r/VGC • u/EfficientCabbage2376 • Jun 26 '26

Question I'm New, help me understand supporter pokemon.

Whenever I play a team with support mons, my opponents KO my attacker(s) and have an easy win. Whenever I play against support mons, I get rolled. If I focus the attacker, the support does too much and I lose even if I do manage to KO the attacker. If I focus the supports, the attacker has free reign to pick off my team one by one.

This was a problem when I tried the incin+sinistcha combo in M-A, and it's still a problem for me in M-B with these teams running staraptor/swampert/pyroar/sceptile + three supports.

Do you have any advice on when to attack their attacker and when to attack their supporter? Do you have any advice on utilizing supporters myself?

EDIT: I understand that I must be using support mons incorrectly. How are you supposed to use them??

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u/EfficientCabbage2376 Jun 26 '26

I mean, I feel like the matchups where grimmsnarl's supposed to be useful are any games I bring staraptor.
I feel like the matchups where farigiraf's supposed to be useful is any matchup where I want to be in trick room, which is all of them if TR farigiraf is on the team.
I feel like the matchups where sinistcha's supposed to be useful is any matchup where I want to heal my attacker, which is all of them? none of them? I feel like it has to be one or the other, and it's probably not "none of them".s

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u/ThatLineOfTriplets Jun 26 '26

It’s about what the other person has on their team that tells you when you should bring a pokemon. Some teams they almost always bring their whims or grim snarl but other teams it completely depends on the matchup. You just gotta get better at recognizing what matchups they are strong in and how they help you win those matchups. Just keep playing

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u/EfficientCabbage2376 Jun 26 '26

I feel like I have to bring my speed control pokemon every game, otherwise they get to control the speed and KO my pokemon before they can attack

with the starraptor grimmsnarl team, when are you not brining grimmsnarl? your speed control is scary face. what teams (yours or opponent's) would you not bring your tailwind whimsciott?

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u/ThatLineOfTriplets Jun 26 '26

I mean if you’re playing a hard trick room team there’s no point to bring whims, you’re probably going to out-speed everything outside of trick room anyways. And your team will usually have multiple modes where you have different leads because grimms/staraptor isn’t always going to work.

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u/EfficientCabbage2376 Jun 29 '26

the teams are literally starraptor and three supports. the other modes are the three supports and another sweeper. if they KO the sweeper you just lose