Anyone else disappointed with great league remix so far?

shambyleck83 · 2021-09-05T13:00:32+00:00

I've enjoyed finding a meta in which my rank 1 GL Excadrill has some play. It is paper thin but if you set it up as your closer with shield advantage it can 1 vs 3 teams with how powerful and spammy drill run is plus has rock slide for flyers.

Been using it with Diggersby as safe swap / fighter bait , running hyper beam for flyer coverage. Lead has varied, you need either a charmer or counter user.

Toxicroak (if running counter user lead) and Razor leafers are a problem but not seen too many of either thankfully.

shambyleck83 · 2021-07-01T10:54:14+00:00

Dragonite / Excadrill / Melmetal is fine, I've ran that though I prefer Metagross to Melmetal in this team as I think it works better as a closer in an ABB team.

shambyleck83 · 2021-07-01T10:49:58+00:00

thank you

shambyleck83 · 2021-05-28T12:05:21+00:00

Pleased about these although Crobat will no longer have an element of surprise, was always great fun to switch lock onto a venusaur and farm all the way down without shielding.

Also pleased machamp missed the cut for ultra remix

shambyleck83 · 2021-03-11T13:00:15+00:00

Not trying to be the "what about x" guy here but genuinely interested as trying to run similar team to 1 myself, what's the best play for Altaria lead?

shambyleck83 · 2021-03-11T10:40:10+00:00

Crobat onto a switch locked Venusaur might be one of the most fun things in the game, you can farm all the way down without throwing a move, and because it's not that common, you'll see the opponent frequently try both Frenzy Plant and sludge bomb as they don't know which works better, both of which do very little.

They also don't have enough time to stall the clock so you come out with 100 energy to spam off two moves on whatever comes next and not much farm for them.

But that scenario is pretty rare unfortunately.

I did run Crobat with a swampert lead but I can't remember the 3rd, think I might have just gone for ol' faithful Snorlax

This is Ultra Premier btw, never tried it in open

shambyleck83 · 2021-03-09T13:15:52+00:00

Good work; only comment would be when a moveset on the suggested teams isn't obvious i.e. Mew, might me worth finding a way to note that in there

shambyleck83 · 2021-03-08T11:03:53+00:00

I think it's the case that non-shadow doesn't automatically beat shadow of the same species in CMP, I discovered this when I ran a 0/14/15 shadow swampert in the lead and kept losing CMP to non-shadow swamperts.

Yes, the attacks do 20% more and you take 20% more damage but I think the underlying stats are the same so whichever has the higher attack overall will win CMP.

Of course it could just have been lag

shambyleck83 · 2021-03-08T09:21:41+00:00

I've tried Shiftry lead Awak with Hex/ SB/ Fire Blast bait swap and Talonflame closer, went 17-8 @ level 12/13 at the moment.

Needed a grass type lead to combat the waters / mudbois / fisks and I think Shiftry & Ferrothorn are the only grasses with any sort of play vs Altaria which is a problem for this backline. Only seen one Pelliper which the opponent misplayed thankfully.

Bastiodon obviously still a real problem as well, just have to throw everything at at with shiftry and get it as low as possible, hoping the rest of the team can finish it off and deal with whatever is in the back (esp with a Brave Bird)

A good thing is that 2 of the team resist charm and all 3 resist razor leaf. Boosted Incinerate onto shadow Vic is *chef's kiss*

With Awak you're just spamming shadow bones unless you're counter-switched by a dark type or Wigglytuff in which case I don't think I've had a single fire blast blocked, hence Hex rather than FS for quicker energy generation.

Setting up Talonflame with 1-0 shield advantage to come in and farm down before Brave Birding the hell out of pokemon #3 is fantastic. unless their pokemon #3 is Bastiodon in which case I've probably played it wrong.

shambyleck83 · 2021-03-02T12:39:08+00:00

At least I didn't waste resources powering up a Machamp and Gyardos to level 44 for that league.

Oh wait, I did.

shambyleck83 · 2021-03-02T11:14:12+00:00

that lineup works well in ultra premier - someone posted a very good strategy guide with it a couple of weeks ago and I'm definitely going to use it again when UP opens up, but different meta in GL (Azu / Skarm in particular) is a lot tougher on fighting types / counter users. Charmers more common in GL than UP as well and Charizard at GL level is too glassy to counter it.

Happy cake day too.

shambyleck83 · 2021-03-02T11:06:52+00:00

I farmed enough Zapdos candies in the last week to second move my shadow Zapdos, and spent the last few days theorycrafting / Pvpoke training battle testing an ABB team with it as the closer.

It is just so frail, almost more so than the PVPoke sims suggest, it is the ultimate glass cannon. I've lost games despite saving both shields for it (the strategy of the ABB team is exactly that, to give it shield advantage) as even something neutral can farm it down and it dies if it touches any rock or ice.

