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yea
but again it's a thing where like
positioning it is hard
you can get brick break'd
a more consistent strategy and one that gets a lot of play in tournament
is memento on evio diglett > shellder
if you're going to use screens you need a LOT of abusers, in case one doesn't work out
which is why you only really see it on gimmicky HO
got it
as for what to replace impidimp with... hmm
something that doesn't lose to dig
maybe a wattrel so you can pivot around easier, wingull for speed control and help in certain mu's
or a crabrawler
all three come to mind as decent options
oh DC has a great point actually
you might want something to come in against diglett
after it traps and kills something
gull is bad w/ double waters already
true
yea
it gets rock blasted which is potentially scary
oh nvm
it's shaky as best because it can subsitute on cane
wattrel wouldn't be the worst choice
but you probs do want a mon that can come in against tera flying LO diglett
maybe a zorua-hisui?
you dont have a ghost rn
could be nice
H zoro would be nice for you
Helps Shellder set with willo and Can spinblock in a pinch which is nice
I do agree with this tho
Honestly it might be better to go sucker on dig over rocks and then have pawn be the rocker losing Sd
I GOT MY FIRST WIN
okay, that sounds very fun
ill fix it
and hzorua
don't listen to bella
Grats
keep rocks on evio dig
Drifting shut up
and sd on pawn
I think rocks pawn is fine
I’m not sabotaging I’m just trying to give my 2 cents on this team
sucker is meh, tera blast could be an option
memento is prolly good too if u dont run memento on zorua
Yeah true Tera blast is a good pick
What are you running as a fourth on houra
Zorua-Hisui @ Eviolite
Ability: Illusion
Level: 5
Tera Type: Fighting
EVs: 36 Def / 236 SpA / 36 SpD / 196 Spe
Timid Nature
- Will-O-Wisp
- Hex
- Tera Blast
- U-turn
just standard support
that is not standard btw
I feel like you want knock there badly
really
i have knock off on toedscool so thats why i skipped it
It’s never bad to run knock off on multiple mons
knock off over tera blast?
Or hex
but hex can hurty hurt the burned foes 👉 👈
well i can test a few games and see if i need knock or tera blast more then
diglett
yea ok good
thanks a lot yall!
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there are 2 teams here
both of which are not mine
could anyone tell me which would perform better?
my eyes are on team 2
ya
i'm not the most familiar with sm lc admittedly so my knowledge could be a little off but team 1 is legal
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here are some sample teams
if you want some stuff that'll definitely be good
ya
@sweet ingot hey
team 1 doesn't look awful
afaik
like all the individual mons are good
but tentacool is rly bad
if you want a poison water with spikes use mareanie
or if you want a spinner water type use staryu
ah
@sweet ingot https://pokepast.es/b6a488b1aba7d7a9 here's another one i found
sadly i dont know how this deals with carv
oh haha
i brought this in my game
this is a hyper offense made by @limber widget
it's good
how does it uhh deal with carv
seems a little weak to it
and i think most people got carvs
woah, thats cool
carv isn't like
that good or common
it's just ok
it does seem a little weak to carv though
mienfoo lives from full
and kills it back
well you live
so you'd come in
and u-turn
to either kill it or punish the switch
u survive
Yeah Carvanha isn't very common in SM
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that team doesn't seem very good, unfortunately.
a lot of that team is very slow, there is no toxic spikes absorber, and a lot of the EVs don't make a lot of sense
which pokemon do you want to use above all others?
Well half the team looks fine
I'm just a little puzzled by the Impidimp
Some spreads need fixing too yeah
So if you could explain what you were going for with the Impidimp, maybe we could help you make it work
Some of the individual mon choices are fine
But i’d recommend using the sample smogon sets
Which are tried and true generally
I also don’t think impidimp is very good though, a foongus in that slot is better I think
I was going for the lagging tail trick impidimp like I saw in gen 8 with grimmsnarl but I could replace it with foongus
None really you can change the team however you seem fit
https://pokepast.es/42f8014f483e398f
Does anyone have advice for this team?
The ladder was discontinued, as far as I know, so I can’t really test it
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the ladder was not discontinued?
^dumb asf
oras.
mb
i'm not the most knowledgeable on oras but idk if you need 2 scarfers
i feel like if you replaced cranidos with a fletchling, snubbull, snivy, abra, gastly
something like that
it'd probs be better
this team just loses to any shell smasher
more important you get absolutely manhandled by chinchou
scarf crani is pretty bad you lose very hard to a lot of dangerous stuff with it
a pory would help yes
I have a similar larv/scarf mag/vulla team
the other 3 on mine are ferroseed timburr and sub archen
but I think a voltturn team without the best U-turn mon is really difficult to do
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/diglett-voltturn-by-cydrolic.3585624/ this gives a good summary of the archetype and is probably the most consistent example
Diglett VoltTurn by Cydrolic
Introduction
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you still lose to smashers, scarf porygon doesn't really add anything here
you really need a more defensive ones
https://pokepast.es/ec9af657e0f507aa
How about that then?
