You should join the Monotype Tourney 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.>NewsPokemon Champions is out on mobile devicesRegulation M-B has begun, bringing in a new wave of Pokémon, items, and cosmetics.Enter HAJ1MAR1G1FT for a free 100 Quick Coupons>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 requires ZA transfer.>/pcg/ OP pastebin (use this if making new thread):https://pastebin.com/d2FJZdPhPrevious: >>59375606
How did they make such a barebones game but its so much fun
>>59378071imagine if you could build any mon for free
>>59378077If I had to capture train, tutor moves, breed moves, check ivs, do evs...I would never play.Pokemon needs low friction gameplay so if the collecting aspect were removed Id be playing more
>>59378077Unironically the biggest hurdle for me.I wanted to get into competitive pokemon but it was a fucking pain to create ONE "optimal" pokemon.And then you have to do it all over again for other pokemons in the team.And THEN you have to do it AGAIN if you want to make one with different stats for different teams.
>>59378084But this is a Japanese game, and the Nips are some of the most cutthroat businessmen in the world. You WILL pay to play, gaijin.
I want a story mode with NPC battles.Like our gym looks pretty rundown. We could defend our gym from challengers or do a battle frontier There's so much they could do
>>59378092When they finish drip feeding and catch up to the current generation they should put in PvE battle facilities. If there's a permanent home for it somewhere people can finally stop complaining about it not being added as post game in the mainline titles.
>can't even get to ultraballGod am I bad at this shit. Sorry annihilape
>>59378097I would do dynamax caverns rental facilities, or grind out battle frontier badges and ribbons for different Pokémon
>>59378100I got to ultraball by leading with ninetails and either spamming blizzard or aurora veil then dazzling gleam.I use a def spread of IVs to make sure ninetails always lives its first turn.Machamp with poison cross, cross chop, stone edge, and bullet punch with no guard and scope lens has won me battles
>down to Staraptor vs Sinistcha>only have close combat>roost to show dominance>opponent forfeitsPokemon battles are not just 1s and 0s it's about the bonds you share
>https://teamsheet.gg/t/sample-beginner-reg-b-vl3698Remember to all newfrens that you can have a ladder ready team immediate after installing if you follow this guide.I hate how i cannot edit this, and its just right there prominently showed in all the teams. This was a shitty one hour work just to see how the site works. Id really wanna show sample leads and edit the spreads if I can edit the damn guide.
>>59378084>>59378087I especially don't get why the option to recruit for a week exists, especially since you cannot train it unless permacruited. they should change this core mechanic into one that allows to get many more mons. I somehow managed to put together a team out of the 12 mons I have but the next usable team looks so far away
For those interested, the monotourney is back >>59377245
>mogs your staraptor I love Clefable so much, bros. I love fairy types. I love The Fairy Pokemon.
I think hard press would get more use mainly on Metagross if it was as strong as crush grip and wring out used to be. It's weird they made a more shit clone of the original move.
>>59378108Your sky attack and dual wingbeat??
>>59378131same bro, what are you running on yours? I'm doing follow me, prot, moonblast, helping hand/[psych-up/spoiler]
>>59378145TailwindClose combatRoostProtect
I'm glad I'm not dogshit at Pokémon. I never bothered with online battles until now and I'm glad my autistic borderline encyclopedic knowledge of the franchise isn't a total waste.
newfag here, I'll grab the TTar team as it has four mons I already likeone thing missing in the guide - what mons should I target to hopefully improve the team?
>>59378146Same set. I hadn’t thought about psych up, might try that.
>>59378154Just follow the noobie guide here>>59378111
>>59378154Incin for Arcanine is the most easy improvement you can make on that team
The fall of Mega Kangaskhan makes me sad. Would it getting power up punch back save it or would it still be power crept to shit? Just like how shell smash Mega Blastoise didn't make that much if a splash either.
>>59378164I think it would still be OP with power punch
oh fuck I forgot this was releasing to poorfags this monthhow's the game so far?
>>59378181the phonefags seems to be enjoying it i suppose, especially after heavy spoonfeeding on how to play comp and team building
>>59378077>>59378087Can't this be done in the games, if you're not a newbie whose first Pokemon game is Champions?What sort of protections does Pokemon Home have against hacked pokemon? Like if I gamesharked a GBA mon with whatever build I want and then transferred it all the way up to Home, would Home be able to tell?
>>59378154We are getting a free cherish ball ttar for the singles event. Just register now.
>>59378204>cherish ball ttarhow is this relevant in anyway if its stuck on champions for ever?
>>59378237There can be no higher goal for a pokemon than to be in Champions.
>>59378237>>59378242Champians is the end game. The mainline games are the tutorial for combat.
Anyone have any good calcs for Gambit that are relevant?https://pokepast.es/4927ab77b224b8cdThis team is similar to what I ran in MA, but Aero is Whims now and Sylveon>Tsareena. Life Orb also changes how Chomp is run.If I were to drop Gambit for fake out support what do you think would be most beneficial? Sneasler?
>>59378181mobileGOD here, thanks for betatesting switchfags KEK
>>59378262Max speed max atk raichu x drain punchMax speed Max sp atk raichu y focus blast
Does mega Glimmora have some established best partners? It seems solid as far as damage output if you can get off sludge waves
>>59378264Yea, now that were here Nintendo will start pushing out the content and events.>>59378281I carry Metagross and a Machamp with bullet punch. What do you do to counter mega meta?
is there a way to PERMANENTLY increase box size? or am I stuck with 30 if I don't buy the goyim pass
>>59378295Up to +20 for reaching Masterball rank, +50 for buying the starter pack and then it's that shitty membership.
