Pokemon VGC 2015 Metagame Megathread

[Black117]

I think the early VGC meta will be about either speed control (icy wind, electroweb, trick room, thunder wave, tailwind) as well as counteracting intimidate spam. Currently I am using icy wind Cresselia and it's been working wonders by dropping both pokemon's speed by one third. Essentially this forces the opponent to either switch out or risk being out-sped by the opposing team.  One thing people will need to prepare for is intimidate spam from the likes of Landorus-t, Salamence, Gyarados, Scrafty, and other intimidate pokemon.  What I have seen people do to counteract intimidate spam is run pokemon like Bisharp and Milotic as deterrents. The one that strikes me is Bisharp since using it has the potential to wall-break any defensive team with knock off/iron head or sweep with sucker punch. Milotic is an interesting case since it can immediately get +2 in its special attack almost immediately thanks to its new ability competitive (OMG Game Freak why didn't you released Mega Milotic). Defiant users have to settle for +1 attack but Milotic and other competitive users have the better end of this deal. Other things people have to watch out for is hyper voice spam from Sylveon, Mega Gardevoir, and Mega Salamence. All three pokemon have the firepower to clean out both opposing pokemon granted they get helping hand support.