Need Pokémon VGC Coaching? Get Expert Team Building Help
Summary
At Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments, members are actively collaborating to refine competitive teams. This announcement highlights the community's dedication to helping players improve their skills, specifically focusing on team building for Trick Room and balance archetypes. Whether you are looking for coaching or help sourcing specific Pokémon for your roster, our community provides the resources and expertise needed to climb the ranks.
Lf someone who will hold my hand through all aspects of competitive Pokemon like team building review good teams and normal coaching
For starters I have been thinking of a team surrounding mawile but it's weakness ground and fire need to be covered but I can't find a suitable Pokemon doing all of dat along with a fake out
I can see you really want help but I can really only help you with one team type - trick room
If you’re okay with that tomorrow I’ll build a team out of that’s their and get you the missing peices
Can you stream ?
One of my main worries is opposing torkoal
Not till the weekends
Okay well we will get team ready for weekend but I go to sleep now
Can you at least say that whether I can build a team with Pokemon (trick room)
No
Or if I need more mons
But I’ll get what you’re missing for you
But getting 3 mons kinds tuff
You’re only missing a couple bits yeah
I’ll get it tomorrow
Send home friend code
I know ur team I have seen ur streams
K
Wait I have you added
Tomorrow
For the gw
Forgot you won the thing yeah
Easy
So
What are you missing g
Just drampa and mawile ?
Very easy
I already have a mawile in home and a drampa on ZA
I had drampa in trial I returned to get some space 🥲
Haha the one I got is shiny I think and the mawile
yo can you donate the drampa and mawile and coach me
I can’t tonight I can can tomorrow
K
Hola
I can help you build balance but similarily to wahhhh all my experience is focused on balance teams so I can't rly help you otherwise
K
I build just about anything but I wouldn't call myself a prob
Can you build a staraptor team with 85%+ win rate in ultra rank?
Probably for ultra ball but raptor is not gonna work the best in mb from what I've seen
I mean raptor can work but its better as a secondary
Ye
Lemme uh lemme see what I can do
Something like this?
I cook metagross for a living bro
I am currently running the dual weather thingy
I run metagross and I can say that it needs a coverage move like stomping tantrum or body press
Ice punch is cool and all but doesn't rly stop the steel types
You have earth quake, fire, and fighting coverage
give code for your team
I got drampa :D
Hello
Kk one sec
A
Incin farig is enough to get to master
Lead farig mawile into like grimsnarl so you can trick room and sword dance when they try set up
Question:- what if opponent has wave crash adaptability basculegion with pelliper
Cuz that's how to myself have been killing farigiraf
So easy
Lead incin farig
Swap in drampa over incin
So a weather ball that does no damage
And a minus 1 basc not in the rain
Adaptability wave crash still kills fari
Saying from testing
No it doesn’t
Is this one bulky?
Very ? Did you do the EVs ?
12vdef
I don’t really let it get wave crashed in the rain much but I’ve never had that issue
Yeah
What did you do and how did you lead ?
Basculegion+ grimmsnarl then grimmsnarl light screen+ wave crash
I had mystic water too
That’s weird. Not even in the rain
At minus one
And if I lead incineroar+ farigiraf won't a kingambit be death to me with black glasses?
You lead incin ?
No
I have not done a battle with ur team
Incin just makes sure tr goes up and any extra you get out of him is just a benefit
Sometimes you want him to die
Yeah minus one basc shouldn’t kill farig
Uhm ok
Sweepers come in after
And clean up
After incineroar and farigiraf what should I take?
Mawile or drampa
So depends on on the match up
Which situation which should I take
For example?
I’ve been liking mawile into sun and screens
Drampa into rain
Sometimes I go fairy mode lol
That’s incin farig
Huhuhuh?
Under sun??
Mawile hatterne
Why do you think he runs rockslide
Not to hit water types haha
Ur hatterene doesn't know screen tho
Into screens
Not using
Oh
So like bulky teams
That want to set up
Ohh
OHH
I’ll lead mawile farig and trick room and set up myself
She’s overwhealming
I understand now I will move first and eliminate charislop
Helping hand sucker punch after sword dance killed a garchomp at 95% hp lol
So I’m testing that stuff still at the moment
But imprison also means they must attack
But protect
Meaning sucker punch gets even more reliable
In the end game
You get to choose who you kill when imprison is up
Imprison is tricky you can swap that for twin beam if you find it too hard
Oh
W
Twin beam doesn't kill shi tho
Sneakers
Sneazlers **
And stuff with tiny hp left
It’s nice to twin beam them
Shit always hangs on a little
So much sash kingabit thunderbolt
Oh
Is popular because it hits everything
What about hatterene
When is she useful
What about her lol
Very need her against taunt
And psychic into 788313 like toxapex
Oh psychic terrain?
