#competitive_discussion
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Gotta say, specs koko does crazy damage lol
it does quite respectable damage
imagine if they made a pokemon that did the same thing but gave it a base special attack stat higher than 100 and a version of electric terrain that gave it another special attack boost, that would be crazy
te solgaleo
@solid frigate why was I pinged
Solgaleo Mentioned
That would be crazy
Solgaleo was a silly idea that was done for content and was actually better than we thought
Now was it in general good? Nah
Would Solgaleo have worked in G? Hell nah
Also I'm seeing a lot of "Kyogre bad" propaganda
as a team aqua member
Fuck this shit
Kyogre slander always true
Nah don't listen to the propaganda
actually looking at their stats side by side, wtf
Now is Kyogre not as good as some other restricted rn? Absofuckinlutely
But like
If you're saying it's straight up bad, that is a big lie
Koko is a weird Mon lmao
and it’s built like a physical attacker even tho the normal thing is special
People will complain about origin pulse when water spout is right there
that is weird
Like I’ve never seen a Kyogre player say Kyogre is good just that they wish he had better options
Some people drown while others die of thirst I guess
is not even miraidon can stop kyogre from winning tournaments, its never going to be bad
It’s more than miraidon
yeah
It is supposed to be a physical attacker, it's just that James Freak thinks that giving physical Electric types actual usable moves would be too much.
It gets wild charge
And judging by Iron Hands' performance, it makes sense.
But it doesn’t get play rough, that’s its main issue
Hot take: Pulse is better
And also vswitch is good
Pulse would be better if it were 90 or 95% accurate.
It's 90.
isnt it 90?
90 is good on spread moves.
Still more than 85
I don’t really complain much about play rough anymore
And it’s 90
i will always hate play rough for missing the one time i needed to hit it in order to win a game
Not 95
It's more so the fact that Moonblast is more powerful and more accurate than Play Rough.
I missed a Metal Sound six times once in a Tera Raid.
and physical attackers have to deal with intimidate
And then they made Zacian.
oof
That same Mandibuzz then went on to crit a Dark Pulse and flinch my Miraidon twice.
I still have it.
If y'all can't look at pros vs cons and just zone in on the inaccuracy, then just play a different restricted
One thing I never see a soul talk about more which I actually think is a fat chunk of Kyogre's problem rn is not the mon itself, it's the comps
gen 9 is not really kind with Kyogre in terms of comps and Matchups
but i am happy to see innovation on them at least
Zacian is a b tier mon rn
Kyogre is like Low A high B rn
Zac is fine
Yes, because they gave it three nerfs.
Like I'm sorry but like
ZacOgre and Mirai Ogre
Basically your comps that are more centric around having that Tailwind up
It can do alright but like idt it's gonna be event winning
Hence me dropping it
Like you might see a top cut but is it gonna win? Idts
Mirai Zac doesn’t need tw nearly as much
same but not until i put that mf to 1600
Now Ice Rider Kyogre? That one is good and also I might have a little bias in this
But I still feel Zamazenta Kyogre is a comp that's still flying under the radar for whatever reason
i just don't even need TW on Korai Lunala
Even Mega Rayquaza would be mid if it got its Attack and Special Attack reduced to 140, got Delta Stream nerfed so it can get overwritten by normal weather and had to hold a Mega Stone to go Mega.
i mean both are just dead to Miraidon
So it make sense they do not consider
I should try that.
Like I know those comps were TW centric too but like from experience trying it at the start of the format, that duo actually has quite a bit potential to actually innovate
That duo has so many partners it can use for Miraidon
I have a Lunala with 0 Attack and Speed IVs. Should I keep its Speed IVs at zero for when I eventually decide that I hate myself enough to try hard TR?
if its like Utretch i would say Mirai Ogre have a shot but like
Again its a one man army that time so
Amoonguss
Landorus Incarnate
Rillaboom
Chien Pao
Flutter Mane could work
There's probably more
Nah it just doesn't
Way too linear
I was gonna say Ursa but like
I forgot i am still in my Korai Lunala phase
That's why the TW Kyogre centric comps are not doing well enough, cuz the lines and game plans are all so linear that it's like ABCs making game plans against it
This is why we run TailRoom.
@shadow wind from a different server and they belive in Groudon
this is not a VGC server so yeah
What the hell is Double Swords Dance?
+4 attack.
i think Groudons don't run that in singles or doubles anyway
yeah
but if its has meteor beam then you run speed faster than Rilla
Quiet or Modest?
Nah, I am way too straight to run MB Lunala.
then quiet
the only reason i say meteor beam cuz Lunala Koraidon exists
Now I just have to find a way to not make 2/3 of my team weak to Dark and/or Ghost.
Impossible
Probably
Ah yes, because Koraidon wants to take a High Horsepower.
God damn it.