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Also weak armour is meant to be overcoat
You want a weak armor set, probably with Brave Bird over roost
You have a heavy pivot team without a spinner and vull as your only real hazard control
Which means you need a lot of tempo and to be flat out better than your opponent to use larvesta to it's fullest potential
Like gali said though, a voltturn team without the best user is really limited in that aspect though
Ok
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alright is this any good I can't tell and are there any worthwhile edits that could be made to it?
This looks really solid tbh
I think you got a pretty good balance team going on there
I will be fully honest something just feels off
I would probably use some less Tera Ghosts
Have you tried the team out?
Or is it a feeling from the builder
I have, probably for around 6-8 games now
and I can't explain it but it doesn't feel right in some way during play
It gets seemingly beat by Shroodle, Glimmet, and Shell Smash sweep teams a good amount
and I haven't been able to pinpoint the issue
Not overly if I'm honest
Any First Impression strats get blocked a lot
and it only usually gets one or two of those off
Hmm right
to be fair the jankness of the lower end of the ladder doesn't help much but still
Hmm well one modification I could suggest is to make the Toedscool 17 Speed
It allows it to naturally outspeed Glimmet
I think Shroodle is pretty good in this meta, would make sense that you find yourself not doing too well against it
you want eq over tpunch on the crab
It always Parting Shots itself out of a counter and into a Shell Smasher and the game is basically toast
TPunch is the only real reliable way to counter Shellder aside from Mareanie since it can live one attack from Shellder
If you want to counter that strat, you can try using Tera Dark on Diglett
Ooh that could be helpful actually
Also boosts Sucker Punch power if that can be useful
yea
tera dark on dig is good
for trapping shroodle
if ur not tera blast
it's the best tera
imo
I think this team might be too slow for this meta idk, I'm not too used to build teams this bulky
How has Mareanie been performing in your games
I thought the same at first as it is a mishmash of sets but its been surprisingly good with a lot of bulk on the team
and Mareanie has been great
without mareanie numel 6-0s this
Well
Think about like the first 1 or 2 Pokemon that you can put instead of Mareanie
And you'll notice that they also check Numel
like who
Like Zorua-H or Wingull
shellos loses to numel
And those too
Maybe does switching out Nymble for something work? I'd prefer something that can take on waters as that seems to be the only other slight weakness (buizel and swift swim teams cough cough)
Yeah I think Nymble is mostly good on paper
If you switch Mareanie for Wingull, I think it can relieve some of the clunkiness in your team, so that Nymble's services aren't as required
Wattrel is a good check to rain
With Tera Water
So then maybe switch both or just one?
Ooooh yeah
I don't think your team looks that bad against setup spam tbh, you have Crabrawler, Pawniard, and Toedscool which can go to a good tera
Oh you don't have Stealth Rock on your team either
Yeah that's another piece missing though I haven't found it as needed (though it could be nice)
Hmm I'm looking at an option rn
Oh?
Okay
And either Shroodle > Nymble
Or Zorua-H > Nymble and Glimmet > Pawniard
The first option probably sounds more solid
Tbf both do
My only concern with #2 is that you kinda remove a lot of your priority at once
For Wattrel and Zorua, the normal sets should do fine
Shroodle is up to preference after Knock Off + U-Turn
Parting Shot is probably always good, Encore helps with some setup sweepers (like Numel), Copycat gives you some occasional priority
Glimmet, well, it's Glimmet lol
Glimmet can just do anything lol
Well it's more like it has like, basically 5 or 6 moves to choose from
So it basically always does the same thing
Yeah
Alrighty then, thank you for the help! I'll give both teams a try and see how they feel!
I will for sure
@limber widget one more thing, pivot or nasty plot for the Zorua-H set?