No her ability
Bounces all that stuff back at the user
She can’t be slept or anything
Can’t be encored ect
First match with this team I think it's against perish song
Nvm GENGAR USES RAIN DANCE?
That’s annoying try kill gengar asap
Insane
Set tr second turn
To stall it abit
I already set it up
Gengar dead
Free yourself
Helping hand darkest lariat
Why dragon dance with trick room bruh
Don’t be like me and keep fighting thinking I can switch later on
Hatterne is x4 resistant to fighting
Drampa and incin are weak to it
It's a bit late for that
Defensive switches
I BROUGHT mawilw
That’s fine
Should be fine lol
She’s really good in the end game too
Tr ends everything only has a little hp left
Can sucker punch them all to death
If their was a grimsnarl
The lead is farig + mawile
Maybe incin in the back
For an emergency switch if mawile needs it
How to deal with opposing trick room
Incin farig
Why casual
Testing
Seriously this isn’t something I battle
Drampa
Torkoal
I lead tor drampa
You’re going to get slept
Their torkoal dead
Nop he used psychic
Forfeit lmao
Psychic on what Mon ?
Drampa 🥀
His very tanky you’ll be surprise with how well he resist things like swampert and Zard
Go to proper ladder
Yes
That team was just stupid
Time for that
Should I stream?
Nvm just stay here
Kk
I don't want my phone crashing
lol 😂
Wtf
I should be able to tell you what mons to bring easy
So
Incin farig
Hat
Why her?
Drampa
You’ll see
About to learn lol
Uh ok
OH DARK TYPE
No they will taunt farig
Wait she doesn't have fairy move
Swap to hat turn one
Oh
She does
Dazzling gleam
And it’s very strong on her
Do it and fake out sneazler
Scary
SNEASLER HYPER VOICE
Freaks
How much damage did it do
WHY WAS FAKE OUT NOT EFFECTIVE
It’s a the zera
Swap back to farig
And hit the hyper voice
Wtf is going on
Where’s the other pokemon ?
2 SNEASLER?
Zeraoark
Set tr swap incin to hat
To take that close combat
K
Oh so the first sneasler was zoroark
Oh fk
1 shot flare blitz him
And INCINEROAR STILL ALIVE
Sounds like you’re in a bad spot
Set tr if you can
So drampa can sweep
I have 4 Pokemon left tr 2 turns he has Charizard
Oh
Damn
I was worried
😆
Charizard 25% hp left
Zard can’t kill drampa so you win haha
Just keep hitting tho
Don’t try switch or nothing
You’ll just take unnecessary damage
If theirs only one left
HE PROTECTED FUH
Should be fine
Oh yes
Both survive 😭🥀
Feeling bad for Charizard
Both lol 😂
This is what they get for running bulky Zard
Hit heat waves can do big damage hahaha
Ok so I am in front of promotion match now
Kk show me line up haha
Next matvh should get me to master ball
2 more
I think
Oh
No
1
Because of the streak
?
Let’s do it
4 win streak
Will boost it
Okay
Horrible team
Incineroar+ farig?
Incin farig
Torkoal
Drampa
Mawile?
Ok
Tell me their lead
And the last guy?
Incin farig
Torkoal drampa
Only issue here is garchomp
K
Ice beam will ohko
Why does drampa not have dragon move
Anyways yea
Ice hits more
lol
GENUINELY what?
Okay so.
Imprison
Swap to drampa
Uh k
You better have the right ability on him hahahaha
Dramp has cloud 9
Set trickroom and hyper voice but don’t mega evolve
Good
Dang the opponent was going to use farig too
He swapped
To what
You might need to swap drampa back to incin
And set trick room
Okay so
Hmm
Mega evolve
I haven't tr yet
Earth power
Protect
Yea
Into king
Who?
Protect farig
Earth power king
K
they try double farig ?
Oh no
They doubles up on drampa
Did he live ?
Nop
Obv not
Jesus
Incin
Low kick+ cc
Fake out king
Set trick room
You’re still ok
Imprison and torkoal should save the day
I was scared of defiant so didn't take incineroar
Yeah don’t be scared
To many of them
Farig is evd to live
Yea
So you can fake out the other pokemon
They double up on my torkoal and don't even kill him
Tr is up
Well
If farig and tork is out
All you can do it helping hand heatwave
If his hp is low
Or protect farig
Not eruption?
Ok
If hp is low we can’t click eruption
It is based on HP
On low health it’s like using tackle
Oh just like water spout?
