Well, I'm thinking to try a fun in my community. They also run TSR's type theme tournaments.
Right now, the types will be Fighting - Dark - Psychic. I have been reading the meta explanations, but still wonder if I may miss something.
The confinement with 6 team, 3-on-3 each battle (say, like Battle Spot Singles complete with team preview) makes me think a lot about the team composition.
I lucked out with my legacy mudslinging Poliwrath?, so this has to go here.
Poliwrath answers the Dark/Poison pests and maybe 'croak and Luca.
AloRaichu is suicide lead/shield bait.
Last Resort Umbreon, CP1490. It should've even been general purpose Espeon, but changed plan and now this is my only usable Last Resort one.
Looks like this is one good core team, but... I need to think of the meta here: Counter (ridiculous fast move), Powerup Punch (ridiculous buffing charge move), Confusion (powerful fast move it hurts)....
The other 3 mon out of 6 is still, I need to carefully choose and not use too many frail mon like Luca or 'croak....
I (ironically) lack good Psychics here (I can get Chiirin/that windbell mon, but with 128 candies first or 765km walking which is impossible). Neidoll/Claydoll? can be good, but I need to look for better ones first than one I have right now (CP 1490 seems disadvantageous enough).
Maybe I can relax from countering Psychic itself with Psychic when I have Umbreon, but....
I also lack Fighting options. That poison frog looks good, but not only I lack it, it falls too quickly to Psychics, even if I do have Umbreon.
Maybe I should trade Balkies with others to hope for the Hitmons. I'm considering Lucario too, but I can't think of using too many frail mon and I need answer against Fighting type itself too. I'll hope I have good Gardes as second plan.
I wonder why they don't mention Metagross with its ridiculous MMash. Granted, they do have the pesky Dark types, but it should shut down a lot of the Dark/Poison ones, especially when they run Poison Jab (but not if they don't). They do mention the CD-upcoming Blaziken after all and it's too frail when facing a lot of things. And while we're on that, Slowbro too, with its great bulk, although cursed with suboptimal Water Pulse, but still with Confusion. No option against its own Psychic fellow though (though Ice Beam beats Xatu and Claydoll), and dies quickly to AloRaichu.
Hmm, theorymonning in GO can be difficult because I need to first have the mon raised to optimal level (the main series can at least breed and grind EXP quickly, unlike here with candy+dust investment and having the mon first by physically walking.)
And suddenly I hate multi-accounters (few people run it) who can have easier life looking for them....