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sweet ingot
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second off, I don't think impidimp is super good

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i get the idea, screens into shellder

fiery edge
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yea

sweet ingot
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but again it's a thing where like

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positioning it is hard

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you can get brick break'd

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a more consistent strategy and one that gets a lot of play in tournament

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is memento on evio diglett > shellder

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if you're going to use screens you need a LOT of abusers, in case one doesn't work out

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which is why you only really see it on gimmicky HO

fiery edge
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keep feeding me info

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this is good

sweet ingot
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evio dig doesnt need protect

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so just slot memento over that

fiery edge
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got it

sweet ingot
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as for what to replace impidimp with... hmm

surreal acorn
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something that doesn't lose to dig

sweet ingot
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maybe a wattrel so you can pivot around easier, wingull for speed control and help in certain mu's

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or a crabrawler

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all three come to mind as decent options

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oh DC has a great point actually

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you might want something to come in against diglett

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after it traps and kills something

surreal acorn
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gull is bad w/ double waters already

fiery edge
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true

sweet ingot
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yea

fiery edge
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wattrel then?

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or is that not a good enough diglett counter

sweet ingot
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it gets rock blasted which is potentially scary

fiery edge
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oh nvm

sweet ingot
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it's shaky as best because it can subsitute on cane

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wattrel wouldn't be the worst choice

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but you probs do want a mon that can come in against tera flying LO diglett

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maybe a zorua-hisui?

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you dont have a ghost rn

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could be nice

fiery edge
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fun

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as a nasty plot user?

surreal acorn
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as a support mon

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with wisp, u-turn, knock, filler

tender perch
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H zoro would be nice for you

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Helps Shellder set with willo and Can spinblock in a pinch which is nice

tender perch
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Honestly it might be better to go sucker on dig over rocks and then have pawn be the rocker losing Sd

fiery edge
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I GOT MY FIRST WIN

fiery edge
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ill fix it

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and hzorua

sweet ingot
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don't listen to bella

tender perch
sweet ingot
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keep rocks on evio dig

tender perch
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Drifting shut up

sweet ingot
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and sd on pawn

tender perch
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I think rocks pawn is fine

sweet ingot
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it would be worse on this team

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sucker on evio dig?

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don't sabotage this guy's team

tender perch
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I’m not sabotaging I’m just trying to give my 2 cents on this team

surreal acorn
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sucker is meh, tera blast could be an option

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memento is prolly good too if u dont run memento on zorua

tender perch
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Yeah true Tera blast is a good pick

fiery edge
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yeah ill run it on diglett

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yeah this is the set

tender perch
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What are you running as a fourth on houra

fiery edge
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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
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just standard support

surreal acorn
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that is not standard btw

tender perch
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I feel like you want knock there badly

sweet ingot
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it's standard enough

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mine usually look like this

fiery edge
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i have knock off on toedscool so thats why i skipped it

tender perch
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It’s never bad to run knock off on multiple mons

fiery edge
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knock off over tera blast?

tender perch
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Or hex

fiery edge
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but hex can hurty hurt the burned foes 👉 👈

sweet ingot
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not using knock is fine

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though if u wanna use it

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it'd be over tb

fiery edge
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well i can test a few games and see if i need knock or tera blast more then

sweet ingot
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sure

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who are you using for stealth rock

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btw

fiery edge
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diglett

sweet ingot
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yea ok good

fiery edge
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i added memento instead of

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protect

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yea

sweet ingot
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awesome 👍

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your team should be good to test then

fiery edge
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thanks a lot yall!

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ocean copper
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there are 2 teams here

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both of which are not mine

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could anyone tell me which would perform better?

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my eyes are on team 2

sweet ingot
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@lavish condor what gen is this for

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wait

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thats not you

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sorry

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@ocean copper

ocean copper
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sm lc

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i dont find a channel for sm

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or older gens

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lc

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@sweet ingot

sweet ingot
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ah

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well for starters

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misdreavus and drifloon are banned

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in sm lc

ocean copper
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wait

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shoot

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really?

sweet ingot
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ya

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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

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if you want some stuff that'll definitely be good

ocean copper
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how do you feel about team 1 ?

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wait its USM?

sweet ingot
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ya

ocean copper
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@sweet ingot hey

sweet ingot
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team 1 doesn't look awful

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afaik

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like all the individual mons are good

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but tentacool is rly bad

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if you want a poison water with spikes use mareanie

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or if you want a spinner water type use staryu

ocean copper
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ah

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sadly i dont know how this deals with carv

sweet ingot
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oh haha

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i brought this in my game

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this is a hyper offense made by @limber widget

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it's good

ocean copper
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how does it uhh deal with carv

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seems a little weak to it

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and i think most people got carvs

ocean copper
sweet ingot
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carv isn't like

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that good or common

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it's just ok

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it does seem a little weak to carv though

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mienfoo lives from full

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and kills it back

ocean copper
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fake out and sacrifice?

