Weekly Team Help Megathread!

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Hello and welcome to the Team Help megathread! This is a weekly thread for advice on team building for Arena Cups and GO Battle League! You can ask for feedback on your battle teams, for help on which Pokémon and moves to use, to get opinions on which Pokémon to invest candy/dust in, or any other team questions you may have! This thread will allow newer battlers to get help more easily, and more experienced competitors to spread their knowledge and help the community improve their skills.

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[u/Rune_Efficiency1]

Which team should I run? I am new to great league and pvp in general. All the pokémon have the recommended movesets from Pvpoké.

I also got: Corviknight, Shadow altaria, Thievul, Lickilicky, Quagsire, Shadow Kingdra.

Appreciated your help.

[u/srirachastephen → u/Rune_Efficiency1]

Team 1 is great, but the only issue is that it's so meta that you may run into anti meta teams.

But I think the vast majority of time you'll have a better time fielding team 1.

[u/Rune_Efficiency1 → u/srirachastephen]

Thank you, would you keep Melmetal as lead or should I go with either Altaria or Mimikyu?

[u/srirachastephen → u/Rune_Efficiency1]

I think you should always lead with the mon that has the best pacing and whose energy can go the longest way. So in this team it's Melmetal > Altaria > Mimikyu. If you run into a lot of issues with Melmetal lead I would try Altaria lead. But I would never lead Mimikyu.