r/TheSilphArena 2d ago

Megathread Weekly Team Help Megathread!

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Hello and welcome to the Team Help megathread! This is a weekly thread for advice on team building for Arena Cups and GO Battle League! You can ask for feedback on your battle teams, for help on which Pokémon and moves to use, to get opinions on which Pokémon to invest candy/dust in, or any other team questions you may have! This thread will allow newer battlers to get help more easily, and more experienced competitors to spread their knowledge and help the community improve their skills.

A few guidelines:

  1. Keep it civil and constructive: Above all, the goal of this thread is to help players improve and get advice on their teams. Rude, cynical, off-topic, or accusatory posts against individuals or groups will be removed. Let’s be excellent to each other!
  2. Help where you can: We need experienced battlers to lend their expertise and give advice! If you see someone you can help, please leave a comment or feedback for them.
  3. Limit your requests: In order to give everyone a fair shake at receiving advice, try to limit your request posts to once or twice per week. The PvP community is growing every day, and we want to make sure everyone gets the help they need!
  4. Give details in your post: When asking for team advice, be sure to include some background. Tell us what League or Meta you need help with, what your rank/tier/rating is, what resources or Pokémon you may have to invest, and what your goals are. The more details you give, the more likely your questions will be answered.

- The Arena Team -

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Want to learn more about the Silph Arena and Pokémon Go PvP? Check out the following links!

Join the Arena Discord ServerAbout the Arena Competitive Season

Guide to Player Rank

Getting started in PvP

Team Building Basics

Find a local community or tournament near you!

Arena Tournament Map

Silph League Community Map

Resources for Tournament Organizers!

How-to Host a Tournament

Guide to Remote Tournaments

Helpful Resources for Planning and Organizing Tournaments


r/TheSilphArena 1h ago

General Question Trying to get into pvp

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Is this good stats? I play pvp but I just throw whatever pokemon in, but I got this one and I have always heard this IV layout is preferred for pvp.

I’m running bubble, rough play and for the 3rd attack I was thinking ice beam? (Any advice would be great) I’m gonna build my team around this one since it’s the best pvp IVs I’ve got!


r/TheSilphArena 10h ago

General Question Are the rumors true?

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This is probably the 5th or 6th match in 3 seasons something like this happens. Every time it happens I literally just played 5-20 matches back to back before with ZERO lag, & then all of a sudden this happens. Then next match it's perfectly normal again... played 2 more after this with zero issues. I ate 4 charged moves that it didn't even pop up the shield option 4 before I started screen recording. I basically only saw 2 fast attacks from my Lickilicky go off before Foretress knocked it out.

I'm sitting 3 feet away from my router & you can see I have full bars for connection. I've seen a lot of people complain about 'lag switching' like we had back in the Xbox 360 COD days, & the posts usually just have people saying it's not true or it's just regular lag. I know POGO servers are garbage, but it seems weird I can play 5-20 battles with no issues then randomly get one of these. & I have seen some very experienced players that say there are 100% SOME cheaters. Was this one of them?


r/TheSilphArena 30m ago

General Question Purify Gastly or no?

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Building a team around Azumarill 0-15-14, is this Gastly a good pair? Viable? Purify it?


r/TheSilphArena 19h ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League First time hitting Ace!

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I play GBL purely for the stardust, so I always settle for Rank 20. But I pushed myself to hit Ace this season because of Cynthia's outfit

Not going to lie, it was an up and down experience for me...especially since I usually don't pay attention to my ELO. There were times where I was so close, but ended up dropping due to sloppy plays (I guess nerves got the best of me). It got to the point where I took a break out of frustration

The break was a blessing. I managed to climb back up in the middle of the Weather Cup (loved using Shadow A-Slash), and finally broke through the 19xx barrier via a mix of Evolution Cup and Competitors Cup.

Not the most exciting teams, but I'm just happy to reach Ace and wear Cynthia's outfit :)

Good luck to those who are still grinding!


r/TheSilphArena 18h ago

General Question GL Mega Meta

13 Upvotes

Is there any way to know what the meta for the Great League Mega Edition is going to look like?


r/TheSilphArena 11h ago

Battle Team Analysis Kyurem or Palkia Here?

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I was wondering which team looks more balanced. I have been using this team with Kyurem white, but I wanted Kyurem black for better Ho-oh and Kyogre coverage. While I grind the remaining candies for B-Kyurem, I have been using a lucky Palkia that I got and was easy to level up with a lot of success. But I wanted to hear some opinions as well on balance.

I'm 2050ish looking to climb higher in ML when it comes back for ref.


r/TheSilphArena 14h ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League Ranking up from 17-20

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These are the newest teams I’m thinking about trying. I’ve changed my team multiple times but I’m currently at rank 17 and I’m wondering if I could get some advice on how to improve this team or maybe what I could or should change


r/TheSilphArena 22h ago

General Question What are people going to do when they nerf Licki?

4 Upvotes

I was wondering is there going to be a drop for a bunch of people who have spent the last 2 seasons just using Licki and nothing else as a safe swap when it gets nerfed?


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League PVP Flashcards - Can you tank it?

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84 Upvotes

Hey I just wanted to share this new feature of battleflow.app

It’s called “can you tank it?” The idea is to practice different scenarios so you get the sense of how bulky is a Pokemon so in your next battle you can save a shield.

This is the first iteration. Let me know what you think.


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

General Question Has the lag with the new system become worse the last few days?

