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Refining the Froslass/Yaichu VGC Team | Pokémon Champions

Just reached MB3 while testing this cute little team. I'm really enjoying it so far, but surely there's room for improvement.

Sneasler is a big threat here, as there are 3 mons weak to it while no supereffective move whatsoever against it.

No real checks against Floette/Sylveon here too - Iron Head on Kingambit is the best I have against them.

Dual Screens and Trick Room can be very annoying to work around if I don't successfully stop the setter.

This team is quite weak to Ground type moves.

Changes I've been considering:
- A supportive Talonflame with moves like Taunt, Will-o-Wisp and Defog, that could also OHKO Sneasler easily with Brave Bird. It also gives me Ground immunity in one mon at least.
- My own Sneasler to check fairies, Archaludon and Kingambits - but this I want to avoid as I have been playing Sneasler in so many teams already (it is the GOAT)
- Sylveon over Kingambit for strong spread move on Hyper Voice and nuking with Hyper Beam
- At some point I considered Energy Ball/Giga Drain on Whimsy solely for Swampert, as my only real answer to it atm is Tsareena, who's gets OHKOed by Pelipper's Hurricane
- A Rock type mon or strong Rock type move somewhere for extra option against Pelipper and Charizard. I thought of Scarf Kleavor as it can also deal with Trick Room by OHKOing Farigiraf with X-Scissor.

I think that's it for now, open to any thoughts or suggestions here


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Mawile Trick Room Help vs Rain & Arch Teams

I took this team all the way to MB2 today, but meeting a lot of arch/rain.

I am wondering how I can adapt this team to be any better in that matchup. I either need to predict perfectly with torkoal or vileplume to win it I feel. Or maybe I’m just not bringing staraptor enough.

Considering replacing aerodactyl with something that can handle it

https://www.turnadus.com/s/r7qzrsub

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Off-Meta VGC Team Building Advice | Pokémon Champions

Id like advice on whether or not this would be a good build for this team, any tweaks to the mons I should make, any replacements that would make sense, which secondary mega would be best, and which mon benefits from focus sash more between weavile and excadrill.
Here is the link the team idea: http://www.pokemon-zone.com/champions/team-builder/b8f9fa9b-e04c-4f60-9c45-bba89d651ab6/
Any help would be appreciated 🙏

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Pokémon Champions: VGC Team Building Help & Strategy

i just started playing champions recently and have no experience in team building. i managed to get a whimsicott metagross and hydreigon team but it's super weak to sun and TR team

i was using char but just replaced it with blaziken, not sure about the incineroar just yet but i feel like i need some help for TR team


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2v2 Team Help: Sand Mega Staraptor & Grass Picks

I wanna start playing 2v2 but its hard to netdeck bc im always missing key pokemon (archaludon, charizard, floette, dengo..)
I own Scarlet/Violet Base Game, so I could get pokemon from that too. Some ideas that I have which you can consider, but dont have to. I really wanna start playing, so any decent team will do :)

  • Mega Staraptor Team
  • Annihilape + Maushold: cant find a good mega for this
  • Sand? (the event gives a free tyrannitar)

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Optimize Your Whimsicott/Gholdengo VGC Team | Pokémon Champi

The team is built around Tailwind support from Whimsicott, with Gholdengo serving as the main offensive core.

Overall, the team has been performing well, but I've been hardstuck at my current rank and feel like I'm missing something. I particularly struggle against Mega Staraptor teams, Farigiraf teams, and Rain teams.

I'd appreciate any feedback on potential weaknesses in the team, possible roster or move set changes, matchup advice. Any insights is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!


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Bulky Snow Team Guide: VGC Strategy & Team Building

So I am trying to cook a bulky snow team for a member of the discord.

We are looking for a bulky almost stall based team using snow or trickroom if we can
Here are a few cooks ive made looking for advise/changes

Key concepts for the team:
BULKY VERY BULKY
healing where we can such as life dew or Slack Off

Im considering set up and a protect the Queen style build

Mega Snowbro - my fav so far
https://pokepast.es/f3df723f7cef96ca

Mega Meganium snow?!
https://pokepast.es/562fc1cd007247ab

No Mega
https://pokepast.es/e0a2224dc8172e9d

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Dual-Weather Teambuilding Advice for VGC

I’m looking to build two dual-weather teams with Greninja, Charizard, and Archaludon as my core. For my first team, I’m running Rain-Sun with Pelipper and Grimmsnarl as two additional mons. This leaves me needing one more, preferably not another support mon. For my second team, I’m running Sand-Sun with TTar and Sinistcha. I probably do need one more support mon here. For Rain, I can’t decide between Basculegion or something else like Sneasler. For Sand, I can’t decide between Incin, Grimm, or something else. Or maybe both teams could use Whimsicott?

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