Exactly
It’s the Fire version
Helping hand weatherball farig
It’ll ohko
Wow farigiraf missed
Awesome
Weird
What move did it use ?
No I missed him
Yeah that was a weatherball turn for sure
U first said heat wave so I clicked it
Just move farig and I think incin is in the back
Sorry I thought we were on the next turn
Hahahaha
FARIGIRAF AVOIDED
My farigiraf I mean
How much health left on Zard ?
And incin ?
61%
Helping hand
Blitz
Around the same
Finish him
Gg
Gg
How easy is this team 😆
I don't know the best leads for best situations tho
Gotta learn that
No one will
And you might play differently to me
It takes time
Yipee
Swear it depends how good your own memmory is haha
You’ll learn what does and doesn’t work through trial and error
Ok
The 14k to make this team was worth it
I’m not usually so fussy with my EVs but that farig is really worked on haha
Time to change my profile I got lots of badgea
lol enjoy playing in master rank seriously so much nicer then ultra
A lot less random
Still random but least this random can make sense
Thx!
Theirs so many different versions of this team if you want to change it up I’ll try find them all
lol and it keeps going and going
Omg
☠️
Energy ball on drampa was for swampert
Now I just try kill them with neutral attacks
Or kill pelli with thunderbolt
Not as scary with no rain
What does armor cannon do?
Uhh random lol
I hate that Pokemon
Can’t remember exactly
Armarouge counters the team really hard
Gotta carefully kill it with incin and tork
Not rlly it's dead
Same typing as delphox
Forfeit
I win
That’s good
Half the players think you’re going to use incin not aggressively 😆
Like the old bulky set
Lol
Close combat is like rlly insane I didn't know he has it
lol it’s for t tars
And other incins
But you need helping hands
To ohko other offensive incins
This team likes helping hands a lot
Mawile is the best here right?
Yes
And hat
So
Farig mawile
Hat
Incin
Incin is like an emergency escape for mawile lol 😂
The mouse is scary
It hits to hard
I am scared
Show me their lead
Hmm
Swap to incin
Set trick room
Imprison and flareblitz grim
Grimmsnarl sets light screen
I gave you two turns
Yep
Torch song is fire type?
Yeah I think so ?
He will protect now
So don’t bother hitting him this turn
Hit him next
Once imprison is up
I am hitting grimm
Yep
Damn he reflect
It’ll half kill him
Yeah gotta play through it
He didn't protect btw
Weird
Now he protects -_-
Anyways my farigiraf was saved too
Helping hand darkest
But
He will try hide it I assume
So kill grim
These teams
Sometimes
I turn off tr
And set it again
FARIGIRAF AVOIDS HEAT WAVE W
Because it’s like you gotta be here for about
Kill the croc turn trick room off
Scary I know
Then try turn it back on
Fah no tr fari gone
I am cooked 😭
U sure ?
Is croc dead ?
Ye
Garchomp now ?
He has incineroar
Uh
So
Is hat out now ?
No :( 😭
I took out mawile for some stupid reason
I think you are cooked lol 😂
Okay uhh
Swap mawile to hat
And close combat the incin ?
Grimmsnarl tries parting shot on incineroar
Dealt 40% dmg
Anything die ? How much hp does incin have ?
Swap him out
And try set tr
Swamp who?
Incin
I think you only have mawile their
Tr up ?
Hoping Bulky hat saved you
Nop he flare blitz
Sigh yeah I think you’ve lost haha
Needed tr to deal with chomp
Tho
Fake out chomp
And sucker incin
Might work
Nah I he protect and swapped incineroar
Anyways his Grimm died
Shit. It happens
He has fake out I think
Always
On incin
Btw how does the rank in mb rank do?
See how grim starts parting shotting once farig dies haha
I’ve heard of like 500 thousand
He start doing it on incineroar btw 🥀
I have been seeing sableye with protect a lot tbh
You’re quite high rn I guess compared to how low you can sink when you first get their
You’re most likely about to get smashed
Over and over again
First time in master
Don’t be surprised if you get down really low
I am 1.5k
Elo
I am ranked 10ish rn so the team works but I can see in some match ups it’s going to take some time
In some weird matches I’ve been bringing drampa and mawile
But I gotta remind myself mawile MUST be the one who mega evolves
Because she’s so useless in base form
Wow I disconnected
That’s not going to make it easier either haha
I was ko the archaludon
You did ?
I am stuck in a black screen now
The server used black screen!
