Mega Barbaracle Team Discussion & Weather Counters
Summary
In Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments this thread evaluates a Mega Barbaracle team idea and its matchups. The announcement covers weather vulnerabilities to sun and rain, proposes counters like Ttar to set sand, Sinistcha and Whimsicott options, and discusses swaps such as Typhlosion to Incineroar or Kanga to Ttar to shore up weaknesses.
Basically been looking into barbaracle as my next mega team to tackle and was scrolling around online and found this face book post of a team. I do kinda like what it’s going for here. I like the options that it has and it supports Barbara or well without having the whole team be dedicated to it. But I feel there could be better options to go off with it as well. Thoughts? (Also it doesn’t have stat invest but Ithink I can roughly figure that out.)
The team looks solid tbh have you tested it for weaknesses yet?
I feel like sun may be a bit of a problem here.
Maybe change kanga for a ttar to change weather to sand and get the spDef boosts from sand
We also have no real rain counter here tbh mega swampert looks like it runs through the team here
Can we change mouse to sini maybe?
Yeah the weather war doesn’t favor this team much.
Also sini?
Oh sinistcha
Yeah sorry Sinistcha 😂
Sinistcha is a great counter to swampert with matcha gatcha ohkoing it
You could being a Whimsicott with giga drain for it too give it sunny day to kill the weather but then we have zard to worry about idk if barbaricle can deal with zard maybe?
With weather being such a core part of the meta we need to consider it.
Ttar is definitely a consideration atp perhaps instead of kaghaskan? But that removes any priority I have for the team
I feel that doesn’t help us with the weather war but realistically barbaracle should ohko zard. Though whether it survives zard first is another question altogether
Ttar can set sand which stops weather.
You could swap Typhlosion for incin giving you back fakeout pressure.
That said ttar could take the Typhlosion slot too but your losing fire/ghost moves
Yeah like I said i havent used barb in a zard match up thats where you'd want to keep fakeout on a mon ig to stop zard attacking so barb can ohko.
