I've noticed a ton of players using this line for the Summer Cup:
Lead: Shadow Forretress
Switch: Furret
Closer: Toxapex
I follow some PVP content creators on YouTube but haven't seen a video featuring this line, but I'm seeing it everywhere.
It would be helpful for me to know the content creator people are watching for my own anti meta strategies. So if you know who came up with this line, let me know please! Thanks in advance!
Elo range: 2100.
I was 2200 but going down to 2115 now.
Team: Fearow lead, Tinkaton safe swap and S-Marowak closing.
I was looking to change Tinkaton cause I wanna keep the Fearow/Marowak line because they're my favorite Pokemons on general.
What can I use with them together as a cool safe swap?
I’ve recently gotten a shiny G Moltres and I’m looking for opinions on how to build out a team with it as a safe swap/closer. Currently running it with shadow forretress/tinkaton. Works well but feels like there could be better.
How in the world are people getting enough candy to use Mimikyu in Ultra League????
I haven’t seen one since the event 😭
Another fun glitch in PokemonGO Battle Leagues. Multiple times in the last weeks, I've started a battle only for the screen to go black and it say "your opponent has quit the battle". No problem, right? EXCEPT it counts as a battle played and a LOSS for me! Actually full tilts me.
I got to 79 and go to work doing pvp, then of course Niantic took Master League away, the only league I actually know what to do (using Togekiss, Greninja, and Zacian), and now I'm winning almost never with only Great League available. At least in Master League I win consistent 3 or 4 out of 5.
Last time I did much in Great League I was using a perfect Whiscash (I know nothing of IVs and what's good in non ML), a Skarmory I still don't know what its IVs are since I leveled it, and a Ludicolo because I don't know why.
This doesn't do much nowadays. I've been trying Summer League, cause I wasn't getting any wins in GL, and trying Whiscash, Furret, and Kingdra. It's not great, I know that, but this feels painful at the best of times.
I'm just trying to get to 80, I don't move count and I'm just looking for more than 1-2 wins every 5 matches.
I have about 38 wins out of 80. Let me know how stupid I am so this misery can end.
3 shields for PVP now? Seems fair.
The new code is absolutely ruining this game for me. I know multiple people are experiencing the lag, random glitches, and other atrocities leading to just losing multiple games in a set.
Is there anything that can be done? I don't want to just complain, I want to do whatever I need to do so Niantic knows this is trash and something can change.
So much negativity in this and silpharena about the new code.
Yes it's got bugs, so did the old one.
Personally, meta and all this season so far has been super enjoyable. Im completely broke on stardust from powering up like 20 different mons since the start of the season, and enjoying trying them out.
Is mantine, clodsire, diggersby a good team?
If yes, who should lead?
If no, what would you replace?
I've never used diggersby or clodsire and want to try them out!
I’m pretty new to pvp (GL) and only have 5 Pokemon that have the right move sets as I found on pvpoke. I was wondering how more experienced players would approach building a team with these guys.
I have: Blastoise, Umbreon, talonflame, Altaria, and mimikyu
I have been looking at pvpoke a lot and learning about roles (lead, switch, and closer), but it’s not clear which mon would really belong in each role. And I do know that at my level, building a perfect team isn’t very important, but I want to do the best with what I have.
Thank you!
Wassup everyone! I wanted to post on here to ask some questions. I am somewhere between noob~barely decent at PVP, reaching max rank 14 I believe mainly focused on GL only. I have some saved Pokemon for GL that I haven't powered up/evolved as I don't know what would go good with what as I don't have enough knowledge to figure it out myself. I played PVP a bit back in 2023 and early 2025 but so much has changed from the meta, to new moves and on and on. I have a Rank 1 jellicent and would love to use that as one of the main Pokemon in my team, but I am lost as to what to pair it with. Could you guys help me out? I also don't mind if you suggest pokemon I don't have yet, as I am starting to really attempt to get into PVP so I will hunt them down. Any and all help is appreciated!
Looking for someone to help me reach the Silver Master League medal so that I can unlock the cosmetics that are locked behind that medal tier and Ive got 46 more wins to go.
Let me know if you are interested.
