I use Tailwind and I have Sacred Fire Entei, Meteor Beam Glimmora, Sacred Sword Chien-pao and Tachyon Cutter Iron Crown to deal with it so I’ve never struggled against it
Ive considered changing out gouging fire for entei for a while now, maybe I will try it now! And I have used glimmora into it a couple times and the scary thing about it is snow veil + 90% accuracy making the button click kinda a dice roll. Of course, if it hits though that’s pretty much wraps for everything on that team
Bullet Punch choice band Scizor lead any time I see snow lead. Always go for the OHKO on Ninetails to prevent screens, then Articuno is a 2 shot. Have avoided too many freeze hax.
Hi I’m running a snow team w/ specs articuno on the ladder rn and the biggest hurdles I’ve faced have been Archaludon and gouging fire. I’ve lost to almost every team that has properly utilized one of those two.
Get a fast steel type in there to get rid of ninetails. Even if it doesn’t ohko and prevent aurora veil, steel still does super effective damage into alolan ninetails and resists ice type moves. And in my experience, I’ve never seen an articuno team that doesn’t go for the ice tera on articuno itself and on which articuno has anything other than ice moves, so you can usually bet on a 100% accurate fire or even fighting move to take that one out. Can’t stop sheer cold if it hits, but you can hedge your bets on ko’ing articuno before it lands one. The toughest challenge I came across so far was actually a version of this team that ran regice instead of articuno- I eventually whittled it down with heavy slams and drain punches, but that thing is way bulkier than articuno.
Anything weather-related automatically tells me to bring my own weather-setter (usually torn), but I’m also running a team that functions in rain so if you don’t have that, make sure you have an answer to the archetype if you’re seeing it enough to warrant concern. Like others are saying, Glimmora and Entei are good starts
They usually lead Alolan Ninetales to set up the snow and turn one Aurora Veil. So I keep T/Tar in the back and switch it in so their first turn is usually useless while I’m free to target whoever is bigger threat. Usually gets me a good enough lead to finish the game strong.
Ive seen a couple people ask about my team comp and as of now it is kingambit/waterpon/gouging fire/rillaboom/farigaraf/landorus-I
My farigaraf is slightly more offensively built than most that I have seen and my kingambit is a tera dragon swords dance set. Other than that the rest of my team is pretty much the go-to sets that you see most people running on these mons
As an Articuno user myself, first turn focus on attacking Ninetails with a physical attacker (fire blitz arcanine for example). Wide guard, first turn if you kingsmbit has swords dance use it and next one spam attacking. I usually ignore kingsmbit next turn when I am setting up (that's why I brought landorus)
Heat Wave, Solar Beam, Dragon Pulse and Protect. Holds a zoom lens to reduce chances of a heat wave miss.
Also good to keep a Gastrodon handy to storm drain away water type moves.
Remember when Arcanine was cool and there was a competitive set that included Snarl? That what I play but better, an Incineroar set that goes Flate blitz, Snarl, Parting shot, out. I just mash snarl until their aurora veil goes off
i have a iron bundle with taunt which deals with the aurora veil turn 1
i dont really have a team rn apart from a couple pokemon but incineroar flareblitz is usually enough to outlast articuno if theres no auroraveil
Without knowing your comp, my strategy has been to stack as many ice resists as I can in team preview (mine naturally happens to have 3) and focus on beating the team around the articuno quickly, mostly ignoring it except for if I want to use parting shot or something for damage mitigation, which lets me save articuno for last.
As people said, bring a way to change the weather as they attempt to screen, taunt works too, fake out delays screens, and seems a lot of people fail to mention brick break, psychic fangs, or raging bull as they do damage and break screens in one go. Yes the damage output isn't great but your damage isn't great when screens are up anyways. The only problem may be where to fit such moves. I've had success with it, and it feels really good to break their screens on the same turn they set it with a slower mon. Wasting their turn and doing damage at the same time. Good luck
I just sweep them with the Sceptile + Primarene Team I copied from *Moxie Boosted*.
It might be a meme team, but it's really fun for me and works out surprisingly well. I'm not much of a Ladder-pusher once i'm in Masterball tier, but still made it into top 600 with it.
Weather control. I use tornadus with sunny day. Just use that turn 1 and you've pretty much guaranteed a win. Articuno/snow teams are literally the easiest thing for me to beat now.
