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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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