You guys aren’t actually losing to zardslop, right?

>>59487667
nyo. trick room mawile back to back.

>>59487667
Now that I'm using Corbeau's team due to cosplaying as him with this month's cosmetics, I can just take out Zard with Stealth Rock and Stone Edge

I love my raichu Y, on singles

are ya winning, son?

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>eevee on the meta side

Shit Game

can't decide between scarf or sash chandelure for gimmick team

former outspeeds the annoying fish but doesnt hit as hard as you'd like and absolutely folds to gambit existing on the field ever
latter kills more stuff but loses to double targeting or sand, can't put preemptive pressure on fast stuff

>>59487739
>z-crystal
wasnt it that one omni boost + baton pass set
heard it was scary but dont know how meta it actually was

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>>59487815
Let's be honest here this isn't exactly threatening even after getting the Z move off assuming earthquake or heat wave doesn't blow it away

>>59487856
Thats why the boosts get Baton passed to something better, ya pinhead.

>>59487890
And when would you be able to use it or the Z-move with no sash

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>>59486775
Nevermind I like Empoleon again
I just had a match where the opponent led Incin and Staraptor into it then spent the whole match tunnel visioning close combats into protect (and the odd brave bird into the penguin's partner, which ended up hitting a rough skin Garchomp) while the rest of my team tore through his
By the end he left Staraptor alone against a fully healthy +6 silly tuxedo fella because Incineroar was forced in again

I wish they took the opportunity with this game to buff dogshit abilities. Like anticipation. I forgot it existed until I was looking up Eevee to shit on its stats.

>>59487856
>shit movepool
>shit stats
>shit abilities
Eevee is fucking trash.

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>>59487667
I'm only losing to sneasler :)

>opponent leads farig+m-blastoise
>if you double into the blastoise, it protects
>if you double into farig, blastoise water spouts

i hate this forced 50/50

>>59488083
>sand team
>gholdingus
>he pays for the membership

>>59488100
IT SAYS GOOD VALUE!

>>59488078
what's wrong with having 5 supports for a set up mon? Do you think all Pokemons are do everything by yourself staples like Charizard Y?

>>59488103
you didn't beat the game

>keep getting outsped by scarfed pokemon
>keep missing 90% accuracy moves
>keep getting hit with 50 - 90% accuracy moves
By the way these captchas suck, I want the text ones back.

>>59488142
>keep getting outsped by scarfed pokemon
go on pokemon dot com and look at the number next to "speed" and see if scarf makes it faster than you
>these captchas suck, I want the text ones back
ok ill tell moot

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Im done with my lax. Anyone with an extra toed?

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>>59487739
>>59487856
>>59488008
That's the Legpiss partner eevee, I wouldn't talk too much shit if I were you

>>59488167
I love baddy bad. The fairy move should have been called goody good.

>Lose to specific popular team
>Adjust Moveset to better handle it
>No one plays specific team anymore
>Lose to new team because I don't have moves I originally had

When does it end?

how the fuck do I get the starter pack on mobile i'm tired of being a boxspace cuck

>>59488191
your mistake is building around a team instead of going full retard

>choice scarf vivillon
dude, where did the stranger touch you

>>59487657
>lose so many matches I am now unable to find any other players to lose to
Guess I win.

of course I run into the 0.4% of blazikens running knock off, because why not

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got a shiny bax on wonder trade
should I save for when they eventually add him in or just get a floette for trade liquidity

the fact that 90% of basculegions run scarf makes it all the more devastating when you prepare for that but it's actually the life orb wave crash version that just nukes anything it touches from the get go

I, for one, love feeling forced to lead fake out + something that can OHKO Whimsicott against every single team that has it, making my lead extremely predictable because the alternative is letting that stupid cotton ball click tailwind and getting steamrolled for the next 4 turns (I'm not surviving that long). One of the best aspects of my favorite game Pokemon Champions.

>>59488355
>whimsicott used protect

>>59488326
Is it from Go? Go had some event where it was basically free to get one so it's not that valuable if it was caught in one of the standard Go balls. If you don't care about the Pokeball and "legitimacy" of it I'd just keep it.

>got the tapus, UBs, past paradox dlc, ursaluna bloodmoon and urshifu
am I missing some other rare pokemon for the future?

>>59488413
blissey, indeedee, golisopod, ogerpon forms
that's off the top of my head

>>59488355
Next 3 turns, and you're allowed to use Tailwind too, or priority moves, or Trick room.

