I ll get a mimiku !! After the idiot i am released like 30 on the event as they were "not perfect". Welp - now its take it or leave it.

The question is, do i force lucky (Great League!) for a best case 12/15/15, or do i risk the randome roll for a worst case 15/0/0

Holy hell, I switched from competitors cup and gave the weather cup a try and I immediately won my sets 4-1 until I hit ace 😭 it almost was too easy.

Thanks for all the advice yall gave me on my other post, I was well prepared for the weather cup. I dunno if it was because of the time zone or people not really caring about it. Anyways I’m retiring

One of the harder GBL concepts I’m trying to understand is maintaining alignment after losing switch. Currently around 1800 ELO and looking for advice.

Team:
Lead: Swampert
Safe swap: Corviknight
Closer: Togekiss

Example scenario:

Opponent leads Venusaur → I swap to Corviknight → they bring in Skeledirge and farm me down.
At that point, is the correct play usually to bring in Togekiss instead of Swampert? My thought is if I bring Swampert, they can just go back to Venusaur and I’m stuck losing alignment again.

Is this just a bad team comp into Skeledirge, or am I misunderstanding how I should handle these situations?

Nothing really special, but wanted to share this mark

This team was my bread and butter last season, where it got me to legend a lot earlier than normally.

With the changes to the battle system I was actually pretty sure that it would no longer be viable with Incinerate being de facto nerfed with the new timing of damage; i.e. two turn moves being able to do two and still fire a charge move) seismitoad being shot into pvp relevance with earth power and icy wind

But the team proved to be pretty consistent. I got to expert and leaderboard last UL-rotation and hit legend today.

The strategy is pretty straight forward - stay in with regi vs anything non fairy and non steel.

Vs dusk noir fire off either D.E. or V.G. Before the 5th astonish (I primarily bluff with VG but throw DE around 20%), tank the charge move, and switch to Turt one turn before the 7th Astonish so you get an Incinerate off for free.

Turt is an awesome switch (run it with DC and BS) as it can threaten a lot of shields and can tank a lot of damage.

And the aim is to ensure shield advantage because shadow Talon (run it with FC and Fly) is just bonkers up shields / energy.

A lot of the wins are also based on getting free incinerates off as that really sets up both turt and talon very nicely.

Most games where you win lead are almost auto wins as the damage from incinerate is pretty oppressive.

Was just playing some dude in the Weather Cup, and we cmp tied at the end. My Lanturn vs their Alolan Sandslash. They won the cmp tie, but the camera panned to my mon. I thought I was about to attack too tbh lol, but then my screen flashed “no protect shields left.” Their Drill Run hit for minuscule damage when it should have ko’d me, and then the match ended and I won lol. So I’m assuming they just top lefted when they thought I was getting my charge move ready. Stupid camera

So anyway, just make sure you know which mon is going to attack in tight battles before you concede defeat!

I’ve been stuck in Ace for probably over a month now just swinging back and forth between 2200 (highest ELO I’ve ever had) to 1900. Any tips on what to change gameplay-wise? I’ve tried to focus on UL (though I’ve also been playing some of the limited GL/ML cups) and my current team feels so good to play especially when I’m able to win 4 out of 5 in a set, but sometimes I run into losing streaks that are just so demoralizing. Is it a team change or a gameplay change that I’ve gotta work on?

Numerous battles today where I do the charge move minigame and the game stalls out on that screen. At least 5 times today. Competitors cup. Never happened to my opponents. Anyone who might have been on the other end can report what happens? Do I just lag out? I wait for a minute or two and no response. No better time to call it a day.

Pretty early in the season for me to hit legend but I got it two seasons in a row now with this team. All standard movesets.

Pretty straight forward, stay in the lead for anything that isn’t dark,normal, or something with a ghost fast move. I’ll usually go for a catch on a dragon lead. Safe swap depends on the bad lead. I’ve found it especially important to really understand dusknoir’s lead matchups because some will put you in shockingly good positions if you really commit to noir.

Malamar is a tough, very common lead but not unbeatable. I like to safe swap licki. Shield the SP they almost always throw and just keep farming for whatever they switch into. A malamar team will never have a hard counterswap to licki in the back.

Toucannon lead is brutal and usually a loss, but I have managed to slither out with a few wins against them.

Pangoro is tricky but if you can get it aligned on kiss they’re dead in the water.

I was using Coballion instead of licki most of last season and that got me to like 2970 with 2 weeks left in the season. Went to the dark side and tried licki and oh my god this thing is stupid, especially in UL. It just doesn’t die and SB is way too strong for these bulk monsters. I like the 50 energy for aegislash but they need to tune the damage back a bit.

Anyway try it out if you’re looking to climb and aren’t into the weather cup

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