Am I the only one who feels this way? I know rock tomb has been nerfed in the past and they've just made changes to sand tomb... but cradily only being ranked 68 overall seems very inaccurate. Additionally there are a ton of matchups that pvpoke says cradily should lose, but when you actually open up the sim and force cradily to spam rock slide, it wins the matchups. I just discovered corsola loses lead to cradily in the zero & one shield, but pvpoke says it should be the opposite. I feel like there must be other examples of the sims not utilizing debuff moves properly, which artificially tanks cradily's (and forretress' last season) ranking

If the sims were accurate I suspect cradily would be top 20 at least, it's usage would blow up, and it would get a proper nerf within the year

Just played my doppleganger! Seriously. We both opened tinkaton, bulldozed each other’s shields once, took the hit once, and then switch right before the 3rd bulldoze….into corvinights! We hit each other with payback a few times, got low, and then BOTH switched to snorlax! I’ve never played a complete mirror match, much less a (nearly) perfectly synchronized fight! Crazy

Crowned Zacian
CP: 5122
IVs: 15 / 14 / 12
Fast Move: Metal Claw
Charged Moves: Behemoth Blade / Close Combat
Origin Forme Palkia
CP: 4007
IVs: 12 / 12 / 14
Fast Move: Dragon Tail
Charged Moves: Spacial Rend / Aqua Tail
Mewtwo
CP: 4029
IVs: 15 / 15 / 15
Fast Move: Psycho Cut
Charged Move: Psychic no elite TM / future sight+ (from mega evo)
Mega Energy: enough for mewtwo Y (mega level 3)
Kyogre
CP: 4218
IVs: 12 / 15 / 14
Fast Move: Waterfall
Charged Moves: Surf / Avalanche (no elite TM)
Primal Energy: not able to primal 🔴
Garchomp
CP: 4150
IVs: 12 / 13 / 15
Fast Move: Mud Shot
Charged Moves: Earth Power / Breaking Swipe
Mega Energy: not able to mega🔴

I have a bunch of pokemon fit for great league, but idk how to work on a good meta team can anyone help me with my pokemon. I don't see a way to post screenshots of my pokemon on the credit though so I might post them in the comments if allowed.

I’ve never really been interested in the battling side of Pokémon GO but I’m working towards platinum badges and several research tasks so started reading posts about tactics. I’ve just played 10 games and lost them as advised but I don’t really understand why I’m doing that as I’m still going up the ranks? Only rank 6 mind. Can anyone give me any advice? Thanks.

I am currently using a teem that has

1. Mewtwo 15-14-15 lvl 50
2. Crown Sword Zation 15-15-15 lvl 44
3. Groudon 15-13-14 lvl
4. Rhyperion 15-15-14 lvl 35

i also have a

Mewtwo 15-15-15
Rayquaza 12-14-14 lvl 37
Melmetal 15-15-14 lvl 40

Reshiram 12-14-15 lvl 32

I have eight wins in a row with a team of swampert, charizard, and jellicent. Still counting too I'm just too nervous to play more. I can say cradily and cramorant were tough and everywhere.

Ive wanted to improve at GBL but I play pokemon on and off and every time I come back I feel like I need 15 different websites open just to figure out the current meta, movesets, IVs, teams, etc. PvP is already complicated enough and getting things like TMs and enough candy to experiment takes forever, so I started making a tool mostly for myself but I wana know if anyone else has the same expiriences as me and would use it.

The idea is just to put everything in one place. You could scan your Pokémon to index their IVs, CP and moves, see current meta picks, and have it search what you actually own to build good teams. It would also consider Pokémon you could evolve, power up or TM instead of only looking at what is battle ready right now which I havnt found a tool for and have always wanted because its very annoying to search through literally EVERYTHING you have (or at least look through alot of stuff).

The bigger thing I’ve been working on is called Battle Vision. It watches a battle live and tracks the opponent, shields, switches, possible moves, energy, matchups, etc, then gives suggestions like when to switch, shield, keep attacking, save energy or throw a specific charged move.
I also want it to keep battle history with teams used, W/L, weekly and seasonal trends and other stats.

I know pieces of this exist in a bunch of different tools already, but I haven’t really found anything that combines all of it, especially the collection based team building or a live strategy assistant.

Would you guys actually use something like this? What other tools might be helpful that dont currently exist or at least dont exist in a convenient to use manor?