Probably pivot
okay, ty!
unsure if larvitar or aron still viable on lc but ive tried to build a team with it https://pokepast.es/917cf32a5958a1e6 dunno what i should change here (dpp lc) btw
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aron is technically fine larv probably doesn’t really do anything tho
slowpoke is probably a wasted slot and i don’t think sash gligar lead is your best use of a gligar
gets so much value out of oran
ooh
i thought on using slowpoke bc i dont wanted to get killed by stuff like machop or priority moves
but alr ill see what to change
Slowpoke is really not that good
Larv isn't very good but isn't unusable
Kinda looks like you want a ghost over it and slowpoke to be a better water type
https://pokepast.es/5d2f3ed24154614b for gen 7 lc
The team looks quite solid and cool imo
I think the main thing that could be improved are the EV spreads
mhm
You can take a look at the Smogon analyses for these
btw where cn i practice these
Umm there is no ladder for this, but there are roomtours in the LC room on Showdown every so often (alternating between the different generations)
Also, you can join the LC Discord and ask in the oldgens channel for games of SM LC
People do that a lot, and often get a response
there is a server for lc?
Yeah, I can invite you if you want
yes pls
rate
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double bug with floon as your removal option seems really bad
oh wait i sent the wrong team again
you probably want tera blast
bull hawnkey
over sucker on this diglett
if ur not using tera blast then run tera dark so shroodle can't parting shot out of you
and to boost sucker
can yall rate this one instead
https://pokepast.es/e04a8bdcf943d381
i got it off from a randomizer 
this team's biggest problem i can see is like
a lack of a clear wincon
i think
if you replace mankey with crabrawler
it should help a lot
the mankey speed control isn't really as needed when you have nymble and dig
like 6/10
oh
well if you put tera blast over sucker on diglett
and put crab over mankey
probably like a 6-7/10 i guess?
should be a decent enough team
if 5/10 is average
thats what exactly i thought of when i said " rate the team in numbers "
mankey is pretty bad
youre pretty weak into ghosts but mostly just zorua-h. drifloon is probably not a problem
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christmas vull 😄
birds gonna fuck u up a bit
does this have abra problems
i don't play much sm but it looks like it
maybe pawn over ferro
could alleviate the bird/abra issue
u just trap it
pawn is a shittier bird check than ferro tbh
if it's mixed vull just 2hkos
This is literally Toadow's sample team btw
hm
toad is the sm goat
if you see scarf foo as the only fight you know the team solves everything offensively and has a steel due to gastbra
you need ferro for z staryu anyway
Rate it time! Specifically for post-Diglett meta.
https://pokepast.es/ee8242ff4a0a60d2
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Ngl @wild willow
This team is fundamentally a bit dodgy
Like a lot of the sets are just
Too off meta
Apart from cacnea the mon choices are fine
But you need a poison type
Need hazard removal
And def need to fix these sets
I’d recommend using body press stockpile numel and pairing it with a scarf gothita over cacnea
If you want to use numel
And then you can change your drifloon to a more standard oran set and perhaps change sandile to a toedscool
You would still need a poison type though
Probably glimmet as you have no stealth rock
So i’d put that over voltorb (which should be tera ice anyway)
Actually
No you don’t need a toed with defog drifloon
Put the glimmet over sandile
I will say, Cacnea is pretty good because at the very least unless it gets statused I'm almost guaranteed a trade, usually more
Drifloon with Scarf throws a lot off with people expecting it to be oran so I get fast Defog which is the only hazard removal I have plus it effectively stops T-Spikes as well since it isn't affected by them since it flies
Body Press Stockpile Numel I haven't actually thought about and that does seem pretty good on paper so it could blend well with this team
(Not having Tera Ice Tera Blast Voltorb is also a sin looking at it now)
But I do see where you're coming from on that
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that is a drifloon set of all time
i dont think its really bird spam when one of the birds doesn't have stab flying type moves
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You have a lot of specific techs to beat Foongus
To the point where it's overkill
Timburr or Spritz should change their fourth move to benefit you best
But at the same time, they might need it, because once something can't hit Foongus, he has no switch-in
I'm more worried about the matchup against special attackers like Abra and Gastly
Also bcz of the so many Foongus techs, Mareanie looks like a rough mu too
if you have a pokemon with light clay you tend to need to commit more pokemon to set up
and if you are running smash omanyte im not really sure about weak armor
you also made an SM team without vullaby which is hard to vouch for
That's not the worst thing in the world
I think you could use an Eviolite Diglett
Say over Abra
Would help against Mareanie, and trap Abra and Gastly
Could also fit Stealth Rock on it if you want to
Also lets you not lose to Electric types
Then your team gets a little weaker to Fighting types
