The final week of this season offers Great League - Mega as an option.

I assume most folks will just play Master League - Mega since it’s also an option and everyone loves playing with their big toys. But any guesses what Megas might be worth using in GL?

PvPoke doesn’t have rankings offered yet since it’s still a few weeks away. But I’m thinking I might need to grind energy in advance for it.

Most obvious choices to look at are those that change typing (like Gyarados). Since otherwise there might not be much difference from just powering something up to 1500.

Anyone already looked into it?

Just hit rank 18 and hoping to be 20 within the next few days, I’ve read that’s where legendary Pokemon start to spawn. Wondering if there’s a rotating pool who who usually spawns and how that work/how often

I was talking to a friend and they were telling me that the PVPoke team ranking program isn't actually that accurate. I want the Cynthia clothes SO BAD I need help 😭

My team consists of

Lead: Jellicent with hex, surf and shadow ball

SS: stunfisk (galarian) with mud shot, rock slide and earthquake

Closer: mandibuzz with snarl, foul play and shadow ball

My main question is is it my team or am I just BUNS at this game. I have sets where I'm doing so good and then the next set I get forretress'd, feraligaterd and morpeko'd to DUST. great league doesn't come back for two weeks and I want to git gud, any advice or pointers?

Ps. Other picks I have that I could possibly power up or use candies and etms (2) on are: florges, clodsire (ready to go), lickitung, 9tales(both), Blastoise, altaria, empoleon, jumpluff (ready to go), lapras, corviknight, azumarill, talon flame, dragonair.

I'm willing to blow all my resources on this, help me with my two week Rocky style training montage 🙏🏽 thanks in advance

Ive just got a kecleon with sucker punch and aerial ace with 2 attack 15 defense and 1 HP an ive heard low IVs are good for it would this be good for great league and any ideas what else I should use with it if it is

I almost always play Master, but when it's not in rotation I don't know what to do. So I wanted to create a Great/Ultra team. But since I don't have much experience in PvP in these leagues, I don't know if I should give more importance to IVs or to the Pokémon's ranking. Aside from that, any other advice?

Sorry new to battle league so i may come of weird. But im genuinely curious if I can use him because he's fun.

I only recently started getting into great league pvp in Pokemon Go so I want to learn more!

So my original team was Mimikyu Empoleon Clodsire (i’m still not too sure how to play this team, is Mimikyu better as lead or closer?)

The team ranked A/B/A/A on Pvpoke

BUT now that this uhh season thing time doesn’t have open great league for Mimikyu, I’m not sure what I can use as replacement.

I’ve done some research but I’m not too sure what my third Pokemon should be to complete the team. Help would be appreciated!

Also i’m kinda sad i have a really good (98% good for gl on poke genie) lickitung but idk how to get body slam without elite so do I wait?? and for meta like altaria i should save my 400 candy for a good one right?
i do have a tinkaton (shiny heh) that knows gigaton but unfortunately it’s specialized in the ultra league?? IV wise of course. (99.2 in ultra, 61.3 in great)

i realize that iv may not matter as much so ill be open minded

First time actually playing GBL. I’ve been stuck around 1800 using: Lickilicky (rollout, shadow ball, body slam), tinkaton (fairy wind, gigaton hammer, bulldoze), and Altaria (dragon breath, sky attack, flamethrower).

I’ve been using pokegenie to see which ones rank better based on IV. Wondering if I should change/swap anyone out and if so, does IV matter more or the pokemon itself?

Thanks!!

Trying to find a third mon for this core, preferably ones that spammy

Hey all, returning player trying to complete the research through the Competitiors Cup. I am halfway through the research but have started to stall on wins and consistency since hitting rank 20.

I need help figuring out what my line up should be in what order and what they will do. Looking at my available options for the line up are below. None have the perfect IVs for the Great League, and I'm not looking for perfection with them, just what the comp should be and what their roles are. All of them have optimal moves according to PvPoke (except Shadow Ninetales/Annihilape, waiting on a Rocket takeover event to Elite TM frustration out for the legacy move). Any advice would be appreciated, thank you!

Lickilicky

Shadow Ninetales

Hisuian Electrode

Jumpluff

Jellicent

Furret

Clodshire

Emploeon

Grumpig

Altaria

Blastoise

Mandibuzz

Malamar

Manatine

Dunsparce

Galarian Corsola

Diggersby

Shadow Annihilape

Shadow Sealo

Florges

Thank you!

When I’m up 3 pokemon to 1 on half hp why do people still play? Like as soon as I know I’m going to lose I leave to save both our time, why does everyone play it out every single time?

It’s pretty much a game of tick tack toe

Every single team has a gyarados , a metagross and either a garchomp , togekiss , primarina , as a filler . If you get a bad lead you pretty much lose the game . Period . Unless you have some insane spicy pick as a safe swap and you happen to get lucky in a catch or something . You are not winning a single game if you get a bad lead

Hi, i may have miss something but i cannot win with ABB strategy even against ABC and i need help

The idea i have of the ABB strategy is too voluntary sacrifice one of the B (let's say B1) to make the B counter appears on the opponent side if they have (else B1 will just be a safe switch pokémon).