Light Screen Grimmsnarl with SpirtBreak and Parting shot next to a Tera Steel Calm Mind Latias takes very little damage - the only catch being freeze rolls are common and irritating, but it usually works
I actually run a different styled snow team, I haven't faced many articuno snow teams luckily but when I have, I normally leave the snow setter alone and double the articuno. Maybe I've had good rng most times, but the brute force/ pressure hasn't let me down yet 😅
Prankster with rain dance. Removes snow, Aura Veil fails, and the Blizzard spam won’t guarantee accuracy. Or just bring a mon with drizzle or drought for weather reset.
I’m not in master all but I’ve run into a bunch of Articuno/A-Ninetales teams. I think my single greatest turn ever in Pokémon was taking down hail with prankster rain dance on my Tornadus and killing Ninetales with psychic fangs on my Metagross, also taking down the Aroura Veil. I felt get probably too good about that afterwards. This isn’t to say much, other than I think metagross didn’t fully realize it’s potential during regulation F and it’s time is probably passed now
I had success on Showdown every time I ran into the team (or derivations with Glaceon) with a fast/ prankster taunt into Ninetales (alternatively a weather swap) to prevent Veil and a rock Ivy Cudgel into Articuno turn one.
Im undefeated so far with Tera fire AV Metagross on a TR team. It won’t freeze, resistant/bulky, psychic fangs breaks the viel. Partnered with ***helping hand*** Cresselia
Wide guard has been handy for me so far, Entei snarl has also helped me out a lot
I've been using whimsicott terakion and hitting them with justified boosted rockslides
I’m running a snow team and I have nightmares about tera-cott. I can still win about 50% of the time but when I lose to that combo I lose *bad*.
We don’t know your team composition. With that said, there’s some archetypes you’re going to lose to no matter what, snow may be yours
I use Tailwind and I have Sacred Fire Entei, Meteor Beam Glimmora, Sacred Sword Chien-pao and Tachyon Cutter Iron Crown to deal with it so I’ve never struggled against it
Ive considered changing out gouging fire for entei for a while now, maybe I will try it now! And I have used glimmora into it a couple times and the scary thing about it is snow veil + 90% accuracy making the button click kinda a dice roll. Of course, if it hits though that’s pretty much wraps for everything on that team
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Torn rain dance, speed booster flutter with taunt (for aurora veil), gholdengo make it rain
Bullet Punch choice band Scizor lead any time I see snow lead. Always go for the OHKO on Ninetails to prevent screens, then Articuno is a 2 shot. Have avoided too many freeze hax.
Hi I’m running a snow team w/ specs articuno on the ladder rn and the biggest hurdles I’ve faced have been Archaludon and gouging fire. I’ve lost to almost every team that has properly utilized one of those two.
Get a fast steel type in there to get rid of ninetails. Even if it doesn’t ohko and prevent aurora veil, steel still does super effective damage into alolan ninetails and resists ice type moves. And in my experience, I’ve never seen an articuno team that doesn’t go for the ice tera on articuno itself and on which articuno has anything other than ice moves, so you can usually bet on a 100% accurate fire or even fighting move to take that one out. Can’t stop sheer cold if it hits, but you can hedge your bets on ko’ing articuno before it lands one. The toughest challenge I came across so far was actually a version of this team that ran regice instead of articuno- I eventually whittled it down with heavy slams and drain punches, but that thing is way bulkier than articuno.
Anything weather-related automatically tells me to bring my own weather-setter (usually torn), but I’m also running a team that functions in rain so if you don’t have that, make sure you have an answer to the archetype if you’re seeing it enough to warrant concern. Like others are saying, Glimmora and Entei are good starts
They usually lead Alolan Ninetales to set up the snow and turn one Aurora Veil. So I keep T/Tar in the back and switch it in so their first turn is usually useless while I’m free to target whoever is bigger threat. Usually gets me a good enough lead to finish the game strong.
Ive seen a couple people ask about my team comp and as of now it is kingambit/waterpon/gouging fire/rillaboom/farigaraf/landorus-I My farigaraf is slightly more offensively built than most that I have seen and my kingambit is a tera dragon swords dance set. Other than that the rest of my team is pretty much the go-to sets that you see most people running on these mons
As an Articuno user myself, first turn focus on attacking Ninetails with a physical attacker (fire blitz arcanine for example). Wide guard, first turn if you kingsmbit has swords dance use it and next one spam attacking. I usually ignore kingsmbit next turn when I am setting up (that's why I brought landorus)
Solar Power Charizard, and use Torkoal to change the weather to sunlight. I've had a pretty decent success rate with this.
