New to VGC, and my Pokemon pool is kind of shallow. Hyper offense team based around Ttar and M-Garchomp.

Hello fellow Pokemon lovers,

Here I am writing my first Reddit Post inspired by my friend and original creator of the team, Player1 (u/ClientAppropriate838), who encouraged me to do so after reaching Champion Tier for the first time. So I’m sharing the team which features one of my favorite Pokemons, Blastoise. I used it to climb from Master Ball 3 all the way to Champion Tier. Besides being a really great team, it is so fun to use and rewarding once you get to know it and play it.

Here is the Rental Code: 9VHRJLYULX

Team Theory

So as the title suggests, the team’s whole concept is to bluff Shell Smash Blastoise. How you achieve this? It starts on team preview when the opponent sees Blastoise, Maushold and Sinistcha. Most players will assume it’s a “Protect the President” composition. But in reality Blastoise uses Fake Out while Maushold takes down one of the opponents Pokemon with Wide Lens Population Bomb boosted with Technician or severely damages them.

The Team

Mega Blastoise (H2’Oh No)

The first costar of the team. Fake Out usually is your first move. Aura Sphere, Dark Pulse and Ice beam for coverage against most common meta Pokemons that threatens the team. No Water-Type moves as Basculegion handles this.

Maushold

The other costar and fellow bluffer. With Wide Lens and Technician, this will be your main move. Max Attack and Speed for the most damage. Feint helps to break opponents Protects and Bite is for Ghost coverage. Protect to round it out.

Basculegion

Jolly with Choice Scarf and four attacks allows it to outspeed opposing Adamant Basculegions even with Scarf using this EV spread. Almost max Attack and Speed EVs that enables it to outspeed and One-hit KO Mega Raichu Y. The rest of the EVs are placed on Defense so it can survive a Sucker Punch from a non-boosted Kingambit.

Sinistcha

The anti-Trick Room team member. With Imprison it is able to negate opponents from using Trick Room. Also with the extra EV on speed it helps to outspeed most Sinistcha and prevent them from using the same moves. It also helps to sell the Shell Smash bluff on team preview.

Kingambit

Your regular four attacks Kingambit. Max speed with Chople berry and Low kick to win vs opposing Kingambits. Nothing new here.

Whimsicott

Last member but as always such a great asset, your standard Whimsicott set. Tailwind and Encore for support with Moonblast for damage.

Game Plan

This as any Pokemon battle will depend on the opponent’s team, their lead and what you’re bringing so let’s cover some of the most common leads:

Charizard/Floette

Lead Blastoise with Maushold. Use the main strategy of Fake Out the partner of the Charizard/Floette while Maushold uses Population Bomb on the Mega Pokemon. On the team variants that lead Venusaur with Charizard, I always focus down first the Venusaur to get rid of it.

Raichu

Usually it’s kinda tricky as it sometimes depends on the partner of Raichu and the opponent’s team. For sure you leas Basculegion as Wave Crash takes down Raichu. For the partner, most of the times I go with Blastoise as an all rounder pick.

Staraptor

Lead with Blastoise and Whimsicott. Fake Out and Moonblast to deal massive damage to Staraptor and then play accordingly depending on the partner. (Remember if Staraptor is paired with Whimsicott it can be a bit tricky but it’s almost always better to switch out Blastoise to avoid the Encore).

Gengar/Froslass/Dragonite

These ones are really easy to handle, lead Blastoise and Maushold as they usually lead Gengar their Mega pokemon to deal with your bluff. Most of the times you can just go for Dark Pulse into Gengar/Frosslass as it one shots them (unless Froslass uses Aura Veil but it will already be crippled) and use Population Bomb on the partner. Against Mega Dragonite, use Population Bomb against it while Blastoise Fake Outs the partner.

Trick Room

Always lead with Sinistcha and Blastoise. Imprison on turn one and deal damage with Blastoise to whoever you will do the most.

These are the most common leads I faced, of course there were more which required different leads but as you keep playing and getting to know the team, you will learn how to handle those. Of course any questions feel free to ask, I will gladly assist you.

Also once again credits to my friend and creator Player1 (u/ClientAppropriate838).

