I got a team here that i would like some advice about!! Dm me for ur input please n thank you
#Would like some advice or constructive criticism
covert violet
distant turtle
would need to see EVs, moves and items 🙂
covert violet
would need to see EVs, moves and items 🙂
Ill post them when im home from work
finite bronze
Best use a pokepaste with showdowns teambuilder
covert violet
This was my theory, i wanted to use the grafaiai and slaking strat while having support mons on my team as u can see with Amoonguss and Klefki, Tauros-Aqua is a solid hitter and same with Hydreigon, yet this team went 1-6 W/L i just wanna know where i went wrong, keep in mind, i came up with half the sets cause i dont like using the most broken mons in the formats, i wanted to be creative
finite bronze
Idk feels weird mishmash.
Its a risky strat and grafai even at +2 is no threath.
Scarf slaking who is locked into a move is also weird.
You dont wanna swap it once on the field.
Its a super weird mish mash with mechanics working against each other.
E.g. no pollen puff on mongus
Tbh id expext eq on slaking.
Theres better versions of that strat
Also no taunt.
And klefky looks really bad.
No impact at all with useless tera blast
covert violet
@finite bronze do u think i should swap klefki then for somethin else? And maybe take off the choice item on slaking?
lofty bridge
I'm a bit late here but a small optimisation I can see with tauros is you can go down to 244 speed just to invest those evs to be slightly bulkier as you only really need to outspeed hydreigon.
And it's down to personal preference but I personally prefer running wave crash so you can drop attack down to 204 to guarantee OHKO on garchomp that as terra ground and you survive any 1 hit from it with the added bulk.
Apart from that though if the grafaiai doesn't get the doodle off or if the shaking gets taken out you're team crumbles and the opponent will know that you are bringing slaking and grafaiai and only needs to predict the other two.
Overall other than slacking there isn't much offensive presence and should look for other ways grafaiai can help other pokemon and support the team.
That way slacking is just an option and it will keep people guessing
covert violet
@lofty bridge do u think i should remove the slaking in general? And i put tauros like that so it can handle armarouge also, since not much on my team could handle armarouge
lofty bridge
Its up to you at the end of the day, if you like the slaking strat stick with it and keep iterating on it until you find something you like
Personally I love tinkaton, she's not even close to being meta but I'll build a team around her strengths and try to cover her weaknesses, you just gotta do the same
Just stick with standard sets on mons for now and when you have a bit of experience with the team you can really nail down what you struggle with and certain things you need to live and ohko etc
Also a quick calc tells me tauros doesn't ohko max hp max spatk armarouge with Raging Bull
Also take into consideration the common things it's paired with like indeedee for example. You have no way to stop follow me, trick room or just follow me expanding force. Sure you have hydreigon but it means your other side is getting targeted down until indeedee dies
Slacking is supposed to have bulk up too
And I'm not saying this is amazing but I personally think it's better all around. I've tried to keep things mostly the same and tried to keep you're idea there
Ofc I have probably missed something super common you're probably weak to but it's a decent starting point
covert violet
Im trying to stay away from gholdengo, maybe ill revamp the team and come back for more advice i just not sure what would be cool, or different should i say, cause i wanna be different from the meta @lofty bridge
leaden frost
Team is very bad start all over
finite bronze
You used defensive mlns and tried to give them a big offensive presencevwithouth investment
E.g. lets take a look at klefki as an example.
You gave it tera fire and tera blast.
A no dmg invest klefki does laughable dmg to anything.
King takes like 10% at best with AV.
But your invest on that is HUGE.
You waste a move slot if you dont tera, you dont play to the mons strength.
You waste tera better suited on other mons.
Same for slaking.
Once its ability is gone you DONT wanna take it off the field.
It stays there until death.
Choice items rather incentevice swaping.
Slaking has too many choices to be locked into a bad move.
Make a coherent strategy working with itself
covert violet
maybe ill get rid of the team and start over 😅
finite bronze
maybe ill get rid of the team and start over 😅
Tbh maybe start at a rental one.
Learn the game whats good and bad and how you build stuff.
I saw slaking teams but they didnt catch on.
covert violet
maybe ill just revamp my team a bit and retry on the ladder
finite bronze
Yeah.
Maybe take and steal some solid builds from here:
https://victoryroadvgc.com/sv-rental-teams-2023/
Or at least get ideas how to build.
covert violet
true ig that can work, ill look into it thanks
finite bronze
Hope this can help.
Best to try a simple team before a gimick