Torkoal any day of the week.
I have an agenda to maintain, so yeah.
Then ig you play torkoal stuff with Ursa and Deedee
And who's the last member, Darkshifu with Band?
Does CIR in hard TR teams run Amulet or Lefties?
Probably darkshifu
Oh hard tr yiu can do a power item set
0 speed, if you really wanted to
That gets it to around 56 Speed.
I don't have one with less Speed IVs, so that's the lowest I can go.
I found a spread for Urshifu that allows it to live a Close Combat from 196 Attack Adamant Koraidon in the sun 56.25% of the time with Tera Fire.
Is there a Tera Type Torkoal likes to run other than Fire?
Because I don't want literally half of my team to be Tera Fire 💀
Ah yes, let's give it a Tera Type that lets opposing sun abusers OHKO it.
Oh well, guess I'll just have three guys who run Tera Fire.
Andrew Zheng had three with Tera Grass anyway.
Should Lunala be Lefties Calm Mind?
Mmmmmmm nah
Hi is there someone master ball rank on SV ?
probably everyone in this chat
pls tell me its not comission to give your pokemon master rank badge
Anyone know if wide guard blocks non damaging spread moves like tail whip?
It blocks poison gas so I'd assume so
I see ty
Yep
Hey let’s not assume things
😔
Bruh


Why you guys judging so hard?
Haha 


its okay man i havent opened ranked in a couple months

Y’all are haters

And this is the point where I tell you guys I’ve actually never hit Masterball
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Talks about vgc a bit
Land Down Under Moment
Would anyone be willing to help me build a simple singles team around goodra
Haha get fucked nerd 
wait wat?
uve gotten like top 10 on sd how have u not hit mball
Yknow I'm a little shocked you're the first person to doubt my claim
But yeah nah I'm just pulling your leg I've hit masterball loads
Think I peaked 3rd?
Which wasn't that impressive it's CTS Bo1 and it was the start of a season
I realise now why wernt there any competitors in the interviews? Just collectors.
i was like theres no way lmao
ur such a cts hater
Yeah I bet in the back of your mind you were thinking that there was actually a chance
my only reasoning was u had a severe mental block on cart for some reason and or low attention span

Both plausible
But nah my attention span is actually one of the only things I can say I'm goated at
Sometimes I wonder how this mon was allowed
Like
135 spatk with one billion multipliers
Although I think killing even a no bulk Koraidon is a roll
It's the same way Wolfey discovered life orb Koraidon
He clicked collision into a Miraidon did 60% and the Miraidon killed it with electro drift
I think Lunala Miraidon teams with Rillaboom are my least favourite
I wish there was an unaware mon that functioned in the sun and wasn't complete trash
I don't quite understand
Low elo 😔
What a game to reveal my GXE
Y?
Because I hate calm mind
And the only unaware mon that is even close to viable is Dozo
They just be running zero bulk I guess
Calm mind?
You’re playing groudon
And I think there’s a reason unaware has little mons to pick from, it’s a good ability
And they just intimidate cycle me 😔
Because I'm a clam non believer
Fair
I hate not having an item whenever they don't have Incin
Which granted is almost every game
But we're cooking now
Leftovers Groudon !
Eww what
Yessir !
Why
Because he's fat as balls
It ain't singles
Ik
And I bet I live
Yup

miraidon draco meteor
I wanna see that calc, like I bet it can
244 SpA Walking Wake Hydro Steam vs. 132 HP / 252 SpD Groudon in Sun: 168-200 (87.5 - 104.1%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO
I may have been hopeful
30% 💔
Without lorb
Well I think most wake are av
But guys, this is why we have scarf Miraidon with snarl
thats without proto boost?
Acting like we use proto spatk anyway
They’re usually proto speed
wow i have really missed a lot
Incredible question
Sometimes, daily
Nah I've been playing Clash Royale lately so Groudon testing has been put on hold
Its so crazy to think scarlet and violet came out 3 years ago
In my 6 sets I didn't see one
You see
Maybe the world is healing
That’s 6 sets, it’s just lurking waiting to ruin you
yeah wake me up when champions comes out and araquanids good again
Yeah I stopped at 6-0
Ok, assuming champions is what we want it to be
I don't want to mess with the balance
i just want araquanid
I wanna play tapus in gen 9
But really I just wanted to see my GXE and now I'm back playing Clash Royale
And I think I fried my shoulder swimming so that's dope
Damn
that sucks
But in that I found the limit that I can swim without my shoulder hurting so that's also dope
Somewhere between 1200-1500m cause it started to hurt at 1500m
And then apparently swimming another 1500m didn't help it
Kyurem white is lowkey better then miraidon

You gotta trust the process
When they release the true form of bro you’ll see🙂↕️
Man why we gotta make who we use public information now
You don’t see me putting “God I love Groudon” in my username
Yeah no you should list your whole squad
Did you guys sign up for the smogon tour?
