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This week is great league remix and ultra league. Great League Remix is a 1500cp league with 20 pokemon banned.
Great League Remix people start meta or anti meta…then people go anti anti meta. Then you overthink, try pokemon and teams that don’t work and crash your ELO.
Top Great League Remix Teams
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you are creative with your teams
but the pogo pvp alogorithm always wants you to use meta
Thanks!
Bad grass attacker
New pvp player from Australia here, do the Pokémon reward for 3 wins per set get better anytime soon? I’m rank 18
I suffered from this same problem yesterday. I knew my day 1 team was going to start being countered and so I started throwing a bunch of junk together and lost around 100 ELO
I do this overthinking constantly. I eventually get exasperated, go ol' reliable but inoptimal, and rattle off 4-5 wins.
Decidueye is the #9 non-mega, non-shadow grass type raid attacker. So no, it's not good 😅
Hey
I always struggle to get a consistent team going when I’m around the 2300 elo range.
Don’t have time to watch currently but this looks like it’ll be great – when I do have time I will definitely revisit this!
Screw jellicent I hate it
dont think too much … just look at what you see and make a team around that mine is poliwrath/skarmory/charjabug doesn't make sense being so weak to fire but going crazy with it 5-0 and 4-1 very often 😅
To me the problem comes down to false promises… 90% of the Pokémon go PvP content creators are presenting teams in various platforms to make money or to have a life style going!
Teams been show in YouTube are just showcases of many sets going wrong!? They don’t show their Elo or talk much to none about where they are… but they are very creative with the titles am speeches they made when they get expert/legend! To make things worse it is like Dan says people don’t understand the teams am they don’t understand the from paper ( PvPoke ) to action ( playing the team) it is a long stretch!
I got another banger so far 15-3 this morning with Skarm lead Skelly Swap and Shadow Sceptile w leaf blade and Earthquake. I been seeing lots of Poliwrath Swampert and Gligar
From the com day I caught my first Shundo! Just wish it was more relevant 😆 still cool though
I power all my raiders to level 40 save the XLs and dust 50 is unnecessary unless master league’n em. 9.5 million stardust currently burning a hole in my digital pocket 😂
Wait… does pink Jelli have the same moves as blue Jelli? I am so confused.. why does no one run the pink (girl) one?
Thanks for putting out this sort of content, Dan. Really insightful to hear. I’m having fun with the remix cup but it feels all over the place tbh
I think the shiny rate was changed for a couple months. Seems like it went from 25ish:1 to 15ish:1 Sept.-Dec. last year. I’d catch my 4 shiny before getting out of my neighborhood so 20 minutes?
Yesterday it was much tougher caught 4 in roughly 1.5 hours.
In 2018ish you are correct, you’d grind for 3 hours and get 2-10.
That was an insane grind.
Seems like they tinker with the odds somewhat frequently trying to balance the grind and the casual players. I play with my son and it’s funny how we always end up within 1-2 of the same number of shines, but that’s what you’d expect as the larger numbers of encounters you’d expect to catch the theoretical odds of the shiny rate.
Level 35 is good enough for raids, when it asks for 8k dust per power up it's not worth it any more. Party power, friendship bonus, shadow boost and weather boost are way more important for raids. But the most important thing is having the correct move set that hits for super effective.
Jelli is everywhere
Redeeming stardust rewards for GBL is tripled on those tripled days? :O
I couldn't tell you the last time I built a pokemon for raids 😂
good advice, played a show 6 recently and instead of plying with mons i'm comfortable with, went meta and got distroyed
i always overthink. when 1 meta mon clears me i change up my whole scheme to make sure im safe to them even when im going 3-2 on sets and then i start spiraling into more loses. im learning to just use good mon and just have fun, ur always gonna be hard countered by something, the perfect team doesnt exist
I mean, when it comes to teambuilding, roles of pokemon and teamtypes you're definetly 100% right. Ofc you wont know how to play a specific team if you dont know all these things. But when it comes to what youre comfortable with, Id argue that you definetly can get comfortable with a pokemon. I guess he key is just to give it time and not expect to harvest 5-0s and 4-1s constantly. Because at some point every pokemon was uncomfortable to play. And what pokemon in general is good or usable also changes over time. If people would play only their comfortable mons, I guess we would still see a lot Hypnos and stuff. IMO building a straightforward team with a clear gameplan (good core+safeswap/ABB) youre comfortable with is the best way to get comfortable with a new mon. Just have in mind youre doing exactly that, instead of a tryhard run. If you give yourself a little bit more room to wiggle, check out the CMPs, try some risky catches etc you might loose more games, but eventually youll get stronger. God, lets have some fun instead of always trying hard 😀
Nice video, Remix is such a cancer cup I peaked at 2600 n started losing to so much random bullshit RPS so no more remix for me lol
You know, I have to admit, my whole pvp experience has been waiting for a content creator to come out with a team and then I will use it, is there a fee or something that I could pay for a training session or something on how to learn how to team build, how to understand different roles, how to understand pvpoke? Like I love watching your channel for how straightforward you are, but I also hate the feeling of having to rely on a video in order for me to do half way decent you know? So what could I do for coaching or to learn pokemon go pvp better?
