u/EitherSpite4545

Hello, so I made a topic the other day about teams for building up fundamentals well I took the advice from there and hit the ground running, after an initial foray with a Charizard y big six without floette (because I don't have one lol) I swapped to a Raichu/Staraptor core and made my way up to masterball before hitting a brick wall and winrate plummeted to 20%. I decided to go back and swap up to a froslass/Dragonite team and I've been on a roll since swapping.

The thing on looking back at my matches I observed was I was actually really good about making calls and utilizing my non megas but my mega utilization with the Raichu/Staraptor team was atrocious with several 1:1 or 80%:100% (them being at 80) trades. I constantly found I could not find situations to utilize my megas between Raichu just feeling like he was too frail to just go for it without being punished, and Staraptor just feeling like he never had opportunities to click close combat and was forced to just hit dual wing beat or protect.

Since swapping over to the other team the biggest difference I've found is that I am just utilizing the megas much better on account of them being less frail (well admittedly for froslass just abusing faint to pick up turn 1 double kos).

So with that all out of the way. I'll repeat the question of my OP: How do I utilize more frail megas to get the most value out of them?

Hello,

I decided after years now of watching Wolfe and Cybertron content despite not participating in VGC that with champions and my brother starting it up I'd finally give the format a shot. Been super curious about it for a while as I've noticed a lot of skills from competitive MTG actually transfer over really well into VGC and thought it would always be neat to give it a shot.

Now that said I have a question, with consuming as much content as I have I'm coming in with quite a lot of theoretical knowledge, some of it is shallow/wrong from lack of experience myself but I do have it. That's why I think the most important thing for me to do at this point is likely grind experience and get fundamentals down. With that said I was wondering if folks had any advice on what they feel would build up that experience? I don't necessarily need or want a team that will win, but would like one that would help me learn the fundamentals and gain experience.

My initial thoughts is a generic Charizard Y team since it's going to have a lot of speed control management, weather wars, and need for positioning. But curious if more experienced players have any different opinions on that?

Thank you,

Hello. I just recently booked travel for an out of country trip for the entirety of October and early November and realized I'm going to be out of country when the midterms happen this year. I haven't had to absentee vote in my entire life and the SOA site on what and when I need to do it wasn't very clear to me. Was wondering what I needed to do and sign up for with the limitations of my vacation?

Thanks