I got pangoro and thought he seemed pretty cool so I wanted to build a team around him and ended up building a team around expanding force chimeco (I’ve been wanting to try an expanding force team for a while).

I thought mega Chimeco and pangoro would go good next to each other since chimeco sets up TR for both and covers pangoro’s fighting and fairy weakness while pangoro can cover chimeco’s weakness to dark and ghost type mons

I then added torkoal w/ rockslide to threaten flying and resist fire type mons that threaten pangoro and chimeco respectfully

I then included tinkaton for additional threat into dark and fairy type mons, then end it off with torterra to add additional offensive threat into fire and ground type Pokémon (and the steel, fighting, and fire Pokémon on my team threaten torterra’s ice weakness)

Forgot to mention but meowstic obviously sets up psychic terrain (but I plan to only open w both of my psychic mons if the other team doesn’t have a strong offensive dark or ghost Pokémon that I think they’d open with, otherwise I’d open pangoro)

Is my thinking/team building flawed and is there any better alternatives I could include on the team? Any coverage im missing or holes in my strategy?

(doubles btw) just got into master ball 4 and feel like my win rate is stagnating at around 50%. i’m thinking of switching hydreigon to a diff late game sweeper because having both garchomp and hydreigon means that any late game fairy types or ice types absolutely destroy me, and i’ve been running into a lot of unexpected ice punch users 🫪. any suggestions would be super mega appreciated thanks chat ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

So I recently decide to update my mega raichu x team and this what I came up and it so much better 😂

Both auroras and heat proof sinestcha though unconventional has work amazing for this team

I just went on 9 game win streak though it definitely could have been 10 or more I just got unlucky with a burn because I let eruption torkal sit on the field to long

That said I could use some help

Anybody got a bulky Basculegion stat

Basculegion is usually my late game closer so I was thinking about dropping off some of its attack cause last respect is so stronk

But I don’t know by how much is the question

I still want it to be a menace but it be nice if it could live some hits

Any help is appreciated and would love to hear people thoughts on the team I cooked up

It very fun but a little hard to pilot but when it goes it goes!

Hey guys, Im quite new to Pokemon Champions, started last week. Havnt played any Pokemon in 14 years (last time was pearl/platinum). I dont have all mons yet and personally prefer using not the top top meta mons which you see every match. I do like more special playstyles like Toxapex has. Not a fan of weather teams or brute force speed.

Down below you can see which pokemons I own plus the ones I dont (X) want to use bc they are used very often, I simply dislike them or their playstyle. Idk some pokemon like staraptor even though its strong never felt appealing to me.

Is there any way to build a functional team around Toxapex and Scovillain (for doubles) with my current options? I could try recruiting a few missing pokemon the next days. I honestly dont want to use Charizard or Incineroar. Trying to find a Sableeye at the moment.

I know cybertron has made a toxafex team with Grimmsnarl and Metagross added. Not sure if that works well with Scovillain.

Would appreciate any suggestions, perhaps even a team code to try out. Im still trying to figure everything out. Had a rain and a sand team before but its so unsatisfying.

This Team was initially inspired by StarAmiiga https://www.reddit.com/r/VGC/s/yIyMz2hSp3 (I did play this team a good bit)

I’m new to VGC, I’ve only been playing since champions and I’ve been stuck at around top 1k-2k for the past few days.

On StarAmiiga’s post you see a more detailed breakdown of the initial idea and the essential core of the team. I began changing it to the second team you see here with a bulkier MGyarados and the MMetagross instead of MYchu.
This version of the team felt incredibly strong but had some clear kryptonite matchups.

The idea is simple: Metagross and Gyarados cover each other’s weaknesses incredibly well and both pair great with coaching Sneasler as well as Pelipper to either weaken fire or boost Waterfall. Sinistcha worked well with the bulkier Setup oriented version of this team but I’ve been trying to adapt.

The problem is a great weakness to Intimidate, Rain teams with Archaludon can be a pain and Gholdengo.

The first team you see is my current one. It still feels incomplete but the idea of Gyarados/Metagross + Coaching Sneasler feels like it carries sooo much potential. This second team is also a bit more Balance. That’s why Gyarados is squishier now so it doesn’t have to rely on setting up as much.