I have a Torkoal that's slow enough to speed tie with minimum Speed Amoonguss.
Are there any other Pokemon that go below 31 Speed?
Hatterene
Oh well, I have Wide Guard.
And Torkoal's a Fire type, so it resists any Fairy moves.
Also, what Hatterene wants to sit in front of Darkshifu and Lunala?
And despite not being from a Tera Raid, it spawned with 31 IVs in both HP and Defense, as well as 0 in Special Attack.
I mean
You do smack Urshifu Dark
Tera Fire Darkshifu walls it.
- Nobody runs that
- After it teras, you can hit it with Psychic moves
I'm going to run it because Tera Fire in the sun is funny as shit + Smeargle with Helping Hand already makes up for the lack of Tera Dark.
It's hard TR, I kind of have to run schizo stuff.
Not really?
I'm still doing it.
At least it's not running Tera Grass with a sun setter next to it.
I could always try using both.
I can just use the one I got from PKCL to fill out my dex for the Tera Dark stuff and the one I got legitimately for the Tera Fire.
Its not like it matters lol
Mdb won a regional with torkoal and tera grass shifu xd
That was his team?
Yes
Alright, I'm changing everything.
The only issue is figuring out the spreads.
Do you have a Pokepaste?
So the Andrew Zheng team copied this guy's whole flow.
I can just replace Bolt with Lunala.
Since it's hard TR, I can run bulk on Urshifu, right?
0 Speed IVs?
And the bolt was 1 point faster so if a mon protects Urshifu hits through protect kills it and then the attack of Bolt gets redirected to the other slot
And create a pin where if it stays it dies and if it switches the new mon also dies
The Lunala I have is min Speed proper, so it can also do the same outside Trick Room.
You are almost never wanting to play outside tr with this team
Just in endgame situations basically
I can't get a minimum Speed Urshifu though.
Also, I'll have to sack one of the Pokemon to have both Bolt and Lunala.
Man, fuck hard TR.
I kind of want to run Raichu on a rain team because it'd be really funny.
Like oh, Miraidon wants to nuke Kyogre? Nuh-uh.
Fake Out and Nuzzle are also just an awesome combination of moves.
Hmm didn't people use zebstrika now tho
No idea.
Draco metoer nukes kyoger anyway
Fair point.
I wish Raichu had Follow Me, man.
But you can also just... not lead Kyogre and deal with Miraidon using the big, unnerving horse.
Is ogerpon really worth having on a team with miraidon and lunala?? specifcally hearthflame ogerpon
srry if its a dumb question im tryna get back into competitive battling
Ogerpon fire is one of the best ways to kill the grass idiot monkey
So yes
Yeah, especially since it forces the monkey into burning its Tera.
Yeah, that's the point.
Can't Draco kill it anyway?
Those fucking assholes make monkey max HP and Sp Def
Helping hand draco meteor isnt enough to OHKO
Electro Drift and Draco have the same BP when they're neutral.
So unless Rilla goes Tera Water, it doesn't matter.
But electro drill wont drop your Sp Atk by 2 stages
If you can 2HKO the monkey anyway
Better electro drill
Fair.
Also, Hearthflame bullies Amoonguss.
It can redirect Spore when Electric Terrain isn't up or OHKO it with Tera Fire Ivy Cudgel.
And it doesn't care about Rocky Helmet chip damage.
ok thx so i definitely will be adding it to my team. time to ev train it 
im currently thinking, lunala, miraidon, ogerpon, whimsicott, urshifu (rapid), and chien pao???
Ah yes Electro Drill
my favourite Spamming move
Mine too, after glacial lance
What set does Lunala run?
Electric Seed Tera Fairy Moonblast with TR?
I used a variant with Entei to kill Rilla
Its inmune to intimidate and fake out
But Hearthflame is also good I just personally like Entei more with Mirainala
Entei also has a more consistent form of speed control than Chien-Pao with E-Speed, as well as the Sacred Fire gambling.
I'm making a CIR-Kyogre team and I need to decide on a Tailwind setter.
Should I use Tornadus?
Morning fellas
Good morning.
What we cookin today
Why Jugulis?
great into shadow rider, hurricane does good damage in rain, very fast tailwind and snarl
Yupppp
dark type is well positioned into the meta especially when it's not weak to zama
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9vgc2025regi-2400376566-07b8bibmxm5akw4yoovsnvk8x4brg3lpw got a 300 elo uppair on one of my new alts lol
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If I’m that guy I’m done for the day
What EV spread does Jugulis run?
It's surprising how many people forget how goated Farig is
Was CIR Tera Fire?
How did Weather Ball KO then?
Oh right, it's in the sun.