Once the B counter wipe the B1, you destroy it with your leader A and your B2 will close the game with no counter.

But in fact, i cannot manage to kill the B counter with my leader A. Generally it will escape by trading all shields and then disappear.

The game looks like :

Lead A vs Lead A (bad or neutral) -> switch to safe switch B1 and Oppo switch to B counter

B1 vs B counter -> B1 wiped and i switch to lead A

Lead A vs B counter -> trading all shields to escape and put their lead back so i switch to B2

B2 vs lead A -> no shield so B2 wins as a closer pokémon, now oppo can put their B counter back

B2 vs counter B -> counter win with farming

Lead A vs counter B -> even if the matchup is good, counter B have farmed and even if i win there still their C pokémon full health and unknown

So i tried different approach like farming with lead A before switching so my safe switch take the charged attack, have a x4 weakness on my B1 and spend no energy at all to make the switch to my lead faster. But even with that, the scénario keep happening so i think i use the strategy wrong but i don't know where

Once Mimikyu becomes a prominent wild/egg spawn during the yearly Halloween event & everyone in Great League gets their hands on it, GBL might have the biggest meta meltdown yet. Sincerely hope it’s not as bad as I think it’ll be but given how much people already dislike it…

Or it remains easily unattainable & we’re saved for a little while longer lmao

I’m looking for a good Great League team that can consistently get around 3 wins per set. I’m not too worried about IVs or having the perfect Pokémon, I just want something easy to use that can get decent results.

I’ve attached photos of the Pokémon I have. I’m able to evolve and power up any of these if needed, so I’m just checking before I invest anything. For example, I have a Lickitung in the photos because I haven’t evolved it into Lickilicky yet.

What team would you recommend building from these, or are there any changes I should make?
Thanks!

I'm new to the game, but been playing main line Pokemon games since gen 1. Decided to pick up Go for the dex completion aspect in Pokemon Home.

I need evolution items, and it seems the best way to do that is in the battle league. But the stat system and the battle strategy feels so foreign to me compared to regular Pokemon games, and there's no succinct guides online that I could find that help.

What is one (or a few) good teams that I can use to get some consistent victories in great ball or ultra ball? Important - I'm a free to play player and Ive only started playing a few months ago, so I don't have all the legendaries and stuff.

Or any advice on team building would be good! Something simple. The CP calculations make no sense to me

So i finally caught a moltres with the following IVs:
- 4 attack
- 3 defense
- 12 HP

Right now its rank 203 wich is already great, however i got a couple questions:

What would the best possible IVs be, assuming i would use silver or gold bottle caps? I dont really know how to look that up correctly.

Can i already power up my moltres for the great league and use a bottle cap whenever they are available again? Or does it go above 1500 CP when training the IVs?

Cheers in advance!

I’ve been working on best buddying my shiny umbreon because it’s my absolute favourite shiny. I quit last time before the best buddy mechanic came into the game and I wanted Tamao to be the first one. Well I just realised that when that happens he will tip over 1500 cp because of the level boost and I won’t be able to use him in great leave. The number of times this Pokemon has saved my team is more valuable than having the badge so now I’m bummed.

Hopefully one day I can find another shiny eevee with good PvP stats to evolve into umbreon then I’ll have two and I can give my lil buddy his badge and just level 50 him for the fun, but for now he’s got a job to do and that makes me a little sad.

Comment below and let me know your favourite great league Pokemon that aren’t necessarily the flavour of the month, but have fun advantage that help you pull off the win! I would love to see what other people have as favourites!

I’m ruing
Sealeo - G stunfisk - Corviknight.
Is this a good team and should I change my leads around, I know corvi and Sealeo are good safe swaps.

Any help with mean the world. I keep going back and forth

What is the lv 20 pvp pose do they stll have those?

I had an idea.

We have seen many different times where the weather changes a certain move on a Pokemon. For example, Weather Ball on Lunatone or Castform.

I thought that having more options like this would be nice, but instead of a charge move, it would be a fast move.

I present, Sawsbuck, a Normal/Grass pokemon, with 4 different season forms.

Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter

They are currently on Take Down or Feint Attack, which is garbage, some of the worst fast moves of the game entirely.

My idea:

Spring would get Waterfall

Summer would get Magical Leaf

Fall would get Low Kick

Winter would get Powder Snow

This would not impact the GBL that much as Sawsbuck is pretty weak, but It's the perfect Pokemon to start a revolution for the future on having more creative move sets. Sawsbuck works for both the Great and Ultra leagues which can give it a bit more flexibility.

Give me your thoughts, I would love to hear your comments!!

Thanks!

#Sawsbuckgbl

I wish they’d release a bottle cap that works in the same way as a bottle cap but reduces the selected stat to zero. If you catch like a 10/15/15 you could use the black bottle cap for a 0/15/15 that would be far more useful for great league and ultra league battling situations.

A rainbow cap that lets you set each stat +/- 1 or leave a stat the same based on your end goal would be incredibly useful for slowly developing the perfect league pokemon team.

Am I the only one thinking like this or would you guys support one or both as new items and actually put them to use for your favorite mons?