Competitive VGC Team Building: Global Challenge Strategy
Summary
In the Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments server, members are actively refining their competitive teams for the upcoming Global Challenge. This discussion focuses on optimizing speed tiers to outpace common threats like Garchomp, managing difficult matchups against Golisopod, and developing effective strategies to counter Trick Room teams. It is a vital resource for players looking to sharpen their competitive edge and receive community feedback on their current team compositions.
I’m probably gonna use this team for the upcoming global challenge (unless some crazy meta shifts happen) and just wanted to see if there were any problems with it
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How you beat opposing golli
Tbh, that is a bit of a problematic matchup especially considering I can’t just use fire moves due to the rain. Normally I just kinda throw Archaludon and Pelipper at it and they normally handle it relatively well
You need a answer also what about chomp
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Well, My Garchomp is trained to outspeed Modest Chompz (which most are rn) by one. Archaludon can also handle it as I’m pretty sure a dragon pulse KO’s if it has minimal bulk or at least does a lot of damage
Do you have any plans against trick room users
Literally golli
So your bulky timid
Yah
I thought about it
But timid misses too many ohkos
It’s been doing fine for me and I like the fact I don’t have to do a coin flip against every modest chomp if I want to KO it
Against not Goli trick room, it depends on the team tbh. If they have Camerupt, I just bring chomp but if they’re Mawile, Crabominable or anything else I can normally bring Golisopod and just use U-turn on rilla to get him in while they set up trick room for me.
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Do u live
Tbh, I haven’t really trained it to take any hits in specific I mostly went timid to avoid speed ties with modest chompZ. Pretty sure I don’t live a Draco, I have been thinking about potentially getting light screen on the team just for that tho
Then whats ur bulk for
What about pulse from modest
Well after going all in on special attack and the rest on speed to get to that point of outspeeding, I just put the rest in bulk. I should probably train it to live some specific hits tho
You should
If ur skipping speed might as well make meaningful bulk
Spread out bulk is better for rolls
Yeah, I’ll work on that soon
i would change white herb on sneasler for grassy seed but if u prefer white herb but both work well jusy something to consider
Tbh, I don’t really bring Rilla and Sneasler to most games, I normally pick whichever fake out pokemon looks better into the team I’m against
