Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Pokemon 2010 VGC Support & Discussion

Arcanine/Arbok Master said:
What "rules" are there for the event? I mean evasion modifiers are banned as are guillotine, sheer cold, etc. Is there any nonsense like a sleep clause? Is breloom practical in this format?
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i don't know what your talking about, but evasion modiefiers and ohko moves aren't banned, nor should they be. if you want to risk a 30% chance move, more power to you
 
^ I agree with you on the 30% moves. This is competition play, not the AI of a pre-proggied game that came with a book that you can buy that shows you what to expect. 85%+ moves will make every turn a better chance to land attacks. I think even having moves that are 85% is still a bit chancy- a moves accuracy can make or break your game.
I do think that alot of noobs will have sheer cold on the ogre. It does seem to me that the ogre does pull off the cold more then 30% of the time. And so does the cold hit more in the battle tower as well.
But having attacks that have higher accuracy is definitly a must in this type of competative play.
 
i was scared to have my charizard use heatwave for last years tourny, but it was so worth it. i dunno if anyone else has been watching a lot of the battles on youtube, but it seems like the people playing, at least one of them seems like they have no idea what they are doing
 
i would say probably but he will probably warn me or whatnot again for not contributing productively to a conversation like when i try to defend my position. oh what the heck. it probably was him
 
^ lol- it is simple little joke- Ulti is a great ds battler, and I can handle a warning for not saying something productive or contributing.
But- I do hope that he can see the humor in it........ :p-
 
Hmm, Im rather confused about what went down in this thread the last few posts. Anyways, Im strongly considering this:

Zapdos @ choice scarf
Timid Nature
252 SPA 252 SPEED
Discharge
Heatwave
HP: Ice
Filler (Signal Beam/Ominous Wind?)

Electivire @ (Expert belt OR focus sash OR life orb)
Jolly Nature
Evs: 252 speed, prolly 252 atk.
Taunt.
Earthquake
Thunderpunch OR Thunderbolt
Low kick OR ice punch OR cross chop

I was running this pair for fun and the main problem I encountered was TR teams. Obviously Taunt on electivire would stop that. Zapdos is free to discharge which raises electivires speed every turn and does about 50% to 4Hp / 0 sp.def kyogre, which severely cuts water spout's damage. Electivire is free to throw equake around since zapdos is flying. For the other two moves definitely Thunder bolt or thunderpunch. For the last move, possibly ice punch or low kick. Low kick would be good for dialga. Obv ice punch is for garchomp, lati@s, sally (assuming hes used at all), lugia, possibly other zapdos. Note that after one speed boost from discharge, jolly electivire outspeeds scarf'd ogre. This means that if kyogre takes out zapdos with an icebeam on turn 1, electivire finishes off kyogre at the start of turn 2 before kyogre acts.

I still haven't run any major damage calculations on this. Mainly because I hate metal kid's damage calculator and cant find a better one. (Seriously that thing is slow and bugs like 55% of the time)

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Edit: Ran this:
Zapdos's initial discharge should do 45.45% - 53.4% to 4hp / 0 sp.def kyogre.
Electivire's Tpunch would do 78.97% - 93.18% if electivire does not have an atk boosting item. This assumes jolly nature and 252 atk evs
Low kick on dialga = 56.03% - 65.7% assuming no item bonus and that dialga has 252Hp / 0 def.
 
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those are good damages, but electrive really doesn't have the d's to last more than one or two hits with these kind of pokemon and your relying heavy on the fact that you will be facing almost all water teams. i mean its a fun thing to do in battles but i doubt it will work to well in this tournament
 
I'm not counting on facing mainly water teams, although I expect them to have a good showing. Zap and electivire seem to have decent synergy and together cover most types. the calculations I ran are for kyogre though since kyogre seems to be dominating this thread's discussion.
 
The Fact That they havent Said anything about how they are choosing paricipants is starting to scare me...lol and electivie's and zapdos...sounds good...tii rock slide would just about ohko both of your pokemon.
 
I've tried that Electivire and Zapdos thing. It works pretty well as long as they don't have the dark void smeargle out. Rock slide was a pretty big problem too, as well as fake out. If your zapdos can't attack, then you're stuck with a pretty slow vire for another turn. It also doesn't help that the speed boost from motor drive doesn't activate until the next turn.
 
thats is what all the youtube video games will be like. kyogre and dialga, some use mewtwo, metagross is popular again. seems a lot of people are going special so snorlax and blissey might be good choices
 
i wasn't saying use it. it was suggesting it as a reference to have someone who could take a hit. and for people who don't use legends it would be a nice choice
 
Palkia, Azelf, And Ludicolo are going to be on the majority of teams this year.

Palkia has great stats where they need to be, single weakness that can be dummied down with yache berry, and is one of the few water types who can fire blast when the opponent plays sunny day.

Azelf is able to fit her way into almost any team. Fast, great move pool, awesome stats all around, and can explode like none other.

And there is...Ludicolo. Good stats where it needs them, great typing, awesome move pool...oh yeah, -~*SWIFT SWIM*~-!!

Those three pokemon are my predictions to be in just about any team.
 
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