#competitive_discussion
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And what I showed was the doubles team that got me to master ball tier
nope
I sent the pokepaste
torn doesn't work well
today I learned thatif we ever have the mythical format in SV that you should not underestimate Band Arceus
tera normal choice band e speed?
farigiraff
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in a format where you're allowed 6 restricteds Farig is kinda underwhelming, I had it on my team but it never felt safe to bring
Caly-I though can survive a +2 Life Orb Tera Normal Extremespeed đ
Which format are you talking about
Farigs ability should be quite high value even in said circumstances though. Iâm assuming this is VGC in late SV
Why the fuck are some idiots running grass caly s with giga drain
Let that fucking bullshit fall asleep
Literally its good
I hosted a tournament of Series 13 tournament in SV
So mythicals + no restricted cap
I lost in semis, using CIR, Farig, Hands, Mirai, Magearna and Gambit Ape
Ohhh ok
No lol
Second place, if you look at top cut the incin lost to ting lu team
Incin also was extremely mid in this format
I think if I did it again Id go Indeedee over Farig and give Caly a diff tera but otherwise the team felt busted
I see
Everyone in the tournament was psyched about my 6, KodakZaq needed two ridiculously timed crits game 3 to win
I literally just hosted this to have an excuse to use Magearna
Lmao fair enough
As TR Queen I wanted rare footage of the best TR mon in existence

Magearna is a trick room mon?
Steel/Fairy
Soul-Heart
80/95/115/130/115/65
600
Magearna-Original
base 65 is a nice speed for trick room
Well damn
nods
I've just been using it for raids
Its not legal in VGC so theres not a lot you can do with it
i mean we canât really use mythicals in vgc but
But thats why I made a format for it and hosted a tour
for custom battles it works as a trick room mon
There was a mythical format in SwSh so I reprised the format for SV
Ayo I'd love to participate in one if you're planning one in the future
itâll be back eventually for sv
Might have to alter my current tr team if I participate in a future one
they always do one âfuck it we let everything allowedâ format each gen
Oh god
Anything goes....
it wonât be for that long and i doubt that itâll be for official vgc format
Getting gen 8 nat dex ag flashbacks...
Zacian and caly s EVERYWHERE
Make it stop...
Make the horses and dogs go away...
No
Zamazenta
Fun fact s13 had one regional in Taiwan
No mythicals were in top cut
LMFAO
#1 was 5 ubers + Regieleki which was basically an uber
Ill be hosting more of this format and then other like custom formats on limitless over time
oh
also itâs good to see you back 
they did it once, in swsh
never before that were mythicals legal in vgc or could u use more then the 2 cap of restricteds
I never super left just not always active in this server but girlie you know for you my dms are always open đ«¶
How do you get around taunt if Farigiraf is your trick room setter?
Do you run mental herb even though it isnât that bulky like cresselia?
Not all taunt users are pranksters and itâs common to use taunt in flutter mate or some other mon like urshifu
Yea I just use mental herb lol
Can it take hits like cress can?
Usually you lead with Fake Out/Redirection anyways so itâs pretty moot
Follow Me, Final Gambit, your own faster Taunt
Possibilities are endless
A good trick room player is never scared of taunt or imprison
Well I use Mieshao for fake out and wide guard but annhilape with scarf could be a good fit
Final gambit, coaching and rage fist
Youâre not using Rage Fist if youâre Scarfed
Gambit U Turn Shadow Claw Coaching
Ah I use cress for my trick room setter and sheâs consistently but fake out and taunt together are annoying. If they fake out and taunt twice
If they donât have Farigiraf I fake out their incin or rilla and that way I avoid that play
https://pokepast.es/235e96a5f3512fa5
can someone let me know how i can improve this team. ive never had a dondozo team before so im basing it off what ive been going against
Cress bad
Cress has the unique property to keep the team healthy with lunar blessing
I donât have to worry about burn
Or sleep
Does it block priority
No, but removing burn while healing is very good
Idk why you would care about burn since the only that cares by that is your Caly Ice
Yeah and itâs my main carry obviously
I was tempted to use fire but water is a lot more popular now cuz it survives to both urshifus
And isnât weak to other caly ice using high horsepower
Cress bad, these uses for it arenât enough in a high power format
Cress hasnt been good since Reg D - Early Reg E
tbh i think Cress is only worth with Ursaluna xd
Sheâs one of the most tanky mons if not the tankiest, tera electric removes all her weaknesses and has consistent healing. 1/4 hp recovery to her teammate and herself plus removing status is very valuable
And lives forever
also the lunar blessing wouldn't help you to stop spore or sleep since that Cress doesn't have safety
They can just spore the Cress xd
Yeah but they have to pick to sore caly ice or cress
I wanted to use safety googles but taunt is very common
Cress is too passive while providing no gain to your game plan
You canât avoid flutter mate taunt
Farig disrupting fake out and sucker is significantly more valuable
Like take it from someone who has tested every variant of Trick Room 100s of times
Cress is pretty much objectively bad without room for argument
You may be thinking youâre being successful with it, but I promise you your games would be going consistently better with Farig, Clefairy or even Bruxish
Youâre welcome to disagree but I would stay away from Cress, its a trap at best.
I mean yeah I wouldnât use cress outside of trick room. Outside of trick room I use Farigiraf
Im saying IN TRICK ROOM you should use any of those 3 over Cress, Cress is garbage
Cress is very passive but has useful moves like helping hand and lunar blessing is unique of cress
You're actively hindering yourself using Cress, period.