yea i got like 40 shiny rowlets, kept 1 lol
Jelly has been my answer to all the vig/poly safe swaps
my only problem with this, is it kinda sounds like you want everyone using the same pokemon. the part you leave out or possibly not thinking of is the meta changes constantly, you HAVE to evolve with it, thats the main thing, also if you dont experiment how would you as the trainer know what you like and dont like, lastly even when you find something that works for you, its only good for a season at best before something happens to it either nuked or buffed and then you still dont know the team, you have to relearn the team or swap it out. so what then is your suggestion to understanding a team, a real answer please… practice, trying things that may not work… sounds like you STILL have to swap your stuff out. the answer here is really have a bunch of op pokemon xl shadow ect and rotate as it goes. you have to learn them all.
Thanks for the content Dan, really enjoying it.
I tried a crazy team this afternoon and it went well. Florges/Skuntank/Jellicent I'm seeing jelli and polywrath everywhere in the low 2k range and this was a good counter for all that.
Probably my worst season in a long time. Auroras is really hard to use
A team I’ve had a lot of fun using during this remix is Gligar, dewgong, cresselia. I’m sitting around 2200 elo and climbed from 2000. The idea behind the team was anti charjabug and anti mud boys but jellicent is a tough matchup. I’ve learned how to beat it but it’s definitely 50/50 and jellicent wont go away 😭. Still I’ve always managed to go positive on my sets with this team. A team that absolutely destroyed me and could be fun to run would be drapion with aqua tail (destroyed my gligar), charjabug, and jellicent! Looking forward to the team you use in tomorrows video 🔥
Aurorus is TRRRRAAAASSSSHHH
Every time I use it, same as you, I instantly regret it.
PVPoke just needs to remove it from any top rankings, despite what sims might say
remix cup is being hard, and it feels more limited than open gl, it just feels like the same open gl meta pokemon like Dragonair, Poliwrath, mudboys Charjabug and Skarmory, but less pokemon, like the other metas. It literally feels like open gl but less, you don't see new random pics aside from whimsicott and… uh I'm eveb struggling to think of other one
You hit the nail on the head Dan. So often when a content creator showcases a team you’ll all of a sudden see that team absolutely everywhere for a few days until those people collectively decide that it isn’t good because they aren’t climbing with it and start calling out said content creator on it.
Team building is one of the most important core skills in PvP and if you’re relying solely on copying content creators teams then imo you’re already at a disadvantage before you’ve even started because you’re not learning that skill and if you don’t even know how to build a team without blindly copying others then how do you expect to climb?.
If you don’t know how to teambuild you’re not going to know what each Pokémon’s role on your team is, why you’re using it and how to optimise its playstyle. It’s not as simple as just stringing 3 meta pokemon together and hoping it works for you, you need to understand your teams matchups, what leads you can safely stay in with or when you need to get out, what matchups are potentially flippable with a shield/energy advantage, what pokemon in your team works best as your switch if you need to get out of a bad lead etc. You’re not learning that if you’re just copy and pasting.
I feel like some content creators are at fault for this though – some basically just say “use this team it’s really good!” Without really explaining how to use it. You do a really good job of explaining the team you’re using though Dan and each team member’s role etc.
Great video Dan. On the point of people not knowing a mons role in a team, that could be a good focal point for you to educate people on. When showcasing a team you could try point out the cores/mons they target, or if they're there to try win switch or shield advantage etc. alfindeol is a twitch streamer who does a great job of pointing out his thought process in real time
I would really appreciate you making an updated team building videos it would really help out, Im struggling to make teams with the limited pokemon i have for pvp and need to learn more about building teamsz
I always randomly stumble upon my best teams. any time I try super hard using all the pvpoke resources I end up not having the ideal third piece of the puzzle so I just give up. then I’m like: wouldn’t it be cool if I ran triple ghost? And I pick up 200 ELO.
But yes, PLEASE update the team building vids. They’re great but would be awesome to see the same content covered with current meta picks