Pokeventurer

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...

  Ever since I started dabbling into VGC my interest was always to find some unique anti meta tech that can carry me. Already being trash at the game way back then, most, if not all of my teams were quite hot garbage. My teambuilding journey for the last two teams was relatively standard, given a few unique sets and a Maushold but I still had the itch to use something anti meta that I built from scratch. This was surely going to be taught in a format with such a high power level, however to my advantage I did have a lot of knowledge on what the team compositions were and how I can possibly answer them. I needed somewhere to start and my mind immediately went to Miraidon. idea I thought that miraidon was a strong contender to build a nice and easy anti meta squad around. There are a few reasons for thinking of Miraidon as my restricted of choice: Choice of Restricted: ·     The most offensive Pokémon are already a stable part of the metagame, cue all the monstrous...