Happy Grand Challenge day!

Share your experience on the tournament - your team, matches, W/L record, what weird things you encountered etc - right here (any separate post on this will be removed; although feel free to post clip of funny/weird moments).

Good luck and have fun!

If you don’t listen to the given ost but instead some songs on YT or Spotify, what is your go to song? I always be bopping to the Ace Academy Tournament theme while I’m having fun with my Arch Rain and Psyspam teams.

Hello everyone, I’m looking for a final mon to close out my reg h team. I’m currently rated around 1300 on ladder right now. I was using rillaboom for a while in my final slot, but I noticed that in at least every battle I was bringing at least two Pokemon with an ice or fire weakness. I appreciate any help and/or feedback! Thanks! My reasoning for each mon is below

Weavile: I honestly have always liked Weavile as a Pokemon and I think reg h will give it some time to shine. It comes with powerful ice and dark type attacks like ice spinner and knock off which is useful for breaking up certain leads. Also has been pretty decent in the back.

Yanmega: I only added Yanmega recently, but it has been really viable, giving me extra coverage and a powerful tailwind setter.( recently had corviknight but I felt that I couldn’t do much damage while had corviknight on the field )

Primarina: Wanted a fairy type to round out my team, and hit mons that would otherwise wall Weavile. I don’t find myself bringing it as often as I’d like, but it is very helpful when used.

Incineroar: Not much to say here. It’s incineroar. Very supportive mon with amazing defensive typing that still outputs tons of damage.

Garchomp: Wanted a Dragon type to synergize with Primarina, and also ground moves to wipe steel,fire, and electric types like Gholdengo, Kingambit, Archaludon, Magmar, and Electabuzz.

Final mon: Looking for a pretty powerful mon that synergizes well defensively with the rest of my team, and isn’t weak to ice or fire( my team’s most common weaknesses )

I just watched the Wolfe Draft Invitational and the entire concept looks so fun ! Everyone has to draft 1 of a pokemon and build teams from whatever they got. That sounds so fun and creative!!!

I am curious if there is stuff like this on a grass roots level? Do people do these types of tournaments? how can I be a part of it? I have seen Draft Leagues but it looks like it works by teams? Can someone break that down for me?

I'm building a team that has an Electabuzz on it and I wanted it to be able to outspeed timid Vivillon with 252 speed EVs (155 speed).

Electabuzz can reach 156 without needing a timid nature, but it requires 244 EVs and because I'm already running 244 HP EVs I can't invest that much into it's defensive stats.

Would it be better for me to run a timid Electabuzz so I can distribute more EVs into it's bulk or should I run a defensive nature like calm or bold?

I've dabbled in ranked and showdown with doubles. In any competitive game, I hate when the strategy becomes so limited. Regulation H is the most fun I've had. I can make a fun team with my own imprint (Annihilape, Rillaboom, Gegar, Gliscore, Electivire, Swampert) and it competes well against standard comps and oddball strategies. No over abundance of legedary or pseudo-legedaries, just good old strategic gameplay.

Hey guys, I'd like to invite you all to our discord server, Pokemon League. Every month we do a gym tournament, where you compete to become a champion in the region or a gym leader. And after that, people can also challenge your gym and eventually become champion. We also host other tournaments on the side every month and host giveaways, there's one happening later today.

This is a more amateur style server, so everyone is welcome.

Here's a link if you'd like to participate: https://discord.gg/ZMnckbqYhY

Together with Whimsicott, the pair has been putting in work for me. Depending on the opponent's pair, Sunny Day/Encore/Tailwind has been super useful in enabling Typhlosion to sweep!

I had been using a modest Typhlosion with Choice Scarf, but am also trying a timid nature with Choice Specs instead. It seems like the latter is more popular, but any views on which version is optimal?

This is a place for you to ask any quick question you might have that relates to VGC, which is the official double battle format. For questions about Single battles, monotype battles, other metagames, or even more opinions on VGC, please visit r/Stunfisk.

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Happy Grand Challenge day!

Share your experience on the tournament - your team, matches, W/L record, what weird things you encountered etc - right here (any separate post on this will be removed; although feel free to post clip of funny/weird moments).

Good luck and have fun!

Is there an ELO on showdown that you have to pass? What about a win percentage? There will always be bad match-ups and luck involved. I usually find matches more fun in the upper tiers because you can better predict what a good player will do. What's your highest ranking in game or on showdown? How did you get there?

