/btg/ - Battle Tree General

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Remember to not fall for this thing's cuteness and think it's weak. It will fuck you over if you let it.

>Just want to get Cynthia with Garchomp and Mega Lucario as a multis partner
>Every time I fight her she leads with Spiritomb

I ran into my first loss at the hands of a Twave + moxie gyarados

I knew the Twave was coming, so I sent out garchomp, next turn I SDed, and it dragon danced

It had ice fang

Bad things happened from there

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>>31091866
I know it's nothing special, but I'm still proud that I finally achieved this victory
Battle against Red: G4HG-WWWW-WWW3-N84P
Bonus battle against a random trainer that nearly fucked my shit up: 8CYG-WWWW-WWW3-N8C8
Mimikyu is an absolute God, fucking use him if you're not already

>>31091928
Now I'm going for Doubles, what's a good team?

>>31091928
It's all fun and games until you forget mold breaker can ohko mimikyu if you're not paying attention desu.

Gonna try Scarfed Aerodactyl Rock Slide hacks of my own in doubles
Wish me luck

>>31091944
Luck was on my side, I guess, the few things with Mold Breaker I ran into got fucked with a +2 Play Rough

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>>31091960
Try scarfed no guard mutt. A bit more strength and defenses with the added bonus of no attacks missing and bypassing those obnoxious as heck double teamers/bright power pokemon.

>Tfw you never ran into stalling cunts, brightpowder shenanigans or sheer cold/fissure bullshit
>tfw made it to 50 battles
>tfw passionate style finally unlocked
I guessnI should be happy?

Ok so scarf jolly chomp has 253.5 speed...does that round up to 254 or down to 253?

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>on a 40 streak in super singles
>last minute trip to six flags and I'm not driving
>start drinking and getting stoned
>pull out 3DS about an hour into the trip
>won 3 matches without switching out my first Pokemon
>misclick once and life orb mamoswine one-shots my aegislash and mega salamence, ending my streak
>put it down and just pass the time for another 2 hours
>can't even hardly enjoy an amusement park afterwards

is a rain team viable?

was planning on something like pelipper/Koko/ashninja

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>>31092153
hide the pain, harold.

Best set for a Skarmory?
Also, does the game treat ZConversion PoryZ as just plain Normal when attempting to counter your team as I'm thinking, or does it somehow manage to handle it?

What's a good team to use in doubles that benefits Telepathy Oranguru with Instruct?

whats a good moveset for gyarados?

Dragon dance/waterfall/???/???

>>31092344
Crunch and Earthquake
Go for Megyarados

>miss play rough 3 times in a row
>opponent hits power whip 3 times in a row
thanks tree-sama

>>31092501
Did you end up winning?

>>31092545
I had MLuke in the back to aura sphere the faggot lickilicky, I just thought it was stupid.

Would Follow Me+Extreme Evoboost, then pass to a Stored Power user work in Doubles?

>>31091928
>Charizard Stamp for 50 Super Singles

I imagine it's Blastoise for Super Doubles and Venusaur for Super Multi?

Sorry if its kinda unrelated, but why do some people want 0 IV for a certain stat on a pokemon?

>>31092798
If it's speed then that means it's a trick room mon or a gyro ball user.
If it's attack then it's to minimize damage from foul play and confusion.

>>31092798
For special attackers, you want 0 IV in attack because in the off chance it gets confused and hits itself, it won't hurt as much.
For Pokemon using Gyro Ball or Trick Room, having 0 IV speed is obvious. If you want to run Rest, you want to have lower speed than the enemy so that you can tank a hit before sleeping.

>>31092798
0 Attack IVs for those that don't use Attack, so confusion/Foul Play don't hurt as much. 0 Speed IVs for Gyro Ball chicanery. Not much reason other than that.

>>31092798
0 in speed for Trick Room usage (in some cases to make your weather prevail over the enemies one)
0 in attack to get minimum damage from Foul Play

>>31092856
>>31092836
>>31092825
>>31092840
So a Trick Room Pokemon that fights with Special Attack will try to aim for just four good stats then, which would be just HP, Def, SpA, and SpD?

>>31093056
Ideally. Since you can't guarantee 6 IVs passing down it's a little much to hope for though.

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>Plumeria's salazzle burns my mega salamence on a fire blast
>switch it out burned with almost no HP because free switch into aegislash
>kill it with shadow sneak and toxapex comes in
>walls aegislash other than shadow sneak
>"oh, that mega salamence earthquake might come in handy"
>decide to whittle it down with aegislash
>"Toxapex held up it's red card"
>kills my salamence with a surf on the switch and then my aegislash

So I just got 60 wins and decided to lead with a Porygon Z Electric from 61 onwards. Noticed something after battle 61 which had Weavile, Glalie and Avalugg. The next battles were:

>Mudsdale, Rhyperior, Rotom Grass
>Mamoswine, Nidoqueen, Trevenant
>Sandslash (Ground), Venusaur, Mudsdale
>Exeggutor, Garchomp, Meganium
>Haxorus, Chesnaught, Garchomp

It's as if the tree started throwing teams that resist/are immune to Electric after my first Z-conversion. Is it a coincidence or is this a thing?

How do you hear the custom Trainer music like Colress' theme or Grimsley's theme?

>>31093744
I know that if you lead with Espeon, almost all the enemy teams will lead with something that knows Shadow Ball or is a dark type.

>>31093973
I believe you need to have the default Trainer theme set, otherwise whatever you had set will override their themes.

>>31092759
No it's Venusaur for doubles and Charizard and Venusaur for Multis.

>>31094153
I don't think that's it because I ran into Grimsley and Wally and it didn't play any of their themes and just played the regular Trainer theme.

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>bellhop chip sent out passimian (scarf)
>weakened celesteela scouts out close combat with protect
>'oh yeah i'll just swap out to salamence and set up on it'
>intimidate triggers defiant enabling passimian to 2hko salamence before proceeding to sweep my other 2 mons

oops

Thoughts on my team for singles?

Mimikyu @ Red Card
Ability: Disguise
Level: 50
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shadow Sneak
- Play Rough
- Swords Dance
- Will-O-Wisp

Aegislash @ Leftovers
Ability: Stance Change
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Flash Cannon
- Substitute
- King's Shield

Porygon-Z @ Normalium Z
Ability: Adaptability
Level: 50
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
- Recover
- Conversion

>tfw trying to use Aegislash

I never played X&Y competitively, so how do you use this thing?

Kinda confused, since it seems it was the King of Ubers in X&Y.