>>59378295Default 30, +5 for reaching great ball rank, +5 ultra ball rank, +10 master rank, for a max of 50 as f2p player. Slots stay unlocked even if you return to pokeball each new season.+50 with the one-time $7 purchase.
I have a really good win rate against everything except for mega froslass teams. those just absolutely chew me up.
>>59378283I have Kinggambit and Garchomp but I haven’t ran into Megagross yet so idk if that’s enough.
>>59378302>>59378321Where the hell is the starter pack?
I got all excited seeing the mega dragalgae I dont even know what its ability or typing is but after I took it down the opponent ff'd after a long match
>>59378359at the start
>I put oil of oregano on my balls and now they ache
>>59378385wrong board
>>59378391>I put oil of cottonee on my balls thinking it would make good lube but now my *engorgement* won't go down and my Lopunny is looking at me like a red hot and throbbing numb pogo stick
>>59378181>people actually paid money for this shitHope you get drafted for Israel, you absolute waste of space.
>grimmsnarlBarakitty>whimsicott Sableye NinetailsThere are so many good support mons. How do I pick
Why the starter pack is only for switch players. How nintendo hate money so much.
>>59378412Look at your non-supports first and think about what they need most.
>>59378413Play on some form of actual machine you fucking zoomzoom, get off the phone games
>>59378412pick ones which actually fits your team breh>grimmsnarl is mainly for screens setup with fast parting shot>incin is the premier fake out mon with slow parting shot>whims is the fastest tailwind of the generic supports, and runs annoying shit like encore>sableye is for out there sets like wisp or rain dance>ninetales is just the anti weather punish
What other pokemon are delete buttons right now?Gholdengo white herbSylveon pixilate hyper beam
What should i change for Ninetales? and maybe how to build her. It's for singles but these fcking peliper+mega-swampert are fcking me up too much.
>simgles
>>59378071I agree with the barebones part, but fun? that's highly debatable KEK
I’m thinking of building a fake snow team, that doesn’t actually use snow at all but hoodwinks people about what my actual strat is going to be. Explosion Mega Glalie and Destiny Bond Froslass are two of them (and the fact that they look like a Mega Froslass snow core is what gave me the idea), what’s something funny I can do with Alolan Ninetales? I feel like you NEED A. Ninetales for anyone to believe you’re deliberately running snow, I could just keep it as a permanent benchwarmer but only if I can’t find something funny to do with it.
>>59378375oh so it's switch only like >>59378413 said? why not fucking say so you dumb nintendo bootlicker
>>59378470Better than being a phonetard honestly
>>59378438Probably Mamo, Blizzard/Freeze Dry/Aurora Veil/Encore with Light Clay is pretty standard.
>>59378433The fast parting shot might make Grimm better than Barakitty and Whimsy for Starapter
>leads with starapter>its bait not even holding its megastone
>>59378476final gambit staraptor is a legit spooky mon
>>59378188you would have to go through gen 4 and gen 5 which do basic checks like illegal moves, and then the poke transporter that has an actual anti-cheat (PID checks, illegal moves/stats, OTs in case of mythicals) and THEN from Bank->Home there would be another wall, as there is some hidden tracker and checks that may flag pokemon as illegal even if they pass, making you unable to use them in raids and official competition (see the disqualifications from hacked/illegitimate mons that have happened as recent as last Worlds)tldr; it's not worth it
>>59378473Who would be my choicecarf then?
>Enemy Focus Sash Whimsicott next to full HP Garchomp>My Scarf Staraptor uses Final Gambit into Chomp>thanks to a prior Tailwind, Whimsicott gets off an Endeavor into Staraptor first>Final Gambit does 1HP of damageOnce again I am requesting an emoji/textless react system if there won’t be in-game chat because that shit was fucking hilarious. I was in tears looking at my screen and I bet he was too
>lead zard and whimsi vs alola tales and chomp>tailwind and weather ball chomp in regular I love this shit
>>59378476>>59378479how does final gambit dmg work?
>>59378483that being said rng manipulated mons pass without issues as they were generated by the game and it so happened to have perfect stats/be shinygood and careful pkhex is hard to spot as they are identical to a legitimately obtained mon
>>59378486You could Scarf the Chomp and Sash one of the other frail mons, Greninja also works with Scarf
>>59378505It deals your current (raw) HP as damage to the target, then you faint. Ignores all defensive stats and changes. Obviously it’s optimal on a mon with maximal HP investment that can attack before it takes any damage, where it basically acts as a delete button for anything with lower HP than it. Now that Annihilape has lost the move, Staraptor is the highest base HP Final Gambit user in Champs, with a base 100 speed stat. Max HP Max Speed+ with scarf it basically outspeeds anything without a boost and either kills it, or puts it in range of literally any attack if it’s got super high base HP or a focus sash.
>>59378505You can just look it up bro.Also it enables shit like this>https://youtu.be/WMyW_Q_C3_E?si=7KRK76VbJ4-Sw5Be&t=725
>>59378523Protect+tailwind would be frustrating on a non mega birbPlenty of items to abuse on a sac mon like that
Champions should've stayed console-only
>>59378483>illegal moves>illegal statsWell sure, I'm not talking about blatant hackmons.But if a person wanted a particular pokemon with particular legal moves, it seems like it would be easy to generate that and transfer it up the chain. Or maybe not even generate it, maybe just catch it naturally and feed it a billion duped rare candies and whatever TMs you want and then send it on its way. No check against that, and it means you don't have to use any currencies or materials or whatever to custom-tailor the pokemon in Champions.
