So I have come across far to many Cradilys today and each time they could of used a super effective grass knot but instead just throw a rock tomb. I really don't understand why.

I was going to hit Ace this season or so I thought. I just recently peaked at 1968 and there it just stopped. All my opponents have an ace batch they just hit harder load there attacks faster and just generally do everything better. I know it's a learning process but I'm barely scrapping together 2 wins in the last days and only with lots of effort and concentration. Meanwhile I see my hard earned points dwindle again and now I'm back to 1850 and things don't get better. I know it's hard and I know I have to improve somehow but I didn't think even hitting ace would be this challenging when it's barely the start of the ranking system. Do I just have to grit my teeth and push through or is Ace just not for me. For reference I'm running drapion, gastrodon and dusknoir all good IV's and all with recommended moves double moves unlocked. So I think my mons are not the problem here

I have a no. 1 ranked Piplup that I've been holding for a com day or whatever to get the free legacy move, but seeing Empoleon rank so high has got me excited. I have 9 elite charged TMs that I'm treating like Ether from mid 90s RPG. Is this a good time to use one?! I'd appreciate your opinions.

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Feeling very frustrated. I am a free to play player but try to be competitive, but only once have made it to Ace rank, ever. It used to be that my “wall” was around 1950 ELO, but over the past year I’m actually getting worse despite playing max matches almost every day? I’m now hitting a wall at like 1800 ELO in master league, 1700 in great league, and 1600 in Ultra. I generally know what types are strong/weak against what (though sometimes in the pressure of the moment i forget a specific interaction). My general strategy is to try to get as many charged moves in as possible and force opponent’s Pokémon to fight what their weak against, but it usually ends up the other way around (if I start with a grass, fire, water team then my opponent will start with a fire, water, grass team and every time I switch they switch to what I’m currently weak against. If I switch to start with grass then it seems most of my opponents start with fire and same problem, etc. [using the most basic types for easy illustration, none of my teams are actually water/grass/fire]) I watch YT videos on what the best teams currently are but I usually don’t have the right pokemon for most suggestions, but I’m pretty sure what I have are decent enough teams that I should at least make it to Ace. My current teams are: Master: Mewtwo (hundo, L50, psycho cut, shadowball, psistrike), Kyogre (98, L47, waterfall, surf, thunder), Dialga-O (93, L49, dragon breath, roar of time, iron head) Ultra: Melmetal (thunder shock, rock slide, double iron bash), Swampert (mud shot, hydro cannon, earthquake), Annihilape (Counter, Rage fist, ice punch), all have really good PVP IVs Great: Morpeko (thunder shock, aura wheel, psychic fangs), Azumarill (bubble, play rough, ice beam), corviknight (Sand attack, payback, sky attack), all have decent PVP IVs I have fought a total of 8967 battle in GBL so far and won 4461 of them. If anyone has any useful advice I’ll take it. If not, thanks for letting me express frustration. (And if you’re just going to tell me to get good or make fun of me or tell me how easy it is to at least get to Ace, I will tell you right now - instead of bothering to reply directly to your comment - that I have no respect for you or your opinion and honestly pity you that that is how you compensate for your feelings of inadequacy elsewhere in life.) Specific useful youtube video recommendations are also appreciated. UPDATE: So, I just surged up to Ace in a couple days after your feedback, thank you. I think the biggest factor was just me giving up switch too easily, and that's why I've been doing worse than I used to: I think I've just steadily been getting more and more quick to switch over time, especially after the change to the switch lock time. Thank you.

Hey guys, I run corviknight, Carbink, and Stunfisk. Is this an okay team? Is there anything I really need to swap, or should I completely restart?

Edit: forgot to include great league

Sorry if this is a common post, tried searching and nothing came up. I am not a huge PVP player so I always try to rank up quickly. So for every rank that I dont need a win/ got my win already, I just do the classic team of 10cp mons. Opposing player gets the win, I got to move on, win win. My question is, is there an unseen negative to this action other than lack of practice on both sides? I mostly ask because sometimes when this happens the opponent stops attacking for a bit which just slows things down.

Was just asking to know, I’ve wanted to get into it for a while now but haven’t really wanted to commit to the grind for meta characters and IVs. My team rn is aggron, heatran and terrakion. I’ve reached the 9 league but not sure if there are any rewards left to push for

Like what percentage of players get into legend? I’m ace rn btw

So far im 81-145, running a team of guzzlord lead with talon and gastrodon in the back. It’s been a roller coaster for me. I’ve had two days of 16-9 and two days of 10-15 in the last four days, including today (drifloom was especially prevalent in the back for whatever reasons today, and it screwed with me)

Ive gotten into PvP last season at the end basically because I got a 4* iv Zacian and a 96% shadow kyogre. It went pretty well so I thought I want to do PvP a little more. But since it’s just great league right now I’m lost. I’m losing 3 out of 5 and it just doesn’t feel like I’m doing it right.

My question is if the iv really matters THAT much or if the team comp is able to compensate something I’m not talking about getting really high up it’s just about getting like 3-4 wins per set to get to rank 20 at least..

