Now for the XL candy, hoping to trade and have it ready by next season and hope it doesn’t get nerfed before then haha

My opponent had a lando and I was using a Palkia-O. I used aqua tail when he threw a SS. The lando wins CMP so it attacked first. But when my aqua tail landed he somehow switched into dialga. How is this even possible?

Saw a Halloween Cup appreciation post and just want to say I was a big fan of remix cup. GL remix is always one of my favorite cups and this season did not disappoint. I’d stopped playing for a couple weeks cause I just wasn’t feeling GBL. Decided to come back for Halloween Cup but hated the meta this year. Switched to Remix and decided to just run pokemon I have fun using instead of trying to climb. Ended up Running Shadow A.Wak/Dubwool/Shadow Shiftry and had a lot of fun and ended up climbing a couple hundred to 2450.

I ran double nukes on dubwool, which I’ve tried to make work before but finally was getting results in this meta. Most beautiful moment was swapping it into a Golurk. They built energy and then swapped Walrein, assuming if I swapped it into a Golurk I was running Payback. They let the wild charge through and I was able to shield once and farm down after that. They brought back in Golurk because now that I revealed wild charge they expected to double resist all my damage. There was a beautiful moment where I knew there was no way they were shielding. Sure enough dubwool one shot the Golurk with the payback and they top lefted. It was the scenario I’ve dreamed of since I first tried the double nukes dubwool and it felt so worth it.

Also shoutout Shiftry. It’s still a forgotten mon, and sometimes it’s got two or three hard counters against it on a team and is just deadweight, but it also core broke a ton of teams including the pretty common Drifblim/whiscash core I saw a number of times. So satisfying when it can sweep a team.

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Basically I can’t help but notice that if the Pokemon with Mud-Slap (particularly the likes of Golruk and Rhyperior) have two shields, they can basically farm down anything that’s not a Flying type and they’ll also force their opponent to use at least one shield or risk going down while the Mud-Slap user keeps one shield.

It just seems crazy to me that Rhyperior can win the two shield scenario VS. Something like Origin Palkia. Or Greninja VS. Golurk. I think the energy generation by Mud-Slap has been buffed too much.

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Next week brings all three leagues back, and I've made some changes based on the comments from the last iteration (though they're very minor). Movesets for Tentacruel and Greninja have been updated.

As always, if there's any disagreement about what I've left off (or mistakes), I welcome comments so I can make the infographic better next time.

• A single box (generally) only accounts for one fast move. Mons with multiple viable fast moves have multiple boxes.
• The first number with the fast move indicates the number of turns for that fast move. The second number tells you how many fast moves can be thrown WITHOUT exceeding 100 energy.
• The first two charge moves shown are the main charge moves you expect to see, with the spammier one on the left (from pvpoke, other Redditors that I follow, and my experience). The other charge moves are given in order of likelihood to be seen (again, based on my opinion and experience).
• "15" means that it takes 15 fast moves to get to a charge move. This count will hold true for AT LEAST the first four charge moves thrown. A fifth charge move might need a different number of counts.
• "14---" means that the first charge move is reached in 14 fast moves, and the three subsequent charge moves are reached in one less (13).
• "8-*-" means that the first charge move is reached in 8 fast moves, the second is reached in 7 fast moves, the third is reached in 8 fast moves, and the fourth is reached in 7 fast moves.
• "7*-*" means that the first charge move is reached in 7 fast moves, the second is reached in 7 fast moves, the third is reached in 6 fast moves, and the fourth is reached in 7 fast moves.

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Next week brings all three leagues back, and I've made some changes based on the comments from the last iteration. Ariados, Charjabug, and Ferrothorn added. Gallade, Florges, and Steelix removed. Moveset additions included for Carbink, Malamar, and Whimsicott.

As always, if there's any disagreement about what I've left off (or mistakes), I welcome comments so I can make the infographic better next time.

