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Im currently trying to build a mega kangeskhan team as hes one of my favourite mons also because hes fairly slow compared to most meta mons (I think) but im kinda new to team building so i would appreciate some help
Team:

https://pokepast.es/e26f719ef13b7c51

Ive tested it in a few showdown games and it seems to work well so far

Lmk if you want to trade

Built this with a friend, let me know how we did

https://pokepast.es/442ea6b923062d1b

Reads as is, just need 1 for champs can trade back if needed.

I wanna make a mega kangaskhan team and im new to team building and pokemon champions basically so on looking for help so let me know if there are bad stuff e.g. bad moves abilities held items or evs ect in this team (most likely will be) and what to replace them with

https://pokepast.es/7ef06862c85f4be

Use this thread to share the best Pokémon Champions and VGC damage calculators, team-building tools and matchup resources.

Helpful tools:
- Damage calculators
- PokéPaste
- Pikalytics
- Speed tier tools
- EV spread calculators
- Team-building apps
- Replay review tools

Post your favourite resources and explain how you use them for VGC team building and tournament prep.

Let me know while I’m here online 👨🏻‍💻

Lmk

Hey ! I've started VGC with champions and out of all the teams I built I really like this one ! I love trick room but HTR is really hard to run imo, so I opted to have a tailwind mode with Aero. I'll explain the decisions for every mon :

• I made Fari extremely bulky on the physical side to be able to tank 2 close combats for sneasler. The worst matchups of the team are Kommo-o and hydreigon from the testing I made. So I added dazzling gleam and 8 points in Spa to be sure to one shot fully offensive sets for the two dragons.

• What I really wanted to do was to have fari + bascu, wich is the main lead of team. Being able to helping wave crash to OKHO a majority of the meta, all the while being protected from kingambit sucker punch is really strong imo. Is also really good to pivot with flip turn and clean up after trick room ended. I opted for adamant to be sure to one shot fully offesive zard y under sun, and also have the advantage against other scar bascu when in trick room, but maybe jolly is better

• Torkoal is really standard. I don't really need coverage since I have earth power on venu and rock slide on aero, so i went with the full fire set to cover up for most gamestates.

• Venu is kind of the star of the team, being able to do a torkoal/venu lead and sleep stuff with powder before mega evolving, or outspeeding speedier threats under TR and powering them as well ! It's just really versatile and works without it's mega, so i can bring it even when I go with Mega aero. Since it's speed stat is average it works well in both modes.

• Kingambit is just super strong under trickroom. Venu is already my fairy counter so I dropped iron head for low kick cause I really needed a fighting moove (half of my mons don't have protect so i need it on him). Went with a brave nature to beat other gambits under TR.

• Aero has a very straightforward set and is here to fix sun and rain matchupps with rock slide and tailwind. Bascu/Venu work great under wind.

Trying to make a team around vilvillon need some advice and help as well

Tier Count Starting Bid

S Tier 8 mons cost: 250
A Tier 12mons cost: 180
B Tier 16 mons cost: 120
C Tier 16 cost: 70

64-Mon Pool
SS+ Tier (300)

Zekrom

Reshiram

Kyogre

Groudon

Urshifu

Primape

Arceus

Archaladon

S Tier (250)

Kingambit

Dragapult

Great Tusk

Gholdengo

Raging Bolt

Iron Valiant

Roaring Moon

Ogerpon-Wellspring

A Tier (180)

Gliscor

Ting-Lu

Darkrai

Zamazenta

Heatran

Samurott-Hisui

Walking Wake

Rillaboom

Iron Crown

Garganacl

Tornadus-Therian

Clefable

B Tier (120)

Dragonite

Volcarona

Corviknight

Skarmory

Moltres

Slowking-Galar

Primarina

Meowscarada

Cinderace

Zapdos

Rotom-Wash

Weavile

Hydrapple

Pecharunt

Sinistcha

Excadrill

C Tier (70)

Azumarill

Breloom

Lokix

Mamoswine

Talonflame

Scizor

Toxapex

Clodsire

Hatterene

Skeledirge

Conkeldurr

Empoleon

Kommo-o

Gastrodon

Gyrados

Serperior

D Tier (30)

Bellibolt

Quagsire

Cyclizar

Mimikyu

Chansey

Umbreon

Salamence

Noivern

Staraptor

Tentacruel

Bisharp

Arcanine

Pokémon Auction Tournament Format

Overview

This tournament will use an auction draft format. Each player will build a team of 8 Pokémon by bidding on Pokémon during the auction.

