Battle Tree

Did they have a tailwind up?

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>Opponent used rest!

>>31220623
Choice scarf?

>>31220623
It's probably scarfed and has a speed increasing nature

>>31220666
>Tsareena survived thanks to Focus Sash

>>31220640
Nope.
Also no stat changes or effects except my Psychic Surge from Lele-chan

>>31220623
choice scarf

>>31220623
Do you have the vid?

>>31220666
>>31220623
Fuck, It's focus sash, I'm dumb, so maybe tailwind

>>31220666
>>31220672
>>31220679
Guys learn reading....

>>31220623
You bought the Modest meme instead of getting Timid like a regular goyim. You probably speed tied and it won

>>31220692
Sadly no.... <.<
Forgot about that.

>>31220700
No way a base 72 can speed tie with a base 132

>>31220623
>not realizing the battle tree cheats
That's why I always hack in broken as fuck Pokemon to clear this thing. If Gamefreak is going to use stupid sets and cheating Pokemon then I might as well do the same.

>>31220736
just wanted somebody to say this. Thx :3

>>31220722
It must be Toucannon used tailwind but you not noticed.

>>31220770
That would shown on the bottom screen.

>>31220722
It has 250 speed rounded up. So either your greninja isn't fully trained in its stats or you missed a tailwind.

>>31220708
><.<
>>31220745
>:3
Faggot.

Just dropping by to say that Celesteela is a fucking MVP

>>31220623
I have a similar experience with this kind of bullshit.
And it's a fucking magmortar outspeed a jolly mega Salamence with 252 EVs in speed

>>31220623
>Mallow doesn't dress as steenee in game
why

>>31220623
Why would you not use a priority move if it outsped you the first time? Do you not carry WS on it?

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>>31220644
>opponent woke up using its Chesto Berry

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It's because max speed Tsareena outspeeds a Modest Ash-Greninja by a single point.
Call her queen.

>>31224284
It doesn't even outspeed uninvested regular Greninja.

>>31224342
yeah, it does.
neutral nature greninja with 0 investments in IVs or EVs has 249 speed

Tsareena maxed out in Speed investment and a speed nature has 267 (only by a sad 18 points)

However this still doesn't explain the actual point. It's obvious OP is a dipshit who missed tailwind. Next time save the video before you come on here to blog.

>>31224409
Uninvested doesn't mean 0 IVs, just no boost. No one does that unless they run Trick Room and if they do they don't use Greninja.

>However this still doesn't explain the actual point. It's obvious OP is a dipshit who missed tailwind
Pretty much. Impossible moves is one thing, but unless you think they actually have 999 Evs or some shit, this situation is impossible.

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>>31220736

You must be trolling right? If you wanted to talk about weird RNG rolls on secondary effects or the enemy team frequently selecting pokemon that are good vs your lead pokemon, sure you might have some substance to argue with. Seriously thinking the game gives free stat boosts to the enemy?

The only thing that comes to mind in the Battle Tree is Kommo-o with Shell Smash, but that along with other Pokemon that you can face but can't obtain in the tree should become unlocked once the Pokebank opens up.

>>31220623

Can someone give advice on team building? I'm not new to pokemon but when it comes to team building I always just kind of threw pokemon that I liked together, so long as they were not the same type I just assume it will work out. The people in the Battle Tree threads seem to think it's hard enough to really push you though so I think it may be time to actually put thought into my teams.

I know I want to bring one rock type pokemon, so the next logical thing is to being a pokemon that covers Rock type weaknesses. Should I bring a stall mon into the tree? Should I have to somehow have an answer to every single type of opponent on my 3 pokemon? I made a hypothetical team of 3 in my head, but they don't have an answer to steel types.

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>>31220623
I'd like to see how far this can go...

Contact Pokemon Customer Support and ask why this happened.Explain every detail possible and see what the fucking reps do

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>it's the opponent spams protect for no good reason other then to make the match longer
Why would you bother putting that on a Honchkrow?

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>>31225027

>>31225027
Just get a celesteela, lele and a Boosting pokemon like Mence/gyara/dragonite

>>31225101
>>31225139

That doesn't answer my question at all. I know I could win if I just took generic legendaries ultra beasts and OP megas. I want to win with the pokemon I like, like Meganium.

>>31225151
I dont know what winning means to you, but if youre gonna use stuff like meganium, good luck going past 15th round

>>31224236
Queenly Majesty

What are some mons you like for trick room doubles? Right now I'm running lum oranguru, specs vikavolt, a-marowak, and LO bewear.
I have a few other TR mons ready to go: araquanid, golisopod, a-exeggutor, wishiwashi, porygon2, a-golem, komala, and crabominable

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>>31225151
>use meganium
>want to win
I don't know how to tell you this anon...

>>31225251
>>31225174

I'd rather take pride in getting to round 15 with my bros than actually win using Mega Salamance, Tapu Lele and Celesteela

>>31225263
You'll take pride in nothing because you'll bust your ass getting there if you ever do. Even if you did, nothing under 50 matters.

>>31225278

If I beat battle tree using lycanroc night, meganium, and pyukumuku would you be impressed with my skill and dedication?

be honest

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>>31225263
It's okay, anon, I like Meganium too. It's not the best, but you can use it as a Dual Screener/Cleric to support the rest of your team. I can't really give you a full set, but something like
Reflect
Light Screen
Aromatherapy/Leech Seed
Energy Ball/Return
could potentially work. It's really just a matter of playing your Pokemon's strengths and being smart. Good luck to you!

>>31225307
You cant beat battle tree you can only get as high as you can

>>31225070
>>31225070
>>31225070
>>31225070
>>31225070
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>>31225070

Alright, three times in a row fucking kiawe has destroyed me before I hit 50. I'm using kartana focus sash, xurkitree life orb, and nihilego assault vest. What am I doing wrong?

>>31225027
No, you go full Hyperoffense in Battle Tree, No stall shit. The tree needs to fuck you over only once, while you have to get through atleast 50 Trainers. Stall gives your opponent more time to fuck you over, to get that one 30% OHKO roll or that one crit they need.
Sure, full HO doesn't mean you'll instantly win, but at least it gives your opponent less time to fuck you over.

>>31225436
Got those battle replays?

>>31225070
They'll gonna tell him the same shit we told him: He's a fucking retard and missed a Tailwind.