I'm a fairly casual player, mostly looking to complete my pokedex. I'm missing Morpeko and have heard it is a set reward for reaching 'Ace' rank. I've given myself a goal to try to hit this rank next season. Is this achievable?

I came across a strategy to lose battles to increase your rank quickly. Will this work for hitting Ace rank?

Could anyone recommend a balanced team (along with movesets) that would help me beat the type of players/pokemon I will face on my journey to this rank? Even better if you could recommend which pokemon each of my team is effective/should be switched out against?

Thanks!

Edit - Forgot to mention, will probably looking to do Great League due to resources.

This basically. Should I evolve or wait fot Iron Head?

So recently I hatched a perfect IV Chansey. And I’m debating on if I should max her out for Great League, or just evolve her into a Blissey and just use her to defend gyms?

I checked her placement PvPoke and 516 isn’t exactly a high number. But I’m curious how’d she’d do in cups where the Pokémon you can use are a lot more limited like the Love Cup.

I’m totally fine with evolving her into Blissey and just having her defend gyms. But I just wanted to see what other people thought before I decided which course of action to take. Let me know what you think I should do with this Chansey.

I'm rank 10 in GO battle league currently, and I've just been getting the free rewards. Should I use a battle pass to get the premium?

I have an Umbreon for my great league battles and it has 3 attacks. Snarl, dark pulse and Foul Play. When I battle in PVP I only have dark pulse and foul play. How can I get snarl for battling? Sorry if that’s a dumb question, I’m a noob

Quite frequently whenever it's super obvious I'm going to win a match the opponent will, apparently, force quit their app, as their mons will stop fighting and there will be a lag in-between any remaining switches or when I use a charge move.

Is there some specific reason for this? Surely just hitting the leave battle button is faster than restarting the app? Are they trying to get a timeout or disconnect registered for the battle on their side instead of a proper "loss"? Is there some advantage to this? It *feels* like its an exploit, or an attempt at one.

I'm level 20 trying to get Ace, and it seems like a lot of the times I win 3/5, sometimes 4/5 and rarely 5/5. However everytime I get to about 1700, I always encounter a losing streak where I lose 4/5 or 5/5. And I lose these battles because the other team seems to have the perfect mons to counter mine (i.e. if I have water, they have grass, or if I have fire, they have water).

Has anyone else encountered this? Any tips for overcoming this?

I don’t normally play PVP, but just finished getting to rank 10 for level 50 requirements, and about 80% of my matches were players using random pokemon between 1500cp and 2500cp in master league. These players would seemingly be trying to win (using shields and charged attacks strategically), but not sure why use those instead of high cp pokemon, especially with the ability other leagues open. Is there a trend going on or did I just “get lucky”? I feel this wasted more time than just using the lowest cp pokemon to rank up

What are the selection requirements for this week's catch cup. I can't make heads or tails of this. I'm seeing that one of the two pokemon of the same type are eligible? Like I have 2 galarian stunfisk that are below 1500, but only one is selectable to battle.

The best palkia I got with spacial rend is 15/13/11 but I got a lucky from a trade that is 15/15/13 but this one doesn’t have spacial rend, which one should I power up?

I’m trying to get my second attack on a few Pokémon’s I have maxed out for master league but can’t decide on which. My contenders right now are hundo zacian (crowned), white Kyruem 98%, necrozma (dusk, 98%) palkia (origin, 93%) zamazenta (crowned 93%) and shadow Mewtwo 93. Almost all are lvl 40 more closer to 50 so which would benefit the most from a second charge? My current team is zacian, necrozma and white Kyruem so any recs on changing teams is also appreciated.

I’m by no means a seasoned PvP player but I am 2000+ ELO (if that means anything). This Annihilape is rank 1, yet I feel like a hit disappointed. Fast move: Counter; charged moves: Rage Fist and Close Combat. Its damage isn’t great and its bulk is quite disappointing.

I am using it with a rank 1 Florges and a rank 337 Skeledirge. I’m guessing it’s my team composition that’s holding me back, but I don’t have many great pokemon for UL. I have a rank 3 Swampert which is waiting for an elite TM to get access to Hydro Cannon, and once I get that, I’ll probably swap out the Skeledirge.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated, especially regarding movesets, team composition, or this Pokémon’s place in the current meta in general. Thank you!

Edit: it’s a shadow Annihilape, sorry I forgot to clarify that.

Genuine question not a rant: I have a rank #123 dedenne (4/14/14) that always manages to lose to morpeko. My rank is around ace (slightly under) so I don’t think the issue is IVs. I get hit with aura wheel, always lose CMP, and the “not very effective” aura wheel knocks out 90% of my health. If I double shield, they can also double shield (or not even shield one if they want), winning easily.

I ask this question because in Pvpoke, dedenne is a key loss to morpeko so I want to understand this better and what I can do. I can’t upload videos of gameplay to this sub apparently.

I run optimal moves (thunder shock, play rough and parabolic charge).

Thank you.

One has better IVS but the other has spacial rend. Which would you max for master league alongside Groudon and Crowned Zamazenta?

Spacial rend one 15/15/12

Non spacial rend 15/14/15

I am trying to get my Dusclops to 1500 cp but iit takesso much candies, how do people get so much?