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Flying moves can target any Pokemon in triples, so Talonflame is highly viable. It's countered by Rotom and Tyranitar, though.
I suppose that all Rotom formes are allowed?
Redirection is in form of Volcarona, Togekiss and Amoongus
Meowstic has prankster screens, very good in triples
Pulse moves (Aura Sphere, Dragon Pulse, Dark Pulse ) can target any pokemon on the field.
Intimidate: Scrafty, Krookodile
I really like this idea. Many popular VGC pokemon are banned, so I anticipate many creative teams. Also, triples hasn't been a Online competition format for a long time
Someone should use Sudowoodo This comp looks super cool! It's interesting, because a lot of the powerhouses of VGC 15 will still be here, but there won't be as much to deal with them. Charizard will probably be suuuper good here, considering a vast majority of these mons are Ice and Grass.
Does anyone know what Relic Gold is? Because if it's something stupid I probably won't play, considering I'm bad at Triples, I don't have time, and I'm Jewish.
relic gold is the thing that you can get in the underwater ruins in BW2 and the karate dude buys for a lot of cash. I imagine it's just a selling item in ORAS as well
Mega Gardevoir + Quick Guard seems very nice here, as it can fire off Hyper Voices against a lot of the format (Scrafty, Krookodile, Latias, Tyranitar, Sceptile and so on) and can be protected against the two big threats to it, which are Talonflame and Scizor. There isn't much in this format in the way of Wide Guard (the best options probably being Parasect or Gallade) so it's fairly difficult to block repeated Hyper Voices as well.
Mega Gardevoir + Quick Guard seems very nice here, as it can fire off Hyper Voices against a lot of the format (Scrafty, Krookodile, Latias, Tyranitar, Sceptile and so on) and can be protected against the two big threats to it, which are Talonflame and Scizor. There isn't much in this format in the way of Wide Guard (the best options probably being Parasect or Gallade) so it's fairly difficult to block repeated Hyper Voices as well.
All the wide guard pokes in this tier look pretty mediocre, aside from smeargle but smeargle would usually rather be doing other things. So one of the best tools for defense in triples is pretty meh in this format, im not sure how many of these pokes will be worth the slot. Kingler could be cool with ally switch, and the ability to beat tflame.
And since nobody's listed this already i figure I will, here's some notable Snatch mons: Talonflame, Scrafty, Reuniclus, Kecleon, Gallade, Serperior, Rotom, Krookodile, Pangoro, Gardevoir(weird move choice for gard though unless non mega, could still be useful on mega though), and theres some others that i think either arent that viable or wouldn't want to run snatch in their movesets, feel free to look into more though. For those who aren't aware, snatch is pretty great in triples cause it takes a lot of common support moves such as both Guard moves(important to allow your fake outs to go up and spread attacks to hit the opponent), Screens and Tailwind.
I think talonflame is gonna be really good here, as it always is in triples. Fairy and fire resist is nice, quick guard, snatch, tailwind, hits anywhere on field with priority. Always gonna be a solid pick. Smeargle looks great too, make sure you're prepared for sleep.
Sun and rain both look strong, ttar is solid too but unfortunately no exca to back him up. Sun and rain both have good swift swim/chloro mons in the format as well, but i dont think sun even needs to focus on chloro to be good here. Zard Y is gonna be strong and has a good matchup against Gardevoid which i think will be the other really strong mega of the format. And tr has two great megas with Camerupt and Abomasnow. Some good setters, Meowstic, jellicent, and more, i can see TR being viable for sure too.
So we all agree that Megazard Y is going to be good in this, but what are people's thoughts on Gardevoir? Paired with Tailwind from Talonflame and something with Snatch (for Wide Guard), Hyper Voice is going to hurt pretty much everything. Furthermore, unlike Charizard it can win against Politoed and Tyranitar.
So we all agree that Megazard Y is going to be good in this, but what are people's thoughts on Gardevoir? Paired with Tailwind from Talonflame and something with Snatch (for Wide Guard), Hyper Voice is going to hurt pretty much everything. Furthermore, unlike Charizard it can win against Politoed and Tyranitar.
I think gardevoir will be great in this, talonflame is a great partner with snatch and tailwind for sure. Not a huge amount of resists for hyper voice tbh. And luckily, all the wide guarders are pretty meh so i dont think it'll be too hard to play around them.
