Ive built teams that do very well and have gotten low scores from pvpoke ive also built teams that have done well and gotten good scores on the site. I feel like pvpoke is a good starting point however, even the creators put a disclaimer that its not very accurate when it comes to rating non meta teams. Overall a good starting point but you may be better off disreguarding it if you want to run any spice teams
Catch Cup team building guide: - Barboach, Jigglypuff spotlight hour - Skarmory from GBL rewards - G-Stunfisk from eggs - Double com-day - anyhting else that costs low sd and you have
Also Galarian Zigzagoon from GBL rewards, check the IVs but if they are low enough it will evolve to an Obstagoon just under 1500cp at level 20, and it only costs 10k dust to give 2nd charged attack.
This was definitely helpful as a new pvp player. I’ve been running skarmory, 100% IV dragonair, and Alolan Ninetales and have been doing super well in the catch cup
This was probably hands down the best video on team building that I've watched. I love PvP, but have struggled at being mediocre pretty much my whole time and have wanted to get better. Doing team building this way has helped my ELO a ton and helped me understand my own weaknesses, blind spots, etc. Thank you so much!
For anyone who doesnt know, there is an option on the team building section where you can show shadow pokemon as well and how your team will match up with them. It's right under Great League in the Advanced drop down menu. Also helps to broaden from the top 20 to top 40 to get a better idea of what your team can handle
Very helpful video for someone not trying to spend hours on hours trying out diff Pokémon! Thanks for making this much easier and explaining the pvpoke resource!
The older version of this video was one of the first videos that I watched when I was starting with PvP and it has improved me a lot. It remains one of the most relevant video on PoGo PvP to this date. More power to you Zyonik! You're the best. ❤️
Thanks for this guide, man! I personally don't need it anymore, but I knew that when I started, it took me a long time to find out how to assemble a team that can compete with all these awesome teams you see in the meta, may they be original ones or adapted from popular content creators. It's so much more fun to go head to head with those builds with a team of your own creation, and videos like this help newer battlers to arrive at that point sooner.
I still remember the days wherein, my only advantage to my enemies in the tournament is, I have a chart of moves, like are they good or bad? something like that, but now, almost everything is now everywhere😆
This guide was very helpful, thank for this. Im a long time Regular Pokemon player and when i started to play the pokemon go i heard about this archetype but i couldnt find some good content about it. Good luck with the channel, im already a fan.
Yess, that's what I've been looking for. I still have the team building precepts from the main aeries, so I have no idea how to build a team, thanks for this guide, now I can take my limited roster and make a team for PVP
Frm what I know, the pvp IV ranks for only those species which max out at or around CP bounds(like Azumarill and Sableye for great league) will get affected. The ranks for species which max out far above those CP bounds won't be affected at all(like Skarmory, maxes at some 2k CP, so it's ranks won't be affected for great league)
Zyonik, absolutely love your guides, I have seen almost all of your videos and love your content! Could you please, please change the background music, its the exact same for every single video and its the only thing i can hear after watching most of your videos :') Thank you for all of your content!
This guide is really cool, thank you. My favorite type is Bug Type, and I really hate seeing the same meta all the time, and I'm constantly trying to find counters. It's such a huge stardust investment. But this gives me some very helpful tips in team building! I think Parasect is my favorite bug to throw in my mix. I just wish it didn't have hard counters with the Ice typing. But it will occasionally really throw people off!
This guy zyonik got me from rank 7s to rank 8/9s past seasons. I've watched the previous video where it taught me exactly the same thing. Highly recommended this guy and he will name drop other content creator. So make sure to subscribe to learn otherwise thanks for the wins
I came back to Pokemon Go during the Halloween Cup and immediately loved the PvP. Your channel has been super helpful in getting better! Awesome guide!
Great analysis! Yup, that Skarmory and Azumarill core is tough to break apart. But one thing I can't agree with is that Electric types haven't really disappeared- Galvantula is still a popular pick with cover for GFisk in the back. I myself faced lots of them last season.
Great video as usual. I have some questions though. I felt the biggest take a away from the video was building a team around a weakness that's more or less absent in the meta, but is there a way to definitively research this? For example, was it just experience that led you to know there was no lighting in the high ratings, or was it a choice made from understanding the pvppoke ranking, or is there a way to search meta pokemons around your rating? Lastly, if you knew there was no lightning, wouldn't making a team with lightning lead to even more success? Thanks for the awesome content. Cheers
I love how pokemon go can allow certain pokemon to thrive If you had told me a year ago that Galarian Stunfisk would be meta-defining in ANYTHING I wouldn't have believed you I still barely believe it
Hey! Thanks for the great video! Is it possible for you to make an advanced team building guide where the lead Pokemon has more than one weakness to cover? I’m struggling to build an effective team where there are several weaknesses.