Short breakdown:

Metagross
Covers Gyaras difficult Staraptor/Ychu/Floette and potentially rain matchups. You can take it into fire teams as long as you take peli. Generally good into Gyaras weaknesses to fighting/fairy.

Gyarados
Is great into many meta threats and again covers Metagross bad matchups really well. You can play it to set up if your opening is good otherwise it’s also very reliable neutral dmg. It’s incredibly naturally bulky and survives most super effective hits. You can bring it non mega for intimidate too and since it’s got good offensive stats it still dishes out dmg.

Sneasler
Great parent for both megas and just Sneasler you know…

Pelipper
I only bring the bird very situationally. Either there is opposing weather I want to disrupt or I’m bringing Metagross into fire types.
This team doesn’t really care to much about Snow but in the common MFroslass team Peli can be a good bring to deal big dmg to MScovillain and not be affected by burn.

Tsareena
Queenly Majesty is obv great against fake outs but Metagross is also vulnerable to sucker so it’s double great here. It generally works well into rain teams, different Blastoise compositions, Dragons and more fighting coverage is always nice for this team! (Archaludon can be a problem)

Kingambit
Its main job is to deter Intimdate users or just benefit greatly from them since this team is very physical. I don’t see a need for Iron Head since I have Metagross and Sneasler for fairy’s. (It’s the newest addition and probably not optimal EV wise)

I don’t see a point in doing a super detailed breakdown since some parts of this team are still a work in progress. (unless someone wants to play this team themselves)

This team is incredibly vulnerable in both team select and in game manoeuvring. But understanding the team I feel like there are potentially very little weaknesses if one pilots it well. Every game I lose I feel like it’s because of a mistake (cocky or missing obvious stuff sometimes) or because I’m not familiar with the enemy team and my brings are a bit scrambled. But ever game feels winnable.

My problem is that I’m quite new to both team building and the vgc so I’m afraid that I’m not capable of piloting this team to its full potential or fully rounding it out properly with the components it requires.
So I ask you veterans for help. 🙏

(I would love to play in ots too so prob no cheese XD)

Hello everyone, I'm a qualified competitor for this year's Worlds and I'm selling my welcome kit and promo cards to help with expenses. Can give it at the event. Shoot me a dm if you're interested.

Some info about the kit: https://www.pokebeach.com/2026/06/worlds-2026-promo-cards-competitors-kits-pokemon-center-plush-and-vendors-revealed

I kept seeing this guy talk about using Toucannon on a team and I wanted to give it a shot. The only problem is I just really don’t like Mega Malamar especially in theory on this team. Tripling down on the same weaknesses across all my mons just doesn’t sit well with me here, I was wondering if there was a good alternative to run in that slot instead. I think my team would need a fighting type move like superpower or close combat but idk who does that in a similar speed tier and without killing the synergy.

Started playing showdown a few days ago and found this team when looking at recent tournament teams. I enjoy playing it but I struggle a lot into rain teams with Kingambit that seem to be really common and feel that I get no value out of the Venusaur. Could I replace it with something like a Rillaboom or Sinistcha?

I use this team in both doubles and in singles, ultra ball in both

Playing this game since 2 months

Hey All!

I have made an iOS app that acts as a companion for Pokemon champions. It watches your battles and displays your battle data for you to see whats working and what needs tweaking. You can also review previous battles and see where turning points in battles were. I am in the final stages of the app and need some beta testers to give me their feed back and make sure I haven't missed anything. I am a one man band and play pokemon a certain way, when my friends gave it a whirl their experience was different so I wanted to see what the wider VGC community thinks. Here is my website www.vgcbattlelens.com if you are interested and want to sign up for testing, you can also sign up to get a notification for when it is released.

If you have any questions or want to know more ask below or shoot me a DM!

Downloaded it when it first came out, due to a couple of YouTuber’s I follow didn’t know really much about Pokemon. Didn’t start playing Pokemon until I started playing Pokemon go last year around February. Started playing Pokemon Champion about 2 weeks ago . Love this game not gonna lie, very addicting though. Way different and more strategic than Pokemon GO

Still very new to Pokemon and this type of battling tho BTW I struggle in some battles and sometimes get creamed