Daily Team Puzzle

4 September 2026

One slot open

Slurpuff

FAI BST 480

Froslass

ICE · GHO BST 480

Golurk

GRD · GHO BST 483

Aurorus

ROK · ICE BST 521

Clawitzer

WAT BST 500

Weakness / Resistance

no answer ×4 damage how many of your six

BUG

DRK

DRA

ELE

FAI

FGT

×4

FIR

FLY

GHO

open

GRA

open

GRD

open

ICE

NRM

POI

PSY

ROK

STL

×4

WAT

×4 damage

Fighting Steel hits something on this team for quadruple.

Stacked

Grass Steel — three or more of your six take extra damage from it.

No answer

Ghost Grass Ground — nothing here resists it.

Holding

6 of 18 types cannot hit anyone here for extra damage. 5 types have no resist anywhere on the team.

Your pick

Six candidates. One of them closes more of this board than the rest.

How it is scored

Five Pokémon are already seated and the sixth slot is yours. The eighteen columns under them are the eighteen attacking types; a column outlined in ink is a hole, meaning something on the team takes extra damage from that type and nothing on the team resists it. Today's board leaves 3 of them open: Ghost, Grass and Ground.

Your score is the holes your pick closes minus the holes it opens, and it is worked out the only honest way: the Pokémon is seated, the whole board is computed again, and the outlined columns are counted. There is no opinion in it, and nothing you cannot check yourself by looking at the strip before and after. The best available answer is found the same way across every Pokémon legal in Regulation M-B, so the target is a real one rather than a number someone chose.

A pick can make the board worse. Seating something that adds a weakness nothing else on the team resists opens a new hole, and that counts against you exactly as closing one counts for you. Only days with a single best answer are used; if two candidates would tie, that day is skipped.

Why a puzzle and not a quiz

Type coverage is the one part of team building that has a right answer, and it is the part most players do by feel. Doing it once a day against a board you did not choose is the fastest way to stop guessing. The same reading is available on every team you build here — this is the same engine, pointed at a board picked by the date rather than by you.

Everyone gets the same five Pokémon and the same six candidates on the same day, because the puzzle is generated from the date alone. Nothing about your answer is sent anywhere.

Daily Team Puzzle

Weakness / Resistance

How it is scored

Why a puzzle and not a quiz

Where this goes next