• A single box (generally) only accounts for one fast move. Mons with multiple viable fast moves have multiple boxes.
• The first number with the fast move indicates the number of turns for that fast move. The second number tells you how many fast moves can be thrown WITHOUT exceeding 100 energy.
• The first two charge moves shown are the main charge moves you expect to see, with the spammier one on the left (from pvpoke, other Redditors that I follow, and my experience). The other charge moves are given in order of likelihood to be seen (again, based on my opinion and experience).
• "15" means that it takes 15 fast moves to get to a charge move. This count will hold true for AT LEAST the first four charge moves thrown. A fifth charge move might need a different number of counts.
• "14---" means that the first charge move is reached in 14 fast moves, and the three subsequent charge moves are reached in one less (13).
• "8-*-" means that the first charge move is reached in 8 fast moves, the second is reached in 7 fast moves, the third is reached in 8 fast moves, and the fourth is reached in 7 fast moves.
• "7*-*" means that the first charge move is reached in 7 fast moves, the second is reached in 7 fast moves, the third is reached in 6 fast moves, and the fourth is reached in 7 fast moves.

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just played a match where a few fast moves in my entire game froze, when it finally unfroze i was down to about 1/3rd hp on my second mon and the opponent had several charge moves already banked on two mons (managed to take down one despite the fact so they must have switched at some point). have any of you experienced something like this and what could be the cause of it? i am playing on a good stable connection at home so nothing was wrong with that

If you’re looking for a team for GL Remix, what really worked for me was GWeezing, SGolurk and Lickilicky safe swap. I started climbing consistently after switching to this team.

I haven't seen anyone using it, but it's been working well for me in the 2000-elo range. It walls the omnipresent Greninja leads, beats Clodsire in the 1s and does decently in the 0s, and walls a few other things like Morpeko, Drapion, Umbreon. Almost no other dragons or fighters to worry about. When facing Azumarill, I usually load up on energy and switch out to some a poison mon before the attack.
I use DP/DP, as body slam feels quite weak.

One of those ones that's kind of hard to quantify. I have this highish rank Raticate, #76 as the shadow or #310 when Purified into a 4/15/15.

Does anyone have any anecdotal advice to offer on leaving this shadow for harder and faster crunches/fangs vs purifying for the Return nuke (and tankier as a safe swap, as Raticate often is used in this meta/season)

I can only find older PvP deep dives and cannot decided between rank 25 slightly higher Attack and Def or Rank 16 with just 1 Hp more.
I don’t understand how the #16 is ranked higher with 1 Hp

Any advice for this? I don’t reach the Def ideal at 135.78 but the 25 has 92.15 which was good for ATK weight

Any Advice ?

Alright ladys and gens I started playing PvP last season. I hit rank 20 cause I started really late on the season and found it really fun. Normally I don’t like playing comp PvP, BUT I like the mask they have to offer and decided I should try to go for it. I recently just hit ace but I’m getting stuck at 2050-2100 elo. Is there a way to break outta this? Or am I kissing my hopes of getting that mask goodbye

I don't think I've ever seen the evolution on any tier list. Is this any good?

This is rank #460 and would lose to clodsire, feraligator, dunsparce, toxapex, sableeye, and guzzlord compared to the rank 1. I leveled it up but need 100 candy, which I almost have the rare candy. Just don’t know how people have down with it outside of regionals.

Which would be more optimal? i have the hundo for both, non shadow is ranked a bit higher than shadow but id like to hear some opinions before i start building

I was against a backline of toxapex and greninja with my morpeko. I used the first aura wheel against toxapex and it turns hangry mode as intended. My opponent shields and i get to another one, this time dark type, i k.o. toxapex but this time it doesn't change types, i stay hangry mode against greninja. I used my aura wheel, but because it was dark type, i couldn't one shot it, and he proceeds to win the match with an hydro cannon :I

Has this happen to anyone else? Is this a hidden feature that i'm unaware of or...

I just had a battle with an invisible greninja (no graphic showed up other than the attack) whose health bar was initially accurate but disappeared when it should have fainted. Instead of fainting, it kept dishing out damage till it KO’d all three of my ‘mon. Anyone else had that happen?

This is my Halloween cup team and I just decided to share this because of my last win. I had the energy advantage on my greninja, my last mon, and 1 shield to his 0. I was able to sweep his entire greninja and entire Amarill, winning cmp on the final shot against his azu. I find this team has some wierd matchups. I lead my gengar, farm up to sludge bomb, throw shadow punch, steal a shield. The shadow claw does so much damage that I can usually kill them with the second shadow punch, or they have to burn the second shield. Then I pull out my tactical Ariados (high damage). It’s been getting amazing wins against people’s azumarills and greninjas, even clodsire because I can usually pull the shield advantage with my gengar, allowing ariados to beat clod. Anyways thought I’d share my fun, shadow gengar is really damn good in this cup.