>>31094210
this is what pisses me off. NPC trainers in battle facilities with unobtainable moves and abilities.

>>31094228
Porygon-Z probably won't make good use of Recover while more coverage would be great (Shadow Ball or w/e)

>>31094246
Use Shadow Ball/Flash Cannon to nuke most mons off of your base 150 SpA
Use King's Shield to revert back to your shield form
Repeat
Make sure you went with a -Spe nature to go slow as possible

>>31094279
Maybe Tri-Attack or H-Beam? I alteady have two ghost moves

So after finally finishing breeding my team of Tsareena, Smogon Sword, and Garchomp, I beat the normal singles with only a sitrus berry on Tsareena.

I do fine in supers but get caught by the typical bullshit sets.

Anyways, what items should I put on those three?

Standard sword set

Adamant tsareena

Jolly chomp

>>31091896
it is fucking weak as shit and if it fucks you over you clearly deserve it to be honest.

>>31094374
Trick room you dunce. Like why does it even learn that

>>31094291
So I guess I'm going for Quiet nature then
>Current nature is Adamant
Fug

Quiet or Brave Smogon sword?

>>31094446
quiet

>People ask for M-Mence sets
>People ask for Gyarados sets
>People furiously quit the tree after shitting the bed at a streak of 10 demanding for Pokebank to release their injected army of doom

Is this /vp/ nowdays? Every now and then something impressive comes up but that's rare as fuck. I seriously applaud to the people who still manage to get the 50s stamp because it sure seems to be rare as fuck nowdays.

>>31093056

You'll aim for Perfect HP, Sp.Atk, Def and Sp.Def.
With this you'll also need No Good for the Speed stat.

You then want the Attack stat to be randomised, and the lower the better. You don't need No Good in Attack as it's less important than No Good in Speed.

If you want 0 speed on a pokemon, just search through your box for mons that have No Good speed stats, and chain breed this IV on to your desired pokemon with Power Anklet, since this item transfers specific stats.

How's my doubles team? Haven't started playing yet, but this is the team I've got in the Pelago for EV training.

Pelipper @ Choice Specs
Drizzle, 252 SpA, 252 HP, Modest
Hurricane
Scald
U-Turn
Ice Beam maybe?

Tapu Koko @ Choice Scarf
Electric Surge, 252 SpA, 252 Spd, Modest
Thunder
Volt Switch
Grass Knot
Dazzling Gleam

Metagross @ Metagrossite
Adamant, 252 Atk, 252 Spd
Hammer Arm
Meteor Mash
Bullet Punch
Zen Headbutt

4th slot still debating. Maybe Marowak-A to Volt Switch into a Lightningrod user. Otherwise maybe Garchomp with a Life Orb. Might also switch Metagross' Hammer Arm for Hone Claws, to deal with evasion hax.

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>>31091866
Battle Tree Gengar is complete BULLLSHIT 100% hypnosis i kept switch out and he never failed the fucking hypnosis then he just spammed dream eater and nightmare and i cant even show it on vs.recorder because the enemy pokemon had illegal moves FUCK BATTTLE TRREEEEE

>>31094759
Hammer arm, Mash and Zen Headbutt. Don't do this to yourself.

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We constantly hear about how the battle tree uses hax against us, but does anyone have any replays or stories of hax against the AI?

>>31094843
Why?

>>31094865
>Mega Metagross missed
>Anon lost his 65 win streak

>>31094865
90%=0% in the Tree. Especially your best stab options, throwing Hammer Arm in too is asking for a bad time.

M-Gross is pretty shit in tree till bank rolls round.

>>31094475
>no injected army of doom

This gen is suffering

>>31094902
>>31094905
Oh...

>>31094860
I would...but conveniently, most of my good battle videos can't be uploaded due to unexplained reasons...

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>>31094860
>give Xurkitree bright powder to use hax against the tree
>it actually worked

NULW-WWWW-WWW3-MTV2

>>31094970
not one of them but it's pretty sad that people need to tell you this, it's like you never made any experience at all with stuff like this. I mean it's cool if you're completely new to the game this gen I guess but otherwise it's pretty questionable

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>>31091866
can we just remove Frozen Status from the Battle Tree

>29QG-WWWW-WWW3-LMXZ
>5EWG-WWWW-WWW3-LLZR

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>>31095075
>pheromosa is holding a wide lens
>99% chance of landing high jump kick.
>1% chance of crashing and burning
>what could possibly go wrong

Do you take the risk?

>>31095097
nope, run triple kick

Pheromosa @ Wide Lens
Ability: Beast Boost
Level: 50
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 SpA
Naive Nature
- High Jump Kick
- U-Turn
- Ice Beam
- Poison Jab

Marowak-A @ Thick Club
Ability: Lightning Rod
Level: 50
EVs: 248 HP / 16 Atk / 112 SpD / 132 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shadow Bone
- Flare Blitz
- Bonemerang
- Will-O-Wisp

Tapu Lele @ Choice Specs
Ability: Psychic Terrain
Level: 50
EVs: 252 SpA / 252 Spe / 4 SpD
Timid Nature
- Psyshock
- Moonblast
- Focus Blast
- Shadow Ball

This team got me through stock Singles as well as a 40 streak on Supers before a rain-boosted M-Swampert fucked me up. I think it works well, but would you guys suggest any changes?

>>31095097
Yes, everything with 95% or better is worth running, everything less is where you start thinking about weaker but more safe options.

>>31095081
Why does your Aegislash have pursuit? The AI barely ever switches their Pokemon for it to be useful.

Also, if you have that much trouble with status, consider Tapu Fini.

>>31095233
>Marowak-A @ Thick Club
>EVs: 248 HP / 16 Atk / 112 SpD / 132 Spe
wat

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What moves do you run on Toxapex?

I have a HA one with Haze, Scald, Toxic and Recover.

Would other moves be better on it?

>>31095401
i have pursuit cuz i got nothing better :/
also my tapu fini is adamant nature not sure if its really realiable on battle tree

>>31095435
None; that's the set

>>31095435
That's the smogon set and it's pretty much the best option, yes.

>>31095443
Use shadow sneak. It's much better than pursuit. Adamant Fini is pretty shitty, so maybe use a lum berry on something?

>>31094759
switch hammer arm for EQ for that 100% accuracy.

I'm going to use M-Aerodactyl (Adamant), what should I use for my 4th moveslot?

-EQ
-Rock slide
-Fly/Aerial Ace
-???

