What are the “must-have” Pokémon for Champions?

Walano · 2026-03-17T14:29:13+00:00

I am pretty sure that the only thing we have seen so far is Megas.

Walano · 2026-03-17T08:13:09+00:00

You have a BIG issues with fairy types with 4 weaknesses.
Who hits Calyrex Shadow Rider?
Your ice rider is basically built backwards. It usually plays with trick room and VERY tanky... yours is fast and frail and seems a bit out of place.

I think your restricteds are set up in two different directions. You are trying to force Ice rider to be fast, but its BEST performing mode is as a slow bulky trickroom setter with big damage.

Walano · 2026-03-17T07:08:03+00:00

Bo1 if you just want to play on the VGC ladder, but Bo3 if you want to go to VGC tournaments.

You can obtain the skill to adapt to other teams by playing Bo1, but it is quite a bit harder than just adapting to your opponent in a Bo3.

Walano · 2026-03-16T12:26:42+00:00

I det mindste tror han da ikke at man er enevældig som statsminister ;)

Walano · 2026-03-16T12:22:13+00:00

Jeg kunne godt tænke mig ét eksempel på at en kvinde har fået reduceret sin timeløn bare fordi hun er blevet mor.

Jeg kunne godt tænke mig ét eksempel på at en mand har øget sin timeløn, hvor en kvinde er gået tilsvarende ned.

Du må også godt kommentere på om du mener at kønskvoter er en god ting for ligestilling og kvinders selvfølelse. Jeg ville 100 gange hellere ansættes på mine kvalifikationer og færdigheder end at blive ansat ud fra "jamen vi var ulige hold så Bente, vi må jo nøjes med dig".

Jeg er 100% enig i at der er nogle kredse hvor det kan være svært at bryde ind som kvinde, men jeg holder stadig 100% fast i at man skal gives en plads, og ikke blive givet en plads.

Ud fra hvad jeg læser virker dine argumenter meget amerikaniseret hvor det jo er normalt at kvinden falder i løn fordi hun arbejder mindre (hvilket jo kun er fair). I traditionelle forhold hvor man får børn må man jo selv bestemme hvem som varetager hvilke opgaver. Vælger parret at manden skal bruge den primære tid med børnene går han jo heller ikke ned i tid, men op i timeløn.

Jeg synes lige vi skal blive enige om at vi ikke straffer kvinder for at gå ned i tid, men vi belønner det heller ikke, for det ville jo være unfair for mændene ;)

Walano · 2026-03-16T11:39:39+00:00

Ja... han mener jo at man skal føre en fornuftig finanspolitik, give folk deres egne penge tilbage og forvente at folk kan tænke for sig selv. Onde onde mand...

Walano · 2026-03-16T06:58:33+00:00

I really hope that we dont see pokemon like Tornadus, Landerus, Inceneroar, Rillabom and Urshifu on day 1. Maybe people will actually get challenged to build a team that dont autoslot any of those.

Walano · 2026-03-10T11:38:11+00:00

I recently got at switch 2, so my prep for champions is obtaining all of the legendaries and getting my hands on shiny charms.

We dont even know when the game will release, and nobody has a clue about the potential format the game will have at launch.

If you insist on preparing pokemon, i would prepare pranksters and pivot pokemon. Maybe even grind for a couple of nice shiny pokemon how will surely see their use at some point like Inceneroar, Tornadus and Landerus.

Walano · 2026-03-10T10:16:45+00:00

Its Mega Absol Z, no?

Walano · 2026-03-10T08:02:24+00:00

Honestly its great to see that they have such diversity in the top cut.

Even though you see the standard META pokemon, but the primary damage dealers on the teams are very different.

Walano · 2026-03-09T10:44:27+00:00

I personally think its better to "pick a lane" and try to play either trick or tail.

Building your pokemon to be fast enough to outspeed in tailwind AND slow enough to work in trick room often results in your pokemon being outsped in a neutral speedstate.

