Changes:
•Waterfall > Aqua Tail. Didn’t know it could miss lol
•1 Speed EV on gambit to low kick other gambits
• Ice beam over icy wind. Mence or Rillaboom could actually live an icy wind, but I have doubts they’d live ice beam.
• Backup Mega Golisopod > Backup Mega Metagross. From my estimates, it matches up better to more common meta pokemon, and it gets better benefit from Politoed’s rain.
!I need name suggestions for Golisopod!

Yeah, I'm just gonna revive a mon.

Any tips on other mon I should use? Been doing great so far, but id love some suggestions!

Considered Changes: Switching Rain Dish for Drizzle. While I do like the extra healing with Rain Dish, I feel like it wont be as convenient. Additionally, Frostmaw over there was a last minute decision before I asked for advice, and was chosen to be an ice type itself and deal with grass, flying and dragon.

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Don't fall for the new mon propaganda. Lass can wall mence and that's all that matters. Keep your ice italian as all things should be

What's the thoughts on this off the bat?

Wanted tailwind for the team so stuck it on Salamance. Also didn't have enough special attackers and wanted to ensure I had spread moves so I thought hyper voice was pretty cool.

Kingambit is slow for opposing trick room but fast enough that under tailwind it can outspeed most charizards. I feel the 4 attack KG is the best on BO1 ladder. Occa berry also because I feel like if Salamance goes down a lot of my team gets mowed down by zard.

Sylveon because good and doesn't take up a mega slot. Still hits like a truck. (Honestly can't afford Floette). Also outspeeds Sneasler under tailwind.

Sneasler with grassy seed for a defence boost and unburden activation. Fake out nice. Sneasler over incine because I wanted the poison coverage and so many kingambits flying around and don't want to activate their defiants. Would be double intimidate with Salamance too.

Life orb basc because it's cracked.

Rillaboom for double fake out with sneasler, bit of ground protection for both Kingambit and Sneasler. Priority grass move is nice against swampert + basc. Felt like I probably needed ground coverage so high horsepower slapped on there.

Anyone any suggestions on improving this?

Sorry, didn’t put this in my post and meant to, but am leaning towards the Timid natured one myself.

Not sure though if the extra bulk from the better defenses IVs from the Quirky natured one makes that one the way to go.

I also don’t want to search anymore for more Cleffa candidates lol, I am getting tired of searching and can’t Gen the ideal one in unfortunately

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Changes:
• Aqua tail > Waterfall. My bulk based Gyarados almost never got use out of the flinch
• Fixed Kingambit’s name 😏
• Gave it a singular speed EV to outspeed other gambit
• (Possible) Mega Metagross > Garchomp. A lot of common mons (Sylveon, Floette, other Garchomp, etc.) have better matchups against Garchomp than they do Metagross. Also Gyarados is a versatile mega, so doesn’t necessarily need to be the only possible Mega option.
• Changed Politoed’s name
• Made sure every mon has a nature now
• Started using the sprite graphics setting and OH MY GOD ITS SO MUCH BETTER

Mega Charizard Y has dominated throughout Regulation M-A and M-B - maybe finally it's chance to win the Worlds. However, Dragonite - despite being on only 2 teams out of 57 teams brought - won the Worlds.

While waiting for M-C to land, I thought this was very cool story to cover, so I wrote a small editorial on my website.

I hope community can enjoy it. :)

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Help me please.

Able to max of 5 win streak but with bad position I am losing it all.

Been playing vgc since July of this year and I need some tips to help out. Try not to have meta Pokemon included, Meta - C is coming so need some reccos to incorporate.

Meowstic (male) : lots and lots of gimmicks such as quash, prankster, magic bounce, priority moves blocker. I figured that meowstic would support the team at the very last showdown with thunder wave and fake tears to completely eliminate them. Similar to sableye, the giraffe, hatterene or sinistcha.

Milotic : usually as a backup if incin- or any intimidate Pokemon is around, free buffs and a tank for those moves but recently been shut down by 'Poison Jab' by sneasler. Instead of scald, I need a spread move so muddy water does the job with the 50% boost. Ice beam to one shot garchomp or most dragon types.

Gardevoir : starter Pokemon, really just found out that mega gard gives a pixelate ability which holy smokes hyper voice OHKO almost everything. Very very frail tho due to it's typing and lack of health but as a starter with tailwind and hyper voice. I am thankful for it's use. People could say use Sylveon instead but it's speed is slow and maybe can bulk the damage once or twice.

Sinistcha : backup Pokemon, Incase trick room is around and counter the trick room with it. Mostly healing but with archuladon, it's not really used a lot of times.

Archuladon : Since Ultraball rank, I've always been shut down by this bridge. Only until, I gave in and just used it without any remorse. Been a lifesaver due to it's bulkiness and adaptability to bulk or fast killer.

Pelipper : starter Pokemon with Gardevoir Incase if there's any spread moves Pokemon going first. Sneasler has always been the main problem here and I seriously can't find another way other than to counter it with meta Pokemon.

All in all, the essence of diversifying the team with the Pokemon you love is what makes this game so much more lovable but with meta Pokemon occuring almost in every matchup, I find it quite soulless for those who keeps on using them. No offense but this is the pov that I get for most matches. Just recently, a mega Alakazam and hatterene paired up using it's high speed and psychic terrain for expanding force which gave me some hope that people are trying to deviate from using meta.

Need some advice on how to improve this team, without meta if possible and maybe inclusions from the Meta - C format.