Mega Gardevoir & Salamence VGC Team Building Help
Summary
In the Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server, a member is seeking advice on optimizing a Mega Gardevoir and Salamence core. The discussion focuses on whether to replace Ceruledge or Arcanine to improve team synergy and rain matchups. This thread is a great resource for players looking to refine their competitive VGC strategies and gain feedback on team composition.
Core is very similar to a team I've posted here before. I'm very happy with that - Gardevoir, Indeedee and Sneasler all feel good and synergise well together. I also think Salamence and Arcanine work well together as an alt mode. I'm a little stuck on Ceruledge. I love Ceruledge and I think it works really well with my Gardevoir mode but I'm not super sure it fits on the team as a whole. I think my biggest issue is that it feels a little too samey to Arcanine and I never want to bring them together which feels kind of limiting. I initially used Ceruledge as my anti-sun pokémon but Arcanine can kind of handle that. And because I don't want to bring them together, it usually means I bring Indeedee with my Salamence instead (Salamence, Arcanine, Sneasler, Indeedee) but Indeedee doesn't always contribute as much as I'd like it to (in this specific configuration) outside of activating Sneasler's psychic seed and spamming follow me.
I'm honestly not entirely sure what I'm asking for - I suppose whether it would be best to swap out Ceruledge for something else? Or maybe to swap out Arcanine instead (I do generally like Ceruledge more than Arcanine but Arcanine might be a better fit for the team)? However, I have no idea what an alternative could be. I guess I'm a little worried about my rain matchup (though haven't played against any rain teams with this team yet) so that might be somewhere to start.