Iv found a solid team for catch cup which id love for you to showcase on your channel, seaking, gardevoir and roselia, seaking with waterfall and ice move handles the flyers well, aswel as the fire types, then roselia can handle the electric boys and gardevoir charm can handle alot, i was messing around with teams and went 5-0 in 2 sets at rank 8.
I use a similar team as yours, except I use a confusion Cresselia, with grassknot and moonblast or whatever the name is, confusion Cresselia has a lot of the same covers as skarmory, but With the grass knot, it doesn't get absolutely walled by a gfisk and is covered by the dark types with moon blast, and the other 2 pokemon
I'm finding this strategy of double covers very good for me. like jirachi double dark. Skar double grass etc. I personally find these teams best to play with.
From my experience the only teams comps that are actually working if you dont want to go full top meta are involving a lead that has not many weakness overall but one 4x weakness. The great algorithm of Niantic will make you face that 4x weakness as lead at least 50% of the time. So both of my other pokemons are strong against this type, so i can switch to counter them, they switch too but i am not doomed since i still have another pokemon to counter that bad lead. Example : Obstagoon lead super weak to fighters and not great against azu, so hypno and wygglipuff in the back to destroy those fighters and have decent matchup against azu
Hey man! How are tou doing? I’m new to the channel and a returning player to the game. I’m loving the battles and since that’s my main objective while playing, I’ve been watching most of your videos. However, I’m usually lost with all the terms and would appreciate a video for true beginners covering all the vocab and basic concepts!
Zyonik what about vigoroth, it does not have the bulk to it as hypno but it covers a lot of meta pokemon such as registeel,bastiadon,G-stunfisk and the bodyslam spam is of great use. My team going to be whiscash,vigoroth and skarmory.
I want to know how to choose good pokemon, I already know the type coverage and that stuff. I need to know if POGO uses IVs or EVs as regular pokemon or dont. I also want to know about the pokemon LVL, is it like regular pokemon where all of them are set to 50 to be a fair match? or should I over level my pokemon to match strong trainers? Is it better to have 1 strong move that takes long to charge or a not so strong one that charges faster? Is there a limitation for legendaries or a ban list or some sort? Thats the kind of info im looking for, but cant find anyone talking about that stuff
I always just throw stuff in and see if it works. Somehow I hit rank 10 this season and two rank 8s in the previous ones. 🤣 I don't know how I made it this far.
Great video! I never thought about running the team rating with just one Pokemon to see its weaknesses. Let's see what it thinks about my Azu + Altaria + Sirfetch'd team :))
@@ikhsankurniawan2141 Unlock a second move and use it anyway. I've been running a shadow machamp in the Great League with Frustration and Rock Slide. Can't shield bait, but ultimately alignment's more important for shadow machamp, anyway.
What about your opponent? I get it when you win lead, or your opponent doesn't know how to build a team. In your example, losing lead to venusaur. Their cover could be a rock (for most flyers or fire) type, and their safe swap dark. So no matter what you swap to you will still be hurting. Am I missing something?
Where do you get the time to go out and catch strong Pokémon with a good move set and enough Pokémon to get enough candies/star dust? And I ask this because a majority, of not all, your videos are you inside going over battles or e battles of others.
I just created a team, Its Venusaur as the lead with all the favorable moves, a lapras as the cover with all its favorable moves, and a galarian stunfisk as the cover again with all its favorable moves.
i am confused you stated a safe swap was for a lead loss. makes sense so you said skarmory was good for a lead loss with whiscash but then make him a cover? i thought safe swaps were for lead losses?
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This guide was the best you explained clearly!
@Zyonik it’s great 😊 btw I saw your podcast on danielznyiri’s channel it was also awesome 😎
I always just randomly put Pokémon into PVpoke now I know how to actually build a team well
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This was extremely helpful
To anybody who isn't familiar with PVPoke this seems like a paid promotion, but no it's actually because PVPoke is just that good!
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@Saphirx Exodus as ZyoniK said, I am new to this game and this guide has helped me a lot!!
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Ive built teams that do very well and have gotten low scores from pvpoke ive also built teams that have done well and gotten good scores on the site. I feel like pvpoke is a good starting point however, even the creators put a disclaimer that its not very accurate when it comes to rating non meta teams. Overall a good starting point but you may be better off disreguarding it if you want to run any spice teams
Catch Cup team building guide:
- Barboach, Jigglypuff spotlight hour
- Skarmory from GBL rewards
- G-Stunfisk from eggs
- Double com-day
- anyhting else that costs low sd and you have
From what eggs does g-stunfisk hatch?
