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Mega Scrafty VGC Team Breakdown

https://pokepast.es/6f27de2e102e1e7ehttps://pokepast.es/6f27de2e102e1e7e Very cool visual I made. okay so team breakdown:
Scrafty is the mega I want to bring to most matches (unless like 5 special attacking faries are on the other side.) double intimidate is good because it shuts off a lot of physical attackers from doing meaningful damage, and resists hits from kinghambit so i dont need to worry too much about the hairy-chair-guy? I invested some speed into scrafty since i want it to be able to work inside trick room and tailwind. I made the choice of not giving it protect since its naturally so bulky, drain punch heals it back up, and i found iron head usefull in a lot of matches. after even a single swords dance, scrafty becomes a nightmare to fight.

farig is the tr setter, made to be physically bulky so after the double intimidate i dont need to worry about physical damage (kinghambit shaped threat in the corner). it has sitirus berry isntead of the more common colbur because i just found it more useful. unboosted, i survive both hydregion dark pulse and kowtow kleave on really low hp, only to heal a bit back anyways. the moveset is standard, what you'd probably expect from a farig. come in, set up tr, psychic/helping hand a bit, leave.

Aerodactyl is my tailwind setter. If my opponent doesnt have tailwind, i bring him. I decided not to give it protect and instead wide guard because my number 1 proitiy with aerodactyl is NOT keeping it alive, and if my oppnent doubles the aerodactyl (and gets the KO), scrafty gets a free turn anyways. i felt wide guard is better because a lot of the bad matchups for scrafty are pokemon that print out spread damage, and most of the spread damage pokemon in this format are special attackers who cant be intimaidated by scracfty twice.

Gholdengo life orb make it rain + nasty plot go brr. its good into the fairies scrafty hates.

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Mega Gengar & Scrafty Team Discussion

After my gard dnite team in ma, I was struggling to make a new team which I felt was good enough to defeat most of the meta.

Staraptor has been literally everywhere, so in order to try counter it I decided to try out mega gengar. I quickly fell in love with it due to its utility, speed and damage. After trying multiple other megas I settled on scrafty as a secondary mega and it feels kinda good in its synergy with gengar.

The team overall feels like its close to reaching the same peak as the gard dnite team but there are some issues

https://pokepast.es/be6c2d9bcf73d6c7

While I like the first 3 pokemon a lot, farig sinistcha and talon feel kinda odd to use. They work but it feels like I am tryna force myself to use a fire grass water core when it isn't necessary on this team.

Araquanid is rly rly rly nice, its utility combined with the damage output to ohko a hell lot of opponents is nice.

I like wide gaurd tailwind and tr, so I'd rather have mons for all 3. I am thinking about perhaps trying to use reg dnite cuz I did enjoy using it bfore I rlised how much I love mega dnite, but I have no clue for the tr slot and there aren't rly any other wide gaurd users that feel right aside from maybe aero

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Skarmory Team Help VGC Doubles Advice

Want to start getting into double battles and I want to conserve some BP. I have a couple ideas for how I can use skarm but im not 100% sure if i should commit the point investment into these just yet. I have 2 pokepaste links that i have had put my 2 options for teams in but you can treat them like a combined list of pokemon if that helps.

I have more confidence in the second "team", but the main issue i have is that it doesnt have redirection support like sinistcha which might be fine but im unsure what to do against rain comps.

https://pokepast.es/25a8f3cfe16bbc16
https://pokepast.es/dad650f2763a235d

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Building a Mono-Steel Team for Pokémon VGC Locals

My local shops are all doing custom formats for their mid-year celebration events, and the one today is using mono-type teams only. I came up with this mono-steel team and wanted to know your thoughts.
https://pokepast.es/024c2104ef8f71e9

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Optimize Your VGC Tailroom Team | Pokémon Champions

This team is very strong and has gotten me to around top 2000 on champions and top 60 on showdown. My main issue with the team right now is the mawile. Blastoise has been the star and I had mawile for matchups like floette but with all the support floette usually has it feels like mawile can’t effectively be the counter I wanted. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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M Venusaur + M Aerodactyl Team Review

In Reg MA, i made a M Venusaur team, abusingits amazing matchups into meta threats by pairing it with partners that could deal with Psychic and Flying Types.
But now, in Reg MB, with Staraptor, i needed to rework my team, and i switched from a trick room centered team, i chose a Tailwind based M Aerodactyl team.