Also all supports are very passive
Not just cress
Moonblast is still enough to OHKO urshifu dark
Cress is TOO passive
Farigiraf does an important job by simply sitting there doing nothing. Cress doesn't
Both learn helping hand
Helping Hand + Healing does not make a good support
im not talking Helping Hand,I don't even run it on my farig currently
Armor Tail is one of the best abilities in the game and you are kneecapping yourself not running it.
You don't need to
You play better so you don't get wisped to begin with, or just consider the fact that at +2 you cancel out the burn.
To play Trick Room well you have to play proactively, not reactively.
Cress is reactive, Farig is proactive.
Yes I know you have 5 turns to win or deal as much damage as you can
But slowly wearing your team down is a counter to trick room as well
So when it ends your team is low hp and lost speed advantage
Not it isn't. Because if you're doing it right they aren't getting hits in.
But I like the healing cuz it allows for a 2nd trick room since cress kept my team healthy
if u didnt use cress and played well enough under the first tr, in most cases u wouldnt even need a 2nd tr
^^ correct
i think ur willfully ignoring a lot of info here. its cool to use cress but trynna justify it the way u are jus isnt it
Games are longer yes I know that is part of cress being slow and tanky
And the longer your games get the more losing you're doing.
I was really excited for lunar blessing when I saw what the effect was, and I was looking forward to add cress in my team
I'm used to be the person mods @ for Trick Room stuff
Tofu would straight up go "Prog knows more than I do on this"
I live and breathe Trick Room lol, and I will advocate for weird tech where it fits. I hit Top 10 Masterball with Bruxish last month. But Cress is undeniably in its worst place its been in in Gen 9 right now.
There is ZERO reason to run Cress
If you want the healing, go for Clefairy or Sinistcha
If you want bulky support + HH, go for Farig
again, np using cress but its just disingenuous to say cress is actually elevating ur team/archetype. its actually hurting it
Cress does nothing to contribute to your game plan.
Top 10? Good job
If you wanna be cute be cute but you're creating false straw man arguments to justify it, and thats actively unhelpful to someone who may be less informed who sees this conversation.
Also the team seems to instalose against Caly Shadow xd
Iâm just top 500
so?
nah tbf I mentioned my rank
damn why
to make a point that I know what im talking about with TR
I highly doubt they're top 500
and I will advocate for cute mons where they fit
Nothing wrong with it
but Cress literally does not have a fit in any variant of TR in Reg G
ur point is supported by the point not the rank. ppl run wack shit all the time
and get good results w. it. they still admit the mons they use are subpar
no so Im saying I will support using fringe mons if they have a role, I got that top 10 with Bruxish
but Cress is not that, it has NO role atm
theres not a single thing it does to justify running it
Like I love Cresselia a shit ton as a mon, its on my shortlist for future tattoos
Yeah and I never said cress was better than fari, all I said is I like lunar blessing and how tanky cress is
it makes me sad its not good after it was so insane in Reg D
i think its lame bringing in rank generally. i think i did it once on a guy pissing me off otherwise its arbitrary. shrekers played like 300 games to get top 500 i wouldnt exactly call that impressive
I mean he posted a screenshot of it
It was outside top 500
Anyway Im done trying to help you.
You can lead a horse to water and what not.
Then I adjusted my team a little
Lmao
its quality of games is my point. a lot of ppl can play 200+ games and eventually get into the top 500 if they can 1 or 2 favorable win streaks. its not a justifiable claim to say hey this mon is good/this team is good
hence why the rank stuff can be weak
I also only do cart ladder for content
I stream a different TR team every week, and a LOT of them are garbage for the sake of being garbage
same thing for saying hey this is my rank i know this archetype. like dude if u know it u know it ur explanation/arguments will support that
the bruxish team was part of a pride month thing, it was a "Trans rights" team where it was 2 blue, 2 white and 2 pink mons
peaked at 8 with it
Alright then tell me, do you deal with Amoonguss?
the amount of people that werent ready for Crabominable was great
follow me grass types/safety goggles, electabuzz, alcremie, plenty of things
protecting once and reversing your own tr
I have done that before lmao
Alcremie how?
I thought she was bad
Fairy
Sweet Veil, Aroma Veil (Hidden)
65/60/75/110/121/64
495
Sweet veil I think
This Pokemon and its allies cannot fall asleep, but those already asleep do not wake up immediately. This Pokemon and its allies cannot use Rest successfully or become affected by Yawn, and those previously affected will not fall asleep.
Oh sweet veil
I thought aroma veil was better to deal with taunt
For tr, stopping amoonguss is really valuable since itâs one of the things that can slow your momentum down
When itâs up
for cir i jus dont even set it up w/ shroom on their team. they always bring it
Nah they fill different roles depending on the other 4
Glacial lance go brr
yep haha
i havent seen alcremie have 1 good result
ladder warrior stuff discluded
Idt I have either
its jus not good
talk about a mon talking up a slot lol
A passive ability that advances your game plan does more than Cress
Results-oriented thinking is a trap in itself
the mon sucks tho u can jus play better and have a better mon there
Alcremie is on my short list for a lot of my worlds testing rn
Couldnât be more wrong lol
Could also apply that to anything
right cuz ur the tr expert lmao
dodging the question also doesnt help(!)
Im not saying look at me im right about Alcremie
But theres a lot of other prominent TR players who think highly of it next to Caly.
Its bulkier than Smeargle, and turning sleep off so one of TRs greatest counters does nothing is worth just sitting there
It performs the same kind of role as Farig, providing a useful passive buff without needing to click q move
generally u want ur mons to give u the most options possible, idt the 2 passive abilities it gives u really offers much value outside running mental herb/fake out for the taunt or sleep stuff and not have a shit mon on ur team

Fair enough ig
Alcremie is typically used on Indeedee CIR teams
Sweet Veil + Terrain stops the two main TR counters so you just run wild
giraffe is pretty self explanatory and actually has decent stats/typing into the format
Besides, my point about Cress was never about how much its used or has won.
