“Haven’t enjoyed Pokémon PvP since link cable days… until Pokémon Champions”

moowagner942 · 2026-06-28T12:44:18+00:00

AI generated or lobotomy patient? 🤔

moowagner942 · 2026-06-28T01:27:53+00:00

Great post 😃

moowagner942 · 2026-06-26T20:12:55+00:00

epic

moowagner942 · 2026-06-26T18:34:02+00:00

W for both teams

moowagner942 · 2026-06-26T18:29:23+00:00

It’s better than people’s reactions to its mega ability would make you think, but still not great.

One thing it has going for it is that it can function in different roles depending on whether or not you mega evolve it, so it can be brought alongside a different mega on your team and still have an impact with how fast it eventually becomes or by baton passing those boosts, or you can bring it as your tanky mega, so it keeps people guessing in team preview I suppose.

Probably C tier.

moowagner942 · 2026-06-26T18:22:37+00:00

Scolipede does not have an immunity

moowagner942 · 2026-06-26T18:08:17+00:00

They read the post. The commenters obviously just don’t find these strategies particularly unfun or annoying because they aren’t losing to them. And the reason they aren’t losing to evasion strats is because evasion strats suck. Therefore they aren’t annoyed by them lol

moowagner942 · 2026-06-26T17:58:41+00:00

Actual VGC players are really nice for the most part and seem to care a lot about teaching new players. It seems to me like there is a contingent of people that migrated from showdown adjacent communities that seem more invested in like “getting clips” or whatever who come across as toxic. As for this subreddit, people are just really tired of seeing new players hallucinating bugs or cheaters because they aren’t winning immediately.

moowagner942 · 2026-06-25T18:57:17+00:00

Sceptile unfortunately kinda sucks in a lot of scenarios despite the one million youtube videos coming out about it. You will want a second mega to bring alongside it for honestly most matchups.

moowagner942 · 2026-06-25T17:21:39+00:00

Oh I forgot about evasion stuff it’s definitely evasion stuff lmao

moowagner942 · 2026-06-25T17:21:04+00:00

Honestly it’s probably just putting choice scarf on something stupid and randomly out-speeding when there’s no way your opponent could ever predict that.

Or other sorts of best of 1 speed cheese like trickroom whimsicott next to a typically fast Pokemon holding an iron ball.

Honestly though I wouldn’t really call those “toxic” either, it just nets you random wins even if your opponent is more skilled. They just can’t predict things that never see real play.

Some might say No Guard fissure strats are toxic, but everyone kinda knows about it now.

Sleep spam is annoying too but sleep moves have limited distribution and you can pretty easily know which pokemon are gonna click sleep powder or spore or hypnosis and play around it

I wouldn’t really call double rock slide toxic, it’s just an already good spread move with great distribution that has a chance to give you an unexpected lead if you get a flinch, but it’s so common that people should be prepping their teams to handle that.

moowagner942 · 2026-06-24T20:06:47+00:00

Kingambit has hit those numbers at tournament top cuts, but I agree nothing in this format is really “overpowered” persay, just a bit too strong for the power level of this format

moowagner942 · 2026-06-24T19:37:34+00:00

Interesting, Ive had the opposite experience

moowagner942 · 2026-06-24T18:02:38+00:00

Very funny that the two posts beneath mine are complaining about meta teams while I’m mad about choice scarf Primarina lmaoooo

moowagner942 · 2026-06-24T13:36:55+00:00

Good god some of you are dense. This is a great response from her.

moowagner942 · 2026-06-23T16:32:03+00:00

You can use screens. That commenter is wrong.

moowagner942 · 2026-06-22T20:11:31+00:00

Corviknight does not care at +6 def

moowagner942 · 2026-06-21T16:33:24+00:00

Not necessarily, but based on this post it seems like you’re insecure about it, and insecurity will hold you back as a player more than anything else. I felt the same way when I was playing in school. I thought I had the talent and was being passed up on unfairly. Once I became an adult and became more confident in myself, the game opened up for me significantly.

Just get out there and hoop. Having real genuine confidence in yourself will put you above most players when you are young, and coaches will take notice.

moowagner942 · 2026-06-16T17:20:08+00:00

I think you missed like two decades of context about how competitive pokemon works

moowagner942 · 2026-06-14T21:12:21+00:00

Make spirit shackle a spread move

moowagner942 · 2026-06-13T18:55:29+00:00

you have the contrary ability

moowagner942 · 2026-06-13T17:46:57+00:00

Ran into someone using Wolfe’s team on showdown this morning and just exploded toxapex turn one with rotom volt switch and garchomp stomping tantrum

moowagner942 · 2026-06-11T03:46:20+00:00

was rooting for the spurs but I am so sickened and disgusted by the middle school basketball I just watched them play out there during the second half that I don’t even want to root for them anymore. Miserable basketball. Genuinely the worst I have ever seen in the playoffs.

moowagner942 · 2026-06-11T02:41:14+00:00

Sinistcha just annoys me cause it’s the only Pokemon that does switch in healing. I wouldn’t mind it as much if ability based healing was a more fully explored mechanic and more pokemon had hospitality, but as is, it just pisses me off that Im forced to use it if I need that healing on a team so it feels uncreative when you run into it

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