High-Elo Zamazenta & Terapagos VGC Team Showcase
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server presents a high-level team showcase featuring a powerful Zamazenta and Terapagos core. This guide details a refined strategy that reached 1850 Elo, including unique tech like Life Orb Terapagos and support from Farigiraf and Dragonite. It is an essential resource for competitive players looking to optimize their performance in the current VGC ruleset.
During the first ruleset of reg I, I made a team with Zamazenta and Terapagos which I kept on refining through reg J.
The end result ended up being incredibly well balanced, getting me to a peak elo of somewhere around 1850. As such, now going into reg M-B, I wanted to showcase my team for anybody who might be interested.
https://pokepast.es/ba50d621318409fb.
Zamazenta - Bulky asf boy who sits on the field doing insane damage with his body press's. Behemoth bash over heavy slam bcause its better against lunala and arceus ghost.
Terapagos - Life orb terapagos??? Am I out of my mind?. Terapagos has clear anti synergy with life orb but there is a clear reason I selected it. Life orb terapagos is capable of playing like both a specs terapagos and a calm mind terapagos. If my opponent doesn't have clear threats to the terapagos, I can calm mind and then later terastarstorm them to death, if they do have clear threats then I can go for immediate damage and do like half to most opponents. This works well with terapagos's speed tier, since its slow, meaning that it will likely take life orb chip after the opponent has alr hit it. Life orb terapagos hits sooo hard that a helping hand or calm mind boosted earth power oneshots most zamazenta.
Farigraf - Who givea terapagos said helping hands? Farig. Farig blocks priority, can set up tr, is rly bulky, foul play is rly good against both calyrex's and psychic lets it do good stab damage.
Dnite - Dragonite is the only other pokemon I regularly tera'd bcause tera normal extreme speed hits rly hard. Tailwind, protect, scale shot, loaded dice, and dnite is becoming faster than calyrex while throwing scales at it.
Incin and amoongus - I am lumping these 2 together bcause their combined purpose is to protect the other pokemon and end gimmicks. Taunt is rly useful for shutting down things like amoongus and clear smog makes even tera grass dondozo scared.
The whole team is made to block strategies. Wide gaurd stops spread attacks, tera stellar terapagos stops weather and terrain, taunt stops setup, clear smog reverses setup and goggles incin, tera grass farig and amoongus all block spore.
The largest issue for the team was always koraidon, bcause both of my restricteds where weak to it and while I can beat koraidon on its own, the combination of koraidon + fluttermane was a nightmare to deal with
Haha I shiver at the amoongus
Tera water was so annoying to kill
Entire team looks really solid
I thought life orb on it looked unique.
I kinda didn’t do much of this format myself but I remember how necessary wide guard was.
Lunala vs Zam is what I remember the most about that format haha
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Lunala was also kinda annoying to deal with but it also struggled to get rid of terapagos quickly so it became a race to see who could setup first
lol I’ll try get into restricted formats more next time they come around
Some people say they’re their favourite formats