>>31225505
Pretty much this. If you really want switch ins I'd suggest mons that despite defensive investment still hit hard. Think thank chomp or AV Primarina. They are tanky but they still do the job of dealing damage. Now, one could argue there are better mons out there doing the same job but hey it's an example. Stall works, but HO does an even better job.

>>31225575
I'd say in my experience you get more out of megamence than chomp. Like you said though, bulky shit that hits hard will do well. The two things I'd say are the most important for the battle tower are being able to safely switch in and hitting hard, since switching is really the most important thing there is when it comes to working around the AI

Thoughts on my team for Super Singles?

Tapu Bulu @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Grassy Surge
Level: 50
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Wood Hammer
- Horn Leech
- Megahorn
- Superpower

Muk-Alola @ Black Sludge
Ability: Poison Touch
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Knock Off
- Poison Jab
- Minimize
- Protect

Slowbro @ Slowbronite
Ability: Regenerator
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Ice Beam
- Calm Mind
- Slack Off

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>>31226681
Choice of mons seem to cover each other's weaknesses nicely but it feels like there's a lack of momentum and a concern is whether or not you'll be able to have the right mons out at the right time, and whether you can bring them in safely.

I can see some Rotom leads like Mow, Fly and Frost giving you a hard time. Mow and Fly threaten Bulu and Muk with WoW which could render them basically useless while having type advantage over Slowbro, while Frost forces you to superpower with Bulu and then switch out assuming Superpower kills. Look out for Sash Gengar as well as other mons that pack sleep status as this team seems highly susceptible to sleep as well as burn.

Haven't tried Slowbro myself in the tree but it looks like it'll have a good handful of opportunities to setup and sweep teams.

Just take the team for a spin and report back with what you had trouble with!

>>31227115
All you say makes sense. Tapu Bulu was a last minute addition, but seems to fit nice covering the others. I haven't faced any Rotom form yet, though. Sash Gengar, on the other hand, is a hard match up, so I'm thinking about adding some form of priority

I've been going full autism for an hour to get a Synchronize Pokemon for capturing Tapu Fini

what is Fini's best nature?

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>try out Specs Fini
>gee it's no so ba-
>gets swept by Grimsley's Houndoom due to being outsped

I've made a huge mistake

>>31225505

What a contradiction.

"The tree needs to fuck you over only once."

That is the key, that is why Pokemon that can tank some hits and set-up are the most consistent and reliable choices in the Tree. You need to do everything in your power to maintain consistency. Recovery, Substitute to status/crit-sponge and boosting are crucial to 50+ streaks. You don't necessarily need all of them, but at least some of them.

Hyperoffense is great for the first 30 battles, but once the big-guns start coming out on the opposing side, Hyperoffense starts seeing it's flaws. 1-2 bad match ups vs a Hyperoffensive team and the game is done.

I started off using Lele/Kartana/M-Gyarados. It was solid but Kartana/Lele have nothing to properly fall back on vs opponents they can't tank so just a few bad match ups and they crumpled, if it was a Pokemon that Gyarados couldn't handle then the match was lost.

Aegislash + Ground immune Intimidate core is probably one of the best switch cores and has responsible for my 70+ streaks.

>>31225100
I hate this shit so much.
>Out with no charger doing the Battle Tree
>Red Light starts flashing as I begin a battle
>"Shit, better beat this quick so I can save."
>As though the game somehow heard me say that, it presents me with a team full of flinch-inducers and Pokemon packing protect to stall out the match

>>31220623
Did you level your Greninja to 50?

>>31227547
I run calm but really you could run any of calm, bold, modest, timid. It depends what you want it to do.

>>31220623
Best Girl kills A+ Pokemon

>>31224260
The opposing Sceptile used Leaf Storm!
Sceptile recovered its status using its White Herb!

And that's the story of how my scarfchomp got outsped for the first time.

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>>31220623

Can I get some advice on my team? I threw something together to see how it'd work, got me to 20 but Cynthia's mega cario 1hko crit 2 of my team members so I have no idea how this holds up against the higher tree stuff

Also the EV spreads aren't exact, just what I remember dumping

Kommo-o
Timid Soundproof @Life Orb
40 A / 212 SPA / 252 SP
- Substitute
- Flamethrower
- Brick Break
- Clanging Scales

Arcanine
Naive Intimidate @Sitrus Berry
252 HP / 252 DEF
- Will o Wisp
- Fire Fang (Need to change this to flare blitz, but the flinch hax and no self damage are really nice)
- Extreme Speed
- Morning Sun

Gyrados
Adamant Intimidate @Lum Berry
252 A / 252 S
- Waterfall
- Ice Fang
- Crunch
- Dragon Dance

Any tips for a doubles hail team? I was doing pretty good ~35 battles with Ninetails, sandslash, mega gyarados, and garchomp before losing to a rain team with pelipper, mega swampert, greninja and kingdra.

Honestly it was a breeze until then but I guess I was over reliant on aroura veil/slush rush. I'm just not sure what I can do to make sure I can do to beat opposing weather when every other setter out-slows and overrides hail.

>>31228139
Porygon-z going ice type with z-conversion and spamming Blizzard alongside Ninetales does wonders on a hail team.
If hail is gone then you have to manage to switch Ninetales back in, there's no other solution I know of. If Aurora Veil is in play the risk of doing that is reduced

>>31225151
Meganium isn't going to be winning anything. Its stats are all over the place, barely has a movepool to work with, not enough defenses to be a wall/tank, not enough speed and attack to be a sweeper...Hell, the worst part is its 80 speed which is no mans land as far as speed tiers go: too slow to sweep, too fast to be useable in trick room.

Winning with pokemon you like IS possible because I was able to score 50 wins in the battle maison in ORAS with a fucking Chesnaught and mega Blastoise. But Meganiums stats just don't do it any favors.

does damp rock also work with drizzle, or only on a rain dance use?

>>31220623
mallow is wearing a diaper

>>31229385
nah, they're puffy shorts

>>31229385
diaper beam lol

I've never seen the A.I be this desperate to shut down my weather team.

8MSW-WWWW-WWW4-4SWC

>have minior as lead
>first enemy has rock resist berry
>second enemy has flying resist berry
>tfw counterpicked on FIRST BATTLE

>>31229660
yeah, the pc gets to see your team and counterpick from its sets. SOMETIMES it doesn't, but that's pretty rare

>>31229604

Ran into the same asshole 3 matches later. His Walrein PP stalled 2 Pokemon at once.

