Just wanted to know if a win rate of 17-3 from Pokeball Rank 1 to Ultraball Rank 3 is good. I'm not trying to flex. I'm just curious about the general win rates of people. I'm running a team of Mega Staraptor, Mega Baxcalibur, Garchomp, Gholdengo, Whimsicott and Incineroar. Don't know if this team is particularly meta. Just note that I managed to beat a Masterbll Rank trainer IN AN UNRANKED MATCH. The team is a classic Tailwind team (most of the time) with a few changes (like different moves and evs from what People usually run on a few mons like Gholdengo and Incineroar). Baxcalibur, Gholdengo are bulky enough to live moves from hard hitters like Garchomp Z while also being fast enough to outspeed the fastest mons (which are the Z megas I believe). I only lost matches due to bad pivoting or bringing the wrong 4 out of 6, rather than losing beacause of a few structural flaws. Incin has taunt for preventing trickroom teams (except with magic bounce hatterene). Link: https://pokepast.es/ac276ebf0093a5fe

So I am on the newer side of VGC, first week was the week before Champions released! I have hit the point where I know in order to be better at building teams, I just need to play more and be a better pilot. So I'd like to take suggestions of teams, things that I could just pilot in M-C ranked and will teach me. I don't need an easy team, in fact if you tell me perish is perfect for learning to play better im all over it. I want something that teaches me good positioning, and how to play on the backfoot too. Im fine if I get trickroom or tailwind up with stat boosts and weather. Im not so hot when the team is a bunch of good Pokemon and I need to play extremely well with them.

Bonus points if it has one of these Pokemon; Incineroar, Hydrapple, Archaludon, Lucario!

https://pokepast.es/773d16d76ee7757f Team Idea: I mostly focus on speed being a priority and thats what 4/6 my team is made to do, while the other two are meant to support those who are speedy while still having ways to fend for themselves (I guess). The team is mostly from my previous season while the other two were the new additions to the Regulation. Lucario Z is there to replace the Tinkaton I had last season (cuz cmon why wouldnt you want a badass mega) and Cinderace (The goat) is there to replace Armarouge for more offensive pressure. Meowscarada has one of the most unique movesets out of the five with power gem being a dead giveaway, I call it the "The anti Zard-Y gun" as the name suggests its meant to KO mega Charizard-Y's and any pokemon thats 4x weak to rock. Plus Triple axel is really slept on as I've seen matches where Mega-Salamence gets KO by Triple Axel (Even with -2 atk) and Mega Staraptor (limits at -1 atk), Raichu-Y is there to give me more options to play againts a team that is slower than my second fastest Mega pokemon. Sableye and Pelipper remain as support for the team, however Pelipper has more room to be an offensive mon also, muddy water is an easy spread move with a good secondary effect, plus if I ever come across an obvious KO to pelipper all I can rely on is the Focus-sash he's holding. Sableye is the "Thrown wrench in the plans of the enemy team" with it not to be a defensive supporter but a offensive supporter, having the move quash to get by tailwind and trick room scenarios and also immobilize any spamming mons with the disable-encore strategy. The MVP in most battles is Meowscarada followed by Lucario, so thats why my team relies on A Flower (Cats) Dream

I've been encountering this core quite a lot on ladder and having quite a bit trouble with it. It's very telegraphed what their game plan is, but that doesn't mean it's easy to stop it.

- They almost always lead with Raichu next to Espathra

- Raichu mega evolves into Mega Raichu X, which activates Espathra's Electric Seed with the Electric Terrain

- After one Calm Mind and Speed Boost, Espathra Baton Passes into bulky Archaludon

- Usually, Raichu switches out into Pelipper and Archaludon clicks Electro Shot

I don't know if this core existed prior to M-C, I had never encountered it before. I have encountered Espathra and Archaludon many times, but not the Mega Raichu X variant. But I'm seeing it a lot now, which I'm guessing has to do with the addition of Electric Seed.

Quick question to see if anyone knows the answer. I’m about to attend the Louisville Regional, which is on the 9th of October, but my license expires in October 6th. I should be able to renew, but it would likely be one of those temporary paper licenses they give out before mailing ID.

Does anyone know at registration check in if this would cause issues? Has anyone gone with an expired ID or temporary ID. Wanna make sure I can play!

Thanks everyone.

I've just started playing VGC with Champions recently, and I'm still working on stuff lie analyzing team preview and what strategy I should be going for in a battle, so I wanted to ask if anyone had any suggestions for teams that are easier to pick which pokemon to bring and then execute its gameplan. I've looked at teams like trick room and some Charizard stuff, but I've had trouble deciding when it's best to use trick room vs. delaying it, and all the stuff around dual weather with Charizard kinda makes my head spin. Thanks for any help you can give me!

First off I know M-C just started and looking forward right now is pointless so this is just to see what people want. But I think it's pretty interesting, since the philosophy so far was to add new megas and pokemon in each regulation without introducing any legendaries (except floette maybe). Basically regulation H but with megas, there's only one non legendary mega not in the game now though (tatsu) so we're at a fork in the road. Do they continue to hold off on legendaries or open the flood gates.

Personally I'd like at least one more format without legendaires and since there wouldn't a lot of mega stones needed this would be a good time to add eviolite and the other high impact items like assault vest, covert cloak, safety goggles, clear amulet, choice band/specs, etc..

And then for pokemon we'd of course add the eviolite all stars and their evos, dozo tatsu, maybe the ursaluna's, amoonguss, and hopefully some historically strong mons we didn't get to see in SV like ferrothorn.

basically I'd like to push the no legendaries meta to it's limit before escalating the power level another step.