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fake out and switch in to another mon

sweet ingot
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well you live

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so you'd come in

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and u-turn

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to either kill it or punish the switch

ocean copper
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it would have a +1

sweet ingot
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u survive

limber widget
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Yeah Carvanha isn't very common in SM

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young grail
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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?

limber widget
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Well half the team looks fine

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I'm just a little puzzled by the Impidimp

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Some spreads need fixing too yeah

limber widget
sweet ingot
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Some of the individual mon choices are fine

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But i’d recommend using the sample smogon sets

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Which are tried and true generally

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I also don’t think impidimp is very good though, a foongus in that slot is better I think

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sweet ingot
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the ladder was not discontinued?

loud moon
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^dumb asf

sweet ingot
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ohhh

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this is sm

loud moon
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oras.

sweet ingot
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mb

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i'm not the most knowledgeable on oras but idk if you need 2 scarfers

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i feel like if you replaced cranidos with a fletchling, snubbull, snivy, abra, gastly

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something like that

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it'd probs be better

surreal acorn
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this team just loses to any shell smasher

sonic sentinel
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more important you get absolutely manhandled by chinchou

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scarf crani is pretty bad you lose very hard to a lot of dangerous stuff with it

sweet ingot
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maybe a porygon could be appreciated

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over cran

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like a spdef one

sonic sentinel
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a pory would help yes

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I have a similar larv/scarf mag/vulla team

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the other 3 on mine are ferroseed timburr and sub archen

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but I think a voltturn team without the best U-turn mon is really difficult to do

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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

frail hedge
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Ok thx

floral pollen
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you still lose to smashers, scarf porygon doesn't really add anything here

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you really need a more defensive ones

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frail hedge
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Also weak armour is meant to be overcoat

floral pollen
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You want a weak armor set, probably with Brave Bird over roost

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You have a heavy pivot team without a spinner and vull as your only real hazard control

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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

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Like gali said though, a voltturn team without the best user is really limited in that aspect though

frail hedge
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Ok

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wild willow
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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?

limber widget
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I think you got a pretty good balance team going on there

wild willow
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I will be fully honest something just feels off

limber widget
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I would probably use some less Tera Ghosts

limber widget
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Or is it a feeling from the builder

wild willow
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I have, probably for around 6-8 games now

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and I can't explain it but it doesn't feel right in some way during play

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It gets seemingly beat by Shroodle, Glimmet, and Shell Smash sweep teams a good amount

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and I haven't been able to pinpoint the issue

limber widget
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Hmmm

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Has Nymble been pulling its weight against those teams?

wild willow
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Not overly if I'm honest

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Any First Impression strats get blocked a lot

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and it only usually gets one or two of those off

limber widget
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Hmm right

wild willow
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to be fair the jankness of the lower end of the ladder doesn't help much but still

limber widget
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Hmm well one modification I could suggest is to make the Toedscool 17 Speed

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It allows it to naturally outspeed Glimmet

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I think Shroodle is pretty good in this meta, would make sense that you find yourself not doing too well against it

sweet ingot
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you want eq over tpunch on the crab

wild willow
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It always Parting Shots itself out of a counter and into a Shell Smasher and the game is basically toast

sweet ingot
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yea

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thats the tier right now

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every team is stat drop > shellder

wild willow
limber widget
wild willow
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Ooh that could be helpful actually

limber widget
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Also boosts Sucker Punch power if that can be useful

sweet ingot
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yea

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tera dark on dig is good

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for trapping shroodle

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if ur not tera blast

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it's the best tera

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imo

limber widget
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I think this team might be too slow for this meta idk, I'm not too used to build teams this bulky

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How has Mareanie been performing in your games

wild willow
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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

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and Mareanie has been great

sweet ingot
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without mareanie numel 6-0s this

limber widget
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Think about like the first 1 or 2 Pokemon that you can put instead of Mareanie

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And you'll notice that they also check Numel

sweet ingot
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like who

wild willow
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They have a point

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Shellos

limber widget
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Like Zorua-H or Wingull

sweet ingot
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shellos loses to numel

wild willow
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And those too

sweet ingot
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as does zorua h

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only wingull beats it

wild willow
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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)

limber widget
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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

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Wattrel is a good check to rain

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With Tera Water

wild willow
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So then maybe switch both or just one?

limber widget
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Hmm

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You still need a tspikes absorber

wild willow
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Ooooh yeah

limber widget
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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

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Oh you don't have Stealth Rock on your team either

wild willow
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Yeah that's another piece missing though I haven't found it as needed (though it could be nice)

limber widget
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Hmm I'm looking at an option rn

wild willow
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Oh?

