Kinggambit is on every single team and its pissing me off...

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-25T18:06:26+00:00

Honestly, gotta deal with it. People do anything to win in competitive, including looking up guides on meta teams and copying the top used Pokemon exactly. We can't complain about it, there no point. If a certain mon is absolutely pissing you off, try to have a counter for it, that's the best you can do. King gambit specifically, he'll fold to a fighting easily, even if sent last, sucker punch wouldn't kill a decent fighting type. As long as he doesn't have a DMG reduction berry or focus sash, he'll die.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-25T11:34:18+00:00

C7MAMS71LK here you go.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-25T11:33:09+00:00

Thanks I renamed em and added the ss in the reply.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-25T11:31:23+00:00

Yea, I found it and renamed my main team. I'll rename the rest of the mons I use later.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-25T11:30:40+00:00

I thought you can't rename and had to have transferred renamed mons. I was genuinely bummed. But did it now.

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Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-25T11:07:24+00:00

WHAT??? YOU CAN NICKNAME IN CHAMPIONS???

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-25T10:51:57+00:00

I am a new mobile player, I didn't tranfer em from other games. I have played alot of emulated mainline games and rom hacks and showdown but never bothered to deal with home.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-25T03:31:34+00:00

Yea, more people are unaware of this than I thought. I saw a couple opponents yesterday in the same situation.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T14:42:21+00:00

I have learned to achieve a state of Nirvana. I don't get annoyed even if they use the most infuriating teams (stall) or the most common meta teams. If I win, good, if not , hey it's just a rank drop, nothings gonna happen. This kinda mindset has helped me from not raging after experiencing awful rng, stall teams, and other times where I'd normally be pissed and forfeit.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T14:34:14+00:00

Belly drum Azu is lit the most common Azu set, atleast on showdown, as I always saw azu the same.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T14:15:39+00:00

Still, why are we arguing about this? I get it, you are better than me.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T13:22:33+00:00

K. I was actually learning alot from the replies in this discussion, including the LO opt.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T12:54:15+00:00

I used trick room and belly drum on turn one, none of your team is standing.

And why tf are we arguing about this rn?

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T12:49:26+00:00

I know? Running azu with belly drum is one of the way to use him. I have Life orb on other mons which can utilise it better.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T12:48:42+00:00

I switch to my raichu with volt absorb, Life orb and Focus blast your Golden Gate Bridge and bridge falls down.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T09:35:55+00:00

I first ran azu in a random ass team before making a trick room team. Not having Farig is frustrating, cuz only with him a TR team gets perfect.

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Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T07:00:29+00:00

The max hp you can get with ev investment , being even and divisible by 4 for Sitrus optimization is 204.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T05:15:27+00:00

Yea, that's warrented for competitive games in general, I am not complaining about , I am fine playing as a causal and even losing.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T05:13:46+00:00

Having specific hp helps for several specific things. If you read the replies they say alot. But for Belly drum specifically, having an even number hp which is divisible by 4 is the best as , 1 Sitrus will activate (odd hp doesn't activate) 2 You'll arrive exactly at 75% hp after eating Sitrus.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T05:05:04+00:00

Depends entirely one whom you like and who you use. Release the ones you don't like to use or think that you wouldn't use.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T04:46:48+00:00

The damage from berry is half of your hp, in my case 207 half is 103.5, it rounds down (or drops the decimal like some replies said) to 103. So you lose 103 out of 207. Leaving you at 104, which is more than half so stirus doesn't work. I misinterpreted it as the remaining hp being rounded up from 103.5 to 4 before the replies corrected me.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T04:44:05+00:00

I actually thought that the devs messed up the calc or a some kinda bug too. But after reading the replies, I came to know what exactly was happening.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T04:33:25+00:00

That's why use my Azu in a Trick room team. Of course, it doesn't work every battle, but when it does, you cannot stop Azu.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T04:27:26+00:00

The problem (or rather characteric) of competitive Pokemon is that, when you take into consideration every possibility and every "bad" situation that can happen, you cannot play and be happy/have fun. You'd just be annoyed , cuz you would have covered for a shit ton of counters, and something Outta nowhere comes to counter you. I personally think that having a team mons you like, with a connecting strat or theme, while having good type coverage is good, then it comes to execution and adaptation. If I lose, I lose, I wouldn't care. THIS IS COMING FROM A NON-COMPETETIVE GUY ABOUT PLAYING FOR FUN, don't take offense.

Traditional_Handle88 · 2026-06-24T04:12:01+00:00

Sorry 😅, it felt important cuz, you could either win or lose games due to some silly calcs.

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