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Pokemon VGC Regulation H First Impressions and My First Team

Exploring the early format teams: The first thing I knew about Regulation H was the memes of Palafin being the ex you text back after Urshifu’s ban. And I did think to myself that it would be now a stellar option in this format given that Pelliper, being a rain setter has already proven itself so well and we know how good Palafin could be when it doesn’t have the relative water types to outshine it. I quickly logged onto the showdown chat and asked away what was the core; the answer that I got was “Palafin, Pelliper, Incineroar, Amoonguss and Archaludon”… this was five members for a full team of six right here so I got to testing. I was pleasantly surprised by how good Archaludon was in this format. It was not only a threat on the special attack side with stacking up boosts from electro shots, but stamina gives it a devastatingly powerful option in body press to start stacking KO’s when left unchecked. Other than that, with the format being so fresh, it felt as if the team didn’t s...