limber widget
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But it's changing quite a bit of the team

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So I'm thinking Wattrel > Mareanie

wild willow
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Okay

limber widget
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And either Shroodle > Nymble

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Or Zorua-H > Nymble and Glimmet > Pawniard

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The first option probably sounds more solid

wild willow
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Tbf both do

limber widget
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My only concern with #2 is that you kinda remove a lot of your priority at once

wild willow
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Yeah

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What sets should be used as well if I may ask?

limber widget
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For Wattrel and Zorua, the normal sets should do fine

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Shroodle is up to preference after Knock Off + U-Turn

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Parting Shot is probably always good, Encore helps with some setup sweepers (like Numel), Copycat gives you some occasional priority

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Glimmet, well, it's Glimmet lol

wild willow
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Glimmet can just do anything lol

limber widget
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Well it's more like it has like, basically 5 or 6 moves to choose from

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So it basically always does the same thing

wild willow
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Yeah

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Alrighty then, thank you for the help! I'll give both teams a try and see how they feel!

limber widget
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Yeah tbh I'm not even sure how the changes would work

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So keep me updated too XD

wild willow
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I will for sure

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@limber widget one more thing, pivot or nasty plot for the Zorua-H set?

wild willow
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okay, ty!

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loud moon
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aron is technically fine larv probably doesn’t really do anything tho

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slowpoke is probably a wasted slot and i don’t think sash gligar lead is your best use of a gligar

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gets so much value out of oran

trim aspen
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ooh

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i thought on using slowpoke bc i dont wanted to get killed by stuff like machop or priority moves

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but alr ill see what to change

humble helm
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Slowpoke is really not that good

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Larv isn't very good but isn't unusable

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Kinda looks like you want a ghost over it and slowpoke to be a better water type

trim aspen
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oo alr then

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so ig staryu and duskull

fiery edge
limber widget
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I think the main thing that could be improved are the EV spreads

fiery edge
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mhm

limber widget
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You can take a look at the Smogon analyses for these

fiery edge
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btw where cn i practice these

limber widget
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Also, you can join the LC Discord and ask in the oldgens channel for games of SM LC

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People do that a lot, and often get a response

fiery edge
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there is a server for lc?

limber widget
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Yeah, I can invite you if you want

fiery edge
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yes pls

fiery edge
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rate

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fiery edge
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wrong team

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rate

surreal acorn
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double bug with floon as your removal option seems really bad

fiery edge
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oh wait i sent the wrong team again

sweet ingot
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you probably want tera blast

fiery edge
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bull hawnkey

sweet ingot
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over sucker on this diglett

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if ur not using tera blast then run tera dark so shroodle can't parting shot out of you

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and to boost sucker

fiery edge
sweet ingot
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ok

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well the same still goes for diglett

fiery edge
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i got it off from a randomizer thumbs_up

sweet ingot
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this team's biggest problem i can see is like

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a lack of a clear wincon

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i think

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if you replace mankey with crabrawler

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it should help a lot

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the mankey speed control isn't really as needed when you have nymble and dig

fiery edge
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ok

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rate the team in numbers please

sweet ingot
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wdym

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rate in numbers?

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like out of 5 stars or something?

fiery edge
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like 6/10

sweet ingot
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oh

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well if you put tera blast over sucker on diglett

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and put crab over mankey

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probably like a 6-7/10 i guess?

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should be a decent enough team

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if 5/10 is average

fiery edge
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thats what exactly i thought of when i said " rate the team in numbers "

humble helm
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mankey is pretty bad

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youre pretty weak into ghosts but mostly just zorua-h. drifloon is probably not a problem

fiery edge
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rate

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loud moon
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christmas vull 😄

sonic sentinel
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birds gonna fuck u up a bit

sweet ingot
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does this have abra problems

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i don't play much sm but it looks like it

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maybe pawn over ferro

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could alleviate the bird/abra issue

sonic sentinel
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u just trap it

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pawn is a shittier bird check than ferro tbh

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if it's mixed vull just 2hkos

limber widget
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This is literally Toadow's sample team btw

sweet ingot
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hm

sonic sentinel
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toad is the sm goat

humble helm
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if you see scarf foo as the only fight you know the team solves everything offensively and has a steel due to gastbra

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you need ferro for z staryu anyway

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sweet ingot
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Ngl @wild willow

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This team is fundamentally a bit dodgy

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Like a lot of the sets are just

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Too off meta

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Apart from cacnea the mon choices are fine

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But you need a poison type

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Need hazard removal

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And def need to fix these sets

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I’d recommend using body press stockpile numel and pairing it with a scarf gothita over cacnea

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If you want to use numel

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And then you can change your drifloon to a more standard oran set and perhaps change sandile to a toedscool

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You would still need a poison type though

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Probably glimmet as you have no stealth rock