Is there a way I can turn a team ive built on showdown into a rental code?

Im thinking about competing in a local in the near future and want to if this is possible to save some time with making the team i wanna use ingame.

Did you do something cool we should know about?

Did you make Master Ball for the first time? Did you catch a VGC-relevant shiny? Did you play against Cybertron or Wolfey on the ladder?

This is the thread for any and all brags! Share something that made you proud of yourself this week here. I hope your week was nice and you'll have a nice weekend!

Happy Grand Challenge day!

Share your experience on the tournament - your team, matches, W/L record, what weird things you encountered etc - right here (any separate post on this will be removed; although feel free to post clip of funny/weird moments).

Good luck and have fun!

This thing is a PAIN. Close combat and drain punch just get nullified with fighting tera. I feel like if I want to stop it I have to tailor my entire team around it, opening up weaknesses elsewhere.

Then when you think you've almost got it, it just hits recover and you gotta start the whole process over

https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournament/671454bcc7dc61a5a5f44999/details

https://discord.gg/8EhysvPz - our Discord

Hi everyone! AOX here from the vgc trainer school. We have an online tournament coming up on the limitless platform next Sunday at 4pm GMT (which I think including daylight savings will be 12pm EST) with a $70 prizepool

1st - $50 2nd - $20

This will be regulation H, best of 3 Swiss rounds and an x-2 or Better top cut, we should expect 7 rounds of swiss minimum. Free Entry as well! Come join us and let's make the participation onto this one huge!

Also join us on the discord as we are a 2500+ member community full of talented individuals 😊

Last Grand Challenge I ran a tailwind Sand team. This time I want to run something different so I have two ideas. Both revolve around trick room. I'll just post the line-up and overall descriptions.

First is Incineroar/ursaluna-B/amoongus/armarouge/oranguru/sneasler. The idea, which I lifted from someone who walloped me with it, is to proc ursaluna's weakness policy. Cheesy and inconsistent, but that's what you get.

The second is Exeggutor/torkoal/Charizard/indeedee/regular ursaluna/Gallade. So sun and psyspam. I heard about it and I like Exeggutor so I built it real quick.

Which do you think would be more enjoyable/successful? I am not really able to make something new at this point.

Seeing if anyone has any unique strategies, gimmicks, or just what people plan to bring. Psyspam? Sunroof? Rain with Screens? Sneasler/Dragapult? What's your poison.

I was going to use my ladder team since its been doing well despite being a little offbeat.

But while with positioning I have been able to handle Sneasler team variants well. I figured I will be seeing a lot so I wanted something that had options to wall Sneasler while still being ready for common gimmicks and other metal teams. I felt a Fantasy Core with proper support would do it. Plus a few tricks in there.

Gholdengo a bit bulkier for throat chop. Leftovers for a set up GG. Dragon Tera.

Primarina with Throat Spray seemed like the only choice I could slot for my Fairy. Clefable doesn't fit my team and she brings in water to the mix, but very slow which I dislike. Poison Tera.

Garchomp Choice Banded nothing special for EVs 252/252/4. Water Tera.

Dragonite with Covert Cloak another Sneasler eater. Also has surprise Tailwind when speed is needed. Flying Tera with Tera Blast.

Blaziken is my niche choice I had success with on ladder last month. There to cover heavy Fire/fIghting damage another 252/252/4 guy. Running a Sash. Dark Tera for Psyspam situations. Hoping the speed boost works for me like it did in the past.

Electabuzz is my last choice for redirection and speed control with E-Web. Evolite of course. Also packing minimal SpAtk investment and Thunderbolt for any needed single targeting on Pelipper, Aqua Taurus, etc... And such. Flying Tera.

Trick Room Psyspam seems to be my biggest weakness but testing it out with friends I could come and well with positioning and with the right group esp if Gholdengo gets a Nasty Plot off. It also depends if Bloodmoon is there. Trick Room Psyspam with BM Ursuluna is a bad match up for me. I wish I had been able to slot Rillaboom for terrain control in my team but chose Blaziken shenanigans/double dragon/redirection instead (those are the places he would have fit, Chomp, Prim, and GG were locks).

I think I should fare well. My best placement in one of these was top 250 in GC II. Hoping with a good start I can hit that or at least top 500 which I barely missed last time for not quitting when I was head and finishing 1-3.