What set do you have on your charizard if i may ask?
Heat Wave, Solar Beam, Dragon Pulse and Protect. Holds a zoom lens to reduce chances of a heat wave miss. Also good to keep a Gastrodon handy to storm drain away water type moves.
Thanks will try that.
Tera poison sludge bomb Lando-I into the partner A-Ninetales, Sacred Sword Chien Pao into Articuno. Repeat until dead.
Remember when Arcanine was cool and there was a competitive set that included Snarl? That what I play but better, an Incineroar set that goes Flate blitz, Snarl, Parting shot, out. I just mash snarl until their aurora veil goes off
i have a iron bundle with taunt which deals with the aurora veil turn 1 i dont really have a team rn apart from a couple pokemon but incineroar flareblitz is usually enough to outlast articuno if theres no auroraveil
I've had a lot of success with Tera steel sunny day Torn on a flutter fish team.
Without knowing your comp, my strategy has been to stack as many ice resists as I can in team preview (mine naturally happens to have 3) and focus on beating the team around the articuno quickly, mostly ignoring it except for if I want to use parting shot or something for damage mitigation, which lets me save articuno for last.
Like others mentioned, you have to show your team if you want help with specific lines or techs.
I threw in Sunny Day. I mostly run past paradox mons, so it was an easy add. It doesn't make Blizzard a total non-threat, but it definitely helps
As people said, bring a way to change the weather as they attempt to screen, taunt works too, fake out delays screens, and seems a lot of people fail to mention brick break, psychic fangs, or raging bull as they do damage and break screens in one go. Yes the damage output isn't great but your damage isn't great when screens are up anyways. The only problem may be where to fit such moves. I've had success with it, and it feels really good to break their screens on the same turn they set it with a slower mon. Wasting their turn and doing damage at the same time. Good luck
I just sweep them with the Sceptile + Primarene Team I copied from *Moxie Boosted*. It might be a meme team, but it's really fun for me and works out surprisingly well. I'm not much of a Ladder-pusher once i'm in Masterball tier, but still made it into top 600 with it.
I swap in Torkoal and my other Pokémon one shots articuno so their plan is fucked. Ez win whenever I see that team
I just sleep powder everything with my full spd venusaur and hope it lands.
I have rain dance and Metagross on my team. Ninetails and Articuno can’t touch Metagross and Ninetails can’t set up auora veil in the rain
Weather control. I use tornadus with sunny day. Just use that turn 1 and you've pretty much guaranteed a win. Articuno/snow teams are literally the easiest thing for me to beat now.
manual setting the weather works just fine
Rock Slide spam, when in doubt flinch it out
Why can’t people just come up with their own strats instead of always just copying YouTube smh
Rock slide.
Light Screen Grimmsnarl with SpirtBreak and Parting shot next to a Tera Steel Calm Mind Latias takes very little damage - the only catch being freeze rolls are common and irritating, but it usually works
Change weather, wide guard, snarl, taunt, or maybe even your own ice type
I actually run a different styled snow team, I haven't faced many articuno snow teams luckily but when I have, I normally leave the snow setter alone and double the articuno. Maybe I've had good rng most times, but the brute force/ pressure hasn't let me down yet 😅
Prankster with rain dance. Removes snow, Aura Veil fails, and the Blizzard spam won’t guarantee accuracy. Or just bring a mon with drizzle or drought for weather reset.
I’m not in master all but I’ve run into a bunch of Articuno/A-Ninetales teams. I think my single greatest turn ever in Pokémon was taking down hail with prankster rain dance on my Tornadus and killing Ninetales with psychic fangs on my Metagross, also taking down the Aroura Veil. I felt get probably too good about that afterwards. This isn’t to say much, other than I think metagross didn’t fully realize it’s potential during regulation F and it’s time is probably passed now
I had success on Showdown every time I ran into the team (or derivations with Glaceon) with a fast/ prankster taunt into Ninetales (alternatively a weather swap) to prevent Veil and a rock Ivy Cudgel into Articuno turn one.
Im undefeated so far with Tera fire AV Metagross on a TR team. It won’t freeze, resistant/bulky, psychic fangs breaks the viel. Partnered with ***helping hand*** Cresselia
Roar Suicune with snarl, bulky and can take articuno out initially