VGC Team Building: Salamence vs Staraptor Strategy
Summary
At Pokémon Champions | VGC Battles & Tournaments, members are actively refining competitive team compositions. This discussion focuses on optimizing defensive synergy, evaluating the utility of Salamence versus Staraptor, and addressing specific meta threats like Archaludon and sand teams. Community members share insights on item optimization and move sets to help players improve their competitive performance.
From playing with this team speed control isn’t a problem.
Defensive web is great
Damage is plentiful.
Psyspam is covered
Archaludon teams are a bit of a pain
And I’m undecided on whether I want hydreigon to have life orb or choice scarf with snarl.
Other tips are also appreciated
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Double mega was underwhelming for me, too many salamence counters out there.. and saving that intimidate is so valuable for this team.
Also heat wave over snarl does sound good.
And mega salamence just gets wide guarded, ice sharded, blizzarded, throat chopped, etc.. so trick room/tailwind + haban berry lets me take out other dragons.
Maybe, but I took incin off because he adds to the ground weakness. Metagross has it, Kingambit also and Chandelure. With incin on the team a ground type would get through too easily
Niceok
I chose mence because he’s got intimidate, ground immunity. He also takes the close combat for Kingambit and hydreigon with ease. Takes fire damage for Kingambit and metagross also, he also offers tailwind support, Draco meteor nuke, and flying stab.
Oh also mence takes water damage for aerodactyl and Chandelure too. Raptor isn’t switching in on a CC , fire blast, hydro pump like that though
I’m not arguing just laying it all out there for you.
And with raptor id be weaker to psy spam again 😕
Okay that makes sense. And sand match ups are just as grindy for me as archaludon teams are, so maybe staraptor would be a good patch for this team. Because mence doesn’t help much witheither those matchups
Got you. Ima try this out
You were right its much more fluid with raptor, scarf on hydreigon & heat wave