Lack of usage doesnât mean a mon is bad
well no but doesnt mean its favorable into the meta
P Terrain blocks Fake Out, Sweet Veil blocks spore
You dont lead with Alcremie its in the back
ive already explained outside of low useage in and of itself why idont think alcremie is good enough to justify using. ur the one harping on that 1 specific thing
This Pokemon and its allies cannot fall asleep, but those already asleep do not wake up immediately. This Pokemon and its allies cannot use Rest successfully or become affected by Yawn, and those previously affected will not fall asleep.
these things do not come from ogerpon
Indeedee instead of fari?
ogerpon hit cir in the head
Not when tr is up lol
game doesnt start with it up
plus what is stopping coaching lance t1 from opponent
assuming its just indeedee cir
Never said it did
ur already behind if ur just clicking tr
if ur banking on just indeedee to set it while cir does something ur sat infront of +1+1 cir and idt indeedee lives? it might
If you say so
Generalizing it to one matchup is kinda strawman
I wouldnt lead caly indeedee against that
other than cake that can be replaced by a dog, indeedee & cir i have no idea what ur on
I was genuinely trying to help explain why Cress isnât worth running
Didnt expect to get dogged on for alternatives I suggested
speaking of dogâŠ
meow-?
dog not cat
Nice
bingo board stuff

Nihilego, Blacephalon, both pieces to ndw & another UB i forgor
Still donât have fini yet?
she got fini as i was getting ready to join
zygarde
thanks
Now hopefully next gen you get to use it
What do you use for wide guard in trick room?
Psychic/Fighting
Steadfast, Sharpness, Justified (Hidden)
68/125/65/65/115/80
518
Gallade-Mega
Gallade, Araquanid, Mienshao, Hitmontop
pretty good odds
Generally in that order of viability
i dont see them cutting the coolest set of pokemon ever
Peli seems to be the big one meta wise
I want to use Koko
For tr nah
Pelipper is the peoples champ for balance
We referring to hard tr?
Yeah it absolutely os
Those peli fwg caly teams arent tr
If itâs just balance
thinkin abt how lunala balance can be kinda heat for reg h
They run the move tr yes but theyâre not tr teams
Ah
i dont even run peli rn
Lunala is also a good wide guard mon but being your restricted makes it not really part of same convo
But next Reg Lunala + Dialga will go hard as a tr core
Iâm excited for next reg
And then everything with be CSR Zama and Iâll just dip lol
For my mythical tour I literally took my planned Reg H team and swapped Blood Moon for Magearna
(Ik thatâs not how that works)
Never understood this mentally tbh
Either you like the game or you dont and if you dip that quicklyit sounds like you dont
CSR is healthy for the meta by being a counter to Mirai
The circle is sorta mirai beats cir cir beats csr csr beats mirai
It is mostly a I havenât figured out how to beat CSR but, I still hate it
What are you using that struggles
Lemme grab a paste, I use Zac and have been for a while
cir rilla makes mirai the easiest mu on planet earth
Iâm probably changing stuff around, rilla over amoonguss is something Iâm gonna go test
And maybe lando over drago
I never got around to liking the main guys
Or just, sorry i never did
I think the calyâs are boring miraidon doesnât really fit my playstyle terapagos was kinda eh
Pelipper isnât good for hard trick room, I experimented with it
Rilla is so good with zac
The rain doesnât benefit you
?
Ok was gonna say
Also eh, I think amoonguss is also nice
Zac doesnt appreciate tr
Its still itâs hardest matchup of the top restricteds
I like Mieshao cuz it counters incineroar
Not âhardâ but compared to csr and pagos being free
Checks but ok
csr is just weird to navigate
False
Csr is fine
terapagos ez if not a weird setup variant & its a lil tricky incin is slower
Nothing is skilless
Pagos is only hard for csr if its the like cloak chi + specs pagos variants
There are things that are easier and harder to pilot
This
claiming something as skilless shows me your skill issue tbh
i do it too, however i am also bad at game so its okay
A suggestion that popped up for my team was wide guard but idk if it fits anywhere so I havenât experimented with it
Youâre not bad at the game lol
Itâs definitely one of the easiest
thereâs no such thing as skill less-
only skill issues-
no no-
go on
B tier gimmick character
i do stupid shit for a reason-
idc about winning i want to mess with my opponents 
I like my dog
@gentle delta worst cir mu by far is the abomination jesse made for solarflare
the only skilless thing is me
Huh?
i mean itâs not like iâll ever properly compete so might as well as have fun with stupid pokemon
What was it
ill send paste
Fair enough although regionals are super fun
looks fun but iâll never have the time to go
You donât have a weekend to go?
