Team-Building Help: Greninja Garchomp Lucario Core
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments community provides expert feedback on competitive team building. This discussion focuses on optimizing a core featuring Greninja, Garchomp, and Mega Lucario, addressing common meta threats like Sneasler. Members share advice on item management, stat distribution, and strategic positioning to help newer players climb the ranked ladder.
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
Oooo!! Mega Lucario isn’t one I see often on the ranked battles
Are you a new player
Yeah kinda I’m only in great ball tier
Okay.
Also relatively new to competitive battles too
What do you want this core to do?
Also, #channel if I am not around to finish helping, some of this may help as well
Oh yeah I’ll definitely take a look through that
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
Just quick bits on the most common mistakes seen. Saves me from bashing my head into snrofk
Greninja as your sweeper over mega Lucario?
And then Garchomp to try to clean up whatever it can after that fight if it’s type compatible, if not Lucario
I try to keep Lucario in my back pocket
But I’m not sure if that’s the best strategy
No one is really running him because sneasler
That isn't to say you should t
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
Yeah Lucario I’m kinda open to swapping out, he’s been getting swept pretty easily my past few games
You can use greninjite as a secondary to play
If whatever main mega you choose to build around doesn't fit the typing well enough
Is there a way to get greninjite without ZA?
Buy it In Store with vp
It's not in the shop for me
Then have someone trade you Greninja from za to home maybe?
I think i saw a video saying that would work, I'll def try to find someone
Gonna read through your thread now
I'd really like to add some support, what are some good ones that pair with Greninja or Garchomp?
Sinistcha
Maushold
