Building a Competitive Rain Team | Pokémon VGC Strategy
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In the Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server, members are actively debating the viability of a unique Rain team composition. The discussion covers the strategic use of Politoed over Pelipper, the inclusion of Golisopod, and potential additions like Basculegion or Archaludon to counter meta threats like Zard-Venu. This thread provides valuable insights for players looking to refine their competitive teams and understand current VGC meta trends.
Hi! So I've put this team together, I've been experimenting with a lot of things but I still haven't decided on a final version and I'm out of ideas on what to do next.
It's a rain team, but it's not 100% hard rain; that's why the use of Politoed, is more of a standalone Pokémon than Pelipper's support.
Work well with Golisopod!
So I don't know if you see anything that should be changed in the current Pokémon, if I should really succumb to adding Archaludon, or if you have other ideas.
Did I have to do that? Do you see the bot too?
I could swear I saw an almost identical team in a regional tournament, Archaludon is simply a very solid Mon in the meta that complements rain very well
But you could bring Swamper for a quick rain mode or Basculegion Female
I would prefer Basculegion female because Mega Swamper is practically annihilated by Rilla but you could also stop grassy glide whit farigraf you just need to weak the monkey to take the kill
that truee, I mean, it really is the best option—the type combination and the synergy with rain are just unmatched—but I was hoping to find something a bit more unique. Honestly, it was pretty tough, haha.
I’ll also consider using a female Basculegion, since I’ve already been wiped out twice by a perish trap team.
thaanks
I mean wyu gonna do to zard venu
Thats why the nice regionals winning team had xchu
I don’t think that team is all that good anyway; they got eaten alive at the last regional.
It is good
Just got so popular people know how to deal with it
How will you deal with zard venu leads tho?
Garchomp sneasler is probably your best bet
i was talking with the chat exactly that
But then they double protect
And you’re kinda stuck
i know i know pretty well the matchup
i fight that all the time and i lose 90% of the time
but honestly
is a problemn everyone has
Yeah
right? isn't like everyone gonna be running raichu X
A shit ton of popular teams still don’t have a reliable answer for zard venu
I’m a bit surprised
so that why i added rock slide for Sneasler, at least trying to do something
Yeah maybe
Rock slide doesn’t ohko bulky zards tho
They sleep powder ur chomp
Btw what last regional?
Honestly, I can’t think of anything; the solution would literally be use the Raichu X team
But i dont wannaaaaa
Something must be done about that
Upoar Farigiraf
I don’t recall
I thought Nice was the most recent
Puebla, Raichu X team got 12 place
I mean its still top cut
https://www.nimbasacitypost.com/2026/10/puebla-regional-2027.html
They didn’t stream puebla on yt smh
i know but like everything is Charizard Y so idk
YES
but it was 100% spanish
so of course nobody watch it
Froslass first regional win btw
They’ll still know whats going on
Understandable that you don’t wanna xchu lol
i mean usually Vgc regional has 5k viewers
this one got 1k 2k views
But ngl xchu with volt switch is pretty good at weather control
literally one mon away from Raichu X team
i just idk how to use Raichu
never touch that mon honestly
You just eterrain, fake out and switch out ig
Unless you can get a quick ohko you volt tackle
I actually used choice scarf sweet veil tsareena lmfao
To prevent sleep
It was next to zchomp I think
Good mu into zard venu but kinda bad into pretty much everything else
I might have to switch to Raichu X—unless I can find some clever way to deal with Venusaur; maybe just using Taunt on it?
These teams don’t usually include Farigiraf.
You still can’t outspeed it unless you have priority
Yes, many pokemon are Taunt Prankster
i think even all
Would be Grimmsnarl, Whimsicott, or even Sableye to reset rain
Yeah you could try those
Do be aware they might also be earth power lorb venu
in that case is even easy for Garchomp Z
literally is the danger of not moving in front of the most insane special spread attack in the game