I thought Walking Wake was Pelipper for some reason 💀
It's won Worlds and it disables priority moves without getting into terrain wars. I think whoever doesn't think it's in the top 10 best regular Pokemon is lying to themselves.
And its typing is great.
But those things can be dealt with.
Especially since I think it fits into a lot of team styles.
Man I hate playing these teams
Landorus is just a disgusting pokemon
What the
People need to stop adding scream tail and Goth to random sun teams expecting it to now be perish trap
Yknow I'm pretty happy with 10-0 on Bo3
I remember when mine 1V1'd an opposing Lando.
They must've been Scarf locked, because they only went for Sludge Bomb.
They had already burnt their Tera, so it was doing nothing compared to my own SB.
They even tried to use Substitute, still didn't do shit.
If they were scarf locked how did they go for sub?
Then why did you think they were scarfed? 😭
I am the dumbest human alive.
😭
Anyways, I remember facing this super bulky and annoying Kyogre-CIR team with Cresselia and Lando-T.
Cress is cooked
THEY WERE RUNNING CHALK IN REGULATION I
Anyways, I still remember my Miraidon going for Snarl twice and it critting on Lando both times.
Specifically on Landorus though.
Although I think my team is very good into Kyogre CIR so maybe it's bad luck I didn't run into any Kyogres
You know, I remember seeing calculations to be sure that -1 Mystic Water Kyogre after a Snarl would not be able to KO Tera Fire Calyrex with Water Spout in rain.
Snarl would never do anything above 18%, so Water Spout was still their strongest move.
Oh yeah people forget how strong snarl is
Cause everyone is used to -1 Groudon doing like 20%
But you don't see -1 Kyogre too often
All my Miraidon does is use Snarl.
There are a lot of special attackers and few people with the balls to click Wide Guard.
My Miraidon is pretty average I think
Neither do I.
Ogerpon MIGHT be getting replaced
And I never hit Draco because it's missed twice in the same game.
KILL ME NOT THEM! Ah
And I lost because of that.
Ah, so this is the famous "suicide lead" singles players like to talk about.
Yeah he might be getting the boot
I was watching Aaron Zheng's most recent video and it gave me an idea.
Or she sorry
What if, instead of running Rhyperior on that team, you ran Raichu?
With a good TW setter, you outspeed pretty much everything and are now free to click Thunder in rain.
I wanted to give it something like Fake Out / Nuzzle / Thunder / Protect, but I think giving it a Fairy move so it can nuke shit with Tera Fairy would be funnier.
same
By the way, I call the two Miraidon I got in Violet "BVC Sr." and "BVC Jr." respectively.
Do not ask what that stands for.
By the way, what is a good set for Iron Jugulis?
Iron Jugulis @ Booster Energy
Ability: Quark Drive
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Air Slash
- Snarl
- Tailwind
- Protect
Somebody suggested that I use it as a TW setter and I want to see the vision.
I ran this on a Groudon Zacian team
Can I run Hurricane since this is on a rain team?
Yeah I just ran air slash cause sun
Yeah, makes sense.
Should I run Scarf on Urshifu or Band?
I think Band is better since it can function both in Tailwind and in Trick Room.
What's the team look like?
It's Kyogre, Calyrex-Ice, Urshifu, Iron Jugulis, Raichu and another one that I keep forgetting.
Oh right, Amoonguss.
Could you make a paste?
I don't have one yet because the team isn't finished.
Well you could make one of the unfinished team
I don't know if Raichu should be Fake Out / Nuzzle / Thunder / Protect or Fake Out / Alluring Voice / Thunder / Protect.
You could go AV on Raichu
To fit in Nuzzle
60 base HP is not AV material.
Ting-Lu and Iron Hands can run AV because they both have more HP than Giratina.
252 SpA Life Orb Calyrex-Shadow Astral Barrage vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Raichu: 129-152 (77.2 - 91%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
He be living
Sure.
And if it is exploding yeah go back to sash
Probably band here?
You have a lot of speed control tools
Or ghost
I don't want it to be CSR food.
And Tera water helps it not be CSR food how?
Then again, maybe I could use a Fake Out immunity.
252 SpA Life Orb Calyrex-Shadow Astral Barrage vs. 4 HP / 12 SpD Urshifu-Rapid-Strike: 175-207 (99.4 - 117.6%) -- 93.8% chance to OHKO
Your current Shifu spread is already CSR food so it's not like tera ghost makes it any more vulnerable
I could just run bulk anyway.
It doesn't require crazy Speed investment.
252 SpA Life Orb Calyrex-Shadow Psychic vs. 4 HP / 132 SpD Tera Water Urshifu-Rapid-Strike: 148-175 (84 - 99.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
The team is unfinished, I can still make changes.
Mine does not need to worry about Koraidon blowing it up.
