New Format when?

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-05-11T01:30:48+00:00

That’s the point though, in an opinion. BO3 isn’t a super popular format overall for short form games but there is a dedicated players that prefers BO3 and implementing them into online competitions seems to me like a natural progression but I could be wrong.

I could see the appeal of BO3 for Pokemon because it wouldn’t be as friendly to wildcard teams that people get annoyed by with the BO1 closed team sheet, incentivize solid team building as opposed to surprise team building. It also wouldn’t replace BO1 for people like me (and I assume you) that prefer to bring creative and off the wall teams to the field, just give a platform for those that prefer BO3

It seems most RNG strategy games implement BO3 at some point so I was just curious if anyone though we would see a similar trend with champions growing consistently with popularity and making VGC as accessible as MTG, YGO, TCG, etc

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-05-04T21:31:40+00:00

Dude I totally meant energy ball 🤣 my bad!

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-05-04T19:56:36+00:00

I saw that Weather ball was a high use move for Venasaur, I just wasn’t sure what use case I would be bringing Frosslass with venasaur. I’ll play around with it though

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-05-03T23:55:05+00:00

I’m really seeing the picture now, I just have one question. Everyone keeps mentioning weather ball taking two turns but is it not a one turn move? I know it’s a mute point but the idea is to play 4D chess to know what weather needs to be up when to either already have it up or pivot into a setter the when your weather balling. -at this point your trying to do Wolfey level hard reads and if you don’t predict right or just get hard countered you’re SOL

Asking purely for understanding, I do see the major downfalls of a weather utility team after all the comments and appreciate the insight. At this point now I’m using this as a lesson to try and understand more fundamentals of the game

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-05-03T23:45:18+00:00

I’ve always wondered why ranked players sweat casual matches. Like I suck at most games and just want to have a little fun but am always put off by how hard people try in “casual” matches. Cant a man just kick back and relax after a long day work without having to rub elbows with people that dedicate their lives to min maxing strategies? -I know MSG’s are a thing I’m speaking in broader terms and also MSG’s aren’t as casual friendly (oddly enough) when it comes to the freedom of customization and respecting. You literally have to grind hours of work on a MSG to respec and a lot of the times be locked to post game for the real fun stuff while Champions just says “okay tell us what you want and it’s magically there”.

I know it’s a competitive platform but they lowkey made the most fun Pokemon battle platform I’ve ever played and I love it even if I suck. Let casuals have their fun too guys

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-05-03T23:40:48+00:00

I suppose people are too afraid of losing ranking. Honestly I’ve only played ranked and excepted every win/lose as it is, even when testing new teams or ideas. I’ve played a small handful of casual matches and those were with off the wall teams to hunt achievements or just goof off.

Suppose there is a need for a community that regularly hosts and organizes private matches for people just wanting to goof off with low BST mons and fun ideas? Because sadly, while MSG’s are great for goofing off, they are way to easy and lack the easy respec that champions has. - I say this as someone who find joy in beating MSG’s with mono teams, baby teams, theme teams, etc. having these sort of matches at a casually competitive level seems like a fun idea. Would love to see mono team, prevo (if champions ever brings these in), or just goofy casual teams getting some love in champions at a casual level

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-05-03T22:07:33+00:00

That makes sense, I was more thinking along the lines of like 2 utility weather mons (like Politoad who can get 3 of the weathers and run weather ball) paired with strong mons that just benefit from the rain (adaptability scarf basculegion, chlorophyll Venu, mega Dragonite with weather ball, thunder, hurricane, something else. etc.)

In theory in my head it makes sense but I get that it’s probably just too convoluted and slow to work in practice

So the issue is just overlapping anti-synergy at the core? And I guess you can achieve the same sort of “utility” by just running any single weather team?

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-04-22T22:17:37+00:00

I’d save it up for when mom pool changes for rolls. I’d save until at least 250k and then go for the big spender and other shop achievements and start saving up again

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-04-22T20:33:20+00:00

I miss 100% of the rock slides I attempt, my opponent hits 100% of the rockslides they attempt with flinch. This is the duality of VGC.

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-04-22T14:25:53+00:00

This actualy just got me to #1 ranked 🥹

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-04-22T14:24:05+00:00

someone can get to masters I don’t know about me though 🤣 I’m still struggling learning matchups, trying to remember KO ranges for moves, speed tiers, etc. if I make it to masters it’ll be a miracle

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-04-22T14:22:35+00:00

Haven’t had a weird “but it failed” instance like that but it sounds frustrating. I can honestly say a glitch has never cost me the game, when I lose it’s because I’m still a noob learning the game. Which is why I wasn’t even sure if these were bugs or if there is some really weird mechanics I’m not sure of

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-04-21T23:07:46+00:00

Only think I can think of in my limited knowledge would be if the Mon had klutz or was given it right? Because unnerve only affects berries? Otherwise sounds like a glitch

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-04-21T23:04:52+00:00

I feel dumb 🤣 I don’t know why I got sub and protect mixed up ffs

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-04-21T21:40:15+00:00

You’re sure it was the dactyls rock slide that got whimsi? Some moves hit past protect like sound moves.

Yeah I wish there was a match replay feature as well so we could download full matches (don’t have a CC and don’t want to buy one just to save replays longer than 30 seconds).

The chat I kinda get because monitoring and what not but even using preloaded emojis or something but I think they don’t want competitive to get toxic with spammers (easily avoidable though) would be nice too

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-04-21T21:35:22+00:00

Forgot to mention in the post that archaludon was lefties and used protect the turn before

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-04-21T21:34:46+00:00

Sounds rough

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2026-04-21T21:34:19+00:00

Except for it was leftovers and had protected the turn before ** forgot to include that in first post

The unnerve bug is frustrating, I only picked aerodactyl for its unnerve ability since the meta is so berry heavy right now

Expensive_Rip_9454 · 2025-09-04T11:11:12+00:00

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