>>59378568For mons which you can get in SV, its really easy to setup the item printer to give you infinite rare candies, drugs and mints. If youve done it for a while, just making a legal mon is faster than genning.
every fucking time i get hit by ice beam i get freeze for 2+ turns, im quitting dogshit ass game
>>59378568oh if that's the case then yeah it's perfectly safe and next to impossible to detect if you do stuff correctly when genning (PID/Met location) and for items iirc there is no way of knowing if you gave yourself 999 rare candies and fed them to your critter to reach max level (maybe in gen 7 with the memories but I might be wrong)I've rng manipulated a LOT of shinies and transfered them all the way to Champions no issue
>>59378574i forgot to mention yesterday i went against an idiot that spammed rockslide on garchomp and was able to hit that 30% 8 times out of 10 fucking attacks, 1 miss out of 10 hits(i really wanna hope that garchomp had king's rock or something because 8 flinched didnt make sense to me and i won fortunately, but the game felt like shit and i didnt wanted to play anymore after that day, and when i try to get in today, i get hit by another freeze spammer dragonite that freezes me and leaves me no option but to sit when hes taking 30% of my hp per beam while im freezed, and this exact shit happened twice already, the first time was even worse since i got freezed for 3 turnsi really dont wanna play this game anymore
>>59378556Champions should have stayed in the oven another year
>>59378586bro just have speed control like any decent team, wide guard too if you're feeling overwhelmed
The outfits are so ass
Do bot fights count towards elo?
>>59378586was the idiot name sweaty man?
>>59378556Champions should release on Steam, actually
>>59378636dont remember but it had the garchomp title>>59378611it was in singles
Its been a while since people complained about rock slides, post nerf too.
>>59378624Mentally, everyone I beat is a bot. So, yes.
>>59378556as a chad Ipad user, i do not agree with you.
Rage powder sineascha technically enables Focus Punch Metagross...
>>59378658>it was in singles
should i name my staraptor chudbird or changer of ways
>>59378674i like the singles format, its enjoyable and i wanted to reach master ball before i went into doubles, but i really dont wanna play anymore after that, i hate cheese shit and it makes the game completely shit
>be me>start up PLA after like 2y without touching it>catch a bunch of basculegion>gts trade for eternal floettes>i now have 17 floettesdo retards really? this shit will only get better with time and its a one off in a shitty tech demo game, how the fuck do people part way with it over some shitmon you can easily trade over something else, like a ratata or something.
>>59378677Mukuchud
>>59378680>i hate cheeseplay taunt, its the cheat to get master BALLS
>nobody expects support defensive non-mega metagross
>>59378701I doubt anyone is giving away their own legit Floette, GTS is full of genned stuff
I thought they had an anti-afk VP farming system in place?
>>59378705>everyone has a hacked swtich and/or buy mons off discord trannies
>>59378715yes
Oh it's timmy city alright
>>59378701Basculegion is a bitch to acquire, you either need PLA or the Teal Mask DLC with a bunch of stupid hoop jumping. Because Legion is the only Hisui mon NOT in PoGo it hasn’t flooded GTS in ridiculous quantity, that plus high demand due to it being meta dominant means people will part with a lot to get it.Floette meanwhile is basically free to dupe because it’s a non-player-OT mon with fixed attributes so it’s traded frequently. Basically any shiny buys a Floette, and Floette in turn buys any mon you want, it’s basically a currency whereby someone turned an easy to acquire shiny into a mon they couldn’t get without paying Nintendo another $40.
>>59378707How could you possibly stop an auto-clicker from going>rock slide>dazzling gleamOver and over again? It’s borderline indistinguishable from actual competitive play
>>59378715Dude, trade bots are everywhere. You don't need a hacked switch, or spend a cent. It is absolutely certain most of, if not all the Floettes you get from random trades are genned.
>>59378731There was apparently a measure in place to determine if a player was just turbo pressing A, at which point it would stop them from queuing again without further input. Although that doesn't seem to happen if it's a macro with extra inputs.
>>59378732why doesn’t TPC adress this issue?why let soo many fakemons around?
>>59378741Duped mons are indistinguishable from legit mons because they ARE legit, they’re just copy-pasted. You’d need to do the equivalent of an MD5 check for every mon in home against every OTHER mon in home to catch duping which would be an absurd undertaking computationally. Why bother?
>>59378410>>59378264Didn't mean as an offense, I'm a poorfag too that started playing todayobviously I don't have a switch, but i played pokemon go back when it was released. can i transfer any pokemon I have there, assuming they are currently available in the game?
>>59378751You have to send from PoGo to Home, then Home to Champions. It’s not a transfer process to Champions either, it’s a “visit” process that continues to occupy a box slot in Home, which matters since the trip from Go to Home is one way. Once you’re out of Home box space, you have to either release mons you have or stop transferring, because mons don’t STAY in Champions.
>>59378741While there's nothing they can do about genned Pokemon if their data passes a legitimacy check, I'm surprised they don't try doing much about the automated trade bots.
>>59378758Oh so I have to keep the pokemon in Home to keep using it in Champions?