I want to know if there's anything i could optimise or change.
Incineroar has taunt because if not Trick Room destroys me.

The team is mainly Bulky Offense, using Twind to compensate in Speed.

M Venusaur, Rotom-W, Incineroar is main core, and Gholdengo is here because its incredible into Staraptor.

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Staraptor + Sinistcha Toxic Combo Idea

https://pokepast.es/9457f0fe88adc55d

I started building a rain team with Staraptor then I realised Sinistcha gets psych up

The idea is buff up Staraptor then by time he needs to be healed by Sinistcha she can psych up and get the defence buffs..
Is it over kill to add whimsi for charm boosts?

Maybe incin for parting shot boosts to buff Sinistchas spatk 😂

Am I cooking here or we over cooked now??

Any other options im not thinking of??

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Master Ball Snow Team Guide

A simple Master ball snow team i used to go mball from uball !
this teams relies heavily on the snow and abuses snow cloak ability of glaceon and mamoswine

1.mega froslass sets the snow and aurora veil , safeguard it if opponents have weather setters

2.glaceon , the mvp of the team , tanky , hits hard with blizzard , has snowcloak ability and brightpowder making 100 percent accurate moves close to 70 percent in snow

3.mamowsine with life orb , physical wall breaker and can dodge hits in snow too

4.grimmsnarl the best support pokemon , best for safe switches and fake outs , patring shots , reflect can be changed for other support move !

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Mega Slowbro VGC Team Building Guide | Pokémon Champions

I’m working on building a good mega slowbro team and just need some advice on a few smaller parts of the team, otherwise I have it figured out for the most part. The team will be
- Slowbro
Holding slowbronite. Running iron defense, recover, amnesia, and body press. Probably regenerator
- Sableye
Item tbd. Running skill swap, other moves open. Prankster
- Kingambit
Holding leftovers. Running iron head, kowtow cleave, protect, and sucker punch. Supreme overlord
- H-Zoroark
Holding life orb. Running shadow ball, shadow sneak, protect, and hyper voice
- Sinistcha
Holding sitrus berry. Running rage powder, trick room, matcha gotcha, last open, probably protect. Hospitality
- Kangaskhan
Holding silk scarf. Running fake out and last resort. Scrappy

The plan is to give slowbro prankster with sableye then switch out sableye to sinistcha while slowbro sets up with iron defense and maybe amnesia if the opponent has a threatening special attacker. Once slowbro is set up it mega evolves(to get shell armor and prevent crits) and try to sweep with body press. Kingambit and zoroark are there to deal with ghost types(kingambit also to clean up late game). Kangaskhan is there for perish trap teams and just as good damage output. Sinistcha can use trick room if it’s necessary.

My questions are a) How should I EV slowbro. I figure max hp and split between def/spdf b) Is kangaskhan better with the option to mega evo? c) What other moves should I give sableye? Screens? Quash or torment maybe? and d) Anything else worth noting? Particular teams I should look out for(disregarding OHKO teams) Other moves or items I should switch around?

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Help Needed: EV Spreads for VGC Team

Wolfey got 2nd with this team in a recent tournament, and I have a shiny pyroar and vileplum so i wanna try this team out cause it looks fun, but he didn't post the EV spreads for the mons so can anyone here help me out here with the EV spreads for this team?

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Do These 6 Pokémon Work in a Rain Team?

Mega swam, peli, arch, basc, incin, and sinisctha

I'm wondering if these 6 pokemon work together in a team, and if they do how I should build them as I've never built a rain team before so I don't know the weakness's and what to cover for.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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