Building the Ultimate Perish Rain Team | Pokémon VGC Guide
Summary
In the Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server, members are collaborating to perfect a Perish Rain team. The discussion covers essential tactical adjustments, including optimizing Gengar for rain, selecting the right Incineroar moveset, and addressing grass-type coverage. This thread provides valuable insights for competitive players looking to refine their team composition and strategy for upcoming VGC tournaments.
I have perfected my first 5 Pokémon but I have been struggling on figuring out who to use as my last mon and I would love ur help
You don’t have coverage for grass
But there is not a grass type sweeper I think
Like the closest is viloplume
ice puch instead of ice beam
swampert is a physical attacker so ice beam is ignoring that stat as it is a special attack
the only grass sweeper that is a threat is mostly just meowscarada
Nope
Tsareena better
And mega seceptile is like very niche
Thx y’all
If you are facing a grass type
Use peli swapert lees
And make a hurracain ice punch mindgame
K
This is sick, since I also love to run Gengar
One funny thing you can do to teach gengar thunder
Since its max accuracy in rain
But me personally I don’t think perish is worth going for, I just do icy wind for speed control, and it works well if you have a good tailwind setter
Because two other moms already know perish song, Gengar doesn’t really need it now, since he is still a great glass cannon without it
I deadass might need to play this team it looks fun
Also change primerina’s ability to liquid voice
If your running hyper voice
K
Should I switch grimsnarl out for incin ?
Incin is rising in useage
Unless it’s a rain team
(Yes)
K
Fake out
Flare blitz
Parthing Shot
Protect
?
No protect
Throat chop is the common pick on a defensive incin
K
This is the team so far
can you give this team a review and suggest some upgrades please 🙏
rain
Whats the last mon tho? Also I do not think incin should rly have flareblitz on a rain/perish team
You could use something like taunt to stop the ocassional roar user
Or protect
Last mons prim
K
So fake out part, throat, and taunt ?
I mean you can also use protect, depends on how you like to use incin
Eh but protect might be better for stalling
Yeha ima use protect
Evssss
Protect is better for perish
Fake ,protect , throat and parting
I will recommend you sinestcha and not prim
Sinestcha is very good for the perish mode and the archaludon one
check dms
Incin actually doesn’t do bad on rain teams, he isn’t really bothered by the rain lowering fire type moves, the only thing that effects him is that it makes him more vulnerable to opposing water types, which honestly isn’t that bad for him since he already has a pretty good amount of bulk. But it’s up to you to do grimmsnarl or incin
Also, put icy wind on Gengar instead of perish. The speed control is much more useful, since you already have other perish mobs
But this is a perish team boy
I agree, it is very good for archaludon
Yes I get that but it’s just much better for it
It’s optional though
And it can survive hit like earthquakes that m gengar can’t
Bro is like eating a sandwich without bread
True
It’s more fun with perish on Gengar
After all I’d know since he’s my favorite mon to use
It’s also hella funny
could you send the updated paste with all the new things
Sure give me a sec
I’m probably gonna tinker with this team, since I’ve been testing it and it’s been super fun. But I’ll see if I can find anything that could improve it
I’ll probably try out the sinischa instead of prim
Yeah you just have a lot of water damage
Something funny you could do is get a water absorb mon on the team
Since prim gets water type perish song
Nahh
Maybe change arch for kommo
Ehhhh
Sound proof
Oh…
Hollup that’s cheeky af
He is a popular perish Mon
Throat
Wanna talk about this in vc?
Ok I will make the evs
Cya
I don’t have a mic sadly
Aight
Oh yeah idk why politoad’s seconed move should
Be
Maybe rain dance for setting up rain when I can’t switch it out and back it
Icy wind to slow down fast mobs
Yeah idk
Either or is good
Although me personally I would do rain dance so you can not worry about having to swap him out and back in to set rain back up
Yeah probably
And also for sinischa, because it’s two main item options are taken by politoad and incin give it kasib berry
If your gonna run it
https://pokepast.es/e6597eda2555fc17
if you want to make some small changes
there it is the team
Lemme see
It’s pretty cool
Lemme try it out in Pokémon showdown
Really worked hard on thge evs
and i think the dark type berry is better because now cringe gambit is so popular
damp rock?
I was thinking of giving politoed encore to deal with tailwind setters like aerydactly, whimsicott, pelliper, etc
But it was just a thought
Idk if it would be any good
It also helps with matchups like incin, t-tar, and a few others
But I’m sticking to the ghost type berry to deal with basculegion, since it’s oroblamatic for the team to deal with, since it isn’t affected by shadow tag, benefits from rain, and also is just hard to kill if archaludon or Gengar aren’t present.
Idk I’ve just had a better time using the ghost type berry
But it’s up to you
Either is good
Yeah basc is problematic
