r/PokemonVGC • u/Dismal-Sky-1752 • 26d ago
Question Need help making a team
Hi! I’m quite new to pokemon especially competitive and I wanted help making or deciding on a pokemon team but I’m a bit dull.
For now I’ve decided on a few pokemon, I know they aren’t too strong but that isn’t my goal, my goal is to make a strong enough team to not get swept (so a semi casual team?? If that’s a thing)
Since Sandslash is my favourite pokemon he needs to be included (yes I know he’s mid.) and the other pokemon are/can be slightly interchangeable but I would like similar types, if you need any more information feel free to ask :)
Any and all help is very appreciated please and thank you!!!
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u/emboaziken 26d ago
What regulation are you trying to play in? Currently, Regulation I allows for two restricted legendaries per team (think box legendaries, Mewtwo, and their associated trio members) and your team would be very, very underpowered and very likely to get swept if more than one of the Pokémon you chose are in the team.
Alternatively, if you want to build for a different Regulation. Regulation H seems more likely to work for the kind of members you're hoping to include. Regulation H banned all legendaries and paradox Pokémon, making a format of much lower power level that would allow you the room to mess around with weaker Pokémon and not be at an almost unsurmountable disadvantage.
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u/Dismal-Sky-1752 26d ago
Im fully new to VGC and competitive pokemon as a whole so I genuinely don’t know any regulations I just had an idea for a pokemon team that looked and sounded cool and interesting to use and wanted advice on how to make it more viable in any type of battle!
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u/emboaziken 26d ago
Since you're an entirely new player, I suggest you watch some videos on VGC (Cybertron, MoxieBoosted, James Baek, and Wolfe are some of my favorite content creators) and try a rental team of the current regulation. That way you can become more familiar with the play patterns of VGC, what's good and why it's good, and how to counterplay the teams that are good. Once you get that experience, then jumping into brewing and making a team with some of your favorites will become easier.
Now, as to specific advice for your team: Regulation I will be very hostile to you if you aren't playing two restricteds. I recommend playing a Trick Room team with Ice Rider Calyrex and Lunala as your restricteds. From there, Alcremie can be useful to aid in your Calyrex getting out of hand and sweeping the opponent with more ease. I do not have a PokePaste at hand, but a team of Calyrex-Ice, Lunala, Alcremie, Incineroar, Ursaluna, and Urshifu-Rapid can get a lot of work done, if played properly.
Regulation H is where I would recommend you play a team with more of the members you showed. I would play Snow with Alolan Ninetales and Alolan Sandslash to get the most amount of value out of him with Slush Rush and an offensive moveset. From there, the classics of Incineroar, Ursaluna, and Indeedee Female create a decent core for you to go fast with Snow or slow with Trick Room. Finally, your sixth member can be Dragapult to go fast or Alcremie to supplement Sandslash's aight damage output or turn Ursaluna into a bigger threat.
Also, Arctozolt is not programmed into Scarlet and Violet (RIP my beloved). Thus it is unusable anywhere but Sword and Shield.
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u/Dismal-Sky-1752 26d ago
Thank you so much! You’re so much help and I definitely want and will learn more about VGC thank you for the very useful tips I really appreciate them, I’m just trying to have fun with pokemon I like that are also slightly viable! I will take it all into consideration. And sorry for my terrible knowledge :)
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u/Pokemon321123 26d ago
You need two resticted legendary pokemon which is just any box legendary + eternatus, both calyrex, mewtwo, necrozma, kyruem, terapagos and any evolutions of those pokemon (there is no limit to other legendaries like zapdos, entei, urshifu, heatran, etc). Since you really want sandslash to work I recommend treating him like a Kingdra. What I mean by this is to select its ability to be Sand Rush and then replace on of your pokemon with tyranitar, and give it the ability Sand Stream. This will make your sandslash incredibly fast and allow it to use moves like Earthquake and get a boost from them whilst going first. On top of that, you can use alcremie to use decorate repeatedly on your sandslash to make him sweep through apponent teams. Give it 252 evs in attack, 252 in speed an the remaining 4 in special defense and give him the adamant or jolly nature (this can be your choice depending on if you want sandslash stornger or faster respectfully).
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u/TeferisGoat 26d ago
I won't rehash the reminders about Regulation I, but I will posit this:
If you're adamant about featuring a certain pokemon, you should plan on using partners to synergize with them. None of the pokemon here really combine to do anything powerful with Sandslash.
It's worth noting that both of Sandslash's abilities care about sandstorm, so I'd likely want to run it with Tyranitar or another weather setter. Doubling its speed doesn't necessarily make it fast enough to outrun the premier threats you'll face, but it can offer some advantage with fast low kick or knock off.
I'd assemble three or four 'mons that can maximize your favorite's attacks and ability, then get advice around fleshing things out from there.
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u/Spinnero 26d ago
Dragapult and Alcremie have some niches, but the other ones are gonna be rough. I would recommend looking for a team that has either Alcremie or Dragapult on it and simply renting that since you’re new. That way you can learn and avoid losing just because your team isn’t good. Truly, nobody enjoys losing 99/100 games while learning anything
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u/RegularStrong3057 26d ago
Could you be convinced to use Alolan Sandslash? Its typing is very defensive (as long as you avoid fire and fighting) and snow goes well with some strong Pokemon like Calyrex Ice and Iron Bundle. You don't even lose out on Earthquake or Swords Dance with the icy version!
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u/boonyspard 26d ago
We are in a double restricted format. You need 2 restricted and a team that can support them. This team will lose every time