Mega Sharpedo VGC Strategy: Competitive Build & EV Tips
Summary
In the Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server, members are diving deep into the viability of Mega Sharpedo as an underrated attacker. This discussion covers optimal EV spreads to outspeed threats like Sneasler and Garchomp, while analyzing defensive calculations against common meta threats. Join the community to refine your competitive builds and share your thoughts on maximizing this powerful Pokémon in current VGC formats.
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been fucking around with mega sharpedo played 10 games and only lost like 1 or 2 of them because of some bullshit rockslide lmao
I don't think sharpedo is meta but it's definitely a strong underrated attacker
Any thoughts on some improvement
I'm very consistently getting 2 speed boost off each game
1 speed boost is already enough to outspeed garchomp and one shot with ice fang
Against big 6
arch swamp rain
even staraptor sand it's been pretty easy games
sharp only mega?
Arotom
Please use atleast 2 speed points to outspeed sneasler
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those 1 points are wasted on defensive stats
you need atleast 2 points for defensive stats to actually change something for calcs
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so you basicially play
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0 right now
32 Atk Life Orb Garchomp Stomping Tantrum vs. 32 HP / 0 Def Sharpedo-Mega: 110-133 (62.1 - 75.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
(no def)
32 Atk Life Orb Garchomp Stomping Tantrum vs. 32 HP / 1 Def Sharpedo-Mega: 110-133 (62.1 - 75.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
(1 def = same results)
32 Atk Life Orb Garchomp Stomping Tantrum vs. 32 HP / 2 Def Sharpedo-Mega: 109-130 (61.5 - 73.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
(2 def = calcs change)
and I think you want a different redirector
One of sharpedo's weaknesses is grass
grass types ignore rage powder
with that set you always survive 2 brave birds from mega raptor and can 2hitko it
you can still redirect fighting moves, another of sharpedos weaknesses
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I would also add some special offensive pokemon
especially since alot of pokemon are trained to survive physical moves
like mega delphox?
It gives you great offensive synergy between your megas, with sharpedo struggling against fairy
delphox handles them
delphox struggles against sandteams
sharpedo handles them
also you get a levitate mega, paired with your eq garchomp
I was also confused, but i do see the vision with ice fang psychic fang
for top threads such as garchomp or sneasler
but you will struggle against kingambit and incin with that sharpedo set
either that to survive either one aqua jet/suckerpunch
ooor
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that
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to straight up ignore suckerpunch and maybe setup a substitute early to ignore later upcoming aqua jets
im sure you can change the evs here, to still survive a few moves
for that 24% drop
yea
thats the changes I've done here
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with double fakeout, speedboost and follow me you have great chances to stall opposing tailwinds
i also like that set
