Need Help Building a Metagross Team in Great Ball
Summary
In Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments this thread requests teambuilding help to escape Great Ball rank. It discusses building around Metagross with partners like Ninetales, Sneasler, Aerodactyl, Garchomp, Rotom-Frost, Basculegion and Aurorus and mentions strategies such as Tailwind, Trick Room, weather teams and ladder cheese. Community tips and premade teams are suggested to break losing streaks.
I need help I’m stuck in great ball
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Hmmmmmmm
You have like a hell lit of rly good pokemon omw
What exactly do you wanna build around?
Tailwind, tr, tailroom, balance, perish, sun, rain, sand, snow, meta slop, or ladder cheese?
Or staraptor
That should be a new team type
Aerodactyl would work well here if you're trying to build Metagross + Ninetales
So would coaching sneasler
Then I'd probably add garchomp and rotom-frost
true
anything to help me break my win loss streak
i cant break out of great ball
Well literally any archatype can help with that
you'll get it :D
So yeah are you trying to build around Snow, Metagross, what's going on?
Cuz if you are teambuilding you start with an idea
If you just want a good team, then look up a premade one in labmaus
metagross
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Some ideas
i also like dragonoite and basculegion
but idk if thats good or would work
Wait do you have any rain setter?
Shoot ya don't
Second team is not beginner friendly
i just got some new pokemon ill share it
basculegion, aurirus
yeah ok
Sneasler and Aerodactyl will be very valuable
same as Garchomp
You have a lot of viable mons
But you are missing
The one or two pieces
That complete usual cores
like who
Basculegion mainly
i just got him]
oh bet
Maushold ttardrill kingambit sinistcha giraffe whimsicott mega froslass
You don't need them all of course
the giraffe isnt aurorus im guessing
Oh the the actual giraffe
How is it called
I forgot
farigiraf lmao
I call her giraffe
Yeah
i dont have that yet
Funnily enough aurorus did see some usage in ma
Bcause people were using literally every rock type that one can think off
Lycanroc became pseudo meta
I remember this 💀
Accelerock was one of the best ways to beat ZardY lmao
Was it really that popular lmao
so for rn i hae sneasler, aero, bascu, giraffe when i get it, nine tales?, and smth else
And I thought I recreated a unique team kekw
Yes, especially in ots
In cts a bit less but thats bcause we were running random bs to suprise counter zard
"You have activated my trap card" ahhhh moments
Random bullshit go
so
who else should i put in for my empty 2 slots
Dnite and something else prob
If you're building Metagross, play with:
Metagross, Basculegion, Aerodactyl, Garchomp, Sneasler, and the last can be your choice
A lot of things would work really, especially for getting out of great ball :)
Oh wait you are using mega aero no?
Nvm
no
Farig, tinkaton and aegislash would be my 3 choices
Well I mean you can
Its a more consistant yard counter than dnite but dnite is the better mega overall
Mega Aero is besically free
You can bring it with other megas cause you don't need to mega evolve for it to be useful
If you have sash spare though, use that
should i run mega aero then
Ye
you using sash on something else?
If you are then yes Mega Dactyl
If not then it's entirely up to you if you want either the better stats or survivability
i have sash on garchomp
should use life orb on chomp
Why????
i have quick claw on sneasler
idk im still getting the hang of this
Gasps
Alright I think we need to work on items
i would agree
How much VP do you have?
4k rn
Ok
Do you have white herb and life orb?
If not then get those
ues
Ok ok
yes*
So put life orb on chomp, white herb on sneasler
Do you have choice scarf?
yes
Ok so
You could either put scarf on basculegion and run your choice of sash or mega dactyl
im prob going mega dactyl
Or you could play sash on swift swim basc and use mega aero
Ok ok
So for basc either sash or scarf are good
oh for my 6th i picked aegislash
Why aegislash?
for some extra damage if needed i was between him and gholdengo
Ok so
Screenshot the team?
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I just bought the mega stone
Alright cool cool
So yeah Metagross and Dactyl will have mega stones, Ghold can have pretty much anything lmao
Sash would
K also is there a general strategy with this, I know it changes per game prob
OK so the main stretegy for this team is have sneasler use coaching on Metagross and beal a billion damage
Keep basculegion in the back for late game kills with last respects
Against stuff like Zard you have Garchomp, Aerodactyl and Basculegion again
If you want metagross with speed control you can put him out with dactyl and just not mega the aerodactyl
Thanks a lot btw
No worries!
I'll show you my current team
So have meta carry
yup
Unless against Zard
Ini which case yeah you have garchomp and dactyl
So this is the metagross team I've been playing:
Then you head smash and deal trillions of damage
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Uhh probably rock slide, but yeah haha
Should I use rotom
But yeah this metagross team has taken me a fair way through master ball! It's a bit more defensive than the team you've got, but the concept is similar
Rotom is good for the rain matchup mostly
Actually it would help you instead of Ghold I think yeah
You can put leftovers on it
For stats and movesets you should be fine just to look up the most popular stuff online haha
I already did that for most of my mon
Yeah nice
So it's past midnight here, so I'll go to bed, but please Dm if you need more help with the team, and I'll look at it when I can!
Gn ty for your help
