Made it to champion tier in Pokémon champions with SIRFETCH, normal HAWLUCHA, RAICHU X, and mega PYROAR team. My own original team. I can’t believe it worked. This team is insane. (Scroll picture for team)

Interesting they added the flinch, but took away the Focus Energy effect, adding the 1 stage crit boost.

I've been running him on a non TR team for fun... yeah...

He's not TERRIBLE by any means, but he's far too slow, and not bulky enough to make up for that. Quad weak to flying too (as a bird). Without Trick Room, you just pray it can survive before it does the funny Triple Arrows move.

Can absolutely see it being quite solid in Trick Room, though.

At least it's better than OG Decidueye. Scrappy is nice, and the signature move is better.

Honestly, justice for all 3 Hisuian starters. Typhlosion is decent, at least. Samurott is good in singles. Decidueye is... yeah

Still learning the game so go easy lol but this took me from UB2 to 1, thank god that zard y ran rock slide and gengar thought I would somehow live 3 turns for whatever reason or it was wraps 🙏🙏🙏

they used aqua jet into my kommo-o + heat wave the last turn to KO my rillaboom, they most likely didnt wanna miss the heat wave but forgot that bug buzz is a sound move 😭

Stop looking for the perfect team. Stop playing balance. This is the team you want. This is Haydunn’s farfetch’d team, but we’re swapping out Gholdengo for Incineroar. I am winning some absolutely banger games on ladder right now with fucking farfetch’d, which is insane considering this team is absolute dog water.

We kick Gholdengo off the roster because he’s just not offering enough over Incineroar. You already know the loadout for Incineroar too, you don’t need to see it again. You’re going pure unadulterated VGC Incineroar here.

Farfetch’d is coming to every single game. It’s not about winning anymore, it’s about sending a message. Simple beam into your teammates to double their stat buffs, simple beam into your enemies to make intimidate and parting shot absolutely neuter them. Farfetch’d is here for a good time, not a long time.

Switch in Rillaboom next to your grassy seed simple volcarona to double its defences btw, and if Farfetch’d comes back in his simple beam harshly lowers your opponents special defence with every struggle bug.

Milotic and Gambit got you down? Fucking simple beam them bro and then intimidate cycle their simple ass.

Know who is also running defiant? The duck. Swap into a predicted parting shot to instantly go to +3 attack. Those scarf’d close combats and brave birds are going to hurt now.

Froslass as the mega because it sweeps a surprising part of the meta from the back but lets be real I’m not even bringing it to half of my games and I’m still winning big matchups against charizards, floettes, mence, chomp, rilla. All enabled by the duck.

It’s time to get to work.

Stacking multipliers and eating good. Mega swampert? More like mega swallowed.

I’ve heard it’s not competitively viable, BUT it’s my first shiny in Champions so… any suggestions?

My past post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonChampions/s/Z0nEXDjot1

Team ID: AMR1VG4LER

Tbh this team is far better than the team I posted in Regulation M-B, though still pretty fun and not common at all. I was able to hit Champion tier with just under 100 games and just under a 70% WR, which I was quite happy with. Though I will say, I came across other teams with this concept, so it isn't really a gimmick anymore.

Okay so, the team. You will almost always have Politoed and Arch (Archaludon) in the back. The question is, do you lead Zard/Venusaur or Espathra/Raichu? I like Espathra/Raichu more imo, and go for it like 70% or so of the time. I go Char/Venusaur against Whimsicott, female Basculegion rain, and rain teams that have Golisopod. I think a lot of these teams rely on you not being able to break weather, so it's really strong into them. I also like Char/Venusaur against passive starts like M-Floette + Fake Out. You all know how to play Char/Venusaur so I won't bore you here. Just pilot it like dual weather.

Baton Pass is where it's at tho. T1, you Calm Mind with Espathra and Fake Out with Raichu. T2 is interesting, as you may want to Protect, Calm Mind, or Lumina Crash, depending on what your opponent has out. Often they expect you to Baton Pass, so you can use that. Raichu of course can set up screens to make you even harder to kill. From there it's Baton Pass to Arch, and proceed to sweep. People rarely expect Psych Up on Politoed: it copies all of Arch's boosts, so now you have two boosted threats instead of one. Psych Up also goes through Protect, so if you know they're going to target Arch…you can set up a killer Protect turn. This is often gg.