@@AmineD1278 7kms I’m pretty sure
My Stunfisk kills everything in its path... except swampert
My team magmaortar or magmar cradly whimsicot
Also Galarian Zigzagoon from GBL rewards, check the IVs but if they are low enough it will evolve to an Obstagoon just under 1500cp at level 20, and it only costs 10k dust to give 2nd charged attack.
I sometimes run a triple weak team and hope for the best 😅
Depends if I'm feeling spicy that day
This was one of your best videos ever. Thank you so much! I always just put together random meta teams without thinking about them. 🥰
This was definitely helpful as a new pvp player. I’ve been running skarmory, 100% IV dragonair, and Alolan Ninetales and have been doing super well in the catch cup
This was probably hands down the best video on team building that I've watched. I love PvP, but have struggled at being mediocre pretty much my whole time and have wanted to get better. Doing team building this way has helped my ELO a ton and helped me understand my own weaknesses, blind spots, etc. Thank you so much!
Loved the part where you explained that key losses is not the entire picture. I was not aware of how to find other counter. Helped alot!
I have seen team building guides from Zyonik a gazillion times before,but every time a new one comes I get so excited😇
For anyone who doesnt know, there is an option on the team building section where you can show shadow pokemon as well and how your team will match up with them. It's right under Great League in the Advanced drop down menu. Also helps to broaden from the top 20 to top 40 to get a better idea of what your team can handle
Thanks for commenting this!
Very helpful video for someone not trying to spend hours on hours trying out diff Pokémon! Thanks for making this much easier and explaining the pvpoke resource!
I think I've learned to build teams and play well just by watching u play and how u swap and manage shields lol
Seriously one of the most helpful videos I’ve ever watched in terms of POGO Battle League! Started me on my journey
Maybe now I can start getting more creative instead of just copying your showcase teams everytime 😂
The older version of this video was one of the first videos that I watched when I was starting with PvP and it has improved me a lot. It remains one of the most relevant video on PoGo PvP to this date. More power to you Zyonik! You're the best. ❤️
Thanks for this guide, man! I personally don't need it anymore, but I knew that when I started, it took me a long time to find out how to assemble a team that can compete with all these awesome teams you see in the meta, may they be original ones or adapted from popular content creators. It's so much more fun to go head to head with those builds with a team of your own creation, and videos like this help newer battlers to arrive at that point sooner.
I still remember the days wherein, my only advantage to my enemies in the tournament is, I have a chart of moves, like are they good or bad? something like that, but now, almost everything is now everywhere😆
This guide was very helpful, thank for this. Im a long time Regular Pokemon player and when i started to play the pokemon go i heard about this archetype but i couldnt find some good content about it. Good luck with the channel, im already a fan.
Appreciate the work you do for the Pokemon Go community and glad you enjoy it outside of your normal job. Niantic should sponsor your vids lol
What’s the difference between safe swap and cover?
Yess, that's what I've been looking for. I still have the team building precepts from the main aeries, so I have no idea how to build a team, thanks for this guide, now I can take my limited roster and make a team for PVP
I just love the teams with non metas and different spices
2yrs old video still best for now ✋
As lev 50 is comming , want a video analysis of impact of go beyond and lev 50
Frm what I know, the pvp IV ranks for only those species which max out at or around CP bounds(like Azumarill and Sableye for great league) will get affected.
The ranks for species which max out far above those CP bounds won't be affected at all(like Skarmory, maxes at some 2k CP, so it's ranks won't be affected for great league)
Zyonik, absolutely love your guides, I have seen almost all of your videos and love your content! Could you please, please change the background music, its the exact same for every single video and its the only thing i can hear after watching most of your videos :') Thank you for all of your content!
This guide is really cool, thank you. My favorite type is Bug Type, and I really hate seeing the same meta all the time, and I'm constantly trying to find counters. It's such a huge stardust investment. But this gives me some very helpful tips in team building! I think Parasect is my favorite bug to throw in my mix. I just wish it didn't have hard counters with the Ice typing. But it will occasionally really throw people off!
This guy zyonik got me from rank 7s to rank 8/9s past seasons. I've watched the previous video where it taught me exactly the same thing. Highly recommended this guy and he will name drop other content creator. So make sure to subscribe to learn otherwise thanks for the wins
Zyonik deserves more subscribers ....lots of love and support to you❤️❤️❤️
And shared! Good stuff! I was actually building teams slightly differently but consistently hitting rank 9... I think this will get me to rank 10 S6!
thanks bro even tho its 2 years later
I came back to Pokemon Go during the Halloween Cup and immediately loved the PvP. Your channel has been super helpful in getting better! Awesome guide!