I think if you replace Omanyte with Nasty Plot Vullaby, it could be better
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You need stealth rock, put it on pawn
alr
Also, impdimp is kinda ass
And u need a poison type
For tspikes absorption
So you could actually maybe keep the sd on pawn and have rocks glimmet
Or just use a shroodle to enable shellder sweeps
alr
Choice is urs neither is a bad choice really
Apart from that there’s no major issues i can see off a glance
I meant replace the impidimp
Didnt wanna replace imp cuz he's my screens
Not the magnemite
Impidimp is kinda ass imo but i guess if that’s the idea this works
Though fix the glimmet set
There’s no reason to deviate from the sample set really
Glimmet’s a bit of a one trick pony
Thx
Oh
I chose the second sample set not the first
My bad
I don't think the current team is very good
without a ground type or a scarfer, you're food for wingull, wattrel and voltorb
a ground isnt necesary if you have wattrel imo
i think it needs another support option when the rest of the team is very slow
wattrel can deal with voltorb, but i think the issue is that its the only thing that can take on wingull, wattrel AND voltorb
so it just needs something else to ease the amount of damage they can do
my take on this is glimmet -> shroodle (you can run parting shot to help shellder setup anyways), pawn -> rocks (make it night slash over iron head asw),imp -> like scarf gothita
yeah
cause shroodle can also help deal with wattrel cause of the speed
and scarf gothita (tera ground as well probably) helps as well
and being able to trap checks to shellder is nice
whys it screens with shellder and pawn as the boosters
you probably just go double smashers if you are forcing screens
team seems very unconvincing into pawn as structured
awkward 6 in general
yeah the screens with only 1 mon to abuse them seems weird, i agree with original drifting take in dropping imp for shroodle
They seemed to want to keep imp specifically so advice should try to move the team in that direction generally
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can probably drop parting shot for gunk
alr
is modest goth for anything in particular
You could also try Encore on Shroodle, and make Quaxly Brave Bird instead of Encore
ok
Actually no, maybe it's better on Quaxly
I'm worried about Swords Dance Pawniard
With this team
yeah encore quax only barely helps with that because going quax on the switch means you lose a mon
hm
I'm working on a sticky web sun team: https://pokepast.es/040603a0fcba55a7
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I would like help with editing it as I am relatively new to teambuilding
I have replays as well
scarf charmander is a better sun abuser than cyndaquil
because of solar power
sun in general isnt great
but if ur gonna do it thats how
I know scarf is better but I prefer tera fire eruption just because it functions better when I can't get sun up
You can keep Tera Fire Eruption Cyndaquil, but making the Cyndaquil Scarf would probably also make it better
I think the main issue is that the team has a lack of defensive backbone
There’s no good switch in to growl-h or orb-h, not to mention you desperately need webs up to do much without being completely run over.
And you’ll have a hard time keeping webs up when you have only 1 ghost type to block spin
Tera-ing skit can work, but typically that’s an additional option as opposed to a main strategy
What would you recommend I swap out
I also have mag to help with keeping spin and defog off the field because tera ice ohkos both spinners and thunderbolt ohkos the defoggers
I would recommend choosing between webs or sun. Having both at the same time makes each part worse because you’re hedging your bets with both.
They’re strategies you really need to invest into to make it work properly
yea this team has too much going on, but if u wanna try to keep it all together id suggest a few things
i think the magnemite has to go as theres not really a ton of benefit in it here and it also suffers from things like growlithe hisu being really good. in its place i would reccomend alolan diglett as it gives you a ground type for electric moves and a head smash resist, rocks, and a semi consistent out for flame charge growlithe, you could also maybe put sunny day on it as a 4th move if you want a setter besides shroodle, up to you.
i would change the surskit set to either sash or scarf if you do wanna secure sticky webs go up, evio doesnt really help you a ton in current meta because scarf growlithe will kill you through it
and for a last change i would suggest that you change your bramblin spread to this, as your current bramblin takes too much from toedscool knock to reliably spinblock it
Bramblin @ Eviolite
Ability: Wind Rider
Level: 5
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 36 HP / 76 Atk / 196 Def / 196 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Power Whip
- Shadow Sneak
- Rapid Spin
- Strength Sap
gl and i hope you have fun playing!
Would you recommend webs or sun for this team if I were to lose one?
I’m also considering switching growlithe for slowpoke as a defensive presence
And what item should I use for Diglett
eviolite or sash both work
if i had to reccomend you keep either sun or webs i would reccomend webs
Thank you
Would you recommend Slowpoke over Growlithe?
And if I were to switch to just webs what should I swap out Shroodle for?
