Optimize VGC Team: Movesets EVs Advice

Summary

In Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments this announcement requests help optimizing movesets and EVs for a VGC team. Topics include Aura Sphere vs Fake Out on Blastoise, Aqua Pulse vs Aqua Jet, Tailwind speed issues, handling Sinistcha and Gambit threats, and considerations like running no Protect on Blastoise or a non attacking Talonflame. Feedback will improve team reliability in tournaments.

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Its been working well, I would just like help optimizing move sets and evs. I've been doing damage calcs myself but I haven't really run into any hard counters yet

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It was modest before but I kept getting outsped in my own tailwind

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Aura sphere is so I can kill Gambit both my basc and pelipper deal with sinistcha pretty well and my pelipper can wall the majority of sinistcha with wide guard. Magnet is a very good idea

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That's just my reasoning for things anyway maybe I'm missing stuff

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I see that too, I have whimsicott as my anti bs mon but I'll have to see if talon can do that too

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I wonder if I could get away with having no protect on stoise

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Wild

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Oh w

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do you think it's a throw to run no attack talon flame

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I ended up going with aura sphere instead of fake out on Blastoise

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Yeah it makes it 120 bp and maybe I should run aqua pulse instead of aqua jet

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