Battle Tree Discussion and Records

[KevinEontrainer]

Hello I'm Kevin I'm quite new to this forum but I'm pretty much a retired Pokemon player. Gen 7 was my last because it gets more and more expensive to keep up with Pokemon on consoles.
So anyway I've been doing Super Double Battle challenge in my Pokemon Moon Battle Tree, currently I'm on my 214th Streak and ongoing.

To be honest my main motivation is to scout cute female NPCs and collect them all on my NPC trainer list for Multi Battles.
My main target now is Golfer (Female) Susanna. She is available only at 50+ Streaks, according to Bulbapedia her chance of appearing is the same as everyone else, which is about 1%. I haven't had any luck of encountering her so far...

Now about my team, I had my friend who had USUM to teach some moves from move tutor, but I bred or transferred my own Pokemon.
I will use their species name and not disclose their nicknames.

1. Incineroar

Nature: Sassy
Item: Iapapa Berry
Ability: Intimidate
- Flare Blitz
- Fake Out
- Knock Off
- U-Turn

2. Cresselia

Nature: Bold
Item: Sitrus Berry
Ability: Levitate
- Icy Wind
- Skill Swap
- Ally Switch
- Helping Hand

3. Latios

Nature: Rash (not ideal but this Latios has been my pal since Gen 4 and Nature mints weren't a thing in this game)
Item: Dragonium-Z
Ability: Levitate
- Pyschic
- Dragon Pulse
- Protect
- Draco Meteor

4. Metagross

Nature: Adamant
Item: Metagrossite
Ability: Clear Body > Tough Claws
- Iron Head
- Protect
- Bullet Punch
- Earthquake

Incineroar and Cresselia literally covers each others weaknesses so Ally Switch works wonders against AI enemies. Its also fun using Skill Swap to not only give Incineroar immunity to ground but also reactivating Intimidate at the same time. Latios is a multi purpose nuker with Dragonium-Z against anything that isn't a Steel or Fairy or the likes of Blissey. Metagross is the main physical DPS that hits hard physically and kills the likes of Heatran with Earthquake. All 3 Pokemon are made to be compatible with Cresselia's support. Though as people probably can guess, I do have trouble against dark types but its possible to navigate safely.
I can only hope to find and scout her soon before I break my streak otherwise starting over from 0 to 50s would be a real pain in the butt. Oh and hopefully she had good Pokemon with her too.


UPDATE: The streak broke at 221 because of Stockpile + Leech Seed + Protect + Leftovers Torterra. The worst way to lose. Time to restart ig. Wasn't able to recruit Susanna neither...

UPDATE 2 : I got her at the 58th Streak on my 2nd attempt. She had a very good Mega Charizard Y as lead but sadly the second one is a useless Tentacruel. I will continue my streak in hopes of meeting her or the other ones in my collection again to hopefully get a better team for them. Currently in 60th streak.
I'm also looking for Youth Athlete Thamina to complete my collection of Battle Tree's cute girls once and for all.

UPDATE 3: Okay I got Thamina so my collection is complete! I got her on 101st streak but her Pokemon are bad. So I'll continue my streak and see if I can rescout the girls on my collection with better Pokemon

 

[Coeur7]

"I was brought up with tender care, and I became a fool with flying colors."

I thought I wouldn't look at the forums again, because it pains me to revisit my arrogant stupidity, but I reconsidered. Here are some newer Tree Doubles teams that have won the Starf Berry (one oldie included, namely Star Wash).

Full disclosure: these mons were all generated (except on Star Wash, which I had played in 2019) and I usually started each streak at battle #40, not least to avoid picking up bad habits from sets that disappear. I'm allowed to do that, I bought the Battle Pass. In all seriousness, these streaks aren't for the leaderboard, nor are these world beater strategies, but I'd be happy if anyone felt inspired by these ideas.

* Arc-Light (Naganadel / Mega Kangaskhan / Arcanine / Cresselia) (458)
* Star Wash (Staraptor / Rotom-W / Garchomp / Mega Scizor) (382)
* Gya-Raichu Clinic (Mega Gyarados / Raichu / Celesteela / Comfey) (326)
* Fever Pidge (Mega Pidgeot / Hitmontop / Sylveon / Muk-A) (258)
* Medi-Tales (Mega Medicham / Ninetales-A / Kecleon / Suicune) (239)
* Shield Dragon (Serperior / Mega Manectric / Kommo-o / Cresselia) (200, streak abandoned)

What's more, I have a Multis streak to report with this team (generated as well). It's similar to my previous effort, but Colress now runs the good Porygon2 set (the one that cannot misplay by clicking Thunder Wave) with the best ability for it, while Metagross still has Clear Body. A really lucky scout, even with Colress' small roster.

Mega Gyarados solves a lot of problems that the previous team had, such as the matchup into Steel specialists, Ghosts and opposing Mega Metagross. HP Ground on Tapu Lele is mandatory to check Magnezone (the AV set only takes 58-70%, but allied Metagross can handle it from there) and Heatran, especially the Scarf set. The EV spread makes Lele speed-creep Typhlosion3 and Landorus2; Lele can't outspeed Entei3, but its Eruption is weaker to the point that Metagross4 can survive it on low rolls.

Originally, I had tried Psychium Z Lele with an AV Krookodile in the back, but ultimately found that I had been in error; Lele benefits more from a Choice Scarf to "soft-redirect" Metagross' attacks into desirable targets, either by OHKOing the partner, or by chipping the likely target of a Zen Headbutt into KO range. Protect/Sub are still good moves in Multis, and Mega Gyarados duly sports a Protect plus one-turn setup package.

Playing with Mega Gyarados is almost like having access to Tera in this generation. The typing change makes for an interesting minigame at times.

I took this team for three spins (Krookodile not included: that one lost at 92 wins), no skipping the early Tree in Multis. The first attempt fell at 89 wins to Wally's Magnezone3 lead while I still had Taunt instead of HP Ground on Lele; there was a lot of sacky nonsense on both sides (Zone dodged three hits, then missed T-Wave and got frozen by Tri Attack, but thawed out in time to KO Gyarados, and a weakened Porygon2 lost 1v1 to Gallade iirc).

The second attempt scored zero wins, and I didn't even load up Seviper by accident or anything -- I forgot what exactly happened, but Thunder Wave and a Scary Face Bouffalant were involved. A reminder of how volatile Multis is, I suppose.

The third attempt won 276. The loss happened against Specs Alakazam + Drifblim lead; Zam crit Focus Blast into Metagross T1 for the OHKO; I was forced to Mega Evolve Gyarados because of Drifblim's Thunderbolt, and lost it to Whimsicott's Twinkle Tackle (misplay, should have clicked Protect on that turn, although it may not have mattered since Whims was Prankster and had Tailwind up, Gyarados had taken Tbolt already, and P2 did not have a SpA boost). Porygon2 could not beat Whimsicott + Bastiodon.

Particular shoutouts to zee and eragon, although they don't know me, for their excellent posts and team dumps in the Gen6 DOU thread; to turskain, justintr and Lumari for keeping facilities alive while being great teachers; to Eisenherz for having built up this community with virtue and grace; to Repto for all his help and endurance (congrats on your new record!)

I also like nyankin's artwork a lot.

 

[KevinEontrainer]

I wonder of there are people here doing Super Multi Battle with NPC trainer? Its a lot more difficult compared to human partner....