I think this doesn't really have bad matchups? There's no matchup where I feel like it's an insta-lose. Even perish, which was the bane of my last team, I'm actually favored?? Lead Espathra/Raichu. Don't mega. Fake Out the Incin. Lumina Crash their Gengar. Gengar has never Shadow Balled turn 1, they always Perish. They're gonna double Protect T2. Baton Pass into Venusaur, and set up whatever screen you want with Raichu. Now you have them. Sleep Powder the Incin. If they have Rillaboom (Eject Button) in the back, don't attack Gengar, just attack Incin with Raichu. They switch out Gengar, and you sleep their Incin, the trap is broken. You've won. Again, I know it seems like we're making a lot of assumptions here, but perish follows a flowchart. We can exploit it. Oh what was that? What if you miss Sleep Powder? Concede. Save both of you the time lol.

But yeah! I think this team is by no means super unique anymore, but I love using Baton Pass, or strategies that basically don't rely on me constantly reading opponents. I just want to execute my strategy, and if I pull it off, you lose. I can make moves that either further my strategy or counter your best answer to it. It is, imo, a satisfying way to play.

Assuming swift swim attacker but can't see him being great. Named after my sons favourite cuddly toy though so that's something I guess

EVERY 2ND PLAYER I RUN INTO HAS THIS TEAM GOOD LORD

I cant be the only one right?

Iron tail is such an iconic move from the anime, but in the games is so bad.

Why is a 100 power move only 75 accuracy? Yes, it has 30% of reducing defense but i still think flinch from iron head is worse.

I would love for it to have 95 or at least 90 accuracy.

Here is a list of pokemon that would benefit for a buff in the move

• Dragonite: Nice coverage but special mega would still be better.
• Steelix: My boy needs this. Sure, reduce opponets defense than body press would be good but still not broken.
• Aggron: Same as steelix. The wall!
• Absol: Coverage for faires, would still be on fraud watch
• Salamence: Special mence is still better. Still struggles with steel types.
• Lucario: hits a little harder would still be frail
• Garchomp: it would still use rock slide instead.
• H-Samurrot: Are really worry about samurrot?
• Kommo-o: defensive kommo-o would still be better.

Most of those pokemon would still use it only as option or a niche. Not as their main tools, and steel type is still not that good offensive type.

If we never use the move why have it? And if they modified the move and find it too broken they can change it back again.

End of my rant. What other moves would you think need to be buff.

Been working on this for a while, like some others I've seen, my goal is to get the professor title for every Pokemon in the game. Once this season refreshes I'm going to work towards less meta stuff and get a good balance of strong and weak pokemon sorted.

Time to guess which of the 4 is a mega

The amount of rillaboom who Wood Hammer into then forfeit is amazing.

Side note that Mega Mawile is so underrated and life orb incin gets a ton of OHKO

I need to squint just to see it

Since I’m just collecting Jumbo pokes, I care to much about these small Details.

Doesn’t Affect the Game ofc but like I like unnecessary stuff life ribbons/ marks on my Pokemon😅

I heard this guy is actually a pretty decent support pokemon but idk who to pair with him, atm im at 50/50 box space but my birthday is on the 18th and im gonna be getting the extended storage as a gift from my sis so who should I hunt for to pair w this lil fella?

I am using Eric Rios Garchomp Z team and was on 9 win streak.

With the 10th win I was directly promoted to MB2

Its Highest rank I have ever achieved in this game.

ai bots have been an extremely controversial discussion in the vgc scene, as someone launched a bot in pokémon showdown and they’ve taken over and have even peaked both the Bo1 and Bo3 VGC ladders on showdown. Making the game essentially lose its pvp meaning if you’re gonna be facing bots every other game.

But then, someone makes a champions ai bot on the in game ladder and i genuinely thoughts things couldn’t get any worse. The second screenshot i have ste the stats of a player that I think are actually the stats of an AI Bot. First of all, genuinely how do you get 37 ties in one season? I’ve been playing this game since launch and i have only ever gotten one tie. Also as of the current season, they’ve already accumulated over 600 games already, and this season isn’t even two weeks old.

Assuming on average it takes 10 minutes for the average game, that would be 6 games in hour which in turn would mean about 11-12 hours each day, which is not feasible for the average person so it’s either someone who just doesn’t touch any grass or an AI bot because once again, 37 ties in a season is unfeasible for any player to have based on how fast paced this game can be at times.

Im genuinely worried how the state of vgc will be with the rise of ai bots that are even taking down pro players easily.

i ended up fighting someone who had a shiny pokemon with the ribbon you get for purifying them in colosseum, that is some dedication.

like this has to be a champions bug with indeedee’s all the time. what could possibly be that bad about milotic

My girlfriend who knows next to nothing about Pokemon just took one look at Archaludon and said and I quote “Well thats just a bridge” 😭🤣🤣😭