Pokémon VGC Team Building: Sandstorm Strategy & Advice
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community is actively discussing competitive team building and meta strategies. This thread focuses on optimizing sandstorm cores to counter rain teams, evaluating the effectiveness of Gholdengo and Salamence, and finding solutions for difficult matchups like hyper voice teams. Members share insights on held items, move sets, and potential replacements to improve overall synergy in the current VGC meta.
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Idk
What's a japan sand tbh
I just put the sand duo to counter rain golisopod
Im lazy to train it just to remove it
News to me
Yeah I did think of changing it
Any changes?in the team
True and tbh arcanime is really just there to scare them😭 i haven't really used him
My bring in mons are usually mence ttar and excadrill with sneasler and gholdengo swapping
Oh no sash is really imp on that drill i can't imagine how many flamethrowers eruption hh and flare blitz it sashed
Hmm
Gholdengo is just really good now cuz matchups are insane
That's where the confusion lies.. idk 10% more dmg for the chip dmg?? 😬
Hm
I just really do turn 1 nasty plot then make it rain
Sneasler
It's soo good intimidate turn 1 and i outspeed evrything
I'm really bad to the armarouge gardevioir teams
I just worry about psyspam but lose to somethin elae
The thing is they DONT PSYSPAM
Exactly
They just do hyper voice mega voir
Idk if Salamence is good tbh
These hyper voices are not it
Most of pokemon rn is neutral
Is there any alternative moveset I should try?
I'm not getting hyper voice worth it like it's not like pixallate sylveon
Recoil?
Yeah
I mean there is draco meteor for that
Can any other mega replace salamence here?
Spread dmg sweeping ig
As u can see I don't really have spread dmg
Except make it rain
I used to run no mega team w sylveon
Perfect balance would be floette but I don't have it
Yeah
Can genned floette be used in champions?
I heard someone say yes
Not in tr but ingame
Hmm
Sand dnite?
But with the golisopod trend rn ur forced to see raim everywhere
Unless I bring torkoal/ninetales
What would be a non mega option then?
Hmm but I jus realised if I replaced salamence there's literally no speed control
Is there any flaws in the team you notice?
Trickroom??...
Psychic terrain really does it
It's indeede everywhere i go
Would u recomend switching to golisopod team over mence team or stick w it
Can we battle rq?
Np
Hmm
Thankss
Who to replace tho
That's my concern
It has to be arcanine right?
Hmm
Thankss
Lemme give it a try
Rilaboom w fake out or?
Oo
And should I give grassy seed to sneasler? Seen people use it
Got it
Ev spread
?
Rilaboom
Max attack hp?
intimidate on Harcanine
um
how do i explain this
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it can't work well as an intimidater
Ik
I'm too lazy to train it
I mostly don't use it