Great analysis! Yup, that Skarmory and Azumarill core is tough to break apart. But one thing I can't agree with is that Electric types haven't really disappeared- Galvantula is still a popular pick with cover for GFisk in the back. I myself faced lots of them last season.
Great video as usual. I have some questions though. I felt the biggest take a away from the video was building a team around a weakness that's more or less absent in the meta, but is there a way to definitively research this? For example, was it just experience that led you to know there was no lighting in the high ratings, or was it a choice made from understanding the pvppoke ranking, or is there a way to search meta pokemons around your rating? Lastly, if you knew there was no lightning, wouldn't making a team with lightning lead to even more success? Thanks for the awesome content. Cheers
Definitely glad you explained the safe swap! Have heard that in a few of your videos and was wondering
Good stuff. I've been using PvPoke but never noticed the Leads, Closers, Switches, etc. links on the rankings page. Thanks, I got a lot out of this.
zyonik can you make a video on fast move denial and fast move sneak in mechanisms? can't seem to do this in battles consistently.
Wallower did a video about it, he explained it pretty well
I love how pokemon go can allow certain pokemon to thrive
If you had told me a year ago that Galarian Stunfisk would be meta-defining in ANYTHING I wouldn't have believed you
I still barely believe it
Thank you this was a very helpful video
Great video! I already knew how PvPoke works, but this video needed to be done. Good job Zyonik, keep the good work man!
Thank you, I've been doing bad, going to give it a try!
Very insightful content. Good guide to building teams. Thank you Zyonik.
Thanks for the video and I’m depth explanation of PvPoke :)
Great video. Use pvpoke but didn't really know how to use the additional tools. Huge thanks.
hey zyonik, pls make a video on type effectiveness, specially for dual type mons. will be much appreciated
Thank You Very Much.
Thank you so much for this video. I feel as though I now know how to jump into PVP!
This puts a smile on my face
Hey! Thanks for the great video! Is it possible for you to make an advanced team building guide where the lead Pokemon has more than one weakness to cover? I’m struggling to build an effective team where there are several weaknesses.
Thank you Man!. Really Appreciate your video always Love your Vids. Keep up the Good work!
Iv found a solid team for catch cup which id love for you to showcase on your channel, seaking, gardevoir and roselia, seaking with waterfall and ice move handles the flyers well, aswel as the fire types, then roselia can handle the electric boys and gardevoir charm can handle alot, i was messing around with teams and went 5-0 in 2 sets at rank 8.
I use a similar team as yours, except I use a confusion Cresselia, with grassknot and moonblast or whatever the name is, confusion Cresselia has a lot of the same covers as skarmory, but
With the grass knot, it doesn't get absolutely walled by a gfisk and is covered by the dark types with moon blast, and the other 2 pokemon
I guess that it is the first video on RUclips. Thanks you so much zyonik and please make a video on improving your pvp skills.
I can't believe zyonik when you liked my comment I got a 5/10/10 iv shiny minccino instantly. You are lucky for me😊😊😊😊
I've been using sceptile, raichu and skarmory and its been working pretty well I win 3 out of the 5. Sometimes I switch raichu for victini.
Videos like these show that ZyoniK genuinely cares about the pvp community
This video is very helpful 💪🏻 thank you for taking the time to show us this info
Thanks Zyonik for the wonderful team building video. Pls keep up the good work.
Should fairly bad-mid ivs deter me from playing certain pokemon or should I just push through and lower them up and use them?
The video was very helpful bro. Would like to see a video on how pvp ivs work in gbl.
I'm finding this strategy of double covers very good for me. like jirachi double dark. Skar double grass etc. I personally find these teams best to play with.
From my experience the only teams comps that are actually working if you dont want to go full top meta are involving a lead that has not many weakness overall but one 4x weakness. The great algorithm of Niantic will make you face that 4x weakness as lead at least 50% of the time. So both of my other pokemons are strong against this type, so i can switch to counter them, they switch too but i am not doomed since i still have another pokemon to counter that bad lead.
Example : Obstagoon lead super weak to fighters and not great against azu, so hypno and wygglipuff in the back to destroy those fighters and have decent matchup against azu
As always, appreciate the info you give to us on team building 🙏🏼😇
Hey man! How are tou doing? I’m new to the channel and a returning player to the game. I’m loving the battles and since that’s my main objective while playing, I’ve been watching most of your videos. However, I’m usually lost with all the terms and would appreciate a video for true beginners covering all the vocab and basic concepts!