BKHW-WWWW-WWW4-4SJV

>>31220736
Which mons/sets you talking about willass?

>>31229224
Works with drizzle

I want to run Oranguru in doubles. What's a good Nature / EV set for this guy? I was thinking Bold with EVs in Defense / Hp.

>>31229850
thanks

>>31229854
Relaxed instead of Bold. If you're using Oranguru, use it for Trick Room and slow as shit partners that you can Instruct.

>>31225505
Id probably advise everyone here to get at least 1 stall mon

Especially when you didnt ohko that hippowdon then it starts cursing/resting on you.

>>31228022

Cynthia becomes a non issue if you use a jolly+Fsash SD Garchomp. Breezed through Maison+tree with it. Usually have similar results with a Multiscale Dragonite with DD setup if you wanna be a hipster (or love Dragonite like I do)


Also is Arcanine's nature random or am I missing something? IMO Will o Wisp + Intimidate let's you get away with a SDEF investment instead of a DEF one.

>>31220623
>Mallow sends out Tsareena
>...
>Tsareena survived thanks to Focus Sash
Wait what the fuck. Since when does Mallow have a Sash Tsareena? The only sets listed on Serebii's Battle Tree catalogue are AV and Scarf.
Also, have this:
>252+ SpA Greninja-Ash Ice Beam vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Tsareena: 130-154 (88.4 - 104.7%) -- 25% chance to OHKO (at level 50)
If you weren't running a boosting item, you just got a low damage roll against a Scarf Tsareena. That's why you lost.

Im thinking of changing LO Tapu lele with an AV a Golisopod as my front line pokemon

Thoughts?

>Never ever run into Colress in singles.
>He won't fuck off in doubles.

At least I finally got a solid scout out of him. His team always makes me just barely win at best though.

What are the best hacked mons to use in doubles? I'm tired to doing thing the right way and getting fucked by the tree. I was thinking of just using super fast Pokémon and just giving them No Guard and OHKO moves. Is there anything better?

I just got my last tree stamp. What do I do now since I'm not into PVP?

What's a good nature for Lunala? Modest or Timid?

>>31231038
Complete your pokedex if you haven't yet?
Breed shinies?

>>31231048
You can't even use it in the Battle Tree.

>>31231087

Already completed it and I don't like breeding shinies in gen starting games as I prefer breeding shinies that have a chance of lasting competitively which means waiting for move tutors I can breed them around.

All that's left to do that I can think of is grinding poke finder likes.

>>31231093
Well damn. Looks like I came to the wrong threa then.

Does the game use the Oranguru/Torkoal combo? My team is weak to that, I'd like to know if I have to face it

So, is there a way to lure out certain teams/trainers for the 10x battles? Like MegaGross Colres and Mega Latios Anabel. Would using pokemons counterable by theirs work?

>>31233547

Can't say for Anabel, I got all 3 stamps and never saw her.

However, I couldn't get Colress to fuck off in doubles with my team being Tapu Koko/Pelliper in the lead with Ash-Greninja and MegaMence in the back. Do note that I almost always just barely won against him with that team.

Should I run adamant or jolly megamence?

>>31233683
Adamant worked the best for me in doubles. Can't really say for singles.

>>31233683
I use Adamant in singles. Muh damage

>>31233698
>>31233752
Gonna go adamant then, thanks

>just started doubles last night
>got my 20 streak on my first try in regular doubles
>currently on a 30 streak on my first attempt at super doubles
Is oranguru the best doubles trick room setter ever? That typing, no fear of fake out, instruct, screens, all the other good utility moves like quash and after you. Granted it's not nearly as bulky as cresselia but it's not frail.

what's the best set for porygon2 in the battle tree? since I don't have the dubious disc yet

>>31234122
eviolite pory2, 252 hp 126/126 def/spdef, recover, thunderbolt, ice beam, toxic

>>31234122

Go fight Faba at Aether paradise.

>>31234166
Where is he?

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>Office Worker Jana
>"When I'm tired and go home, only Pokemon make me feel welcome in that dark room."

>>31234179

The main floor by the door that lead to the first battle with Lusamine.

>>31234166
>read shopping details on serebii instead of location
fuck, thanks anon

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Okay kids listen up! Here's the secret to battle tree! Cheese the AI.

Porygon-Z@normaliumZ
Adaptability
Timid, 4hp 252spa 252spe
Shadow Ball
Conversion
Thunderbolt
HPFighting

The battle tree will generate lots of fighting type leads to counter your normal type lead. Lucky for you, you use Z-Conversion to become a ghost type and they can't touch you. Now sweep with shadow ball, which thanks to Adaptability does heaps of damage.

Sometimes this won't work. It happens. Luckily for you, you brought two other Pokemon.

Pheromosa@life orb/focus sash
Adamant
252atk 4def 252spe
Poison Jab
High Jump Kick
Lunge
U-Turn

Bring this in if you can OHKO whatever is in. Spoiler alert: you almost definitely can. It's also probably a dark type since they present a problem for your Porygon-Z, and you destroy those. After one Beast boost, which will affect your attack due to this spread, you can sweep. U-Turn out if you somehow can't OKHO.

Metagross@Metagrossite
Adamant
252atk 4def 252spe
Meteor Mash
Bullet Punch
Zen Headbutt
Earthquake

Bring this in to clean house. It requires a little RNG to get moving, with meteor mash as your primary attack, but it gains momentum. Basically wreck stuff.

There you have it. This will go far in the tree. Maybe I'm biased since Porygon -Z is my bro, but I havent found a better strategy.

>>31234632
How are you going to deal with faster fighting types? You probably want something to sponge t.wave too.

>Missigross
Yeah, No.

Godspeed hitting 50 with this team.

>>31223156
>minmaxed monster with a free 200BP STAB move to use on anything it wants to and has a 570 BST for no fucking reason is the MVP
No shit, its not intended to be balanced

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>my Megamence vs enemy Tyrantitar
>Tyrantitar survives the first attack with the tiniest bit of health
>Tyrantitar used Ice Beam

>>31234808
>200 BP STAB move
Explain

>>31234834
999.9Kg Heavy slams

>>31234834
Heavy Slam

She is by far the heaviest Pokemon in the tree.

>>31234632
>The battle tree will generate lots of fighting type leads to counter your normal type lead.