>>59488416
blissey got a mega?

Why is Passimian not really used? I remember him being decent in Swsh

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>>59488355
>acrobatics

>>59488429
I don't even remember, what did he do?

>>59488429
Monkey are ugly poopcoded animals and I spelled the first word very wrong.

Did Bisharp really need an evolution?

>>59488435
>german humor

>>59488433
/r/ing image similar to this but it’s higher quality with more fidelity to the Pokémon of gigachad talonflame or any other gogachad mons, I have found non of them through vast searching probably cuz it’s 1984

>>59488093
You need something that threatens blastoise next to another that ohkos or taunts the giraffe

>>59487896
When the Friend Guard Clefairy next to it uses Follow Me.

>>59488429
It was? That thing has always been bad unless my memory is off

>>59488487
Geraf hard counters list?

>>59488434
I don't know, but it has Defiant, only now we have Kingambit and Annihilape who defy even better.

>>59488620
scizor life orb bug bite and helping hand

>>59488537
It’s eevee bro
>Torkoal used eruption

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>on a six game winstreak
>run into H-Goodra doing H-Goodra things
>stall it out with Coil Hypnosis Milotic
>Yeah, I know I'm a shitter for it
>KO Ttar, Garchomp, and Oranguru with Mega Garde
>8 turn Light Screen is still not down
>any time it wakes up, instead of attacking, it Life Dews
>draw with the chud
>lose the next game to Overqwil nonsense all because I didn't have my Maushold with Taunt
>drop Feint for Taunt
>next two games Milotic comes in clutch and I get to MB4
I am tired, boss.

So, do we hate the Sand team now or what?

>>59488712
I thought Sand was mediocre because it lacked a massive nuke wincon like Mega Swamp or Char Y, did a team with it suddenly surge into relevance?

>>59488429
It's probably too much effort to be worth it. I'm looking at Pikalytics and apparently it was used to copy gale wings, huge power, serene grace, friend guard, terrain abilities and intimidate. I guess maybe it could be used to copy drizzle to put rain back up if Pelipper dies while the weather isn't rain. I imagine Muk probably does the job better because it's tankier and has only one weakness.

>>59488730
They started running Bulky Gholdengo.

When the fuck are we getting something new

>>59488782
You already know the answer to that question so why ask it every day

>>59488730
This is the current Sand team that made Ttar go up to 14th place in popularity. There isn't really a set wincon, but I end up winning most games with a +2 Gholdengo getting KOs with Shadow Ball or dishing massive damage with Make it Rain. Honestly the worst pokemon in the team is Excadrill, I almost never bring him in. Maybe a future iteration will cut it completely.

Tyranitar-Mega @ Tyranitarite
Ability: Sand Stream
Level: 50
EVs: 17 HP / 18 Atk / 31 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Knock Off
- Rock Slide
- High Horsepower
- Protect

Excadrill @ Focus Sash
Ability: Sand Rush
Level: 50
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 2 HP / 32 Atk / 32 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Protect
- Iron Head
- Rock Slide
- High Horsepower

Milotic @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Competitive
Level: 50
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 20 HP / 20 Def / 4 SpA / 8 SpD / 14 Spe
Calm Nature
- Protect
- Icy Wind
- Scald
- Haze

Gholdengo @ Life Orb
Ability: Good as Gold
Level: 50
EVs: 27 HP / 13 Def / 16 SpD / 10 Spe
Modest Nature
- Make It Rain
- Shadow Ball
- Nasty Plot
- Protect

Sinistcha @ Colbur Berry
Ability: Hospitality
Level: 50
EVs: 29 HP / 15 Def / 22 SpD
Bold Nature
- Matcha Gotcha
- Shadow Ball
- Protect
- Rage Powder

Staraptor-Mega @ Staraptite
Ability: Contrary
Level: 50
EVs: 29 HP / 1 Atk / 4 SpD / 32 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Close Combat
- Brave Bird
- Tailwind
- Protect

>>59488678
omg is that canari

This game is my introduction to all the mons, abilities, moves, and mechanics from the Switch era. Feels weird

>>59488796
I wouldn't ask it if I did

>>59488879
And its still missing a ton of stuff

Worlds is coming, any bets on the winning mega?

G-Slowbro with quickclaw is frustrating and yet it's probably the most fun I had in the game in a long time. I can only imagine how more annoying it is on the other end when I chain quickdraw into quickclaw.

