Optimize Your Whimsicott/Gholdengo VGC Team | Pokémon Champi

I recommend garchomp, i know its boring, but i barely see answers against opposing steel types

If you struggle against mega staraptor i highly recommend clefable
due to its unaware ability it will always 2hit KO Staraptor with moonblast, it also ignores its offensive stat changes, with enough def and hp investment and a sitrus berry it will survive 2 brave birds, but might go down to the 3rd one

I've seen alot of sucess with mega venusaur against trickroom, aswell as rain, bc of its thickfat ability it gets rid of its ice and fire weakness
most swamperts run wave crash highhorse power and ice punch, so it wont hit very effectively, but hurricane pelipper or farigiraf psychic can still threaten it, unless you play it with screens

So i would replace mega Dnite with Mega Venu
Incin for Clefable
and Garchomp for either Primarina or Kingambit

Clefable wants Sitrus Berry
and Garchomp usually wants Life Orb

With Clefable next to Kingambit you could bait opposing mega Staraptors into closr combat into kingambit, simply protect him and moonblast raptor
if you dealt enough dmg you can either try and suckerpunch it next turn or, follow me Iron Head

just @ me if you want to know more or disagree with some advice and want other tips

Against Rain? I'd have to think since I'm in public rn, I can't really check

and a mega

mega against rain

hm

We have
Grass Fairy
Steel Ghost
Steel Dark
Water Fairy
Dragon Ground
so far, right?

I believe you also need something against sun teams, since you have 3 fire weaknesses

Fire and Water coverage
maybe a Water type yourself?

Water Dragon, but thats kinda overlapping

am I missing something?

Wait, what Pokémon are you even using from my suggestion

Clefable and Garchomp?

Whimsicott - Grass Fairy
Clefable - Fairy
Gholdengo - Steel Ghost
Primarina - Water Fairy
Garchomp - Dragon Ground

Okay okay

So far this is what I understood from your suiggestions. But isnt 3 fairy types kinda overkill?

Yes 3 fairys are alot

Replacing kingambit with garchomp seems better since removing primarina removes a special attacker off the team and would have to solely rely on goldengo

for special moves

correct me if my understanding is wrong

maybe Talonflame?
It covers just a bit more for steel types with either overheat or flare blitz and also gets some priority on tailwind

like replacing talonflame woth whims

you'd also be able to click earthquake on chomp next to talon, if you prefer eq

personally i prefer stomping tho

ohh intersting, so it would be:

Talonflame
Clefable
Gholdengo
Primarina
Garchomp

Yes, Gholdengo has a hard dealing with Kingambit, now Talonflame Overheat might OHKO it

I'd have to do the calcs

im pretty sure flare blitz wouldnt OHKO since kingamnit has way more def than spD

yeah i believe so, kingambit naturally has higher def than spD

252+ SpA Talonflame Overheat vs. 138 HP / 4 SpD Kingambit: 192-228 (100 - 118.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO

if you want to make sure that overheat OHKOS some bulkier sets you could use charcoal or expert belt, but id say focus sash is its best item

Thank youu!

For the 6th slot im thinking of adding sinischa. For healing capabilites and wall potential to stall out some turns

does it 1hko straptor?

Ohhh i see, i'll test this out as well. Thank you for the tips!

Thank you both !