And should I keep sunny day on Diglett anyway just as a utility move if I remove Shroodle
Sorry for all of the questions lol
You do not want slowpoke on webs
You do want Growlithe H
SD shroodle is fairly popular ATM but you could just make it smthng like stunky or Voltorb H
I don't know how often you will click sunny day
What set would you recommend for Stunky?
on webs if you have stunky it should be nasty plot
https://pokepast.es/1b48434cfb5b5d4d
slightly tuned version of a rather old team, struggling a bit into opposing floon. Glimmet isn't doing as mush as I'd hoped
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move most of those spatk evs into defense and run tera ghost
on glimm
larvesta is p booty in this meta
I'm sorry to hear that
serves the pivot role
its a good pivot
still soft checks a lot of things
and makes your floon matchup more palatable
https://pokepast.es/5c7cb654d9c0173f
more like this then?
great, thanks
give it a spin and see how it goes
scarf bray feels pretty good, admittedly I haven't played a ton yet
Guys i think i need a team revamp for LC any suggestion
I first need to put my team in poke paste
still need to learn that
can i just type it all out?
Use pokepaste, it’s much preferred
click the "upload to pokepaste" button
https://pokepast.es/638da065c5366480
Hi LC people
This is my first attempt at building sv lc
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Hi eve not an lc rater but i feel like this stuggles a bit too much into watt / electrics
Also this is just a me take
But go tera dark > ghost on mare imo
To be immune to Psychic?
Yeah
Completely ruins scarf goths plans
And since ur haze cm goth doesnt enjoy the mu much
Especially if they already terad
What do suggest I do to patch up the watt/electric mu?
Well a quick fix is tera electric crab
Imo its alot better now
Espeically post k-dig
Ok so I got this now
https://pokepast.es/e9bd7af6ed9d1627
i dont like that due to its general lack of speed and how it loses to swords dance shroodle
Also your only grass resists being wattrel and pawniard in a metagame with both grookey and voltorb-h is hard to deal with
I'm not a big fan of zorua-h in this current metagame due to its lack of speed and while it does have good immunities, it just sort of
doesn't have a good role in the metagame
Also not a big fan of toedscool due to its typing not pairing well vs current metagame
its a ground thats neutral to grasses and weak to bug so it gets u turned on all day and its unfortunate
I personally recommend drifloon as a hazard control option due to defog guaranteeing removal vs webs, but toed is not unplayable
floon>horua, htorb>watt, foong>toed imo
I agree with what gali says
Floon>horua is important for sure
I’m not quite as sure about replacing wattrel
I think he’s good
Imo a better replacement for toed might be shroodle
Since you have an elec immune in watt
And hazard removal in floon
Plus shroodle is basically the best mon in the meta rn
Another option is a gothita maybe
The only concern with what gali says is that you don’t have a fire resist though
Which makes me think glimmet over pawn would be nice, helps beat floon and shroodle too
Rn the team you’re rocking kinda looks like a webs team but you forgot to include the webs lol
Oh actually you don’t have a water resist either
Maybe replace the toedscool with a quaxly and keep pawn?
not having a shroodle is a bit sad but not the end of the world
Mareanie?
https://pokepast.es/be478534f468bfdb
Is this okay?
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Ty
It’s okay, just kind of slow I think
https://pokepast.es/20810721d60b8486
I tried to build voltturn
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forgot about it, tbh
i think this is too slow
i would put hisu voltorb over wattrel to give you something fast and a truly elite volt turn abuser
to compensate for no electric immune then i would make pawniard alolan diglett and it can still set rocks for you
then i would make quaxly drifloon as drifloon is way more consistent hazard removal
i believe those should solve the teams issues, perhaps another mon that can knock if you wanted to fit like toedscool in for removal would be nice but im not entirely sure if it fits well
magnemite isn't very good in current metagame because its relatively slow while facing stiff competition in voltorb-h and wattrel
steel stab typically doesn't make up for it either
https://pokepast.es/c272c424a9a26437 webs team i hastily made
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Yep
Thats webs
Sorry if that sounds a bit reductive but you kinda nailed it
The least meta thing here is scarf mudbray
Maybe u could consider a evio sandile in that slot?
Thats a mon i love on webs
Nasty plot stunky is another, maybe over pawn
But ur team is fine maybe apart from the choice of mudbray set
I’d probably go for a sandile angle over it
Rocks crunch eq stone edge
Moxie
has nymble problems
With horb I think it should be protect and with crab it should be tera electric
https://pokepast.es/0c45147e0d248ce0 gen 9 lc
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It’s been 29 days
What Pokémon are you trying to build around
Because I don’t like that team very much
Lots of things to fix there, but to start, choice specs doesn't really benefit you
Cyndaquil needs some kind of hazard clearing support to really make eruption work
Axew doesn't really get many chances to start setting up a dragon dance
Particularly if you're running FI
Your need more eviolite
Things like pawn are seriously limited without it
And electric types completely roll you without a way for you to stop them
https://pokepast.es/9da73f95b9daa72b does anyone have any advice for the gen 3 team I built?