>>59488914
More to learn yay

I love scarf chomp. I love rock slide so much. I love having a “greater than 1/4 chance to just win the game with a flinch” button.

>>59488933
That’s literally a 1 in 100 chance of happening. I would be pissed.

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just ended some fags 13 win streak

>>59488962
Was it yours?

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>>59488970

>>59488949
gambler's fallacy

how am I supposed to use eternal floette if nobody gives me one in Home and I only have shitty pokemon GO mons for trade?

>>59488949
It's roughly around 1/5 actually. Not high enough to matter in high level play, but then again, proccing either quick once fucks over high speed pokemon no matter what.

>opponent is smart enough to realize I was going to encore his detect and switch out while his other pokemon proceeds to protect
wut?

>>59489048
idk man I have 8 Floettes and I started playing Pogo last month too.
If you get a shiny, that usually can be traded for a Floette instantly.

>>59489071
why did you trade so many?

>>59489081
They can basically be traded for anything non-shiny in return so they're good currency in case I need something new.

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>>59489085
I don't want to say goodbuy to my shiny palafin just to get this stupid flowe. Put all the mons in the gacha god damnit

>>59489097
Most of the shinies I actually got from checking Wanted Pokemon or even Wonder Trade. I'm keeping my own (and most are still stuck in Go because of the energy thing).

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milotic with mirror coat is so good

game

If you want a certain Pokemon's usage to be higher that normal for a short amount of time, just have a CuckTuber make a video where it's used in a incredibly niche team where the battles may or may not be rigged to make the Pokemon look """good""" when it's actually not.

Worked for Mega Sceptle.

I really hate Garchomp because there’s not an easy
>my team is weak to Garchomp I need X Pokemon
Answer

>>59487667
i am tanking zardslop with aromatisse :)

>>59489410
every garchomp is the mega and a special attacker now, what the fuck is going on

>Fought 3 Delphox/Tailwind teams in a row
No really what's the big deal?

>>59489498
It’s Charizard for hipsters and furries

>>59488165
Anyone??? :,(

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>>59488167
The LGPE Starter Eevee can't be that good, can it?
>Top 10 non-mega in viability in OU
>Only pokemon that can cure status
>100% accurate Will-O-Wisp that deals decent damage
Damn. Hats off to LGPE Eevee

>>59487657
Why is Mega Meganium usage so low? Doesn’t it do well against rain and can be swapped out against sun?

>>59489530
Its just very mid

>>59489518
enjoy

>>59489539
I luv u anon

>>59489530
current meta favors sun teams and sneasler also hard counters it
it's not a bad pokemon by any means, it's seen a hell of a lot of usage. current meta is just really hostile to it
it's speculated it'll see a lot more use whenever raging bolt comes around to support it

>rampardos is shit
>bastiodon is shit
>tyrantrum is shit
>aurorus is shit
>mega meganium isn't doing good
>dracovish is guaranteed to be a braindead pick when it's added
Palworld it is then.

>>59489530
Aurorus and Tyrantrum are alright. They were probably the MVPs on my mono rock type alongside Mega-Glimm.

>>59489550
I saw a dude with Tyrantrum got to champion tier.

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>7 protect the M-Delphox teams
>Win 6 out of the 7 because they don't know Wrydeer can trick room
Same charizard autopilot mentality I guess

>>59489550
bastiodon good with tera

>>59489550
Mega Feraligatr getting double-whammied is going to make me increasingly neurotic.

>>59489647
You guys have such fucking weird standards of what a good mon is.

>>59487667
The dual weather one is the only comp that i struggle with, mega ychu and ninetales alola pressure the shit out of zard y and chomp leads on the generic zardslop team

>>59489410
Just run your own garchomp to counter garchomp
EZ.

>>59489649
What do you mean?

>>59489512
Its charizard with encore so you can't protect against it.

>>59488191
>build and refine team to cover rain, trick room, zardslop etc
>coincidentally beats new teams that pop up like the sand one with mega staraptor and protect the king/queen comps with delphox/blastoise

>>59489665
post team

>run rock slide
>opponents all have wide guard
>run rock tomb/stone edge
>opponents all have follow me

you just can't win

>play since release
>still no rainbow border pokemon achievment

>>59489688
I ran into my first Toxapex today i got his team down by pivoting to get rock slide off when it was threatened off the field and the whole time I was thinking
>who hurt you

>>59489688
run both?

