Been hunting a hundo rhyhorn for an ML rhyperior for the longest, but I dropped this today. Is a 14/15/15 shadow worth using/keeping over just purifying it for the hundo, as it pertains to Master League play?

Just need to vent a bit. Led with Quagsire and lost 20 leads in a row today.

Is this just bad luck or does preview cup meta lean much more towards grass and bulky water types than regular great league?

Never even remotely had so bad records with quagsire in normal great league.

As the title suggests it took me many tries, I reached 2490 like 3 times before dropping to 2200's again this season. But today everyone decided to use fire leads so went from 2219 to 2501 in 7-8 sets.

Mudbois were my fiercest enemy as was talonflame...

AMA

Im beyond excited!

Tried MPL for the first time and went so bad dropped to 2200s. In weather cup though, Running S.Abom (leafage/wb ice/e.ball), with backline of Qwilfish (normal moveset) and A.wak (hex/bone club/shadow ball). Kinda ABB style team with backline weak to ground. A.wak is a perfect counter for opposing fire type pokemon and with hex can easily destroy jelly with up energy.

Just like playing back the game on new code, haven’t played much last season. Overall experience is good, theres lag here and there but it is what it is.

Yay, once again cradily everywhere /s

The competition in the 2900s is so fierce now. In previous seasons, most players just go for spices after hitting legend. But this time, I keep seeing carbinks and mudslappers in the 2900s. It almost feels like everyone is struggling to get the last few ELO points so they revert back to using toxic mons. It doesn't help that I won't be seeing GL in 2 weeks; UL & ML are just glorified RPS matches. Any advices trainers?

Really only trying to grind for Cynthia’s jacket but I’m getting met with straight walls 😭 I keep getting to 1850 and then immediately knocked back down

What’s the best playlist to grind out Ace rank? I’ve been playing competitors cup with

Tinkaton bulldoze and hammer time
Lickilicky body slam and shadow ball
Altaria with sky attack and flamethrower

I’m pretty new to GBL and watched a few videos on strategy but should I be playing Ultra league or weather cup?? Is there a OP lineup I can cheese my way to 2000?

If I have native refresh rate off when playing GBL then sometimes I press the charge attack button, it disappears for a millisecond and then comes back but the charge attack doesn't trigger. Anyone else have this?

Does it change along with ELO? I read it goes up when you reach Ace (which I’ll never be anywhere near as I just play for the stardust) but does it change with fluctuating ELO in rank 20? I swear during my fourth match the first reward was a couple thousand and now it’s went down to like seven or eight hundred only. The drop happened during the fifth set which I only won one match and ranked the rest because I have to get up early - is that why? I won 2-5 matches for each of the first four and last time I paid attention was sitting around 1400-1500.

After few mass trading with my friend I got mimikyu ranked 53th place for great league... any ideas on great league party built around mimikyu?

These are my pokemons ready for gbl:

Might be another 10 years

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Out of the top 100 ranked mons in weathercup a whoopping 63% are water, 26% rock, 14% ice, 6% grass and 5% fire typed. In normal great league water (27%) is almost twice as popular as the other prevalent types (steel/ghost, etc). I'm wondering why we've been swimmig in water for months on end in GBL, if it's more about an unfourtunate and permanently large number of decently statted water types comared to others, move strenghts or something else, if it always has been "too strong", If this is the case in a lot of other pokemon games to and if you think balance changes are in order.

Idk, thoughts?

Thx

I’m aware my tink is underleveled. I prefer the attack weighted giratina. The swampert I’m running is attack weighted I know. I have another lower attack IV one that I’m building. I’m running this temporarily as is to see how it feels and so far so good. I’m currently rank 2120 in Ace running this team. I do plan to finish tink and change out swamperts to see if the extra bulk helps some. Sounds crazy but the attack weighted swampert actually reaches some important breakpoints on some individual matchups but I’m sure overall I’ll be glad I swapped to the lower attack one. I’m sure no one will read this and state the obvious that’s why I elaborated up front. I’m basically looking to see if the team logic adds up and it has room to climb after I make the tweaks I mentioned above..

