Made a Claude skill for competitive Pokémon (VGC), sharing it in case it's useful
This is my first time making a Claude skill so go easy! I built a Claude skill for VGC team building and analysis.
Main thing it does differently from just asking Claude: it pulls live data before answering usage from Pikalytics, real top-cut team lists from Limitless instead of going off memory (real items, abilities, natures, all four moves), and cites a specific tournament placement.
That came out of a real mistake. Early on it told me running two Mega Stones on a team was a blunder, because you can only Mega Evolve one Pokémon per battle. Mechanically true, but wrong in practice top players do it constantly, since team preview is bring-6/pick-4 and the second Mega is just a matchup option. It had reasoned from the rulebook instead of checking what wins. So I added a rule forcing it to verify against real team lists first, and to walk back any claim the data contradicts.
What it does:
- Analyzes a team you paste in (coverage gaps, bad matchups, EV/move/item tweaks with reasoning shown)
- Auto-detects the current regulation, so it never gives advice for a dead format
- Cites where its "this is meta" claims actually come from
It's a sanity-check layer, not a replacement for real teambuilding but it's been genuinely useful for catching my own bad ideas.
Repo: https://github.com/RyanPNSmith/vgc-competitive-skill
It's early and I want to make it better if you try it and it gives you a wrong take, let me know! Any ideas welcome too.