>>59378766Yes. Pokemon “visit” Champions without ever actually leaving Home. You’ll still see them in Home they’ll just be greyed out and you can’t trade them or send them to other games until they return from Champs.If you’re freemium-only playing, the best play is to completely ignore any and all box space upgrades on Champions entirely, just build a living dex on Home and then send over the 6-24 mons you want to use for your 1-3 teams, then send 6 of them back when you want to try a new team. The Home sub for 6,000 box slots or whatever it is comes out way cheaper than even the cheapest upgrades for Champions
>>59378777I see thanks for the tips
>>59378805average dreamworks character
I will personally hunt down every pelican and remove their whole existence out of this world
>>59378048What's the best way to run this shitmon in singles?
>>59378863Sash + Weak Armor
>>59378805Looks like trans Charlie Kirk
Psychic and fairy terrain should both be +2 priority moves
>>59378855here you go, champ.
>>59378855I feel you as a Sand player and I found the answer to Pelican genocide.Heliolisk. Its absolutely been giving results.
>>59378880>95Good times. I hate when Meme Freak fuck with legacy features.
rate my master ball doubles team /vp/
>haven't played since new regulation>deranked to poke ball tier>win 11 times in a row>back to master ball tierI don't like that they derank you to poke ball every seasons. I'm not looking forward wasting two hours winning against retards every seasons until I can play against lesser retarded players .
>>59378933this guy is an absolute chad, holy shit i wish you were my wife’s boyfriend!
Finally a good shiny and a reason for me to start using le meta fishe
I'm trying to make Acid Armor M-Dragalge workIt's no WALL but it's pretty fun
>>59378863It needs its torta maid girlfriend to be good
>>59379016its whole designated gimmick is switching out for heals thoughbetter off playing prankster cotton guard whimsicott
>>59379023The idea is to switch out when low enough desu, but yeah setup moves aren't quite worth it. It's better with T-spikes or Toxic instead.
throwing a bottle in the ocean
>>59378741issue?
>>59378932I like the fake mega starapter and bellyboy
Reminder that Pecorine's pick is up next in the draft league >>59379134Also since it's still round 1 and there are spots available, if any of the new guys coming in with the mobile release think draft sounds fun, there's still time to late join. I will repost all the rules later today, basically it's the same wolfeys draft league.
>kicked down to ultra 2I'm actually going to kill myself
>>59379111>not even shiny on today of all days
Mega venu is so fucking good into everything right now holy shit. Everything's pointing to it being bad (all the ground and fire, electric terrain to screw sleep), but sometimes all you need is a big fat fuck
>>59379151Do I actually need the mons? Is it piss easy to trade for them?
I like doing retarded shit with non-gay pokemon
>>59379178>Do I actually need the monsOf course not, you can just use pen and paper, you'll need a calculator handy though to know how muh damage your attacks do.
>>59379174Your Alolan Ninetails Blizzard survival rate?
>>59379192I mean the playermade tourneys don't have some convenient "rent mons" feature to help accomodate shit like this, right?
>>59379178Yeah it's easy to get the mons, any mons you don't have we can trade them to you.
>>59379194Thick fat anon.
>>59379201There’s no need to attack him
How retarded would it be to replace the garchomp in this team with a shiny Baxcalibur I just got from go's community day stuff?It would either be jolly scarf or bulky rocky helmet/clear amulet
Also just as general advice to newfriends, get Pokemon go. It's pretty easy to catch a lot of the mons if you play it.
>>59379209>BaxcaliburWho's gonna tell him?
>>59379209>Bax
>>59379212>>59379214Oh
>>59379211I think my account got banned for GPS spoofing 10 years ago
be honest with me: is my team ass? I have won some rounds but just lost some others VERY quickly so I feel something might be wrong with it
>>59379245seems like generic shit everyone uses so you're just playing badly
>>59379245You need 2 megasIs this a singles team?
>>59379267nao it's doubles but I was thinking of switching meow and grimmsnarl for another mega and something to deal with charY>>59379254true!
>>59379245Metagross is a hard mega to use because all of its weaknesses are popular right now (incin, zardY, basculegion, kingambit, chomp) and its bulk doesn't go as far as you think. Best to use it as the secondary counterpick mega (it deals with fairy and mega staraptor fairly well, and can be quite good unmega'd).
Newfag, I wanna try playing Mega Aggron as my core. How bad would he be in current meta? Sinistcha and Incin make perfect sense, but not quite sure why Pelipper is a popular partner? Just the most beneficial weather + tailwind?
if you use incineroar you lost fucking little faggot fucking slit your wrists now fucking faggot faggot faggot faggot faggot i want to kill you fucking faggot
>>59379300Charizard in the sun: dead AggronCharizard in the rain: not dead Aggron
>don't have a switch>never played pokemon goI guess I will just rawdog the game. There is no limit on how much VP i can get daily right?
>obvious rain team>M-Sceptile kills M-Swampert turn one>Pelipper trades by landing perfect accuracy Hurricane>opponent salts so hard he d/c'sI'm just stuck on the "your internet connection is unstable" screen now LOL. For as much as stall anon likes to say he stalls the full timer, nothing stalls harder than good ol' connection shit.
>>59379306Bro you Staraptor?
>>59379334Does Scep outspeed Swamp under Rain?
>>59379290Thinking more about it and guessing at your playstyle, consider something like mega greninja or blastoise (maybe starmie) since I think you'd enjoy a strong fast special water type.