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So i’d put that over voltorb (which should be tera ice anyway)

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Actually

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No you don’t need a toed with defog drifloon

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Put the glimmet over sandile

wild willow
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I will say, Cacnea is pretty good because at the very least unless it gets statused I'm almost guaranteed a trade, usually more

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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

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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

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(Not having Tera Ice Tera Blast Voltorb is also a sin looking at it now)

wild willow
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But I do see where you're coming from on that

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strange berry
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that is a drifloon set of all time

floral pollen
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There is nothing wrong with that drifloon

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Team has Voltorb issues

young grail
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i dont think its really bird spam when one of the birds doesn't have stab flying type moves

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floral pollen
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You have a lot of specific techs to beat Foongus

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To the point where it's overkill

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Timburr or Spritz should change their fourth move to benefit you best

limber widget
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But at the same time, they might need it, because once something can't hit Foongus, he has no switch-in

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I'm more worried about the matchup against special attackers like Abra and Gastly

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Also bcz of the so many Foongus techs, Mareanie looks like a rough mu too

humble helm
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if you have a pokemon with light clay you tend to need to commit more pokemon to set up

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and if you are running smash omanyte im not really sure about weak armor

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you also made an SM team without vullaby which is hard to vouch for

limber widget
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I think you could use an Eviolite Diglett

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Say over Abra

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Would help against Mareanie, and trap Abra and Gastly

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Could also fit Stealth Rock on it if you want to

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Also lets you not lose to Electric types

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Then your team gets a little weaker to Fighting types

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I think if you replace Omanyte with Nasty Plot Vullaby, it could be better

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sweet ingot
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You need stealth rock, put it on pawn

tiny flame
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alr

sweet ingot
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Also, impdimp is kinda ass

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And u need a poison type

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For tspikes absorption

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So you could actually maybe keep the sd on pawn and have rocks glimmet

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Or just use a shroodle to enable shellder sweeps

tiny flame
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alr

sweet ingot
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Choice is urs neither is a bad choice really

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Apart from that there’s no major issues i can see off a glance

tiny flame
sweet ingot
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I meant replace the impidimp

tiny flame
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Didnt wanna replace imp cuz he's my screens

sweet ingot
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Not the magnemite

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Impidimp is kinda ass imo but i guess if that’s the idea this works

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Though fix the glimmet set

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There’s no reason to deviate from the sample set really

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Glimmet’s a bit of a one trick pony

tiny flame
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Thx

tiny flame
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I chose the second sample set not the first

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My bad

young grail
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I don't think the current team is very good

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without a ground type or a scarfer, you're food for wingull, wattrel and voltorb

sullen osprey
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a ground isnt necesary if you have wattrel imo

young grail
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i think it needs another support option when the rest of the team is very slow

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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

sullen osprey
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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

young grail
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yeah

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cause shroodle can also help deal with wattrel cause of the speed
and scarf gothita (tera ground as well probably) helps as well

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and being able to trap checks to shellder is nice

humble helm
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whys it screens with shellder and pawn as the boosters

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you probably just go double smashers if you are forcing screens

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team seems very unconvincing into pawn as structured

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awkward 6 in general

willow oxide
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yeah the screens with only 1 mon to abuse them seems weird, i agree with original drifting take in dropping imp for shroodle

humble helm
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They seemed to want to keep imp specifically so advice should try to move the team in that direction generally

tiny flame
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can probably drop parting shot for gunk

tiny flame
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alr

loud moon
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is modest goth for anything in particular

limber widget
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You could also try Encore on Shroodle, and make Quaxly Brave Bird instead of Encore

tiny flame
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ok

limber widget
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Actually no, maybe it's better on Quaxly

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I'm worried about Swords Dance Pawniard

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With this team

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yeah encore quax only barely helps with that because going quax on the switch means you lose a mon

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hm

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I would like help with editing it as I am relatively new to teambuilding

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I have replays as well

sweet ingot
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scarf charmander is a better sun abuser than cyndaquil

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because of solar power

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sun in general isnt great

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but if ur gonna do it thats how

fresh pike
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I know scarf is better but I prefer tera fire eruption just because it functions better when I can't get sun up

limber widget
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You can keep Tera Fire Eruption Cyndaquil, but making the Cyndaquil Scarf would probably also make it better

young grail
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I think the main issue is that the team has a lack of defensive backbone

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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.

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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

fresh pike
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What would you recommend I swap out

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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

young grail
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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.

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They’re strategies you really need to invest into to make it work properly

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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
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gl and i hope you have fun playing!

fresh pike
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Would you recommend webs or sun for this team if I were to lose one?

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I’m also considering switching growlithe for slowpoke as a defensive presence

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And what item should I use for Diglett

sullen osprey
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eviolite or sash both work

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if i had to reccomend you keep either sun or webs i would reccomend webs

fresh pike
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Thank you

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Would you recommend Slowpoke over Growlithe?