worlds always happens during summer, end of season is like-
near the start of summer, season starts after school starts and university busy
Eh ig itâs more complicated than that
Planning flights and hotels takes time as well
well no when trying to fit my schedule-
as well as planning trips and flights
itâs near impossible-
@craggy dagger get involved with vancouver locals
noh
What mod
Itâs a big bunch of mods
180ish
Terribly optimized tho
Java is so bad lol
Itâs called ultimate Minecraft, I forgot who it was made by
Java>>bedrock
No
Not for playing with friends/modding
Itâs a very simple way of coding and it causes the game to be very laggy
I believe Java edition uses JavaScript
Depends on what im trying to do with the team
Well I like having checks for multiple important threads. Like zama, kyogre, mira, caly s and mirror caly ice
Do you want me to dm you about the CSR stuff Ruby? Never got back to me on that
I more mean like what partners are best is dependent on your sweepers and how hard your tr is
Sorry life got busy yeah dm me and ill take a look when I can
Well with caly ice obviously and I was using skeledirge
And either raging bolt, primarina or empoleon
I wish empoleon had a water move besides hydropump
But raging bolt is a questionable choice with indeedee
Anyone got a monotype fire team I could inspire from
Unironically Water Pledge
If one of the user's allies chose to use Fire Pledge or Grass Pledge this turn and has not moved yet, it takes its turn immediately after the user and the user's move does nothing. If combined with Fire Pledge, the ally uses Water Pledge with 150 power and a rainbow appears on the user's side for 4 turns, which doubles secondary effect chances and stacks with the Serene Grace Ability, except effects that cause flinching can only have their chance doubled once. If combined with Grass Pledge, the ally uses Grass Pledge with 150 power and a swamp appears on the target's side for 4 turns, which quarters the Speed of each Pokemon on that side. When used as a combined move, this move gains STAB no matter what the user's type is. This move does not consume the user's Water Gem, and cannot be redirected by the Storm Drain Ability.
Water
Special
80
100
10 (16)
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Copied by Mirror Move.
Does not make contact.
I had it in my head that was 60 base lol
It also doesnât get redirected by storm drain which is neato
Rainbow
Rainbow, serene grace and ancient power
Have you used it like in sv with like fire or grass pledge
it sounds so cool
Secondary effects are crazyyyy
If one of the user's allies chose to use Grass Pledge or Water Pledge this turn and has not moved yet, it takes its turn immediately after the user and the user's move does nothing. If combined with Grass Pledge, the ally uses Fire Pledge with 150 power and a sea of fire appears on the target's side for 4 turns, which causes damage to non-Fire types equal to 1/8 of their maximum HP, rounded down, at the end of each turn during effect, including the last turn. If combined with Water Pledge, the ally uses Water Pledge with 150 power and a rainbow appears on the user's side for 4 turns, which doubles secondary effect chances and stacks with the Serene Grace Ability, except effects that cause flinching can only have their chance doubled once. When used as a combined move, this move gains STAB no matter what the user's type is. This move does not consume the user's Fire Gem.
Fire
Special
80
100
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Copied by Mirror Move.
Does not make contact.
@molten oasis how does Kyurem White do into Zamazenta
Ass
Forced to Tera wide guard is a major issue youâre slower and you get easily bursted down
Yw

You're not welcome

Lmao
Yeah I was just asking cuz I'm with someone who don't get it 
lol
Would Ting-Lu's heavy slam do anything to Fairy Tera Calyrex Shadow
Decent bit I assume
Probably not a ton but it would probably hit harder than the now resisted dark move
this is probably a stupid question but is there a solid counter xD
besides y'know having one yourself or wide guard
No
I have question can fairy tera blast from 68 attack EV ting lu one shot koraidon ?
time to calc
LWJGL
and normal java
not javaScript đ
The skull emoji was unnecessary
Could have just told me
This generation is not funny
Itâs just annoying
problem with java edition it still uses a lot of code from back when notch still owned minecraft
Yea
and the devs still refuse to accept the modding community constantly showing them to fix the game
the problem also stems from the game being single core reliant
Yep
they did lightly multi thread it but it only uses like 2 threads
That sounds about right and it sucks
having like 12th gen i9 or better usually can run minecraft pretty well
Not modded
Normal Minecraft is great
I have mods and it lags, but also I have a laptop and weaker ram so itâs mostly that
lol
I can play all the mods without noticeable lag besides actual bugs in Minedcraft
nice
modded minecraftđđđ
modded terrariađđđ
Iâm playing with friends
And also i donât currently understand the terraria hype
I couldnât get into it
its just minecraft if it were good
Theyâre not really the same game, similar concepts I suppose but not the same game
Although it looks like terraria has more to do in vanilla which is nice
one is a sandbox and one is a linear progression game
ehhhh both are technically sandbox games
one just cant be beat in 10 minutes of playing
Fair enough
technically you never beat minecraft
ender dragon if anything is just the start of playing minecraft 
there is no end goal
in the context of linear progression
that is technically the games ending
the mod i have has a ton of bosses
in minecraft
so ig the goal for me is beating all the bosses
https://pokepast.es/05f50845fb62e31b thoughts on lando over drago? torn has protect over taunt.
Heeeeyyy

Could I get your thoughts on my team plz
No
I need to get the third Zac emoji
What is that Rilla speed stat for
Uh, 115
It used to outspeed, and kinda still does outspeed most rillas, that Iâve fought

You can go 52 EVs if you just wanna outspeed Scarf Ursh in TW
Hereâs the part 2 of that picture now I have 4 zacian emojis 
Do I just then dump the rest into attack then?
Yeah or a little more bulk đ€·ââïž
Yeah could work
Why isnât my rilla natured on my phone lol
Actually eeeeehhhhh

Oh nvm Scarf is available
Yeah
You'll outspeed the bikes without TW
Sure little less damage since no Life Orb but
Eh
Since I can still see Koraidon being an issue here
Iâve played with it before I only missed the damage on sludge bomb
It took me some time and constant repositioning to get a match with it done
Whimsi was really annoying
Like Koraidon rn just sorta looks like Rain Dance and hope they don't CYCLE the bike (I'll be here all day)
It pretty much is lol
He didn't catch the joke thank God
FUCK
Iâm not stupid lol

You also put it in all caps like how would I not see it lol
Honestly I felt like Wolfe in that moment when he makes all those shit puns
Lmao
exploding you with my mind rn @bold geode
EXPLODES PANCAKES WITH MIND
The stat judging thing in Pokémon home shows IVs, right?