https://pokepast.es/33ec045e3a23c682 changed the team a little
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Oscar wouldn’t you be more likely to get help on adv lc in the adv cord than here
The pory set and evs look extremely wack, personally I like explosion more than light screen, and abra/elekid look like problematic mons for this team. I’d suggest asking the adv cord about advice with the paste as they’d be more knowledgeable on it (I sent you the link in dms) but those are my thoughts on it
Thx
its been like
ages since ive built lc
so i would like to know how good this team is
evio Pawn isn't a set anymore, if you make mud rocks and Pawn Tera dark lo it looks pretty solid
I personally prefer tera ground on goths these days
oh also sleep talk>tox
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i think fighting goth is better these days ngl
with pawn being tera dark
i would do tbolt>tect on holtorb, tbolt can be super nice to pick off agrimer n stuff
I think resttalk bray is bad
Just make it rocks bray and lo pawn
I prefer imprison on the grimer over sleep talk but both are fine
(Though if you use imprison give it some speed)
thank god drifting is here 5 days late
https://pokepast.es/78b98614e0962cac opinions?
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A mudbray that's on the same team as a grookey wants to be high horsepower over earthquake
why?
grassy terrain halves the bp of eq
right
Also, generally, acrobatics grookey runs grassy seed
acroseed grookey is to beat stuff like foongus
otherwise it just runs evio
more consistent item
Sorry I can't really speak to your actual team comp, just a few of the sets, but I do know that both rain and quaxly have fallen off quite a bit from where they were at the start of the gen
hmm just asking would it be smart to swap mudbray for swift swim psyduck?
buizel + psyduck are generally what rain uses for sweepers
at least, when it was more popular
id put psyduck on the rain yea
no point using it otherwise
rain is the type of archetype u need to be
all in on
you can't use like, semi-rain
furthermore
lefties sucks in lc give the buizel an oran
but take oran off of everyone else and just use evio
it's a lot better, buizel just likes oran because of recoil from wave crash
i personally would replace the quaxly with psyduck
make it a standard voltorb set with evio
and then use a damp rock rain dance shroodle/riolu
instead of the current shroodle
okay, ty
band better anyway
nah, bulk up
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uhhh crap, swap the eviolite on the shroodle for a damp rock
I think if you’re running rain you need two setters
And I don’t think it’s particularly good in the current metagame
Nasty Plot is preferred on Psyduck over calm mind
And you want Tera blast over encore on psyduck
Sleep talk mudbray isn’t very good on rain, especially because you really need your rain turns
Rain is Hyper Offense, it’s not meant for a more bulky team
why would I take Tera blast on psyduck
Psyduck is currently walled by any water type
I would also use nasty plot over Calm Mind since you want to do damage quickly, defenses dont matter too much on rain
I think the team doesnt have good synergy, I imagine grassy terrain will be more of a hindrance to your rain sweep due to the fact its healing your opponent. That will make it easier for them to stall out your rain
Same applies for the mudbray, it has good synergy with Grookey through healing, sure, but its a complete momentum sink for the rain side of your team
I would recommend having Rain setters that can easily pivot (Shroodle and Voltorb), a pokemon to set up hazards and some rain abusers. Rain works best when you invest fully into the strategy
yea the traditional psyduck is electric tera
https://pokepast.es/b480134909ebdb54 Something like this.
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Nooo jack what have you done
:( didnt think it through
i will try it, ty
oh btw if I put teams in here that are just crap, it’s because I only used to play randbat and now want to get better and teambuilding, so this is basically trial and error for me
All good glad to help
this team is amazing! I won like 9/10 matches with it
that psyduck just sweeps
does someone have a team with hisuian growlithe and no drifloon? i know this is not the correct chanel but still
i think hisuian growlithe is banned
Hisuian Growlithe is banned yeah
Even then this should go in #comp-general not here since this is for rates
wrong channel, but here is one of my favourites
hisuian growlithe is banned but this doesnt use drifloon
you forgot a 4th move on axew I think
I’ll „borrow“ your team tho
its so you can switch in on spore
@normal needle run outrage/dragon claw/stomping tantrum/first impression
ok ty
yeah i know, i still wanted one, thanks!
