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Double Mega: Beat Archaludon With Mega Glimmora

https://pokepast.es/7855546db28371f2

I need help getting through Archaludon with this team, is there any way in which it can work with the current roster of Pokemon? Should I change up a Pokemon in order to support both my cores better? I'm unsure of Rotom is that good here. In short I need help finding a good mon to counter Archaludon which walls this team.

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Gengar Meowstic Perish Trap Strategy

The thoughts are that a meowstic skill swap to steal the shadow tag and give gengar prankster (if needed), then gengar switches out while meowstic dies to the first perish. You win with gengar using a second perish.
VERY ROUGH DRAFT

https://pokepast.es/3f61e8f9f05d9e51

152 messages

VGC Team Dumps: Meta Builds & Sets

Kleavor @ Focus Sash
Ability: Sharpness
Jolly Nature
- Stone Axe
- Protect
- X-Scissor
- Close Combat

Floette-Eternal @ Floettite
Ability: Flower Veil
Timid Nature
- Moonblast
- Dazzling Gleam
- Pollen Puff
- Protect

Garchomp @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Rough Skin
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Dragon Claw
- Rock Tomb
- Poison Jab

Basculegion @ Mystic Water
Ability: Adaptability
Tera Type: Water
Jolly Nature
- Wave Crash
- Aqua Jet
- Last Respects
- Protect

Whimsicott @ Focus Sash
Ability: Prankster
Timid Nature
- Moonblast
- Tailwind
- Encore
- Endeavor

Charizard @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Blaze
Modest Nature
- Heat Wave
- Solar Beam
- Weather Ball
- Protect

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ZamTera Team Showcase Zamazenta & Terapagos

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.

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Mon Gathering Service Pokémon Trades

If you have need of a pokemon and no one has been able to get you one, list it here for me. I am off work Monday and Tuesday and can collect a copy of the mons you need. I will not grind out floette eternal. Everything else I should be able to get a copy of. Once I have your Mon I will ping you so you can trade me for it.

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Vote: Which VGC Team Should I Pick?

Rain Palafin Team: https://pokepast.es/8513762d7aa329f7
Perish Komm-o Team: https://pokepast.es/a42eb223b64e73f5
Perish Rain Team: https://pokepast.es/f304849ae3e11732
Any change is welcome!!!!:AlcremieHeart_By_Sifyro:

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Could Armarouge Be Viable in VGC Meta?

There is a ton of stuff that seems very good for it, as a fire type, he has a good matchup into Charizard Y and Mega Floette. It also has the psychic typing which helps it into Venusaur if u can take an Earth Power, and it also has Wide Guard which is really good with all the Garchomp Sylveon Floette Charizard Delhpox stuff we have been seeing. And i know Delphox seems better because its more threatening and is faster and has levitate for Venusaur, but Armarouge isn't a Mega, so its a cheap version of Mega Delphox who can double its speed once u hit it with anything. The problem is of course, that is bad into Basculegion and Kingambit

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Rain Team EVs for VGC Tournaments

I’m making this post to try to figure something out. When looking at statistics for tournaments, one name was incredibly consistent. AltKyle. I hunted down his most recent teamsheet to try to recreate his team, but want help with evs. Any ideas?
https://pokepast.es/01507850ed7f8b94

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Recreated JP Championships Team EV & Moves Help

I had to guess for all of the evs and some of the moves since there was only 1 game on stream. I want to know if you assume anything is different so I can use the team as accurately as possible. I’ll link the video in the 1st message of the post

https://pokepast.es/ad193a0c7c1162ce

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Ranked Doubles Help: Mega Feraligatr & Team Tips

Feeling lost on a team to grind ranked with , not really a fan of playing meta teams but also not really having much luck with the teams I'm building / testing. Any recommendations / underrated mega's , cool move / ability interactions are appreciated 🙂

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Dragonite Gardevoir Team Help

Dragonite has quickly became my favourite mega simply bcause it is rly hard to remove and has utility. I originally tried dragonite venasaur and then dragonite scissor but I found that I lacked spread damage.

So recently I paired dragonite with an old favourite of gardevoir, but the team feels like something is wrong with it but I ain't completely sure

https://pokepast.es/139ca716d3656798

Gard and Dragonite are fairly self explainatory. When I added back dragon pulse to my old draco meteor set I found I just kept clicking dragon pulse so I put protect on dragonite. Gard is a reg bulky tr set.