11-13? I might actually be able to play in this one for once. The ruleset is really funny, I like it. I've been wanting to get into triples for a while so this seems like a fun way to start.
Definitely going to base my team around Tyranitar, and may even use Cradily. All these Pokemon look really cool though, so it'll be hard to pick.
So I tried to pick out the most notable pokemon of the notable pokemon in the OP and tried to give them each roles to give ideas of what the pokemon available can do.
Notable pokemon: Red:
(weather, spread attacker, TW, mega)
(priority, guard breaker, QG, TW, mega)
(tr setter, tr tank)
(fast strong attacker, mega)
(fake out, guard breaker, QG, mega)
(tr abuser, spread attacker, mega)
(support, TW, mega)
(intimidate, spread attacker, shenanigan ability)
(fake out, intimidate, guard breaker)
(anti intimidate, priority)
(anti intimidate, flying, TW)
(priority, flying, guard breaker, TW, QG)
(guard breaker, status spreader) (all formes) White:
mega=doesn't mean it will always be mega, just a possibility
guard breaker=feint/snatch
QG=quick guard
WG=wide guard
tr=trick room
flying=flying type moves hit any side of the field regardless of position so they have a nice advantage in triples
shenanigan ability=can be used to support a team or activated by a teammate to give boosts
Hope this helps someone out :) Sorry it's kinda messy, I might fix it up later. I probably missed some stuff as well, i'll change things if anyone wants me to.
I know the wide guard selection is desperate in this metagame, but here are two struggle-meal tier Wide Guarders I'm considering to test out!
Throh
This is the closest thing we'd be getting to Hariyama. The support movepool isn't nearly as good as Hariyama's thanks to the lack of Fake Out, but hey Throh has good bulk at least! In fact, you can EV it to survive a Mega Charizard-Y Overheat in the sun! Hell, even Mega Gardevoir Psyshock only has like a 48% chance to OHKO Specially Defensive Throh o_O. Still though, Throh's support movepool leaves a lot to be desired, but Wide Guard and Helping Hand might be enough to pull it through.. Here's the moveset I'm thinking for it.
YEAH I JUST WENT THERE, MERRY FREAKING CHRISTMAS YOU FILTHY PIECE OF TRASH!
Not getting Protect sucks, and so does Slow Start... but I have to admit, its the bulkiest Wide Guard mon allowed, which means I might have to give it a shot. It also isn't weak to Fairy or Fire, which sounds pretty handy in this metagame! I'm imagining a set like this
Regigigas @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Slow Start
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Wide Guard
- Thunder Wave
- Knock Off
- Return
Toterra was also brought up on IRC, but I haven't thought too much about that thing yet!
YEAH I JUST WENT THERE, MERRY FREAKING CHRISTMAS YOU FILTHY PIECE OF TRASH!
Not getting Protect sucks, and so does Slow Start... but I have to admit, its the bulkiest Wide Guard mon allowed, which means I might have to give it a shot. It also isn't weak to Fairy or Fire, which sounds pretty handy in this metagame! I'm imagining a set like this
Regigigas @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Slow Start
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Wide Guard
- Thunder Wave
- Knock Off
- Return
Damn Tmon beat me to mentioning Regigigas! I've always kinda liked him (some of you on PS! would know I've thought about trying him in BSS and that I rave about him in randbats) and since he actually has some kinda niche here (bulky Wide Guarder) it seems as though this could be the one and only chance to try him out (and he is super christmasy!). The moveset Tmon posted is the exact same I would have done, but is SpD the best nature? It prob is, I'm just worried I won't be able to track down a Careful one around here, so may have to SR for it I guess..
Damn Tmon beat me to mentioning Regigigas! I've always kinda liked him (some of you on PS! would know I've thought about trying him in BSS and that I rave about him in randbats) and since he actually has some kinda niche here (bulky Wide Guarder) it seems as though this could be the one and only chance to try him out (and he is super christmasy!). The moveset Tmon posted is the exact same I would have done, but is SpD the best nature? It prob is, I'm just worried I won't be able to track down a Careful one around here, so may have to SR for it I guess..
He's usable in every Battle Spot format (evidenced by his usage stats on the PGL) so yeah...
If it's like previous battle spot competition rewards, after the competition is over there will eventually be an announcement on the PGL saying the reward is now available. You log in to the site, go to a specific page they link to, and then you'll get a code. Then you enter that code into your game through the mystery gift system.
