Building a Mega Heracross Team for VGC | Pokémon Champions
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community dives into the competitive viability of Mega Heracross in the current meta. This discussion explores essential support options, including rain cores with Pelipper and Archaludon, to mitigate fire weaknesses and improve survivability. Members share insights on team building, pivoting strategies, and overcoming the challenges of using bug-type megas in high-level VGC play.
Caught a full odds shiny heracross. Want to use it. I do think mega heracross has potentail its just the current meta contains alot of threats for it
Generally i like to get an early ko to disrupt then do some defensive support (encore stun spore whimsicot etc)
Ight im heading into the gym rn ttyl
That base attack stat on heracross is absurd
They are exercising and will be back later
Talk to you later
Im here
The problem with heracross is it needs support
Much like beedrill, this damn format is diabolical for bug megas of all kind
Lots of it and with aero and zard around
(trust me ik I'm laddering with the bee rn)
I think with tailwind it can ko them if they dont have tail wind up yet
It def comes close
Add a peliper and archaludon?
Whimsicot?
Rain core is def needed
Hmmm okay okay so
Hera
Archa
Pelip
For sure.
https://pokepast.es/ddcce6069de06b42
I run wash
The worst part about bug megas is the amount of pivots you need
To keep them safe
Yeee
1 also thought about t tar
So volt switch helps more here but arch can def sit for a while in the right conditions
I tried sand, it doesn't help
Yeee
Noooooo
Sadge
Rain is def best
That fire weakness on even non stab mons is brutal
Its cause the slowing of fire and lowkey cause archa is ridicilous
And the games take FOREVER when you are constantly pivoting to maneuver safely
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14 turns with the bee to beat perish lmao
Lol i mean in a weird little tourney years ago i placed decently high with a perish team featuring lapras
Is what I am known for here haha
Did my first mb climb with perish trap for champions. 5 hours day one
Aurora veil lapras perish trap was the strat
Here I use Gengar Starmie skill swap
It seemed like people just didnt know what to do with lapras more than lapras being strong
Ive also uses some stall teams for funzies.
I dont really either
Its just the need to cover for heracross weaknesses
Bet
Wait why tho?
Some people run scarf meowscarada to like kill mega aero before it moves
One moment
alrighg give me the nitty grity
Yee i do its definetly intrestiby
Intersting
Wjy endjure specificly and yeah that ro
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To
We want to skill swap protean to heracross to make him better defensively yeah?
Ohhh yeah you right
Ill have to get my hands on a meowscarada
And a primarina but thats probably gonna be easier
Ohhh
I got the others thankfully
Oh well imma buy nintendo online when my pay check and yee that works just got home
Its alr
Imma go aquire the needed mons to
It seems fun
Mega heracross with the right support can be extremly scary
That attack stat
Yee lemme finsish up my shower rq
Logging into home
Ok ok im dumb didnt realize i need mobile to trade
Okay its gonna be a second. To much icloud data apparently
Alr here we go
I is morbo
Ight
Ive actually been rebuilding mu shinys
My old switch bricked and in the transfer to a new device i lost like 14 shinys
Yea i was mad mad
Alr thats everything but leipard settled
I can just go catch one of those
Imma get all the moves set up on my scarlet then off to the races
Actually...i may need a leipard
😭
Ight
I didnt realize it was sw/sh i lost my copy
Ooofff
Everything but the cat so far
So far it feels good
Better defensive typing and an extended shadow tag
Maybe incin instead of leipard?
Yeah thats kinda what the thought behind incin is gets some of those same tools
Plus intimidate
Fake out taunt parting shot n stuff
Yee it can in some senarios
The times i used leipard it just died quick. That could be a me issue
Mh?
Well rn im out of house
Just got off work really
What kinda changes?
I gotta put my car through a drive cycle then do some gym myself
I will say heracross was feeling pretty bulky even against a rocksliding aero
Give me a leads break down i might be playing wrong
Might. Im seeing alot of sneasler where im at in the later
The best way to make a pokemon bulky is usually to just give it close to max hp and invest any remainder stats to the more important defencive stat
Ight
Oh it does ight
That is the most goated volcorona I have ever seen
