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Great and Ultra League Teams

So I was just wondering what Pokemon were good for both of these leagues. I understand everyone has their preferences, so if any of you guys wanna share your "Go to" team for either Great or Ultra league. (Both would be awesome)

I'm just curious to see what works for some people and what some of you guys prefer to use.

Asked by beeznuts185 years 3 months ago

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Gamepress has an entire article about the best pokemon for Ultra. Spoilers: It's Giratina. Kingdra, Blastoise I hear are amazing as well.

For Great, the obvious trio many people are now familiar with is Azumarill, Altaria, Cresselia. Some other good ones that spring to mind immediately are Whiscash, Meganium, Lanturn, Kingdra, A-Muk, Forretress, Umbreon, Flygon, Skarmory. I don't have a set team but if I want to make a strong team, it'll almost always include at least one from the big three due to their sheer power.

My Two Great Teams:
1) Flygon, Meganium, Charizard
Meganium and Charizard have great coverage, and their CD moves are nuts, usually oneshotting anything they're SE against. Flygon is just good
2) Metagross, Altaria, Blastoise
Has amazing coverage as a team, and each mon can help cover the other's weaknesses. Ironically, it loses to the former team due to superior move quality, and that's saying something considering the move pool that team 2 has available. This team does better against most of the T1 mons though, mostly due to wide coverage.

2 Ultra League Teams:
1) Giratina, Metagross, Feraligatr
Gatr rocks Bite, HC, Crunch as a good Giratina counter. Giratina is an auto include. Metagross helps cover Giratina's bad MU's.
2) Kingdra, Metagross, Feraligatr
This team isn't as good as the first one. Really any team that runs kingdra should be running giratina instead, but I have a 100IV kingdra. In this team Gatr is again a giratina counter, metagross is himself, Kingdra is just a good neutralist with far fewer weaknesses than giratina.

I don't think I've ever used the same 3 Pokemon in a match but I use these unassuming Pokemon pretty frequently:
Hyper Fang Raticate
Drill Run Dunsparce
Silver Wind Venomoth/Beautifly/Yanma
Astonish/Psyshock Chimecho
Thunderbolt Lanturn
Body Slam Munchlax

I've found Lick/Body Slam Munchlax to be quite alright as a starter. It can spam BS very fast and most people won't start with fighting mons due to the existence of Altaria and Azumarill.

Lanturn is a champ in Great League.

I've heard that Lucario is great in Great league if you have shadow ball as the charge move. (You have to have an IV of 80% or lower at pkmn lvl 20 to have Lucario at or below 1500CP)

I've been playing around with different IV ranges in the CP calculator here. A 10/13/14 Lucario has exactly 1500cp at level 20, granting access at 82%.

This post has me thinking, I have a Riolu that's 12/10/10. Think it's worth testing the Great League waters with? I'd like to know if I should walk an extra 125km for the discounted second move candy cost Riolu has.

From a "purely competitive" standpoint, lucario is pretty good in the great league thanks to counter's absurd damage paired with shadow ball and flash cannon.
From an "is this a good investment of my time and resources" perspective... something rubs me the wrong way about investing that much time and dust into a great league pokemon which caves to charizard and cresselia (which most competitive PvP players will have access to, and are likely to have one of on their teams).

Then again, I've walked almost 500 kilometers with my 100IV kingdra (found as a level 1 horsea) to raise it up for ultra league because kingdra is one of my all-time favorite mons... so in the end it's up to you.