No it won't. Stop this counterpick meme, it doesn't exist.

>Pheromosa
fucking kek, get out of here shitter

>>31235090
desu I experienced something like this myself, I led with Xurkitree because why not. Ended up seeing ground type leads at least 3/5 of the first 10 battles. I ended up losing around 12 or 13 cause Excadrill.

>>31234808
>minmaxed
Celesteela is the complete opposite of minmaxed you retard.

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>Porygon2 is frozen
>oh well, enemy can't really damage it anyway
>just gonna keep trying recover until I unfreeze
>gets killed after 6 turns because it never unfroze

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So i want to fuck the battle tree with Ash-Greninja

Best teammates? best set for the based frog?

>>31230084
This. Every single time someone claims the Battle Tree cheats, they always just remember something wrong or talk bullshit because they want to justify their loss.

>>31225208
Slowbro/king are really good. They can set the TR themselves and either sweep under it or tank with a AV set.

how did you get past 50, then?

>>31235638
>>31235090

>>31235438
Pikachu
Goodra

You're welcome :^)

>>31220778
Except there's no record of this battle, so who knows.

>>31227501
It's odd, every time I lead with Tapu Bulu, my opponent always has any sort of rotom, huh odd, or today I used an Intimidate lead and guess what? Special attackers everywhere, and a lot of fairies because of my dragon typing, man... 41 is the highest I got until now in doubles, with oranguru, silvally, torkoal and kartana, I use explosion (silvally) -> TR and come in with torkoal and kill everything with instruct eruptions.

>>31235299
>not keeping aspear berry on all your Pokemon
casual

>>31235638
Tapu Lele@ Life orb
Modest max Speed/spatk evs
-Psychic
-Moonblast
-HP Fire
-Focus Blast(change this to Psyshock)

Celesteela@Leftover
Careful nature Max Spdef/HP evs
-toxic
-heavy slam
-leech seed
-protect

Dragonite@Lum Berry
Adamant max speed/atk evs
-DD
-dragon claw
-fire punch
-earthquake

>>31234808
Celesteela isnt minmaxed

>>31234190
Battle Tree trainers say some real dark shit

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>getting up to level 30
>every single trainer has at least one eeveelution with pic related level retarded movesets
>get wally 3 times in a row

this is getting fucking retarded

>>31236286
Umbreon is actually some of the worst cancer in the tree
Why is it SO fucking bulky

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>>31234190
>>31236100
>"If my boss finds out, I'll get fired and the wife will divorce me."

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>eelektross's thunder wave gets negated by my lightning rod
>it tries it again the next turn

>>31236499
The AI has an astonishingly bad time reading abilities

>>31236499
Must be choiced

>>31236323
the old ladies are depressing too

>Just fighting, even if I’m reduced to ash. In short, that’s my path.
>Before I die, allow me to go all out in a Pokémon battle once again!
some others
>You smile with your face while you weep in your heart. That’s the service industry for ya.
>My ability to continue ends here, and I guess I do, too.

>>31236520
Usually it will switch out if that's happening, the AI still had Pokemon left to switch to. Also I saw it use other moves.

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>>31236572
these guys have fucking problems

>>31236100
>Battle Tree trainers say depressing stuff
>Battle Maison trainers say weird stuff
Wonder what's next in line.

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>Opponent sends in Salazzle
>I send in Garchomp, try Earthquake
>Protect
>stupidly try Earthquake again
>goes first, Disable
>try Rock Slide
>goes first again, Encore

Well I guess I'm not making that mistake again. That'll teach me to underestimate Battle Tree movesets.

whats a good set for Golisopod, A-Muk, and Arcanine?

Want to run other pokemon apart from the usual dragon/tapus/UBs etc

>>31236662
What would the fourth move even be? that's hilarious

>>31236662
lol, what does the AI even hope to accomplish? Force a switch?sThere's easier ways.

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>beat colress at 40
>41 is this fucking cunt http://www.serebii.net/sunmoon/battletree/tasanee.shtml
>lose to bullshit

>Multi Battle, against Red and Blue
>Using Golisopod, partner using Barbaracle
>Blue and Red send out Arcanine and Blastoise
>First Impression Blastoise, thinking Barbaracle is gonna Stone Edge Arcanine anyway
>It just Shell Smashes while Arcanine sets up a Solar Beam and Blastoise Aqua Rings
>I think "Oh that's fine at least now it'll outspeed and have more power"
>Next turn, it Stone Edges the Blastoise, misses, and gets fucked by Solar Beam

I mean, I still won, but I had to finish it all alone, because she wasted the following turn Taunting Blastoise with Hawlucha and getting killed by Burn Up.

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>>31236822
>AI using Barbacle
I swear to god that pissed me off
how do you get from having Maxie/Archie from the get-go to this utter horse shit?

Just memed with Shuckle
Bold Shuckle @ Leftovers
>acupressure
>rest
>sleep talk
>infestation

Only took me 37 turns to win the first match.

Just use Lighy Clay/Sash Alolan Ninetales. It's just too easy.

>>31237073
Sash A Ninetales, M Gyara, Aegislash is my 2nd best set desu

>>31237090
What's your best?

>>31237051
You're allowed to use not-yet-legal mons in the tree?

>>31237073
What setup for light clay a ninetails?

>>31237106
Sash Gengar with Destiny Bond, M Scizor, Milotic
Kudos to an anon for the Gengar set; it's free fucking wins in the tree

>>31237144
Aurora Veil, Blizzard, filler, filler. I use Disable and Encore.

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>lose on battle 39 to someone with a vikavolt with GROUNDIUM Z

WHY

FOR WHAT PURPOSE

>>31237136
Yup.

>>31237184
Fuck, I gotta try some shit out, then. Many thanks, comrade.

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>just won battle 50 in super doubles on my first attempt in the format
I thought this was supposed to be hard, I'm glad I did super singles first because that was so much worse

>>31237144
Aurora Veil, Blizzard, Freeze-Dry, Moonblast/Dazzling Gleam depending on singles or doubles.

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>150 base speed
>doesn't have to wait a turn to get the buff now
>focus miss never misses

Fuck you.

>>31235090
Yes it will dickwad. Go lead with Salamence or Garchomp and see how long it takes you to get mono ice teams. Go lead with Tapu Bulu and see if you don't face 5 poison leads within the first 10 matches faggot

>>31237783
>doesn't have to wait a turn to get the buff now
Is that what's happening? I got into the game late and missed a lot of the big changes when everyone else was discussing them

>>31237607

I found doubles way worse because I could cheese singles with Aegislash.

