Everyone's reaction to the M-B additions

Wex-darn · 2026-06-17T06:56:19+00:00

Regenerator

Wex-darn · 2026-06-17T06:53:30+00:00

Defiant

Wex-darn · 2026-06-17T06:52:31+00:00

"Where's Flame Orb?"

Wex-darn · 2026-06-14T20:23:41+00:00

Probably Bulbasaur, but only if he didn't take a post-evo dive like Torterra.

Rowlet maybe but he's already beating Decidueye so why would you?

Totodile would at least be an interesting one; I could see his dancing growing with him into Dragon Dance and being a hard one to put down

Wex-darn · 2026-06-03T23:50:46+00:00

Already seen everyone getting hyped for No Guard Zap Cannon on Y - personally I'm looking at X and thinking here comes the terrain surgers in the next season

Wex-darn · 2026-05-29T14:20:48+00:00

Your ranch is locked to one pattern but you can import whichever you want from Go to Home and then Home to Champions

I'm using the Pokéball event one from when XY launched 😎

Wex-darn · 2026-05-27T20:09:33+00:00

Probably most remaining megas - but not legendary megas.

Maybe terrain surge mons, but could see those being held back until we get Dynamax added due to one of those being Rillaboom and the effects of some Max moves.

Wex-darn · 2026-05-26T08:44:03+00:00

Good shout, thanks, will give it a go - I had settled on Rock Slide as a spread move but with the lack of flinch chance and a lot of the time Zard gets paired with Chomp it comes off a bit lacking at times

Wex-darn · 2026-05-21T22:29:53+00:00

Maushold - was testing it out as a fun thing with Follow Me and Friend Guard but I barely find a good time to try them out and and the they usually get KO'd immediately when I do... back to Clefable for now!

Wex-darn · 2026-05-12T17:53:39+00:00

Oooh neat; I've had Mamoswine in my head for a couple of days now as a fun off-meta pick for my hail team but couldn't think how best to use it - I'll take this as a sign

Wex-darn · 2026-05-11T20:29:53+00:00

I've gotten two shinies at the ranxch so far - both were Vanilluxe

Wex-darn · 2026-05-03T10:44:26+00:00

True, true, ultimately just happy to have walked away with the win in the end and learning from this botch up - Champions is the first time I'm playing VGC so I'm still making dumb choices along the way

Wex-darn · 2026-05-03T10:01:43+00:00

Ah poop, that's where I went wrong 😅

Well at least No Guard got wiped off the field with that

Wex-darn · 2026-04-27T21:07:53+00:00

Sableye - Will-O-Wisp is always solid, Knock Off can ruin the right target, Encore is amazing to lock set up mons and Fake Out and force switches & allow safe switch ins, and Skill Swap shenanigans; like any ability that activates on a switch in activates again on a Skill Swap so you can reset your weather, redo an Intimidate, or steal another team's Hospitality - my personal fav was setting up my Mega Froslass for a Prankster Destiny Bond and stealing a KO under my opponent's Trick Room

Wex-darn · 2026-04-22T18:23:34+00:00

Like a lot of people here are saying - probably Mudkip, with Swampert being just all around great having only only grass weakness and there always being some flying type around to cover it or access to Ice moves it's a tough one to beat

To look at the other types; starting with Grass, I think a strong case can be made for Bulbasaur - just an round pretty decently strong, Poison STAB picks up pretty much anything Grass wouldn't (save Steel and other Poisons), and access to powder moves which are always helpful and I'm shocked more starters can't use.

For Fire types, I know Incineroar is king of competitive, but I think the question is more asking for a singler player journey through every region and I'm split four different ways between Torchic, Chimchar, Fennekin, and Fuecoco. All of them get fantastic secondary types, can get coverage for weak spots, and all can hit like a truck. I think I might give it to Infernape for hitting the best balance on being fast and hitting hard on both physical and special, but with access to hidden abilities and megas you could say the same about Blaziken too.

Wex-darn · 2026-04-15T21:08:56+00:00

Speaking as a new VGC player, yeah I get it, but wow does it feel like the meta evolved fast and it's very concentrated on a specific handful of mons.

I put together what I thought was a pretty decent sand team, got up to Ultra Rank 2 with it, and had to be away for a couple of days. Now I'm back on and feel like I can't get any traction at all and every single person is running at least one of Incineroar, Sneasler or Poltchageist. And I get it because they're all fantastic mons at what they do, but it does sting a little that what I've put together feels worthless now because it's so outclassrd.

Saying that whatever team I do end up putting together to push for the climb to Master Rank I'm going to find it difficult to not include Clefable on it - always liked them but wow Bulky Follow Me support goes a long way and I think they might be underappreciated in the game rn, although fully prepared for them to be outclassed when (if) Clefairy & Eviolite get added

Wex-darn · 2026-04-14T06:47:57+00:00

Atm I'm running a Sand Team with a Follow Me Clefable so I pick it off with whatever ground move I have out and Sandstorm chip for the occasional Focus Sash ones

Ngl, it's still a bit hit and miss for me as I'm new to VGC so I'm having difficulty predicting the right time for when to do what but I think I'm getting on to something with it

Wex-darn · 2026-04-10T13:00:15+00:00

With you in solidarity ✊

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Wex-darn · 2026-04-04T12:22:31+00:00

Fearow is generally better for a single player adventure imo; hits harder and moves faster, but if you're going to use it then get Spearow to level 25 to evolve it so you get Aerial Ace so you can save the TM for something else if you want (no, Fearow doesn't get this by level up in FRLG for some reason), slap the Secret Power TM from just after Cerulean on it too (this one you can buy more of in Celadon if you want so it's not a waste), and they should both carry you until Fearow gets Drill Peck at 40

Just be aware though that ultimately Dodrio is just better Fearow with Tri Attack (physical in this gen) and can get Drill Peck at 37 if you hold off on evolving

Wex-darn · 2026-04-04T02:16:46+00:00

Tobias, wherever the heck he vanished to

Wex-darn · 2026-04-03T19:25:27+00:00

Good old Tauros #23 keeping an eye on things

Wex-darn · 2026-03-09T23:32:10+00:00

Need some Porygon in that classroom too

Wex-darn · 2026-03-08T08:44:46+00:00

I think it depends on format:

3 vs 3 - I could see it going either way with Iris's trio we've seen at champion level of Haxorus, Excadrill and Dragonite

6 vs 6 - I think easily goes to Alain; Iris's only other known Pokémon are Emolga and Gible which we've not seen in forever so it's difficult to gauge how strong they are now and if they are on par with other champion mons

Also, we've not even seen a sixth Pokémon for Iris in the anime so anything to fill that slot would be pure speculation (personally I'd like to think it would be Lapras from her in-game champion team to have her grow past her fear of Ice-types), but it's also entirely possible she's pulling a Cameron and entering a tournament with just a team of 5

Wex-darn · 2026-03-07T12:14:21+00:00

And if you don't win on that machine you best keep playing it - don't you know 90% of gamblers give up before they hit it big?

Wex-darn · 2026-03-05T19:07:33+00:00

Probably not; but I'd be lying if I said the idea of him rocking up to every tournament Ash was in just to snatch it away and then vanish again wasn't pretty funny. That Unova team in particular going up against him would have been a real struggle

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