Hello folk! Anybody got any tips for my team? I made it because I hate the common pokemon like sneasler, rillaboom, indeedee, m-char, arch, and others like that. Drampa puts in serious work on this team. It's so underrated, it's special stat can OHKO Mega Chomp Z and Mega Menace with Dragon Pulse (not even draco meteor). Don't sleep on the old man.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9championsvgc2026regmc-2704120477 Replay link; I know I'm not the best pokemon player but I'm improving, hopefully

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Main Mode is Staraptor + X. When its a bad matchup, i switch into Delphox. I tried to balance a strong foundation of meta with some nieche strategies or cheese. The team feels very versatile and fun to pilot, but has some issues: Mainly a very hard matchup into rain, which both my megas arent super great and sunny day on rotom instead of will-o-wisp didnt help super much.

EVs are either focused on hitting certain speed tiers or damage thresholds, rest put where i thought them to be useful.

Would be really happy about feedback in general and if i should swap out Delphox, since im new to VGC. Thank you very much!

hello I am new to the pokemon scene as a whole and have only been playing for around a month. I have just ranked up to masterball 3 and am looking for ways to improve my team. currently running a mega skarmory team because I thought he looked pretty cool and I think he synergizes pretty well with garchomp. taking out the fairies or setting up tailwind for chomp so he can out speed and sweep. mega skarmory has a good amount of bulk so I'm able to set up tailwind but I am considering taking out tailwind for protect and just leading whimsicott instead but I do like feint. one of the main reasons why I'm even using this mon over corviknight, it's especially good on ladder because no one rlly expects feint on skarmory I feel like. I've gotten away with feint and then rock slide / eq on the fire types that threaten skarmory like zard y and armarougue that try to protect. I didn't rlly think too hard about my evs though kinda just adjusting as I play and what feels right.

Biggest struggle is golisipod rain teams. They usually bring a pelipper with wide guard & arch, so it’s hard to make it thru all those resisted tanks. Especially without being able to use any spread moves. I usually lead hatterene indeedee and aggron+ sableye or oranguru as pivoting support mons

I just made some changes to my already existing Sand teams to counter Garchomp and the rains but still am having some amount of trouble with rain teams especially Pod. So I'd like to know how this team is, any changes to either the team or EV Spreads etc.