Help Rounding a VGC Team with Mega Raichu
Summary
In Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments a new player requests help rounding out a VGC double battle team. The post details using Mega Raichu Y, Whimsicott leads, move choices such as Grass Knot versus Protect or Fake Out, and the goal of reaching Master rank from Ultra 1. The community is asked for guidance on synergy and a potential second mega option.
Hi, I'm new to plokemon champions, allways liked VGC but never played because I had no switch, so this game coming to mobile was areally cool.
Now not having access to pokemon from home I have only used the ranch to recruit pokemon and have build a team that is somewhat competitive, and I can probably get to master rank in double battles with it (I'm Ultra 1 atm and win most games), but I feel like I'm missing some better chemestry/options for a couple of matchups I've been getting.
I will post my thoughts on the team as an answer, as it was too long.
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As I have little experience, I wanted to ask you guys for some guidence rounding it out. Here are my main thoughts:
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Mega Raichu Y is good against most teams, in some capacity but I feel like a second mega option would be good. I am not 100%sold on the idea as I don't know who I would sacrifice.
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I usually lead Whims Raichu one of two things happen: They focus my Raichu and Whims just starts encoring everyone and forcing them to switch out and I win due to being able to focus one enemy at the time since the other is switching; Or they understand the problem Whims is and they loose 1/2 pokemon from Raichu, trying to take Whims out. This is going well at this level but I feel I am going to be bullied later on.
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Grass knot on Raichu has won me multiple games against mega swampert rain teams but I feel like I miss protect and fakeout to let tailwing on Whims go up has won me a bunch of other games, so I don't know what to do with his 4th move
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I mostly have trouble with mega saraptor teams which mostly run from raichu until he's gone and then destroy me, and also hard trick room teams, specially with Farigirafleads (idk how to stop it/ deal with them)
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I wanted to get Tsareena: to try and fight Farigiraf, sotpping fakeouts; to not have to run grass knot on raichu; to triple axel staraptor. Idk if this would be a good addition, but I still haven't gotten her on the ranch anyways and Idk who I'd remove from the team.
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I have great pkmn like sneasler and garchomp but I use them only ocasionally and for specific matchups, Idk if they sinergize that well with the team
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I win most of my battles at this rank because, even if I loose the start and my raichu does very little, scarf Basculegion in the back, in tailwind most of the times, is THE GOAT and cleans up. But this makes me feel like I'm not taking advantage of all pkmn in the team
Sorry if this was long, you can skip most of it, but if you have the time I0d apreciate some feedback 😅
