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Mega Mawile VGC Team Building Guide | Pokémon Champions

I'm competing in a league cup this coming weekend, and I think Mawile could be a really effective mega to bring in a world of psyspam, Ttar, and Garchomps. How does my team look? It's semi-balanced with a TR mode, with nasty plot farig and fairy feather sylveon dealing tons of damage. Two fairy types seems off a little, but I originally used Golurk over Mawile and it had too many weaknesses. This way I don't need to bring Mawile if I want fairy coverage, say against something like Archaludon. Offensive incin, mawile, farig is a really solid core, and I have Ychu to add some burst damage/alternate speed control, with Garchomp to help against opposing Ychu and Harc. The team seems solid in theory, but I'm not sure if I have the right structure to make Mawile truly shine (which I think it can, based on my testing). Any thoughts/help would be appreciated!

Here is the Paste: https://pokepast.es/0a8cb7a002cd6c91

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Optimize Your VGC Team: Hisuian Zoroark Strategy Help

Kingambit @ Chople Berry
Ability: Defiant
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 Atk / 2 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Kowtow Cleave
- Iron Head
- Sucker Punch
- Low Kick

Zoroark-Hisui @ Focus Sash
Ability: Illusion
Level: 50
EVs: 2 HP / 32 SpA / 32 Spe
Timid Nature
- Bitter Malice
- Icy Wind
- Flamethrower
- Hyper Voice

Incineroar @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Intimidate
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 14 Def / 20 SpD
Careful Nature
- Flare Blitz
- Fake Out
- Parting Shot
- Darkest Lariat

Garchomp @ Garchompite Z
Ability: Rough Skin
Level: 50
EVs: 2 HP / 32 Atk / 32 Spe
Modest Nature
- Earth Power
- Flamethrower
- Dragon Pulse
- Protect

Rillaboom @ Miracle Seed
Ability: Grassy Surge
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 Atk / 2 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Grassy Glide
- Wood Hammer
- Fake Out
- High Horsepower

Gholdengo @ White Herb
Ability: Good as Gold
Level: 50
EVs: 2 HP / 32 SpA / 32 Spe
Modest Nature
- Make It Rain
- Shadow Ball
- Protect
- Nasty Plot

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Beginner VGC Team Building Guide | Pokémon Champions

no meta zard Y or anything just looking for a team i can have fun with.
will post my pokemon under this line:

baxcalibur,decidueye,garganacl,inteleon,greninja,galarian slowking, indeedee male, meowscarada delphox low key toxtricity armarouge manetric whinsicott hisuian zoroark garchomp alolan ninetales archaludon rillaboom staraptor golisopod gholdengo tsareena raichu sinistca excadrill F basculegion rotom wash kingambit pelliper megainium sneasler hawlucha mimikyu incineroar dragonite sylveon

Pls help me

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Mastering VGC: Competitive Pokémon Team Building Advice

https://pokepast.es/857035d5c5110c3f

This is the base of my new team, I don't know what megas to use or what else to use with those pokémon, I chose Farigiraf because I always struggle with Trick Room and a lot of people like playing fast (Garchomp Z, Raichu Y etc...) I am open to suggestions, I like this "balance" core, the moves can be changed to make the team better, the ev spreads were taken from top players but we can work on those too! I am aiming for champion tier btw.

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Pokémon VGC Team Building Help: Indeedee & Torkoal Core

So the surprise factor of my team is the scarf after you Indeedee male with torkoal.

Indeedee mainly baits kingambit, gholdengo and rillaboom which are food for torkoal eruption.

I am looking to complete the team with 1 trickroom setter (I am thinking of farig with thunderbolt to ko peli with give me trouble with wide guard, modest farig ohko most bulky peli) and 1 trickroom sweeper to put less burden on Indeedee and 1 mega pokemon

The last pokemon has to be something which is fast so I don't rely on trickroom much and has to be super good into incin, archaludon and t-tar as they may deny the trickroom or can give my team a lot of trouble.

Atlast, I don't know why but I am not comfortable with using any mega and most of the times I bench my mega bcuz my non mega are much better on most matchups.
Any help for that ?

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Sand psyspam team

https://pokepast.es/60c3171a2e0060f7

I am running a Sand psyspam team using Mega salamence and Mega gardevoir two powerful megas in the current meta. I primarily need help with building my Tyranitar and forming potential answers against 2 big threats that i am worried about: Gholdengo and Archaludon.

This team's primary mode is with sand salamence mode, using salamence to break through the scary fighting types that ttar and excadrill hate while excadrill uses the sand to speed up and maul the shit out of any fairy types that go against salamence and tyranitar.

The psyspam mode needs very little explanation between the two dynamic duos. But corviknight was a pick i went for because of its great defensive typing, longevity and a great psychic seed user that can be played inside of trick room (hence the choice of curse over bulk up).

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Optimizing Sand Teams for VGC: Strategy & Team Building

So i came across this sand team by the Sand Guy himself, Joseph Ugarte, and i really like it

https://pokebase.app/pokemon-champions/team-builder?team=6a06db1bed189d665f165790

Well its a bit outdated so i tried to improvise it and guess what i ended up with.
A standard, boring sand team.
Well if you guys have any suggestions or know how to make the team a bit more interesting, do let me know.

https://pokepast.es/158ff8b183d5b900

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How to Counter Archaludon in Pokémon VGC | Team Building Hel

It’s the Bridge. It’s always the bridge. Maybe I’m just miss playing but rain teams just give me problems, most specifically Archuladon. When I can get into a position to double it easily then I can get it down, it’s just usually at the cost of losing a Pokémon.

Any help would be great, I am almost done at work and I can answer questions then


How to Counter Archaludon in Pokémon VGC | Team Building Hel
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Building a Weird Sun Team: VGC Strategy & Discussion

hey i just made this weird team. im pretty sure its not good lmao, i want thoughts on the team.

https://pokepast.es/0ebf3df6766a29fb

Idea is basically Zardy with sun boosted Armarouge heat wave + Expanding force combo with mega gard and indeedee F. It has a trick room mode and Zardy likes trick room when there are faster mons like Yaichu or Zchomp. Psychic seed sneasler works well with psyspam so why not. Final addition was Venu cause it takes advantage of the sun with chlorophyll. I originally used a life orb venusaur set with earth power over sleep powder cause i hate inaccurate moves but i settled on bulky big root giga drain (im pretty sure this is a bad idea lmao) with sleep powder-simply because i find it interesting (doesn’t mean i think its good). If anyone has any suggestions, please do let me know.

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