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Takoyaki's doubles Trick Room team finished 57th. A longtime TR fan, he built around Wide Lens Maushold's Population Bomb, using Follow-Me-plus-Trick-Room setups so that Maushold alone handles both spread-plus-priority offense and Calm Mind setup teams. Newly unlocked Mega Mawile became the TR attacker after he found it absurdly strong. The TR setter is Malamar, which he raves about: a Dark/Psychic type weak only to Fairy and Bug, it ignores Intimidate, punishes Incineroar via Contrary, and disguises the team as a support build alongside Maushold. Sash Basculegion cleans up. The last two slots rotate with the meta; on the final day he ran Life Orb Meowscarada and Mega Staraptor against support teams. Meowscarada ignores Intimidate and Rage Powder, and a Helping Hand Population Bomb wipes the support Pokemon so Staraptor can sweep Incineroar, Sinistcha, Sneasler and Kingambit. This line tBuild article →

This is a doubles-ranked season result-and-impressions post; in the back half the author reused last season's six without a fresh build writeup, only explaining a few move changes. The core was tuning against popular Milotic and Ceruledge: Farigiraf swapped to Psychic Noise so Ceruledge can't touch it, also handy versus Floette support teams; Sylveon's Hyper Beam, riding a 1.5x Special Attack, reliably OHKOs bulky Milotic and rolls to KO full-HP Kingambit, giving it good utility. Incineroar took DDL to punish Ceruledge stacking Bulk Up, moving points from Attack into bulk; Sneasler added Fake Out for a more stable line against Aerodactyl-plus-Kingambit leads. The author says he lacks top-tier knowledge and skill so he just plays a lot to gain rating, reaching 2400 over 500-plus games for his first Champion-level finish. The trade-off was becoming weaker to Kommo-o and Perish Song teams, Build article →

Torcoal built an all-in rain team of five Water-types to reach rank 87 in the doubles division at 2376.5. The trigger was Mega Swampert unlocking and learning Wave Crash, plus Damp Rock extending rain so the setter no longer has to pivot out to keep pace. The core is Damp Rock Pelipper as the main rain setter, with Swift Swim Swampert and male Life Orb Basculegion as the rain sweepers, while Choice Scarf Politoed steals weather with manual Rain Dance and handles Mega Charizard Y and Mega Froslass. Sash Greninja uses Weather Ball and Water Shuriken to win Tailwind mirrors and pin enemy Whimsicott, and Sturdy Archaludon uses Snarl against Trick Room and serves as the setter's safe switch. He says standard teams like Mega Florges and other weather teams are generally favorable, rain mirrors and Trick Room slightly unfavorable, and Mega Venusaur teams are his worst matchup.Build article →

The build started when the author spotted a Tyranitar + Houndstone core in an overseas top-cut team: Houndstone's sweeping power is huge, but the original list struggled against Archaludon, so he kept the sand core and rebuilt the other four around fast setup to grab momentum. The plan is to open with Whimsicott Tailwind while Raichu and Maushold chip away, then close with Sand Rush Houndstone sweeping through Grave Rush; Mega Raichu Y's Zap Cannon guarantees paralysis and speed control so teammates outpace the field. Houndstone is the linchpin — Will-O-Wisp plus Ally Switch let it neutralize threats and steer the board — while Sneasler's Feint punishes opponents sitting behind Protect. The author rates its momentum pressure as the strength, and names rain teams' Mega Swampert and Trick Room squads with Mega Mawile or Scrafty as the matchups it dislikes.Build article →

The author builds around one doubles idea: every member can deal damage, rebuilt for the M-B format, finishing 104th. The core is a Kingambit plus Sneasler plus Incineroar cycle, with Incineroar as the anchor thanks to Intimidate, Fake Out, and Parting Shot pivoting plus attack drops. Choice-item Kingambit Swords Dances and shreds anything, while Focus Sash Poison Touch Sneasler cracks the opponent's Protect turns with Feint and Fatal Claw. He tried many Mega slots and settled on Mega Charizard Y plus Mega Aerodactyl: Charizard Y flips the weather and trades big damage into sun and rain teams, and Aerodactyl sets rocks and Taunts to shut down Farigiraf plus Pyroar Trick Room teams. Tsareena is the Blastoise killer that also breaks Milotic and Ceruledge cores. His biggest weakness is Metagross, especially Body Press Metagross behind Grimmsnarl screens.Build article →

The author started from a Mega Blastoise plus Maushold Shell Smash sweep, but it got shut down too easily by Mega Floette, Mega Charizard Y and double water-resist leads, so they built this disguise support team. The lead is Maushold plus Blastoise: it looks like Shell Smash is coming, but Blastoise instead Fake Outs to lock the field while a Wide Lens Technician Maushold snipes the Mega Floette or Charizard Y sent to chip the turtle, taking them out immediately. Blastoise holds the only Mega, supports with Fake Out, then trades with its wide coverage and bulk; Ice Beam replaced Water Spout for better coverage and to OHKO Garchomp. Sinistcha uses Imprison to block enemy Trick Room, Focus Sash Whimsicott sets Tailwind, and Kingambit plus Choice Scarf Basculegion clean up from the back, with the scarfed fish leading against Sneasler. The author warns Maushold's ten hits only connect about Build article →