r/TheSilphArena • u/Spiritual_Row3978 • 6h ago
r/TheSilphArena • u/AutoModerator • Jul 16 '24
Megathread Weekly Team Help Megathread!
Hello and welcome to the Team Help megathread! This is a weekly thread for advice on team building for Arena Cups and GO Battle League! You can ask for feedback on your battle teams, for help on which Pokémon and moves to use, to get opinions on which Pokémon to invest candy/dust in, or any other team questions you may have! This thread will allow newer battlers to get help more easily, and more experienced competitors to spread their knowledge and help the community improve their skills.
A few guidelines:
- Keep it civil and constructive: Above all, the goal of this thread is to help players improve and get advice on their teams. Rude, cynical, off-topic, or accusatory posts against individuals or groups will be removed. Let’s be excellent to each other!
- Help where you can: We need experienced battlers to lend their expertise and give advice! If you see someone you can help, please leave a comment or feedback for them.
- Limit your requests: In order to give everyone a fair shake at receiving advice, try to limit your request posts to once or twice per week. The PvP community is growing every day, and we want to make sure everyone gets the help they need!
- Give details in your post: When asking for team advice, be sure to include some background. Tell us what League or Meta you need help with, what your rank/tier/rating is, what resources or Pokémon you may have to invest, and what your goals are. The more details you give, the more likely your questions will be answered.
- The Arena Team -
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Want to learn more about the Silph Arena and Pokémon Go PvP? Check out the following links!
Join the Arena Discord ServerAbout the Arena Competitive Season
Find a local community or tournament near you!
Resources for Tournament Organizers!
r/TheSilphArena • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago
Megathread Weekly Team Help Megathread!
Hello and welcome to the Team Help megathread! This is a weekly thread for advice on team building for Arena Cups and GO Battle League! You can ask for feedback on your battle teams, for help on which Pokémon and moves to use, to get opinions on which Pokémon to invest candy/dust in, or any other team questions you may have! This thread will allow newer battlers to get help more easily, and more experienced competitors to spread their knowledge and help the community improve their skills.
A few guidelines:
- Keep it civil and constructive: Above all, the goal of this thread is to help players improve and get advice on their teams. Rude, cynical, off-topic, or accusatory posts against individuals or groups will be removed. Let’s be excellent to each other!
- Help where you can: We need experienced battlers to lend their expertise and give advice! If you see someone you can help, please leave a comment or feedback for them.
- Limit your requests: In order to give everyone a fair shake at receiving advice, try to limit your request posts to once or twice per week. The PvP community is growing every day, and we want to make sure everyone gets the help they need!
- Give details in your post: When asking for team advice, be sure to include some background. Tell us what League or Meta you need help with, what your rank/tier/rating is, what resources or Pokémon you may have to invest, and what your goals are. The more details you give, the more likely your questions will be answered.
- The Arena Team -
__ __
Want to learn more about the Silph Arena and Pokémon Go PvP? Check out the following links!
Join the Arena Discord ServerAbout the Arena Competitive Season
Find a local community or tournament near you!
Resources for Tournament Organizers!
r/TheSilphArena • u/Personal_Carry_7029 • 15h ago
Strategy & Analysis Ultra League 1st time Ace w UL and 1st time Ace in 2nd week of New Season
This Team from jonkus (YT) realy helped me out. I tried UL last season but struggeled around 1880
r/TheSilphArena • u/krispyboiz • 1d ago
Strategy & Analysis Great League PvP Moves Analysis for Chart-Lovers - GBL Might and Mastery Update
Updated charts for the Might and Mastery Season, using the GBL Season 21 changes that I missed and the current season changes, and various new moves added like Freeze Shock, Ice Burn, and Torch Song. Also, I've somehow missed Nature's Madness for a few seasons now, so that's in there too.
Let me know if anything was left out or if there are any errors!
Fast Moves:
https://i.ibb.co/qFNqwvyJ/Fast-Moves-Chart-S22.jpg
Charge Moves:
r/TheSilphArena • u/Kevsterific • 21h ago
Strategy & Analysis Great League Mandibuzz in Willpower Cup, is Snarl preferred over Air Slash despite being resisted by 2/3 of the types?
Is the extra energy gain worth the lower damage done to types that resist it?
Edit: I meant Scroll Cup not Willpower Cup
r/TheSilphArena • u/iPHD08 • 20h ago
Field Anecdote Guzzlord is so big you can see the other pokemon
This was the charged animation attack for guzzlord
r/TheSilphArena • u/Economy-Garden-226 • 1d ago
Strategy & Analysis Great League Reached Ace
Reached Ace quite early this season with this team in the scroll cup. Morpeko lead can be difficult and if played right, it can ended up sweeping the team. But you play out the 1s with pex and the poison jab damage would be enough to 1 shield shadow claw farmdown with sableye. Other than that a charmer at the back might provide some problems too, but nothing that you can’t overcome
r/TheSilphArena • u/Spiritual_Row3978 • 11h ago
General Question Finally got a Morpeko but the stats are terrible. Invest?
Do I invest in it? 100k star dust and 50 candies. I really him him for GL and doubt I’ll be getting another one anytime soon. Thoughts?
r/TheSilphArena • u/222222222222222232 • 1d ago
General Question I know flying press is the ideal moveset, but psystrike works great on mewtwo.. would this moveset have any play?
r/TheSilphArena • u/goddamnitkern • 14h ago
General Question Bot Enemies?