>tryharding in casuals with big 6
I understand getting the hang of using perish trap but casuals is for wrecking scrubs with meme teams

I got to master last season with a sloppy team and since then I completly lost interest. All I can say is that it's great the games are a different thing from competitive thanks to this shit existing, I still don't lose hope in getting a good game again.

Any good list of teams to try or just look on Pikalytics and pick one?

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Fuck this gay tranny faggot giraffe. Fuck you faggots who use it including me. I can spend all fucking day reminding myself Armor Tail means ALL priority and I will forgot the next day gay fucking giraffe fuck you

>>59489410
just click ice beam.

>>59489799
https://youtu.be/dNWyhHiu9Y0?si=3IAS0d6ZvhqveXu5

>>59489812
I just hate the mind games it causes on tryhard teams, on trick room it's manageable

What low-power pokemon if it was added might shake things up? Unironically, I think Golduck has a niche. A non-dragon Cloud Nine user that can threaten Sun and Sand setters and has tools to handle a lot of Rain teams heavy hitters.

>>59489819
No videos xx

>>59489530
It's an ok choice but there are other better teams to use against rain (aka you play rain team as well).

>>59489840
Partner eevee

>>59489841
*rock slides your ass*

>nearly lost to quick claw manetric
Was that a bot? Or a 7 year old?

>>59489879
It was a 10 yo Paldea League Champion

Pogo just gave me a shiny icecone and shiny femrunt. What's a good mcflurry and mlass team comp for dubs?

>>59489840
Indeedee
Amoongus

>>59489840
I just want some new items man. We're basically cavemen right now.

>>59489840
shuckle

>>59489883
Lass for aurora veil, vanilluxe as blizzard sweeper. Alternatively ice ninetales aurora and lass sweeper but vanilluxe's movelist is very bad and 99% ice moves with no real support. You can use him as a specific free dry counter to pelipper. Watch out for weather switchers.

>>59489890
That would spell death to my azumaril team, especially if rillaboom also gets added, mega alakazam being viable as more than a speed swap gimmick would be cool at least

>indeedee also gets helping hand and gravity (for focus miss accuracy)
Mega Allah might actually be cracked if it's added

Finally got a Talonflame to put on my team. It feels so good to be able to kiss Whimsicott before it can do anything.

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The fact this exists in the game on Metagross makes me think that terrains are not getting added until megas go away

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Why the fuck is everyone playing dark Samurott all of a sudden?

>>59490031
We have terrains now though, it's just no one can set it with abilities except Raichu X

>>59489812
Remember to pump up every and all (female) Farigiraf you see until they swell up to be rounded out blimps completely immobilized and sunken in (with massive tits and ass) as their necks round out into a tire to the point their snouts barely poke out.

Caveat is that she may get very horny.

>>59490034
Good matchup against the fish and gambit.

>>59489524
Pikachuds...

>>59488167
>those stupid names
So that's what /vp/ was making fun of all those years ago

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>>59488839
She has a grip on me.

With how many pitfall traps show up in the anime I'm surprised they never turned that into a move like some kind of entry hazard. Don't know what it would do though. If it's just like a red card eject pack type thing it seems pretty easy to bypass.

What mega should I run in my hydrapple tr gimmick team

Could someone correct me if I am wrong but with the way Home and Champions interact you essentially get a pokemon editor (granted you have enough VP) limited by the pokemon you already caught?
So I could essentially get a Shiny anything, port it to champions and edit it's nature, stat spread, movelist ect.? So only catching it (shiny or otherwise) is really necessary to fight with it in champions?

Granted that the changes are lost when returning it to the Home

>>59490296
Maybe Mega Malamar? You would have the option to be able to boost its speed outside of trick room if needed.

>>59490352
Basically yeah.
The Pokemon itself does not get changed, BUT it does keep the Champions data so when you return it Home and send it again, it'll remember the changes in Champions.

>>59490352
Yes, the main things that actually matter transferring to champions is titles, gender, and ball type, which apparently gamefreak said they didn’t want to make ball type a “style” thing, but now it’s a rare sparkle pull to find Pokémon in uncommon and rare balls, so if you can get them in za or another game in cool balls, right gender, and shiny or not, with any titles, those are what matters.

I don’t know exactly how size works, I have a few teeny and large Pokémon, but does every value in between still change appearance a bit in champions? This gets super dumb with gorgheist, where you could have a large and small of each variety, kinda wonder what the size differences are there.

Ow the Edge pill me on H-Samurott.