So not going too crazy, just trying to work with a team I tested out and had success with. But we will see soon.

So yeah what is everyone else bringing to the party.

Good evening everyone!

I am living in Japan but as a new VGC player, I would love to join the Grand Challenge II in order to experience a tournament for once, preparing myself for the Q1 Asia tournaments. I was really excited about the online tournament, but found out that I cannot sign up from Japan... and most other Asian countries, as the challenge is for TPCi regions only...

I know that the regulations are different, so the experience gained are of limited use for the Q1 tournaments. However, as Japan is excluded from this challenge, is it okay to join as "Australian" instead?

Or are there penalties, respectively other issues in participating as a player living in Asia? In case of potential penalties or troubles of any other kind, I will of course not register my team and will wait for 2025.

Thank you very much in advance for your feedback & time!

How do you deal with sneasler? with throat chop it outspeeds and hits all my team for big damage or OHKOs, and coaching with unburden making it faster than everything means getting a coaching and boosting teammates easy also neadless to say dire claw is absurd https://pokepast.es/26f238ac31bcf551 team ive been using (evs on ursa is to survive sneasler adamant max atk cc)

This is the state of the battle when it happened.

https://preview.redd.it/szexf56vvmwd1.png?width=533&format=png&auto=webp&s=aef7e2400b787d951e40dfd97b8684cd503f65dd

Pelipper just set up the rain and Rhilaboom went for Grassy Glide in Grassy Terrain and Glaceon avoided it somehow. One turn earlier my Archaludon missed a flash cannon in the sand. Neither of my pokemons had their accuracy dropped. Is there an item that increases evasion?

Come join the /r/VGC Best of Three Thursdays weekly battle practice event!

Join the discord to find other trainers in the #battle-practice channel: discord.gg/uCbMXTN

Does tera flying prevent the Pokémon from receiving the effects of terrain. I attempted to do this on showdown with a tera flying kingambit using sucker punch but it was blocked by psychic terrain. I assumed that flying to tera would stop the effects of terrain. Is this a thing with showdown or a thing I need to know?

Hi! I don’t know anything about pokemon but my brother is pretty good. He goes to the Pokémon VGC. I want to get him something for Christmas that he would like. Any ideas on what to get him if he really likes pokemon video gaming?

Thank u!

I've been wondering recently why in Pokemon there is only a critical "hit" for the offensive Pokemon, but no mirroring tech for the other side.

Maybe this isn't the appropriate sub to ask, but are there reasons why, from a competitive standpoint, Pokemon would omit the chances for damaged taken to be reduced on that same critical hit roll? For example, if a critical hit deal 1.5x damage, at 1/24 odds, could the same be applied for damage dealt to be reduced to .75x at the same 1/24 odds? Would it just be too aggravating or create too much randomness when playing at the competitive level?

Would it be game breaking or damaging in some way? It's common to have saving rolls in other RPGs is it not?

Sorry if this has been discussed before, wouldn't mind reading old discussions on the idea.

I had Magmar and Volcarona. My opponent had Tera Fairy Archaludon and Amoongus. I used Follow Me with Magmar, but the Archaludon still hit my Volcarona with Draco Meteor. How did Archaludon bypass my Magmar's Follow Me?

Showdown Extension

I've been building this site that fetches every public showdown replays for data analysis. So I had to click the save replay button after each match to see it reflected on VGCdb. But I tend to forget to press it and lose that battle data.

For that reason I created this little extension that besides clicking that button it also sends it to VGCdb.com instantly.

More updates will be posted at Twitter/X: @VGCdatabase

Hi all, I haven't used the pokemon home app (android) in ages, but with the GC II coming up I thought I'd check to see results from the GC I. Unfortunately, I can't see any results for it

Under the 'Battle Data, Online Competitions', the latest result listed is the 2024 World Championships

Further, under the 'Your Battle Records', in both 'Ranked Battles' and 'Online Competitions' there are no battles past 2022 in SwSh...

I've ranked every season in SV doubles, and got ~1585 in the GC I

I've checked on Play! Pokemon, and it still says accounts are linked. But now I'm unsure if I'll be able to receive Championship Points from the GC (the GC I isn't showing in their records either)

Can anyone confirm if SV battles do still show up in the Home app? And has anyone run into issues linking their accounts to SV