>grind for vp with stallfaggotry anti meta stuff that is guaranteed victory if opponent only brings physical attackers most the time as long as i don't make diabolical misplays on 3v3>Get to put Light Clay on the grimmsnarl in my box so cofag has an easier time setting up calm mind after using trick roomI don't like doing this cause animations are so long but it works
>>59379245>hello is this generic metafag team ass????
>>59379290I like using pokes thay can mega but dont
>>59379290>>59379371Blastoise sounds cool I'll try that anon ty>>59379385I'm trying to make other teams! In case my favorite-mons team starts falling off and I have to resort to metafagging :(
Tatora loves you
Which pokemon should get swapped out and should I be running two mega stones?The idea is that Dragonite reacts to any weather condition
You don't understand. I NEED my team in rare pokeballs
>>59379432My team WILL be shiny my balls WILL be luxury
Question, do switching and mega evolve get affected by trick room or are they still using the original speed order?
>>59379441They are affected.
>>59379414She looks like she will kill herself when you least expect. Not even because of the tranny colors, she just look depressed as fuck and putting on a fake smile
>>59379439Thats why we must collect this Champs exclusive cherish ball Ttar
>>59379444Thanks, haven't come up for me yet but I just want to make sure
>>59379450Well, "she" is a strong word
>>59379414Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
>>59379423vacuum wave scizor is a... choice
I want to fucking kill everyone. everyone is using the same fucking nigger pokemon. I want to slit everyone's throats who uses faggotcott faggotchomp and incinefaggot and skin their bodies and hang up their skin on my walls and put their eyes in glass jars then shoot them in the head after i take out their eyes for my jars. i want to saw off their arms and legs
>>59379461The worst thing about the trans agenda is that it further dehumanizes ugly bitches. She can't help it that she's pinay.
My avatar is a black woman.
>>59379513would
>>59379414I love her, too. As a friend.
>>59379121sadly people seem to be ready for fake mega staraptor today but it was fun while it lastedbellyboy is the MVP of this team for sure. when his ability is active and his metronome item is fully stacked up, his parabolic charge is a 390 BP dump truck that heals him for half the damage done
>opponent running Damp SwampertI’m not saying it wasn’t a giga-brained answer to my selfdestruct lead that cost me the match, but really? Is booming so common people are actually running Damp? I didn’t even know there was a Damp mon available in Champions
Wait, is the code not "rent this team"? I tried to import a team and it asked me if I want to pay to get a carbon copy of it. Lol I thought I could playtest it for free or something...
I just started and I am way worse than what I could rememberWhat do I build from these
>incin, sinistcha, mawile coreWho is the 4th inclusion? Do I make incin more physical and add grim or sableye? Bird gives me a little trouble, but i dont really have much special attacking. I could also do unaware clefable ig.
>>59379528Not much reason to run Torrent/Blaze/Overgrow on the starters. Damp will at least come up situationally useful in Doubles.
I saw there's a way to look up usage rates, but I can't find that option anywhere.
>>59379530>What do I buildThis >>59378111
>>59379535I’d have thought the opposite, the damage boost at low health from Torrent is barely situationally useful but surely even that would be worth more than damp. Damp is barely ever useful. I mean, it was useful against me, but my team is retarded on purpose, it’s supposed to end matches win or lose in 3 turns for fast VP grinding. Surely “click the kill myself button” teams can’t be so common that damp would have value?What’s funnier is, even after my Mega Glalie was KO’d, he never megad. It wasn’t even a tactical decision to delay Mega Swampert to use damp for a turn, he just ran damp Swampert.
>>59379540what do I use detect for on Sylveon?
>>59379325As long you don't draw you get some VP after a match and you're guaranteed 500 for doing all the daily missions.
>>59379559>As long you don't draw you get some VP after a matchOr forfeit. VP for losses is based on your “progress” (how many mons you KO, how much HP the surviving mons have) when you lose, insta FFing nets nothing and I’m 90% sure end-game certain-defeat FFing also nets nothing.
>>59379536Battle>Battle Data>Ranked Battles>PokemonOr just click Y on most when you're manually changing a Pokemon's stats/moves/etc on the training menu
>>59379552Looking at Pikalytics at least it seems to be 50/50ish for Torrent vs Damp, so I'd expect the possibility in the future.
thoughts on my mega malamar team? mawile is only there for baiting people into thinking i'm bringing it and some choice match ups.
>>59379574>expect the possibilityOn Turn 1 Glalie megas and clicks Explosion. There is no other play. If I get damped I get damped.
>>59379579this is literally all m-glalie can accomplish so it's obvious what the play is as soon as he sees it in your team sheet
>>59379566>click Yoh, I haven't thought of using a controller but I suppose they didn't remove it when porting to phones?
>>59379558overall survivabilityif you're asking why detect instead of protect, it looks cooler + the 0.1% chance you get imprisoned
>what is hawlucha thinking
>>59379590I assume there's some sort of equivalent for the button on mobile
>>59379491Scizor is mega bait wielding expert belt so it needs coverage
>>59379587I’ll admit I’ve considered switching to Huge Power Mega Starmie Selfdestruct for this reason as the damage output is also good, the issue is ghost types are way too prevalent.I wanted to use Misty Surge Misty Explosion Galarian Weezing, because EVERYONE expects Neutralizing Gas, but he didn’t get added this reg (presumably because of Neutralizing Gas)
>>59379597>'at least i dont look like a fag'
Took me about a week.I'm not as deluded as to think I'll make it to champions tier without compromising on the fun and going full meta tryhard.Fun game though, Prankster Trick shenanigans are hilarious.>"Nice Focus Sash bro anyway hold my Iron Ball for a minute".Peak
>>59379606What elo does it dump u at as a first time kwabster?
