Is Coaching Sneasler Viable? VGC Team Building Advice
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The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community is diving deep into the viability of Coaching Sneasler in competitive play. This discussion explores item optimization between White Herb and Focus Sash, while analyzing team synergy with Annihilape, Corviknight, and Sinistcha. Members are actively debating optimal item choices and Mega evolution slots to improve consistency in the current VGC meta.
Building a team around this guy but it's success is so inconsistent. Sneasler itself is being weird. With white herb I can't get any coaching's off but it is much easier to get the unburden off, while focus sash gets a lot nore coachings off but is super inconsistent with the proc of the ability.
I thought it would go really well with Annihalape, Corvinight and Sinistcha, but I am failing on finding a Mega that fits nicely, Gyarados seemed like a good option as it would go well with the Coaching.
Also tried Inceneroar but then I started just struggling against the 100 Mega Staravias.
Any thoughts?
I think coaching sneasler is fine, but worse than other coaching mons
Such as Blaziken imo
Can you provide a pokepaste or screenshot of the team?
Annihilape @ Shell Bell
Ability: Defiant
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 Atk / 2 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Protect
- Rage Fist
- Drain Punch
- Ice Punch
Sinistcha-Masterpiece @ Colbur Berry
Ability: Hospitality
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 17 Def / 17 SpD
Calm Nature
- Protect
- Trick Room
- Matcha Gotcha
- Rage Powder
Sneasler @ Focus Sash
Ability: Unburden
Level: 50
EVs: 2 HP / 32 Atk / 32 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dire Claw
- Coaching
- Fake Out
- Close Combat
Corviknight @ Leftovers
Ability: Mirror Armor
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 2 SpD / 32 Spe
Careful Nature
- Protect
- Tailwind
- Brave Bird
- Body Press
Raichu @ Raichunite Y
Ability: Lightning Rod
Level: 50
EVs: 2 HP / 32 SpA / 32 Spe
Timid Nature
- Zap Cannon
- Protect
- Fake Out
- Focus Blast
Gyarados @ Gyaradosite
Ability: Intimidate
Level: 50
EVs: 2 HP / 32 Atk / 32 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Waterfall
- Crunch
- Protect
- Dragon Dance
This is what I have been running
Why are we using shell bell dawg
How so? I have never encountered a Coaching Blaziken
😅 i have no clue what item to put on him
I was even considering no item cuz i got destroyed by a poltergeist aegislash a couple of times
Life orb or sitrus
The only pokemon this format were you can justify not using an item is talonflame
Poltergeist powerful and all but its literally just aegislash who uses it a lot
Been using it with Metagross
Protect for one turn, have focus sash and you can get as many coachings as you need haha
I also run heat wave + close combat
Coaching sneasler is still good tho
Oh yeah for sure
Was used a lot with gyrados in ma
Interesting
Wait shoot this is a gyrados team
My brian just completely overlooked the mega
Lmao
Supposed to be ahah
Could definitely consider Blaziken thoufh
Maybe test it and see if it solves any problems :D
Lash out is arguably better than crunch since it only does slightly less damage than crunch and punishes the many many many intimidaters this format
i had incineroar instead of mega raichu but after several staravias i thought i needed something to deal with them
Hear me out
I'm listening
If you ran electross over raichu you could use a ground attacker like garch or mamo
Rly easily
I love that actually
so take off raichu and sinistcha?
or are we bailing on Annihalape
I think annihilape is a weaker link here
Agreed
Can you help me out with the movesets?
Garch hits slightly harder than mamo and is way better defensively letting you use life orb or sitrus or smthing but mamo can't be intimidated, has one of the best offensive typings in the game and has a priority attack
Sure
Not me recruiting for Eelektross as we speak
You can ask in #channel
found one
Damn thats fast
yeah i got lucky with the ticket
With corv, body press is a bit suspect given that you don't have iron defence
I thought i'd cover for that with coaching but, in all fairness, I haven't been that successful with corvinight
I'd say to either use bulk up or iron head in its place
You can even replace protect with the other of those 2 moves since corv doesn't necessarily need it
Going to run Garchomp because I don't have mamoswine
Garchomp @ Life Orb
Ability: Rough Skin
Level: 50
EVs: 2 HP / 32 Atk / 32 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Claw
- Rock Slide
- Earthquake
- Protect
Sinistcha-Masterpiece @ Colbur Berry
Ability: Hospitality
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 17 Def / 17 SpD
Calm Nature
- Protect
- Trick Room
- Matcha Gotcha
- Rage Powder
Sneasler @ Focus Sash
Ability: Unburden
Level: 50
EVs: 2 HP / 32 Atk / 32 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dire Claw
- Coaching
- Fake Out
- Close Combat
Corviknight @ Leftovers
Ability: Mirror Armor
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 2 SpD / 32 Spe
Careful Nature
- Iron Head
- Tailwind
- Brave Bird
- Body Press
Eelektross @ Eelektrossite
Ability: Levitate
Level: 50
Gyarados @ Gyaradosite
Ability: Intimidate
Level: 50
EVs: 2 HP / 32 Atk / 32 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Waterfall
- Lash Out
- Protect
- Dragon Dance
