October + November VGC Report

Hi guys today I am back with another monthly report, this time it is going to be a bit special regarding vgc 17 as I really is the last report I will be having regarding this season, so patching upwth a few teams as well as a lot of good memories, without further ado lets get into it:

My Anti-meta October Team:

The team goes as the following:

Relicanth @ Rockium Z  Ability: Swift Swim  Level: 50  Shiny: Yes  EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe  Jolly Nature  IVs: 0 Spe  - Rock Slide  - Head Smash  - Protect  - Waterfall  Politoed @ Aguav Berry  Ability: Drizzle  EVs: 252 HP / 180 Def / 76 SpD  Calm Nature  IVs: 0 Atk  - Scald  - Ice Beam  - Protect  - Perish Song  Dragonite @ Weakness Policy  Ability: Multiscale  Level: 50  EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpA  Quiet Nature  - Dragon Pulse  - Flamethrower  - Protect  - Extreme Speed  Dugtrio-Alola @ Groundium Z  Ability: Tangling Hair  Level: 50  EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe  Jolly Nature  - Earthquake  - Iron Head  - Protect  - Substitute  Vikavolt @ Life Orb  Ability: Levitate  Level: 50  EVs: 244 HP / 252 SpA / 12 SpD  Modest Nature  IVs: 0 Atk  - Thunderbolt  - Bug Buzz  - Discharge  - Protect  Trevenant @ Sitrus Berry  Ability: Harvest  Level: 50  EVs: 252 HP / 108 Atk / 148 SpD  Adamant Nature  - Wood Hammer  - Phantom Force  - Toxic  - Leech Seed

I really won’t be giving full details as I do so for the other teams of mine however some bits on the team, especially as the season is ending it will be more questionable whether the team will be usable or be used in testing by the others, that is why a full detail isn’t needed as I do guess so. First of all the thing that makes me feel very proud about this team of mine is that the entire season I have been trying to go with this concept of a full anti meta team, as the season reaches its end. The inspiration came from the idea of rain + dragonite teams which I saw cutting a regionals, so I had to try out the concept there, on the name of rain a weird swift swimmer came to my mind, relicanth, relicanth was super good especially against matchups involving a mandibuzz its head smash + z-move was very strong and quite an unexpected form of offense for my opponents, politoed’s perish song proved good for this hyper offensive team, the entire concept of using dragonite with rain was to abuse thunder, but the I found thunder wasn’t putting out too much offense so I decided I should be going for a weakness policy set which did ended up working out much better. Dugtrio also was a very interesting concept to use, especially with substitute which worked out really well, one of the main advantages I gained from this was that my opponents didn’t expect me to have z-moves on either of the two I had them on. Tangling hair was also very good against unsuspecting opponents. Vkavolt worked well on its part whereas trevenant a set I brought back from an old metagross team of mine was working really well for the function that I put it on this team for.