Building the Best Yard Team: VGC Meta Strategies
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community is diving deep into competitive team building by exploring the viability of Yard teams. This discussion focuses on optimizing team cores, specifically comparing Sylveon versus Floette, and analyzing defensive spreads to counter threats like Sneasler. It provides essential insights for players looking to move beyond Trick Room and master the current wonky VGC meta.
I want to build the nastiest, most meta, honest to God upsetting Yard team.
Now this is outside of my wheel house but I really just can't keep doing trick room I need a break. Ill take any opinions on this or alternative mons.
if i remember correctly the consensus was sylveon > fraudette for yard teams
Is sylveon actually better?
well not on an absolute scale
but the idea is that the fire + fairy core is strong so you kinda wanna bring them together
but you cant
soooo
sylveon
yeah exactly, sylveon is just so much better. as floette is entirely dependent on mega, and doing that means giving up your only drought setter and arguably the strongest mega yet. so just not worth it
I see
What kinda set would a Sylveon on a yard team even do for spread
make the sylveon slightly more bulky only fast enough to outspeed the steel mons. and now you have a decently tanky mon to go beside your charizard both doing bat shit spread damage
32 Hp / 13 Def is the minimum to tank jolly sneasler
assuming you care
10 HP / 0 Atk / 15 Def / 30 SpA / 0 SpD / 11 Spe
if im not mistaken the meta is super wonky right now
It is
people are genuinely running yard on rain teams
They are
and there are max bulk yard here and there
They use yard up front swap into pelipper then use its beast of a attack stat to use weather ball
Yeah but aero folds max bulk yard
mega charizard y is my favorite fire, grass and water attacker
Lmao basically
11 speed also outspeeds jolly sneasler under tailwind
For syl
i think they do it for accelerock
does this take a dire claw?
32 Atk Sneasler Dire Claw vs. 10 HP / 15 Def Sylveon: 168-198 (93.3 - 110%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO
Alot of sneasler are starting to run bulk so I assume yes
Though 17 defense would crank the chance to a near 50/50
that doesn't do anything tho, sylv doesn't have a good enough answer for sneasler
so it outspeeding barely makes a difference
Well normally I would switch out of sylv if I saw a sneasler
32 Atk Sneasler Dire Claw vs. 10 HP / 26 Def Sylveon: 150-176 (83.3 - 97.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
But that would rob most of its attacking stat
Ntm I have chomp and venu
I don't think I need to worry about if it lives dire claw
