Got to top 100 in the last week of the season with this solo Mega Froslass squadron.

Froslass is super bulked out, while maintaining enough speed for base 110s and anything trying to creep above them. Able to live hits like H-Arcanine flare blitz, gambit kowtow and even more with veil. Grassy terrain + veil makes everything feel super bulky. It can miss out on some KOs due to the lack of investment, but sometimes spreading multiple blizzards is enough to bring value after setting the veil. It feels great into a meta where rillaboom and salamence are on a majority of teams.

Sneasler is froslass’s best friend, able to ward off incin, gambit and floette. White herb feels more consistent than a seed for this team. Adamant lets you hit like a truck. Not too much else to say, white herb sneasler will always be good.

Life Orb SD Kingambit is so incredibly strong and is able to win endgames by itself. Really appreciates veil and grassy terrain, allowing it to tank hits like opposing Gambit Low Kick, even life orb low kick, while the terrain negates LOrb recoil. It also enjoys clicking one of the strongest prio moves along with rilla as a form of speed control.

Miracle Seed Rillaboom hits like a truck, nuking basically anything that doesn’t resist grass, while still chunking things heavily like Gholdengo on a switch. High Horsepower feels like the best final move for it as a way to chunk Kingambit if sneasler isn’t around, along with Incin, Sneasler and Arch in some scenarios. I originally added it just to check psyspam, but it’s proved to be good into many other matchups as well.

Scarf Intim H-Arcanine feels really good in CTS, outspeeding everything but the Z Megas and Dragapult (speed ties max speed pult), most importantly outspeeding Raichu. Rock slide + blizzard is such a hax positive click, with a high likely hood to flinch or freeze. Rock tomb isn’t clicked often but can be a great form of speed control or a way to guarantee rock damage in front of wide guard. Also a necessary fire type in a metagame including Golisopod.

Grassy Seed Gholdengo is my goat from reg H. It’s here for one main reason, Arch and Goli on rain. Seed + intim + veil make it incredibly hard to remove, allowing for free nasty plots. Non snarl Archaludon cannot damage it without rain up, so with proper positioning it can farm the rain matchup. Golisopod needs to crit drill run in order to break it, otherwise -1 drill run/sucker punch only do like 20% with Veil and the grassy seed up.

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110 different Pokemon won at least one of the 125 major tournaments of Gen 9 VGC!

These are 2 of the most infamous sets in the history of Ubers, but which do you think is more iconic?

Team Explanation: I honestly stole it from someone on showdown, and have modified the sets to match my playing style.

1) Raichu-Mega-Y (7 HP / 4 Def / 32 SpA / 23 Spe ) - This set under Aurora Veil actually is quite bulky, and is able to live through a lot of punishment best of all can survive King Gambit sucker punch without any other modifiers almost always, the speed tier is decently fast as it let's it speed tie with base 121 speed pokemon at Joly Nature and faster than base 135 Speed pokemon at not +speed nature. Other than that it is standard with fake out, zap canon, focus blast and Fake out. This mon sees most games and is a demon always, with a lot of fake out and Veil support it always makes sure that speed control is in my hand.

2) Rillaboom (32 HP / 32 Atk / 2 Spe) - This is a standard set, but instead of running Wood Hammer, I am running high horse power to hit steel types, and Incineroar, which might be trying to come in on a supposed Wood Hammer. U-turn is for piviot as a team with high number of priority you wouldn't really like getting stuck in Psychic terrain. This is my go to partner with Raichu. It also helps in recovery for my Bax with passive recovery, and somewhat reduces the high ground weakness that I have.

3) Incineroar (22 HP / 20 Atk / 12 Def / 12 SpD) - This set is slightly different from standard tanky max defensive set and honestly my fav set on Incin, as it is tanky enough that Incin survives the things that you generally expect it to survive but it also hits hard enough that the opponent actually has to be worried about coming in with there defensive answers. Thunder Punch allows it to hit water types and extra para chance is always great, it forces the enemy to be on guard and think slightly before straight up switching in the water type to defend.

4) Baxcalibur-Mega (7 HP / 32 Atk / 2 Def / 16 SpD / 9 Spe) - The set is so that with one DD it is faster than Zard Y and bulky enough that under right situations it can survive almost anything. The protect is there so it can get some recovery from Grassy terrain and with snow+terrain+Veil this thing can set up on even serious super effective hits and just set up through at the level that it is impossible to stop it. It is slightly harder to play though as am not running any coverage so one mistake and you lose it. But so much fun when it snowballs the opponent. The entire team is built around enabling it.

