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This team was formed around weather-setup options with Prankster. This guarantees getting the weather you want even against other weather-setters. Thunder Wave ended up having an equal importance to further establishing the team. Being flexible to different situations is my priority with this...
This team doesn't mess with standard setups much. Torkoal is the staple of the team. Venusaur + Heliolisk forms a team abusing Torkoal's Drought while Dusclops + Rhyperior forms a Trick Room strategy. Slowbro is especially designed to fill both the role of a 2nd Trick Room setter as well as...
You already mentioned that you only skim read it. I'd like to address some of the things you said with criticism. I hope not to come off as close-minded or defensive in this because I'm mostly trying to argue my point of view on these things and am open to discussion and being proven wrong...
The Team
Building the Team
#1 :weezing-galar:
In a 2v2 format like VGC moves that hit multiple targets are very strong. Weezing can learn Dazzling Gleam and Sludge wave for STAB boost and learns Heat Wave to hit the Steel-types that resist his STAB moves. Because of this I wanted to build a...
It was doing fairly well at first, later it turned out to be to gimmicky. The team doesn't really have anything to counter particular strategies like Trick Room.
The Team
Sidekicks
This team is build around Togekiss and Whimsicott which cover 3 different supportive strategies. The obvious two are Follow Me and Tailwind. The third one is still a very well known strategy: Beat Up on Justified. While Conkeldurr and Arcanine work best with a specific...
The Team
I wanted to build a team around these two dragons. Dracovish being the strongest sweeper in the game, while Dragapult is the most reliable sweeper in the game. I decided to run Tailwind Pelipper to support Dracovish and give Dragapult a moveset that supports the rain build...
Cool idea. I've personally been looking into working alot of immunities into my teams to have alot of free switch-ins. Right now Chandelure doesn't make much sense. No need to have 2 pokémon that cover Shedinja's fire weakness. I'd consider Steam Engine on Coalossal. The rock-fire typing already...
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Looks like a cool team though.
Well there's nothing quite like Scarf Darm. There is little defensive coverage against Ice and not many good Mons have the same speed level. Dracovish is another heavy Physical hitter but get's outsped easier. Also, Water Absorb has become a staple ability in the meta because of Dracovish...
Thanks for the tips, I personally prefer a bulk up set on Corviknight and don't think defog is needed because this team can survive well and has some tools to outsmart other bulky teams (Aromatherapy and Dugtrio).
I'm going to stick with Centiskorch for now but switching to HDB allowed me to...
The Team
This team has something extra added to the Bulky Chip-damage strategy. It utilizes almost every possible immunity in the game. This gives me a lot of opportunities to switch into something else for free. Since surviving while slowly chipping away at your enemies is the teams...