>>59490370
>>59490378
That's really neat
Kinda wish the outside-of-battle presentation of the game was of far higher quality
When I downloaded it it felt like I was using a cheap pokemon ripoff like some intern made

Then again I think that's been the vibe in recent years the last 2 games I played where sunmoon and blackwhite2

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Assurance

>been filling out my dex in Home
>got traded Unown-R today, completing the 6 letter word
>only missing Unown-J form now
LET'S GO GAMBLING

>>59490384
Reg samurott too is it worth a shit at anything or just trash I pulled a shiny from shartranch picx

Any ideas for building Mega Dragalge in singles?

>>59490464
Retard?
Gringo?
Tranny?

>>59490549
oh good idea, I should get a spare O so I can play dumb if someone asks.

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>>59490557
>retord

>>59490557
Gooner?

>>59490565
>>59490571
no you idiots, it's ginger, I like chinese cuisine

>>59490576
Garlic?

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>>59490088
Let's not pretend that Partner Pikachu wouldn't be disgusting with Light Ball and a proper movepool.

>>59490576
>only missing Unown-J
>I should get a spare O so I can play dumb if someone asks
what the fuck is "Ginjor"

>>59490583
It only makes sense that they have an actually usable if not really good Pikachu though. Pikachu as it is now is ass and it's the mascot. Just nerf it or the item a little.

>if you used an attacking move on the previous turn, and select a status move on the current turn, but your partner uses encore on you to force repeat the attacking move, an opponent sucker punch will fail because you didn't actually select the attacking move
hold up, I can cook kingambit with this

>kill every Pokemon except Overqwil
>if I play out every turn to time it’s a tie
Why in the world did they change this

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It takes real hate to end up here bros

Such a hassle to build a team without a computer to pull up stats next to you

>>59490815
This happened in semis lol delphox melted the gambit

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Why are so many of them Italian?

>>59490438
heh

Tatora says she’s cheering for me, but in some other gym she’s cheering for my opponent. I feel betrayed.

>>59490819
They really need to account for Pokemon knocked out on each side, or at least provide 3 minutes of over time if game state doesn't change.

>>59490847
>no Iron Shelter
>no Life Dew
I'll assume Sitrus to heal up?

>>59490886
Italians hate Turtles.

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im starting to enjoy playing no guard fissure snorlax.
It lets me relax and not worry so much about matchups and all that shit. If I lose, they just brought too many flyers that I cant kill oh well next game. If not, i just win.
No complaining about the stupid fish. No worrying about weathers. No worrying about fake out. Also slapping this stupid bird in the team just makes everyone lead to beat it

>>59490384
>>59490491
scarfed h-samurott is maybe one of the best mons you can run in singles
basically outclassed by kingambit in doubles but I guess it's a thing if you need sucker punch and water STAB in the same slot. scope lens gives you 50% crit rate sharpness boosted STAB aqua cutter + night slash which is funny as fuck

regular samurott is a useless piece of shit

How do I get more training tickets? Do I need to buy the pass?

>>59490934
>https://game8.co/games/Pokemon-Champions/archives/593815
its also on the free bp

>>59490934
you get a few training tickets from achievements, i rarely ever find myself needing them though, after a certain point you get more VP than you can spend

>>59490613
Light Ball needs a buff desu. Make it increase Pikachu's speed by at least half, and it would make plain ass Pikachu a solid glass cannon.
Also buff Iron Tails accuracy, zero reason for it to be that low in 2026.

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i thought "i only lost because my opponent is retarded" was just a meme but then I had a game where I lost turn 1 because their swampert was sashed and then I lost the endgame because their incineroars quick claw procced on the only turn where it mattered

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>>59490913
Heal? I min-max.

Are "the Sociable" and "the Peckish" the Great Ball and Ultra Ball of titles?

>>59491030
>sleepy
>peckish
>sociable
The holy trinity of fake titles

>>59491045
Sleepy is decently rare. I've only got one. It's just I keep getting sociable and peckish that I started to notice it and doesn't seem special anymore.

>>59491048
Sleepy is just the nighttime version of peckish there is also early riser. Dozy is the only semi rare time based one

>>59491051
If this game ever does get single player content I would hope a reward is to add titles to existing Pokémon or change the Pokeball. Seems kind of cruel to toss out a Pokémon you won with for a new gacha one because it has a better title or ball. I think it's a reasonable enough reward while not outright replacing the point of ranked.

>>59490988
I've run into Quick Claw Inceneroar a few times, I think it's a legitimately good combo. Incineroar isn't really reliant on any item to do its job, you can just use whatever for any niche situation.