Right
In other news I just got wonder boxed a shiny iron valiant with "best" in all stats
Sounds hacked
Naive nature
Im wondering if it is
I'll have to get it checked when I get the chance
If it's hacked that blows
Wait can you even get perfect IVs on an iron valiant?
yeah but it's a really low chance
And a shiny one would be EVEN lower
Hmm seems like I don't have perms for that
But practically impossible. Better off winning the lottery at that point.
You have to think, since these were never distributed as raids (afaik) and it has 0 guaranteed IVs, it's indeed this chance
its also shiny, yeah
Def hacked sadly :c
womp womp, time for release then
Tofu quick question
How does one translate the Japanese reports again
How do I decide taunt or wisp on incin
Acrobatics, Aerial Ace, Assurance, Bind, Bite, Blaze Kick, Body Slam, Brick Break, Brutal Swing, Bulldoze, Close Combat, Covet, Cross Chop, Crunch, Darkest Lariat, Double Kick, Double-Edge, Drain Punch, Dual Chop, Earthquake, Endeavor, Facade, Fake Out, Fire Fang, Fire Punch, Flame Charge, Flare Blitz, Fling, Focus Punch, Frustration, Fury Swipes, Giga Impact, Heat Crash, Iron Head, Knock Off, Lash Out, Leech Life, Lick, Low Kick, Low Sweep, Mega Kick, Mega Punch, Outrage, Pay Day, Power Trip, Return, Revenge, Reversal, Scratch, Shadow Claw, Stomping Tantrum, Superpower, Take Down, Temper Flare, Thief, Thrash, Throat Chop, Thunder Punch, Trailblaze, U-turn
Blast Burn, Burning Jealousy, Dark Pulse, Ember, Fire Blast, Fire Pledge, Fire Spin, Flamethrower, Focus Blast, Heat Wave, Hidden Power, Hyper Beam, Overheat, Round, Scorching Sands, Snarl, Snore, Tera Blast
Attract, Baton Pass, Bulk Up, Confide, Double Team, Embargo, Endure, Growl, Helping Hand, Leer, Nasty Plot, Parting Shot, Protect, Quash, Rest, Roar, Scary Face, Sleep Talk, Snatch, Substitute, Sunny Day, Swagger, Swords Dance, Taunt, Torment, Toxic, Will-O-Wisp, Work Up
A move displayed with Bold text benefits from Same-Type Attack Bonus when used by Incineroar.
Alright my team is ready for next season
A more optimal trick room team
Tho might replace raging bolt, Idk
Maybe for ursaluna blood moon or rillaboom, not sure yet
singles or doubles?
Assurance, Bide, Bite, Body Slam, Covet, Crunch, Cut, Dig, Double Kick, Double-Edge, Facade, Feint Attack, Flail, Foul Play, Frustration, Giga Impact, Headbutt, Iron Tail, Lash Out, Last Resort, Natural Gift, Pay Day, Payback, Pursuit, Quick Attack, Rage, Retaliate, Return, Secret Power, Skull Bash, Sucker Punch, Tackle, Take Down, Thief, Throat Chop, Trailblaze
Alluring Voice, Dark Pulse, Dream Eater, Echoed Voice, Hidden Power, Hyper Beam, Hyper Voice, Mud-Slap, Psychic, Round, Shadow Ball, Snarl, Snore, Stored Power, Swift, Synchronoise, Tera Blast, Trump Card, Weather Ball, Zap Cannon
Attract, Baby-Doll Eyes, Baton Pass, Calm Mind, Captivate, Celebrate, Charm, Confide, Confuse Ray, Copycat, Curse, Detect, Double Team, Endure, Fake Tears, Flash, Focus Energy, Growl, Guard Swap, Heal Bell, Helping Hand, Laser Focus, Light Screen, Mean Look, Mimic, Moonlight, Nightmare, Protect, Psych Up, Rain Dance, Reflect, Refresh, Rest, Roar, Sand Attack, Scary Face, Screech, Sing, Skill Swap, Sleep Talk, Snatch, Spite, Substitute, Sunny Day, Swagger, Tail Whip, Taunt, Thunder Wave, Tickle, Torment, Toxic, Wish, Wonder Room, Work Up, Yawn
A move displayed with Bold text benefits from Same-Type Attack Bonus when used by Umbreon.
Leaning towards singles
I donât play that format so I canât really add much input, but hopefully someone comes along who can
not a ton of singles players in chat
It can be doubles tho
are you playing the in game ladder? or against other monotype players?
Ladder
well you probably want to pick Fire since there isnât a restricted legendary fairy type (that I can think of in the game)
and without a restricted, youâre going to get bent over every game
Unless you allow something Teraâing into Fairy as a Fairy type
Sidenote - Victory Road Top 16 just published
Not a single Caly-Ice⊠the matchup against CSR does feel like itâs favoring CSR more than ever
There's zacian-crowned but it got nerfed
It's not bad
I think there was an actual monotype fairy team in a regional lol
It ended in last place of the whole tournament but there is a team xd
XD
i remember some mono water team doing really well in some online swsh tour years ago
Did it do well
By the logic of the last Victory Road we should be saying CIR is bad and washed
Kek
Hearthflame really having a breakout performance again
oh shit lol I forgot about Zacian
Fire gives you Incineroar which is probably strong enough to carry most of the team
Lmao it's literally all CSR and Miraidon aside from one Zama and one Pagos
Fairy would probably be like Whims/Zacian/Flutter/etc.
