Insane catch cup week!
Shadow forretress with bug bite, rock tomb, and sand tomb.
Feraligator with shadow claw, hydrocannon, and ice beam.
G-corsola with glasses, astonish, night shade, and power gem.
The strategy was to be 3x strong or at least neutral into tinkaton. Use Feraligator to bait out normal and dark types that resist the shadow claw and use fort to finish them off. If the lead was neutral, I would switch to Feraligator most of the time. Also gator and corsola do a good job of beating fort’s weaknesses such as fire types and altaria. So I also used the team as a classic ABB style if I lost the lead matchup. Some tough matchups were fearow and espcially diggersby.
I was going between 2500-2700 in the jungle cup. Started the catch cup at 2529 with some strong options: Shadow fort, rank 15 Azu, rank 7 g-corsola, rank 4 gator, rank 89 g-stunfisk, rank 78 furret, and rank 21 greedant. I decided on this team. I reached first time expert after climbing 250 over half of Tuesday and then Wednesday. I was 2735 at my high in jungle cup tho. I then went 32-18 on Thursday to 2972. On Friday I started 3-2 and then went 5-0 to secure my first legend rank. Pikachu libre was sadly not shiny. I peaked at 3127 to reach leaderboards and top off a 598 elo climb. I played against one player I recognized, the pro player doonebug97. I played well but a turtonator in the back swept my forretress and corsola. I’m currently sitting at 2970. I’m planning on switching the Feraligator for a shadow gator but keeping the team the same otherwise. I will see if the team is good in the OGL or if it was just overpowered for the catch cup. Also I will see if I can still compete at a high level in the OGL.