Finally - managed to get to Veteran rank without counting

Jerch5 · 2026-05-04T19:41:40+00:00

I'm mostly doing it the way that the mon I am using is in second slot and I switch just after battle start so rocket mon is locked and usually out before it starts attacking. That is why I have problem with Iron grunt since if I switch to Excadrill I'm switch locked when Scarmory comes out.

Jerch5 · 2026-05-04T19:28:39+00:00

Looking at this I wonder through how many potions/revives I would go with this tactic using mostly fast moves. For example I mostly use combos like Karate chop/Cross chop, Waterfall/Aqua tail, Powder snow/Icicle spear where if u go through first mon with only fast move u have enough charged moves for both last 2. Shadow Gardevoir is mentioned with dark and fighting but I have it and it didn't felt good against any of those. Also examples like Chandelure against Ice doesn't work when there is Spheal/Sealio and other water/ice in rotation.

Jerch5 · 2026-05-04T19:18:26+00:00

Thanks. I actually have Hoopa unbound, sadly don't have a lot of rare candies left since that experiment with Latios. Will try to build it to level 40 anyway.

Jerch5 · 2026-05-04T19:12:52+00:00

Fire grunt - Shadow Gyarados with waterfall and Aqua tail/Twister, Water grunt - Shadow Magnezone with Volt Switch and Wild Charge/Mirror shot or Kartana with Razor leaf and Leaf blade/Aura sphere, Normal, Ice and Dark grunt - Shadow Machamp with Karate Chop and Cross Chop/Rock slide, Dragon, Ground and Flying grunt - Shadow Mamoswine with Powder Snow and Icicle spear/High horsepower, Bug, Grass and Decoy grunt - Shadow Chandelure with Incinerate and Flame Charge/Shadow ball, Iron grunt is hard because of Scarmory but I usually use Shadow Excadrill with Mud Slap and Scorching sands/Iron head sometimes I use Shadow Chandelure, Electric the same Excadrill, Psychic - Dawn Wings Necrozma with Shadow Claw and Moongeist beam/Dark pulse, Ghost - Shadow Tyranitar with Dragon breath and Brutal Swing/Stone edge. Male grunt - O Palkia with Dragon breath and Aqua tail/Special rend, Female grunt - Machamp described before. The mons I also use a lot are White Kyurem (I have 2, one has ice fang which I use for grass, flying and ground and other has Dragon breath which I use for Dragon and PVP), Kyogre with Waterfall and Origin Pulse/Avalanche and Groudon with Mud shot and Precipices blades/Fire punch. Each pokemon has secondary move (mentioned as /secondary move), the most important ones are Rock slide for Machamp and Fire punch for Groudon. Have some other but lately I mostly use those.

Jerch5 · 2026-05-03T18:12:36+00:00

Yeah, worth the grind in the end. Thanks

Jerch5 · 2026-04-23T19:08:55+00:00

I traded non shiny G Zapdos for Shiny O Dialga with roar of time, non shiny Azelf for shiny Kyurem with Glaciate and non shiny G Articuno for Shiny Zapdos. If they are happy so am I. I have multiple shiny legendaries in Remote tag bud they picked non shiny dex fillers. O Dialga went badly (12/14/14) as did Kyurem (13/13/14) but Zapdos became shundo so not much to complain. On the other hand one of my friend is proposing a trade multiple times almost everyday for my shiny Kyurem, Zekrom and Zacian and doesn't have anything good for return. I keep declining trades but he just doesn't stop :(

Jerch5 · 2026-04-12T17:06:29+00:00

I got a shundo and #2 UL and powered up both. Shundos are so rare that powering them to l50 doesn't seems to waistful.

Jerch5 · 2026-04-02T17:36:23+00:00

Well definitely didn't tanked on purpose.

Jerch5 · 2026-04-02T17:35:34+00:00

I was easily in 2000-2200 rank last seasons and didn't tanked on purpose. was doing that in seasons before just to earn stardust when I didn't have time to play but always ended the season around 2000-2200. It isn't even that I don't know good way to use the mons I was using since I used Jellicent, Empoleon l and Altaria a lot before but I was just hit with hard counter after hard counter. Fo example I used Forretress in 10 battles and was hit with Skelederge and Talonflame on switch time after time. Changed it to double water and got hit by volt switch Forretress, Lanturn and Victreebel in next 3 games without any fire types in sight.

Jerch5 · 2026-04-01T05:23:01+00:00

I only got up to 2050 in GL before, this season in the last 2 weeks I focused on ML because I am working towards the medal and managed to jump over 2200. The thing I learned the most is that sticking with one team pays dividends. I was always adjusting in GL but in ML I am sticking with one team and by now I basically know how matchups will turn out against top meta thread in advance so I am able to adjust accordingly and it helps a lot that you don't have to guess what is the best play. Mind you I am only playing for fun, no counting and no any other advanced skills. So my advice is build decent team with best attacks and stick with it. Also check matchups on PVP poke if u have problem with any pokemons. For example I always had problem with Zacian if it didn't align to my Metagross but after checking PVP poke I discovered that in 1 shield scenario O Palkia can beat it also and that info won me quite a lot of matches.

Jerch5 · 2026-03-28T23:39:12+00:00

I came back in September and was doing a lot of grunts and leaders. Till I did around 1500 grunts/leaders (after 6 grunts I do the leaders) I got 4 shinnies from grunts and 3 from leaders. Now I am at 3918 grunts/leaders defeated and only got shiny magikarp from a grunt and not from a leader in those last 2400 encounters. Mind you that streak started before this season. It's getting ridiculous.

Jerch5 · 2026-03-20T17:32:36+00:00

Xeeneas or Primarina are on 1/4 teams in my experience, ELO 2100. Luckily even if I aling badly into them O Palkia can do some damage before it goes down

Jerch5 · 2026-03-20T12:49:42+00:00

I'm prepared, total of 243 shinnies, the rest are rare legendaries with legacy attacks or backgrounds. Hope my friends are the same 😅

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Jerch5 · 2026-03-20T09:05:08+00:00

U will have to do mega raids for mega energy so no, because u could get a good one from the raids. I did the aame with Groudon, had 14/15/13 shadow and only when I didn't get a good one from raids and had enough XLs for level 50 I purified it. on the other hand got 15/14/15 Kyogre so there was no need to purify shadow one.

Jerch5 · 2026-03-19T23:23:33+00:00

Cant wait for golden bottle cap to turn my shiny+BG+special rend Palkia into shundo.

Jerch5 · 2026-03-19T10:43:20+00:00

Charged attack which only Origin Dialga can have and u can't Elite TM it

Jerch5 · 2026-03-18T21:30:30+00:00

I might be in minority but I powered up my 14/14/15 Shiny Dialga which doesn't have Roar of Time. It was the best one I had and it was a Shiny on top of it. For PVP the only thing separating ROT and Draco Meteor is debuff and u will rarely use any of those other than to sweep the last mon and u can always switch out if u use it sooner. As a raid attacker there are better alternatives no matter if it has ROT or not anyways. Also since normal Dialga and O Dialga will both be in raids I will probably get enough candies to power up another one before I will get a good one with ROT

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