>>59379603Dragonite is just a bottom heavy dragon not just a bottom. And this is Pokémon You are surely gay
>>59379601nobody actually runs m-scizor though, who are you trying to bait?
>>59379609Nice try fagonite
>>59379607Pokeball then you make your way up to great, ultra, master, and then champion
>>59379602In that case I'd just accept the rare auto-loss/kill it off first. Follow your heart.
>>59379615I mean that’s what I’m doing, it’s just crazy to see damp. Actually apparently there are auto-clicker VP farming teams based on explosion garganacl+snorlax so maybe it IS sort of common
Is gholdengo seeing play
>>59379621no the nerfs killed him
>>59379614Right im saying what was ur rating when u hit master ball 4. Im trying to see how far its moved i was 1600~ as like a 5th hour master 4
>>59379621yes but not an auto-include
>>59379629I was personally ~1730, but didn't grind hard for it.
>>59379629Your initial rating depends on how well you did getting up to Master. This season I tried running an afk team in singles, and amusingly it just reached Master. But because it lost so much it started with a rating of around 1150.
What do anons think of Overquil? It seems like it has solid stats and moves but would you use it as an intimidator or swift swim?
>>59379629How do you check that?
>>59379671Just check ur ranking at the double battle screen
Is there a list of Pokémon whose biology has no gag reflex?
>>59379676Oh I only do singles.
Oh here it is, can I lost master if I lose or is master locked in once reached?
>>59379684Master is locked in. You only drop rating points.
>>59379685Neat!
>>59379530Just spam hyper voice with sylveon with tailwind support for whimiscottHave staraptor/raichu in the back as megasSlowking for trick room for when tailwind support isn't good enough.And alolan ninetales for support.
M-metagrossZen headbuttIce punchStomping tantrumBullet punch OR meteor mash?
>>59379697Iron head
So I've not really played much since ORAS, and just hit Ultra Ball. I know its shit tier still, but figuring the game out as I go has been fun but I will say not raising the Pokemon on my own feels kind of soulless. But I haven't figured out how to deal with Pelliper + Archaludon starts. I tried using Raichu (not mega) for Lightning Rod, but then I've got a Raichu who is going to just die to something else most likely if I can't kill the Archaludon. Is there a better 'mon to use to handle the combo?
>>59379714give raichu focus blastor change the weather on the turn when archaludon clicks electro shot so you can just protect the next turn
>>59379714>but I will say not raising the Pokemon on my own feels kind of soulless. You can always just transfer from one of the games and use the mons from there. I'm only using free home and all my Poison mons for the Monotype tourney besides are a few are all mons I bred/caught myself.
>>59379714Bring your own weather setting to lock archaludon for a turn and then focus it before it launches electro shot
>>59379697psychic fangs and iron head unc
>>59379714streamlining it makes it super easy to just jump in and play which i appreciate, i haven't really played the main games much since sun/moon
Nobody runs milotic anymore? have not seen one in a while.
>>59379528Torrent does nothing for my Swampert because I'm always Mega Evolving it. Damp is for the scenario where M-Glalie shows up for some fucking reason (happened before) and wants to blow up.
>>59379714Arch feels like the big pacing mon of Champions. I don't know how people dealt with it pre-nerf.
>>59379688You can lose Master 3-Champion if you get up high enough but never below Master Ball 4.
Megaggron is such a beast wincon in 3v3 with Iron Defense + Body Press
>>59379680What's the singles meta for this event? Im weighting alolan ninetails vs grimsnarl for opening and it seems like mega floette is always the best choise
>>59379697Your brick break?
>200 person tournament>m-pyroar at the top, vileplume in 2nd place>two annihilape in top 8, victreebel making top 12, staraptors highest placement is 12thi know its definitely not a reflection of an official regional or whatnot but this is interesting
>singles meta
>>59379621Yes but I expect it to fall off if Garchomp stays prominent >>59379714A U-Turn/Parting Shot/etc pivot move to drop Raichu right in Arch's face when they've already clicked Electro Shot helps a lot (they will click it as soon as possible)After that as long as you didn't let them set Tailwind/you matched it you're in a good position
R8 my metagross
>>59379763I'm surprised by the 3 Hydreigon.
>>59379777I like where this erp is going
>>59378751>that avatar
Does this have the makings of a good singles team? I’d like to know if it’s at least decent before I invest VP for it
>>59379783Protect really doesn't have much use in singles.
>>59379783The mons are alright, but the moves for half of them are fucked to all hell.
>>59379786Sorry, I should have clarified that I haven’t edited any moves yet. I’m more wondering if these six mons would be good team if they got trained and if I buy items like blazikenite and dragoniteite. Also wondering what item is good for gambit
>>59379758I like to throw off people by sending Meganium, but base Meganium with a grassy terrain/glide build and it fucking works lmao, this thing stops Raichu Y straight then denies Archaludon with Dragon Tail and Leech Seed.
>>59379783You may want coaching or bulk up with leftovers on a HA Blazekin if you aren't going to Mega
>>59379800There's really no point in looking for help if you don't have a plan for the mons you've chosen
is there another set of missions after the starter one?
