Pokeventurer

  Knowing myself not being very comfortable with such new formats, I wanted to test run things until the format solidifies a bit and I can build a team more properly. I somehow ended up clicking on the join button on a small showdown tournament and ended up taking this team to the finals. Funnily enough this was built in around 1-2 minutes with a combination of strong mons I heard work well, some interesting new buffs these mons received and guesstimating the rest. Of course while testing I tweaked things to be more relevant to the teams I was facing. The duo of Cresselia and Ursaluna was truly made to be together. Cresselia gets a significant buff in the form of lunar blessing that can not only heal status and hp, but paired with the flame orb, it means you don’t lose the guts boost by the end of the turn. Putting safety goggles was my choice to make this Pokémon invincible against Amoonguss in trick room, especially when paired with Ursaluna on the field. tera dark was my type ...

VGC 23 Regulation C a Chien Pao and Dragonite Team  I was quite excited to start off with this new format, albeit a bit intimidated to do so. I knew from the series 2 metagame as it took me a fair bit of time to get a good grip on the format. Now to shift the formats with essentially 4 new mechanics being introduced in the form of ruinous legendary quartet was kind of a big ask for me. It took me quite some time to start with my team before which I was dabbling around with Chein Pao + Dragonite. The Dabble: These two form a very solid doubles combination. My play style is a combination of offense + a bit of disruption and control strategies. With this I need to have situations where I can pin down my opponents offensively and remove uncertainty from my matchups. With the starting duo of dragonite + chein pao I was off to start fresh. In a haphazard spark of inspiration I worked with a team of Wo Chein + Gholdengo, Gothitelle and Gastrodon/Arcanine for some testing. I was bringin...

Even though I was planning to build a team for series two and have it well rehearsed for when the s2 ladder starts I struggled to make out any time in January due to my semester finals. So here I was on feb 3 rd trying to build a team. Actually beforehand I had been using a team which I built by combining roaring moon + Gholdengo as a solid combo to start off of with rain mode and rounding off the team with an Amoonguss and iron hands. I didn’t learn much or feel too comfortable at all with this team.                                             My preferences for what kind of paradox Pokémon I liked changed quite significantly over the past few weeks. My opinion matured and instead of preferring roaring moon or iron moth as my favorites; I felt like great tusk was something special. For once they gave a truly underrated mon in Donphan a much needed and well thought out ma...