Team-Building Help: Greninja Garchomp Lucario Core

Summary

In Pokémon Champions this announcement requests team-building advice for a core of Greninja, Garchomp, and Lucario. It details EV spreads, natures, moves and items like Leftovers, Focus Sash, Lucarioite and asks about Mega and Greninjite options, aiming to improve ranked performance and counter popular metas.

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Open to any tips, including swapping any pokemon, changing stats items or moves, adding pokemon, or really anything

Currently running the following 3 as my mains:

Greninja
32 SpAtk 2 SpDef 32 Spe
Timid Protean
Leftovers
Dark Pulse
Hydro Pump
Ice Beam
U-Turn

Garchomp
32 Atk 2 Def 32 Spe
Jolly Rough Skin
Focus Sash
Earthquake
Scale Shot
Swords Dance
Fire Fang

Lucario
2 HP 32 SpAtk 32 Spe
Timid Inner Focus
Lucarioite
Aura Sphere
Flash Cannon
Bone Rush
Swords Dance

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Oooo!! Mega Lucario isn’t one I see often on the ranked battles

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Are you a new player

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Yeah kinda I’m only in great ball tier

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Okay.

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Also relatively new to competitive battles too

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What do you want this core to do?

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Also, #channel if I am not around to finish helping, some of this may help as well

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Oh yeah I’ll definitely take a look through that

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My strategy so far has been Greninja as a primary to sweep whatever it can and U-Turn if it’s at type advantage even with protean

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Just quick bits on the most common mistakes seen. Saves me from bashing my head into snrofk

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Greninja as your sweeper over mega Lucario?

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And then Garchomp to try to clean up whatever it can after that fight if it’s type compatible, if not Lucario

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I try to keep Lucario in my back pocket

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But I’m not sure if that’s the best strategy

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No one is really running him because sneasler

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That isn't to say you should t

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But being weak to fire ground and fighting with y-zard sun team, sand team, sneasler being the most popular rn, it makes it hard

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Yeah Lucario I’m kinda open to swapping out, he’s been getting swept pretty easily my past few games

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You can use greninjite as a secondary to play

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If whatever main mega you choose to build around doesn't fit the typing well enough

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Is there a way to get greninjite without ZA?

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