I'll also be using Mimikyu and maybe Specs A-Greninja (Timid)

>>31095426
Looks like the Smogon anti-Tapu spread. I tried it in the tree but there's like a hundred more useful Pokemon than a weirdly EVed Marowak.

>>31095480
Allright thanks anon im gonna give it a try

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>burned Espeon stuck alternating between Calm Mind an Protect against my paralyzed Toxapex

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Fuck yeah, I finally got to 50 in doubles.

Team was:

Lycanroc w/ King's Rock
No Guard
Jolly
252 Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP
- Rock Slide
- Thunder Fang
- Fire Fang
- Stone Edge

Mega-Mence
Adamant
252 Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP
- Double-Edge
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
- Thunder Fang

Tapu Koko w/ Shuca Berry (This actually never activated once, should have been an Air Balloon)
Timid
252 Sp.Att, 252 Speed, 4 HP
- Discharge
- Thunder
- Dazzling Gleam
- Grass Knot

Garchomp w/ Rocky Helmet
Rough Skin
Jolly
252 Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP
- Earthquake
- Dragon Claw
- Iron Head
- Rock Slide

Pretty standard really, just throw OP mons and hit hard and fast, and they all synergise in some way. Only real difference was Lycanroc, who somebody here suggested and man, it is SO good. I highly recommend giving it a go, especially when paired with Garchomp/Salamence. Rock Slide flinchhax for days, flinch on the Fang moves, even got flinches off Stone Edge, and it really stopped the Ice-type spam - Choice Scarf wasn't even needed and it could outspeed most annoying things. I have a new appreciation for moondoggo after this.

My favourite game of the streak where the AI tries to meme me and it just falls flat: 6A9W-WWWW-WWW3-Z4XT

so i instantly lost yesterday's 30 streak to a lone rotom-freezer due to sheer stupidity.
put together an impromptu team to get back streak 15 fast with kartana but it won't make the cut later.

i have the following ready to go:
>jolly megamence
>adamant megamence
>jolly SD mimikyu
>jolly kartana
>jolly multi-scale dragonite
>bold CM tapu fini
>timid tapu fini (why)
>timid tapu lele
>some +Spe/-Def/SpD pheromosa
>quiet aegislash x2
>adamant priority golisopod
>adamant A-marowak
>adamant dhelmise

and then some other good/perfect IV or partially EV trained crap including beldums, snow warning egg move vulpix, regenerator haze mareanie, minior, timid koko, adamant bulu, timid xurcitree, quiet/some +spD celesteela and BP for any megastones.

i'm kind of getting desperate after losing quite a few times in the mid30s to sheer stupidity on my part or RNG.

>>31097035
Lycanroc what form you fucktard?????

>>31097084
As if you can't figure it out yourself, idiot.

>>31097084
given his image and the lack of accelerock i think it's pretty evident he went moon form.

>>31097066
I got to 50 with Golisopod/MegaMence/Kartana.
You just have to git lucky

>>31097130
which one leading?

Well I managed 50 in Singles and Doubles without too much trouble, but Multi just makes me want to die. The only partner I've had any success with is Kiawe, but he always shits the bed in the EXACT. SAME. WAY. Right at the 40+ home stretch.

>My pokemon KO's one pokemon
>surviving opponent begins to set up
>A-Marowak used Detect
>boosted pokemon knocked down to low health, KO's my pokemon
>A-Marowak ignores the boosted opponent, gets KO'd
>Mega Kanga used Fake Out!
>on the non-boosted pokemon
>boosted pokemon KO's my final pokemon
>boosted pokemon sweeps Mega Kanga

This exact scenario has happened at 40+ wins six times in a row now. Twice to Shell Smash Kommo-o, just now to Quiver Dance Volcarona. JUST. FUCKING. FAKE-OUT THE BOOSTED POKEMON.

>>31097167
Golisopod, of course.
Gotta take advantage of that First Impression.
It's hilarious how often the AI tries to counter it with Protect, then suddenly sending out something like Espeon or Exeggutor the next match.

>>31097173
Try to make a team weak to steel, then scout Colress.

>>31097191
I've heard he's only good with Magnezone. I've never seem him use it, my current Colress uses Porygon-Z and M-Metagross and he seems pretty incapable. I tried using him for a while but he just can't sweep like Kiawe can and I always lose in the 30+ range.

>>31097210
>Porygon-Z and M-Metagross
Shit, anon, that's the exact setup my Colress had when I beat Red and Blue with him.
What pokemon are you pairing with his?
I used Lele and a Hydreigon, and they cover each other nicely.

>>31097228
M-Lucario and I've been rotating the second around a lot. I've tried all four Tapus, Garchomp, Golisopod, etc. M-Metagross just isn't that fantastic compared to M-Kanga, and Porygon-Z rarely OHKOs anything. The Kiawe team is pretty great and could easily go on an infinite win streak; I generally don't lose a single pokemon at all until the AI just shits the bed and starts spamming Detect and Fake Out on the wrong pokemon.

>>31097261
>m-lucario lead
Aren't you worried about that double fighting weakness between you and Porygon-Z?

>>31097269
There's practically nothing that can outspeed and OHKO in the first 40 battles, and even in 40-50 it's very rare. M-Lucario basically won me Super Singles by himself.

What nature for Tapu Koko? Timid or modest?

fuck multi battle. I lost battle 49 because my npc was spamming thunderbolt against a lightning rod rhyperior

>>31097416
Timid

>>31097416

Timid.

I'm generally finding it's better to go for +Speed in most scenarios where you aren't expecting to go last, because you'll 2hko either way - you may as well be faster when you do.

At least this is the case in the Battle Tree.

Can someone rate my singles team? I've never played online or anything before.

Salazzle w/ Life Orb
Timid
252 SpA, 252 Spd, 4 HP
-Fire Blast
-Sludge Bomb
-Nasty Plot
-HP Ice

Garchomp w/ Garchompite
Jolly
252 Atk, 252 Spd, 4 HP
-Swords Dance
-Earthquake
-Dragon Claw
-Fire Fang

Araquanid w/ Leftovers
-Rest
-Sleep Talk
-Liquidation
-Scald

ik it's not a very interesting team, anyone have suggestions tho? Thanks

Working on a stockroom team with a buddy for multi battle.

We've decided to go full cheese with oranguru trick room, but I'm not sure which slow pokes would fit well with it.
M-slowbro, drampa, a-marowak maybe. What else?

>>31097459
>>31097467
If i want to take it for wifi battles will it still be a good nature?

>>31097502
Hariyama. Fake out to help trick room get set up, then can do guts boosted close combats or rock slide spam to get flinches.

