Mega Venusaur & Aerodactyl VGC Team Guide | Pokémon Champion
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community is discussing a high-level competitive team featuring Mega Venusaur and Aerodactyl. This guide breaks down a hybrid Trick Room and Tailwind strategy, offering detailed EV spreads and move sets for Farigiraf, Basculegion, Torkoal, and Kingambit. It is an essential read for players looking to optimize their team synergy and counter common meta threats like Kommo-o and Hydreigon.
Hey ! I've started VGC with champions and out of all the teams I built I really like this one ! I love trick room but HTR is really hard to run imo, so I opted to have a tailwind mode with Aero. I'll explain the decisions for every mon :
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I made Fari extremely bulky on the physical side to be able to tank 2 close combats for sneasler. The worst matchups of the team are Kommo-o and hydreigon from the testing I made. So I added dazzling gleam and 8 points in Spa to be sure to one shot fully offensive sets for the two dragons.
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What I really wanted to do was to have fari + bascu, wich is the main lead of team. Being able to helping wave crash to OKHO a majority of the meta, all the while being protected from kingambit sucker punch is really strong imo. Is also really good to pivot with flip turn and clean up after trick room ended. I opted for adamant to be sure to one shot fully offesive zard y under sun, and also have the advantage against other scar bascu when in trick room, but maybe jolly is better
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Torkoal is really standard. I don't really need coverage since I have earth power on venu and rock slide on aero, so i went with the full fire set to cover up for most gamestates.
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Venu is kind of the star of the team, being able to do a torkoal/venu lead and sleep stuff with powder before mega evolving, or outspeeding speedier threats under TR and powering them as well ! It's just really versatile and works without it's mega, so i can bring it even when I go with Mega aero. Since it's speed stat is average it works well in both modes.
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Kingambit is just super strong under trickroom. Venu is already my fairy counter so I dropped iron head for low kick cause I really needed a fighting moove (half of my mons don't have protect so i need it on him). Went with a brave nature to beat other gambits under TR.
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Aero has a very straightforward set and is here to fix sun and rain matchupps with rock slide and tailwind. Bascu/Venu work great under wind.
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Forgot to explain the EVs on kingambit, it's for being sure to survive two hyper voices from sylveon ! Since it's faster that gambit under TR and I don't have iron head to one shot it back
Rly well balanced team
I feel very weird for the mega venu team I run now 
I like the team heaps
It reminds me of this vgc player who goes really well at tournaments he runs the normal HTR with exeggutor doing basically the same role as your Venu
Regulation f also had a tournament winning HTR team and its variation had a choice band dark urshi
What I got from this random info im telling you is the HTR teams that seem to go best are the ones that do have that one slot for a surprising/strong speed mode on a otherwise slow team
Aero looks like he might not fit ? You may already have your speed mode in tork + venu
Personally I think hard trick room makes protect more optimal as your win condition is killing them within the trick room turns so I usually run king with no protect so he can keep low kick sucker kotow and iron head
I guess I wonder how often you use aero?
Yeah I had iron head on gambit before but changed it because I was to affraid of having so little protect in the team
Usualy bring it against zard y and rain. Against rain I often lead with aero + venu. If they lead peli i can switch on torkoal and sleep powder
I run my Mega Venu on snow-
So I feel stupid
How often do you use basc? I swear this team needs hatterne lol
Oh I would be curious to see it !
I believe basc works fine tbh, gives more that the team can do outside of tr
Yeaaah I thought about it at some point honestly ! I do agree that aero kinda feels out of place sometime, there are games where I think I could of wone by only using torkoal and venu for speed like you said
But there are other times where it really feels like it works a lot, especialy against zard Y
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Basc is really good from my testing ! Being able to take a KO with helping hand + wave crash and finish the rest with TR mode feels consistent against a lot of matchupps
Its really good in all honesty
Against Zard y it would be really good , tho Zard is quite frail like tork can take off half his hp with an eruption I THINK give or take
The venu is cool because when it mega evolves it kinda turns fat haha
seems rerally fun ! I love alolan ninetales it's really cool
Cool team
Although not having tailwind volc is certainly a choice
Truue, and under TR mega venu can two-shot zard pretty easily.You think hatterene could replace aero ? When I tested it I replaced kingambit because I didn't want to cut out the tailwind part, but losing gambit felt off
If you feel like Gambit isn't helping much, you could try like Aegislash
No that's what I'm saying gambit is to useful to be cut off haha
Sorry if I worded that wrong
I do yeah I can’t imagine committing to hard trick room without her tho just personal preference she is immune from taunt and stuff too good
I think their should only be one fast slow
Ah, sorry- I'm dumb don't mind me
The venu
So like, fast mode would be torkoal/venu/basc and king ?
Yep
When would you use fast mode ? Against other tr teams ?
Yeah I think, maybe against rain to ? Not sure. If I don't have aero maybe I can fix zard y MU by putting ancient power on torkoal ?
I really don’t have a Zard issue and we got 3/6 the same mons
I haven’t been running protect on torkoal either I’ve been having earth power over protect
My answer is my incin
I literally flare blitz it in its own sun
Does 3/4
Could work ! Since I already have earth power on venu I didn't put it on torkoal
Offensive incin?
Yeah doenst help against Zard but i could weather ball and chunk it a fair bit I think too
Yeah lol
Gotta next to passive farig
Mine does like 1/4th so usually not that poweful against char y
Yeah I also helping hand often I forget but it’s kinda massive damage
I’d also run twin beam on the farig it’s been good for the odd sash sneazler
Since basc one shots sneasler what I do often is wave crash + dazzling to be sure to one shot it
You could try psychic noise
I don’t run dazzling but I seen a few very high ladder farigs running dazzling so I can’t diss it
If I switch to hatteren i'll probably switch gleam to
I used to run thunderbolt farig since it hit water types for pretty big damage
I’ve heard of this before it must be a thing haha
Yeah mines kinda weird I got psychic terrain on my farig and expanding force on my hatt
Has been super fun
oooooh that does sound fun, I try to make the team work both for closed and open sheets tho and it feels like this kind of set up is to predictable in BO3 stuff
It is lol 😆
It’s annoying me at the moment
So good at bo1 and fails at bo3
I feel like bo1 gimmicks can work in a bo3 setting if your gimmick isnt entirely supprise factor based
True but I feel like it works if you have a bit moire dedicated support for it ? I'm affraid it unfocuses the team a bit, but I'm curious to try it anyways
https://pokepast.es/abe321fa0ef621b7
heres an example of what Im talking about this team is good in both bo1 and bo3 because its not surprise factor reliant, its fear reliant
You see this comp and think FUCK how am I gonna play around No gaurd entraiment, when thats just a backup option to how I play this team, I win more with this team using the mons regularly than I do with no guard sheer cold, but it is a good tool to have in the back pocket for hard matchups
Ooooh I see, the gimmick is more of a back up plan
yeah
