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Resource Scarlet & Violet BSS Discussion
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Same here. Lots of dragapult, skeledirge, dondozo and garganacl. I didn't see as much Corviknight during my run.
I have a very hard time dealing with Garganacl when it gets set up. I am tempted to run Hydreigon into it.
Honestly Magnezone with policy and sturdy did me wonders I used Tera fairy for it as well.
I use Arboliva, mainly.
I haven't seen that one yet. It looks like it would have a hard time with the careful 252hp 252SpD ghost tera build. I saw a few Magnezones floating around and I was wondering who they were for.
I would like to see that one in action!
After looking at its stats and movepool you would have a really good match up against garga and dirge. I might have to try it.
Anyone have good EVs on Dondozo? Thinking max Atk. Max HP seems bad w/ that small SpD and huge hp, go max SpD 4 HP?
I use rock Arboliva for 3 of the weaknesses(already have a ghost and a psychic, why I'm not ghost.) But w/o that or similar Arboliva surely hates Torch song.
I stopped a non DD(DD would be np, just woulda had to switch) DNite with Arb, also WP TTar(Negative Spe nature w/ low iv or it woulda ohkod after switch in.)
I use rock Arboliva for 3 of the weaknesses(already have a ghost and a psychic, why I'm not ghost.) But w/o that or similar Arboliva surely hates Torch song.
I stopped a non DD(DD would be np, just woulda had to switch) DNite with Arb, also WP TTar(Negative Spe nature w/ low iv or it woulda ohkod after switch in.)
Mostly seen dondozo with max hp+def with grass tera used purely as a defensive wall. Seen rocky helmet/leftovers for the held item and sets like yawn/protect/earthquake/curse or rest/sleeptalk/yawn/fissure (yikes). You can't kill that thing without a special attacker or banded meowscarada
Darn I already evod Atk. Any idea what other EVs? It looks like some HP some def would be ok, though it'd take a while to calc how much. Maybe best to do lazy max HP...
If you don't have any EV lowering berries you could try leftovers recovery on a curse set maybe. earthquake and aqua tail would still hurt.
Liquidation. I could lower EVs actually, but I want to try using the Atk EVs. Is recover 3 attacks bad? I'll teach curse then. I'm going to have yawn also.
Edit: doing great, only lost one of 7 or 8 and wins have tended not to be close at all. Alomomola is amazing, I thought AV might be a little wonky, but it's awesome w/ fire Tera(poor set up volc who couldn't touch me even in my own grassy terrain lol.) Just could use a replacement for Espathra, unsure of what would be good.
Edit: doing great, only lost one of 7 or 8 and wins have tended not to be close at all. Alomomola is amazing, I thought AV might be a little wonky, but it's awesome w/ fire Tera(poor set up volc who couldn't touch me even in my own grassy terrain lol.) Just could use a replacement for Espathra, unsure of what would be good.
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I know my team is mostly made of the shinies that I've found without any real effort put into teambuilding, but man, I feel like I'm getting absolutely rolled by nearly every team I come across. Right now I've got Glimmora, Maushold, Dondozo, Gholdengo, Espathra, and Meowscarada. Obviously Glimmora hazards don't do a whole lot in a 3v3 format and Maushold is super easy to play around. Any suggestions for what I can swap them for that will work better in BSS?
The only thing I care about is not using any past gen pokemon. I hate the idea of training up a mon that I've probably already trained in a previous game
The only thing I care about is not using any past gen pokemon. I hate the idea of training up a mon that I've probably already trained in a previous game
Hm you have no fire? Perhaps Skeledirge for one anyway. Is it Spe boost Espathra? I like that Mon but had to replace mine unfortunately. Maybe Baxcalibur.
Thanks, I bred up a Skeledirge and its certainly helping a lot. I'm having some trouble with 2 pokes in particular though. Cloyster and Wash Rotom absolutely run through me.
I swear I've seen like 5 different tera types run on cloyster at this point, and its always the one I don't have an answer to in the game. Rotom obviously the team just can't switch into and really struggles with if even if I do manage to get in safely.
Well, one Mon that's gotten me through a lot is AV Alomomola, but you wanted new mons. It can mirror coat rotom-w, but you'd need electric Tera or w/r for clouster, not fire like me.
When ruins are allowed maybe Wo-Chien? Idk.
Tinkaton takes the multi hit moves of Cloyster and learns skitter snack to lower Rotom SpA. If you don't need a type of SE Tera blast, I'd go steel Tera on w/e you run, for Cloyster.
I'm not ready up on paradoxes, mainly past, since they are banned too atm. Maybe one of those.
Edit: still eel Tera on a strong.drain Mon walls Cloyster 100%. But it's have to be gasto probably.
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I ran into a few top 100 players and it was just a lot of OHKO spam. I'm heavily considering sturdy magnezone to combat this nonsense.
Singles should have same rules as vgc. Would make it better in my opinion.
But it does. OHKO moves aren't a common sight there but they do exist.
You know to be honest I never thought they were legal in VGC wow well then.
If you can come up with a fun Magnezone set, I'd love to see it - the Fissure spam is real and it is annoying unless you can trade faster.
Not sure what to do with him. I liked assault vest to deal with Gholdengo and I end up getting walled by Garganacl or struggle with the faster dragons.