Zyonik what about vigoroth, it does not have the bulk to it as hypno but it covers a lot of meta pokemon such as registeel,bastiadon,G-stunfisk and the bodyslam spam is of great use. My team going to be whiscash,vigoroth and skarmory.
Subscribed cause this is the helpful content I’ve been looking for.
Where’s your video for sorting out ivs can’t find it
I wanna run whiscash/skarmory/Altaria which according to pvpoke has 1 single weakness which is dewgong... but will I be walled but double charmers?
Someone did teach this now, so expect better battlers next seasons😀
Thank for another great vid!! Great help
I reached ace and just haven’t been able to get past it. Need help. Big fan of how you explain things man!
Great help! Thank you!!!
I want to know how to choose good pokemon, I already know the type coverage and that stuff. I need to know if POGO uses IVs or EVs as regular pokemon or dont. I also want to know about the pokemon LVL, is it like regular pokemon where all of them are set to 50 to be a fair match? or should I over level my pokemon to match strong trainers? Is it better to have 1 strong move that takes long to charge or a not so strong one that charges faster? Is there a limitation for legendaries or a ban list or some sort? Thats the kind of info im looking for, but cant find anyone talking about that stuff
When it's 9:30 in ur country and know something amazing is going to to happen
@@saurabhroy024 only some people will get
Currently 09:38 PM in India
Dude I literally wait for him to upload.
Previously he used to upload at 8:30 right??
@@praveenraj8232 think so
Hey man I love your videos I just got into GBL first season got to rank 20 feel good about that. Update this video for 2022.
I always just throw stuff in and see if it works. Somehow I hit rank 10 this season and two rank 8s in the previous ones. 🤣 I don't know how I made it this far.
Great video! I never thought about running the team rating with just one Pokemon to see its weaknesses. Let's see what it thinks about my Azu + Altaria + Sirfetch'd team :))
I have a question and im sure someone knows the answer, how do you get rid of frustration?
Only able to tm away during team go rocket events sadly.
@@ZyoniK thanks for the info,but still mad tho already powered up my shadow machamp for ultra leag
Does anyone know when the next Team Go Rocket Event is ? Frustration is frustrating LOL
@@ikhsankurniawan2141 Unlock a second move and use it anyway. I've been running a shadow machamp in the Great League with Frustration and Rock Slide. Can't shield bait, but ultimately alignment's more important for shadow machamp, anyway.
@@thomasknopf4789 Fingers crossed there'll be a Team Go Rocket Event when Jesse & James return, but nobody knows for sure!
Very helpful! Thank you!
This was SUPER helpful, thank you!!
I love the way this guy explains
What about your opponent? I get it when you win lead, or your opponent doesn't know how to build a team.
In your example, losing lead to venusaur. Their cover could be a rock (for most flyers or fire) type, and their safe swap dark. So no matter what you swap to you will still be hurting.
Am I missing something?
Very helpful. Excellent Video :))
Aren't there any move updates like that stuff for season 6 zyonik?
Where do you get the time to go out and catch strong Pokémon with a good move set and enough Pokémon to get enough candies/star dust? And I ask this because a majority, of not all, your videos are you inside going over battles or e battles of others.
I just created a team, Its Venusaur as the lead with all the favorable moves, a lapras as the cover with all its favorable moves, and a galarian stunfisk as the cover again with all its favorable moves.
I use a pretty similar team, except instead of Lapras I use Alolan Marowak with Shadow Ball instead of Shadow Bone
This video is super niceeeeee.... safe swaps are the hardest to think though
Thank you so much Zyonik
Thanks 😍
Thank you for this!
Pvpoke is a godsend. That's how I built my teams.
Got a rank 10 before a catch cup and right in the win number 69. Gonna rest on the catch cup and focus on leveling to lv.40
Great Guide! U are one of the Best!
I really want this video thanks!!!😁
i am confused you stated a safe swap was for a lead loss. makes sense so you said skarmory was good for a lead loss with whiscash but then make him a cover? i thought safe swaps were for lead losses?
It helped me lot thanks zyonik
hey zyoink for the ultra league i’m thinking tangrowth empoleon and gallade. is that good?
One of my fave teams to run- lucario, Crobat, alola raichu
Love your content!
Are you doing 5 top battles of the week?
Are you doing keings challenge?
Go in blind or he calls it auto reckt
Thanks for suggesting us now im able to play like a pro player 😁😁
Looking foward to use Mantine next season
Sylveon pidgeot and hariyama is this a good team If so which should be the lead?