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Baltimore 2026 Team

Hey everyone! I've mostly finished making my team for the Baltimore Regionals on Saturday. I'd like some help tho, as I'm not sure the team is perfect in concept. I got 13th out of the 220 players in this discord's tournament with a similar team, so Ik the concept is solid and that I can play it. I was wondering if anyone else had advice tho, bc i'd hate to go into a tournament like this unprepared.

Here's the team, and if you have any questions just lmk!
https://pokepast.es/2b90542d3af6179b

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Perish Trap

Hey everyone I’m trying to find an optimal perish trap team here’s what I have so far. I was thinking that I could possibly change Grimmsnarl for Sableye and Tinkaton for Scrafty being really bulky and intimidate+fake out pressure. Let me know what you think

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Team building 2

Does my mega froslass/Psyspam team have a direction? I feel like the team is trying to combine two archetypes that mostly do well into similar teams (dragons mostly) and are somewhat somewhat weak to the same (Sun and slower trick room)


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A team i used ingame

https://pokepast.es/fecec4a5544de702
It seems that i wont be getting anything more out of this so
Oh yeah, i built this from memory so i maybe wrong about the evs

VGC Teambuilding Help: Optimizing Mega Eelektross Teams

hi! i posted about a month ago trying to build around mega eelektross, and i've done a lot of experimenting and research since. worth noting i'm very much a noob to vgc, so i haven't had any experience with competitive teambuilding prior to the past couple months. it was suggested i focus my eel on sp atk, and while the coverage there has occasionally been helpful, i ultimately enjoy the phys advantages i've gotten with it having access to stomping tantrum and rock slide.

despite everything though, it seems no matter what i do, i'll get a nice win streak going until i hit the upper ultra tier and it's like i start getting taken down left and right. my biggest issues right now, i think, are my lack of real defenses besides setting up aurora veil + my lack of actually good counters to bulky steel types like archaludon and mega golisopod. i also struggle a lot with psych terrain -> expanding force users that outspeed me, and char y users who actually know what they're doing.

pictured are the 3 team comps i've been alternating between. is there an ideal way to reconsolidate them into something more coherent?

i do have some other faves that are worth considering in making the ultimate build(s), there's just so many that i haven't found a place for them lol: hydreigon, aggron, absol, umbreon, dragalge, and gliscor. i'm also willing to try out golisopod for myself, it's for sure a cool mon.






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Mastering Greninja: VGC Team Building & Strategy Tips

so every season I reach between master ball 4 and 2 and then I like building nonsense with Pokemon I like or Pokemon that I think that can have potential if used right. my favourite Pokemon oat is greninja and this team actually works quite well against meta threats.

can anyone help me build another greninja team or with a Pokemon that has good a good niche/potential?

I'm currently running a pincurchin/indeedee(f)/alolan raichu core team which is actually working quite well.

TL;DR i like greninja, please help me make a funny team for him :)

(feel free to critique/make fun of my team lol)


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Raichu y Staraptor team help

Team feels good but having trouble with some matchups especially faster teams
Feels like I'm missing a way for me to currently deal with fast teams as Staraptor feels inconsistent at setting tailwind up
Also the mence + farig/tsareena is hard for the team as it outspeeds Staraptor tailwind setting and blocks ice shard
My default play is fake out user+ghol/bax setting up 1 of them and sweeping with a cleanup mega at the back

I've tried switching out bax for sneasler with unburden grassy seed but the fence matchup feels impossible that way as rock slide does very underwhelming dmg to it
Also tried switching ghold and rilla for Indeedee m and sneasler which felt ab as good but had the same problems and disabled me from using priority as well
Any help would be welcome


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Mastering Golisopod: VGC Team Building & Meta Strategies

This is the thread where we perfect the meta Goli is here and we will take over
Both teams are a work in progress add your team here too and we will build all of them :z_love_ValkrixVGC:

These are all subject to change:
The plan is to try a trick room and tailwind version of Goli
we will try poli on the TR team
and Peli on the TW Team

Golisopod Psyspam :0MG_Goober:
https://pokepast.es/fe4ed9a4604ac86b

Golisopod RillaRain
https://pokepast.es/505a5f2da560c104

Aramiis:
Golisopod Sand
https://pokepast.es/aac0d6f53c1abb7c

Spooks:
Hard Rain Pivot
https://pokepast.es/23d993c0776493cf

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