>>31237837

Turn order is now determined after mega evolution so they get their speed boost right away. If Beedrillite was available to players, we couldn't have to run protect.

>>31237996
I saw so much more cheesy shit in singles though, I didn't see a single double team in super doubles.

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>Audino has a sliver of HP left
>Hit him with my Mega Lucario's Extreme Speed
>He fucking survives and OHKO's me with Fire Blast

Bullshit.

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Okay, I asked this in one of the previous threads, but I can't remember the answer.

Bottle caps increase the stats of a Pokemon to the point at which they were as if the Pokemon had a perfect 31 IVs in each stat. However, Bottle Caps don't raise the actual IV, leaving inheritance and Hidden Power's type unaffected.

Also, Regardless of a Pokemon's EVs or IVs, a stat benefiting from a nature will always have a higher limit than the stat of a Pokemon with a neutral nature.

Therefore, if one has enough patience to raise a Pokemon to level 100 and enough Bottle Caps, they only need to breed for a beneficial nature, egg moves, and shininess, correct?

>>31237722
Who should I pair with it for multi?

>>31238203
If you wanted but bottle caps are pretty rare and leveling a Pokemon to 100 takes forever in Sun and Moon

Someone mentioned a good mixed mega lucario set a thread or two ago but I can't find it.

Anyone have one?

>>31238203
Correct, but it's usually faster to breed until you get one with the IVs you want than to level something to 100. Bottle caps should be saved for legendaries and shinies.

>>31238254
>>31238265
Alright. Just asking hypothetically.

But one more thing, to those who hacked the game: Does the pokedex do the same thing in XY where if it's not native to the region, you don't get a crown for the corresponding area?

>>31238203

Yes but it's unviable to rely on hyper training.

It's only for shinies, legendaries, and easy Hidden Power breeding.

>>31238137
>walrein at 10% hp from dragon z move
>uses stockpile for the first time
>hit with earthquake
>doesnt die
>frostbreath crits and kos my salamence

>>31239234
frostbreath always crits

>>31238214
Never played multis, on doubles I lead A-Ninetales with Porygon-Z z-converting into ice type and running Blizzard with them both taking advantage of hail. Thing is on multi a steel type would be your perdition if your partner isn't focused or also can't take him out... so maybe go for a fire/earth type. Specially watch out for M-Lucario and M-Metagross

Who's your Battle Tree Multi waifu? Sightseer Odessa for me.

Why did I fall for this Assvest Primarina meme?

>>31239541
it's amazing, why wouldn't you?

what happened?

>>31239480
Milotic
Great wall, and a beauty to boot

>>31239561
I just feel like she isn't good enough
maybe she just doesn't fit my team

>>31239629
i was running aegislash, garchomp and primarina and was doing great until i ran into a crit barbaracle that landed 2 crits in a row

>archeops KOs celesteela with one head smash

Horee shit

>>31239740
archeops has bonkers stats, but if you can knock it down past half, it becomes a kitten. something with bullet punch, vacuum wave, or aqua jet, or just plain outspeeding it, makes it very easy

>>31239809
Thanks for reminding to have a priority move on my team. That fucker just killed 2 members outright while killing itself

Then my last dragon died to a noivern flinch

>>31239834
oh yeah, maybe not vacuum wave, because of the flying

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>there will never be facilities or modes in said facilities for things like the middle cup or little cup

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>tfw no Castle or Arcade Mechanics to screw over the opponent

>using light clay ninetails and assault vest bewear
>always run into that fucking nasty plot salazzle within the first fucking three battles during multi
NO BUT COUNTERPICKING AI IS A MEEM ANON

I'm just gonna bite the bullet and go train a Megamence. What's the most effective set for the Tree?

>>31237148
What is the set anon?

>>31240625
Double Edge/Return
Earfquake
DD
Roost

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>Trying Multi Battle for the first time
>Leading with A-Ninetales and my partner with Barbaracle, it was the only character available
>Opponents lead with Alakazam and Salazzle
>THIS DOESN'T LOOK GOOD
>Alakazam OHKOs Barbaracle with Energy ball
>FUCK, OF COURSE
>Salazzle uses Flamethrower and leaves Ninetales with 2 HP
>YES
>Aurora Veil goes in
>Hawlucha enters
>OHKO by Alakazam of course and Ninetales dies as well
>Porygon-Z remaining, battle is lost
>All or nothing, z-convert to ice type since hail was still on
>Alakazam used psychic, left at half HP
>Salazzle used Nasty Plot
>YES, z-convert works
>Kill Salazzle with Tri-attack
>Survive another psychic from Alakazam, 10 HP
>Opposing Hawlucha comes in
>OHKO both with Blizzard
>YES I CAN WIN THIS
>Toxicroak comes in, hail ends
>Pray to every known religion that Blizzard doesn't miss
>The opposing Toxicroak used Fake Out!
This is so damn fun

holy fuck, i thought the curse/rest thing was bullshit until i encountered a steelix with roar/curse/stealth rock/rest
pp stalled my first two physical attackers then finally took it own with comfey grass knot

>>31240541
make your third mon the hard counter to it.

I've never had Guzzlord's Roseli Berry ever used since Celesteela covers fairy types so easily

What Berry is best for this dude? And is 252 of both defenses okay right? It surprisingly survives everything and hit backs well

>Some bitch's Houndoom transforms into a Mega and uses Sunny Day
>Kills itself in the process

LEL

>>31240698
why didn't you switch to your special attacker?

>>31240709
>multi
>3rd mon

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>Decided to do a max HP/SpAtk Guzzlord
>The healthpool means nothing when literally eveyrthing takes out more than half your health
He could have at least had a fun sitrus/recycle build if they gave him that move but god forbid.

>>31240959
I've tried him and found out that 252 defense only shaves off 30% on a non fairy SE hit. And he tanks thunders and Fire Blasts like a champ

He's basically at the point where HP EVs are meaningless but boosting defenses are better.And it's better to not max out attack/special attack and putting just enough to 2-3KOs and just go yolo with your HP

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Just beat red, fug his venesuar

running a team of:
Mimikyu
Toxapex
Starter Owl*

Mimikyu and Toxapex are perfectly bred, starter owl needs to go
I notice I have a lot of trouble with Steel types and paralysis
Who should i replace GhostBird with to help the situation?