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And if I were to switch to just webs what should I swap out Shroodle for?

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And should I keep sunny day on Diglett anyway just as a utility move if I remove Shroodle

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Sorry for all of the questions lol

humble helm
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You do not want slowpoke on webs

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You do want Growlithe H

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SD shroodle is fairly popular ATM but you could just make it smthng like stunky or Voltorb H

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I don't know how often you will click sunny day

fresh pike
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What set would you recommend for Stunky?

sullen osprey
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on webs if you have stunky it should be nasty plot

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move most of those spatk evs into defense and run tera ghost

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on glimm

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larvesta is p booty in this meta

little cypress
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I'm sorry to hear that

floral pollen
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I'd replace larvesta with something better into floon

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wattrel might be a nice fit

little cypress
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serves the pivot role

floral pollen
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its a good pivot

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still soft checks a lot of things

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and makes your floon matchup more palatable

little cypress
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wattrel is running tera steel right now

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but otherwise I like this

little cypress
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great, thanks

floral pollen
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give it a spin and see how it goes

little cypress
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scarf bray feels pretty good, admittedly I haven't played a ton yet

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Guys i think i need a team revamp for LC any suggestion

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I first need to put my team in poke paste

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still need to learn that

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can i just type it all out?

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Use pokepaste, it’s much preferred

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click the "upload to pokepaste" button

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tender perch
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Also this is just a me take

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But go tera dark > ghost on mare imo

hallow marten
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To be immune to Psychic?

tender perch
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Yeah

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Completely ruins scarf goths plans

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And since ur haze cm goth doesnt enjoy the mu much

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Especially if they already terad

hallow marten
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What do suggest I do to patch up the watt/electric mu?

tender perch
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Well a quick fix is tera electric crab

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Imo its alot better now

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Espeically post k-dig

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i dont like that due to its general lack of speed and how it loses to swords dance shroodle

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Also your only grass resists being wattrel and pawniard in a metagame with both grookey and voltorb-h is hard to deal with

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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

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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

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floon>horua, htorb>watt, foong>toed imo

young grail
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Sounds good to me

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what kind of htorb are you thinking gali

sweet ingot
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I agree with what gali says

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Floon>horua is important for sure

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I’m not quite as sure about replacing wattrel

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I think he’s good

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Imo a better replacement for toed might be shroodle

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Since you have an elec immune in watt

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And hazard removal in floon

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Plus shroodle is basically the best mon in the meta rn

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Another option is a gothita maybe

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The only concern with what gali says is that you don’t have a fire resist though

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Which makes me think glimmet over pawn would be nice, helps beat floon and shroodle too

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Rn the team you’re rocking kinda looks like a webs team but you forgot to include the webs lol

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Oh actually you don’t have a water resist either

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Maybe replace the toedscool with a quaxly and keep pawn?

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not having a shroodle is a bit sad but not the end of the world

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this looks ok

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yea

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Ty

young grail
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It’s okay, just kind of slow I think

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sonic sentinel
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voltturn without the orb

little cypress
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forgot about it, tbh

sullen osprey
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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

little cypress
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alright, thanks

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kinda want to squeeze in magnemite, but it'd probably be bad

young grail
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magnemite isn't very good in current metagame because its relatively slow while facing stiff competition in voltorb-h and wattrel

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steel stab typically doesn't make up for it either

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Yep

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Thats webs

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Sorry if that sounds a bit reductive but you kinda nailed it

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The least meta thing here is scarf mudbray

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Maybe u could consider a evio sandile in that slot?

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Thats a mon i love on webs

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Nasty plot stunky is another, maybe over pawn

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But ur team is fine maybe apart from the choice of mudbray set

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I’d probably go for a sandile angle over it

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Rocks crunch eq stone edge

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Moxie

floral pollen
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has nymble problems

humble helm
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With horb I think it should be protect and with crab it should be tera electric

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strange berry
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It’s been 29 days

young grail
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What Pokémon are you trying to build around

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Because I don’t like that team very much

floral pollen
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Lots of things to fix there, but to start, choice specs doesn't really benefit you

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Cyndaquil needs some kind of hazard clearing support to really make eruption work

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Axew doesn't really get many chances to start setting up a dragon dance

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Particularly if you're running FI

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Your need more eviolite

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Things like pawn are seriously limited without it

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And electric types completely roll you without a way for you to stop them

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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

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Thx

tender perch
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its been like

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ages since ive built lc

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so i would like to know how good this team is

sonic sentinel
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evio Pawn isn't a set anymore, if you make mud rocks and Pawn Tera dark lo it looks pretty solid

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I personally prefer tera ground on goths these days