Let's face it
CSR probably winning Worlds unless someone finds a really solid way to fuck it over
Cuz like I feel like if CSR were to hit the part of the cycle where it's not as good again that it would've been done by now
i think the only problem of Koraidon is that it doesn't has a spread move but it's not a horrible thing
Yeah
I think Terapagos might do something? I mean it got so many second placements so
I'm betting on either horse
Zamazenta doesn't have as much chance as them tbh
But I can't pick cuz like
I would pick CIR cuz it's been consistent throughout meanwhile CSR had a bit of a low then a high now
But the thing is like it's high rn is very high and it's low wasn't necessarily that bad
https://pokepast.es/d7bfbe58ad0c8270 thoughts? Probably gonna switch around rilla and bolts items and see what I like
I think you lack of speed control
Like even in CSR's low point, it was still a viable pick
CSR's lowest point was because the whole meta was about beating CSR
Yeah
It was literally restricted Dondozo
Wasn't that great when everyone and they mama had plenty of answers
But then came back when the answers died down some
People are gonna be really prepared for csr
Like everyoneâs gonna have a check for it
And the csr checks donât even shut it down completely
One thing idk about
@mighty stump sorry to bother ya btw
What you think about the CSR using Psychic moves again
Or actually
@next stump wbu
But like y'know the one thing I can't figure out if it's good or not
The E Force Calys going around now
I'm dum
Like it's the one thing I've fought recently that feels like is the most emphasized on being skill expressive
Like you'd think that the Psyspam Caly would be bad and I've fought players where I've just walled it with WG but like
I've also fought players who will delay the terrain to make it single target or just work around it and it's like
I can't sit down and say "oh this is good" or "this is horrible"
i was using e force csr for awhile
only variant of it ive played actually in reg g

is physical or special regidrago better
special
in terms of duos cuz duos is competitive right srry im new
Dragon
Dragon's Maw
200/100/50/100/50/80
580
Yeh special, all its good moves are special and you don't suffer for intimidate
I think it is pretty solid, Iâve been seeing more and more ghost tera more offensive Caly teams
Seen some Ghost, some Fairy
I saw one go Dark
i ment regidrago mb
Idk if I've seen a Giga Drain Caly S yet
I have seen Caly Ice with Seed Bomb
Does the ruination mons count as legendarys
Yes but not restricteds
Lemme guess
Don't want to use legendaries
Idk what format you're playing, but if it's the current VGC format, you will not do well with no legendaries tbh
i was summoned?
LOL
Nova idk how to say this
Galarian Moltres is a legendary
ok and
There are more Dittos than Flutters
top 8 results
Finals is a CSR mirror lmao
VGC community try not to draw conclusions about the entire metagame over one statistically weird top cut challenge (impossible)
Thing is it's not even statistically weird
Like it makes sense
Game is at a fast pace rn
Seen more faster paced Calys at least myself
That's good
Miraidon which is fast is good
CIR is bad cause there is no CIR in top cut
Meanwhile Tofu gonna call it mid 
I might cook up Miraidon shit
Found my Miraidon earlier
i think the meta is going back to early meta
It's being like early meta
Never knew this channel existed ngl
I remember when i used to play competitive daily, the endless amount of raging 
I think the only times when i got my blood pressure up in competitive is when playing bss
global challenges make me want to throw my controller through a wall sometimes
other than that though, pokémon is a great game
Global challenges are never a good idea
How do i explain someone that Alcremie is bad and that Smeargle is better
Tryna think of Miraidon shit
Can't 
I mean if you want to use decorate support just use whichever you like tbh
Closest thing I can think of for Miraidon is like maybe
Mirai/Chi/Bundle/Hands/Farig/BM
Lmao
That or 2-2-2
Dondozo?
@next stump would Chi/Mirai and Dozogiri work? If so what other pair would you do?
@next stump https://pokepast.es/2bb89c0ec35023b4
Would this be aight?
at first glance it looks pretty decent, but i'm not sure how great bundle is with the way the meta has shifted around
Yeah couldn't think of a way to put speed control and hurt Ground types
Unless do we really need that?
I don't think you really do, there's Lando-I and opposing Ursaluna floating around but that's mostly it (outside of tera)
and neither of those can take a Draco or even an Overheat
Ah ok
So I guess fuck it
Hell I can run Sunny Day Torn 
Anyone knows about some Koraidon/Entei teams?
Actually y'know what'd be dumb
Idk why but Miraidon Zamazenta as well to keep Zamazenta from falling asleep
Also just saying Wide Guard does block your allies from getting hit by Discharge
Rocky helmet Inci doesn't seem bad rn
Why arenât people using Slowbro at all? He seems like he could be good against Calyrex Ice.
I mean Urshifu Rapid Strike canât touch it.
I do see what you mean though.
Itâs a niche counter.
It's like Pachirisu tera fairy
You counter one mon with the drawback of being bad into everything except that mon
But if thatâs the only Mon that dismantles a team itâs a great pick.
Like Iâm experimenting with Slowbro and just hit 1700 so it doesnât seem like that bad of a pick.
Yeah but it's not good into everything else
Doesnât need to be.
The team has been able to do well against most other things, it was just Calyrex Ice that was smoking me everytime.
Ok so it sits there
What does it do
Iron defense and then body press.
Whole point of it is to stop Ursaluna BM + Calyrex Ice sweeps.
While also stopping Urshifu Rapid in the process.

Water/Psychic
Oblivious, Own Tempo, Regenerator (Hidden)
90/65/65/40/40/15
315
Slowpoke-Galar
It's Defense ain't even that good
Water/Psychic
Oblivious, Own Tempo, Regenerator (Hidden)
95/75/110/100/80/30
490
Slowbro-Mega, Slowbro-Galar
Groudon.