>Cynthia kills my pokemon with EQ on our first match together
>Garchomp proceeds to take out three pokemon by itself
I think I'll stick with Colress.

>>31241698
golisopod

>hammer arm is listed at 90% accuracy
Not possible

>>31225307
>implying lycanroc night is bad
>implying scarf no guard rock slide/stone edges isn't legit in super doubles

You disgust me!

>>31241763
that's asking for an electric train

perhaps an eelektross? they are fairly bulky, levitate so they have no supper-effective weakness, and can learn flamethrower for steel types. you can run them attack, special attack, or mixed. it's even good against the occasional steelix, which can tank most stuff that's good vs steel and retaliate with earthquake.

>>31241698
>Steel types and paralysis
A-Marowak with Lightning Rod

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>on a 58 streak
>azelf and regigigas lead
>azelf uses explosion and double crits my Pokemon

>>31241803
or, yeah, lightningrod a-marowak

When on a high streak with Multi... does the game even use your partner's AI to sabotage you? At this point I'd expect it to use damaging moves against me.

>>31241803
>>31241809
>>31241800
thanks i like both these answer
>>31241800
yours not as much

>>31241821
Pray they have 100 accuracy attacks.

Wally's Mega gallade and chomp were good to me for the most part aside from the former using destiny bond at inappropriate times and the latter having a sick obsession of having sand up with rough skin...tho I won't lie the sand gave me some stupid wins.

>tfw you're finally free of the tree.

Man this is a good feel. Doubles is fun to screw around in so I'll keep playing it. Fuck multis back to hell.

>>31241821
I had Steven use Zen Headbutt on a Weavile in ORAS so I fully believe they make retard decisions to fuck you over.

>>31241804
ALLAHU ACKBAR

Any suggestions for a mon to pair with Porygon and Golisopod?

>>31242705
Alolan marowak

What's a good nature for decidueye?

>>31237996
What set?

>>31237607
what did you use?

>>31237179
>coubterpick is meem anon

>>31243718
Lum berry oranguru and choice specs vikavolt lead, fully offensive a-marowak and life orb bewear in the back. Trying out alolan golem and crabominable now and every single one of these Pokemon really impresses me

>>31243784
trick room?

>>31243803
Oh yeah, big time.

>>31229660
>Minior as lead
>AI tries to send out status spam tanks to shut it down
>AI doesnt seem to recognise Shields Down and keeps spamming t.wave/hypno
>3x Shell Smash sweeps

>>31220623
>>31229854
Never used a Trick Room team before, but i wanna take the long road to Doubles 50, and Instruct looks deadly. What the general speed cap for a trick room team to be slow enough?

Also any particular pokes that really shine with Oranguru, or on a TR team in general?

>>31243159
What other sets are there?

Aegislash w/ Weakness Policy,
Quiet,
HP: 252, SpA: 252, (0IV Speed)
Shadow Ball
Kings Shield
Flash Cannon
Shadow Sneak

You can take Sacred Sword over Flash Cannon, but a second STAB that kills faries is much more useful

Already won the 49 battle in super doubles, I'm gonna wait for my previous gen team.

>>31244848
Generally anything over 75 base speed is too much. There's so many good trick room mons in this gen it's almost hard to choose just 3.
I haven't really worked out a mega for it yet though, mega camerupt and abomasnow being locked away for now.

>>31244848
I used Torkoal + Oranguru

Also, any advice on what item on Torkoal for doubles ?

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How do you upload videos? Lost at 48 against a Cobalion

>Latios OHKOes my Garchomp
>No prob I'll revenge it
>Sends out Mimikyu, SD, Shadow Sneak. Disguise breaks
>Cobalion comes out!
>Can probably survive 1 Iron Head
>Use Z Power
>Cobalion used sub!
>Break sub. Cobalion used Swagger!
>Mimikyu hits itself in confusion! Loses half health
>Iron Head takes out Mimikyu
>Sends out Gyarados
>Intimidate makes Iron Head do only like 10-15% damage
>timetodance.jpg
>Cobalion used Swagger!
>Gyarados hit itself in confusion! Couldn't dance to outspeed it next turn
>Cobalion used Iron Head!
>Literally flinched five times in a row
>Left in the yellow now
>Doesn't get flinched
>Gyarados hit itself in confusion! Cobalion KOes with Iron Head

FUCK THE TREE

>>31245410
Go the castle in festival plaza, check the PC on the right

I'm sick of doubles. I haven't even broken into super doubles. I feel an incredible urge to cheese my way through. what is the cheesiest thing I can inject to win doubles?

>>31224772
Alolan ninetales with fucking fire blast? Get real mate. The movesets of pokemon in the battle tree is straight busted. And the fact that they stack counter types against you. Like some of the teams you see would never be used in 1 million years yet they counter your 3 mons perfectly so the battle tree is chock full of them. Its bullshit.

>>31245647
youve got to trick them with shadow ball Z-Conversion and other stuff made to counter their counters

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>>31224260
>opponent Harvested its berries!

Guys I stuck at the Battle Tree. What are some good setups that can help me get far enough to battle the special characters such as Red?

>>31245717
salacSub
Kartana@salac berry
Jolly
252 atk 4 def 252spe
Leaf Blade
Sacred Sword
Night Slash/Smart Strike/ Psycho Cut/X-scissor
Substitute

basically use sub until you proc salac then sweep. it's fun.

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>Speed is my thing
>Battle Tree sends Trick Room teams
>they fail
>Battle Tree sends a team with M. Aerodactyl, Crobat, Noivern and Ribombee
>mfw I won anyway

>>31245758
Why don't you just run the Timid 16 Atk IVs memeset? Seems (somehow) less gimmicky

>>31245793
the OHKO is harder to get with that set.

>>31237607
I breezed through Super Singles, but have been trying Super Doubles for weeks with no luck.

Hey guys, please help me with my doubles team, here is what I used:

Torkoal @ Figy Berry
Ability: Drought
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Protect
- Overheat
- Heat Wave
- Solar Beam

Oranguru @ Mental Herb
Ability: Telepathy
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Taunt
- Trick Room
- Foul Play
- Instruct

Gastrodon @ Leftovers
Ability: Storm Drain
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Protect
- Toxic
- Scald
- Ice Beam

Tapu Bulu @ Choice Band
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Adamant Nature
- Wood Hammer
- Horn Leech
- Brick Break
- Megahorn

Standard Torkoal + Oranguru set. Taunt on Oranguru to shut down setter and status moves user. Gastrodon to face opposing Fire mons. Bulu to face Ground and Rock mons.