>>31097502

I love Reuniclus for TR rooms. Pretty good bulk, outspeeds everything and with Life Orb you shred through alot of things.

>>31097502
I pretty much broke Battle Tree by pairing Oranguru with Golisopod and, believe it or not, Dhelmise. Golisopod can do heavy damage before the Trick Room is set up, and then under it he has serious staying power with Leech Life. Dhelmise has great coverage with triple STAB and can also take a lot of punishment.

>>31097518
Yes, you can never go wrong with more speed.

>>31097518
on wifi a mixed set might be better but even then you want something +speed

What Music do yall use?

>>31097520
>>31097531
>>31097585
Interesting. I'll look into some sets.
Any ideas about A-Marowak's feasibility under trick room? I love the thing and have some min maxed eggs cooking.

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Here is a stupid video showing why Toxapex is a cute and why the healthy stalling meta is alive and well, featuring Cynthia.

AS9G-WWWW-WWW3-Z76S

>>31097669
elite 4 or tapu music

team skull boss when i play multi with guzma

Is there any ez-mode team that breaks BT?

>>31097753
>Cant play with Guzma or Mallow
I picked the inferior version...

>>31097762
For Singles, not really, three pokemon isn't enough to cover every single threat you can possibly face in 50+ battles so it's always going to come down to a certain amount of luck.

For Doubles, though, the AI can't really handle Trick Room teams.

Is there a way to scout Red and Blue for Multis? I beat Red in Super Singles but there wasn't an option to scout him.

>>31097777
At least you have Sina, I guess? Sunfags really missed out on pretty much everything version-exclusive.

>>31097228
So I tried this team one more time to see if I was missing anything. I seriously don't get what I'm missing, Porygon-Z struggled to beat a Vaporeon on Battle 1, and I lost to Wally's scarfed Garchomp on Battle 10. How is Colress in any way good?

>>31097857
At least we have Vulpix... ;_;

>>31097877
Porygon-Z is really only good in the hands of a player with Z-Conversion. It's subpar as hell without those stat boosts.

Anyone got any doubles tips/strategies for me? Any specific useful pokemon, moves, abilities etc.

Even stuff that seems common sense; before Sun i never played competively or looked into iv/natures etc. I've just been playing Super Singles but doubles looks like a whole different game.

>>31097981
Things that hit multiple Pokemon at the same time.
Quake and Rock Slide are Doubles staples for a reason.
If using Quake, don't forget to use it with something that flies.
I also make liberal use of Protect. Sometimes the AI just hates one of your mons, while the other one just fights back and doesn't care.

>>31097669

Solgaleo/Lunala legendary music.

It's pretty simple so I like it.

>>31097741
it's the same as every toxapex stall

i swapped out haze for infestation so i can tag steel types, so far it's ok. haven't met many setup sweepers to be worried about yet

Have my teams that I used for Singles and Doubles:

http://pastebin.com/hD3tXYYs

>>31098011
Let me tell you the team i had in mind, maybe you can help me out?
Iwas thinking, Instruct Oranguru and Mega Gyarados up front, and then Golisopod and Tapu Koko for back up, how's that sound?

>>31098011
Thanks anon. Also whats up with people using Oranguru alot in doubles? What about him makes him useful?

>>31097812
>For Doubles, though, the AI can't really handle Trick Room teams.

I have Sina scouted with her Trick Room Oranguru, will she always use Trick Room on turn one?

>>31097835

The receptionist tells you those assholes can't be scouted when you ask about scouting.

>>31098109

Telepathy + Instruct. One anon uses it to have the Koko use discharge twice a turn.

Speaking of, what doubles build in particular do people like for Oranguru?

>>31098109
Telepathy + Instruct son

>>31098087
I don't think Golisopod is good for doubles, the combination of First Impression + Emergency Exit isn't as abusable when two things can attack you at the same time.
You have two team members weak to Bug and Electric, each. You should either have counters for them or spread out those weaknesses more.

>>31097981

There are lots of strats designed for doubles but you don't really need to know about most of them, just look things up if you're confused about something.

Moves like Rock Slide, Dazzling Gleam are good, then moves like Surf, Earthquake and Discharge are very powerful but hit your own ally - but you can just run something immune to those moves. However don't only rely on multi-hit moves, they can be blocked by a move called Wide Guard and sometimes you just want to do heavy damage on one opponent.

Also field effects like Terrain and Weather are pretty decent in Doubles as they will affect everyone. Pokemon with Fake Out are also pretty decent, Fake Out is very useful in Doubles.

"Good doubles mons for dummies" would be:

Garchomp. Immune to Discharge, has STAB Earthquake
Salamence. Has Intimidate, immune to Earthquake.
Tapu Koko. Electric Terrain which blocks Sleep, has STAB Discharge.
Tapu Fini. Misty Terrain which blocks Status, has STAB Surf
Alolan-Marowak. Has Lightning Rod which makes it immune to Electric attacks and will absorb single-target Electric attacks on an ally.
Pelipper. Has Drizzle for Rain Teams, STAB Surf and Tailwind.
Alolan-Ninetails. Has Snow Warning for Hail teams, has Aurora Veil and Blizzard.
Lycanrock-Midnight. No Guard + Rock Slide for guaranteed damage + possible flinch.
Oranguru. Has a move called Instruct which lets an ally attack again.

Most above also have decently strong regular single-target STAB moves too.

>>31098150
Okay, then Golisopod is out, maybe I should change Gyarados for Mega Salamence with EQ, and for Golisopod's replacement... I have no idea. Maybe an Ultra Beast?

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Finally got past Wally and his bullshit.

XF8G-WWWW-WWW3-Z8UU

It was still a close battle, but his mistake was using mega garchomp, that was a free KO.

Fuck you Wally. Now I'm bracing myself for Colress, who will undoubtedly show up at round 40 to try and fuck me over (again).

>>31098205
Gyarados is probably fine, but I use the non-mega form.
Garchomp might work for your last team slot.
Having one will mean you have no weaknesses that overlap, and you get spammable STAB Quake, which Oranguru and (regular) Gyarados are immune to.
Being immune to Koko's Discharges also helps.
Just remember to give Koko Protect if you decide to use Chompy.

Stuck on last move for A-Ninetales(@Light Clay):
Aurora Veil
Moonblast
Blizzard
Encore or Freeze Dry?

>>31098273
Is it fast enough to use encore on reaction rather than relying on prediction?

