Pokemon Legends: Z-A Combat/PVP Discussion Thread

[BlazingBarrager]

I’m gonna vouch for Ampharos within your suggestions if you want to be a cool fella and not rock a restricted. I have been trying out completely awful Pokemon subbing out my Xerneas on my earlier team with Ampharos and Skarmory and those two can carry entire games by themselves. Having to switch in Skarmory early to answer Garchomps is a little annoying sometimes, but can be avoided kiting the chomp over to juicier targets while your Ampharos charges Thunderbolt snipe. Chandelure has lots of leeway after to answer the piles of Steels around.

Skarmory + Ampharos legitimately feels like I’m rocking an actual competitive Pokemon core like Celebi + Heatran or Landorus-T + Rotom-W. Extremely powerful duo of Pokemon I encourage people to try for a taste of what the game’s like:

What's your usual 3rd mon you pair with Ampharos + Skarmory?

 

[andreds]

Gyarados is still pretty common despite Xerneas tbolt. Also if people start using Zygarde then they can't run Xerneas too. Gyarados is totally fine but an ice fang is not OHKOing Zygarde even if it doesn't have yache berry regardless of expert belt or not.
252+ Atk Expert Belt Gyarados Ice Fang vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Zygarde: 114-137 (53 - 63.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ Atk Expert Belt Gyarados Ice Fang+ vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Zygarde: 148-178 (68.8 - 82.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

I'd say Wacan is still the best option on Gyarados for random tbolts and tpunches.



Assuming Skarm is the mega and Chandelure is sash or life orb, you probably want something to hit the Garchomps. Nevermeltice Glaceon, Vaporeon or AV Clawitzer possibly. Alternatively something like Rocky Helmet Hippo with curse keeps Garchomp at bay while also being immune to charge tbolt shenanigans from ampharos.

Been using Skarm, Chandelure (both wth mega orb) and Ampharos (shuca), but yeah, that's been a weak point! Sure, Skarmory can wall Garchomp for the most part, but I don't really have an answer for him. Wth Zygarde next season too, that ice move will be necessary. More so a water Pokémon wth an ice move over an ice Pokémon to avoid counters. So whichever Pokémon that may be, may replace Amphy and join the Skarm + Chand core

 

[BlazingBarrager]

I saw Yveltal being good and on the rise and I was wondering if anyone had a team that uses it? I'd rather use that as my restricted as opposed to the deer and Zygarde.