I have troubles when facing rather bulky Fire mons, like Rotom-H and Thyplosion/Ninetales with Flash Fire. Gastrodon doesn't have access to Earth Power so I have to use Scald that is weakened by sun, and that's not enough to kill those bulky Fire mons.

I'm considering switching Gastrodon with Marowak-A. I think it can kill Fire mons with Bonemerang easily ? What do you guys think ?
Also, should I switch Oranguru's Mental Herb to something else ? I've never seen anything used Taunt on it. Sometimes it faints before it successfully activates Trick Room.
And what do you think of the Bulu ? Any other mons more suited to my team ?

Just came up with this yesterday, currently trying to get past standard doubles and doing pretty well

Golisopod@Cell Battery
Adamant Nature, HP&Atk
- Swords Dance
- Aqua Jet
- Leech Life
- Sucker Punch

Araquanid@Rocky Helmet
Water Bubble
Adamant, HP&Atk
- Entertainment
- Liquidation
- Leech Life
- Rain Dance

Pelipper@Damp Rock
Modest, 116 Spe, 108 HP, 252 SpA
- Scald
- Hurricane
- Protect
- Tailwind

Kingdra@Life Orb
Modest, SpA&Spe
- Surf
- Draco Meteor
- Flash Cannon
- Ice Beam

The team's basic idea is to Entertain the SD'ing Golisopod on the first turn, making his Aqua Jet effectively 120BP, then do whatever you need to do on the 2nd turn - either decide it's enough and begin the bugmageddon with two STABbed WB users on the field, or switch in Pelipper, turn on the rain, then switch him to Kingdra on the next to begin a LO-boosted sweep. If they kill/EE Golisopod on the first turn, you can Entertain Pelipper or Kingdra anyway

>>31246401
>mareep used thundershock

>>31246331
gastrodon suffers in the sun

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>lost my 57 win streak to a trick room team with Quick claw lickylicky

Free ability capsules bottle cap pp max and rare candy atleast

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>when you're playing Multi and both of your Pokemon get one-shot by the same Pokemon but your AI partner proceeds to Shell Smash sweep all four opponent Pokemon

Would Lapras be any good in the tree?

>>31246586
Sure, it could run
>DragonDance
>Curse Rest IceShard with Batte Armor
>Special Attacker with Water Absorb
You will need support that can take Grass and Electric types though.

>>31246401
this OP here, team indeed hits like a truck, trying super doubles now. since Cell Battery doesn't give electric immunity after all, I'll have a go at Darkinium-Z

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how do you back up a save file? I'm sick of the Tree's bullshit, so I'm just going to cheat. I have Soundhax.

so my single battle tree team consists of:

Garchomp @ Life Orb // Rough Skin
252 Atk / 252 Spd / 4 HP - Jolly
- EQ, Fire Fang, Dragon Claw, Swords Dance

Metagross @ Metagrossite // Clear Body
252 Atk / 252 Spd / 4 HP - Jolly
- Meteor Mash, Zen Headbutt, BPunch, Hammer Arm

Starmie @ Focus Sash // Natural Cure
252 SpA / 252 Spd / 4 HP - Modest
- Hydro Pump, TBolt, Ice Beam, Recover

if i wanna do doubles, what 4th pokemon should i bring? my team's weak spot type-wise includes dark/ghost moves and psychic types.

>Sina's Oranguru actually uses Trick Room
>enemy then sends out crabominable and ferrothorn

>>31246401
>>31247089
you might consider assault vest on golisopod to help shore up his defenses, since he's only running attack moves

Why put SD on golisopod when it could switch by itself at any time

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Pros/cons of Return vs Double-Edge?

>Hippowdon used Yawn!
>Hippowdon used Whirlwind!

Okay thanks.

>>31248429
>using moves that hurt your pokemon
You are a terrible trainer

Best moveset for megamence?

>>31248644
I use Double Edge, Earthquake, Roost and DD.

Roost helps with setting up some DDs and Double Edge just deals insane damage.

>>31248676
Right, going to have to breed a Bagon with DD then. so whats the strategy? DD, Roost to heal up and De and EQ for damage?

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How the fuck do I deal with Cynthia's Megafurry if I'm not using legends? Is Megamence really the only way?

>>31248429
Double edge pro is you might secure a kill that stop that nigga from turning the table because he had 5 hp remaining

>>31248644
DD, Return, Roost, Substitute

>>31248695
Free boostan for Sword

>>31248693
If you are sure you can kill in one hit: Double Edge

If there is a good chance that the enemy will survive and kill in return: Switch

If you can roost through anything the enemy can do to you: Set up as many DD as possible

All you ever do with that Megamence. Sometimes it's also good to not go Mega right away and instead switch out and back in to get 2 intimidate drops. Works really well against enemies who try to Earthquake your other mon.

>lele actually survived an Erfquake from Cynthia's garchomp

Eat a modest, LO, STAB Moonblast bitch

>>31225208

Gourgeist-XL, Crawdaunt

So did anyone else get all 3 stamps and never run into Anabel or just me? Colress was the MVP though, I know he won't but I hope he sticks around for all future battle facilities as a partner.

>>31248831
Out of over 300 matches in total, I only ran into Anabel once. For some reason it was battle 10 right away in the end.

Wallys theme song is so tryhard heh

choice specs/air balloon magnezone or eviolite magneton for tree?

>>31248695
Aegislash, Pheromosa, or any strong fast Fighting type really.

>>31248801
Tapu Lele best Tapu

>>31249534

>Pheromosa in the tree.

Yeah have fun with that.

>>31248429
double-edge gives a nice extra boost in terms of damage, i've won fights just by pressing it three times in a row

>>31248458
don't tell me how to live my life my salamence thirsts for blood im just helpin it out ok

>>31248458
Shut up those pokemon get healed after every win

>>31249616
Just slap Fightinium Z on her and make her Adamant or Naughty for Beast Boost and you're golden.