>>31098266
What item should I give Gyarados then? I think the non mega strats might work

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>Looking for my waifu Plumeria
>Colress at Battle 10
>Colress at Battle 20
>Colress at Battle 30
>Colress at Battle 40
>Turn 1 Megagross outspeeds and OHKOes my Porygon Z with Zen Headbutt
>Turn 2 Mega Evolves Gyarados predicting a Zen Headbutt but he FUCKING BRICK BREAKS INSTEAD
>Forced to OHKO his Megagross with a +1 Crunch can't dance anymore
>Couldn't OHKO his Porygon 2 because balk
>Twaves my Gyara
>PARALYZED CAN'T MOVE. Porygon 2 uses Tri-attack leaving Gyara in red
>PARALYZED CAN'T MOVE. Porygon 2 KOes Gyara
>Last Pokemon Nihilego kills Porygon 2. Gets Beast Boost
>His last mon is the fucking Alolan Muk with Snarl + Rest + Minimize

Needless to say he Snarled me until I was at -6 and used Rest when he was at yellow.

>>31098289
Should outspeed most things with 31 and 252

>>31098297
I run a DDance set with Waterium Z, as a panic button.
Now that I think about it, though, I never really used it much.

>>31098289
Base 109 speed is pretty good in Aslowla.

>>31098273

I personally use freeze dry. it's perfect for dealing with stalling water types. You know the ones.

>>31098273
Freeze Dry imo
It has served me well

>>31098297
Not him, but I actually think Mega Gyarados is still great, you just don't pop right away
Think of it like a Z Crystal; you wait until EQ spam by your partner is not prudent, and pop it to shit on anyone with Crunch
It's also a free 'Don't get 1 shot by Nuzzle' button

I'm running a spd/atk Alolan Exeggutor with dragon hammer and wood hammer.

How can I make it into a star?

>>31098362
TR and Harvest

>>31098335
>>31098326
Okay, okay.
I think I got it, thanks a lot guys.
Looking at this team, there seems tobe plenty of possible combinations for the lead. This is gonna require a lot of trial and error

>>31098362
Oranguru torkoal shenanigans with a backup palm tree with harvest seems scary.

>>31098386
>sun
>harvest
>starf berry
>giga drain for repeat berry activation
is this a good mememon

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>enemy Primarina enters against my Toxapex
>uses the normal Type Z-Move as her first attack

For what purpose would you run Normallium Z on Primarina?

>>31098450
Probably for some normal-type status that it didn't use

>>31098223
The last time I fought Wally, he got two criticals that, had he not gotten them, I would have won. I did the damage calcs. I would have just scraped by.

He's a cheating fucker.

>>31098273
As far as BT is concerned, you get more mileage out of Encore by far. NPCs HATE that shit, and will switch out almost immediately, even if you encore their attacker into Swords Dance.

I personally run
Freeze-Dry
Moonblast
Aurora Veil
Encore

Blizzard, while powerful, really just eats up a spot. You don't want to be without Freeze-Dry or Encore.

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>>31098273
List of pokemon that freeze dry fucks over:

Politoed (fuck that thing)
Araquanid
Milotic (better hope it doesn't have mirror coat however)
Pelipper (x4 weakness)
Gastrodon (x4 weakness)
Primarina
Swampert
Blastoise
Starmie
Feraligatr
Wailord
Vaporeon
Clawitzer
Wishiwashi
Tentacruel
Slowbro
Gyarados (4x weakness)
Ludicolo (4x weakness)
Sharpedo
Carracosta
Greninja
Bruxish
Barbaracle
Toxapex
Golisopod

I may be leaving some out, but those I have all see frequently in the battle tree.

I'm sure I'm leaving out a

I made it to a 50 streak in singles quite easily with a team of Tapu Lele, Mega Salamence, and Celesteela for a basic DSF core.

Red was a joke and got 3-0'd by my Lele the only hard part were the Mega Metagross that strangely started popping up every other team when I reached the 40's.

Is Krookodile still an unstoppable rape machine when it gets a single kill in?

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>>31098497
anon are you okay
nice list though

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What would the best team be? I'm breeding Bagon, Mimikyu, Mareanie, and have a Salazzle ready to go. Could I use Whimsicott?

>>31098521
Moxie is not common anymore, but honestly leading him as one in Singles i pretty viable
Huge Knock Off damage for an easy kill, but you get outsped by a lot
In Doubles, though, it's inexcusable not to go Intimidate

Krook lead is being replaced by A Muk lead

>>31098546
>best team
You have to be more specific than that, anon.
Singles, Doubles, or Multis?
If the last one, then who are you pairing with?

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>enemy Muk setting up 3 Stockpiles
>use Haze the next turn

>>31098599
Haze, Knock Off and Earthquake are the 3 best and most practical moves in the game
In fact, now that Ive said it outloud I'm going to build a singles set with a mon who utilizes one of these each

>>31098568
singles. I think that M-mence kills everything and Mimikyu rekts shit and toxapex walls everything. But do I need a special attacker? My Koko doesn't have the best IVs.

>Remember the people last gen complaining about not running mixed protean Ninja because "WAIT UNTIL GUNK SHOT"
>Delude myself into thinking this again
>Get a hasty one

Tell me it's not bad! It's not like the extra defense is a meaningful life and death issue right?

A thought popped up in my head
Won't Mega Gyarados Mold Breaker disregard Oranguru's Telepathy? Because if it does, then that's no good at all

>>31098693
Only the Mold Breaker's moves
If you EQ as Gyarados, then yes, but no Gyarados uses moves that hit allies

If you DID plan on EQing as him, then yeah, you can't mega
Gyara, M or no is a single-target killer. Use him after your AOE killers can't finish the job, or to set up Intimidate on a switch in

>>31098693

I don't think it's coded that way (pretty sure Telepathy triggers after the Mold Breaker calculations are done) but you can always check.

>>31098314

>Plumeria is one I always get.
>Can never get Colress.

Let's swap teams. I've been using Jolly Life Orb Mimikyu, Mega Mence, and Z-Conversion Porygon while Lele is getting grinded up in Pelago.

>>31098676

Better start grinding him up so you can HT him then.

>>31098223
i've gone against wally like 4 times already and every time he's been free as fuck.

>>31098676
The grind to 100 is pretty painful
Honestly, tapus are just easy mode
If you're only playing for the tree, it's way more fun to use anything else

Online, though, you do need a perfect one so have fun I guess

Mimikyu:
Splash + Normalium Z or Life Orb Swords Dance?

>>31098848

The latter, I keep running into mons that spam protect and the like so repeated swords dance is useful.

