Someday, the Tapus will return.

When's the season end?

>>59464193
Like eight days.

>>59464193
Cool

>>59464154
Shitscarada

breeding with Kitt

>>59464284
where?

What’s a good charizard Y support in doubles, have tried Whimsicott and Sableye and Milotic.

>>59464294
Chlorophyll Venusaur with sleep powder

>>59464294
Victreebell, Whimisicott. Leafeon can help clean up what remains.

>tailwind now counts as a weather condition
THERE
FIXED THE FUCKING MOVE

>get a double freeze on a stallfag overqwil malamar team
>they both thaw out instantly
hell is real and we're in it

stalled that faggot to match timeout, take your draw bitch

1 misplay is an automatic loss. Leading correctly is a coin flip. Why do pseudo intellectuals think they are special because they grind 1000 hours to get a high rank in this game

>>59464423
luck is also a skill. like missing scale shot in a critical moment.

>>59464441
I’ve also never seen someone miss guillotine, sheer cold, or fissure. I think they are actually 100% accurate

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Reached Masters 4 in Singles with my mono-Ground team! Had a couple unique fights on the winstreak. One player led with Jolteon (???), while I led with G-Stunfisk expecting my opponent to lead with Primarina or Blastoise. I trapped it in with Snap Trap, then started Spiting all it's moves. It had Rain Dance, Hyper Voice, Volt Switch, and Thunder. They resigned before the Jolteon was freed from the binding.
I also outsped a H-Arcanine while sweeping with a Diggersby which totally surprised me as I had no speed boosts. They must have had an Adamant nature. Max Speed investment would only land them 279 whereas Jolly Diggersby just hits 280. Talk about lucky!

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If I see another perish trap team I am coming to your house and killing you IRL

Oh I forgot to ask: Do you get another +10 box spaces if you hit Masters in Doubles as well?

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>>59464487
I shit you not this happened yesterday in the land down under
>On the shitter for lunch break, play a game
>It's a Koreaboo
>Don't pay attention to anything until after the match starts and mons are sent out
>Get utterly mogged by a Politoed/Archaludon sweep
>Last mon gets perished
>Done shitting anyway, forfeit
>Check the Korean guy's title
>IT SAID "PTC Finalist 2025"
>and his points were close to 1.7M
>mfw the algorithm assigned one of the best guys in the world on my toilet break

>>59464456
>>59464495
Grats.
And no, i don't think.
Double Masters in one season only nets you more VP
Youd have to grind to masters again in another season if you want more box spaces, or at least thats how it worked previously

I keep copying teams and none of them really feel like they’re mine or my style. Are any of you anons good at team building? What teams are you running?

>>59464294
GARCHOMP

>>59464560
I team build more than I play, really. I look for/find a gimmick or set I like and I build around it. Do a few matches until I win 1-2 more than I lose, then move on to the next build.
It's easy to only worry about what's meta but I think Champions offers the most freedom in team building we've had in a very long time.
What staples do you have ready? Stuff like Incineroar, Sinistcha and Sneaser. Do you like your teams fast or do you prefer to bring Trick Room? I find Trick Room wins me more games overall than regular speed building since it allows you to invest EVs in bulk instead of speed.

>>59464548
Ah. Well, I can work with that I guess if you can get 10 every month. It's gonna be a long wait for the next roster update anyway...

bulk up or sword dance on ceruledge?

>>59464611
you think Ceruledge is surviving an EQ from Chomp and trading hits? swords dance.

>>59464607
I play singles and I just lose no matter what my team comp is. Getting to master ball took way longer than expected and it hurt my ego. I see something cool a youtuber uses and try it for myself and seemingly have no answers to whats in front of me. I just want to have fun and win, so no stall. Probably just hyper offensive mash buttons is my preferred style

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>>59464623
Nta, but you can try something like this. copied it off some jap youtuber.
Singles is very basic anyways, have a defensive pivot to punish their aggro and you can aggro all you want.

