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High-Elo Zamazenta & Terapagos VGC Team Showcase

During the first ruleset of reg I, I made a team with Zamazenta and Terapagos which I kept on refining through reg J.

The end result ended up being incredibly well balanced, getting me to a peak elo of somewhere around 1850. As such, now going into reg M-B, I wanted to showcase my team for anybody who might be interested.

https://pokepast.es/ba50d621318409fb.

Zamazenta - Bulky asf boy who sits on the field doing insane damage with his body press's. Behemoth bash over heavy slam bcause its better against lunala and arceus ghost.

Terapagos - Life orb terapagos??? Am I out of my mind?. Terapagos has clear anti synergy with life orb but there is a clear reason I selected it. Life orb terapagos is capable of playing like both a specs terapagos and a calm mind terapagos. If my opponent doesn't have clear threats to the terapagos, I can calm mind and then later terastarstorm them to death, if they do have clear threats then I can go for immediate damage and do like half to most opponents. This works well with terapagos's speed tier, since its slow, meaning that it will likely take life orb chip after the opponent has alr hit it. Life orb terapagos hits sooo hard that a helping hand or calm mind boosted earth power oneshots most zamazenta.

Farigraf - Who givea terapagos said helping hands? Farig. Farig blocks priority, can set up tr, is rly bulky, foul play is rly good against both calyrex's and psychic lets it do good stab damage.

Dnite - Dragonite is the only other pokemon I regularly tera'd bcause tera normal extreme speed hits rly hard. Tailwind, protect, scale shot, loaded dice, and dnite is becoming faster than calyrex while throwing scales at it.

Incin and amoongus - I am lumping these 2 together bcause their combined purpose is to protect the other pokemon and end gimmicks. Taunt is rly useful for shutting down things like amoongus and clear smog makes even tera grass dondozo scared.

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Could Armarouge Be Viable in VGC Meta?

There is a ton of stuff that seems very good for it, as a fire type, he has a good matchup into Charizard Y and Mega Floette. It also has the psychic typing which helps it into Venusaur if u can take an Earth Power, and it also has Wide Guard which is really good with all the Garchomp Sylveon Floette Charizard Delhpox stuff we have been seeing. And i know Delphox seems better because its more threatening and is faster and has levitate for Venusaur, but Armarouge isn't a Mega, so its a cheap version of Mega Delphox who can double its speed once u hit it with anything. The problem is of course, that is bad into Basculegion and Kingambit

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Recreating a JP Championship Pokémon VGC Team

I had to guess for all of the evs and some of the moves since there was only 1 game on stream. I want to know if you assume anything is different so I can use the team as accurately as possible. I’ll link the video in the 1st message of the post

https://pokepast.es/ad193a0c7c1162ce

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VGC Ranked Doubles: Building Underrated Pokémon Teams

Feeling lost on a team to grind ranked with , not really a fan of playing meta teams but also not really having much luck with the teams I'm building / testing. Any recommendations / underrated mega's , cool move / ability interactions are appreciated 🙂

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Dragonite & Gardevoir VGC Team Building Help

Dragonite has quickly became my favourite mega simply bcause it is rly hard to remove and has utility. I originally tried dragonite venasaur and then dragonite scissor but I found that I lacked spread damage.

So recently I paired dragonite with an old favourite of gardevoir, but the team feels like something is wrong with it but I ain't completely sure

https://pokepast.es/139ca716d3656798

Gard and Dragonite are fairly self explainatory. When I added back dragon pulse to my old draco meteor set I found I just kept clicking dragon pulse so I put protect on dragonite. Gard is a reg bulky tr set.

I felt like I needed something like scissor for those setup floette raidboss teams but scissor itself just felt off without the mega so I used aegislash. Incin is using roar to give more tools against setup, perish and hard tr. Mamoswine is just rly underutilised in the format in my opinion, ya it dies quickly but it hits a lot of pokemon for super effective.

Rotom wash is by far the most suspect pokemon. Screens is rly good util but it doesn't feel like it does much aside from that. I could run scarf but unlike dragonite I know that I prefer a way to protect gardevoir since it is weak to a lot of common pokemon.

Any suggestions on what I should fix are welcome

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Pokémon VGC Team Building Help | Pokémon Champions

Incineroar @ White Herb
Ability: Intimidate
Adamant Nature
- Close Combat
- Fake Out
- Flare Blitz
- Darkest Lariat

Hatterene @ Fairy Feather
Ability: Magic Bounce
Modest Nature
- Dazzling Gleam
- Protect
- Psychic
- Trick Room

Farigiraf @ Mental Herb
Ability: Armor Tail
Relaxed Nature
- Twin Beam
- Hyper Voice
- Trick Room
- Helping Hand

Blastoise @ Blastoisinite
Ability: Torrent
Quiet Nature
- Ice Beam
- Fake Out
- Water Spout
- Dark Pulse

Golurk @ Golurkite
Ability: Iron Fist
Brave Nature
- Protect
- Thunder Punch
- Poltergeist
- Headlong Rush

Kingambit @ Chople Berry
Ability: Defiant
Adamant Nature
- Low Kick
- Sucker Punch
- Kowtow Cleave
- Iron Head

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Pokémon Draft League Strategy: Trick Room Team Building Tips

I'm no expert on team building on draft leagues but i plan on making a trick room team with these mons. But also a round pixelate or Refrigerate. Any tips or help would be helpful.
Mega Glalie
Dragapult
sylveon
Mega Venusaur
Sinistcha
meowstic
Chandelure
Paldean tauros aqua
Bellibolt
Appletun

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VGC Perish Trap & Rain Team Guide | Pokémon Champions

so this is my first ever team that I have been using for abit now, but it always felt incomplete.

What the team is meant to be is a Perish trap team that I can pivot to a rain team, Mega Gengar is the centre of this team he is meant to lockdown a Pokémon in the field to maybe perish song or too help me win the weather war. They are also built to kill Pokémon that my team might struggle with such as Sinitea, a slow basculgeon, mega frosslass and other.

Politoad is here to help the team out like setting perish up while Gengar is just trying to survive, switching in to it so it tanks the move, set up rain so that we stop Charizard Y and Venu or tyranitar and steelix, and do some damage when it get the chance to.

Primarina is here to counter pokemom my other Pokémon struggle against such as garchomp, kommo-o, Charizard when we’re in the rain, and is pretty much our rain sweeeper and with the Welp of Gengar we can stop Pokémon from switching in and out an KO them.

Kommo-o is a set up sweeper who is here to deal with kinggambit, garchomp, and other we have two other Pokémon to him set up

Sneasler / Sinitea, this two are here to counter and help support the team, such as Sinitea healing kommo-o when he user that one move and help Gengar stay alive during the perish tik down. Now sneasler is here to threaten Pokémon with fake out in the start of a match, and maybe killing kinggambit, Charizard y and floette who my other Pokémon my struggle against.

https://pokepast.es/85aeba547c3b8713

But as I said this Pokémon team seems incomplete, so I would love advice to improve this team.

Srry for the bad explaining and bad photos

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