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What's the your favorite team in PVP?

I have built up couple teams with my handful pokemon.

Great League:
Metagross, Meganium, Raichu;

Ultra League:
Mewtwo, Breloom, Umbreon;
Jolteon, Lapras, Steelix;

Master League:
Dragonite, Dragonite, Moltres (if they have ice, I'm so dead)

Also, the Type advantage is really a thing in pvp, yesterday my Houndoom just one shot my friend's Mewtwo, which surprised both of us.
What's your idea here? Thanks!

Asked by amebapu5 years 3 months ago
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Havent tried Great or ultra much yet.
My master league team is my Kyogre, SD tyrnatiar and Sb mewtwo trio.

Thoug ive only used it 3 times as my phone's *trash* for PvP, the times I was able to play on a friends phone was quite fun

Im hoping to battle more, want to try out giratina, meganium flygon and milotic on various teams

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Great:
Meganium, Blastoise, Meganium
Blastoise, Charizard, Blastoise

Ultra: Metagross, Gyarados, Hariyama

Master: Dragonite, Metagross, Dragonite

I'm finding that even if people have one counter for a strong foe, they don't have two, and if you back up that counter's weakness, you can get through nicely.

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It the great league I have been using Steelix, Flygon, and Zapdos.

I think something that is going to be real important is weaknesses and resistances. Because of that I think pokemon with fewer weaknesses and more resistance when you are going into a battle blind is important. Because of that there are a few pokemon I find really interesting, the main one is Alolan Muk.

Alolan Muk is only weak to ground, while resisting ghost and psychic. He actually isn't weak to any of Mewtwo's attacks. Give him bite and dark pulse (maybe gunk shot as well for coverage) he will be a nasty little surprise for Mewtwo.

I would probably add Metagross for large list of resistance, and maybe something like a Lapras to do both water and ice attacks.

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I'm liking Great League a lot. Hariyama and the 3 Kanto starters (with CD moves) are surprisingly good

Master League is a just a showoff between who has the most powered up top tier legendaries. Me and a friend had to put a Gentleman's rule of a 3.3k CP cap to make it fair

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Not really for master league, most top tier attackers all people have; after this month's CD weekend, we all have tons of metagross, tyranitar, dragonite. Rayquaza and most legendaries almost every player has, its kinda hard to showboat when everyone has the same top tier attacker

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My Great League A Team has done great so far: Medicham, Azumarill, Metagross. Also for the Ultra League, Blastoise is spectacular. I already had one maxed out with HC, I splurged and gave it ice beam and it's an absolute beast. 10/10 zero regrets for spending that dust.

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Also, found out Flygon is pretty op right now

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Its like all all the under powered pokemon suddenly became awesome. Maybe now people wont look at all the trapinch they hatched like they are a waste, one guy in my raid chat tossed a bunch for clearing space, now is looking for trades for one because he doesnt have a good one, oh how easily the tables have turned.

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Ultra:
Hex/SB Gengar, SC/BB/OH Typhlosion, MS/SB Groudon
SD/Cr Tyranitar, C/SB Breloom, RL(?)/Eq Torterra

Mixed movesets are VERY helpful. They reduce the need to swap out. I have other teams for the other leagues but I'm loving these two.

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by Pingo 5 years 3 months ago

The CD Starters do pretty good.
Was also happy with Altaria and Snorlax (L/EQ)

Kyogre on the other hand was dissapointing. Also Steelix didnt work for me.

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Great: Umbreon with Snarl/Foul Play (wish my Last Resort Umbreon was still under 1500... :/), Beedrill with Poison Jab/Sludge Bomb, and the third slot is open until I power up a Meganium to right under 1500, so I've been running Drifloon with Hex/Shadow Ball, since it's one of my favorite shinies.
Ultra: Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, all with CD movesets.
Master: Mewtwo with PC/SB, Metagross with BP/MM, and Tyranitar with SD/SE. Groudon demolishes this team, though, so I may switch one of these out for Dragonite.

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by antgoo 5 years 3 months ago

I've had fun and success in the Master League with Exeggutor (Confusion+Seed bomb and Psychic); Metagross (Meteor Mash, no second move at this time); Gyarados (Waterfall+ Hydropump and Crunch)

The coverage is great and the combo of multi bar and single bar charge moves uses up the shields quick.

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I've been having success in the Great League with this team. Ponyta is unevolved because it learns Flame Charge - a 3-bar 70 Power move, which is really the best you can ask for now that Cooldowns don't exist in PvP.

Ponyta: Ember/Flame Charge
Azumarill: Bubble/Play Rough
Masquerain: Infestation/Silver Wind:

I never thought too much about it until after I made it but I guess I can try to defend it now:

Ponyta: Great damage-dealer with a reliable 3-bar and covers Metagross, which all teams should try to have an answer to given how many resistances Steel carries. Checks commonly-seen Metagross, Venusaur, Meganium, Articuno, Registeel, and Regice. Commonly checked by Flygon, Dragonite, Golem, Tyranitar, Vaporeon, Suicune, Milotic, and Omastar

Azumarill: Super defensively-oriented coverage. Soft-checks Fire-types such as Charizard, Moltres, and Flareon by virtue of TDO and SE Quick Move, can usually outlast even with NVE Charged Move. Hard-checks Dragonite, Tyranitar, Weavile, and Flygon. Can also neutral Water-types pretty well. Checked by Meganium, Zapdos, Raikou, and Jolteon, but with Protect Shields can sometimes squeak by with a well-placed Play Rough. Has no options against hard-checks Magnezone, Venusaur, and Roserade.

Masquerain: Best neutral damage-dealer with a good Quick Move and 3-bar 70 damage Charged Move with STAB. Hard-counters common Psychic-types Espeon, Slowdudes, and Alakazam, and super-walls non-poison Venusaur, Roserade, and Meganium, Machamp, and Ground-Flygon. Also a great option against Umbreon, which has no coverage moves but great TDO. Best generalist in the team but gets absolutely destroyed by any Flying type, Fire-types, and Rock-types.

Overall I think the team has good coverage as well as Pokemon with great TDO and perfect moves, but this team could easily falter to Alolan Golem, Muk, or others. Thoughts?

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Double Dragon seems like a disadvantage given the changes to type effectiveness. Dragon won't hit many other mons for supereffective damage, and anything with ice, fairy or rock will do a ton of damage.

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Just trying to process everything, I feel like they should make a tier that doesn't allow legendaries. Obviously this isn't an issue with most people, and you could always make agreements, but I feel like the legendaries with type coverage will really just wreck. I mean picture 2 Groudons with EQ, SB, and FB between the 2 of them and a Kyogre with HP and Blizz. What would you even do?

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Doesn't a single bolt-beam Mewtwo handle all 3?

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Master League: All 100 IV
Shiny Kyogre :: MM Metagross :: Smack Down Tyranitar

Groudon S-Beam :: Latios D-Claw :: Salamance Draco Meteor

Dragonite Outrage:: Snorlax L B-Slam :: Articuno Ice Beam

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Does Umbreon hold up well in Ultra? He's my favorite eeveelution and would love a chance to actually use one in GO

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I love great league the most:
Blastoise, Golbat, and Flygon is my main team
Meganium, Venusaur, Azumarill, Torterra, or Medicham have been common replacements

Ultra league:
Venusaur, Giratina, and Ampharos is quite often my choice here

Idgaf about master league as it doesn't bring me anything new (as the Pokémon used here are often used in raids too)

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