>>59379820Yeah I think anon should play with the mons to see if he actually likes them and after understanding how they play learning the feeling of the Pokémon in battle
>>59379871Kek.Imagine if we got new anything except some dripping of more dex and therefore dopamine anticipating meta shakeups.
>Use meta: the team and always win>Feel nothing but boredom >Use my bromons and always lose>Fell nothing but rage and buthurtness Competitive battling is not for me
Get fucking vaporised you absolute fool
>>59379884>>Use my bromons and always loseYou suck at this game
Whehehe.
I'm not kidding, opening with these two is insane efective for TR.
>Reach masters>The paid p2w dlc Floettes finally appearSasuga JewFreaks
>>59379908The calm mind moonblast build?
Brought The Wrong Team award
I like this pink little shit
>>59379884I feel you so muchit's so boring fighting the same incineroar/sneasler/basculegion core over and over and over
>>59379775Doesn't it seem a bit counterintuitive to make a mon with a 105 speed stat the slowest it can be?
>against Hatterene and Aggron>Turn 1>Aggron Mega Evolves>Grimmsnarl Fake Out on M-Aggron>Staraptor Mege Evolves>Close Combat >Hatterene uses Trick Room>Turn 2>M-Aggron uses Curse>Grimmsnarl uses Parting Shot on M-Staraptor >Switching out to Sylveon>Hatterene uses Protect>Another Close Combat please>KO's M-Aggron>opponent sends out Alakazam>Turn 3>Hatterene sets up Reflect>Sylveon uses Psych Up, copying M-Staraptor's boosts>Staraptor uses Close Combat again because fuck you>KO's Alakazam>Opponent sends out Steelix>Turn 4>Hatterene uses Light Screen>Steelix uses Fissure (misses)>Sylveon hits Steelix with a Pixilate-boosted, Fairy Feather-boosted + 1 SpA STAB Hyper beam for a one hit KO>one more Close Combat leaving Hatterene at 14hp from full health despite the double resist>the battle has ended due to a forfeitI love this game
Haffi you are up >>59379772
>use megametagross specifically to fuck over whimsicott>lead with sneed and metagross.>run feint on sneed in case it protects>use feint on whimsicott lead.>it doesn't protect>m-maybe I'll outspeed it's priority with bullet punch>it doesn't>atleast it's dead now>it survives bullet punch eventhough it's adamant mega metagross with tough claws.HATEHATEHATEHATELET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE WHIMSICOTT EVER SINCE I STARTED PLAYING POKEMON CHAMPIONS.THERE ARE OVER 155 MILLION SWITCHES THAT HAVE BEEN SOLD.IF THE WORD "HATE" WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH PIXEL OF THE SCREEN OF THOSE TENS OF MILLIONS OF SWITCHES.IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE/ONE BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR WHIMSICOTT AT THIS MICRO INSTANT.FOR WHIMSICOTTHATEHATE
I like special raichu x
>>59379904give me a run down of what ur doing here, i only play tr and its rough out there
>>59379958>HATE>HATE>HATE>HATE>LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATEI feel like this about the teapot >that means you are a shitter anonYes but I still have a burning hatred of the fucking teapot.
>>59379958I just use whimsy myself lol
>>59379942So I should go Adamant?
>>59379990Yeah you'd definitely be better off with that on Mega Metagross
Is three megas too many on a singles team?
>>59378087I bought a used 2DS which came with a copy of Pokemon X. Nigger had like 300 hours and 100s of Ditto and Magikarp amd Kangaskhan and kept breeding the shit out of them just to land perfect IVs. Crazy fuckers.
>>59379998Use a Life Orb instead
The game would be a lot better if focus sash didn't exist.
>Use steel bird>Run into the ONE AUTIST that runs Corrosion Glimmora and a full bulky stall poison TeamOf fucking course.
>>59379904is this an ai shitpost? this makes zero sense
>>59380027It makes sense, though I wouldn't say it's great. Largely avoids fake out, and Basc is the bigger target so Banette can get the TR off.
>>59380027m-banette's prankster makes TR a -6 priority instead of -7you don't understand how insanely busted this is
>>59380039Am I retarded if I truly don’t understand?
>>59380045Your trick room will always outspeed everyone else's trick room. This has incredible potential.
>>59379949My bad, was doing some errands
>>59380045sorry, but if you can't understand why this is amazing, I'm afraid you're going to be hard-stuck in ultra ball 4
>>59380009meanwhile, I try out m-scrafty for the first time and I run into the one fucking metal bird on the ladder
>>59380039>>59380053KEK
Been fucking around with Poison mono today for the tournament. Trying out a sort of protect-the-leader build with Glimmora right now. Currently stuck in U4, and if shit doesn't get better I may try out Dragon instead. Poison has a few pretty strong specifics mons but the "glue" members are all dogshit like Roserade, Garbador, or Arbok. The power level is really low and it's way worse than the Normal mono I tried out in S1.
>>59379904>>59380027I'm winning with this teamhttps://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9championsvgc2026regmb-2636234792
>completely destroy stall nigger>he only has mega dragalge encored in to orotect left on the field and I have mega lopunny and gambit on the field with a third mon in the back>select moves and wait 30 seconds for opponent to select a move>it protects my moves fail>select moves and wait 30 seconds for opponent to select a move>protect proccs again my moves fail encore ends>select moves and wait 30 seconds for opponent to select a move>encore again and attack >select moves and wait 30 seconds for opponent to select a move>it protects my moves fail>select moves and wait 30 seconds for opponent to select a move>protect proccs again my moves fail encore ends>select moves and wait 30 seconds for opponent to select a move>encore fails for some reason, but gambit gets the killWhy are stall niggers like this?