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I wanted to play LC again because I found a Mienfoo ingame and I'm pretty sure I've accidentally started a small fire
p sure Turtwig isn't worth it but I don't really know the format
if I hard delete those two slots, what should I be adding
I'm not necessarily looking for stuff that fills the same roles, I just need better Pokemon
The current issue with koffing is that while it stuff mienfoo very hard
It’s other matchups are very bad
And because it’s scarf koffing you have some issues
Typically, the best way to punish a koffing coming into a mienfoo is with a knock off or u turn
So you either lose your scarf so need speed
Or have an unfavorable MU because they turned out
Both tinkatink and glimmet make koffing’s life quite hard and 9 times out of 10 foongus is probably better
On that team composition specifically it looks weak to vullaby, so having a glimmet or tinkatink of your own works out nicely
You could probably replace turtwig with shellder if you want a shell smash Pokémon
I don't really need it to be a Shell Smash mon
I just needed a hook to start building
it only needs to be a Pokemon that wins
(preferably with a decent Magnemite matchup, I was having trouble against that)
Replace turtwig with toedscool
You have foo and vull
Replace mudbray with tinkatink
Then you’ll want a scarfer faster than magnemite, I recommend glimmet but I think you can play around with it. Could use a magnemite of your own
And then keep foongus
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make the larv impish over bold, bold was a mistake on strategy dex iirc thats now fixed
what do you want the corphish slot to be specifically? because unless you are building around corphish i would generally advise against it
if you want another setup sweeper i think shellder would be good here because larv could burn possible setup targets
other than that, this honestly looks pretty good to me
i just wanted a setup just to have it but shellder ill go with
Seconding this, you have a foo check, a Voltorb check, and a vull check + a solid game plan
https://pokepast.es/73f9bac5550553e1 hot or utter bullcrap?
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specs are bad in LC
damage scaling doesn't really work
replace hone claws on foo with u turn, its much better.
also make the ability regenerator
vull should be jolly knock u turn brave bird
tailwind isn't very necessary on the bird
overcoat works on that structure because you have no other foongus switchins
what is diglett alola mementoing into besides foo or sandshrew? it doesn't feel like it really fits here
current problems with the team
- little counterplay to mienfoo because you have no fighting resist. Have to muscle through it with vullaby somehow.
-Vull counterplay is limited because you don't have a tinkatink or glimmet and you need to use voltorb-h to break it. Eviolite voltorb does this decently but its not very erudite because a single speed boost and it outspeeds your team.
-orb-h demolishes the team. the only hope at beating it is out offensing it with foo or dig-a
i think sand also has a lot of issues in the metagame due to orb-h's presence and hippoptas isn't very good
also for a sand team you don't have a good way of removing ground resists (such as toedscool or grookey) without using exactly vullaby
what about switching hvoltorb for tinkatink
this way I have smth against both vullaby and mienfoo
it doesn't work perfectly but its a start
also have you used the import/export tab
on showdown
it gives you recommended sets for eachh mon
I could to terablast ice
this way I have smth against orb-h, have another vullaby counter and also have smth against toad
ye, I know sand isn’t really great, but I thought I’ll still give it a go
if there is a way to do it, that'd be a start for sure
but i dont think tera blast ohkos vull
btw found it, helped me with tinkatink
Glimmet
(this is the updated team btw https://pokepast.es/653099dca8203b1e)
Toxic debris sets t spikes automatically
Spin helps but it’s not great to rely on spin
Change tinkatink to glimmet
but then I still got that Mienfoo issue
I think spin is the better solution
Even if it’s flawed
I mean another way would be to remove the scarf from diglett and give it spin so I don’t get bothered by the tspikes
ill think about it
it's hard for me to critique this because it lacks a lot of the fundamental elements in the meta that actually make a team work
sand teams i think are bad but I have seen them win so i'm not going to completely write it off
but ur definitely gonna want to use a normal mienfoo, normal voltorb etc from the smogdex
at the very least
here is a more standard/effective sand team some guy posted in my sample team thread like a month ago
just at a glance you can see the moves/items/teras are a lot more standard and proven than what ur using
and the ev spreads especially are just more optimal
typically i would recommend against using ur own ev spreads until u get more experienced
even i usually just use the sample spreads for most people because they're the samples for a reason
tysm, I will use that
who wanna battle
Dont ask battles here in rates
Ask in the LC discord or in the LC room or just go on the ladder
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ngl i just threw stuff together for this
felt lazy and felt like making another team
looks viable u have 6 good pokemon
have u ran into any ssies with this?