I love playing with Ttar, but I also hate playing with him. Feels like every pokemon out there is able to hit it for super effective damage, and it's unable to KO most things.

Does the game actually use your time of day to generate the time dependent titles like sleepy and peckish? That would explain why I keep getting peckish since I only pull around reset for me.

>>59491081
Make him bulky. On certain matchups make sure you have screens. I've stopped running adalamanttar for that reason. You need to use other mons as your primary dps.

>>59491099
I'm running that sand team that you see everywhere. It's really good, except that Ttar rarely feels worth anything besides baiting Low Kick for a free switch. Even in simplified game states it's not fast enough to fish for flinches with STAB Rock Slide.

Damn not even 1v1 single player apm-less ranked games are not free from the "it's not me it's them why i lost" bitching huh

You got downloaded, read and lost
>B-but they got l-lucky
Managing luck is also skill

>>59491074
It sounds bad.
>Parting Shot to slow pivot into frail attacker
>Incineroar's Quick Claw Activated!
>switch-in gets annhililated

>Whimsicott fake tears+Mega Garchomp (Wizard)
>Staraptor as secondary mega
How dumb is this idea?

Is it time to start running Phys Chomp again?

>>59491217
it's not the worst idea ever but idk what fake tears enables for magechomp specifically
the only thing it has over mega glim is the surprise factor

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if this was all you had to work with, what would you do?

>>59491525
+Sinistcha +Tyranitar and you have a solid M-Aggron team.

>>59491525
I'd fucking kill myself. Is that what you wanted to hear?

>>59491525
Raichu (mega Y) Dragonite Glimmora Sylveon Mega Aggron Machamp

>>59491525
Fairy Feather Sylveon
Scarf Hydreigon
uhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>59491525
Raichu Y and Glimmora as megas, Dragonite as Tailwind setter, Sylveon, Scarf Hydreigon and Sash Gengar.

>>59491525
Beedrill and Raichu Megas for singles.

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How much elo to not be shit?

>>59491581
The only way to know if you're not shit is a tournament setting.

>>59491525
Mega raichu y
Bulky support dragonite (this is your tailwind setter, you really just don't have much for supportive pokemon right now. support dragonite isn't awful, he's got a wide movepool)
Scarf hyd
Sylveon
wide guard machamp
Then a secondary mega, maybe beedrill or starmie, I dunno this is a very special coded team right now so you probably want a secondary physical mega

>>59491048
nah sleepy is really bad, i won't mark hunt at night because of it. at least "the peckish" is funny on a bird pokemon.

I can literally never remember perish Gengar has disable jesus christ

Used prio into fagiraffe again award

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Did it.

I hate Delphox now.

>>59491525
Perish song gengar just put protect on everything and flip turn with finizen a lot

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if this was all you had to work with, what would you do?

>>59491914
you need more annihilapes.

>>59491525
play singles

>>59491914
Can I have a shiny milotic or Espeon?

>>59491953
Ok

>>59491953
sent ;)

>>59490031
It's not as good as you think. You'd be getting one big nuke off then have to cycle your terrain setter in and out to use it again. Metagross already has four moveslot syndrome. It wants to run Iron Head, Bullet Punch, Psychic Fangs, Body Press, Stomping Tantrum, Ice Punch, and Protect. You'd be giving up a reliable nuke in Iron Head that already gets a lot of OHKOs on targets weak to Steel for a move that wouldn't really be a OHKO to stuff neutral to Steel while also not be spammable.

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Want to try a bulky ceruledge as an alternative to my 2/32/32 one and don't want to be in and out of the VP shop tuning its spread thanks

>>59490296
Malamar for skill swap contrary shenanigans

>>59491030
I like my ninetales being the teeny, it's cute

>>59491914
I'd work on getting a job

>>59490847
it works really well with breaking swipe and a petal blizzard mon, but good luck eating EQ's from Chomp.

>>59490924
i wanna make life orb Samurott work now. i think I have a shiny one in Scarlet.

>>59491525
Sash Raichu + Fake out turn one.

>>59492057
Teeny is real af, it makes them smaller, pecking should make them eat berries longer or something and sleep play a longer sleep animation or something to make them feel actually special and also the word peckish is lame and gay like everything gamefreak does, even “former alpha” and “rank master” feel like shitty titles, former cucked alpha and rank ass smelly nidokang master more like it.