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oh also sleep talk>tox

tender perch
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👍

sullen osprey
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i think fighting goth is better these days ngl

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with pawn being tera dark

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i would do tbolt>tect on holtorb, tbolt can be super nice to pick off agrimer n stuff

sweet ingot
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I think resttalk bray is bad

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Just make it rocks bray and lo pawn

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I prefer imprison on the grimer over sleep talk but both are fine

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(Though if you use imprison give it some speed)

sonic sentinel
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imprison is a bit of a meme imo

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I wouldn't use it outside of tour play

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thank god drifting is here 5 days late

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A mudbray that's on the same team as a grookey wants to be high horsepower over earthquake

normal needle
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why?

little cypress
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grassy terrain halves the bp of eq

normal needle
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right

little cypress
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Also, generally, acrobatics grookey runs grassy seed

normal needle
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makes sense

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i just thought the recovery from oran berry might be more useful

little cypress
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acroseed grookey is to beat stuff like foongus

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otherwise it just runs evio

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more consistent item

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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

normal needle
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hmm just asking would it be smart to swap mudbray for swift swim psyduck?

little cypress
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buizel + psyduck are generally what rain uses for sweepers

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at least, when it was more popular

sweet ingot
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id put psyduck on the rain yea

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no point using it otherwise

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rain is the type of archetype u need to be

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all in on

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you can't use like, semi-rain

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furthermore

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lefties sucks in lc give the buizel an oran

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but take oran off of everyone else and just use evio

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it's a lot better, buizel just likes oran because of recoil from wave crash

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i personally would replace the quaxly with psyduck

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make it a standard voltorb set with evio

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and then use a damp rock rain dance shroodle/riolu

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instead of the current shroodle

normal needle
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okay, ty

normal needle
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nah, bulk up

normal needle
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what about now

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oh sorry for the ping

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uhhh crap, swap the eviolite on the shroodle for a damp rock

young grail
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I think if you’re running rain you need two setters

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And I don’t think it’s particularly good in the current metagame

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Nasty Plot is preferred on Psyduck over calm mind

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And you want Tera blast over encore on psyduck

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Sleep talk mudbray isn’t very good on rain, especially because you really need your rain turns

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Rain is Hyper Offense, it’s not meant for a more bulky team

normal needle
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why would I take Tera blast on psyduck

fallen obsidian
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Psyduck is currently walled by any water type

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I would also use nasty plot over Calm Mind since you want to do damage quickly, defenses dont matter too much on rain

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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

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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

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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

sweet ingot
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yea the traditional psyduck is electric tera

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tender perch
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Nooo jack what have you done

fallen obsidian
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:( didnt think it through

normal needle
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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

fallen obsidian
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All good glad to help

normal needle
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that psyduck just sweeps

gentle lodge
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does someone have a team with hisuian growlithe and no drifloon? i know this is not the correct chanel but still

normal needle
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i think hisuian growlithe is banned

tender perch
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Hisuian Growlithe is banned yeah

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Even then this should go in #comp-general not here since this is for rates

sweet ingot
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hisuian growlithe is banned but this doesnt use drifloon

normal needle
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I’ll „borrow“ your team tho

sweet ingot
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no

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thats on purpose

sonic sentinel
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.

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you have a foongus.

sweet ingot
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its so you can switch in on spore

sonic sentinel
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@normal needle run outrage/dragon claw/stomping tantrum/first impression

sweet ingot
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L

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(that set is fine)

gentle lodge
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HEY GUYS IM NEW I JUST WANTED TO SAY HELLO

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AND IM WONDERING ARE THERE ANY TOURNEYS

fallen obsidian
nova oriole
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the channel is free...

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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

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p sure Turtwig isn't worth it but I don't really know the format

sonic sentinel
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it's not

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koffing is also kinda bad

nova oriole
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if I hard delete those two slots, what should I be adding

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I'm not necessarily looking for stuff that fills the same roles, I just need better Pokemon

young grail
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The current issue with koffing is that while it stuff mienfoo very hard

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It’s other matchups are very bad

And because it’s scarf koffing you have some issues

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Typically, the best way to punish a koffing coming into a mienfoo is with a knock off or u turn

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So you either lose your scarf so need speed

Or have an unfavorable MU because they turned out

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Both tinkatink and glimmet make koffing’s life quite hard and 9 times out of 10 foongus is probably better

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On that team composition specifically it looks weak to vullaby, so having a glimmet or tinkatink of your own works out nicely

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You could probably replace turtwig with shellder if you want a shell smash Pokémon

nova oriole
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I don't really need it to be a Shell Smash mon

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I just needed a hook to start building

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it only needs to be a Pokemon that wins

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(preferably with a decent Magnemite matchup, I was having trouble against that)

young grail
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Replace turtwig with toedscool

