Quaquaval Discussion: Make the Duck Work
Summary
In Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments this announcement thread explores making Quaquaval work as a sweeper. It covers aqua step and moxie sweep sets, rain and support options, counters like Frosslass and Farigiraf, and team suggestions such as Tsareena Volcorona Maushold and Tauros Paldea. Includes a quick TCG link mishap and testing notes relevant to team builders and competitors.
I want the duck to work, this is a VERY rough draft I made in like 10 minutes. How can we make him work?
https://limitlesstcg.com/cards/jp/M5/73?translate=en
WRONG LINK LMAO
Fixed
could have been a worse link LMAO
I pasted a tcg link yeah
Ah yes a tgc website
Yeah, at least it was just tcg
I was looking at it an hour ago since I play comp tcg
Anyways how do we make duck work
Hmmmmmmm
I use tauros paldea pretty frequently who is rly similar to the duck but with intimidate and worse stats I think
The duck wants to be a sweeper since moxie and aqua step
Aqua step is 80 base power no downside stab and gives +1 speed
Never cook again
https://tenor.com/view/toxic-humans-gif-23440883
This isnt a finalized team vro
Ik aqua jet is enough utility
I made ts in 5 minutes
Yeah, I think the duck set is locked, its just what support do we use
I mean have you played games with it yet
5, duck swept 3
Thats why I made the post
I think it has potential
Well what issues have you faced?
I do think frosslass is maybe a bit of an issue potentially
A few days ago i made a team with all the paldea starters and next to sableye it felt really good setting up rain and taunting aerodactyl to prevent tailwind from opponents
idk why you have 2 tr since most your mon are really fast tho
Ooh yeah
Yeah farig was to beat tr so sinistcha doesn’t need the tr
Lemme try something
Maybe try volcorona?
maybe maushold would be better here since this seems to want the rain up
https://pokepast.es/960f2906e319517f
this plus a mega?
I feel like sinistcha healing is just so valuable as redirection
Ik, im checking if there are any possible subs for farig that also gets imprison and tr
Nthing I don’t think at least
Also farig armr tail utility
There are a lot lol, it's jsut armor tail is that valuable
yeah holy there's a lot
Actually a lot holy
just drop farig and pick up tsareena.
there are a lot of unconventinal ones that look funny lol
Klefki gets imprison trick room rain dance
farig is supposed to imprison tr teams
What does tsareena do here
you dont need to imprison tr teams you can just shut it off
yeah it gets prankster too
is armor tail with more utility
Yeah ig
Tsareena (F) @ Miracle Seed
Ability: Queenly Majesty
Level: 50
EVs: 32 HP / 32 Atk / 2 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Trop Kick
- Triple Axel
- Low Kick
- Helping Hand
That good?
yep
What 6th mon
you short a mon?
depends which matchup seems hard
I mean it has to be a mega
did you drop dragonite?
this is 5 mons
yeah ik
ohhhh
I cut stuff to see if theres anything better
maybe sizor? floette seems hard
scizor is the answer you seek haha
or starmie
huge power rain boosted liquidation goes hard
32+ Atk Quaquaval Helping Hand Aqua Step vs. 2 HP / 0 Def Mega Floette in Rain: 180-213 (119.2 - 141%) -- guaranteed OHKO
I kinda want pelipper to have helping hand, is there a slot
I still think sizor is the answer
you have no fairy resist either
(I was looking for the tera types 😭 )
Yeah
https://pokepast.es/b09fb7fb1461287f
that looks good all around
https://tenor.com/view/mando-way-this-is-the-way-mandalorian-star-wars-gif-18467370
Ima test
thoughts after ~20 games:
* quack almost always wins after 1 ko, the issue is that its so hard to get there
* quack is too frail
* you still lose to tailwind unless you already used 3 aqua steps
yeah, that is quaquaval's main problem, being frial
It feels so good when he is +1 ohkoing outspeeding everything
thats why it feels so fun to use
but you got to make sure you can activate it
