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I tried using a team from Justin Tang with

Rillaboom @ Miracle Seed

Ability: Grassy Surge

EVs: 32 HP / 24 Atk / 1 Def / 1 SpD / 8 Spe

Adamant Nature

- Fake Out

- Wood Hammer

- Grassy Glide

- High Horsepower

Blastoise-Mega @ Blastoisinite

Ability: Mega Launcher

EVs: 22 HP / 25 SpA / 19 Spe

Modest Nature

- Shell Smash

- Terrain Pulse

- Water Spout

- Protect

for garchomp and whims but i was struggling with rain, charizard z and some random teams that you usually meet in great ball lol.

i’m SUPER new (like less than a week new) so any help would be appreciated. I’m not sure if this team has any synergy, if it has enough coverage etc. etc.

I'm trying to build a team centered around mega salamence supported by pokemon like gholdengo and sand rush excadrill to take care of possible mega mence counters such as mega floette, mega froslass, etc.

Ttar is there as a sand setter for excadrill and as a secondary mega for weather war matchups. Occasionally, I'd only use normal salamence as an intimidate pokemon and tailwind setter. Sometimes I'd lead with mence and ttar and decide which mega to use depending on the matchup.

However, I've come across a few problems:

1. I struggle against trick room teams as I have no way to prevent or reverse trick room. My pokemons aren't really tanky besides from ttar and that's it.

2. Wide guard negates spread damage from ttar, mence and drill.

3. A good rain player (i hope no one plays it anymore cuz of rillaboom) can shut down my sand team

Overview & Strategy

Difficult Matchups & Threatening Pokémon

• Problematic Pokémon/Cores: I haven’t faced much difficulty till now. Once one critical hit Sucker Punch from Mega Golisopod led me to defeat. Mega Rachu Y and Mega Staraptor can be potential threats if not managed properly.

• Difficult Archetypes: Too early to say. But the team can possibly be well-managed against every archetype.

Questions for Review

• Which EV spreads, moves, or items could be optimized?

• Which slot would you consider replacing to improve team coverage?

Testing & Performance History

I have just started with this team and this team was defeated only once for a critical hit [I could’ve still won if I had selected Salamence along with Mega Charizard Y]. I am now in Ultra Ball Tier.

This team is mostly just an excuse to use two of my favorit pokemon delphox and greninja.

It uses psychic terrain delphox and rain greninja as its two win conditions.

With kingambit and sneasler as offensive support.

I would like any opinion on how to improve the team.

I made a for fun team that focuses on slowing down the fight with healing and lowering damage.

With a secondery strategy using as many switch out moves to get as much utilty from moves like fake out and first impresion.

This team is for fun but i would like to see how i could improve it for meta use.

This is a mega raichu y mega staraptor team that I feel is pretty good but could be better. Any advice?

This is a team I made for Regulation M-C using the new mega lucario Z and mega Salamance. It kinda combines skill swap gimmicks with what will most likely be 2 of the best megas once pokemon champions comes out. I obviously can’t test it out yet, but I do think that it will be good.

I was using a mostly meta Mega Swampert Rain team, but I've been trying to create a new team as Swampert rain teams are down the drain when they add Rillaboom. But I still wanted to do a rain team, so i've been thinking up a Dragonite rain team, but I wanted another mega that I could use in bad matchups against ice, or fairy types. I also still wanted to use weather for both megas, so I've made the best thing I could come up with. It has many flaws, including: Very low defenses, multiple type overlaps, only the megas and their weather setters benefit from their weathers. Please give me some constructive criticism, I really need some help with this.

how competitive can this team be and can i reach champions league with it, i mostly love bulky annihilape with screens and let it live for the entirety of the game, if this team cant make it i would love to hear of any annihilape team that can the same thing this one does

Looking for opinions on my Mono-Fire tournament team

I'm currently preparing a Mono-Fire team for a Monotype tournament in Pokémon Champions and I'd like to hear some opinions from other players.

I'm mainly interested in:

• How the overall team composition looks

• Matchups that Mono-Fire may struggle with

• Whether the Pokémon I've chosen cover each other's weaknesses well

• Possible role overlap

• Moveset or item recommendations

• Pokémon you think would be a better fit for the team

I'm not necessarily looking to completely change the team, but I'm open to recommendations if there's a good reason behind them.

Would appreciate any thoughts, recommendations, or different ideas for the tournament.

I'm new to playing pokemon champions but I've been following pokemon and its competitive side for a while.

So I want to ask how good my team that im cooking up is and how it can be improved.

The team uses both trick room and tailwind wich both benefit chandelure while drampa only benefits from trick room.

They both use calm mind for setup while zoroark and sneasler focus on offensive support.

The only member of the team im not sure about is kingambit so if there is a better replacment pls tell me.

I know this team has a lot of type overlap but these are pokemon I like and enjoy using so I would appreciate ideas on how to change or improve this team I’m open to any ideas

This is a trick room team that I made that has malamar give other pokemon contrary for lots of value, but I do need help working out speed order to help with using topsy turvey once I have already used skill swap, also with dealing with things like fake out. I also use skill swap to give other pokemon no guard if needed.

I plan on using the team that won worlds this weekend at a tournament with my friends does anyone have any tips or advice on how to play this team

Overview & Strategy

Steel fairy dragon combination team for hyper offence and defensive switches.

With most aggressive dual type combination ( ice ground and fighting)

• Which EV spreads, moves, or items could be optimized? Should I keep special lucario with vacuum wave or physical extreme speed

• Which slot would you consider replacing to improve team coverage? Noivern for kleavor or dragapult for hisuian zoroark.