But I guess making it bulky wouldn't be bad at all.
What are some physical attacks that it needs to be able to survive?
I doubt it's living Rillaboom or Iron Hands
Maybe an Ursaluna?
That might be a stretch though
252+ Atk Guts Ursaluna Facade (140 BP) vs. 124 HP / 116 Def Urshifu-Rapid-Strike: 186-219 (97.3 - 114.6%) -- 81.3% chance to OHKO
😔
God I hate that bear
Oh well, at least we have
252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Water Urshifu-Rapid-Strike Aqua Jet vs. 140 HP / 44 Def Ursaluna in Rain: 212-252 (95 - 113%) -- 75% chance to OHKO (guaranteed OHKO after burn damage)
Wowza
honestly im more surprised it has a chance at all to survive the guts facade
Yeah, it's almost like having 300 Attack at level 50 and stacking three different boosts on Aqua Jet so it turns into a 120 BP move is great at KOing stuff.
Yeah but to be fair Ursaluna is tanky as balls
Ground/Normal
Guts, Bulletproof, Unnerve (Hidden)
130/140/105/45/80/50
550
Ursaluna-Bloodmoon
He doesn't deserve all those stats
252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Water Urshifu-Rapid-Strike Surging Strikes (3 hits) vs. 76 HP / 12 Def Iron Hands in Rain on a critical hit: 306-360 (128 - 150.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO
HOLY SHIT
252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Water Urshifu-Rapid-Strike Surging Strikes (3 hits) vs. 252 HP / 20 Def Calyrex-Ice in Rain on a critical hit: 234-276 (113 - 133.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
This thing KOs everyone, what the hell?
How is that surprising
I don't know, it just felt weird to me.
We've been knowing this guy is busted
Yeah, but to be fair, that wasn't Surging Strikes.
What?
The calc was Aqua Jet.
I know
Surging Strikes KOs it 3 times over.
Yeah no duh
Stab
Rain
Tera water
Band
Super effective
Crit
"Oh my god it kills by a lot"
Sometimes you don't realise how good something is until you see it in action.
Guess Urshifu is stealing Groudon's name.
And sometimes it's the opposite
Welcome back, "BOOM!".
Meaning?
That sometimes you see a mon do work and then you go to use it and it dies turn 1
Ah yes, Raging Bolt.
Any thoughts on this team? The last two slots feel alright, but I think there should be better options
What is that Gothitelle doin
Ah yes, the "I hate CIR" button.
It's great for setting up pins with zacian and mirai, taunt is cool, and also synergizes well with whims, with these taunt encore loops
How does it set up pins better than say Iron hands
Because this team is very anti TR
And Whimsicott already can deal with TR setters fairly well with encore
And if you added Iron hands over Goth you'd still have fake out but now have more offensive pressure
I am considering getting hands instead of bundle, but if I lead something like zacian mirai, volt switch into goth, now I get to ignore their supports with fout, and nearly always win that 1v1
You can do that with Iron hands though?
The fake out is on both mons
And I'd keep Bundle because that's anti Lando
Which both your restricteds don't love
I break most gameplans like that, and also I dont wanna deal with the speed ties, plus I already hate mons like ursaluna
You think I should drop ogerpon?
So getting blown up by Facade is the better option?
I honestly have no clue how the team is played
So that's your call
A bit better than equake
On an unrelated note,
116+ SpA Life Orb Sheer Force Landorus Earth Power vs. 116 HP / 76 SpD Urshifu-Rapid-Strike: 157-187 (82.6 - 98.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ SpA Beads of Ruin Chi-Yu Overheat vs. 116 HP / 76 SpD Urshifu-Rapid-Strike in Sun: 168-198 (88.4 - 104.2%) -- 31.3% chance to OHKO
WHY IS IT SURVIVING EVERYTHING?
EXCEPT FOR PHYSICAL ATTACKS?
It has 60 Special Defense, it has no right to survive a fucking Earth Power that is effectively 228 BP from a Pokemon with 115 base Special Attack.
It isn't bad lowkey
Lunar blessing with zama and electric seed with mirai
Maxi what are you cooking
And the interaction of skill swap with zama
Put that shit on a MiraiNala team.
+1 def to cress and levitate to zama
Gravity Groudon teams otw to finally be useful:
Farig is just more versatile, but cress is still great in bulkier teams, like that one
I think it has its niche someone got top 1 on showdown ladder with zama mirai cress pao
Bro pblades would do like 20 😭
quash gravity sableye
It almost 2HKOs if Zama has the Defense boost.
"Wow, my Pokemon with base 140 Defense and a free +1 is living a spread move from a Pokemon with no damage multiplier stacking? How pathetic".
It's restricted on restricted battling
And one of them is hitting for super effective
And he loses
You can't tell me that's not slightly irritating
That is what five gens of power creep and losing your strongest form does to somebody.
