Pokeventurer

“Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites. I like your style. You understand what's important. Go on—the Champion is waiting.” Karen (Esteemed Dark Type Elite Four Member) When it comes to the discussion of what strong pokemon is are across a lineup, it is easy to imagine in a vacuum its high base stats, a strong ability and a favorable typing. When it comes to choosing the crème de la crème for a competitive metagame filled with said powerful Mega Pokemon, options like Mega Charizard Y that sets up the sun with its Drought ability further powering up its fire type attacks and giving it access to solar beam off of a 165 base special attack stat.  Or something like Mega Salamence that has the amazing ability Intimidate in its base form dropping the attack stats of its opponents when it enters the field and then acquires Aerialate to gain STAB damage on its strong normal type moves like ...

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...

So as Regulation G just dropped, my initial plan was to let the metagame form itself out before I step into the game. However, after seeing some videos on Youtube that discussed popular cores, I got excited to try one of them out, and quite a simple composition too. It worked out quite well for me so here’s a mini team report for those looking to find a team to play the format: I dabbled in this format a bit with a horrid Kyogre team being rounded out with Rillaboom, Incineroar and Farigaraf and fell flat quick. Teambuilding: These Pokémon didn’t really gel together in harmony and there wasn’t much synergy or inspiration to go off of. I did get swept 2x by an Ice Rider Calyrex. Later when I watched a video that mentioned the Trick Room core of Calyrex Ice Rider, Incineroar, Farigaraf and Ursaluna, I felt like it was quite worthy to give it a try. I know from my experience thus far that the majority of dedicated Trick Room teams do work on a sort of flow chart function. Most basical...