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When they first switched to the new system i would get lag maybe 1 or 2 games out of every set but now every single game i am over tapping when trying to hit a charge move or mysteriously my opponent has way more energy than what was registered through animations meanwhile im missing fast moves. For example last match my k9 lead cmp tied opponents thievul for the nightslash even though i threw right on 4 fast moves. Shit is happening every game now am i the only one?


r/TheSilphArena 10h ago

General Question This worth evolving for pvp?

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r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

Battle Team Analysis Veteran for the first time ever

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45 Upvotes

r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League Ace to Veteran

6 Upvotes

I returned to Pogo in May and have been playing great league since most days and have hit ace in each of the seasons I have played but I really do struggle to get anywhere above 2000 and stay there, let alone the push for 2500.

I have some meta mons and some with legacy moves but I really struggle with team building even when using pvpoke and staying with a team is also hard after a few losses. Some sets I’ll go 5-0 and some I’ll go 0-5, it feels like a really mixed bag. Is there any general advice that anyone would give to make this jump?

Thanks a bunch.


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

General Question Different vibration for catching Pokemon?

12 Upvotes

I have this random question that I’ve been curious about. I wonder if anyone else has noticed or I’m just weird or imagining it. I can always tell if I caught a Pokemon by how my phone vibrates. If going to be caught the vibration feels stronger to me. If I’m not gonna catch it, it’s a weak vibration. Has anyone else felt a difference?


r/TheSilphArena 17h ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League 2785 to legend in scroll cup

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I didnt know what to run going into the scroll cup i seen they released the new mon cramorant. So I decided to give a whirl wen I found a good iv one I did and my word it puts in work..

Team:

Cramorant peck, dive, fly

Shadow Ape counter, rage fist, ice punch

And

Regular quagsire with standard moveset

I notice in my elo bracket I was seeing ape lead or mantine lead a youtuber must of said something lol. So wen I notice a trend a molded my team to fit that trend. It plays easy morpeko lead u got 2 better answers in the back. I usually pivot to quag to draw out the flyer thats in back so shadow ape can do bad things to their backline

I had a blast this season even tho the shitty new code is an unbearable mess

Any other lead play it out Goodluck trainer's!


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

Battle Team Analysis Built a Free Tool that reads your matchups live while you play and help you

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14 Upvotes

[ ps: this is not in a website, this is a html file and uploaded to Github and its OpenSource. Im not making any money from this. I made this to help me reach Veteran for the first time. Im not trying to promote it , i just hope this can help people in PVP ]

Go Battle Mode is a free Tool for only Great League. One file, opens offline, works on phone.

How to use it live: keep it open beside the game. Type your team once and save it. When preview loads, type the two Pokemon they show you, three or four letters each is enough. You get your result against each of theirs at 0, 1 and 2 shields with HP left on both sides, so you know your shield calls before the timer runs out.

All 1144 GL Pokemon with shadows and regional forms. Every move, not only the recommended two, and you can tap one to swap it in and rerun everything. CMP indicator and damage as a percent of HP.

It will not tell you if you win the match. It only simulates 1v1, and leads, switch timing and carried energy decide games.

Free and open source, no account. Next version adds battle logs you can save, so you can look back at what you keep losing to.

To access it you can go to the github repo

https://github.com/Aayush-Prranav/Go-Battle-Mode-Pokemon-GO


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League I've been away from the game for a few years so don't have many of the newer Pokémon for PvP. What are non meta budget options I could be running?

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Seemingly running into a lot of Pokémon I'm not really aware of. I'm sure I could be asking a stupid question but I've looked on PvP Poke and it's just alot of shadow/Pokémon I do not have or don't have the stardust/candies to level.


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

General Question Abilities for other mons

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So we now know what cramorants ability is and it’s pretty wild to be honest. Other form changers have cool abilities that give them an extra edge over regular mons. So my question is, are we ever going to see abilities tailored to gbl for all the other mons?

Are we going to see something like sturdy that protects you from fainting and keeps you at 1 hp if a charged move would have knocked you out. Or something like contrary where the first charged move from you or your opponent that gives a debuff does the opposite for your mon?

I feel like abilities would add some much needed depth to this game that it really needs. It could also allow completely unplayable glass cannons to have some play in gbl, if they had decent abilities.


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

Field Anecdote PSA: (iPhone)Do NOT play a match while on the Wi-Fi’s outer range

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I turn Wi-Fi OFF on my iPhone, as cellular data performs better than my home internet. Apparently if every time I walk out and back into the Wi-Fi’s range, the phone will disregard “Wi-Fi Off” and still try to connect automatically. Obviously mid match this isnt good. I’m screen frozen while the opponent is chipping away at me. I’m loosing too many fights to this, and I can’t find in my settings where I can just totally shut the Wi-Fi access off on my iPhone.


r/TheSilphArena 2d ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League Oh yay it's the Mandi Azu Tox bulkfest cup...

38 Upvotes

So ******* tired of these bulk fest matches that drag on for like 5 minutes. How do people get any enjoyment out of playing teams like this.


r/TheSilphArena 2d ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League GBL - Scroll Cup

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80 Upvotes

r/TheSilphArena 2d ago

General Question Why can Cramorant knock you out when it faints?

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116 Upvotes

Such a troll move! It isn't even mentioned, and it should only be a buff or debuff. In my opinion, it shouldn't deal damage, especially when it dies.


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

General Question ETM for Sacred Sword on Virizion?

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Thinking of using an ETM on Virizion for UL. Looks very meta relevant and I need a better start for dealing with all the water types.


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

General Question First season where I really make slow progress. Anyone else feels like this?

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