>>31098848
Lum Berry Swords Dance

>>31098848
Lorb Dance for sure

>>31098848

They both do about the same amount of damage, I think LO+SD does slightly more but you'll two-shot anything with Shadow Sneak regardless

Pros to Z-Splash
+ Only takes one turn to come online
+ Ignores Taunt (kind of a big deal)
+ No health cost obviously

Pros to SD + Life Orb
+ Can afford to switch out of a bad match-up
+ Can break walls and counter Haze, by doing extra boosts in their face
+ No annoying cutscene

I prefer Z-Splash because I need to give my Life Orb to someone else, and my Mimikyu is a HP+Atk Adamant type it's actually pretty tanky even with Disguise down, so having no LO recoil makes it really reliable.

For a Jolly Atk+Speed Mimikyu, Life Orb probably makes more sense and you don't have to play knowing you only get one boost to make use with.

>>31098497
Garchomp (4x weakness)

>>31098987
Only if he switches into to you after a Veil
If both he and you lead and he's Scarfed like he should be,

252 Atk Garchomp Iron Head vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Ninetales-Alola: 444-524 (154.7 - 182.5%) -- guaranteed OHKO

>>31098987
Yeah but so does any other ice move normally.

That list is to point out pokemon that get fucked by it that no other ice type move would.

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>>31097035
Grats anon. Always good so see night dog get some respect.

>6A9W-WWWW-WWW3-Z4XT
>fake out
>rough rocky helmet
>stone edge
>yawn
>FU electric terrain to rockslide
GGs sleep hax

>>31097084
You could always try it yourself you know. No guard night is legit in doubles.

>>31095566
An elemental Fang of your choice and Aerial Ace.

>>31091866
Battle Tree is cancer
you have to cheese so hard it's not fun anymore or you lose after 3rd round

>>31094860
Part of that is because battle tree occasionally uses movesets that don't pass the ingame check, so you won't be able to upload.

>>31099226
I know about that, but I was mostly asking for videos of players having abnormally good luck or AI having really bad luck.

>>31099190
Cheesi g the fuck out of it IS the fun part
Only autistic manchildren get angry at video games
I you lose then too fucking bad, be a man and try again

>>31099292
I had a match where even though I was paralyzed i still hit every time
Didn't think much of it and I didn't save it

FUCK Araquanid and its stupid stalling evasive ass

>that Spiritomb who doesn't do anything but Pain Split
But
why

So, what trainer did you guys scout for Multis?

>>31099637
Colress. He had Porygon2 and Megagross. Multi battles were a breeze with him.

>>31099292
Nothing fancy but have blue being para/flinch haxed in super doubles

WD3G-WWWW-WWW3G5LW

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>>31099655
>tfw fighting Colress as you typed this
>It's Porygon2 and Metagross with Explosion

Any suggestion for a partner for Tapu Fini in double battles?

>>31099750
A-Marowak

Ok so for garchomp you want
Earthquake
Swords Dance
Outrage
???

got to 30 or so messing with sort of random mons

>this piece of shit comes out
>switch to azumarill to best tank the incoming blizzard
>instant freeze
>glaceon uses hail
>rip water bunny
>proceeds to instantly freeze aegislash
>repeat last part
>hydreigon's flash cannon misses
>bye hydra bro
like I get it blizzard can freeze but that first one hit and froze the first turn

>>31099854
Wrong you dont want SD on Garchomp you actually want Earthquake, Outrage, Poison Jab and Crunch

are anabel, grimsley and dexio moon exclusive or something?

they're the only returning trainers I haven't fought in the tree yet and I'm playing sun

>>31100113
Dexio is, but the others aren't

>>31100113
Nope. You team must do too well against them

>>31099767
Thanks. Any set suggestions for a-marowak?
I think an adamant set with lightning rod (to protect fini) might be good in my team.

>>31099854
Garchomp wont survive Sword Dance

>>31097035
why do you have rock slide AND stone edge on 'no guard' lycanrock?

So I'm building a starting team for the tree and began with breeding a hexaperfect Adamant Honedge out of sheer luck on the first egg.
I'll go with 252 hp, 252 attack and 4 def.
But what should I pair it with in singles? Megamence is an obvious pick and easy-ish to get, but what should the third mon be? Also, should I breed DD for mence or go without?

>>31100185
I assume Rock Slide is for the extra flinch chance with King's Rock, plus it's a spread move for doubles, with Stone Edge for focused damage

>>31100185
Why not? Rock slide to get rid of focus sashes and potential flinch hax. Stone non miss for hard hitting when needed.

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>>31100068
oops

>>31100069
SD Chomp user here, set is fine if you have another mon to take care of fairies. Most of them don't like taking boosted quakes anyway.

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>enemy Snorlax used Belly Drum
>Snorlax is hurt by it's burn
>Snorlax fainted

>>31100185

Lycanroc's moveset is actually super limited so there isn't much else besides the two fangs already there, and I barely used them even though though they synergise so well.

Stone Edge gives you focused burst on a single target instead of spreading out your rock damage when you don't want to. And I mean hell, it's a 100 damage STAB move with increased crit chance and it won't miss ever. Very hard to pass that up.

Also doubling up moves isn't a bad idea in Battle Tree as the AI will interpret it as more of a reason not to run pokemon weak to them - in my case more Rock moves = less Ice types trying to counter my dragons.

>>31099118

Because of the contact damage I broke it's Sash. I also didn't take the bait trying to Thunder the Alakazam, which would have been absorbed by Lighting Rod otherwise.

Funny thing is I faced the exact same thing a few trainers later, tried the same tricks and they completely punished me for it. I didn't feel so cool then.

This is stupid but do you guys care if your pokemon are male or female? Normally i wouldnt care but the last 3 pokemoms i've hatched with the right IVs are all female..

>>31101184
Nope...or atlease not completely. It's rare but attract hax exists and you don't want your whole team to be the same gender if it happens.

>>31101184
I prefer female just so I can easily get more egg moves later, but that's about it. Most mons don't have more than two good egg moves anyway.

>>31101184

Depends if it's excessively femminine or masculine in design. Machamp's gotta me male and Gardvoir has gotta be female, beyond shit like that, I don't care.

>>31097035
I'm kind of late with this, but the Lycanroc set is absolutely awful. In case you didn't know (and I'm pretty sure you didn't know), King's Rock does NOT stack with moves that already have a chance to flinch. In other words, when you're using Rock Slide, Thunder Fang or Fire Fang, your held item literally doesn't do anything. In that set it only works with Stone Edge. I suggest that you change the item immediately to something better like Scarf, Band, Life Orb, Focus Sash or Expert Belt. Pretty much anything else to be honest.