Humbly requesting a FloetteIGN: Phasyx
>>59380145im amazed, honestly
Reach master ball. Get into a winning position in a game. EVERY FUCKING game becomes the other guy dragging the entire time clock out the moment he's losing. I've won more games at Masterball due to time clock idle than actually ko'ing all pokemon.
>>59380153yeah because its morning in japan
>>59379111>>59380151sent :)
>>59380174is jams kill?
>>59380153I do this but I've yet to win a game off doing so.
>>59380183I am not
>>59380170Thank you!
I hit great ball rank in doubles which isn't great but I'm proud of my team !! I've never really made teams before I always just used starters that are strong in main games or whatever.
>>59380280As long as you're having fun and learning, anon.
so do i really need 2 megas
>>59380353yes, you need mega charizard x and mega charizard y
>I can win after this blizzard hits>Charizard dodges it>Their froslass hits every single blizzard AND freezes my pokemon>Next match>I can win this no problem, ape can take the hit>Takes it and gets flinched by the avalanche>It's fine, maybe I can carry with gholdengo and dragonite>Flinched two more timesI'm going to break my phone
>>59380353Not really, If your strat doesn't call for a second mega it doesn't need the second mega. The first iteration of Cybertron's Archaludon team only ran Mega Dragonite, Wolfe's Toxapex team only used Charizard Y. Variations after may or may not swap something for the second Mega.
Ebin
>>59380366Shiny AND male is like .00001%, you should be buying lottery tickets
I don't get it. Is a bigger number in master ball good or bad? How does the score work?
>>5938038450% dummy
>>59380385do you know what ELO is
>>59380385Its a ladder you want to be highest possible
Fuck the Japanese how are you this high already
So it must track your rating and match you with similar ratings even before reaching Master right? I noticed my afk grinder started facing bad teams and other afk grinders more and more frequently before it reached Master.
>every ice beam from the opponent freezeswhen are they finally killing cheating niggers again?
>>59380445Once you finally accept RNGesus as your lord and saviour.
>>59380399>plays the game 24/7i dunno anon, chinks sure are a mysterious "people"
>first match of the day get frozen from one Blizzard>second match gets hit by Scald twice get two burns on my physical attackers>third match get hit by discharge twice get paralyzed twice so my two pokemon who could one-tap mega-Septile get eaten alive by it insteadRough day, back in Ultra-2 with no win streak.
>>59378751zayum dis nigga lookin zesty n moist af
>Test team in casuals get win streak of 10>Jump into ranked>Get to Pokeball 4 to Masterball 4 in an afternoon>enter Masterball and lose repeatedly dropping from 1780 to 1580Am I doing something wrong?Hows my team? I skyrocketed through all levels with no issue but now Im losing bad. I don't know if Im unlucky right now or Im just not playing right.
>>59380497Most people before Master don't even know what Excadrill does kek
>>59380497The team is frail with lots of overlapping weaknesses and not many Protect users, any decent player will run over it. It's not like everyone in master is good but it filters out lots of more casual players who stop playing as soon as they reach it.
i havent played a single game in champions yet, im testing things in showdown. Best i've come up with is jolteon sceptile.
>>59380519Or you can just download it and let the gacha decide your team for you
>no guard hits through phantom force
There's nothing better than the despair when focus sash activates
>>59380547I miss pre-update Champions because of this (and more)
>>59380547>>59380563i miss haze full healing my milotic
>>59380547>>59380563That's how it's supposed to work yes. Fly isn't protection it's missing and no guard prevents missing.
>>59380576>no guard>lets you punch something that's phased out of existence >doesn't let you punch through something that's guardingSasuga game freak
>>59380535i have all the mons, i played M-A i just havent found a team for M-B yet
Post-mobile release they should increase the amount of Champions per pass from top 300 to top 1000, especially since they don't deny people that have already hit the cap.
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oh how I would love the feeling of pure ecstasy cutting through an incineroar and whimsicott user's neck with a rusty cleaver until their head is completely severed off
>>59380707just get a giraffe bro
>>59380713gets shit on by the cerealtigermonwat do?
>>59380727doesnt get ohko'd + you can swap giraffe out. it's a straight out deterrent against all kind of priority bs so the partner pokemon should be able to benefit from that. also you should see how high level players deal with these mons otherwise they will always look insurmountable to you, when plenty counterplay exists
>>59380713>fagirafI don't use gay faggot pokemon like incinefag, fagiraf, fagevoir, sylvefag, gholdenfag, fagario, fagunny, fagisage, fagisear, fagipour, fagsicott, zoroark pink fag version, fagillon, fagette, fages, fagdra, fagki, fageist, fagarina, toxafag, fagreena, faggerene, fagcremie, fagpeko, fagler, fagscarada, fagfagval, faghold, faganacl, fagathra, tinkafag, palafag, or fagworm,
>>59380547>>59380600counter play to certain moves is good, actually
I once faced a guy that REALLY tried making Pikachu work. But it didn't of course. I'm not really sure how you could actually make Pikachu usable besides concede and just use Mega Raichu Y.
New bread.>>59380794>>59380794>>59380794
I think I have a 20% victory rate, and that's thanks to bots. Can't even rise above superball and I have a broken bird team.
