Pokémon VGC Team Building: Optimize Your Garchomp Strategy
Summary
In the Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server, members collaborate to refine competitive team builds before major tournaments. This discussion focuses on optimizing a Garchomp set by swapping items and moves, alongside adjusting Kingambit stats for better survivability. By sharing testing insights and strategic advice, the community helps players prepare for high-level VGC matches.
Im prepping for a tournament later today and I want to bring this team but I need to make sure everything is as good as it can be for it
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I don't like eq here
You don't have enough immunity. I typically say the safe number to have is 2 if you wanna use eq on gar.
Ok
What should I swap eq for
King gambit with lorb only needs 27 atk to oko farig consistently and it also kills all but the most bulky incin, you can put the rest in a defense of your choice
Stomping tantrum probably
Eq maybe still fine but this is my personal opinion.
Ok
Anything else I can do to optimize
choice scarf garchomp running protect?
Thats what someone suggested didnt make much sense to me either
yeah idk about that
What should I swap the protect for
Oh God I didn't even see scarf
Do like idk anything but that use the ice or fairy berry
Or lum
i dont usually use scarf chomp but i've seen poison jab seeing use?
Rock slide is still magnitudes better
Wait hold on I see a goofy idea
White herb scale shot garchomp
yes
i like that
thats silly
Ok
Might keep eq if we do that
Ok so scale shot and keep eq
Scale shot, protect swords dance, eq
Ok and are the stats good for it
Yeah that's fine
Then White Herb or Yache Berry
Ok yeah I put white herb on it
Then I put gambits attack down to 27 and dumped those in defense
Any issues you've seen in testing?
Um in testing rain teams especially against belly bolt cause serious team wipe
Cause no way to counter being soaked
Or is soak polytoad
Blastoise and kingambit are your best friends for rain. Kingambit kills basc and Blastoise resist everything and should dish out really good damage
Oh ok
From what I've seen soak isn't that popular
Yeah I just faced it 3 times in a row earlier and got destroyed
Anything else I should change up though for the rest the team or is it all good
I don't like that it's just single redirection
And why is sinistcha sash
And why are you and awful individual proving why nicknames should be banned
If you end up running eq I recommend giving delphox protect over sub, and maybe remove incin flare blitz for protect but I’d say he’s bulky enough to survive.