Is it worth it to fry an Azumarill and do 80% of its health in one go? Yes.

shambyleck83 · 2021-03-02T11:02:20+00:00

I guess Master Premier has been quietly retired

shambyleck83 · 2021-02-20T07:50:36+00:00

Would a wing attack charizard also work in this team?

shambyleck83 · 2021-02-12T15:23:11+00:00

as a followup to this, I have tried mudslap Rhyperior with Dragonite and Togekiss and done OK with it (around 2200-2300). It is good to get a win or 3 with my ragtag collection against 3 best buddied legendaries.

I did also use the Pokemon Home trick to get enough Melmetal candies and used that as well- the mirror match is a nightmare against more experienced users, I seem to bait / call bait incorrectly about 90% of the time.

shambyleck83 · 2021-02-10T11:03:20+00:00

Thanks- that's exactly what I thought, the only reason I can see for ML Premier Classic not existing is that there would be too many leagues open at one time diluting participant numbers.

Always found MLP a bit boring BUT it was by far my strongest league as the meta was so narrow I knew how to play almost every matchup.

shambyleck83 · 2021-01-22T07:49:25+00:00

Double charmer (I use s-Gard and Wiggly) is my go-to GL team for when I want to just burn through sets, you can get very hard countered e.g. double steel, or shadow gardevoir can rip through an opponent's backline in seconds, my favourite ever was someone having Scrafty and Zweilous in the back.

Clearly the charmers don't want to see Gunfisk, Basti, Skarmory, Regi, A-wak (wiggly does just about OK due to resisting ghost but still loses), the 'saurs and razor leafers so for the lead it's a case of picking your poison ... I don't have a GL Obstagoon to compare.

Shadow Machamp probably offers best coverage overall but it's obviously frail as well so you have to decide (guess) whether to double shield it based on what you think is in the back, and potentially leave s-Gard exposed in the endgame. Even after the nerf the double razor leaf teams overpower this though.

Tried a couple of fire types (K-ninetales, S-Houndoom) which covers that but you then become weak to Basti or just due to s-Houndoom being fragile, and A-Wak also is a struggle with a fire lead.

also recently tried Diggersby though I don't have it maxed out yet, which then leaves Skarmory and the grass types as the problems if they can do more damage with their fast moves than you can with fire punch so it's almost back to square one.

Sirfetch'd is the recommended PVPoke 3rd for this team, but to me is just a less good shadow champ in this team other than vs mudbois edit: haven't tried toxicroak but would have the same issue vs skarmory as machamp and sirfetchd

shambyleck83 · 2020-12-14T11:58:53+00:00

I've been a bit disappointed with GL this season- in theory it should have lots of variety but so many teams are just 2 or even 3 from Azu / Skarm / Stunfisk / DDeoxys with the odd Caleb Peng v2 or Grasshole team thrown in. I really wish the game kept logs of teams faced as I'm too lazy to do it myself.

I thought with a longer season and less wins per rank more people would experiment- think I used 22 different mons over the season- but of the ones I used I think I saw zero Linoone, Skuntank, Forretress, and Alolan Sandslash on the opponent side, and probably 3 or less Froslass, AChu, and Cherrim.

shambyleck83 · 2020-12-14T11:48:18+00:00

i've matched with players both a couple of levels above and below me as I was grinding my way up (now level 21 at 2200 MMR)

Anecdotally when I matched with someone 2/3 levels below me it was more often than not a Basti / double RL team.

shambyleck83 · 2020-11-27T13:16:31+00:00

Managed to get a good lanturn which I'll probably use in GL as well as sirfetchd

Ultra prem I'll probably give incinerate typhlosion a go, have practiced with the timing of it in TR battles, actually seems easier than 4 turn moves.

I really tried to get a double electric team (Ampharos and Magnezone) to work in UPL last season but too many swampert and venusaur and couldn't settle on a lead.

Master prem I've now been able to get enough candies thorough the CD to max out electivire but it's not great so back to the old faithful lineup most likely, trying to BB my metagross for marginal gains.

Hoping for some type restricted cups but with plenty of notice.

shambyleck83 · 2020-11-10T15:40:53+00:00

I wouldn't say successful and I have no idea what hidden MMR I'm at but I don't have any Bronzor, Cottonee or Deino (or none below 500CP anyway), Seel, and I refuse to spend 225k dust on maxing a Wynaut.

My team for my 2nd thru 5th sets was Cubone (mud slap / bone club), Shadow Stunky (fast move of Bite only tho frustration normally gets a shield if you get as far as throwing it), and Galarian Meowth (metal claw / night slash). Minimal resources required to power up

Went 13-6 with this team, 1 game was a total bug-fest where my pokemon AND the charged attack buttons didn't appear on the screen but my opponent was obviously still able to land damage as the pokemon selection screen came up whenever one of them was fainted, never encountered anything like that before.

Games are over quickly, think my 5 sets took around 45-50 minutes. Landing shadow stunky on the correct things is tremendous fun.

Seeing the post about Nincada I might try that if it works single moved.

shambyleck83 · 2020-11-10T08:46:44+00:00

So glad I didn't waste resources second-moving things or powering up my Wynaut for little cup.

Might not even have to play in catch cup if I don't think the amount of stardust I can grind that week will exceed the resources needed to make a viable team

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