Btw, speaking of groudon: https://pokepast.es/61ef6563c26a68a6 (it's really fun to ladder with this, but it super sucks in Bo3)
Do you think Zamazenta is living an Eruption from Primal Groudon?
Wide guard !
damn then let’s hope we don’t play each other on ladder then lol
im using that team but volc over lando
They won't call it.
Nah that makes it 10 billion times more workable and fun
lowkey don’t like my groudon matchup at all
Zamazenta players never click Wide Guard because they feel like being big boys.
Landorus is like half of that MU
yea
That's the point, no one does
And then Surging Strikes takes them down to 40% so +3 Glacial Lance KOs.
but if i’m gonna have a negative mu let it be groudon
No one plays against him so no one has the MU layed out
Huge strategy of "Ah they'll probably miss"
And it works 😔
Groudon players gonna find out pblades misses at worlds and I won't be sad
My strategy boils down to:
252+ Atk Choice Band Tera Water Urshifu-Rapid-Strike Surging Strikes (3 hits) vs. 212 HP / 0 Def Groudon in Sun on a critical hit: 156-192 (77.2 - 95%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ SpA Choice Specs Tera Water Kyogre Water Spout (150 BP) vs. 212 HP / 0 SpD Assault Vest Groudon in Sun: 168-200 (83.1 - 99%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Even if it's slower, it is not living both of these.
Using both teras
Let me know when you find out how to tera twice in one game
And both offensive to tera water
You don't need Tera on either if you want to KO with the double up.
This is why I have Raichu, Amoonguss and CIR.
😭
Oh right, I forgot.
How long will it take before we learn that EVERY GAME IS DIFFERENT
Every game is a new chance to miss pblades
Regardless, the point is that I have a good matchup into Groudon.
Exactly !
Congrats?
Or High Horsepower.
God, I want to rip my hair out whenever that happens.
Just don't put yourself in a situation where you have to click high horsepower
Very realistic I know
Anyway, I had the really funny idea that, if I need Raichu to get a +1 in order to KO, I could use Thunder with Kyogre into it.
Excuse me?
what
That was out of pocket, nevermind.
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I don't understand people
Game one super forfeiting is just weird to me
Imagine forfeiting because you missed a move.
Was almost better for them because my Ogerpon is extremely slow
Cause I know for sure that their Kyogre outsped my Ogerpon
Hey Conner, should I change anything?
https://pokepast.es/32d79453d4744ccb
Weren't you going to change the Urshifu to band?
Nice
Anything else?
Looks pretty solid to me
Any bad MUs?
Looks like it might struggle against Whimsicott sun but that's about it
Got it.
No testing on showdown?
I never do that, but sure.
Psych up Lugia
😔
I actually like playing against these teams
Heat crash doing double damage is great
Conner would have negative elo
20% GXE
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I played really badly, but I won.
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Even if I play badly, I still win.
They might be stupid.
the Kyurem Black Copium lmao
bro is worse than Mewtwo imo
Even with rain?
I didn't bring rain.
I don't think I've ever left either restricted behind
The 4 G1 wins is weird
Like this is Bo3 guys
I won.
Goat
Jugulis is so GOATed, man.
THEY FORFEITED INSTANTLY 🤣
So this is game 5, I think.
Welp, that went well.
4 wins and 1 loss.
Honestly, not bad at all.
This team is great.
I'll build it tomorrow.
Jugulis has no reason to reach 528 Speed when it's at level 50 bro 😭
That's how I feel with Jumpluff
178 x 4 is not needed
It's like they know how much time they have
My 1000-1700/1800 journey begins today
https://pokepast.es/babe92e68b181f4c and this’ll get me there
Ty brother
drayagedrago has given 1 Gen Rep to connertep
What is the vision for the Miraidon?
And why is Chien-Pao Adamant instead of Jolly?
Well considering they have scarf Miraidon and Zacian what is Jolly Pao doing for them
And Miraidon is there as a speed check
I run a very similar set and it allows you to not need things like icy wind or tailwind because it's so fast already
I was referring to the 180 Speed.
I don’t miss kills on pao with adamant
Yeah, that makes sense.
Hits 178 yeah
Zacian and pao is the play into the mirror
I want to run Chien-Pao, but there are no teams with it where it really fits my playstyle.
Drago we got mad similar teams
Miraidon is
Get this, consistent
?
Kyogre fucking isn’t
Neither is Groudon !
And I get a 2 mon fantasy core
Yeah that's pretty handy
Plus Mirai and Zac like similar mons
Athough not very helpful in this meta 😔
It’s alright imo
Water and ghost are just too oppressive
This is my team by the way
Just a lot of similarities
I kind of want to put Cresselia on a team.
