Mega Salamence & Golisopod VGC Theorycrafting | Pokémon

Summary

The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server is diving into competitive theorycrafting with a new team featuring Mega Salamence and Golisopod. This discussion explores strategic pairings like Tsareena and Milotic to counter common cores, alongside potential additions like Incineroar or Kingambit. Members are invited to share move set suggestions and EV spreads to help refine this competitive build for upcoming VGC battles.

daringknight-67 OP

no pokepaste this time around because we dont have all items yet

mega mence will be running a pretty standard mixed set with double edge, hyper voice, dragon claw/draco meteor and protect

golisopod (if his ability isnt horrible) is here for fairies (floette) and will be running first impression, iron head, probably some coverage move or swords dance and protect

the next duo is tsareena and milotic who are there to counter the incineroar/rillaboom core, tsareena can deal with rillaboom by using triple axel and stopping fake out and grassy glide and milotic with comptitive prevents the standard switching game

in the past i used to run a no protect hypnosis set on milotic (coil, muddy water, hypnosis, recover) and while it has performed well, wood hammer by rillaboom is an issue
so the new set will be something along the lines of muddy water, icy wind, coverage or recover, protect with some more points in special attack and speed (probably enough to outspeed incineroar)

tsareena will be running a pretty standard set of triple axel, power whip, low kick and protect with wide lens for some extra consistency (evs are pending, im open to suggestions)

the next pokemon on the team is bulky support dragonite with an attack (probably dragon claw or espeed), ice spinner to remove grassy terrain, tailwind and coverage or protect (once again move suggestions are welcome)
the ability will be multiscale or inner focus if fake out ends up being problematic

and im not really sure what the 6th pokemon should be, some stuff that i have thought of are:

incineroar for support and to round out a water-fire-grass core
sneasler for floette and fake out, because as is if i get team preview wrong against big 6 im in trouble
kingambit for the same reason as sneasler (and defiant)
sylveon for some good damage however opposing steel types might be a problem in that case

daringknight-67 OP
@daringknight-67 no pokepaste this time around because we dont have all items yet mega mence will be running a prett…
ivoryunicorn-80

Actual genius

ivoryunicorn-80

All items are in shodown

ivoryunicorn-80

:smile:

daringknight-67 OP

we still dont know what they are gonna add tho

ivoryunicorn-80

Seeds and AV probably

ivoryunicorn-80

:Porygon2:

daringknight-67 OP

if triple axel hits🙏

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