I felt like I needed something like scissor for those setup floette raidboss teams but scissor itself just felt off without the mega so I used aegislash. Incin is using roar to give more tools against setup, perish and hard tr. Mamoswine is just rly underutilised in the format in my opinion, ya it dies quickly but it hits a lot of pokemon for super effective.

Rotom wash is by far the most suspect pokemon. Screens is rly good util but it doesn't feel like it does much aside from that. I could run scarf but unlike dragonite I know that I prefer a way to protect gardevoir since it is weak to a lot of common pokemon.

Any suggestions on what I should fix are welcome

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Improve VGC Team: Incineroar Hatterene Farigiraf

Incineroar @ White Herb
Ability: Intimidate
Adamant Nature
- Close Combat
- Fake Out
- Flare Blitz
- Darkest Lariat

Hatterene @ Fairy Feather
Ability: Magic Bounce
Modest Nature
- Dazzling Gleam
- Protect
- Psychic
- Trick Room

Farigiraf @ Mental Herb
Ability: Armor Tail
Relaxed Nature
- Twin Beam
- Hyper Voice
- Trick Room
- Helping Hand

Blastoise @ Blastoisinite
Ability: Torrent
Quiet Nature
- Ice Beam
- Fake Out
- Water Spout
- Dark Pulse

Golurk @ Golurkite
Ability: Iron Fist
Brave Nature
- Protect
- Thunder Punch
- Poltergeist
- Headlong Rush

Kingambit @ Chople Berry
Ability: Defiant
Adamant Nature
- Low Kick
- Sucker Punch
- Kowtow Cleave
- Iron Head

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Draft League Trick Room Team Help

I'm no expert on team building on draft leagues but i plan on making a trick room team with these mons. But also a round pixelate or Refrigerate. Any tips or help would be helpful.
Mega Glalie
Dragapult
sylveon
Mega Venusaur
Sinistcha
meowstic
Chandelure
Paldean tauros aqua
Bellibolt
Appletun

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Perish Trap Rain Sweeper Team Help

so this is my first ever team that I have been using for abit now, but it always felt incomplete.

What the team is meant to be is a Perish trap team that I can pivot to a rain team, Mega Gengar is the centre of this team he is meant to lockdown a Pokémon in the field to maybe perish song or too help me win the weather war. They are also built to kill Pokémon that my team might struggle with such as Sinitea, a slow basculgeon, mega frosslass and other.

Politoad is here to help the team out like setting perish up while Gengar is just trying to survive, switching in to it so it tanks the move, set up rain so that we stop Charizard Y and Venu or tyranitar and steelix, and do some damage when it get the chance to.

Primarina is here to counter pokemom my other Pokémon struggle against such as garchomp, kommo-o, Charizard when we’re in the rain, and is pretty much our rain sweeeper and with the Welp of Gengar we can stop Pokémon from switching in and out an KO them.

Kommo-o is a set up sweeper who is here to deal with kinggambit, garchomp, and other we have two other Pokémon to him set up

Sneasler / Sinitea, this two are here to counter and help support the team, such as Sinitea healing kommo-o when he user that one move and help Gengar stay alive during the perish tik down. Now sneasler is here to threaten Pokémon with fake out in the start of a match, and maybe killing kinggambit, Charizard y and floette who my other Pokémon my struggle against.

https://pokepast.es/85aeba547c3b8713

But as I said this Pokémon team seems incomplete, so I would love advice to improve this team.

Srry for the bad explaining and bad photos

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M Gardevoir + Ultra Basculegion Hyper Offense Team

I wanted to make a team that make Basculegion the besst endgame threat possible. Its able to take an Adaptability boosted 150 Last Respects from opposing Basc thanks to the berry.
The gameplan is to lead M Gardevoir with support in order to chip opponents down for Basculegion to pick every KO it needs to.

I would like to know if there's anything i could improve

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Orthworm Mega Blastoise VGC Team Guide

Team Credit: https://twitter.com/Mutou610poke/status/2054452244024811632?mx=1
OG Creator Breakdown(with rental): https://mutou610pokepoke.hatenablog.com/entry/2026/05/11/104825

I played a lot of blastoise last season, and saw this pretty cool team based on passing substitue to blastoise using orthworm. The og creator finished top 100 in reg m-1, and I used it to reach top 100 early reg m-2. I would definitely reccomend reading their post, but I'll explain my thoughts and how I used it here:

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Here Comes The Sun Meta Slave Sun Venu

Version 1: https://pokepast.es/f602f6fdf8b36fe8

Alright guys, new season new team.
Here I come with, as the title suggests, a meta slave team featuring sun (yard ofc) and venu, which seems to not be the go to in the current meta, with whim having wayyyy too much usage over it or it holding the mega stone, which obviously I'm not so it's a completely different Mon.