>>59491992
Thank you, I’ve been so fucking depression recently and I think I’m close to being out but these made it a little better

Mamoswine is funny because depending on it position it completely blocks the view of the Pokemon in front of it.

Life Orb venasaur is kino, no point in having him as a mega cause he's without an item most games with mega Ychu getting selected 90% of the time

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Who should i let go of from the box? I've got an idea but wanted a 2nd opinion

>>59492110
the gay duck

>>59492110
Quill, Elek, Palafin, Azu, Umbreon.

>>59492110
The duck, feraligatr

>>59492112
>>59492117
My duck is a female and really good in singles with sash. So no.
>>59492114
Umbreon is cool. Azu is shiny. The rest are trash i agree

Are the servers down/shitting themselves?

I assume removing ground STAB is to keep Gar-Z in check, due to people using spec-Mega-Gar now.

>>59492129
work fine on my machine

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>>59491525
I have more fun transferring and wasting VP than actually battling

many chinese players are cheating btw

>>59492176
how

>>59491953
Guess he didnt want it

>>59492176
Well their parents beat the shit out of them if they lose. The device is a privilege.

>>59492176
Cant we just accept these guys are tryhards and pretty good when they focus? If they cant whale it out, they use their heads. Chinese players may lack originality but they sure are good at minmaxing the tools they're given

>>59492090
Helping Hand Charizard is his best buddy. Chomp, Arch, Floette, Mega Aero, none of them are surviving T1 unless they fake out + TW.

>>59492189
It's pretty easy to focus when you know which moves your opponent select...

>>59491899
How do you run the deer? And why the lighthouse

>>59492199
Gravity Hypnosis

>>59492110
Gator, Drag, rime, cofag, kommo, spiritomb, tink
The dolphin has fallen off so hard I've forgotten its name lmao

>>59492197
That's not just a chinese thing. That mobile ai tool is all over discord. I'd never use it bec it just takes the fun out of learning on the fly. But it's not impossible to beat.

>opponent wakes up after 1 turn
>i yell "that's bullshit"
>realize i'm sleep scumming so I have no right to complain

>>59492177
The plug in

>>59492199
I think I remember this guy, he uses deer as a trick room setter.

>>59492202
Nah spiritomb is a good tr mon and toxic setter + occasional foul play. I could also run bond if i wanted to.

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>>59492190
I'd like to try that set, would be amazing with typh hisui as a mega pyroar alternative that doesn't take up a mega slot

>>59492212
I feel like spiritomb is like...9th place for trick room setters in champions and that's arguable. He might not even place top 10
Lower if we're counting both versions of slowbro/king.

Kanto ninetales is surprisingly under used, you'd think with its support movepool, speed and not taking up a mega slot you'd see it on mega pyroar teams but they usually use torkoal

>>59492217
I run him as a backup tr setter for giraf, sometimes i lead him when i know opp is going kingambit or ttar to ohko giraf

>>59492220
the only reason i dont use one is i still havent gotten a shiny yet. Regular 9tales looks boring

>>59492203
isn't that just using a damage calculator with less steps?

>get second place at a small tournament over here (my first time too)
>ran a team I built by myself, even though it's not that special
>still think it has room for improvement and instead use other people's teams for climbing the ladder

I'm not sure whether I'm retarded or insecure, since my friend talked shit about some of my choices and he's a better player.

>>59492231
post team

New team just dropped, trick room with mega staraptor looking to catch you off guard by making you think it's final gambit, teammates are basculegion, aegislash, farigaraf, sneasler, lost the first game cause I didn't bring mega raichu but ran into it again and 4-0'd it

>>59492235
It's Rotom-Wash, Glimmora, Sylveon, Whimsicott, Charizard Y and Garchomp. Obviously nothing special, but it worked well enough and now I know I'd change some things about it. I just picked two pokemons I like, Rotom and Whimsicott, and added some obviously strong choices to it.

>>59492243
That's a good team, the glimm is clutch into opposing Zard/fairies. Double fairy with Sylveon/Whims is also great at threatening things Zard doesn't like.
I think your friend is worse than you, with the tourney result to prove it.

>>59492247
Thanks anon. Funnily enough, I think Glimmora was the worst slot in the team. Missed out way too many KOs. I was unironically considering Mega Lucario instead.

>>59492249
you should try the giraffe

>>59492252
And have only one mega in the team?

>>59492255
I think Zard is frequently the only mega you need on the team. Personally I'd run sashed Glimm and bring it only when you're facing a floette or mega Aero team.

