The Whacky Vanilluxe Team VGC 2020

SO BASICALLY WRiTTING THIS AND POSTING AS I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO GET IN DETAIL AND REALLY LIKING THE CURRENT COMPOSITION OF WHAT THIS TEAM BECAME RN, SO ENJOY!

Jellicent +arctovish +vanilluxe combo to start off with.

Beats: Dragapult Togekiss Dracovish Gastrodon Gyarados Arcanine??? Whimsicott Rhyperior Braviary Butterfree Hydreigon Pelliper +ludicolo Threats: Dracozolt Toxtricity Hawlucha Lapras Lucario Conkeldurr Jellicent Hydreigon Excadrill + tyranitar Ferrothorn Rotom w Rotom h Grimmsnarl Corviknight Rotom mow

Solutions: Fairy type to beat dark and fighting types Ground type to beat steel and electric types + get immunity to electric Fire type to beat grass + steel  weakness? Helping hand Gallade, sylveon, mudsdale

I started out this team with the concept of a vanilluxe.vanilluxe has a lot o potential in this metagame I think. Vanilluxe is able to hit a lot of pokemon with freeze dry for super effective damage. Dracovish, gyarados and gastrodon all fall to it, furthermore the ever rising population for dragapult and togekiss, alongside rising populations of whimsicott and mudsdale is going to make vanilluze worth using, not to mention that it an also use aurora veil if needed to boost both special defense and defense of its team members and provide weather disruption. You can do a lot with this mon and I wanted to try it.

After vanilluxe at first came a series of ideas including arctovish, to further increase the blizzard spamming on this team and then a dusclops to abuse tr alongside conkeldurr to handle sand, which was looking to be the end of this team. I worked around that core for a while, until things seemed a bit lackluster for it. One combination I spontaneously put on the team and ended up absolutely adoring was arctovish pivoting in games between an offensive dynamaxed jellicent and vanilluze’s blizzard spamming, later this idea evolved into a more bulky concept of self surfing for both these mons carrying water absorb. I decided on putting a ground and fairy type and with the trick room nature of the team I felt like I needed these two to cover up the weaknesses. Then came a gallade to be put on this team which made it so much more fun and gave it a rather whacky but fun looking beat up vanilluxe + gallade justified combination, furthermore combining it with gallade’s drain punch, this combination could help me pick up more slower and defensive teams in the format who particularly don’t expect gallade.

This team is something that im finally getting a bit happy with the composition of and happy to have build around a vanilluxe. I will surely further develop this team in the future when I have the time to as currently I am entangled in other studies stuff so do keep a watch out for this team with updated items, movesets and evs spreads as I feel happy about the members.

Vanilluxe @ Focus Sash  Ability: Snow Warning  Level: 50  EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe  Timid Nature  - Blizzard  - Freeze-Dry  - Aurora Veil  - Beat Up  Arctovish @ Life Orb  Ability: Water Absorb  Level: 50  EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpA  Quiet Nature  IVs: 0 Spe  - Blizzard  - Fishious Rend  - Surf  - Protect  Jellicent @ Figy Berry  Ability: Water Absorb  Level: 50  EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD  Quiet Nature  IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe  - Surf  - Protect  - Trick Room  - Giga Drain  Mudsdale @ Assault Vest  Ability: Stamina  Level: 50  EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD  Adamant Nature  - High Horsepower  - Iron Head  - Body Press  - Fissure  Sylveon @ Throat Spray  Ability: Pixilate  Level: 50  EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA  Modest Nature  IVs: 0 Atk  - Hyper Voice  - Mystical Fire  - Protect  - Substitute  Gallade (M) @ Sitrus Berry  Ability: Justified  Level: 50  EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD  Careful Nature  - Drain Punch  - Trick Room  - Night Slash  - Protect