Pokémon VGC Teambuilding: Staraptor & Mega Zard Y Strategy
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server hosts a deep dive into competitive teambuilding, focusing on a Staraptor and Mega Zard Y core. This discussion explores critical adjustments, including replacing Garchomp with Gholdengo for better speed control and swapping Farigiraf for Sinistcha to improve team synergy. It is an essential read for players looking to refine their competitive rosters and overcome common meta threats like Fairy-types.
Team: https://pokepast.es/0af2c1791e2babef
After going through a redraft of my previous season's team i decided to spice up the staraptor team with the new season. But i am facing a bit of a hurdlle with my Farigiraf's moveset, Rotom wash's inclusion on the team, and the same can be said for Garchomp. For Garchomp in specific, my staraptor mode includes Garchomp abusing the flying type and levitate from staraptor and rotom-wash to spam. However, a major flaw I noticed is that it is extremely susceptible to any fairy types. This forces me to almost always bring Zard Y (My secondary mega) for any matchup with fairy types.
I am thinking about returning Gholdengo into the team after using it to climb towards masterball tier as a replacement for Garchomp. If the replacement happens do I slap life orb or use the scarf trick set on gholdengo for better speed control and surprise threats that would normally threaten it like froslass and zard Y (Power gem coverage).
Besides the garchomp dilemma, I need help with Rotom wash and farigiraf.
P.S: the Farig set is just me slapsticking something 😭
genuinely forgot to do the ping
for rotom wash i would actually run gholdengo over rotom wash instead of garchomp and run replace farig as i dont think it has a place on your team other then for prioty i would personally run sinistcha over farig
you can also bring snealser to the team if u strugle with
fairy types
it provides fake out support too
i am having a brainfart reading this part
MY BAD
fake out is nice but i am not the biggest fan of sneasler's glass cannon build
wtf
did my screenshot get botched
lol
i meant this
i meant replace farig
with sinistcha
i was just explaing why farig doesnt have a place on ur team
mb my brain is rotten
from doom scrolling
also unnecessarily adds flying weakness which i def shouldnt need especially with pelipper going around
wrong rain setter but idgaf
if yo udont like snealsers glass cannon you could go incineroar but it wouldnt counter fairy types
ok so if im going to keep chomp then ill go for a scarf trick set
only difficult part is clicking make it rain 
could work
yeah go for it
see how it works and if u like it or not
i had a battle with overqwil stall last time
thats why i wnated a fake out
gholdengo's funny magic trick will ruin the entire strateg
whoever played that team against me fuck you btw
i hope your bed collapses while you sleep
https://klipy.com/gifs/lie-detector-meme
nah cause unlike scarf gholdengo
you can move around the shitty spatk drop
with nasty plots
thats not possible with scarf Ghold
if i click make it rain i have to force switch gholdengo next turn if i wanna continue using it a
that is true but like at that point the fairy type is probably dead
and you would have locked its team mate or the fairy type with
scarf
yea honestly farig wouldnt be as strong as a choice with gholdengo on the team
sinistcha is the right call
not enough incin emojis btw
0/10 server
first match with scarf ghold
i immediately locked a guy's archaludon that got baton pass support from espathra
when it became a 4v1 raid boss my gholdengo went first thanks to tailwind+scarf then locked arch into dragon pulse meaning my whimsicott is guaranteed to win against it in a 1v1
Peak troll
Yeah since you can't be faked out by
I mean Faked out on gholdengo
Since its a ghost type anyways