>>59464623
What's your team? Just build around what other people build. You see the most common everything. If you have a Pokémon they people are scared shitless lead with what would counter what would counter your Pokémon.

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>>59464623
I think you want Trick Room then, so you don't have to worry as much about speed tiers for now. Use my go-to, Mimikyu as your opener. You can set up a Trick Room unimpeded and then proceed to attack with Play Rough or Shadow Claw, or switch in to something built with 0 speed and high defenses so you can actually take a hit or two.
I'd suggest Snorlax and Abomasnow. They're just both favorites of mine as well as easy to use. Aboma's a glass canon so you can give it a Focus Sash so it can take a hit as well and have it either throw up an Aurora Veil or hit some stuff with Blizzard or Giga Drain.
Snorlax resists both Ice and Fire making it a great late-game tank, you just have to watch out for Fighting moves mainly.

There's no perfect team so keep experimenting and having fun. Try to learn speed tiers and type advantages and you'll get there.

>>59464560
So far, I pick a general synergy that works, then slowly refine it to cover for what stops it. They aren't perfect teams but they work well enough aren't exactly common.

I play double format and I've played around with:
-Frost Breath Froslass + Anger Point Tauros
-Malamar + MScrafty
-Jolteon + MSceptile (which evolved to add RaichuX)

>>59464683
>-Jolteon + MSceptile (which evolved to add RaichuX)
I've been trying this today and can NOT get it to work. Can't win more than 2 games before something shits on it

>>59464683
>Malamar + MScrafty
for me this was fun even without MScrafty. some people don't bring fairy types for whatever reason.

>>59464694
I have this theory where fairy types really just exist in tournaments and not ladder. This explains why everyone shits on staraptor in tournaments, but not on ladder. Stuff which normally kneels to fairies like chomp is far more representated in ladder than in tourneys because floette and sylveon is everywhere.
I havent seen those two on ladder in a while now, its always the usual char and rain slop

>>59464688
What moves are you using? I know the team has certain faults (you CANNOT let your opponent get speed control or else everything falls apart).

At the moment mine looks like:

Jolteon + Magnet
Discharge
Rising Voltage
Weather Ball
Roar

Raichu X
Fake Out
Upper Hand
Discharge
-4th move can be anything-

MSceptile
Energy Ball
Dragon Pulse
Earth Power
Quick Quard

Typically, I keep ANintales in the back so I can swap it in and let Jolteon Weather Ball into the Garchomp. Though I admit this team can't handle Tailwind Whimsicott so you'll need a backup plan for that.

>>59464704
can't agree, I see sylveon basically every other match on ladder

whats considered a good elo

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>guy "Connecting.." ragequits after I Sheer Cold his Whimsicott Staraptor lead
do people really think Hawlucha + Vanilluxe is less honorable than Charm + Staraptor

I think I reached my upper limit lads. I get hard walled at around 1850. Oh well

Is worlds next month or the month after

sorry Ceruledge bwo. i'm running HenTyphlosion under sun. you never stood a chance.

Ninetales alola is based, makes rainfags play super careful, especially seeing as i have Ychu too

>the best fake out trick room protector is mega kangaskhan

I can't believe I didn't realize this before. It makes so much sense. You'd think with almost 100 speed stat this would not be a TR viable pokemon, but because the meta is full of jacked up garchomps and charizards and super speed ghost fish, it actually does play out that way.

>chandelure kangaskhan chandelure machamp

This is my fuck ass best of 1 trickroom team in Master Ball. If I rematch anyone with this team I lose to them. But man does it feel good to get that TR off and start cranking. Thank you for reading my blog.

>>59464791
Oops, meant to say

>chandelure kangaskhan milotic machamp

Other two are Glimmora and M Dragonite. But since those two have a hard time TR'ing, I run them with Tailwind (on the Dragonite).

>>59464791
give anything iron ball and it makes it TR viable.

>>59464810
I was more thinking that the meta's speed tiers are all so ludicrously high that a 100 speed stat Pokemon is somehow usually slower than most of them. But I do think I've seen Iron Ball a few times now that you mention it, on oddball pokemon

>>59464810
Can Iron Ball on an already slow Pokémon make Gyro Ball more reliable against opposing slower Pokémon?