It's super effective on kakats
LOL 😂
Restart device
It's fine I will probably now go to study
Kk well congrats
Was really easy
No more casual
Let your rank go to shit so you’re ready for next season
10 days away
Lol
Yes
One last question how does the elo work and I didn't see any gauge going down or up
Yeah it’s weird. So one win one loss doesn’t do much
Well
Actually
A loss can drop you a couple thousand elo
Win streaks can get you going up a couple thousand elo
So i guess it is harsh
Because you only get a good reward for a streak
But a loss is always harass
So how to advance
In rank
Win streaks
How much do I even need?
Well you want champion lol
If possible
I don't have the skill to be the top 300
That’s a lot haha
I’d use some crazy Japanese meta team to do that
And yeah you’ll suffer for the rest of the season for sure haha
You’ll be happy next season
You’ll be one of the first people to reach master haha
Stop calling nigueros
What lol
Wrong place
My gc is calling me
LOL
How do ppl got triple protect and still forfeit?
What should I bring for garchomp usually?
Cuz fake out is dangerous
Yo seeing a mega garchomp normal team for the first team
So sad for them I got tr up+ drampa 🥀
Uh so if you just get some
Chip damage on it
Helping hand+ ice beam
Drampa can kill it
Or mawile can ohko it
Bruh this yawn spam is annoying
Bruh
That Mon
Can be an issue
Really gotta make sure you kill it
Still still sleeping
Oof this battle is lost lol
Only lost 15 elo
This is scary
That is a shit team to battle
Why is hyper voice super effective on incineroar
Incin farig
I did that they lead hyrdegion prim
Incineroar died
But don’t click trick room into Camerupt
lol !
So
You have heaps to learn lol 😂
Prim turns normal type moves into water type moves
Wow
Yeah
She’s fucked up to deal with
So what's it called ? Hydolate?
Just like pixilate and aeralate
Exactly haha
And they’re always that ability
For vgc use haha
It's literally called hydrolate 😭
I think it’s called something else in my country hahahaha
I can’t remember exactly tho
Ermm actually is sound base moves not normal types
https://klipy.com/gifs/erm-aksuali-veli-1
Really !!
Yeah because Primarina is Primarina and in the lore she sings and and and she is water type ☝️🤓
Yeah nah that makes sense
https://klipy.com/gifs/eh-aargh-ouch
https://klipy.com/gifs/waterfalls-falling
https://klipy.com/gifs/primarina-pokemon
Yes the ability is liquid voice
That’s it
?
The name of the ability haha
I couldn’t remember it lol
Oh
So hm suddenly ppl with blastoise and sableye with fake out getting matched with me 🥀
U know what I should just go and study that's more relaxing 😭
Wahhh what's ur elo in mb?
I am 1504.003
1850
Damn
Can get higher haven’t been doing it much
How much streak do I need? Till mb rank 3?
From 1500
Heaps
Is there chances of getting demoted after reaching mb rank 3?
Ok so I need to hit a specific elo to promote?
Yeah
Around 1750
I am in like the 1.4k
You got a lot to go !
I’m so impressed with my teams ability to carry to master 😆
Lol
Bro bro bro how to counter mega blastoise
And bro I ain't winning a single match where I bring hatterene
😭😭
Also no intimidate on incineroar?
That was a error lol
Always intimidate
Oh
Lmao this would have helped tank so many cc if I knew earlier
Myb lol
Usually with drampa
Set tr get drampa out
Sun helps
Water spout cooking even without it
Hm so I switch both farigiraf and incineroar to torkoal and drampa?
😭
No so I’d set tr
Then try do a big damage with incin
Protect farig
Incin dies
Drampa comes out
And finishes up
Water spout will kill him b4 that 😭
Uhm ok
Fake him out
Yes after that I will switch right?
Nope ! Just try get as much damage on Blastoise as you can with incin
Because incin will move first in trick room
Then his in range
To be killed by drampa
K
Does farigiraf move faster than blastoise?
In tr
Nope
🥀
Yes**
Sorry
Oh
That's great
Blastoise is faster then all the pokemon in that team
So he will move slower
LESS GOO
Sometimes you let incin die . Just make sure you get what you need in range for the sweeper to kill if
It**
Like 50% anything dies to helping hand hyper voice
Darkest lariat from incineroar can bring down blastoise to that range?
Near yeah
Helping hands does %100
Is also how I deal with Milotic
Just getting it in range
Fake it out
Damage it
Let drampa kill if
It**
HUH?
HELPING HAND DARKEST LARIAT KILLS BLASTOISE?
50%*
If only I knew this earlier 😭😭🥺
Oh
Oh
god I hate my phone
Still fine
can someone coach me please? im sitting currently at 1.7k mmr and i want to improve