Just put in on Zama Miraidon with Ursaluna
What’s also nice about Zac Mirai duo imo
Zacian is a fantastic mon for closing games while Mirai is great for opening games
Wouldn't it be infinitely funnier in a MiraiNala team?
The teams good and I think it can do it
Lunala and Cress would overlap a lot
Oh shit, you're right.
Both can function next to Ursaluna which would just cause both wanting to be out on the field
Why Zamazenta though? For the Wide Guard?
Zama is pretty splashable and I imagine Zama next to Cress is really annoying
Then go Ho oh
We LOVE stall !!!!
I first got to MB with Leech Seed CIR.
I was born for this shit.
What moves should Cress have?
Obviously Lunar Dance and Moonblast/Psychic.
Maybe Ally Switch?
Ally switch is an evil move
So should I use it?
So what should I have instead?
Body Slam, Facade, Giga Impact, Psycho Cut, Slash, Zen Headbutt
Aurora Beam, Charge Beam, Confusion, Dazzling Gleam, Energy Ball, Expanding Force, Future Sight, Grass Knot, Hyper Beam, Ice Beam, Icy Wind, Moonblast, Mud-Slap, Power Gem, Psybeam, Psychic, Psyshock, Shadow Ball, Solar Beam, Stored Power, Swift, Tera Blast, Thunder, Thunderbolt
Ally Switch, Calm Mind, Confuse Ray, Double Team, Endure, Gravity, Helping Hand, Light Screen, Lunar Blessing, Lunar Dance, Mist, Moonlight, Protect, Psych Up, Psychic Terrain, Rain Dance, Reflect, Rest, Safeguard, Scary Face, Skill Swap, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Sunny Day, Thunder Wave, Trick, Trick Room
A move displayed with Bold text benefits from Same-Type Attack Bonus when used by Cresselia.
Helping hand, trick room, icy wind/twave
Uhhh
Fighting, Psychic
Dragon, Electric, Fairy, Fire, Flying, Grass, Ground, Ice, Normal, Poison, Rock, Steel, Stellar, Water
Bug, Dark, Ghost
Steel, dark, fairy
Fairy seems like the most obvious one.
Water could also be fine
Should Miraidon be Scarf or AV?
Should I keep the AV for Iron Hands so I can have a Trick Room mode?
712 speed💀
I remember I used my Jumpluff to outspeed adamant unburden sneasler
Only to find 0 sneaslers whe I played that team
(it was in reg G)
Alright, I found a spread for Cresselia that allows it to live:
- Specs Electro Drift from max Special Attack Modest Miraidon
- Astral Barrage from max Special Attack Life Orb CSR
- Flare Blitz from Adamant Life Orb Koraidon in the sun
- Water Spout from max Special Attack Modest Mystic Water Kyogre (68,75% of the time)
- Surging Strikes from Tera Water max Attack Adamant Urshifu
Oh, and Facade from max Attack Ursaluna with Guts active.
Jesus, this thing is a beast.
It's 252 HP / 124 Def / 132 SpD with either a Bold or a Relaxed Nature.
It also lives both Dark Pulse and sun-boosted Overheat from Modest Scarf Chi-Yu.
And Tera Stellar Crunch from Sash Chien-Pao or normal Crunch from Life Orb Chien.
Adamant stellar?
That’s what it usually is
It lives 93.75% of the time.
So in short, literally none of all the big attacks have a shot at KOing it in one hit.
Except for Tera Fire Chi-Yu in the sun.
Should it be Bold or Relaxed?
Scarf works if you don’t have TW
Alright.
I heard Zama Cress talk
Sleeper agent
For all the wrong reasons 
Few know
Of the forbidden Zama Cress tech
|| Skill Swap ||
😭
It is a bullshit tech
But it is decently effective
I kind of want to run that, but I'm not sure.
That's what I said lol
Idea is you can give Zam Levitate
Hi guys I was thinking of making a competitive team what do you think
Average team in my builder
I have to find the other three shiny Magikarp tho
Mogs the average Groudon team.
dude why would you spoil such a good team
Huh?
This team don't get better whatchu mean
Everyone gonna be using it next tournament just you wait
Yeah so why would you leak it
Everyone needs to know just how good this is bro
New Reg I tier list just dropped. Is this a banger?
That B tier has some stinkers
Like what, Mewtwo?
And dialga
mewtwo and “good” should never be together
Put cosmoem and cosmog in S
would probably drop the last 4 restricted in b tier into c tier
And Eternatus should be higher
also don’t think zama is at the level of the calyrexes and mirai
Definitely not.
Zacian is not on par with Lunala
if there was an A- tier maybe that’d be where Zacian stays
Yup
I'll make one myself tomorrow.
Cause it has won stuff
it’s like in the very very bottom of A
woah nice
Can we all agree that Miraidon and both of Calyrex's forms are guaranteed S tiers?
i hope you get to 80 gxe unlike my choke
I might be done for now
"Let's go gambling!"