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You have foo and vull

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Replace mudbray with tinkatink

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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

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And then keep foongus

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i dont play lc too much but i wanna get back into if

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it

sullen osprey
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make the larv impish over bold, bold was a mistake on strategy dex iirc thats now fixed

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what do you want the corphish slot to be specifically? because unless you are building around corphish i would generally advise against it

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if you want another setup sweeper i think shellder would be good here because larv could burn possible setup targets

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other than that, this honestly looks pretty good to me

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young grail
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specs are bad in LC

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damage scaling doesn't really work

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replace hone claws on foo with u turn, its much better.

also make the ability regenerator

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vull should be jolly knock u turn brave bird

tailwind isn't very necessary on the bird

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overcoat works on that structure because you have no other foongus switchins

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what is diglett alola mementoing into besides foo or sandshrew? it doesn't feel like it really fits here

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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
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i think sand also has a lot of issues in the metagame due to orb-h's presence and hippoptas isn't very good

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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

normal needle
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ty

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Memento on digglet is just a random 4th move cuz idk what else to put

normal needle
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this way I have smth against both vullaby and mienfoo

young grail
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it doesn't work perfectly but its a start

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also have you used the import/export tab

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on showdown

it gives you recommended sets for eachh mon

normal needle
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huh

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does it?

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gotta look for that

normal needle
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this way I have smth against orb-h, have another vullaby counter and also have smth against toad

young grail
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that works

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im not sure how best to make sand viable in this metagame

normal needle
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ye, I know sand isn’t really great, but I thought I’ll still give it a go

young grail
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if there is a way to do it, that'd be a start for sure

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but i dont think tera blast ohkos vull

normal needle
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no, it’s only 2HKO

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but that should be sufficient for now

normal needle
young grail
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Glad to hear it

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Wait do you have any poison types

normal needle
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uhhh

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I don’t think so

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why?

young grail
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Glimmet

normal needle
young grail
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Toxic debris sets t spikes automatically

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Spin helps but it’s not great to rely on spin

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Change tinkatink to glimmet

normal needle
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but then I still got that Mienfoo issue

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I think spin is the better solution

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Even if it’s flawed

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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

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ill think about it

sweet ingot
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sand teams i think are bad but I have seen them win so i'm not going to completely write it off

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but ur definitely gonna want to use a normal mienfoo, normal voltorb etc from the smogdex

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at the very least

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here is a more standard/effective sand team some guy posted in my sample team thread like a month ago

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just at a glance you can see the moves/items/teras are a lot more standard and proven than what ur using

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and the ev spreads especially are just more optimal

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typically i would recommend against using ur own ev spreads until u get more experienced

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even i usually just use the sample spreads for most people because they're the samples for a reason

normal needle
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tysm, I will use that

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who wanna battle

tender perch
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Dont ask battles here in rates

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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

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felt lazy and felt like making another team

sullen osprey
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looks viable u have 6 good pokemon

patent shuttle
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oh

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i forgot

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nvm

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i didnt forget

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i thought i forgot the sets

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💀

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imma be so real

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i havent played a game yet

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with this

young grail
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Make it Tera dragon vullaby and I think you’re solid?

sweet ingot
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this looks fine

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id probably koffing over mareanie

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since koffing is kinda like mareanie but can escape goth

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rn ur a bit susceptible to a sequence like

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"oh shit its foo better go into my foo counter"

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u turn

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goth

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psychic

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and then what do you do next time foo comes in

young grail
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Die assumedly

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@craggy sluice Hey Bro

craggy sluice
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...

fallow shoal
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@slender wing @ocean coral I need a team rated. Think you all could help ?

craggy sluice
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Firstly, I need to ask a question

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How do you scare Prometeo Games?

ocean coral
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.

fallow shoal
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GRRRRR

tender perch
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neither Gawain or Tranq are LC raters

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honestly no problems with this, change tink to tera fairy tho imo

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i also think tera blast ground could be a good idea on vull, as your team can really struggle to break tink

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same if you wanted to do a fire move on skunk over play rough

sweet ingot
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nah i think tera elec is fine

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maybe consider fire blast on stunky if tink is a concern

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not having anything to come in on volt switch is a bit scary but apart from that this seems fine

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i would keep tink water for liquidation+spear shellder

sullen osprey
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is shellder a threat for this, sucker skunk exists

sweet ingot
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i guess shell cant set up on much

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i still like to have a fat water on most of my teams though

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you can never be too safe

sonic sentinel
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is there a good fat water in this meta

sweet ingot
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teras

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like a water foongus or bray usually

tender perch
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This feels extremely fineyeah

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Maybe tera ground on vullaby?

sweet ingot
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structures like this have their biggest weaknesses vs glimmet

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since it can set up multiple hazards on you which you cant remove

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and can come in on a lot of ur shit