Well see there's the problem
Groudon is mid rn
In certain things sure but I would rather hit an 85% accurate move than have to win a 50/50 speed tie with Miraidon.
Most of them go Modest anyways
Jolly Koraidon outspeeds iirc
i'd assume i lose the speed tie tbh
Well yeah they have the same stats.
Well yeah I know this
Most Koraidon aren't max speed and invest more in bulk
Yeah so I would rather just use the bulkier Mon in the first place.
And then find the most niche bullshit to compensate for a MU you can probably find way better answers for
Anyway, Iâve gotten into this argument loads so Iâll just disagree to agree.
I like Groudon and heâs fun to use. So thatâs why I use him.
Iâve had moderate success with him so honestly I canât complain.
meow-
gator noise 
I wish koraidon was a fire dragon type
It would make him a lot lot better.
Fire dragon is one of those types that the more I think about it the better it is.
Itâs why I like using Gouging fire.
nah i like when koraidon doesnt nuke my team with 2x stab flare blitz
and sun boost
probably not
On switch-in, the weather becomes Desolate Land, which includes all the effects of Sunny Day and prevents damaging Water-type moves from executing. This weather remains in effect until this Ability is no longer active for any Pokemon, or the weather is changed by the Delta Stream or Primordial Sea Abilities.
Does?
No idea, only by trying we can figure out
I feel like the description on SD says it does but I could be wrong.
âPrevents water damaging moves from executingâ
But I feel like that was made before Hydro steam.
And Hydro steam is special.
Yeah showdown doesn't say.
It does probably evaporate though.
Oh weird, according to serebii Orichalcum pulse doesn't work in Desolate land either.
Real it would make so much more sense
Like tf fighting
gamefreak prioritizes theming over competitive when choosing typing so i guess it makes sense
whoah, guy chunked
thank you regi đ đ
thatâs a big hit lol
Does knock off go through sash? Or they still survive with 1 hp?
Ah alright
same with rocky helmet
Oh yeah true
Also pelipper is actually decent to deal with zama. It wonât OHKO like chandelure but it deals enough damage to 2HKO with helping hand
coaching shifu with zac? Itâs a tech I might run but Iâm also running sd zac so idk how needed it is
If youâre running coaching then you want blade, play rough, sacred sword and protect
Coaching would give me another way of playing zac based on if I can get some sds off
Iâll try it and see what I like
Test it
https://pokepast.es/d3b4890c8cea7080 are there any glaring weaknesses matchup-wise with this team?
In early meta i was playing some things with Gouging Fire howl + SD Zac
I like to use thunderbolt, Draco meteor, claps and protect
Av
Local zacian player I see?
(Gouging fire is so mid rn)
I wish it was better I also messed with it
Then snarl instead of protect
If it's tera electric yeah
I think is more like AV+Tera fairy or Booster energy + Tera electric
Why not rapid
True
Rapid shifu
Yea it is thinking of volt switch for more pivot power
water overlap with ogerpon, dark helps against opposing CSR matchups and CIR
Mine is tera electric AV but it's because is in a Koraidon team
I was running e web but like never used it
i think volt is a bit lacking compared to webs or snarl
i prefer snarl if you have something that can take advantage of it
Water overlap is t an issue
i used to have rapid strike but switched a few mons around and it was more helpful
Yea restricted is zac so I needa keep it alive
I think cornerstone Ogerpon is better tbh
I think compared to the more common CSR teams nowadays, this team could struggle into some CIR teams
no After You means they can set TR and play under it better than otherwise
but itâs not an auto loss, just easier for the CIR player than normal
so maybe take off sing for after you?
@next stump did u see what won vr tour 2?
there is 1 glaring issue
i still don't know why that caly doesn't has tr
I decided to go for pelipper instead of Mieshao cuz it gives more coverage
The grass coverage helps to deal with Kyogre
Raging Bolt
And yes I know I have raging bolt
You have a Raging
âŠand that rillaboom should be here but its w/e
But still is annoying to take like 3 rounds of thunderbolt
ladder only teams are
Instead of what?
electabuzz
I need electrabuzz to deal with Amoonguss
noÂż
you are naturally faster and will have 2 switch ins for it
Give Inci Safety and add Rilla and you have Match up into Amoonguss
Follow me and itâs immune to sleep
Also follow me on general is very good. It helps against raging bolt since I have Tera water caly
Ogerpon could also be good
i saw the 6 but i havenât seen the OTS
Eh it still blocks my lance
its expanding force plot csr
uhh teams kinda standard i think
https://pokepast.es/747cb7b8717b8f26 incin over unbreon on this? Umbreon is like really disruptive and pretty tanky
Lol
Trick room, drop seed bomb
You have raging bolt for kyogre and shifu
Trick room not seed bomb
I like incin for more fo pressure and parting shot here
so this team is really weak to Caly Ice and i don't know if i should change some things or i should just drop the match up xd https://pokepast.es/92bdc3fc81225ce5
fan of umbreon here
yea me too
Anyone for a 6vs6 double combat?
@bold geode oh is that y u were mentioning e force csr? cuz it won vr2?
