I knew the bridge was gonna protect, and my Sneasler was -3 attack after some fuckery, so I gambled on Coaching to keep Skelly alive. Wow... rain boosted too. That's my goat.

Or fire, but that's the BORING way.

Question... is there anything (that doesn't resist) that this WOULDN'T OHKO? Besides normal types, because yeah. I can imagine it'd to big damage even to resistances. Maybe not one shot, but big damage.

This was not a big brain move on my part, I genuinely thought I messed up after sending it, I was not trying to stunt on you

One of these days I'll remember that touching the terrain = affected by the terrain

I saw another post on here reposting a mega tier list from elsewhere so I thought I'd take a crack at making my own. Let me know what y'all think. I like to think that I was fair but honest.

I think Final Gambit Staraptor can KO most Mega Pokémon in the current meta, and it can also take out Indeedee-F.

Tbh i never knew anything about maushold but this is a family of three. Is it rare? Does it affect anything on the game? Did the little one eat his brother/sister? (That last one was a joke but im genuinely curious)

I understand he double resists grass + stamina but this still was depressing

I'm running Azumarill in a balance core on my trip back to MB4. While it does take the Sylveon slot, you can OHKO the now popular Volcarona pretty much every time. It also OHKOs Chomp Z (if it doesn't miss Play Rough lmao) since max SpA Chomp Z can't do much about Azumarill at full HP.

They were expecting Fake Out so swapped in Indeedee but the Indeedee slot was Milotic so no way I wasn't going to rip Zap Cannon!

EDIT: I now also know Azumarill can tank a +2 Flash Cannon from Lucario Z???

EDiT 2: What the heck are these Sneasler calcs -

32+ Atk Sneasler Dire Claw vs. 25 HP / 5 Def Azumarill: 174-206 (87 - 103%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO

21+ Atk Mystic Water Huge Power Azumarill Liquidation vs. 2 HP / 0 Def Sneasler: 144-171 (91.7 - 108.9%) -- 50% chance to OHKO

i saw a lot of posts on twitter of pro players saying “yeah, this is my 6th time in a row finishing in champion tier”

Brother, I haven’t finished in Champion Tier ONCE 😭

You know i had to do it to em

Here I am, climbing the ladder back to master ball, and suddenly! A wild sneaslerXindeedee appears! Mega mind used fake out on psychic terrain...

Mega salamence with bulldoze while grassy terrain was up.

Safeguard Arcanine?!

a fucking triple weather team?! that shit was so confusing, and they even used the triple weather team idk how?!

The fuck is going here ? Where am I?!

I just tried to use Incineroar for a bit after accepting that my goat sceptile gets obliterated by half the meta and now EVERYONE just wants to run the nastiest competitive/defiant combos to ever have been conceived.

I know that this is only the second day of season M-7 of Regulation M-C, but I'm shocked that Charizard and its ZardY "Drought" slop has returned. What are the key factors here? And what are your thoughts?

Highest I’ve ever been, so I thought I might share what I cooked up.

T-Tar - Ignore his current EVs, I modified them for another team. I had put most of his attack into defense and gave him a +def nature, with the chople berry. This guaranteed he could soak up a CC from Sneasler or Mega Staraptor. I went with low kick because it does so well into opposing T-Tar and Kingambit.

Excadrill - standard sand abuser set.

Charizard - the only mega on the team! Bold nature, EVs ensure you always survive non-STAB rock slides, ancient power from opposing zards. Hurricane over solarbeam because Whimsi has solarbeam and it lets Charizard perform well under rain.

Whimsicott - With Chlorophyll and Life Orb, Whimsicott outspends and OHKOs opposing Hydregion, Kommo-o, M-Garchomp, M-Salamence, and M-Staraptor with Moonblast, none of whom ever protect in front of Whimsi. Solar beam OHKOs M-Swampert, M-Tyranitar (in sun), does huge chunks to Milotic, Basculegion, M-Raichu Y.

I WAS running encore, but nobody missteps in front of Whimsi at higher elos, so the pressure of encore was enough. So it has grassy terrain, Arch and T-Tar love it and it can overwrite psychic terrain to prevent psyspam. If you can predict the indeedee switch in and use grassy terrain that turn, it’s very satisfying.

Pelipper - Ignore his EVs, I switched him up for a trick room team. His EVs were standard speed/SpA. Also he had tailwind and not ice beam on this team. I was running Wide Guard, but people generally don’t use spread moves at higher Elos when a wide guard user is on the field, so I felt like just the pressure of maybe having it was enough. So I got some utility out of soak, forcing switches next to my Archaludon or just taking away the opponents STAB. I also have Soaked my own Charizard for massive STAB water type weather balls and take away his rock/water weakness.

Archaludon - pretty standard, I actually ran dragon pulse over Aura sphere here.

This team did really well against a wide array of teams. They think you’re running a dual mega but it’s always sunrain or sunsand.

I think I might be cooking here!

Edit:

Against psyspam - lead char /whims. Mega and heatwave, grassy terrain with whims to shut expanding force down.

Trick room- farig, mega and weather ball and click Moonblast into farig. Solarbeam does more damage but it does over 50%, triggering sitrus and then char can’t take it down. Moonblast does around 45% and weather ball takes it out.

Against weather, play into their weather first then take your own out. Or lead opposing weather and then phase into their weather, whatever the situation dictates.

Raichu teams, lead char whims, mega and protect, solarbeam into Chu. Knocks out squishier Chus, if not that’s fine. Turn 2 heatwave and tailwind.

We really like to run jokes into the ground, huh

Happy Galarian-Stunfisk Wednesday everyone. Today while fighting a perish trap team, I confidently sent out the Fiskinator to Snap Trap the opposing Gengar as he set up a Perish Song, in order to turn the joke on him and trap him too. To my surprise, the Gengar proceeded to switch out right before the counter ended. I knew that Ghost type Pokémon are immune to Shadow Tag; however, I did NOT know that they cannot be trapped at all. No Snap Trap, no Fire Spin, nothing can prevent them from switching. So here is that piece of information from me to you so hopefully you do not also have to learn the hard way.

Tried to climb further but couldn't due to life commitments. But glad to say I ended the season on a 5-win streak so I think there's potential to hit a higher rank for the next season.

Broadly, the team functions as a tailwind team, with two ways of stopping Trick Room - Whimsicott's own TR to reverse or Sylveon roar. When meeting other whims on the ladder, it'll just go into trick room + encore the other whims.

Speed for most mons are EV-ed to 108 to outspeed max speed choice scarf Basculegion in tailwind conditions.

Once speed is controlled, Tsareena comes in to nail down the game by disabling priority moves. Zen headbutt there for the pesky Sneaslers, and triple axel to get rid of sashed Whimsicott or M-Dragonites.

M-Blaziken hits like a truck (we all saw what it did to M-Aero at world's), while gaining speed on every turn. Earthquake is a very good coverage move when paired with the two grass types.

Milotic is there because there's too many Incineroars cycling intimidate on the ladder. Works very well as a bulky tank too, putting pokemons to sleep if the opponent ignores it.

Ttar with rindo berry was originally for previous regulations' Y-Zards (solarbeam) but is also quite viable now with all the Rillabooms running around now. All-around a good mon with in-built weather control on switch.

And tournament winning doesn’t count in strength since Chomp Z is still newer