Pokémon VGC Team Building & Strategy Guide
Summary
The Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server provides expert advice on competitive team building and battle tactics. This discussion covers effective strategies for countering common threats like rain teams and Charizard Y, while exploring niche tactics like Soak and defensive support options. It is an essential resource for players looking to refine their competitive rosters and improve their performance in VGC tournaments.
Can u guys tell me how to use the team i built properly how to counter certain pokemons
Who do you wanna counter?
basically water teams and charizod y teams
Well water is kinda simple and complex at the same time
yea if its swampert i can just fake out and use grass knot
You have to win the weather war or get raichu in tailwind so it can beat up the rain pokemon
hmmm allright
what r raichu counters
is there any other improvements i can do with the team switch up some pokemons or anything else
There aren't rly "counters" in the traditional sense for raichu since it hits everybody for basically supereffective but if you are against someone with a ground move or literally any strong attack it can die pretty easily so you have to be very careful with it
My box
lots of people saw sucess with quick guard sneasler, to prevent it being hit by strong aqua jets or suckerpunches
yea thats right
And if your opponent is bulky enough they can live and retalitate by probably ohkoing raichu
yea
I'd say farig prob easier for most players
i wanted to use a strat like using soak on basculigon changing their typing to ater
water
I've seen that its rly rly rly gimmicky
Against ground type moves sinistcha looks like a decent option, the only Pokémon that uses a ground type move and ignores powder moves is mega venusaur with its powder immunity and earth power
thats thing i want but cant get it
I had my mega soaked for the entire game but the other pokemon prevented them from rly doing much without losing raichu
ohhh ok
I believe I can give you a sinistcha if you are able to trade
really
r u sure bro
Soak is not too bad, it can turn your garchomps 4x ice weakness into a 0,5x resistance aswell
hmmmm yea didnt think of that
Its usually recommended to have a secondary mega to cover matchups were your main mega lowke sucks
does speed matter
yea i get it floette but thats not with me so off the bar
The basc I saw was scarf soak so maybe
Yes, soak basculegions tend to use choice scarf, paired with wave crash, last respects, flipturn/ aqua jet
No no no, there are a lot of other megas you can use
what r those i can that r in my box
https://klipy.com/gifs/raccoon-hehehe-1
Dragonite
danggg
ok what can i replace it with
And gyrados, venu, scep... wait shi sceptile might actually work kinda well here
dang
septile
Garchomp cuz you don't wanna be evicerated by ice
sceptile
hmmmm ok
mega floette is one of the few megas where you don't always want a secondary mega aswell
There are teams by pros entire built for supporting floette, for example with incin, sinistcha, sneasler, garchomp, etc
Because its a very strong mega, but also only strong, if you do mega evolve it
same goes for raichu
If you have 2 megas that are only good if you do mega them, its hard to bring both megas, what you wont do often, since it requires alot of skill, but it can really help your team if your megas have synergy
I have metagross and dnite for example, both can be brought without their mega cuz base 600s
ah so they have to be good atleast without a mega
Not necessarily but it makes things easier
hmmm ok
ok so i replace my garchomp for sceptile ?
Hmm
Yes, having 1 out of 2 megas that are only good with their mega is okay, but having 2 megas that are only good with their megas can really cause some trouble
For example Meganium and Mawile
Mawile needs to mega to get huge power
Meganium needs to mega to get its sun ability, to use solar beam and weather ball efficiently
thats why you never see these 2 in one team
atleast not in professional level
Also they share fire weakness
So yard, delphox and pyroar will evicerate them
Yes, but also you usually play these 2 in rain teams
yes
actually mawile also sees play in sun teams, but only in trickroom sweeping teams
so should i just create a whole new team or let this be and replace some mons
Do you want to stick to mega raichu Y
lets call it yaichu
Its easier to start from scratch especially when you are using someone elses team
nop not that much
i just used it because people said its good
What megas are you interested to use?
Its decent but not like that good cuz its frail asf
For example I used mega delphox just because it looked sick, but turns out its actually very good and brought me to #99 worldwide
charizod y but dont have him lol
I use dnite cuz he's cool asf
i wanna try venasore
https://klipy.com/gifs/dronite-charizard
lol
I like dnite, but I'm more excited for mega salamance
my god ur top 100
i love dnite to so much
but ididnt know he was good
Yea, a real proplayer helped me build my delphox team, since I was struggling a bit to find its potentially best partners
My boi dnite needs a job, lemme have like a month more bfore he gets replaced
Then Imma just wait till tera to use him again
can u guys help me build one i really want to beat my friend so badly
So you want to use mega Chari y?
I can trade you one, I have so many charizards in pokemon scarlet
man r u sure if thats fine then hell yea i want one
Do you have scarlet or violet
Charizard is easy asf to get
or do we have to trade via home
lets do home
Gen 1 pokemon basically always present in every modern game
aight, let me find a chari and transfer it to home
thanks bro
I have to charge my nintendo first
takes a while
so and how to build a team around him
Simple, add the meta pokemon
And boom
You win naic
Chari y synergizes very well with either floette or sylveon, I recommend sylveon
well that will take time sylveon im trying to get in pokemon go
i might have one in scarlet aswell
🔁｜gts_trades
lol thanks bros
I dont need it, its easy to get really
IF I do have one I will trade it to you right after chari
do you even tempt to use sylveon?
i mean kind of she has pixalate that changes normal type to fairy types
we could build a very simple offensive core with
chari y
sylveon
sneasler
kingambit
basculegion
whimsicott/mega aerodactyl
Gardevoir has that too and gard is cooler 
hmmm
ok i have basically everything except 3 mons
aerodactyle id good
When there is a rockslide ther is a way
oh yea
thanks guys
Honestly just look up charizard y in labmaus or pikalytics
You'll get close to a 1000 copies of the same team and wolfe
yep doing that
i just got starrapter from the recruit thingy
:0
i think its good for charizod y team it says top 5 teammates
Ok staraptor has 2 main ways of using it, support the mega teams which are powerful against the unexperienced but fall apart once your opponents have the correct tools and final gambit sets which are useful when paired with farigraf to ohko a lot of pokemon, like megas, archaladon or anti tr utils
ohhh ok
Huh? People use staraptor and charizard y together?
it says its top 10 teammates for him
in pikalytics
I mean maybe as the final gambit set but given they both share the rock and electric weaknesses I don't think its very good as a secondary mega
yea i guss
its the last so i expected that
ngl i thought using mr rime using the move role play on yaichu and just spam cheer cold
Thats funny but both are rly frail and will prob die in those 2 turns
yea but its funny
ngl i cant wait for rillaboom to release in the game will be sick
True
I don't like the monkey, If he loses knock off then sure else nah I don't rly want him back
lol sure
i have to try getting whimsicot some how
bro i got sninistcha and sylveon
sick now just need charizod