Yea I think incins better on this as it can output a lot of pressure as soon as it comes out where as umbreon needs like yawn to do so
which takes a turn
Oh it won VR2?
yes
Yeah no I've just been seeing it a fuck ton
oh fr? interesting i havent laddered much in the past weekish
Yeah no I've seen it quite a bit
must be a trend i missed if it was even b4 that
Hell I think it was like 2-3 weeks ago when I started seeing it
the team is pretty different then wat i ran tho half the team is the same
watershifu-indeedee-csr being the 3 haha
yea mustve just not run into it i guess im not sure
Yeah sometimes it's like HO and sometimes it's like a more offensive balance maybe?
id say the winning team is more offensive balance yea
mine was pretty much straight ho haha
also i did not run plot or have cloak on csr
Oh Plot Cloak E Force CSR?
let him cook
what stat boosts is indeedee getting
prolly good way to regain terrain control and not have to manually switch
or jus pivot in general
It would basically be just switching like with U Turn
- the damage yea
Body Slam, Drain Punch, Facade, Fake Out, Last Resort, Pay Day, Play Rough, Take Down, Zen Headbutt
Dazzling Gleam, Disarming Voice, Draining Kiss, Energy Ball, Expanding Force, Extrasensory, Future Sight, Hyper Voice, Magical Leaf, Mystical Fire, Psybeam, Psychic, Psychic Noise, Psyshock, Round, Shadow Ball, Snore, Stored Power, Swift, Tera Blast, Terrain Pulse, Tri Attack
After You, Ally Switch, Aromatherapy, Attract, Calm Mind, Encore, Endure, Gravity, Healing Wish, Helping Hand, Imprison, Magic Room, Metronome, Play Nice, Power Split, Power Swap, Protect, Psych Up, Psychic Terrain, Rest, Skill Swap, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Trick, Trick Room, Wonder Room
A move displayed with Bold text benefits from Same-Type Attack Bonus when used by Indeedee.

yea it doesnât get any pivot moves other than that
i got mildly annoyed with the lvl 70 ogerpon
why
thatâs cool
cool team tho
yea interesting tech tbh
idk all are lvl 50 bbut then its lvl 70 alone 
not really, u can get ogerpon at lvl 20
what
idk how the range works tho but yeah
nah ur right
nono but my point is like make it 50 
hahah yea tru idk then
prolly to match in game for them
since they didnt do it w/ lvl 20
oh and stellar shifu too
How much it takes to raging bolt to deal with kyogre? With av or a calm mind in
i mean with AV, its already dealing with kyogre greatly
it double resists its stab u dont really need av tbh
No I mean kyogre using av
eweb is very annoying, forces it to tera out of water, icebeam non stab to AV chonk isnt gonna help much
nd it depends a lot of ogres are tera grass so bolt can force the tera but it may not always be the counter
even more so, AV kyogre cant play around it
in the sense of dealing w/ it that is
yeah, i think ur gonna be more worried about its partner
What happened with the tera water
u have cir tho right? so forcing it to that tera is good anyway in that regard
Yes I have caly ice
not much kyogre run water tera, i think grass are like the more popular one
some do, it depends on team comp but most are more defensive from wat ive seen
I run seed bomb to catch kyogres by surprise but I have raging bolt in my team now
eh ive seen seed bomb on cir its kinda troll imo. ground/ice is generally really strong on its own
Japan is the only place where they play seed bomb cir
HH covers nicely to some typing
Yeah I know, itâs not good against pelipper that can block lance and is immune to ground but I have feint in my electrabuzz
Fairy ground which doesnât exist
oh right buzz support is quite neat actually
But ice ground yes, it hits a lot for effective
if u can play around it well enough usually peli isnt too much of a threat but yea stuff like feint is great at just nullifying that. and u can jus threaten peli too w/ volt switch or w/e
i saw the report from cybbertron and it fucking made sense
cant spore it too holy fuck
now u can just run ol good water tera cir freely
notscared of amogus underTR
yea but ice and ground can hit steel/electric/poison/flying/grass/fire/ground/dragon for SE thats like half the type chart. and nothing resists or is immune to both
thats more wat i mean by best offensive type coverage
I was considering using cover cloak raging bolt since snarl and spirit break are annoying
eh idk if its necessary
ye, i only putting out fairy as one of the nice typing
like fairy ghost ~cough cough~ flutter is also fucking strong cover
Tera fairy bolt
ive been doing booster tera fairy
u just hit so hard haha
I donât like draco meteor with booster energy
u can run pulse as alternatives
i still like draco to get some important damage so
yea
Cuz booster is only once on switch and if you use draco meteor you either switch to clear the debuff and loser the booster or you stay at -2 SpcA
even -1 draco and tbolt or clap can still do good chip if u need it to or secure a ko
and then u jus switch if u need to
Yea you still do a ton after the drops
i mean tradeoff, u get one huge chunk of damage or even better ohkoes it. or hit 2-3 to kill
Life orb is another alternative but I want bolt to stay healthy the longest possible and life orb chips it away slowly
i dont really see the reason not to run draco w/ booster
i mean its matter of preferance, i tried pulse and like it just doesnt fit a lot of the cases i wanted to play around
Draco is nice because it gets something low enough that like literally anything else finishes it off
unless u jus never switch ur mons or plan to which idk y thatd b the case
i did discuss something about this back then, LO or booster
LO just hurts on the long run especially since ur hp bulk is huge
u lost a lot
Yea most of the time youâd rather just hit it with t bolt does more damage at neutral and like when you want the dragon stab youâd rather have the strongest move
bolt is heavily bulky on hp so LO hurts
dracos weird on like cm cuz u generally wanna stay in and keep the boosts but booster its like, that huge chunk or 1hko can be so crucial
Electric/Dragon
Protosynthesis
125/73/91/137/89/75
590
I use max hp max spca bolt
So yes the bulk helps
I think cm just runs double electric no?
even more so not to run LO
some do yeah
i think i saw some cm + no protect so 
like just cm leftovers clap bolt pulse
its fucking crazy
Eh I donât like taking time to set up, I often need the instant damage so taking turns to calm mind bolt can lose me the game
I think cm has just fallen off a little
it has lots of setups like grimm and 2 FOs so it helps. but like crazy
like Iâd almost always rather use av or booster