So I’ve been playing GBL on and off, but whenever the doggos are in raid I go ham as I want to try and get shiny zamazenta in a normal red pokeball, as pogo is the only way you can catch a shiny with your own OT.
Even though traded when transferred to Pokemon home it will assume the trainer name of the user who transfers it.
As I am working on a shiny living dex with my own OT I needed a few mythicals/legendaries from pogo as that’s the only place you can get them.
Now I got all of them except zamazenta and he has been avoiding me ever since being shiny released in pogo.
As GBL is the only place to get it , I’m reaching out to this community to see if anybody might have gotten it and is willing to trade it.
Now with the addition of remote trading we could work on getting forever friends and trade it. I myself have access to EU regionals (shiny), or anything else , we can figure out a trade.
Please let me know if you have one, willing to trade and we can figure it out
With the crazy Road of Legends and GO Fest schedule dropped for this month, I'm kind of overwhelmed. I didn’t save up any premium raid passes ahead of time, so I’m working with a really tight budget.
I’m mostly a PvP player and my main focus right now is building up my Great League roster.
Since I can only do a handful of raids, which bosses should I absolutely NOT miss from the upcoming rotations? Like, are any of these legendary/mythical drops elite tier or core meta staples for GL right now, or should I just save my passes entirely for regular wild spawns and events?
I am not completely skipping good pokemon and focusing on GL so suggest me any other pokemons that are must have even if it ain't pvp related
hello i am a casual at gbl and frankly im terrible at it. i stick to great league because my pokemon are limited at high CP
i am okay with being terrible at it. just would like to improve a bit.
ive watched a couple videos but they dont see to be helping.
ive been running with the following team.
poliwrath - mudshot, icy wind, scald
lanturn - spark, surf, thunderbolt
serperior - vine whip, frenzy plant, arial ace.
i know of pvpoke and "meta picks"
but i just dont have those pokemon to play with. even if i did i likely would play them wrong haha.
im aware of counting but at the end of the day i dont have moves memorized yet for most pokemon.
i recently caught a 0/14/14 corviknight and a 5/15/14 squirtle. but i dont think that at my rank(1400-1580) that ivs matter less than actually getting good.
not even sure what questions to ask.
I am so out of the loop but I want to get back into it. 😭
Can someone make me a gbl team that will enable me (with practice) to climb? My peak is 2330, and i have currently dropped 200. I dont care about grind, I just want a team that can get me to 2500!
I've made a few posts demonstrating bugs I've been experiencing. And it's ruined the fun of PvP. I used to enjoy doing my full sets daily, but the one turn lag where the game freezes at the beginning and the inability to press a charge attack (even though it looked like it fired off) leading to forced overtapping is just making the game not fun to play. Which is the whole point of a game! I don't mind losing for reasons within my control...
I did one set yesterday to see if these things have improved. But evidently it hasn't. I had to play around it, including having half a Kyogre in one game and facing an instant charged attack where the game froze for a good three seconds at the start. I managed to get a positive set in the end, 3-2, but I was fighting with one arm tied behind my back in every battle. I'd rather not lose 200 Elo and end up in the 1900s for factors beyond my control...
I've decided to give the PvP a break for at least a season so they can fix this mess, and any new messes they create in the process of "fixing the issues". Has anyone else made the same decision to put GBL aside for a while?
I’m just getting into Master League after completing my Great League Platinum Medal.
I find it prohibitive that you seem to need your mons to be levelled up to level 50 to be able to play in this league. Ultra League doesn’t quite fit the bill either as a lot of mons will exceed 2500 CP at level 40.
It’s well within reason to level up lots of different mons to level 40 using the rare candies you earn by winning in GBL, among other methods. Getting candy XL takes forever through catching. For example, I really played the recent Frigidbax community day and ended up with over 2000 candies, but only about 180 candy XL. I don’t want to use this mon in ML but just using it as an example.
Do any of the revolving cups ever do this? I imagine a league where you can be level 40 maximum and can use any mon. I’d even be open to allowing the buddy boost on top of that, since only one mon could get it in a battle.
Am I crazy here? How is this not a thing??