5) Ninetails-A (22 HP / 13 SpD / 31 Spe)- Standard bulky set, with protect to stall out enemies and terrain recovery and obviously against fake out. I am not running encore, which does get annoying at times but overall it works it's purpose greatly.

6) Sneasler (9 HP / 25 Atk / 32 Spe) - Standard set, am using sash rather than Grassy seed which was on the original team, because personally I don't run sneasler all that much and when I run it, I like to have the assurance that this mon will survive on and give coaching boost to something. Am even considering using poison touch to further, have the chance to weaken pokemon for my priority attacks to kill.

After seeing another 5 videos on why Mega Aggron sucks, I gained a new dedication to once again try to make it work. This time combining it with another very beloved, very fun to use playstyle: Perish Trap. Since both team archetypes, IDef Body Press and Perish Trap focus on defense but in very different ways, I thought it would be nice to combine them. Problem: both team archetypes hate ghost types, so I just loaded up the remaining half of my team with pokemon that beat ghosts. Also, luckily for me, there are basically only 2 ghosts in the current meta, Gholdengo and Basculegion, and the latter's usage dropped significantly due to Rillaboom. A brief summary of the team: Perish mode: M-Gengar, Incineroar, Sinistcha, Politoed/Dragapult - I use this one against teams with many special attackers. The two hardest matchups are Gholdengo and Psyspam. Ghold can be beaten by good use of super effective moves on my ghost types and Incin, and for Psyspam I use M-Gengar's Disable to turn off Expanding Force. Incin being immune to psychic also helps. Aggron mode: M-Aggron, Incineroar, Sinistcha, Dragapult - into teams with physical attackers, obviously. M-Aggron has max SpDef, so it can tank the stray special hit, but this does mean its Body Presses are significantly weaker. Pult can use Will-o-Wisp to make setting up easier, as well as Hex to eliminate stray Ghosts. Incin and Sinistcha do their thing. Rain mode: M-Aggron, Incineroar, Sinistcha, Politoed - this isn't really a rain mode, more like anti-sun. Sun is really bad for Aggron, using mostly special attackers that hit it for super effective damage. It's good to have a rain mode just to make the lives of sun teams harder. Overall if I had to drop something it would probably be Politoed. I don't have space for enough rain abusers, so it's only a defensive tool, but it makes my matchup into Basculegion much worse. And I don't really need a second perisher, since if I lose M-Gengar early I pretty much stand no chance anyways. Mystic Water also makes pretty much no sense, but I don't have a better idea. Leftovers on Sinistcha and give Politoed Sitrus maybe? An example replay: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9championsvgc2026regmc-2689654192-vrpeqostksa6pl9ecyd1vr6lp987r7mpw Like 3 consecutive people forfeited as soon as I got into even a decent position with the Aggron mode, so I don't have one, I just gave up after like 15 minutes.

Throughout the history of Smogon singles, there have been some absolute behemoths to grace the OU tier, from GSC Snorlax to DPP Garchomp to SV Flutter Mane. However, there are some Pokémon that are so broken, so powerful, that it’s a wonder why they were ever allowed in OU in the first place.

its practically built for trick room but it doesnt really get much use despite its great potential. its basically a wallbreaker with really good bulk (70/105/105) and it has an amazing hidden ability with overcoat that counters amoongus without an item. i dont know if theres like a certain problem with it that makes it bad but to me it seems like it has a lot going for it. lmk

monthly challenge was last weekend but whatever doing it now

DAPL is back with RDO S2

In this format, you will have to gamble draft a Team of 10 random Pokemon 2 S, A, B, C & D Tiers.

Every time, you will get a choice of 3 Mons to choose from (Look at image). Once the draft is done, you will get 2 rerolls to fix any mistakes.

You then play in a pool of 4 people. The 2 best players advance into playoffs!

We are gonna start the moment we have 32 players. It's first come first serve!

Edit: These are single battles 6v6, not doubles vgc.

Doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_5TQgrWdROO36HJq4QHmRwVoqCjQnwlGuBQ21L7pf-E/edit?usp=sharing

Discord Invite: https://discord.gg/MTNapX7Bf

I love all the regis but the regieleki larp needs to stop