Actually surprised that it took this long to unlock mega garchomp, yeah that speed drop sucks but my Adamant ceruledge is outrunning zard y's these days and tailwind is like a pseudo sand rush, it can also be ran special like a nidoking with actual bulk and a better typing when it's in sand with its ability

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So true

>>59464901
Singles is fucking lame

>>59464842
yes. for example Torkoal with iron ball maxes out gyro ball damage against a Sylveon with no speed.

>>59464901
i'll hop on singles when Chompz is unleashed.

F Rock slide and everything it stands for, i already began hating gengar cause of Perish bs, now I am starting to hate ttar

>>59464932
are you using really slow 'mons or is ttar under tailwind?

>>59464932
zard y posted this

Man it feels good to Encore sinistcha

>>59464372
Last night my M-Garde went down to one, but I was able drag it out into him forfeiting by having Sinistcha support Incin the whole match.
Incin took out his own Sinistcha and Klefki. I forgot the other pick, but I took that shit out too.

>>59464901
I haven't touched singles since the first season. I got to MB4 on it and after that I didn't have any fun.

are people really running special garchomp now

>>59464965
The longer the meta goes on the more bored people get and bored people will always either innovate or spew shit.

>>59464985
One must imagine Garchomp players happy as they load into a match and immediately press the Earthquake button, over and over, next to their Mega Staraptor friend that is Close Combat'ing on repeat. Day after day, game after game.

>>59464965
power gem has 100% accuracy and rock slide always misses/doesn't flinch when I use it.

>>59464990
Just run a sashed Glimmora instead of using non STAB special moves on something with a 130 attack and 102 speed stat. I can't ever see this being good. Granted I could be wrong but still.

>>59464957
I got to MB last season but I just played it cause singles was what I was familiar with and to get VP to buy doubles sets and mons, i can't really go back to comp singles now that I found dubs way more fun and less stally, singles kinda demands slow playstyles and while toxapex is successful in doubles. when i face it it usually just sits there to get blasted with zap cannon from mega ychu and even if ychu faints, it gives you too many turns to take it down ime, still needs to be respected in the builder though

>>59464965
Fire Blast was an uncommon tech option in singles back in the day just to take out Ferrothorn

>>59464965
Only faced mega chomp doing that, makes sense, in sand it's only 10 base points lower than its base forms phys attack and gets a pseudo life orb in sand with rock and ground coverage being notoriously good + special ground attackers with STAB being so rare and not having to become borderline useless if it gets burned

>iron ball brave basculegion becomes as slow as aromatisse
Hmm, with helping hand farig too

>>59465051
oh no no no

>>59464560
I didn't like playing with someone's team since I didn't feel right with its playstyle. And their team is always built with its creator's intention, which is not always implied at their report.
My building style either starts with a gimmick or main lead, or just building a goodstuffs team with synergized types and coverages, with decent support. Of course everything will also need to have a good matchup against most meta teams.

I can't say I'm the best, but I should be decent enough. In M-3 I made a Jolteon/Raichu X in snow for Ice Weather Ball, then someone got to Champion with similar team. In SV I also topped several offline tourneys with rain + 4 genies.

>>59464965
I run Special Chomp. I WAS running mixed Chomp with Poison Jab, but I had no real answers to CharY and often I'd get blue balled by the rare Trannyveon with max Defense investments

fake out + encore on the same lead my beloved punishing the shit out of turn 1 protect scouting

Survey for retarded metaslaves.
If you see my Heliolisk, you'll not bring fishmcfuckface yes?

>>59465228
If most of your team is weak to the fish, I'll still bring it and kill Heliolisk as fast as I can.

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did i cook

>>59464994
>non stab
he kinda gets the stab boost under sand

>>59465364
give her attract so she can become ur wife

>>59465364
verlisify approves

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>My Mega Gardewife just survived a Hyper Beam from a Trannyveon
STRONK