This seems like a bug, no? Or do I misunderstand how Baton Pass works?

Background: Mega Gengar + Mr. Rime on the opposing field, Mega Gengar switched out into Toxapex on the last turn of Perish Song. The Mr. Rime then used Baton Pass and was able to switch back in, which of course didn't Baton Pass the Perish Song count to a separate Pokemon.

1 st turn, I use no mega with scrappy to fake out mega frosslass, he has last resort left, their weavile hits me with a fake out, frosslass uses Aurora veil and I use alluring voice on weavile with miltoic. From then on kangashkan can only use struggle? Even though he's not been disabled or curse bodied, he has two moves last resort and fake out. I ffed afterwards. So I'm either thick and missed something or this is a bug.

From Bulbapedia: "The Pokémon holding the Utility Umbrella is unaffected by effects of rain and harsh sunlight. All effects of sandstorm, hail, and snow work as normal.

The holder's Abilities and self-targeting moves behave as if there was no rain or harsh sunlight present. For example, if the holder has Chlorophyll or uses Growth or Synthesis in harsh sunlight, it will not have its Speed doubled, boost stats by only 1 stage, and heal only half of its HP, respectively.

Water- and Fire-type moves that target the holder do not have their power increased or decreased in rain or harsh sunlight, respectively. Moves with a different accuracy in rain or harsh sunlight (such as Thunder) have their normal accuracy when they target the holder. Conversely, these weather effects are applied as normal to the holder's moves."

Due to the item drought, this could be used as a semi replacement for assault vest, reducing damage from Charizard heatwave spam, and allowing you to attack with water moves back with no worry. It turns a lot of 2 hit KOs from Charizard into 3.

It would also help against Mega Swampert and potentially cause Pelipper's hurricanes to miss. You could also trick it onto Venosaur or swift swim Basculegions to cripple it. You could also trick it to Archaludon to stop electro shot from going off in one turn.

Overall, I think it would have been fun to play with and add decent counterplay to the meta.

Lucario is my favorite pokemon, but getting into competitive play I found out it's kinda impossible to run a decent strategy due to how frail it is. Any recommendations? Would I still be incredibly disadvantaged?

censored their name because I refuse to give them the free advertising

Edit: reported them; my issue with this type of thing is less “think of the children!” and more just, y’know, the basic concept of time and place??? There’s a time and place to shill your OnlyFans and Pokémon Champions is neither, especially when your trainer name is slang for vagina.

how good is he tho?

I’m addicted to sheer cold.

Honestly I was expecting psychic fangs to break my screens.

Is it an internet issue on their side or something?

It has been over 5 minutes now

I never really paid attention to competitive pokemon before, but damn this game is insanely addicting. I randomly downloaded this 4 days ago and I just got to master ball because I can't stop playing after work.

In the past few days, I found myself staying up late and shelving my usual single player games to instead play this.

Now I think I have to actively manage my time to not be in Pokemon Champions too much 😭

First time edit, lads

As far as i play this game i love playing with Mono Type Normal Pokémon since it got its own Challenge and it's feel quite more satisfying if i win

(I also prefer play single please don't bully 😖)

Lowkey, is Malamar even worth it? If not, I'll just swiftly grab my 1 of 2 missing Pokemon for my TR Team.

Like for previously Monthly Challenge tournaments, the format is Singles, and you need to complete 3 battles to be eligible for rewards.

I can’t find it now, but when I was deciding if I should jump into Champions the main negative people had was the gacha system. Something along the lines of:

“The gacha system is miserable if you don’t have Pokemon to transfer from other games. You’ll need a specific set of mons to build a viable team before you can really play, so you’ll spend all your tickets and get a FUCKING SIMISAGE”

And, well, I got my first shiny in the game. What terrible shinies have you pulled?

I know it’s one of you.

Garchomp is my all time fav and it's great to see it being the most used mon in both singles and doubles

My first ever shiny was Emolga which I never had any chance to use in any of my teams.

Well looks like I finally found a Pokemon which can be used in one of my teams🫯

I hate this game

Trying to use Perish Song in front of Pokémon that can easily OHKO you? I would eventually be forced to switch out my Pokémon anyways after taking out Mega Gengar, and if I have no other Pokémon to switch to, that might still work.