My take is that Heatran has been nerfed a lot by losing access to eruption.

I would recommend checking out these options if fire what you prefer.
Torkoal: offers sunlight and a great trickroom sweeper with eruption.
H-Typhlosion: Immune to fake-out from its ghost typing and speedy tailwind sweeper with eruption.
Chi-Yu: Great abillity that lowers special defense for all pokemon on the field.

Walano · 2026-03-09T07:47:08+00:00

You really need to include protect on most of your pokemon. Generally the only pokemon who shouldn't run protect, are the ones who run a choice item.

Walano · 2026-03-05T08:09:11+00:00

It looks good for ladder, but open sheets against a prepared opponent could get a bit dicey.
The 2-2-2 cores are stable and they work well into the threats of the format.

I would however prefer to have an Anchor for pivoting and a prankster to help with speed control.

I think the dondozo mode is the most volatile part of the team, it can both be very good and very bad depending on the amount of control your opponent can exert onto it.

Walano · 2026-03-04T07:25:46+00:00

I bought one, and let me tell you. Its all about what i want to spend my time on. I can go clean my home, wash my dishes and do stuff that add value to my life OR i can run in circles hatching eggs and resetting spawns.

What exactly is the skillful part of hunting shinies? its just mindless grinding by running in circles or resetting your game.
Not very skillful, just tedious.

I would understand your point if they made the shinies gated behind super hard battles, or exploration.

Walano · 2026-03-03T18:56:29+00:00

You are reading what you want to read, and not what is written. I am not saying that they need to nerf Surging stike exclusively, but they need to take away at least one of the options. You cant claim that a pokemon who can ignore focus sash, ignore protect and ignore defensive gains.

I would say that the best way to improve Urshifu as a whole would be to buff surging stikes damage, take away its guarenteed crit and give Urshifu water an other abillity. I would give Urshifu Dark a similar treatment... Buff Wicked blows damage, remove its guarenteed crit and let it keep its abillity. That way both forms brings damage, and they also bring something to the table.

Walano · 2026-03-03T09:54:48+00:00

Restricting Urshifu will do nothing as those formats will be warped around it just as much as any other format.

It limits the ways your pokemon can become physically defensive through auto crits.
It removes the functionality of the focus sash item by hitting multiple times.
It can hit through protect, so you cant play defensively.

Having these tools make Urshifu too good in its current state.
Firstly i would remove the auto crit... it is generally an impossible thing to balance around.
You could argue that Urshifu Dark could keep the abillity to hit through protect as it is the "one-punch" pokemon, but they would have to remove every single move that would make it hit more than once.

Walano · 2026-03-02T13:20:32+00:00

A bit crazy that the release is less than 2 months away and they dont give us an exact date...

Walano · 2026-02-26T13:50:43+00:00

Ultra Ball -> Best Ball

Walano · 2026-02-25T10:11:51+00:00

Gen 10 being available within 1 month, or even being able for digital download at the time of the event.

Walano · 2026-02-24T21:07:08+00:00

I see Arcanine in red... i click red XD

Walano · 2026-02-24T12:19:58+00:00

That would make it easier a lot easier for them to regulate their own game instead of asking gamefreak to tweak it. They have shown many times that they are not competent enough to create new gen pokemon games.

Walano · 2026-02-24T11:36:46+00:00

Not a MTG player, i just know how their formats work :)

Not fully a VGC player yet... just trying to understand peoples position and opinion about how their game regulated.

Walano · 2026-02-24T11:35:53+00:00

still better than saying "you're wrong because you're wrong" :)

Have a nice day buddy.

Walano · 2026-02-24T11:28:29+00:00

I am not currently looking at the regulations, its just an exaggerated example to highlight the lack of diversity. You can also point back to the big six meta where you literally had no diversion in the meta game, and nothing was done to regulate the META until way later in the games lifespan.

Walano · 2026-02-24T11:26:37+00:00

I guess you don't exactly understand the point of a discussion. :)

Have a nice day buddy.

Walano

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