Building Off-Meta Hisuian Goodra Teams | VGC Strategy
Summary
In the Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server, members collaborate on building effective off-meta teams centered around Hisuian Goodra. This discussion covers essential synergy, including the use of Aurora Veil, redirection, and speed control to counter common meta threats like Garchomp and Charizard Y. It serves as a valuable resource for players looking to optimize unique team compositions for competitive play.
Hello I'm kind of new to competitive Pokémon, but I really don't want to use all the meta picks, mostly because I just don't like those Pokémon. I tried to build a team centered around Hisuian Goodra, but I feel like I'm missing something. I don't really know which Mega I should use or whether I actually need Trick Room. If I do, what should I change, and who should I replace? I'm willing to change almost everything 
HELP
Hmmm
Ok so I assume the idea of this is that you're trying to set up Goodra and sweep?
yeah kinda
We can work with that
Fist thing is, the team is pretty weak to garchomp, Zard Y and ghost types in general
Initially, we should probably figure out a Mega that helps with at least a couple of those, and I really really like Frosslass here
Because Aurora Veil is also going to be super helpful in keeping Goodra alive
I also think Sinistcha will be super helpful here as eaxtra healing and redirection, as well as trick room if you really need to outspeed everything
Then you need a pokemon that can just beat Zard, so Garchomp works really well with rockslide. It's also just an insane pokemon anyways haha
I also like Raichu Y as a second mega, mostly to help against Zard teams in a similar offensive way, as well as fake out support so you can set up Goodra more easily
Lastly, for both tailwind support, wide guard utility and a way to beat whimsicott I would recommend Aerodactyl
Isnt going raichu and trick room like a anyi sinergy?
Oh double speed control
Exactly
Trick Room will kinda be a just in case thing
Makes sense
I like it
So I only keep the goodra?
Pretty much yeah
Everything else doesn't really help goodra except maybe dragapult
But there are better options
Ill give it a try
I'll make a pokepaste quickly
https://pokepast.es/2c8e2da0807683d4 See if you can make this in game!
If it doesn;t work well then we can work on it more
Thank youu
Ill let you know!!
- Ohhh also
You should probably take off life dew from goodra
Put an actual move that can hit ghost types
Cause you could absolutely still lose haha
like dragon pulse will be fine
Noted
sorry lemme change it again
make it heavy slam
or flash cannon
that way you can hit fairy types haha
Triple noted
