Mastering Zoroark in VGC: Competitive Team Building Tips
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community is diving deep into competitive team building featuring Zoroark. This discussion explores aggressive lead strategies, optimal move pools for Gardevoir and Zoroark, and the psychological impact of using illusion in VGC battles. Members are sharing insights on item choices like Choice Scarf and effective counter-play against common threats like Kingambit.
I really liked this composition of aggressive Pokémon on turn one that can't be ignored + Zoroark, but I feel like I'm failing with the move pool. The team works, and in many cases, Zoroark is a more a psychological threat and i just dont use it turn one
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My leads depend heavily on the opponent; I usually avoid using Zoroark against a Gambit
The most common lead is whimsi + real gardevoir and fake blaziken + incin
I appreciate any IV recommendations since I don't usually play Gardevoir
Should I also change the name of all the Mons to Zoroark?
No lol
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Idk much about zeroark other then it being very gimciky
Best one I battled I think was a modest one with scarf
It’s hyper voices are wild
I would assume theirs some logic to the scarf in regards to speed tiers
It really does more damage than it seems, I've had some crazy games where I manage to pull off two nasty plots because the opponent uses fake out on him
Hahaha yeah it’s hyper voices were 2 shooting basically everything
Unless it was a steel type or ghost
I've also noticed that people usually suspect the support Pokémon more than the one with the most damage
Sometimes they kill my whimsi and leave my gardevoir alive
I might end up using Protect, to be honest, it's too fragile and needs Tailwind Support. It demands a lot for a Mon that should be doing damage
Hahaha. That’s kinda funny. I think overall if their was something else you wanted to try I’d %100 push you at that hahaha
But if you want to work with him I am thinking disguising it as farig would be funny
Hyper voice they share and they’d be afraid to sucker punch
T r u e
Does it also learn round ?
Very solid indeed, and the Farig itself can protect it from Sucker Punch
Two farigs to confuse the opponent on turn 1 haha
I feel I’ve seen it doing round strats but my memory might be round
Let me check
In witch case it also synergised with sylveon really well
And farig
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Damn okay
So the best thing would be to try and make it work in trickrom; I definitely won't use it with iron ball , it seems 100% the sash could work better
Or maybe I'll use it with a substitute
Instead of a sash maybe a silk scarf
With trick room it would be like momento version or something
Sorta like final gambit
Yeah
Let me put together a provisional team with that idea
What I need is IV distribution now
So his so frail I don’t think you get any value from anything other then max speed max spa
Least on that turn one you want him over speeding he will
I just put protection on the Zoroark instead of the Snarl and the team works wonders
Back in tier 3
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