but the time seems to be good enough now at least for asia + americas.Do I just go ahead with making the challonge link now?
>>59328143I went two and two, got stomped twice but the wins I had were really close outplays. There wasnt any egregious misses or the sort.I would say this was fun.
>>59328130It's so easy to build a weather team. Anything else I just have absolutely no idea what to do at all and just slap some stuff on the team with absolutely no idea at all about why or what to lead or anything.Weather is so easy. If it's sand you already know you need Tyranitar or Hippowdon or something, and then there are Sand Rush and Sand Force mons that always pair well. Then you have a core so it's easy.I was trying to build for Altaria and it's just like, I have absolutely no idea wtf I'm doing...
>losing streak knocks me out of UB1 back into 2>fly into a blind rage>black out>come back>arm's covered in punctures and bleeding profuselyOkay yeah I think it's time to quit and not go back ever.
>>59328143>Well anons? Did you have fun? I went 1-2 but had a good time.I had lots of fun.Playing the ladder always stresses me the fuck out so this was a nice change of pace.I didn't really keep score, but I played multiple anons atleast twice I think.
>>59328152Altaria is just a hard mon to build around. Do you go for Mega and build for offensive pressure and spam Hyper Voice+potent coverage moves? Keep it support-oriented with TW? Something spicy like Dragon Cheer? Keep it in default form and use it a status spread buffing your team with TW and making the enemy weaker with Will-O?>>59328154Dawg you should probably seek professional help.
>>59328154Oh I got kicked out of MB3 into MB4. Fucking bastard DIDN'T switch or protect Charizard in front of Archaludon, DIDN'T tailwind on Whimsicott, and just clicked attack attack.I am beyond all forms of shock that this person did NOT think I would just click rain dance and electro shot into Zard, which is what literally every single person with Arch and Sableye does in front of Charizard every single time.How can you actually know what the opponent will do before they do it? You're merely guessing surely.
>>59328162It's not just Altaria, anything not weather or trick room is confusing because there's no real goal. Trick room is easy too, you know you want giraffe or teapot and a slow mega like Golurk and probably Torkoal.
>>59328152I feel you man.I only made two moderately succesful teams myself and that was an arch rain team and a trick room team.Both of which build itself.
>>59328144I mean sure.You can put an invite call and see how many respondees you get in the next 24 hours
>>59328173>I am beyond all forms of shock that this person did NOT think I would just click rain dance and electro shot into Zard, which is what literally every single person with Arch and Sableye does in front of Charizard every single time.
>>593279571650+ both doubles and singles. Everytime I reach 1700 I drop again in the following match.
>>59328173Pick a better lead, I never lead Zard into Rain Arch because that team is fucking gay, but I will do everything in my power to remove your weather setter.
>>59328225Yeah if I did the thing literally every single person playing those leads does every single time Charizard is ever in front of them without fail, and which I have also done like 100 times, they are just finished and that's it.How can you keep finding people do this exact thing that deletes you every single time, and they ALWAYS do it, and just act as if it's not going to happen this time? I really thought people in MB3 would not just fall for the same exact thing and do something else.
>>59328154holy fuck dawg get a grip
>https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/qonjciYM6PHEAR YE, HEAR YE.THE FIRST /vp/ CHAMPIONS TOURNAMENT IS NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION.Just register in the challonge, no discord, no team registration needed. Time is still tentative:https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20260606T210000&p1=tz_hkt&p2=3919&p3=179&p4=137&p5=16Catering to all skill levels, bring your memes, your scarf Basculegions, your Steelix.
>>59328304I'm in.
What’s so busted about dual wingbeat that it needs 90 fucking accuracy
>>59328426simple, it is FLYING type move.As we all know, flying is not allowed to have any good attacking moves whatsoever. Try and list down good flying attacks, you can fit all in one hand and the mons which learn it on two.
>>59328304What's the deadline for registration?
>>59328426At some point around Gens 4-6, someone realized how fucking busted Flying is offensively, and they've been very tempered in making sure there's never been a no-strings-attached great move for it.
>>59328430before it starts, so 6th June, UTC-5.Ill try my best to coerce everyone in the thread on the hours before it starts to join in
>>59328426It's reskinned Dual Chop, which was probably that way so it's not just a strictly better Dragon Claw.
