Hey guys, I recently discovered champions, I always really wanted to get into pokemon pvp.
So my idea was to get Fire Red (I played blue back when i was a kid and loved it) to re learn the game a little and collect some pokemon to transfer over via the Home app. Should I continue to grind out the game in order to transfer these pokemon or just hop into champions?
I’m starting to get into competitive on Pokémon champions. Especially in a best of one format… it feels just riddled with… terrible variance.
Perish song players bank on double protect and win.
Rock slide is gigantic variance where sometimes u miss, sometimes u hit, sometimes u hit both and flinch both. Sometimes u flinch the one threat that would have OHKO’d ur team.
Overheat can one shot kingambit, but who cares if u predicted they wouldn’t protect, overheat missed!
Hurricane confusing -> hitting yourself
Dire claw -> sleep/para -> stay asleep/can’t move
Speed ties deciding games where whoever’s aerodactyl goes first gets the tailwind and then their partner wipes ur team.
Blizzard -> frozen -> no thaw.
RANDOM CRITS.
I see why Wolfey hasn’t won worlds again. Even when u are the best player in the world, there is just WAY too much variance in this game. Like holy shit, why would they make the matches live and die on 10-30% chances??
Like am I missing something? Can someone explain to me how to win when luck is just not in ur favor?
Any recommendations to adjust this team you guys might have?
Hi.
Since I'm tired playing Meta Team and see always Charizard-Y, Floette-M etc I was thinking to build a Troll/Anti Meta Team.
Any ideas?
I'm all ears.
Thanks in advance.
I've been trying to find the best app for teambuilding, do calcs and sharing the team. I've tested:
- Pikalitycs
- Pokebase
- Pokesynergy
- Showdown (only sharing the team)
- Pokepaste (only sharing the team)
And I still can't decide which is better. Are there any all-in-one better options?
Problems I have with each one:
- Pikalitycs: I would like a simpler calculator. Their classic calculator is too deep for quick team choices.
- Pokebase: some pokemon don't have all the moves, and for some reason (I assume they use different databases?) there are much less tournament teams.
- Pokesynergy: new apps, looks promising. No image export and now teams for now.
- Showdown: I have only uses it to show team images. Seems perfect for that. Can I also do calcs and teambuild in showdown?
- Pokepaste: for some reason, column mode does nothing (check image)
Hey Pokemon Champions Community. I've been working on a new tool and am ready to share more broadly for feedback and usage.
I'm very new to VGC and Competitive Pokemon. Team building is certainly a skill I'm working on and I find the damage calculators very useful. However, I also am not familiar enough with what Pokemon are good counters to certain pokemon OR what moves people can learn to counter. The math gets complicated trying to figure this stuff our yourself.
So I created a tool that takes a set of input pokemon and then identifies pokemon that have both the stats AND movesets to OHKO all of the pokemon you put into the targets.
A quick example. These 3 pokemon are very popular in the meta (Archaludon, Pelipper, Sneasler). The resulst would be all pokemon who have movesets that can OHKO all of them (assuming you're okay with the 70% accuracy on Focus Blast).
This tool takes into account EVS, Held Items, Weather, Abilities, Screens, VGC Damage Rules (Spread and Screens), etc.
One thing that excites me about this tool is you can identify the minimum amount of EVs to hit the OHKO for your target pokemon. Extra evs could be put into other stats if desired.
While I think you need this tool and others to effectively build teams, I felt this might be a good place to start team building. You can identify meta pokemon, and then build a team around the pokemon you identify as "counters".
Would love your feedback!
This is a bit of an odd question for this sub—especially from someone who doesn’t know jack about Competitive. I’m running a D&D-like Pokemon RPG with some friends and I’ve been trying to playtest these teams for the region’s Elite Four.
The Elite Four are as follows: Ilima the Fire type specialist with an Oricorio as her Ace, Kenji with the strategy of using Eevee’s signature Z Move to boost his Pokemon, Cliff (a ground type expert with a Steelix as his Ace), and Dorian with a Kommo-o as his Ace as a Fighting Type specialist. Outside of their aces, I’d love to hear some suggestions on how to strengthen their team’s competitively, as right now they all struggle a lot.
Thank you to anyone who might be able to help!
Scovillain honestly feels like such a sleeper pick right now and the synergy with Tyranitar is way nastier than I expected.
Would love to hear what you guys think about the team or any changes you’d make. I have a rental in the video
Register below and participate if you have want to play :)
Just curious, if all 4 gimmicks come to Champions, how do you think the teams would look?
personally, I’d think that each team would have 1 mega and 1 z move holder with any remaining Pokémon able to Dynamax and Terra since I don’t think they will allow 1 min to have more than 1 gimmick.
But what are ur thoughts on it?
This is my team and what moves I have on them is their any way I can make this team work. I really like it but since I’m new I don’t know if it is just garbage. Also like I said I’m new and if anybody could please get me a guide on how to get into pvp. their is allot of information and it is very confusing so I don’t know were to start. Please help.
I can't activate a setting i have been trying everything its really annoying
Hi if anyone has wolfye vgc Patreon could u send a sc and the rental code of the team he used to get 6th? Pls
Hello!
I just played against a team that had a Milotic that hit me with Hypnosis 13 (THIRTEEN) times without missing.
Did hypnosis changed on Champions? Not sure how that's possible with a 60% accuracy.
We were on a stalemate between his Milo and my H. Goodra with defense fully boosted so this was my first draw ever lol
I want to make a team With gardevoir cereludge wash Rotom Gerardo’s and garchomp is this a good team or no. I really like this team and i don’t know about the 6th slot. I heard that gardevoir is good with destiny bond moon blast psyshock and trick room. garchomp has earthquake outrage liquidation and stone edge. cerel has sword dance bitter blade shadow sneak and close combat. Wash Roto has volt switch nasty plot hydro pump and thunder bolt. And gyradose has water fall earthquake crunch ice fang. im still trying to figure out what items to give them help please.
Hi there! I’m new to Pokémon champions, and I breezed through the Poké ball tier, but have a 50-50 Ish success rate in the great ball teir. Does anyone have any advice on things I could do to make my team more successful?
I know Umbreon isn’t the *best* for VGC, but I’m mostly playing for fun and Umbreon is my all time favorite pokemon, so I don’t want to replace him.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!!!
I live in a capital in brazil with a lot of small local tournaments but im honestly kinda scared of playing locally, i dont know if this is enough to compete, can you guys give me dome advice?