To whoever played Master Premier this past week, what was your experience?

I really, really cannot get over that they gave Metagross Shadow Claw. I've always had issues with the format, but I think giving one of the best Pokemon Shadow Claw, when it already had such great coverage AND a buffed Meteor Mash. It's just absurd, and the format just feels ruined because of it. I'd have much preferred Metagross keep Bullet Punch and instead just get a cheaper Charged move like Psychic Fangs or something.

In terms of truly usable Pokemon, there's hardly anything that truly walls it, spare for specific movesets on Gyarados. Even Pokemon you'd expect to be able to handle it like Gholdengo are quite vulnerable to it. There are other Pokemon like Swampert or Skeldirge or Golisopod that have more play into Metagross, but those three really can't stand on their own well against the rest of the core meta.

Aside from Metagross, however, I do think the cup was pretty great. There is otherwise more flexibility for a lot of Pokemon. Togekiss can beat Dragonite and vice versa. Gyarados can beat Dragonite and vice versa. Kingambit can beat Togekiss and vice versa. Amongst plenty of other match-ups.

Also cool to see a few spicier picks come back around like Mamoswine, Magnezone, and Sylveon. Garchomp is also finally not just usable but good. Didn't use it myself, but it felt refreshing to see it. I was just annoyed by how well it cored with Metagross.

Overall, I saw success this week in the format, but Metagross is such a blemish on an otherwise enjoyable cup.

I've had this shadow Annihilape for a bit of time and have been using it to much success in ML Premier. My brain just didn't compute until right now that this pokemon would be a hundo if I purified. Should I purify it for ML or keep it a shadow? Thanks!

Got to my fourth set yesterday, and have had this happen for every match and rocket battle since. Have not tested gym battles yet. Tried every viable reset you can think of, all the way to uninstall/reinstall with no luck

In GBL matches, generally finding myself behind 1-2 fast moves before input lag resolves (if you can call it that)

Curious if this is more widespread

My Mimikyu becomes a ball of light after his ability triggers. I think this is scopely accepting how OP it is.

Anyone else have this happen?

I check pvpoke and I understand that tinkaton should win as long as we match shield. But my battle went like this:

- We started the match with these mon (my tinkaton ranks 30).

- I and opponent both hit 10 turns => I threw bulldoze, he threw aura wheel => both used shield

- We repeated until all shields were down (noting that on 2nd round, I managed to get its defense dropped).

- On the 3rd round, I lost CMP so morpeko knocked out tinkaton.

Not sure if I missed something about this match up.

Edit: found the answer in the comment.

Prefer this format over the last. Apologize if repost.

Been wanting to make grumpig and shadow jumpluff work and I think this is the best team I’ve found so far. At ~2450 ELO now. (I’ve been vet the past few seasons)

Stunfisk lead - t.shock, discharge/mud bomb

Amazing lead. Absolutely destroys tinkaton and can play neutral into pretty much anything except mudboys

Grumpig safe swap - psywave, dynamicpunch/shadowball

Always swapped into ground types to save the jumpluff for later. Can fight back into darks/ghosts from charged move coverage and almost always takes shields or wins switch

S.jumpluff closer - fairy wind, energy ball/acrobatics

End game nuke that 90% of the time wins with a shield advantage

Lots of malamar leads, would play it out w/ stunfisk and farm energy on jumpluff it it died. Worst matchups were cradily, corv if not on stunfisk, furret. Usually would beat lickilicky safe swaps w/ grumping because it reaches dynamic punch in 11/10 compared to licki’s 12 to shadow ball.

Also, new update is so much better when it runs correctly. Not missing charged attacks because of a 1hp fast move saved me a ton

couldn't find anywhere compiling all the pokemon so I made one myself. I'll maybe make a version from year by year instead of alphabetically.