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Been messing around with Tinkaton a bit on my own using a similar set for the same reasons described. Its...okay. I think it is a decidedly anti-meta pokemon/set and the meta is not nearly settled enough for it to be good and I don't see a dominant archetype emerging right now.
I tried running...
Name: Scribls
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Formats played: Every format since VGC 2017 - most experience in VGC 2017, Series 12 (gen 8), and Regulation C
Bio: Primarily a VGC draft league player with championships in two leagues, 3 runner-ups, and a semi-finals in the leagues I've played...
:spectrier: Spectrier C->B
Its typing is problematic defensively due to weaknesses to Urshifu/Dragapult/Moltres-G and its movepool is very limited but it can do a few things really well. It is a strong dynamax option with redirection support and its ability allowing it to snowball out of...
Might be worth adding hail abusers and setters in the interest of being complete. I know hail hasn't been super viable but we have the closest thing there has been with Arctozolt and Arctovish (55 base speed is bad but Jolly still outpaces Pheromosa and Adamant outruns Dragapult under hail)...
Just to get some discussion going - based on super early results there are surprising pokemon scoring CP:
Gastrodon - Does well against both Primals, has access to Clear Smog. It does some things and should probably be somewhere on the viability rankings
Persian-A - Works nicely on perish trap...
This is probably a stupid comment but is there any reason Rotom-H isn't on the same tier as Rotom-W? Sure it has 2 weaknesses compared to 1 for Rotom-W but it has a more resists and a more powerful/accurate STAB move in Overheat relative to Rotom-W. Both have very marginal utility against a...
I used 252 Atk Jolly Volt Tackle Raichu as an offensive tech against Kyogre. It is a guaranteed OHKO on an offensive variant (i.e. anything with max speed/special attack) - its kinda counter-intuitive to use a recoil move on a sash pokemon but picking up a kill is a surprise to opponents and the...
One positive thing that I saw when thinking about Shedinja is that it doesn't need to do anything in return if you can isolate 1v1. Due to tiebreaking procedures for VGC you will always win 1v1 (first tiebreaker is HP percentage)
As ck49 pointed out below - it is a percentage of total party...
Want to improve a team that I used in the international challenge for a premier challenge upcoming. I know there are a few changes I want to make already and I've listed them below. Any other quick thoughts/suggestions?
Kyogre+Ho-oh Team
-I need to add Flare Blitz to Incineroar (was dumb not...
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Username: Scribls
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What format do you want to learn: VGC 2019
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Looking to get some feedback on this team before diving into a full build - It has done pretty well on the limited ladder time so far (got up to around 1450 with a 2-1 W/L ratio) it has holes for sure and is pretty heavily reliant on prediction but its a lot of fun to play!
I wanted to...