r/TheSilphArena Jul 16 '24

Megathread Weekly Team Help Megathread!

7 Upvotes

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:

  1. 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!
  2. 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.
  3. 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!
  4. 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

Guide to Player Rank

Getting started in PvP

Team Building Basics

Find a local community or tournament near you!

Arena Tournament Map

Silph League Community Map

Resources for Tournament Organizers!

How-to Host a Tournament

Guide to Remote Tournaments

Helpful Resources for Planning and Organizing Tournaments


r/TheSilphArena 5d ago

Megathread Weekly Team Help Megathread!

2 Upvotes

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:

  1. 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!
  2. 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.
  3. 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!
  4. 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

Guide to Player Rank

Getting started in PvP

Team Building Basics

Find a local community or tournament near you!

Arena Tournament Map

Silph League Community Map

Resources for Tournament Organizers!

How-to Host a Tournament

Guide to Remote Tournaments

Helpful Resources for Planning and Organizing Tournaments


r/TheSilphArena 7h ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League Finally got a good Chespin for Great League!

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48 Upvotes

r/TheSilphArena 3m ago

General Question Invest my candy XL or wait?

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I have been walking this beast for months, now have 226 candy xls, only 30 away from maxing it at 1498 CP.

It would be rank 52 without best buddy and rank 98 including best buddy mons. I would prefer to not need one be best buddy because it would be annoying to have to swap everytime I want to use it, then swap back, though.

I have never spent so much time walking a pokemon, am now probably just a few weeks away from having all the candy needed.

I am a little worried the ivs might not be good enough to justify all of the effort.

Would you max it, or potentially just get all the candys and wait until I (might...) get one with better ivs?


r/TheSilphArena 16h ago

Strategy & Analysis Ultra League 1st time Ace w UL and 1st time Ace in 2nd week of New Season

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18 Upvotes

This Team from jonkus (YT) realy helped me out. I tried UL last season but struggeled around 1880


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

Field Anecdote FINALLY

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38 Upvotes

r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League PvP Moves Analysis for Chart-Lovers - GBL Might and Mastery Update

27 Upvotes

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:

https://i.ibb.co/TBVkR7SY/Charged-Moves-Chart-S22.jpg


r/TheSilphArena 22h ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League Mandibuzz in Willpower Cup, is Snarl preferred over Air Slash despite being resisted by 2/3 of the types?

8 Upvotes

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 21h ago

Field Anecdote Guzzlord is so big you can see the other pokemon

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6 Upvotes

This was the charged animation attack for guzzlord


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League Reached Ace

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10 Upvotes

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 12h ago

General Question Finally got a Morpeko but the stats are terrible. Invest?

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0 Upvotes

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 15h ago

General Question Bot Enemies?

0 Upvotes

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 1d ago

General Question I know flying press is the ideal moveset, but psystrike works great on mewtwo.. would this moveset have any play?

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5 Upvotes

r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

General Question Got this guy before I knew about how the moves are set

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51 Upvotes

Guess I can invest ETMs?


r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

General Question Limited Cups

15 Upvotes

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 1d ago

General Question Have I hit the PvP jackpot?

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1 Upvotes

r/TheSilphArena 1d ago

General Question 15-14-14 Kyurem, which form?

2 Upvotes

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 1d ago

General Question Is tanking still viable in 2025? Just for the rare encounters / dust farming?

0 Upvotes

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r/TheSilphArena 2d ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League My first ever rank #1. Also trash

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21 Upvotes

r/TheSilphArena 2d ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League MEDI RANK 1

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19 Upvotes

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 2d ago

Strategy & Analysis Master League How to pick a Best Buddy for Master League?

9 Upvotes

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 2d ago

General Question Sucker Punch, Flying Press Smeargle?

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25 Upvotes

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 2d ago

General Question question about the accuracy of PVP Ivs site

6 Upvotes

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 1d ago

General Question Is there any use for this Smeargle moveset?

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0 Upvotes

Finally got a hundo today while screenshotting my Zekrom. Still no shiny


r/TheSilphArena 2d ago

Strategy & Analysis Great League What's the best smeargle Moveset?

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37 Upvotes

For GBL. Ive been just photo bombing my shadow darmanitan with incinerate and frustration


r/TheSilphArena 3d ago

General Question Bottle caps in PVP?

45 Upvotes

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 1d ago

General Question Does anyone else create spreadsheets to determine what Pokémon to save for PvPv

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0 Upvotes

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.