VGC Team Building: Optimizing Mega Garchomp & Kingambit
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Resumen
At Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments, community members are actively collaborating to refine competitive team compositions. This discussion focuses on optimizing special attacker Mega Garchomp and Kingambit, while addressing synergy issues like terrain conflicts between Rillaboom and Indeedee. It serves as a valuable resource for trainers looking to improve their VGC strategies through expert feedback and tactical team adjustments.
First time using kingambit and mega garchomp, need help testing it and maybe changing a few things im open to switching mons out


Run special zchomp
And replace bulk up with either high horsepower or u turn on rilla
Also why is pex here
What do i switch w
Okok
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😭
Not my job
Ask them they know better
Okay tysm anyways
This team can do with alot of fixing
First, rillaboom and indeedee on the same team doesn’t seem like a good idea. They sabotage each other by overriding each other’s terrains
Looks like you are aiming for more of a psyspam team, so drop rillaboom and keep indeedee
Second, mega garchomp Z is a special attacker, not physical. If you’re going to run it, might as well make it special.
Dragon Pulse/Draco Meteor + Earth Power + Protect + Power Gem
However, I don’t really think Garchomp Z fits. You could do Salamence for the intimidate support and the reliable spread damage. It also has access to tailwind, and mega Gardevoir works great as both a Trick Room + Tailwind pokemon. However you could just do pure trick room and drop tailwind for something like Flamethrower so you can deal with mons like Gholdengo which resist your STAB moves. Or you could drop protect and use both tailwind and flamethrower, but that is a bit riskier
You could also try Mega Blastoise as a secondary mega. With priority block from Indeedee + Follow Me, you can set up shell smash and then kill everything by spamming Water Spout.
Speaking of Water Spout, I highly recommend you to combine it with helping hand so it does a shit ton. After a shell smash + Helping Hand, even resists should eat a ton from those water spouts. Do keep in mind Water Spout gets weaker as your HP decreases, and it becomes incredibly weak when you have little HP left. Thats why its also usually paired with Sinistcha for Hospitality + Life dew, and it also has access to Rage Powder - similar to Follow Me, a redirection
Drop Mystical Fire on Indeedee for Helping Hand
Next, the Toxapex. It doesn’t really fit with psyspam. It does offer a good tool being Wide Guard, but Armarouge does that while having access to Expanding Force which synergizes great here. It also gets good fire coverage like Armor Cannon and Heat Wave. I recommend changing Toxapex for Armarouge. However that means you’ll have triple psychic, meaning mons like Incineroar will give you trouble. You can try something else instead of armarouge, but I currently don’t know who would fit. I also recommend you just get an answer for those annoying dark types.
And there is one mon that fits well-Sneasler. Fighting stab should be able to deal with them fairy well, and poison coverage is nice to have. Give it Psychic Seed which boosts its special defense upon entering battle while Psychic Terrain is up, and also activates its ability Unburden, which doubles its speed.
It normally uses fake out, but since psychic terrain blocks it, you can run dire claw, close combat, protect and throat chop/rock slide. I prefer rock slide for those Zards and Volcaronas
Last, I don’t really see an issue with kingambit being here aside from the fact that psychic terrain blocks sucker punch. But it still should work
I apologize for the long ass wall of text lmao
Thank u so much omg ill read when im home
Damn 😭
I already have a main team w psyspam should i do it again here or keep rilla
So should i put sinistcha in the team or stick w indeedee
Stick w indeedee
You can do whatever
Just don’t put rilla and indeedee on the same team
Unless its some sort of terrain pulse tech
Would lucario work annihilape
Ok ill switch rilla out
Im not sure. I’ve also never seen them being used in psyspam
Lucario Z though, I have seen
I hate sneasler but okay
Ill try
Can i switch sucker punch for smth else
You could try low kick but honestly I don’t recommend to
Same reason why some psyspam teams have fake out
Psyterrain isn’t gonna be up 24/7
And when it ends you get access to new tools
Yea if i remove rilla i wont have fake out
You could give sneasler fake out but I didn’t think it would need it
Ok we can test it out and see
Are you using blastoise or salamence as your second mega?
Solo mega gardevoir also works fine I think. Its up to you
Solo mega gard usually has a trick room mode with torkoal
I have no idea im trying to summarize what u said lol
I might do blastoise
Do i change garchomps nature
Run modest