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>doing Singles for the first time
>team is totally ingame Vikavolt and Mudsdale, and a EV trained but meh IV Decidueye
>actually get to Red
>leads with Venasaur, it's stall
>pop SAS because no SE moves on team
>Venasaur has a sliver of life left
>use fucking SUCKER PUNCH the next turn
>realize instantly how fucking retarded that was
>it uses Synthesis
>toxic stalls me to death because I can't keep up with Ingrain+Synthesis healing and sometimes Leech Seed

I deserved that entirely

can someone please suggest a doubles and or multi team to get my stamps? i got through singles pretty easily but i'm doing horrible on doubles so far, i tried two teams but neither worked out, dead by 4th battle or something similar each time. any help would be appreciated

>git gud

>>31250177
For doubles, lead with Tapu Koko and Xurkitree and spam tbolt. That alone can win most of your battles. For the other two, use whatever you want, as long as they're not weak to ground.

>>31250177
Toxapex @ Black Sludge
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpD
Bold Nature
- Scald
- Haze
- Toxic
- Baneful Bunker

Marowak-Alola @ Thick Club
Ability: Rock Head
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Flare Blitz
- Flame Charge
- Shadow Bone
- Bonemerang

Ninetales-Alola @ Light Clay
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Blizzard
- Moonblast
- Freeze-Dry
- Aurora Veil

Porygon-Z @ Normalium Z
Ability: Adaptability
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Blizzard
- Thunderbolt
- Tri Attack
- Conversion

This is working great so far for me. Lead with A-Ninetales and Porygon-Z. If nothing can OHKO you, cast Aurora Veil and z-conversion, then Blizzard with both. You'll win 8/10 games like this. If something can OHKO you, either switch to the other two which resist Steel/Poison/Fighting or instead of z-converting use the Adaptability boosted STAB tri-attack. With A-Ninetales you can also OHKO some pokes with it's attacks instead of starting right off with aurora veil.

>>31250337
>>31250364

thanks a ton guys, i'll try those out!

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>Youngster Brady
>"When you talk about the strongest, you're talking about me! I'm second to none!"
>leads with Regigigas

>>31250808

Don't underestimate it in the tree, thunderwave/confuse way will fuck you.

The fact that regigigas still has slow start

>>31250918
does oranguru finally make regigigas useable?
>trick room
>instruct
>telepathy

>>31251244
>does oranguru finally make regigigas useable?
in 5 turns, sure

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>running into any Veteran past battle 40

>>31251244
There are like 10 megas and legendaries that have gigas stats and actually have real abilities without drawbacks

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>scarf Guillotine
Fuck off, Guzma.

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>fuck it, make a top tier team with mega Salamence to deal with the bullshit in singles
>beating Red isn't even fun at this point because it's just an unfair stomp
Why did singles have to be plagued with Fissure/Sheer Cold spam and bulky Double Team sets? The OHKO shit has especially been cancer since the Gambler in Pokemon Stadium 1 and it's still ruining everything today.

Does it matter if aegislash has low atk?

It also has 0 speed, everything else best but attack is decent

>>31251900
>using mega mence
embarassing

>>31251920
You'll probably want high attack for shadow sneak.

>>31251920

You want high attack for shadow sneak, worst case scenerio you hyper train the one with 0 speed.

>>31251930
If I was allowed to have fun I wouldn't have used it.

>M-Alakazam/BB Greninja vs. GW Talonflame/Exploud

>Psyshock the Exploud
>Doesn't work

Thanks GF I'm now afraid to use my favorite pokemon

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>"I've come here on my honeymoon to battle! I'm beyond saving!"

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>in super doubles
>life orb max attack alolan golem (return, protect, rock slide, explosion)
>instruct oranguru with trick room up already
>mfw
Seriously, even with rock misses it's so fucking good. It also flinches a ton even with the tree's shitty RNG

>>31220623
According to serebii, Mallow's possible Tsareenas in the tree either have Vest or Scarf, no sashes.

>252 SpA Greninja-Ash Ice Beam vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Tsareena: 118-140 (80.2 - 95.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

It wasn't sashed, it was scarfed.

>>31252158
I missed that you were modest

>252+ SpA Greninja-Ash Ice Beam vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Tsareena: 130-154 (88.4 - 104.7%) -- 25% chance to OHKO

You low rolled.

I'm having trouble with the battle tree doubles between battles 40 and 50. I'm running muk, mega metagross, gyarados, and marowak. I think I need a special sweeper is tapu lele better for sheer power or tapu fini for bulk and protecting my team from status effects (which I'm noticing my team is vulnerable to)?

>>31252103
what number are you on?

>>31252231
Don't use Lele if you have bullet punch on Meta.

>>31251976
Zoroark

>>31252294
Nah on megagross I'm using meteor mash, zen headbutt, EQ, and hammer arm. Though if I went with Lele honestly I might drop hammer arm for protect since zen headbutt would probably out damage it in psychic terrain anyways. And Muk can deal with dark types pretty easily with brick break anyways.

(I'm definitely dropping alolawak either way, he's mostly for specific threats and abusing the ai with switches)

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>>31251672
XZGW-WWWW-WWW4-6KVF
I made this team just to get to 50 and don't feel like touching singles again. Doubles is way more fun.

>>31237179
Because it deals with rock and fire types. My ribombee has grassium z just to juice up its energy ball. Might be dumb but Bloom Doom has helped out a fair few times.

>>31252248
Just finished 30, first attempt. It's still going but I had to go to work

>>31240690
Lost at 50 because Red's Blastoise had Fake Out and killed my Sturdy Magnezone.

I keep loosing in the 41-49 because of the rotom and legendaries spam with my team
Golisopod Mega-mence and Toxapex
I really need something to tank electric type, got sweeped by a Thundurus at 49...

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>Preschooler Reina
>"My dad caught them for me. I dunno if they're strong."
>leads with Meganium
>gets destroyed by just Megamence because she only has starters in general
>"Those Pokemon were weak. My dad is dumb."

Poor dad.

>>31227580

>Aegislash + Ground immune Intimidate core is probably one of the best switch cores and has responsible for my 70+ streaks.

So Masquerain? Does such a thing even exist that's usable in SM Battle Tree? You can't use Lando.

>>31254213
dude
salamence

>>31246856
thinking like rest, maybe sleep talk and then some special attacks?
idk, i'm not good enough to create sets on my own

>dude megamence lmao
the thread

>>31255278
Just shows how retarded singles is in the Battle Tree