Raichu-Y VGC Team Help: Countering Garchomp | Pokémon Champi
Hi All,
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Raichu-Y is the core of the team, and the number of times I've managed to sit it on the field and just click the funny buttons into people is very high. When it can do that, its a scary mon.
Froslass was added to help with garchomp, or to deter garchomp. What I've discovered is that this does not work, people just bring garchomp anyway. They bring it upfront and laugh in my face. Most of the time I'm facing chary and since my answer to chary is mostly ychu they just ignore froslass. This is probably what I'm swapping.
Gambit/Basc, just too good not to use
Talonflame, I wanted priority tailwind that could resist fire and fairy, and I wanted it to do damage as well. Life orb talonflame can hit like a truck, and I've been happy with it, but could see changing to sharp beak + dual wingbeat. I could also imagine swapping this, but its honestly felt very good in most matchups.
Tsareena, honestly the glue, triple axel is an answer to garchomp, stops fake out/prio which is nice for ychu and talonflame, grass attacks for dealing with rain and basc. I'm running low kick, but maybe high jump kick is better, with 9 atk it will OHKO gambit, and deal a lot to mega ttar. The problem is that it outspeeds adamant garchomp, but since life orb's addition there's been a shift to jolly. I ran choice scarf initially but I don't like relying on all 3 triple axel hits without wide lens.
I'm open to other ideas, but I really want to use ychu, and I think the ychu, tsareena, talonflame core is solid, and basc completes the fire-water-grass core, and gambit is just strong. Maybe there's an obvious solution I'm missing. Thanks for any help!
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