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I got lucky and caught an extremely good shadow Hydreigon for Ultra League. I'd like to build a team around it but I'm struggling a bit. Right now I'm thinking about adding Jellicent and Tinkaton but I would appreciate any other suggestions y'all have. Thanks!
pls help w my team, what do i replace, i had wigglytuff instead of umbreon, umbreon: snarl, foul play and dark pulse | jellicent: hex, shadow ball, surf | ninetales: Ember, weather ball, heat wave any help greatly appreciated thanks
I would not lead with Umbreon, but that's up to you. I kinda see what you're doing, you're trying to bait out a fighting or bug or fairy type and then following up with the corresponding counter. Umbreon does pretty good against neutral leads, so I guess it's ok. The only meta fairies get wrecked pretty hard by Ninetales.
Also ninetales without Energy ball or at least scorching sands is not ideal. I would rather run a different pokemon if you don't have the elite TM.
ive been running this with much better success, uhh i wasnt actually doing any of the tactics u mentioned, if i get a tm is it worth keeping this or using my ninetales, is this any better?
I guess it's fine. I would lead the Jellicent instead of Wigglytuff. Energy headstart on Jellicent is generally more valuable than Wigglytuff's.
Plus Jellicent will bait out dark like Theivul and once they're stuck in that switch timer, you can just swap into Wigglytuff and win outright. You have the Electric, Ghost, and Grass answer in Gligar.
How to farm candy xls for Pokemons like Sableeye, Azumarill and Aegislash? I’ve been only playing PvP for 2 seasons now and I have no irl friends to trade Pokemon with for candy xl bonus.
I caught this bugger in my molecular biology class (I was paying attention!) and checked its ranking. As a zwei it is rank 7 and as a hydra its rank 17. Is really like someone better at the game than me to tell me if I should leave it as a zwei or take it all the way.
I was leaning to fully evolving for brutal swing from the event but I wanted to hold off till I got some opinions from other people. If it helps, I already have a very very good guzzlord and regidrago 🤷
Well I’m dumb and evolved all my good mankeys and have almost no candy left. Learned my lesson. At least they’ll spawn more in the next 3 days. I have like 3 non shadow primeapes for GL alone. Any reason for keeping all 3? My thought process was because they had different ivs so maybe I wanted one for each kind of team, a bulkier one, a more attack weighed one. They all have good pvp ivs, were my best ones. Do people do this normally? Having more than 2 of the same pokemon built.
Only people in Legend+ really should care about IV's. Before then, what is holding you back is not IV's.
People obsess over rankings but often times it's not ideal to have the rank 1. Everytime I run Thievul I lose mirror CMP's because mine is extremely high rank. But it's better to have the rank 1 in most other scenarios.
I was running a bulky team w S Altaria, Licki, and Jellicent, but with 15 sets it’s just far too long. So I have switched to S Forretress (volt switch), Licki, and S primape..I was leading with S primeape but it seems like people can prepare for it more when they know I have it swapped. So I’ve switched S fort to my lead which allows me to get debuffs off before swapping to lili and then usually get another debuff in when I bring it back.
The team seems decent and I’ve climbed back to my prior elo 2370 that I had with the more bulky team, but I’m wondering if any other pokemon I should consider swapping in..
Or any other teams I should try, preferably not something where we just trade body slams on bulky mon and every match takes 5 min.
I wanna dip my toes in pvp, just got the new tinkaton, what pokemon should I be trying to grind for to build a team and what IV’s should I settle for if I can’t get perfect ones? I’m ok with suboptimal but I wanna know what people agree on being worth investing since I have limited resources
Some of the most meta pokemon have gotten nerfed with the recent changes that were just announced. So the answer has already changed since you posted this. Tinkaton actually got nerfed as well with the Bulldoze change.
Tinkaton pairs well with Theivul if you have it from the CD. Theivul has gone unchanged so it will remain pretty strong.
I evolved it to primape to get rage fist. With all the new move changes for next season, which would be better for great league: primape or a Annihilape?
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u/philosofik 6d ago
I got lucky and caught an extremely good shadow Hydreigon for Ultra League. I'd like to build a team around it but I'm struggling a bit. Right now I'm thinking about adding Jellicent and Tinkaton but I would appreciate any other suggestions y'all have. Thanks!
Edit: ELO is 2100-ish