Not yet. Judging by the new Regulations/Series, it will probably be usable in July or August.
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Is there any reason for the oddly specific Atk/SpAtk IVs on this team here?
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/scarlet-violet-vgc-team-dumps.3710926/post-9507130
It's got things like "29 SpAtk on Annihilape (who doesn't even have SpAtk moves)" and "14 Atk on Iron Bundle." Is this a meme? Or am I missing something deeper? I'd assume you'd want minimum attack on a Special Attacker like Iron Bundle to reduce confusion and Foul Play damage.
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/scarlet-violet-vgc-team-dumps.3710926/post-9507130
It's got things like "29 SpAtk on Annihilape (who doesn't even have SpAtk moves)" and "14 Atk on Iron Bundle." Is this a meme? Or am I missing something deeper? I'd assume you'd want minimum attack on a Special Attacker like Iron Bundle to reduce confusion and Foul Play damage.
It was probably there to accurately put the team from in-game to showdown/pokepaste form, as it is based off of an in-game team.
Sorry for late response but smogonvgc has both viability rankings and sample sets in the smogondex for resources, and the victory road website and vgcpastes on twitter are also worth looking into for sure. Also Wolfey, Cybertron (theyre also good youtubers to watch to help improve at vgc) and Unreality have created a resources for newer vgc players vgcguide.com (btw pls dm me if you have any further questions idm)
Hi, I am new to Pokémon (well, last time I played it on my Gameboy color). With Purpur/Karmesin I started playing again and have a lot of fun in VGC ranked battles. There I climbed now really high in the ladder. So here is my questions: Is there a Plattform where I see the current ladder with names of the players? And what is the "use" of getting rank 1 appart of being the very best ;)? Is there a reward?
In pokemon home you can see the players on top ladder, but getting #1 wont get you rewards outside of some twitter likes and YouTube team features. The main focus is just the irl tournament circuit. Hitting master ball does give you some rewards that help you make teams at the end of the season, but they are not that useful.
I just downloaded Pokémon home. But I cannot find the ladder. Where should it be?
The weird button at the bottom of the screen with 3 lines and then "battle data" Edit: Think it automizes to singles so put it on doubles and yeah its supposed to be dominated by Japan lmao
I'd like to build a hard Trick Room team for regulation C. What would be some good Pokemon to use on such teams?
Cool, thank you. Pretty much only Asians at the top :D I guess I was the best German player for a while xD
That ladder is really interesting.
The best Hard Trick Room teams were PsySpam (Indeedee + Armarouge) but this took a very big hit with the introduction of Ting-Lu and Chi-Yu to the point where Hard TR isnt very relevant anymore so honestly im not sure.
Bumping this clovre
Resurrecting my old account from a decade ago to ask this question because I cannot get a clear answer.
Can a showdown mod/admin/dev, in no uncertain terms, tell me why they're yet to implement an OTS mandatory ladder on showdown? Between the players only going for ICs or players running gimmick teams for lols, it's INCREDIBLY annoying to waste my time and the time of other players that actually go to irl tournaments with trying to look for an ots game on ladder to get actual practice. Thus far the answers I've seen make no sense for this. Splitting the player base on the ladders would not be an issue, and it's not fair to us that we can't choose to make ots mandatory on our end. If I wanted cts, I can just reject all day every day, but if I want ots, I'm at the whim of whatever the other player wants. It's infuriating and a waste of time to have to wade through that stuff. PLAYERS WANT OPEN TEAM SHEETS ON LADDER. It's a very small minority that only want cts.
Please address this. I'm begging you.
Can a showdown mod/admin/dev, in no uncertain terms, tell me why they're yet to implement an OTS mandatory ladder on showdown? Between the players only going for ICs or players running gimmick teams for lols, it's INCREDIBLY annoying to waste my time and the time of other players that actually go to irl tournaments with trying to look for an ots game on ladder to get actual practice. Thus far the answers I've seen make no sense for this. Splitting the player base on the ladders would not be an issue, and it's not fair to us that we can't choose to make ots mandatory on our end. If I wanted cts, I can just reject all day every day, but if I want ots, I'm at the whim of whatever the other player wants. It's infuriating and a waste of time to have to wade through that stuff. PLAYERS WANT OPEN TEAM SHEETS ON LADDER. It's a very small minority that only want cts.
Please address this. I'm begging you.
Rotom heat could work, I think the best rotom form is rotom wash because it resists palafin and good against arcanine ting lu
In game ladder also doesn't have OTS, this is important for the IC this weekend btw, which is BO1 CTS and can reward more than half of a worlds invite. Besides, from polls it is clear that the majority of the playerbase is casual and likes CTS. Top players also dont want their teams getting stolen because they have very high Elo/Gxe.
Watching streams of tournaments like on twitch.tv/pokemon is a good way to get familiar with the metagame and the commentary can give some insight as to what the teams are doing or why the players make the decisions they do.
There's also youtube channels like cybertronVGC who are also great at walking viewers through their thought process
Unfortunately a lot of the vgc community is spread out over twitter so there isn't really a good central place to talk to people or get information. Smogon has a discord for vgc that could also help point you to more places
epic random ivs moment
Does anyone know what moves exactly are newly legal? Is there a list somewhere?
Heatran can find a slot on the Cresselia Ursaluna Hands Amoonguss core, that has a very strong TR mode but can also be used w/o TR, though its not a staple there. On something like Indeedee Armarouge Ursaluna its never justifying a slot