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since ur using tink

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so if i was gonna suggest anything it'd probably be a toed over like, maybe goth

coral saddle
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also i lose to sun dont i?

young grail
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Vulpix is banned, but sun does exist on the fringe

coral saddle
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scarfmander shroodle

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but shroodle not really that good tho right

tender perch
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Shroodle is fine

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runic bison
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There’s isn’t really anything super wrong with this

floral pollen
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Give memento to glim imo

turbid forum
floral pollen
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You have two setup sweepers and nothing to help them set up

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Any of your actual attacks

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All of them have drawbacks to being dropped

runic bison
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U could prob make some minor tweaks for comfort but u could def get good results

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Nah u would def drop power gem

floral pollen
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I would keep mud shot and drop one of the stabs

turbid forum
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got it thank u

floral pollen
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There's no vull answer though

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It's just setting up faster

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Which is why I'm inclined to say keep power gem

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Dropping it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world though

turbid forum
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i havent played since start of dlc and just put together funny mons on the vr

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😭

tender perch
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Keep power gem

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Prolly change foo tera to steel or dark

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I say steel

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Most of the other stuff is fine so im ok w this

turbid forum
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thank u three of u

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tender perch
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this

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no offense

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really sucks

warm monolith
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i know

tender perch
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im not even going to bother trying to rate this since this is basically a complete reset

warm monolith
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i just damn

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how to make team then

tender perch
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i would recc using a sample first

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!lcresources

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wait

sullen osprey
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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

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floral pollen
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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

sweet ingot
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ditch the specs on gastly and ditch the buizel altogether

floral pollen
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If you don't want to drop the buizel, make the foo a slow set and make it a defensive pivot

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So it can safely get buizel more turns to play

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Also, drop the specs on Gastly and give it a life orb

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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

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If you're okay with dropping the water weasel, try hisuan Growlithe

sweet ingot
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id put scarfing duty on the gastly and let foo do its bulky pivot thing

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personally

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rather than LO gastly

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but it's up to u both can work

dark meadow
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foo took me a second there to be honest lmao

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"foongus? it's already slow"

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but nah it makes sense

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i'll probably swap buizel out for growlithe

sweet ingot
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i think u'd do well to put a snubbull over buizel

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ur vull countering is a little shaky

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growlithe isnt rly needed imo when u already have a rocks user and scarfer

dark meadow
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I do kinda just need a physical wallbreaker
Doesn't matter a massive amount what goes there

tender perch
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snubbul is just better tbh

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your defensive backbone is a bit lacking rn

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and as drifting said, your vull mu is really iffy rn

bright bluff
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Is charcadet good?
example set

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I gotta build a lc team to fight my friend with and I wanna win

bright bluff
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I'm gonna guess that every team needs a mienfoo and vullaby to be viable?

tender perch
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I'm gonna use totodile

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Totodile d-dance rock slide

tender perch
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Toto is kinda iffy

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I prefer corph

bright bluff
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It's kinda funny tho

tender perch
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Funny doesnt mean good

young grail
bright bluff
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oh right

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tender perch
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is non lo toto not weaker than corph?

runic bison
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i think toto is fine

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fwiw

floral pollen
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Toto is better, even

tender perch
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thats fair

runic bison
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i would build around it differently

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sounds cliché but its prob great on screens lol

tender perch
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this seems kinda iff into Snubbull to me methhinks

bright bluff
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i see

runic bison
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oterhwsie i dont see how u set up a life orb toto

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once its set up tho its so strong

bright bluff
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before i had a glimmit and snubbull but i didnt think they'd mesh the best?

floral pollen
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Toto's best aspect is Ice Punch though

bright bluff
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ah i see

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i should probably add that then

tender perch
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yeah, i would drop a jet here i think

runic bison
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yeah keep liquidition ice punch and ddance

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last move can be a lot of thing s

bright bluff
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rock slide is silly

tender perch
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its a fine fourth option

bright bluff
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how come vullaby and mienfoo are important to most teams?

runic bison
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well they mostyl act as pivot

tender perch
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versatile pivots p much

runic bison
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mienfoo is the best slow pivot with regen

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and vull is the best fast pivot with weak armor

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basically

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they allow u to get ur clunky pokemon in withotu needing to sac somehting

tender perch
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you pretty much cant go wrong w having both on them on your team

bright bluff
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ah

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i kinda just used smogon site or the pre built sets

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when im making my proper team im gonna do stuff like tera fire snivy probably

runic bison
bright bluff
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is that your attempt of building around totodile

floral pollen
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I would strongly suggest not using that unless you know what you're doing

molten jewel
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^

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floral pollen
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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.

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I would say play with it a bit and see what isn't holding up, then ask for help then

frail hedge
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Cool thx

limber widget
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And probably spread optimizations