As for EVs, I'm about to go in a basic breakdown for all the benchmarks hit just if any nerd like me cares (probably the best part of the team)

Venu, always takes a dwb from mega aero after sitrus pop, takes two +1 moonblasts from floette and outspeeds every relevant Mon under sun, rest spatk

Yard, takes Ada slide from chomp, creeps rotom creep, rest spatk (probably changing to creep fucking vivillon creep because f that mf)

Chomp, insanely bulky set, takes heat wave into claw from most yard chomp leads being able to punish em insanely hard

Sylveon, generic sylveon EV popularized by the ariados guy, takes heat wave into eq from most chomp yard leads iirc

Adamant sash basc, pretty straightforward, the go to for basc in high ladder sadly

Gambit takes Sneas cc with chople pop and two hyper voices from gard iirc

Sitrus on Venu for all the calcs I said, here to stick around and be the only "speed control" of the team with sleep powder WHICH IS GOING TO HIT OK

Yard, nuke button overheat comprehends for defendive EVs, no one expects air slash to say goodbye to sneasler, don't need solar beam since leaf storm venu CLEARS

Bulky scarf chomp here to stick and not be the destroy them button, just annoying damage dealer to chip everyone down/clean endgames/kill glimmoras. You do not need to OHKO stuff if you outspeed them and survive the double up mindset

Sash Basc boringggggggggg. Will not bother explaining since you probably already know

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Building a Mega Heracross VGC Team

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

105 messages

Sun/Rain Mega Blastoise VGC Team Ideas

I have an Idea for a set based around Mega Blastoise under tailwind with a secondary sun mode with Hisuian Typhlosion I'ma post the thread here since I need help with picking two last mons to help support this idea(Maybe even abandon and lean fully on one)

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Pokémon Forum Rules

Start a thread here about anything Pokémon related.

Rules

  • Threads must be Pokémon related
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  • Keep posts on topic
  • Do not spam duplicate threads
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VGC Team Building Rules & Posting Guide

Team Building Thread Rules

Use this forum for VGC team building only.

Please keep posts clear, detailed, and useful so other players can properly help with your team.

Post Titles

Use a clear title that explains what your team is or what help you need.

Avoid vague titles like:

  • help
  • team
  • rate this
  • is this good
  • what do I do

One Thread Per Team

Please make one thread per team.

Do not make a new thread every time you change one Pokémon, move, item, nature, EV spread, or Tera type.

If you update your team, post the update inside your existing thread so people can follow the full team-building process.

Allowed:

  • One thread for one specific team
  • Team updates inside the same thread
  • Follow-up questions about the same team
  • Revised team pastes posted in the same thread

Not allowed:

  • Reposting the same team as a new thread
  • Making a new thread for every small edit
  • Duplicate threads because the first one did not get replies yet

What Your Thread Must Include

Every team building post should include as much relevant team information as possible.

Please include:

  • Team paste, rental code, screenshot, or complete written team list
  • Pokémon names
  • Movesets
  • Held items
  • Abilities
  • Natures
  • EV spreads
  • Tera types, if relevant
  • Any important speed benchmarks
  • Any relevant EV tweaks
  • What the team is trying to do
  • What matchups or Pokémon you are struggling with
  • What kind of feedback you want

EV Tweaks / Team Notes

If your EV spreads are not simple 252 / 252 spreads, please explain any important reasoning.

You do not need to write a full essay, but relevant context helps people give better advice.

VGC Only

This forum is for VGC team building only.

Allowed:

  • VGC team feedback
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  • Regulation format team building
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  • Lead options
  • Matchup planning

Not allowed:

  • Singles team building
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Feedback Rules

When giving feedback, be constructive.

Good feedback explains why something should change.

Do not post replies that are just insults, spam, or useless one-line comments.

Mega Kangaskhan Trick Room Team Help

Im currently trying to build a mega kangeskhan team as hes one of my favourite mons also because hes fairly slow compared to most meta mons (I think) but im kinda new to team building so i would appreciate some help
Team:

https://pokepast.es/e26f719ef13b7c51

Ive tested it in a few showdown games and it seems to work well so far

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Mega Kangaskhan Team Help & Moves Advice

I wanna make a mega kangaskhan team and im new to team building and pokemon champions basically so on looking for help so let me know if there are bad stuff e.g. bad moves abilities held items or evs ect in this team (most likely will be) and what to replace them with

https://pokepast.es/7ef06862c85f4be

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