Mega-Froslass Team Feedback & Counters

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Summary

In Pokémon Champions this announcement shares a Mega-Froslass-based team and asks for feedback on coverage versus threats like Mega-Gengar, Mega-Charizard-Y, Mega-Metagross, Mega-Guardevoir psyspam, Mega-Kangaskhan, and Dondozo Tatsugiri. The poster is unsure about Whimsicott moves (taunt, helping hand, encore), water answers, and whether to swap Primarina for Rotom-Wash. It discusses leads (Whimsicott+Arcanine) and Choice Scarf Arcanine to handle Charizard.

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I made a team based on Mega-Froslass, using Pokemon available to Champions and tried to cover for expected threats notably:

  • Mega-Gengar
  • Mega-Guardevoir Psyspam
  • Mega-Froslass
  • Mega-Charizard-Y
  • Mega-Metagross
  • Mega-Kangaskhan (hopefully)
  • Dondozo Tatsugiri (hopefully)

I am not entirely sure About the last 2 Moves of Whimsicott. I would like taunt (especially to stop trick room) and helping hand (to boost the spread moves of froslass, arcanine or primarina if needed), but i am unsure if i shouldn't got for encore over one of those above, to punish status and setup.

Also I can't hit water really hard and I am unsure if neutral dmg is strong enough against strong water types like Dondozo

I know we don't know how the meta could look like and I cannot think about every situation, but any Ideas on what else to cover and how?

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I think using arcanine as your answer to zard is a good idea, but you're going about it with a bit too much overkill in just this case. Choice scarf is the need here for arcanine to outspeed zard, and zard dies with a rock slide, so you don't have your main answer dead before moving. Primarina also isn't the best answer, since you essentially have to win the weather war, while switching in a mon that dies to heat wave.

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The idea was to lead with whimsicott + arcanine so i would outspeed basically everything, unless they setup tailwind aswell. I think prim is the weakest pick, but what other mon could be good, that ideally has a dondozu answer (haze)

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I have thought about swapping primarina with rotom wash for electric coverage, which can hit charizard aswell and it could cripple physical attackers like dondozo with will o whisp

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