Top 100 Orthworm Mega Blastoise VGC Team Guide

The primary goal of this team is pretty straightforward in almost every game: set up shell smash with blastoise and sweep. Blastoise with shell smash and rain genuinely does insane damage, it ohkos even most resists(max hp rotom-wash, can ohko some archaludon, etc). If you can set up this board state and keep blastoise safe you basically win. Its important to maintain HP on blastoise for full power water spout, but in the endgame after losing HP you still have a very strong dark pulse.
Meowstick: probably the most unique mon. it has fake out pressure to help orthworm use shed tail. Rain dance to counter charizard-y, yawn to force counters to switch out, and reflect to reduce damage to orthwork/blastoise. Its primary goal is to use fake out to enable blastoise, and then support it with yawn/rain/reflect.
Orthworm: Pretty straightforward, bulky with shed tail. It has sitrus so your opponent actually has to do 75% of its HP in order to stop shed tail.
Sneasler: More fake out pressure. CC to deal with kingambit, dire claw to hit fairies(both of these are weaknesses).
Sinistcha: also pretty normal, rage powder to redirect, life dew and hospitality to support if blastoise gets low(although I didn't get much use out of life dew when playing).
Scizor: definitely the least used mon. its good in the trick room matchup to hit farigiraf, its also good if your opponent has a lot of fairies.
Now onto leads/weaknesses/notes:

Standard Lead: Meowstick + Orthworm, Blastoise + Sneasler/Sinistcha in the back. Turn 1: Fake out + shed tail to set up blastoise, then support with meowsticks other moves. This is usually pretty strong unless the opponent has two pokemon that can damage orthwork enough to prevent shed tail(ex. pelliper + archaludon)
Other Leads: Sinistcha + Orthworm, redirect attacks from orthworm to pass shed tail
Weaknesses: After blastoise sets up shell smash its very frail because of lowered defenses. Its weak to strong priority(ex. kingambit sucker punch), and losing too much health on blastoise basically loses the game.
Sylveon, mega gardevoir, primarina, and kommo-o can all bypass substitue with sound based moves like hyper voice. You can't freely shell smash in front of these.
In both these cases, sneasler is a very necessary bring. Dire claw to deal with fairies and close combat to deal with kingambit. Also if you bring sneasler and meowstick, you can swap between them and basically keep spamming fake out to enable blastoise to keep moving despite these.

Anyways these are just my experiences with the team, y'all should definitely try it out since theres more to explore with this for sure. I tried sableye instead of meowstick and had mixed results. If you have any questions please ask and thank you for reading!

i found it super fun let me know how it goes!

i might try this out too

i really like meowstic, and i wanted to do smth with it that wasn’t expanding force related

pretty creative ngl

frr

same I was spamming torkoal last season lol

it fits my play style a little better for sure

sounds good, its pretty late for me though but I'm down to play anytime later as well

theres also a vivillon blastoise team going around that I wanna try

This looks insane

https://pokepast.es/199b2670572ece50

for anyone interested

I wonder if this will work for mega Xard to give free ddances

thats a cool idea

theres also some synergy with orthworm because it disincentivizes ground type moves

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9championsvgc2026regma-2614177180

holy cow

water sprout is VERY strong

do NOT let blastoise get a shell smash off

after some ladder testing

it is really satisfying to pull off

but you can’t bring orthworm, sinestcha and meowstic to the same battle all at once

after your blastoise goes down, you’ll be left with no plan B

Yeah Blastoise has been slowly taking over ladder

When I tested the team I brought orthworm meow blast sneas and it worked just fine

Gonna be testing this with other megas to see if anything else feels good tomorrow as well.

i only really bring scizzor in tr

in my experience on the showdown ladder, people really underestimate yawn

and don’t switch out

lets me get a ko for free

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9championsvgc2026regma-2614727744-ngy2wfc0vu2ssv957c0obayfu98ta7fpw

That's fun

Completely walled by Perish Song teams tho

you gotta be careful of plays where they switch twice tho(like in that game they switched out gengar, and let you ko incin to bring it back in)

Wait... does yawn work on Gengar?

Normal type against a Ghost, I just figured it wouldn't work

yeah kinda weird but it does

normal type status moves usually work on ghosts

lol good to know

Damn this is not an easy team to pilot

Very easy for things to go downside if you don't setup Blastoise and sucks against trick room, sinistcha is mandatory there

But then between sinistcha, meowstic and orthworm there's not much power, it's fully reliant on blastoise

A fun team when it works though

Encore on shell smash is such an easy counter to this geam

yeah its definitely not good into trick room

you have to be super careful around encore but tbh I've found it to be pretty winnable

after shell smash you wanna protect next turn and switch out the partner to meowstic/sneasler for fake out

Going to try this team tomorrow

oh?

This proves what

He just showed a japenese player who got it

Nah I seen his thing before I we gave him the role

https://tenor.com/view/larp-larpsahur-larp-sahur-sahur-sahurlarp-gif-1887669596747385148

It was verified haha

The champion rank

You give roles to larpers

😭

No we made him show us it and he did

larp has lost all meaning