"I CAN'T STOP WINNING!"
14-0 is very high for me
And for the first time ever
Miraidon didn't come to a game
Cool.
what is the point of b tier tbh
Don't ask me, ask the guy who made it.
Every good team has one of the top 8 mons xd
I'm so happy that Groudon made top 10 cut instead of Terapagos
It's crazy seeing Terapagos go from a big menace in Reg G to a burger flipper in Reg I.
Even if I know it isn't real 😔
Big menace?
Terapagos has BEEN on fraud watch
Pagos was good but not crazy like mirai in reg G
If only they made it so Tera Shell works for the first hit of an attack only.
Then Surging Strikes truly would KO everything that's not Walking Wake, Wellspring Ogerpon or Gastrodon.
Eseed pagos mirai is probably the only usable pagos team
?
Average Groudon stat sheet
It works for every hit of a multi-hit attack.
86% wr against CIR is crazy
Is this from a video or you
28 games in total
It's from a video.
Ah
Imma not comment on it
Doesn't look too bad and like
Tier lists do have opinion sprinkled in
Don't put Groudon in S tier.
You will be punished with having to play 50 games of CSR-Zama slop if you do it.
The rest seems pretty well organised.
I'd say Zama is better than Koraidon
But that's now looking at it and realizing I forgot
i think that tier list is from THATSAPLUSONE
It is.
So are the Calyrex forms placed randomly because you think they're equal or...?
I think ice is more consistent but shadow is overall stronger as a mon
So I guess yeah I put them as fairly equal
Fair.
If I had to go top 3 in order it'd be
- Miraidon
- Calyrex Ice
- Calyex Shadow
Why is Groudon CIR above Groudon Miraidon 😔
Where
Mainly is just a fusion of the sun gang and CIR lol
Cart ladder
Can I get some examples?
I think Giovanni Cishke's team is broken
I've seen people playing it
Also the Groudon CIR core Shiliang and Suica were playing
I'm not sure if its CIR rn but some time ago they used av groudon with cir
Av is super good against Zama CSR teams
Don't worry I know
So is it inconsistent?
What kinda question is that
I think Ogre is a fraud
Maybe
But I think the meta is super rough for it rn
Groudon, Koraidon, Wellspring, Miraidon
Choice Specs?
AV Kyogre 🙏
Kyogre felt like a weak spot just, idk im not feeling what I have rn
Like it’s doing fine but the feel isn’t there
Av or mystic water
hm
that or I should pivot to specs gleam, I want spread
Which is why I’m considering it
You could try the av tera fairy mirai w chi yu stuff
The only thing is that Chi-Yu needs the sash there
But then no cat
And the cat is the mvp of my team lol
Sorry, leopard
Don’t wanna get ir confused for incin
Like I think Zac pao is, very strong
But playing ogre is miserable so I just, idk lol
Word
Mirai is better
Could try the double terrain stuff again
I like mirai rilla
But you need the set up mon which is likely Volcarona
I think riopaser cracked the teams of mirai rilla
mewtwo being the same tier as Eternatus is something else
And Justin Knox cracked the ones that aren't Zama pao stuff lol
Mewtwo has stuff he's just super outclassed
But yeah it probably should be down a tier
Eternatus lowkey has sauce
Eternatus has the stats and the typing to back itself up.
Eternatus?
All it needs is a great ability and it'll be cooking.
Not even a great ability
Give it levitate and it can be meta threat
Just not pressure
Imagine if it had something like Corrosion.
And even then pressure isn't that bad
Adaptability !
You know the abysmal MU that pagos balance was vs Eternatus
Like Dragalge
Or, better yet, an ability that allows its Poison moves to hit Steel types.
That would've been cool in tandem with the dogs
So it won't get completely walled by Zamazenta.
Volcarona!
We love Volcarona
And Bolt.
Eternatus almost won an special event in reg G
Volcarona has the same thing as Dragonite, where power creep made it BETTER over time.
I tried this
It felt very eh
Wait Drago could you send the team again
On one hand, if they don’t have a lot of speed control this feels fine
If they DO I’m at a disadvantage
I also kinda wanna play Zac pao shifu, they have strong synergy offensively and defensively imo
Water Urshifu, right?
Man, I just remembered that I never finished cooking up that team with Cresselia.
4 Atk Zamazenta-Crowned Behemoth Bash vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Eternatus: 69-82 (32 - 38.1%) -- 95.3% chance to 3HKO
Both wall each other lmao
This is what 140 HP and 95 Defense does to a man.
I still need a TR abuser.
Should I go with Iron Hands since I already have Electric Terrain up?
Are there any major issues you're having?
Like any super bad MUs that you just can't beat
And stopping here