>>31101184
i generally try to go for females only since breeding them later is much easier. The only exception is if the pokemon has a really annoying gender ratio and i need to breed for a hidden power (e.g. HP Fire Froakie or Eevee) or if I get a stray shiny and it happens to be male. Then i don't care

>>31102226
at least he already got to 50

>>31091866
Migrate here once thread dies, no need for a new one
>>31099977

>>31092165
bump

>>31102226

Really? I didn't know that.

Oh well, it still worked. And funnily enough I got a few flinches on Stone Edge so it did actually pull its weight.

Guess i'll switch it to Sash.

>>31103810
That anon is right about rock slide. He's wrong about the fangs tho. Kings rock does stack with them.

>>31103866
>He's wrong about the fangs tho
No I'm not. The Fangs have a 10% chance to flinch, therefore King's Rock doesn't stack with them.

>>31103914
Anon It's ok to be wrong you know. It's not that big of a deal.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Fire_Fang_(move)
http://www.serebii.net/attackdex-dp/firefang.shtml

Kings rock doesn't affect things with at least a 30% flinch chance for the most part.

Okay guys, this is not a loss story or anything, just a terrifying thing that happened to me the other day.

I was in round 40-something in singles, I started with Mimikyu as usual, the oponent sent out Oranguru.
I didn't want to lose Mimikyu's disguise to such a bulky and obnoxious mon, so I switched to Celesteela right away.

That fucking beast used a Z-Thunder. On a Celesteela. When that Celesteela tecnically was a Mimikyu with the disguise on.

It was a crit, my Celesteela died turn one.

I ended up winning the battle anyway, but hoyl shit, talk about rough starts.

>>31103957
>Anon It's ok to be wrong you know. It's not that big of a deal.
Not only are you wrong yourself but you're giving these smartass responses to make yourself look even more stupid.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Evolution-inducing_held_item#King.27s_Rock
>Has a 10% chance of causing the target Pokémon to flinch when using a move that deals damage and does not already have a chance to flinch.

http://www.smogon.com/dex/sm/items/kings_rock/
>Gives moves a 10% flinch chance if they do not have one already.

If you want to be an asshole, at least make sure you're correct.

>>31104029
The ai for some fucking dumb reason, keeps using Thunder on my Mimikyu.
It always hits. They never missed one yet. I've been playing this for around 15 hours[/spoilers]

>>31104060
But I'm not being an ass? Calm down with the anger. If I'm wrong i'm wrong. No big deal.

how/where i can see ur battle using battle code?

Is zygarde complete good for the tree to cheese it? I got mine adamant 4iv -spA -sdD. I'm ev training it for attack and speed (?). Thousand arrows, rest, sleep talk, dragon dance. Maybe leftovers. Who should I use with it?

>>31100069
What the hell is Crunch for? SD + Lum Berry let you sweep easily. Iron Head for fairy and ice coverage.

>>31104832
since when is zygarde allowed in tree

>>31104832
Zygarde is illegal dude. Even the 10% form.

Oh shit I didn't know any poles weren't allowed I haven't fucked with tree yet I just started working on a team today. Now I'm sad I wasted time finding all those damn cells

Pokes

>>31104965

Why would you think Zygarde would be allowed in the tree?

Currently breeding a bold Wide Guard Pelliper for doubles. What build should I give it and who should I team it up with aside from Koko?

Also Leftovers or Damp Rock?

>>31105272

Koko or something like Gastrodon, though nobody bothers with Gastrodon at the moment since it can't learn Earth Power yet.

Move set could be:

- Wide Guard
- Hurricane
- Tailwind is great
- Scald / Surf if you want to run Protect on Koko

Run something like A-Marowak or a Ground type to switch into when you expect Electric damage

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>using tapu's or UB's in the tree

I have an Adamant Minior with perfect IVs in everything except special attack, Already maxed out his attack EVs, should I dump the rest in speed?

Does Top Lel have any place in doubles? I just spent 12 rare candies bumping my modest one (works well with scarf) into hyper training range so I could fix her shit hp and sp.sef.

>>31098162
Pelipper has Wide Guard as well. He's a godly partner this game.

What's the best item for the Memekyu set? Life Orb, Rocky Helmet, Mental Herb, Lum, something else? I'm using Red Card, and I haven't ran into anything where it actually made a difference.

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>>31105645
>he likes losing

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>>31105645
>MFW team is a Tapu, an UB, and Mimikyu

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Reminder that there are people on /vp/ who cannot

-Unlock Super Singles
-Get a streak of 30+

Who are the best partners?

I've been doing work with Wallys Garchomp/Gallade

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>tfw lost in Doubles at battle 99
Maaaan, I couldn't get anywhere near my old Maison record. Have to wait for that Pokebank compatibility to get my old Mons here.

Would appreciate some advice here.

I just lost at battle 47. My team:

Xurkitree@ Choice Specs [Timid]
Volt Switch
Thunderbolt
HP Ice
Energy Ball

Gyarados@ Gyaradosite [Jolly]
Waterfall
Crunch
Dragon Dance
Earthquake

Garchomp@ Choice Scarf [Jolly]
Earthquake
Outrage
Rock Slide
Iron Head

I lost against: Lurantis, Exeggutor, Leafeon.

Lurantis was easy enough, but the Exeggutor 1HKOd Garchomp with Bloom Doom, and then did the same to Xurkitree with Leaf Storm (Lurantis set up Sunny Day before it fainted so Exeggutor was fast). I sent in Gyarados, got up a DD while Exeggutor used Grassy Terrain and then KOd it. Leafeon 1HKOd with Leaf Blade after I chipped away half its health.

I could have gone for another DD, but I played it safe (figured if I got greedy I would get a critical leaf storm hit on me).

Basically, I'm not sure what I could switch around with to deal with bulky grass types without creating other holes. I could replace Xurk with Tapu koko, but then I lose grass coverage in energy ball. this team consistently gets me to a ~45 streak but I need a change for that last push

>>31108249
also I just realized that tapu koko gets grass knot, so that might be something to think about after all

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Just beat regular Singles for the first time. Nothing special, but feels good for someone who's literally never thought about things like competitive Pokemon, battling, or breeding.

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>Lead with Lele
>She dies, I send out Mimikyu
>Quickly reminded that Shadow Sneak doesn't work

Of course, this HAD to happen on a battle where I was actually threatened. Fucking Kiawe and his slutlizard. This is why I hate black people.

>>31091939
I beat doubles with arcanine, azumarill, luxray and mega metagross.