Every participant starts with 2,000 auction points to spend. Once a Pokémon is won in the auction, it cannot be drafted by anyone else.

Building a strong team while managing your budget will be key to success.

Team Building Rules

• Each player starts with 2,000 points.
• Each player must draft 8 Pokémon.
• Each player may draft a maximum of 1 Uber Pokémon.
• No duplicate Pokémon are allowed.
• Teams are locked after the auction is completed.

Uber Pokémon

The following Pokémon are considered Ubers:

• Miraidon
• Koraidon
• Zacian-Crowned
• Necrozma-Dusk-Mane
• Kyogre
• Groudon
• Eternatus
• Ho-Oh

Each player may only have one Pokémon from this list on their roster.

Auction Format

1. Players will take turns nominating Pokémon.
2. The nominated Pokémon will begin at its listed starting bid.
3. Players may bid against each other using their auction points.
4. When bidding ends, the highest bidder wins the Pokémon and pays the final bid amount.
5. The process continues until every player has drafted 8 Pokémon.

Bidding Rules

• Minimum bid increase: 25 points.
• Players cannot bid more points than they currently have.
• Players must always keep enough points to fill the remaining spots on their roster.

Match Format

Each matchup will be a Best-of-3 series:

Battle 1

• Singles Battle

Battle 2

• Doubles Battle

Battle 3 (If Necessary)

• If the series is tied 1-1, a coin flip will determine whether the deciding battle is:
• Singles, or
• Doubles

The winner of the deciding battle wins the series.

Pokémon Usage

The same roster of 8 Pokémon will be used throughout the tournament.

Players may choose which Pokémon from their roster to bring to each battle, following the rules of the battle format being played.

Alright yall Indy championship is over so we're gonna see the same two teams on ladder for the next week: Wolfe's sand team with Steelix and the winning team, which uses Mega Floette and Mega Delphox. What are y'all's ideas for hard countering these teams?

LF: Aprimons
Sprigatto (Dusk)
Fuecoco (Love)
Quaxly (Lure)

FT: Charmander (Moon)
Popplio (Love)
Zorua (Moon)

If give all 3 I can provide a normal meltan & shiny kakuna.

(I don’t need HA, but I would be nice to have. I just wanna use the cuties for my playthrough, I’ve always wanted to start my play through with the 3 main starters)

Yet again, I have made another dragonite team after using the dragonite delphox team with a different set, since I was happy with the way dragonite felt.

https://pokepast.es/94effccdff8115c8

This team is a lot more bulky and both Dragonite and Venasaur play rly similarily so its easy to adapt to each mega. Funnily enough mega venasaur is actually good for sun teams bcause it is rly good into glimmora whims and thanks to thick fat can survive a sun boosted weather ball.

I have sorted the team based on situation. The two in the middle can be brought against most matchups (incin and dragonite), mamoswine and hatterene are more situational, usually used against tr or rain ocassionally and the top 2 are rly good against most weather teams and kinda steal the spotlight when brought.

The team is rly bulky and pretty balanced with one major flaw in the fact that only 2 pokemon currently have protect. Dragonite can use protect but its hard to justify removing any of the other moves. Scarf-Basculegion and Incin don't usually run protect so thats fine. You could easily run protect over after you on hatterene and you probably should but after you is kinda usefull in order to further combat hard tr.

This thread is for discussing Mega Floette movesets, items, EV spreads, Tera types, partners and counters in Pokémon Champions VGC.

Good things to cover:
- Best support moves
- Best offensive moves
- Whether Mega Floette works better on balance, Tailwind, Trick Room or cheese teams
- Common counters
- Good partners
- Replay examples
- PokéPaste/team exports

So, had a legendary find on high ladder, an actual individual who communicates during the game and is good at it, and managed to acquire the following team. https://pokepast.es/de9887765836a2b1
Shit has been carrying through ladder, casually pushed 100 elo to 1750 and now top 50 in showdown again, any improvements or suggestions though are appreciated

https://pokepast.es/1e0748a31aed2c85

I want the duck to work, this is a VERY rough draft I made in like 10 minutes. How can we make him work?

https://limitlesstcg.com/cards/jp/M5/73?translate=en

I saw Wolfe's mega steelix team and I liked it, so decided to make this, and idk if i should make it on champions. https://pokepast.es/c9e79eb8030d953d

Hello, I'm trying to build around Kleavor, is this viable? I'm new to building team btw, any suggestion and critique is welcome

All i can see is the evs https://pokepast.es/0eee17c453f57b55

Looking for any legit moltres.