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▲ 73 r/PokemonChampions

No, your opponent wasn't hacking

Pokemon is a complicated game with a lot of weird and unexpected interactions. Bright Powder can make you miss 100% accurate moves, Hisuian Zoroark can make fighting attacks whiff on what appears to be a Kingambit, prankster Copycat can let Liepard use a regular attacking move with +1 priority, Inner Focus Dragonite can shrug off a Fake Out without flinching.

I've seen a lot of posts asking if opponents are hacking, and without fail it's actually just some mechanic or interaction the poster isn't familiar with.

When you see something happen that doesn't align with your understanding of the game, your first thought shouldn't be "someone altered the server software to create this incredibly niche interaction" but rather "there's a gap in my game knowledge".

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u/Notmiefault — 7 hours ago
▲ 12 r/PokemonChampions

What Pokemon or ability will you defend like this…

Let me hear your hot takes or biases! I love prankster and whimsicott and not ashamed lol.

u/Tall_Cap_6679 — 10 hours ago
▲ 60 r/PokemonChampions

My kid (13F) is new to the game and asked me to get her some "strong and cute" Pokémon so she can start climbing the ladder. How did I do?

u/Fast-Bandicoot67 — 10 hours ago
▲ 2 r/PokemonChampions

Curious about Mega Blastoise

Mega Crabominable - Drain punch, Thunder Punch, Ice Hammer, Protect
Torkoal eruption heat wave earthpower protect
Sinishta - rage powder, Life Dew, Matcha Gotcha, trickroom
Kingambit - kowtow cleave sucker punch protect iron head
Farigraf - trick room, psychic, protect, helping hand
Incineror - Fake Out Parting Shot Flare Blitz Protect

Is my current team, however I feel Incineror or Kingambit could be replaced with mega blastoise. Yes this is VGC doubles with trick room. Thanks for the help.

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u/Character_Gas9471 — 11 hours ago
▲ 4 r/PokemonChampions

Reached Masters Rank 3 with this team and now I'm struggling to climb, need suggestions for improvement

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u/TboltG — 13 hours ago
▲ 416 r/PokemonChampions

A creative way to stop trick room

Lash out does double damage when a stat is lowered in the same turn. Using bulldoze on your own Pokemon is an effective way of pulling this off and it will also break focus sash. My opponent probably didn't use follow me because they were confident about getting trick room off and just went for cosmic power instead

u/AkiraKitsu — 22 hours ago
▲ 5 r/PokemonChampions

Need help, undecided and would like to be more consistent | Sand

Hello there,

I am playing a Sand team based off best mates for Mega TTar. I want to improve my team as I sometimes found it to be a little lacking.

I run Orthworm because running it with Excadrill allows me to spam EQ and wall Garchomp. I will also change my Rotom's Tbolt with Volt Switch so I can slow pivot into Excadrill.

I want to replace Incineroar with another 'mon (shocking I know), since the current meta is anti big fire cat. Maybe with Aegislash (Sacred Sword, King's Shield, Wide Guard, Shadow Sneak) to fight Achaludon. Also maybe replace Orthworm with Corviknight (Brave Bird, Body Press, Bulk Up, U-turn).

I know this is French, so I'll translate the moves here

TTar - Knock Off, Protect, Low Kick, Rock Slide

Excadrill - EQ, Rock Slide, Iron Head, Protect

Rotom-W - Thunderbolt, Will-O-Wisp, Protect, Hydro Pump

Sinistcha - Matcha Gotcha, Rage Powder, Life Dew, Strength Sap

Orthworm - Heavy Slam, Body Press, Shed Tail, Iron Defense

Incineroar - Fake Out, Protect, Darkest Lariat, Parting Shot

Thanks for reading and for all potential help !

(yes this is the 3rd time I post this I can't use Reddit)

u/TheJejex — 15 hours ago
▲ 45 r/PokemonChampions

What’s the best counter to rotom wash lead in singles besides the cat?

I hate this stupid thing so much but i’m wracking my brain on how I can best deal with this lead besides using scarf meowscarada (in which they will probably just manually switch to sth else anyways once they see meowscarada). Any ideas?

u/Difficult_Tie1669 — 21 hours ago
▲ 17 r/PokemonChampions

Minimize Gimmick

Just got cheesed by the most miserable gimmick team I’ve seen so far.

They led Mega Audino + H-Zoroark. Zoroark used Memento turn 1, then they brought in Chandelure, used Minimize, had Audino use Simple Beam on it, then used Acid Armor before Audino fainted. After that they brought in Farigiraf to Psych Up the boosts.

At that point I literally could not hit or damage anything. Just sat there watching two immortal Pokémon win the game lol. I was in no way prepared for this. Obviously this works because no one expects to run into minimize and I’m aware there are counter plays, but unfortunately I had no snow or rain only sun.

My team:

Garchomp & Charizard Y in the front, Glimmora & Basculegion in the back.

u/TitusT1994 — 20 hours ago
▲ 24 r/PokemonChampions

My dog passed away yesterday and I’m grieving. Help me make Stoutland into an amazing memorial

My dog of 14 years passed away yesterday. She was a silky terrier and Stoutland reminds me of her. Building an awesome Stoutland and naming it after my dog makes me feel like she is on these adventures with me. I miss her so so much. I’ve never used this Pokemon before, but if any of you have or are experts on it, I would like to know. I want to build a team around it.

Please be kind. I know this might sound stupid to many and I know it won’t bring her back or fill the hole in my heart, but it’s all I have right now keeping me going

Edit: Apparently Stoutland is not in champions yet. I still will play with her through sword again. But this could be hypothetical advice for when it is allowed, which probably will happen.

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u/TeaHot8165 — 19 hours ago