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>>31104921
>>31104931
>Zygarde is illegal in the tree
>Legal in Battle Royale
Some decisions don't make sense

>>31108408
Zygarde is legal in Battle Royal?

>>31108520
I saw multiple people use it. I have a Battle Video of one and even Zygarde complete was used.

>>31108540
Man, I have to get myself one. Just can't think of a set to run on it. Maybe specially defensive RestTalk Coil, although I'd like to try a Substitute set too to activate Power Construct.

>>31108645
Yeah I have no idea how to use this thing. I know Thousand Arrows is good and that's about it.

Problem is I still have to get all the cores and I only have 20 left.

>>31094291
And then you run into Wishiwashi

What's a good set to use for Tapu Koko?

I'm using
-Dazzling Gleam
-Thunderbolt
-Volt Switch
-Grass Knot

I feel like Grass Knot isn't pulling it's weight because you need a heavy water Pokemon for it to be effective enough and that's kinda of rare in the Tree.

I mainly used Volt Switch for STAB and the Electric Terrain boost. Don't really want to use U-Turn since it does ass damage and Kartana uses X-Scissor to cover Bug.

>>31108669

Once I got to 80 cores I just grabbed spare Zygarde Doggos off the GTS, you can usually trade them for spare Ultra Beasts or stuff like Politoed.

Way easier.

>>31108943
i used this as my lead for 50 streak in SS

hasty/naive @ life orb
128 at/128 spat/252 spe
tbolt
brave bird
dazzling gleam
uturn

worked pretty well, 1shotted all red's pokes

>>31108962
Oh shit, I never even though of that. Thanks for telling me anon.

>>31108325
iktf
Earlier i baton passed an evoboost onto golisopod without realizing what i had done until it was too late

>>31108325
why wouldnt shadow sneak work on salazzle?

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>>31095055
Holy shit that was ass clenching

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>Perfectly timed Ribombee switch into a dragon z-move
My diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick

Should I breed a Skarmory, or use this neutral-natured Celesteela I've got?

how well would magmortar run with dragonite/mence/chomp in singles?
who's a good third?

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Just got wiped at floor 38 by legit cheating AI
>Pheromosa w/ 441 speed
OUTSPED by
>Typhlosion with a maximum speed of 250 w/ 31 speed IVs, 252 speed EVs, speed boosting nature and a choice scarf

No moves with priority were selected. There was no quick claw activation either.

How the fuck is this possible unless the AI cheated?

>>31109594
Upload the video

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First Singles Trainer Had a Tauros that swept my entire team.
Send In Gengar, OHKO to Zen Headbutt.
Magnazone dies to earthquake.
Toxapex goes out like Gengar after surviving with Baneful Bunker.
Goddammit, why am I so mediocre?!

>>31109648
I just tried and it won't let me.

>>31109664
Record the video via phone or something and upload it to youtube

Whats the ideal EV spread for Adamant Megamence?

Max HP Half Atk/Spd?

>>31109718
Max att and spe.

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>Porygon2 with Double Team Recover

Holy shit, why is this allowed?

>>31109675

https://youtu.be/HKKlkbLt8ow

>>31109893
Anon, you realize that both pokemon are level 50?
>223 spd
vs
>152 x 1.5 spe
Its pretty clear it wasnt illegal.

>>31109966
Fuck I was looking at the speed from my pheromosa outside of battle

How good do you think a trio of Tapu Bulu, Mega-Metagross, amnd Dragon Silvally could be in Super Singles? I already got my stamp and I just want to try out teams for fun.

I'm thinking of having a Trick Room team for Singles consisting of Rock Head M-Marowak, Shiinotic and the Trick Room setter itself.
Who would be great for setting trick room?

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>>31109063
My Top Lel's Psychic Terrain stops priority. I was leading with her the whole time, and that fucking with SS never even crossed my mind.

Anyway, I did a salty runback (Leading with Mimikyu) and now I'm at 31. Is this where the BS really kicks in?

>>31109718
>>31109762
some HP investment helps to survive ice beams from golisopod.

How the fuck do I fight Annabelle

>>31110349
I use Porygon2

>>31110471
Mind giving me your EV distribution, moveset and nature?

>>31110507
252 HP 130Def 126Spd
Modest
Tri Attack, Trick Room, Recover, Ice Beam/Flamethrower/HP whatever coverage you want most

Not sure of its the most effective way but it works for me

>>31110597
Thank you dude!

best place to EV train?
right now doing psyducks for SpA

If I wanna take an Absol into the tree as my choice Mega who are good team mates? I was considering one of Tapu Koko/Tapu Lele and Celesteela.

>>31097777
>>31097857
Source?
You can't recruit Guzma in Sun Version?

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I FUCKING LOST IN THE LAST BATTLE

Mega Charizard Y wrecked my entire team

>>31111741
My team is:

Metagross @ Metagrossite
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 Atk / 128 Def / 128 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Meteor Mash
- Zen Headbutt
- Hammer Arm
- Bullet Punch

Kommo-o @ Fighttinium Z
Ability: Bulletproof
EVs: 252 Atk / 128 Def / 128 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Claw
- Sky Uppercut
- Poison Jab
- Dragon Dance

Primarina @ Choice Specs
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 252 SpA / 252 SpD / 4 HP
Modest Nature
- Scald
- Moonblast
- Ice Beam
- Psychic

I guess i lack speed

R.I.P. my first attempt at Super Singles. Plumeria's mega-gengar ate my team for lunch on the 20th battle.

>>31111741
>tfw Red used Mega Blastoise

Literally the least threatening mega he could have used

>>31111996
I fought that too and expected to get cucked by dude Hypnosis no escape lmao but she just Shadow Balled and I KO
Would enjoy again

what set should i run on Drampa for singles

wow, you guys weren't kidding; encore gives the cpu conniptions

How viable is this set? It was great for the past battle facilities.

Gengar@Focus Sash
252/252 SpA/Speed
-Sludge Bomb
-Shadow Ball
-Dazzling Gleam
-Destiny Bond

Lead and if you can 2hko whilst being brought down to sash. Then destiny bond to get rid of the 2nd mon as you go.

Obvs weather and priority are issues but you could work around that in the maison.

How do things like Pixilate work in conjunction with Z-moves? Will it turn a breakneck blitz into boosted fairy type damage?

>>31114574
>>31114944
guys wrong thread

>>31099977

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F

My kik is RedMatzoo

Lets play pokemon. I want to battle someone....

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>>31115516
Kill yourself

>>31111111
Just checking the get