How to Counter Blastoise in VGC: Team Building Tips
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community is actively discussing effective strategies to counter Blastoise in competitive play. This thread explores team adjustments, including potential swaps like Toxicroak or Grimmsnarl, and tactical changes to handle Shell Smash or Trick Room variants. It serves as a valuable resource for players looking to refine their team composition and improve their performance against common meta threats.
We need help to beat blaistoise with our current team
Any game plans changes and others are welcome
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the team pls
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Maybe change stamina for the anti redirection ability
just get toxicroak :p
So u can ohko them before they shell smash
With the current monsoon
Mons
you can't change any of them ?
Yes, I just change it to stalwart hour ago, yet to try.
Ask
Can change, suggestions are welcome
otherwise maybe you could replace pelipper with politoad to perish
so he won't be able to fully sweep your team
Pelipper for tailwind. Unless I focus on trick room only for speed control
I don't think you really need tailwind as you already have mega swampert tbf
Mega swamp combines very good with peli
but in that case, if you really wanna keep tailwind then grimmsnarl over sableye for walls ?
Eq
yeah I know for sure, I've played this team before (grimm over sableye and floette / metagross over farigiraf) and I've been struggling against Blastoise a few times so I replaced Metagross with Venusaur just for that, thing is blastoise is often paired with delphox so it didn't work that much
what set of blastoise makes you struggle ? the fake out + trick room or the shell smash one ?
because both are really different and so is the team around it
if it's fake out + trick room farigiraf, then you could start Farigiraf + Archaludon, as Farigiraf also learns trick room. meaning they can't fake you out because of armor tail, and this allows archaludon to move freely
if it's the sneasler / incin + blastoise shell smash, then still farigiraf for fake out and archaludon I'd say
maybe sinistcha can do something too, Idk the speed tho but pretty sure you can hit first with matcha, weakening his water spout, and survive a dark pulse
Just hit it
Blastoise Sucks
Its only really a issue if supported by Follow me,
Otherwise Just utilize pokemon like Toxa/Sinis
You mean like almost always?
Yeh. But Then you just use Spread
All you need to do is get 1 Strong hit on Blast or use Fake out
I mean yeah if you ignore all the nuance of playing a match, Blastoise is easy
There isn't any reason why it is part of the top 5 teams going into worlds
Check victory road
Thanks for suggesting above, let me try it out. 😀
