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This is the first team I've built. How can I improve it? I'm open to any suggestions.
It's a rain-focused team, and I tried to adapt it to the M-C ruleset.

i tried to make a team for m-c before even playing it and i wanted to know if is any good. tbh i think the team has all mons that will be meta this regulation. (btw i don't know why but floette and golispod don't have the mega in the team viewer but they do in reality, so count them with tough claws and aura vail) thx for thr help in advanceee!!!

Questions for Review

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

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

rate my team

Hey all, started playing again now that M-C is out (took last season off got boring asf) and am trying to make z-chomp work; so far its going okay, managed to hit masterball today with this team but have a few... issues.

First, I think switching to earth power > powergem on z-chomp is more worth it, since things I'd hit with pg can get nuked by draco (mega bax, mega mence) and I still can knock y-zard out the skies with mega dactyl, or flip the speed prio with indeedee trick room. Thoughts?

Second and more glaring, is the fairy weakness; I've had problems consistently dealing with floette and gardevoir, who's seen resurgance with psychic terrain + expanding force. Sneasler doesnt like the garde matchup, and gambit takes neu from both so at best those 2 have "even" matchups.

Any suggestions regarding the fairy problem would be appreciated, I'm thinking incin > gambit but then ghost matchups get iffy imo.

EDIT!!! --> aero has unnerve dunno why it says rock head, not that it really matters

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.

Just want your opinion on the team and if there is any fixes or change to make on the team I saw this team on the ladder and was wondering if its any good.

Overview & Strategy

Team aims to set up Psychic Terrain with Indeedee and click Expanding Force with Alakazam. Sneasler with psychic seed is there to pressure faster Pokémon and finish weakend Pokémon after Alakazam's damage. Blaziken is chosen as Mega when facing strong dark types like Kingambit and Incineroar or when there are multiple psychic resists. Milotic is there to provide some speed control and pressures strong Dragon types.

Difficult Matchups & Threatening Pokémon

• Problematic Pokémon/Cores: Basculegion, fast physical attackers

• Difficult Archetypes: Trick room

Questions for Review

In particular the Slyveon slot I am not sure about. I was considering Hydragon for a better matchup against Trick Room. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Something is missing in this team for me so any advise or ideas I am happy for.

Testing & Performance History

I used this team to get to Master Ball.

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

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 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.

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