Seconding just be careful of orb-h
Make it Tera dragon vullaby and I think you’re solid?
this looks fine
id probably koffing over mareanie
since koffing is kinda like mareanie but can escape goth
rn ur a bit susceptible to a sequence like
"oh shit its foo better go into my foo counter"
u turn
goth
psychic
and then what do you do next time foo comes in
Die assumedly
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GRRRRR
neither Gawain or Tranq are LC raters
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honestly no problems with this, change tink to tera fairy tho imo
i also think tera blast ground could be a good idea on vull, as your team can really struggle to break tink
same if you wanted to do a fire move on skunk over play rough
nah i think tera elec is fine
maybe consider fire blast on stunky if tink is a concern
not having anything to come in on volt switch is a bit scary but apart from that this seems fine
i would keep tink water for liquidation+spear shellder
is shellder a threat for this, sucker skunk exists
i guess shell cant set up on much
i still like to have a fat water on most of my teams though
you can never be too safe
is there a good fat water in this meta
structures like this have their biggest weaknesses vs glimmet
since it can set up multiple hazards on you which you cant remove
and can come in on a lot of ur shit
since ur using tink
so if i was gonna suggest anything it'd probably be a toed over like, maybe goth
what would my spread be if i go fb
also i lose to sun dont i?
Vulpix is banned, but sun does exist on the fringe
Shroodle is fine
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There’s isn’t really anything super wrong with this
Give memento to glim imo
over?
You have two setup sweepers and nothing to help them set up
Any of your actual attacks
All of them have drawbacks to being dropped
U could prob make some minor tweaks for comfort but u could def get good results
Nah u would def drop power gem
I would keep mud shot and drop one of the stabs
got it thank u
There's no vull answer though
It's just setting up faster
Which is why I'm inclined to say keep power gem
Dropping it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world though
Going w what coco said put memnto on glim
Keep power gem
Prolly change foo tera to steel or dark
I say steel
Most of the other stuff is fine so im ok w this
thank u three of u
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i know
im not even going to bother trying to rate this since this is basically a complete reset
i would reccomend looking at the vr and looking at each pokemons sample sets to get an idea of whats good and not to start off
also generally speaking each pokemon should have evio, lorb, or scarf
https://pokepast.es/42d7c1157598b92f been climbing with this and it's gotten me to 1300 so far, most of my losses come from bad play I think
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Well to start, you've got a buizel. He's not very good at all right now, and the only reason to even consider it would be rain
ditch the specs on gastly and ditch the buizel altogether
If you don't want to drop the buizel, make the foo a slow set and make it a defensive pivot
So it can safely get buizel more turns to play
Also, drop the specs on Gastly and give it a life orb
Consider making the buizel Max speed so you don't tie with opposing Gastly, and it might be worth considering a Life Orb on Buizel as well
If you're okay with dropping the water weasel, try hisuan Growlithe
id put scarfing duty on the gastly and let foo do its bulky pivot thing
personally
rather than LO gastly
but it's up to u both can work
foo took me a second there to be honest lmao
"foongus? it's already slow"
but nah it makes sense
i'll probably swap buizel out for growlithe
i think u'd do well to put a snubbull over buizel
ur vull countering is a little shaky
growlithe isnt rly needed imo when u already have a rocks user and scarfer
I do kinda just need a physical wallbreaker
Doesn't matter a massive amount what goes there
snubbul is just better tbh
your defensive backbone is a bit lacking rn
and as drifting said, your vull mu is really iffy rn
Is charcadet good?
example set
I gotta build a lc team to fight my friend with and I wanna win
I'm gonna guess that every team needs a mienfoo and vullaby to be viable?
Hes not
P much, yeah
It's kinda funny tho
Funny doesnt mean good
his bst is awful unfortunately
best fire type is growlithe-h mainly because it has 150 power head smash without recoil
oh right
https://pokepast.es/f45fb3cc8962db16
I made a sample team earlier not a definitive one, I do not know the meta well
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is non lo toto not weaker than corph?
Toto is better, even
thats fair
this seems kinda iff into Snubbull to me methhinks
i see
before i had a glimmit and snubbull but i didnt think they'd mesh the best?
Toto's best aspect is Ice Punch though
yeah, i would drop a jet here i think
rock slide is silly
its a fine fourth option
how come vullaby and mienfoo are important to most teams?
well they mostyl act as pivot
versatile pivots p much
mienfoo is the best slow pivot with regen
and vull is the best fast pivot with weak armor
basically
they allow u to get ur clunky pokemon in withotu needing to sac somehting
you pretty much cant go wrong w having both on them on your team
ah
i kinda just used smogon site or the pre built sets
when im making my proper team im gonna do stuff like tera fire snivy probably
is that your attempt of building around totodile
I would strongly suggest not using that unless you know what you're doing
^
https://pokepast.es/c9b2212b4001230e
Im just getting back into lc, but idk much about the tier yet, so my team probably has lots of holes so does anyone have any advice?
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This is fine. There's nothing missing and there's only really suggestions I can think of if something isn't working.
I would say play with it a bit and see what isn't holding up, then ask for help then
Cool thx
Only problem I can see is that Mienfoo has 0 Atk IVs
And probably spread optimizations