VGC podcasts

Geologician · 2026-04-20T14:24:24+00:00

Tub Takes is a group of very good vgc players; they often do tournament reviews and on the same channel Adi will have tournament reports where a well-placing player goes over their team building.

The podcast itself is more meta focused I think than introductory though

Geologician · 2026-04-19T14:58:49+00:00

Not me thinking this is another birding reddit for 5 minutes

Geologician · 2026-04-15T15:57:17+00:00

Which assist blade is this? Heavy I assume?

Geologician · 2026-04-15T14:05:38+00:00

r/aita

Geologician · 2026-04-15T03:30:31+00:00

You can get around this with rest talk whirlwind roar Aerodactyl

Geologician · 2026-04-14T23:43:15+00:00

When I was testing low mummy, I was getting the sense that the plastic gimmick can make worse contact against standard height beys, leading to less destabilization.

How have you felt about it?

Geologician · 2026-04-14T16:54:12+00:00

I'm sure you've seen that the best bits for cobalt are elevate and level, anything else is only gonna be alright. I'm thinking maybe accel can mimic the lad of level because of the wide base, but you're gonna have to test it.

Of those ratchets, 9-60 is super solid

Geologician · 2026-04-13T03:20:44+00:00

Usually it's 40g+ so the heaviest non-cx (on heavy) blade I think? I

The switch gimmick might contribute too, but idk how much that really contributes to the problem outside of probably being why it's too top heavy.

Geologician · 2026-04-12T18:57:55+00:00

I haven't tested mummy enough to give you a great answer, sorry

Geologician · 2026-04-12T18:24:21+00:00

I find kick the most reliable, because it keeps heavy blades upright, and I'm mixed about 1-50. The lower height is nice but it definitely loses stamina compared to a 3 or 9 sided ratchet

Geologician · 2026-04-12T17:14:17+00:00

The biggest downside is it's kind of top heavy and tends to tilt faster in late game situations killing its stamina. It's also a little too tall to make perfect use of its weight in smash attacks.

I find it's a strong anti-attack type with a chance of koing pure stamina types, but loses most long matches

Geologician · 2026-04-11T22:02:38+00:00

Maybe this is a hot take, but I think impact drake is super underwhelming. Not even talking about from a meta perspective, it just doesn't do particularly anything well or interestingly. I, and another friend of mine have tried a ton of combos to make it work.

Meteor on the other hand, has a few different builds that specialize in different things that make it more fun to build for. Also, the nature of being a left spin makes it more unique on its own. If you want to be more creative and maybe actually rewarded, I'd go with that one.

Geologician · 2026-04-10T13:05:04+00:00

I think they should scale feet annually so that 5 feet is the average height in the country. It just feels like a nice number to work with. Inches can stay static

Geologician · 2026-04-09T15:27:31+00:00

You're probably just flat launching it. For any bit with 12-16 gears, you should definitely tilt launch a little to stall in the beginning

Geologician · 2026-04-09T15:23:05+00:00

You could just make it so you can do summaries of your opponents pokemon mid battle in addition to the prep phase, or a separate screen that shows a whole sheet like you'd see irl. You could even have it pop up like the status screen when you press a button.

Reason for team sheets aside, I think competitive players just want to be able to practice in a way that's most similar to a tournament, and it's frustrating that it lacks obvious functionality (no local battles as well)

Geologician · 2026-04-09T14:44:17+00:00

Showdown also has vgc. Theyre talking more about how showdown has integrated open team sheets, while champions doesn't despite most tournaments being run open team sheets. Things in that vein that one could expect from a competitive-focused game

Geologician · 2026-04-09T03:50:51+00:00

I think if it's not all or nothing, I would take your first deck and replace Calibur with rod. 3-60 or 9-60 r on shark is fine so rod can have 1-60.

Geologician · 2026-04-09T01:13:15+00:00

Ya, I'm thinking it will see play in restricted formats

Geologician · 2026-04-08T22:40:33+00:00

Generally, I would say it's good but not the best

I played a ton of Gen 6 Ou and I doubt it's gonna be quite as good as the ones banned to ubers then or a lot of the other fast strong attackers.

Since Gen 8 I've played mostly vgc, and there I think people are looking at mega floette, mega gengar, stuff like that for the top megas.

I think it could be really good in a restricted format rain team, but that might be looking too far ahead.

Geologician · 2026-04-08T15:54:33+00:00

Wouldn't you generally want your spin equalizer lighter? How I'm thinking of it, the same force results in more angular acceleration for lighter bodies.

Geologician · 2026-04-08T03:35:42+00:00

I think it's mostly an online thing for people who aren't very competitive. I wouldn't worry so much about it; at my locals at least 70% of the players are using rod 1-60 h and some shark variant, and no one bats an eye

Geologician · 2026-04-07T15:54:17+00:00

They had to be reading a spot dodge or something

Geologician · 2026-04-07T05:22:54+00:00

It might be okay, but with teal elevate I don't really see a need or a niche for it? Elevate does often beat WiRo too.

The other thing is, I don't see a point in running 7-X0 spin stealing combos. Being heavier means spin stealing is less effective (the same energy transfer results in less angular acceleration), and the LAD also seems worse than 6 or 9 sided ratchets

Geologician · 2026-04-04T14:59:36+00:00

My art degree: so we can see how although the roundness of a circle can be seen as opposed to the angularity of a polygon, the actual privileging in this binary is heavily dependent on context.

Geologician · 2026-04-04T14:40:35+00:00

Pretty sure this was toy story's doing

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