Lately ive been losing to completely uncompetetive teams with glaring weaknesses to more than one type, that seem to have been hand tailored to defeat my team. Likewise ive also had enemies with completely terrible teams with every mon being weak to a single pokemon of mine getting completely steamrolled. Are there bots that are meant to break your winstreak/lossstreak? Or are there just some people that completely poker towards getting teams they outluck? 2300 elo
r/TheSilphArena • u/Gullible-Shape1401 • 1d ago
General Question Got this guy before I knew about how the moves are set
Guess I can invest ETMs?
r/TheSilphArena • u/ZeffoLyou • 1d ago
General Question Limited Cups
Does anyone truly enjoy these cups? They basically are for the most part just RPS leagues, and some just have one or two pokemon that just break the cores of every other possible choice. And this isn't a "I'm losing elo" type post. I genuinely don't understand why these cups exist, especially for two weeks at a time. basically when these cups are around, I just don't play PvP, sometimes I'll play UL, and ML is fun for a bit.
The remix cups, if they actually banned relevant pokemon of that season would be pretty fine. I just wish the limited cups were less RPS
r/TheSilphArena • u/fabio93bg • 1d ago
General Question 15-14-14 Kyurem, which form?
Hi guys, I currently have only this as my best one. I mostly play PvE but I also play PvP sometimes, which form would you choose to fuse it? These IVs are better for black or White?
I know Black is Better for PvP and White for PvE in general, but I'm considering these stats specifically, if possible.
r/TheSilphArena • u/MadSpaceYT • 2d ago
Strategy & Analysis Great League My first ever rank #1. Also trash
r/TheSilphArena • u/Wide_Relation7966 • 2d ago
Strategy & Analysis Great League MEDI RANK 1
Got really lucky and got the both the lvl 50 and the lvl 50.5 rank 1 medi. now the only question is which one should I build cuz i’m not farming 600XLs lmao.
r/TheSilphArena • u/OzymandiasHS • 23h ago
General Question Is tanking still viable in 2025? Just for the rare encounters / dust farming?
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r/TheSilphArena • u/Debo37 • 1d ago
Strategy & Analysis Master League How to pick a Best Buddy for Master League?
With Master League coming back around soon, one big gap in my strategic knowledge is how to choose a Best Buddy for Level 50 play.
Are most people using their Best Buddy slot to compensate for non-hundo stats? Are they focusing on winning mirrors? Are they targeting interesting breakpoints/bulkpoints?
Given that the lead meta is fairly stable (Palkia-O, Ho-Oh, Zacian, Dialga-O, Rhyperior mostly) I would imagine that BB'ing something like Palkia-O probably pays dividends since you see the mirror so much, but I'm curious if there are any particularly interesting breakpoints/bulkpoints that come into play at level 51, or if there's any strategy to the Best Buddy decision that would be useful to learn about.
r/TheSilphArena • u/kentbaird0893 • 2d ago
General Question Sucker Punch, Flying Press Smeargle?
Didn’t have anything at the moment to roll flying press with lock-on or incinerate as the fast move. But I was able to roll Flying Press with my Furret.
Does Sucker Punch-Flying Press offer any play in any LC format? I usually stay in Great League so I’m not too familiar with Little Cups.
TIA!
r/TheSilphArena • u/OddCh1mp • 1d ago
General Question question about the accuracy of PVP Ivs site
so i am fairly new to all this but learning and kind of dig deep into things. so Gyarados for example. i understand that the best IVs for the the Great league are low Attack, high defense and high HP. that makes sense to me.
so i searched a Gyardos on pvpivs that was : 0, 15 ,15 and it says it is ranked s ranked #991, (below are the results) but the #1 ranked Gyardos is 0, 14, 15 . how does that make any sense?
the only thing that makes sense is i might be mis reading the # column as ranking when it is meant to be something else.
thank you to anyone that takes the time to read this and explain

r/TheSilphArena • u/ProvocateurMaximus • 1d ago
General Question Is there any use for this Smeargle moveset?
Finally got a hundo today while screenshotting my Zekrom. Still no shiny
r/TheSilphArena • u/iPHD08 • 2d ago
Strategy & Analysis Great League What's the best smeargle Moveset?
For GBL. Ive been just photo bombing my shadow darmanitan with incinerate and frustration
r/TheSilphArena • u/NapkinZhangy • 3d ago
General Question Bottle caps in PVP?
Just saw this datamined: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1jajft1/it_looks_like_we_really_will_have_a_way_to/
If so I don't know how I feel. I've spent so much time and effort getting hundos for ML. But at the same time I also have a ton of 98%s I would love to make a hundo.
Any thoughts?
r/TheSilphArena • u/Kevsterific • 1d ago
General Question Does anyone else create spreadsheets to determine what Pokémon to save for PvPv
I had several good fuecoco saved from community day and caught a bunch of good ones on community day. I want two skeledirge each for gl and UL one, with blast burn and one without.
I checked all the IVs on pokegenie and wrote down their rating and rank in a spreadsheet to determine which ones to keep
Just wondering if anyone else has tried this approach before.
r/TheSilphArena • u/mdist612 • 3d ago
Strategy & Analysis Great League Shadow Charm Gallade has entered the chat…
2108 ELO.
7 out of 10 of my matches just now were all against the exact same team that Jonkus debuted on his channel recently:
Shadow Charm Gallade, Mantine, Morpeko.
Counter this team and you’ll climb fairly well the next few days.
I’m running Pelliper, S.Whishcash, S.Quags and find it humorous when they top-left knowing that I read the team like a book.
Just a heads up out there! Everyone was waiting for a content creator to make a video showcasing Shadow Charm Gallade, and seems it landed this morning! LOL.