0:00 – Vs. Champion Stadium Lance: SC Ingo / EX Guzma / Event Bugsy
1:48 – Vs. Champion Stadium Agatha: SC Ingo / EX Alder / Viola
3:46 – Vs. Champion Stadium Lorelei: SC Ingo / EX Summer Marnie / Rachel
6:12 – Vs. Cress’s Battle Challenge: SC Ingo / EX Gladion / Phoebe
8:19 – Vs. Pasio Eggsplorers Full-Force Battle: SC Ingo / EX NY Lillie / Lana
SC Ingo is a weird unit. His list of pros is just as long as his list of cons, and many of them you can pair up together. Bug Zone is a great boon for Bug-types, but Ingo’s physical-leaning kit isn’t useful for the mostly special damage-dealing units of the type. He offers a relatively unique combo of trap and Defense debuffs, but the only ones who really benefit from both are himself and Summer Marnie. He has an efficient spam move in Quick Attack that makes him effective in dual-strike scenarios, but its MP requirement means it isn’t consistent, especially in longer fights.
All that said, I think SC Ingo’s a good team player in the same vein as Classic Elesa, especially with his teamwide buffs. Both Accuracy and Evasion buffs are very rare, and he has Speed buffs on top of that. And Defense debuffs are always useful, especially coming from either a trapping move or a move that doesn’t cost any gauge.
As I only have him at 1/5, I used him mainly as a supportive unit in these clears. I rolled Defense Crush 2 as his lucky skill to lean on his debuffing niche even more.
Here’s how each battle went, and the sync grids used:
Vs. Lance: SC Ingo / EX Guzma / Event Bugsy – https://pokemon-masters-stuff.github.io/#/team-builder/?id1=10108400000&e1=10&o1=630&g1=AAECAwQFBgcICQoMERITFRobHB0jJCUmJyg=&s1=1&id2=10125000000&e2=1&o2=738&g2=AAECAwQFBgkKCw4QICIjJC4v&s2=5&id3=10045900000&e3=0&o3=750&g3=AAECAwQFBgcJERocHR4hIiQmKCot&s3=5
Aside from his brother, the biggest winner from SC Ingo’s addition is definitely Guzma. It was almost like they thought about buffing Guzma when they were designing Ingo’s kit, down to the accuracy buffs to fix Pin Missile. Event Bugsy completes the team to hasten the setup and provide more Defense debuffs – I do think Bugsy’s a more efficient Defense debuffer than SC Ingo overall, though they’re a bit more equal in Legendary Arenas.
Vs. Agatha: SC Ingo / EX Alder / Viola – https://pokemon-masters-stuff.github.io/#/team-builder/?id1=10108400000&e1=10&o1=630&g1=AAECAwQFBgcICQoMERITFRobHB0jJCUmJyg=&s1=1&id2=10132000000&e2=0&o2=750&g2=AAECAwQFBgcJDA0QERIUFxgfJSYuLw==&s2=3&id3=10039000000&e3=0&o3=750&g3=AAECAwQFERIVGBwdISMkJyotLw==&s3=3
Alder’s been waiting for Bug Zone to wreck havoc, and he even gets some Accuracy and Speed buffs to help him out. Ingo’s also free to use Quick Attack without taking away precious gauge from Alder’s Hyper Beam to keep the countdown going. I brought Viola here for her Sp Atk debuffs.
Vs. Lorelei: SC Ingo / EX Summer Marnie / Rachel – https://pokemon-masters-stuff.github.io/#/team-builder/?id1=10108400000&e1=10&o1=630&g1=AAECAwQFBgcICQoMERITFRobHB0jJCUmJyg=&s1=1&id2=10245400000&e2=0&o2=750&g2=AAECAwQFCw4QIyUnKissLg==&s2=3&id3=10067010000&e3=3&o3=714&g3=AAECAwQFBgcICQoMERITFBobHB0eJSYnKA==&s3=1
I usually run Summer Marnie with Tech Lickitung for the Wrap + Screech combo, and it looks like DroolDrool has some competition! I think SC Ingo’s more efficient in that niche since he can trap and debuff with one move. If I had him at 2/5, I would’ve also been able to get Insect Acceleration to help with the gauge. Rachel completes the team with her Sp Atk debuffs and Speed buffs.
Vs. Cress’s Battle Challenge: SC Ingo / EX Gladion / Phoebe – https://pokemon-masters-stuff.github.io/#/team-builder/?id1=10108400000&e1=10&o1=630&g1=AAECAwQFBgcICQoMERITFRobHB0jJCUmJyg=&s1=1&id2=10119000000&e2=0&o2=750&g2=AAECAwQFBggLDhAVGBklLi8=&s2=5&id3=10049000000&e3=0&o3=750&g3=AAECAwQFBggLDQ4REhUYJiks&s3=5
I knew I wanted to include Gladion as he’s very much a physical Bug-type when he needs to be, but the only Bug-weak stage I found was the Battle Challenge for the Costume Tea Party event. So that’s what you get for this haha. Phoebe is the crit buffer as she also helps with the gauge, while Ingo gets to show off his damage a bit more here.
Vs. Pasio Eggsplorers Full-Force Battle: SC Ingo / EX NY Lillie / Lana – https://pokemon-masters-stuff.github.io/#/team-builder/?id1=10160000000&e1=1&o1=738&g1=AAECAwQFBggJCwwNDhATFhc=&s1=3&id2=10108400000&e2=10&o2=630&g2=AAECAwQFBgcICQoMERITFRobHB0jJCUmJyg=&s2=1&id3=10118400000&e3=3&o3=714&g3=AAECAwQFBgcICQoMERMUGhscHR4gJSYnKA==&s3=1
Leech Life supremacy! I remember emerfirek talking about this team comp, and it’s just as fun as it sounds haha. SC Ingo also finally becomes the main striker here so I get to use his sync, and it’s pretty good! It of course gets better at higher move levels but this will do for now.
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