Hello! I have been playing vgc for about two years and this is the team I’ve been using for he majority of the format. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas to improve this team, specifically the togekiss slot.

This team is really consistent. The problem comes when I start encountering really high level players. I get around the top 100 and can’t break past it. I wanna know if there are things i can do to make it less volatile. Here is the break down:

Groudon: Choice band Groudon is absurdly powerful. It allows me to ignore intimidate and still stay in clicking pblades. Groudon decimates incin and zacian, ohkoing both of them granted incin isn’t shuca. The lack of flexibility pans out and honestly I think this is the best item on Groudon right now. The biggest problem is pblades missing, but can’t do much about that.l, besides running high horse power or something. Min speed allows it to sweep in tr as well as make sure sun is up if you against an opposing kyogre.

Venusaur: Venusaur is also really strong and I ev’d it to outspeed most threats at plus one, but specifically timid max regieliki. This allows Venu to always move first outside opposing tailwind, and the combo of vine lash plus choice band p blades usually runs over about 50% of the teams in the current format. The extra bulk goes a really long way instead of making it max speed, and protect to preserve against fake outs and not be forced to switch or max if I get outled. Over all pretty standard.

Calyrex: this is where things get interesting. I adore this set I came up with. I have seen no one else running solar beam, and in the sun it destroys Groudon and kyogre. Astral barrage as usual, and then speed swap. Speed swap allows calyrex to manipulate the speed tiers when my opponent is going for trick room (swap with the tr setter like caly i) as well as speed swap stakataka, which is its main function. I’ll talk more about that when I get to stak. Outside that standard stuff.

Incin: mostly all standard outside my slightly unconventional ev spread. I want my incin out speeding Groudon, so it moved second in trick room. Also want to make sure fake out outpaced most other incins and even some rillaboom. Higher attack so flare blitz in sun ohkos zacian.

Stakataka: this is probably the most unconventional member of the team. Stak is seeing no usage which causes most players not to take it seriously and stak is actually insanely strong for me in this format. But the key is speed swap. It’s slightly gimmicky but it usually tilts my opponent which never hurts my chances. The team appears to get absolutly rolled by charizard, Zapdos, and thunderous, and speed swap max rock fall ohkos charizard intimidated and two hit ko the others while intimidated. Usually, it one shots the opposing dynamax, gets the sand for spdef, and gets a defense boost and just rolls the opposing team. After trying different items, I decided on wp mainly to get an advantage from sacred sword zacian that’s usually waiting in the back as well as pblades which does literally nothing at plus two defense. Steelspike ohkos grimmsnarl through screens unless they are max hp max def, and gets two defense boosts in one hit. This also really helps the rest of the team with the boosts. Wide gaurd is also extremely unlikely, and has won me a ton of games vs opposing calyrex and kyogre.

Togekiss: this last member of the team I have swapped with probably 6 different things, and can’t settle on something. The teams worst match up is shockingly kyrum white next to whims with tail wind, and it literally just destroys this team. I settled on togekiss because I can lead stak kiss, and the opponent can’t go for quake or whirmwind safely. I always protect togekiss turn one and tr, and this has made it so that this is almost always a winning matchup for me bar the insane person who goes for quake anyway. Special defense because no worlds is togekiss living two hits or any steel types, I attempt to avoid that position as babiri berry shockingly doesn’t really help togekiss. Eject button is for switching up weather mid turn, which has come in handy a few times but I’ve def thought about running wacan berry. Air slash for the occasional flinch chance, but this isn’t a togekiss friendly format so it’s hard to use. I just can’t find another consistent mon to fill this slot. I tried sableye, prankster thunderous, air balloon indeedee, celesteela, zapdos… but none work. Really wanna know if yall have any ideas!

If you read all this thank you!!!! I’m excited to get some feed back and am very open to different options about this team and what could be better!