>>59328304I'm probably gonna still be at work but I still signed up
>>59328304>lose and get completely outplayed by anon>Haha well done. You really got me there :)>lose and get completely outplayed on the ladder>I FUCKING HATE THIS GAME. I WISH THIS PIECE OF SHIT WAS DEADWhy is it like this
>>59328500i guess it hits differently when you know that nigger you are complaining about will actually read the post and possibly shittalk you back.Yelling at a wall costs nothing in comparison
>>59328500The people here are actually good at the game so I wouldn't be as mad at losing, since I already accept they are most likely better at it than me.
Terrain setters will save the meta
What's the most disgusting doubles team I can run to make people quit the game?
>>59328555probably perish song, since you arent even playing the game at that point.
>>59328556>reccing perish trapVery devious of you
If im on psychic terrain how did mega delphox just encore me? Levitate shouldn't matter when im on the terrain correct?
>>59328771Delphox doesn't have prankster. Encore isn't a priority move like when it's used by Sableye or Whimsicott.
>finally on a 3 game winstreak after struggling to even winI don't know why Master Ball 4 feels so difficult this season compared to last, but last I ended 1800ish MB3, which made me stop trying to climb since it felt like I was never going to get to MB2, but rn I'm hardstuck 1500 MB4.
>>59325693?????they are both muttsone is a jeetthe other a sand nigger kike.whats your point, retard-kun?
>singles>lead with hippo versus garchomp>yawn vs stealth rock>stealth rock vs switch into Basculegion>yawn vs wave crash. Sash saved the hippo>slack off vs switch into Garchomp>the hippo survived and made him forfeitLmao I guess there's a reason why it's topdog
why did that guy bring a mega steelix instead of aggron?
>>59328917Hits harder with sand force. Also heavier so heavy slam is stronger.
>>59328917>>59328923It OHKO an unbuffed Arcahaludon with High Horsepower under Sand. That's something M-Aggron wouldn't be capable of
>>59328500anon is your friend and similar lifestyles brought him to the same general as you
Just decided to stop procrastinating and get myself from GB4 to MB4. Now I'm done for the season.
>opponent so hard up on killing my zard y he let basculegion swept his entire team when the zard was just playing whack a mole with protect and switches the entire timeKek
Very tired of archaludon garchomp Charizard and floette
>>59328304>Feel free to change your teams as much as you want before, or even during the tournament.>BO3Does this mean we're allowed to bring different teams against the same opponent, or can we only switch between rounds?
>>59328154Its only a videogame
>>59329127changing between rounds of course. Against the same opponent is just cancer.Basically this rule is just a gentleman's agreement to not change teams with the same opponent, since we lack enough tools to actually verify if any cheating were to happen other than the opponent complaining
99% of matches are decided on turn 1 by whether a less than 100% move hits or misses
>>59329220You still have to choose the correct leads to place yourself in the position that a 90acc miss will lose you the game.If your opponent is good they just switch in a mon that resists the move.
>>59329220>he has never won a 2v4 beforePleb
When the fuck they adding more mons
>opponent used liquidation 3 times>it procs debuff every timeI still won but whoa, it doesn't feel like 20%
>>59329260At the end of this season so 14 more days
so can feint not be used successively or did i seriously miss it multiple times in a row
>>59329284The target needs to use a protect-move for that to work
>>59329288then maybe "this move failed" is a better indicator of that mechanic than "avoided"
>>59329297or maybe you should learn how moves work before you decide to use them
I still haven gotten da chard from da gacha
>>59329320just ask bro. We put it in da op, we put it in da guide
>>59328771Delphox is just really fast, Psychic Terrain only protects from priority moves.
>>59329258You only won because of the turn 1 play that decided the game, unironically.
>>59329288>>59329314Maybe YOU should, because Feint hasn't worked that way since Gen 4Pretty sure >>59329284 got Brightpowdered
New code for 500 vp, dont miss outCHAMP10NSATNA1Chttps://x.com/playpokemon/status/2061855363255746606?s=46
>>59329430So not only are you retarded, you don't understand English either.
>>59329611You can go down 2v4 while still having an opening turn that ultimately won you the game, anon.