>>59492255
Having 2 megas is overrated, too many mons are shitmons in their base form and a lot of the time you look at team preview and wish you could mega evolve twice

>>59492258
Sash Glimm is pretty nice, you get the Debris and it feels just as threatening as the Mega, but you get to live two hits. I'm going to give it a try. But I wanted to have two megas because it's good in a bo3 setting (that's what I read at least).

>>59492261
Lots of recent tournies with just Zard Y as the winner because he's so good.
That dual weather Zard team is one example.

>>59492260
I guess. What happened during my matches is that one of the megas would match up well against their team, and the other would be way worse (usually Mega Glimmora). Then I'd only bring one of them in, and never try to play mindgames by switching it up for matches 2 and 3.

>>59492267
Yes, he does pretty much everything you need. One of my favorites for sure, and the Rock weakness is easy to play around most of the time. Plus, for all the hate he gets, I haven't seen one on the ladder in my last ~20 games or so.

>>59492275
He's not unbeatable, lots of new teams really threaten the standard Zard cores that we've seen.
I anticipate Zard teams will have some development before worlds to correct the weaknesses into some of these team.

>>59492215
Ok

>>59492215
Hey anon, put up another request for a Zard again. I have a special one for you.

>>59492281
You just inspired me to make a new one

>>59492220
People value the extra bulk and potential damage of Eruption, I guess.

>want to play
>connection so ass I don't want to test it
Not enjoying this 'vacation'

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Looking to try the special mega chomp meme, mainly cause I hate archaludon

>>59492396
Ok

I really wish I can make Mega Feraligatr work but I really can't think of when I would not just be better off using something else. Is there anything that it's actually really good at taking care of?

>>59492547
You could try pairing it with a Dragon Cheer user to give it guaranteed crit Dragon-type Slash. Salazzle maybe, for Fake Out and anti-fairy support.

>>59492547
dragonize round.

>>59492555
Slash isn't in the game. I would have tried that if it was.

Im I the only one in "Asia Pasific" region
straight up has just been nothing but playing with Japanese players?

for real tho
no Vietnamese, Singaporean or Indonesian?.

its literally just Japs and its so bullshit.
how can I change region?

>>59492657
Does the game care about region? I think the game is just mostly Japanese in general

>>59492657
We're all playing against each other. The region choice is just for ping and matchup priority. And a large number of the active player base is Japanese and they're easier to spot because of their names.

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>parting shot into my own Milotic
>it does nothing

>>59492657
It's 2 to 5 AM in the US. Europeans play more in about 4 hours when they get off work or whatever. Playing in prime Jap hours is always cancer. Even then you wouldn't be able to tell if they're from Southeast Asia or Europe because the names will be written in Latin characters. It's only extremely obvious when you play with East Asians.

>>59492686
Japanese players are way easier to play against than a autistic rando playing with their favorite shitmons.

They need to change a Pokemon type to be immune to Fairy.

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My knees... are moving on their own...

>>59492711
fairy isn't really that scary of a type offensively, it's just that all 3 of the meta fairies have broken ass STAB power boosting abilities

>>59492686
Im not even expecting players from Europe, LatAm or USA.
its just Japs all day all the time here

is there a way to make tyrantrum work in 2026?
i love him

>playing dog shit memes trying to rank up
>actually thought I could get out of UB when my team folds to sucker punch
so just spam the dual weather faggotry to get to MB? really need those last 10 box spaces

>>59492781
My best bet for dealing with Sucker Punch is running Substitute over Protect on the thing you intend to kill Kingambit with

>>59492781
if you have the mons for it sure, pretty much any competently built team will make it to MB

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>Wyrdeer
>Weirder
how did I not notice this sooner

As cool as Palafin is it just seems too hard to use for too little payoff. I have a shiny one and I have one with a funny title but I'm debating on getting rid of both. Its stats are deceptively high because it gets 53 points put into special attack that you will NEVER use. You obviously have to lead with it and you obviously have to immediately switch out with it. No matter what you will have a damaged switch in and reveal part of your hand to plan around. Even if you forgo flip turn your one coverage move doesn't go very far. It's actually amazingly balanced and very surprisingly underpowered.

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>Best 6th Pokemon for this team is Basc
>Again

>>59492802
cuz it's the opposite of weird, it's BORING

>>59492838
I'm having a lot of fun with it. Give it one more speed point than Milotic so it sets up Gravity and she fires off an instant Hypnosis. You can put it next to Maushold too. Gravity is blessed.