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Daily Team Puzzle

25 October 2026
One slot open
Metagross MEGA
Metagross-Mega
STL · PSY BST 700
Vaporeon
Vaporeon
WAT BST 525
Pangoro
Pangoro
FGT · DRK BST 495
Slowking
Slowking
WAT · PSY BST 490
Floette ETERNAL
Floette-Eternal
FAI BST 551

Weakness / Resistance

no answer ×4 damage how many of your six
BUG
1
DRK
2
DRA
0
ELE
2
open
FAI
1
×4
FGT
1
FIR
1
FLY
1
GHO
2
GRA
2
GRD
1
open
ICE
0
NRM
0
POI
1
PSY
0
ROK
0
STL
1
WAT
0
×4 damage

Fairy hits something on this team for quadruple.

No answer

Electric Ground — nothing here resists it.

Holding

6 of 18 types cannot hit anyone here for extra damage. 2 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 stamped OPEN is a hole, meaning something on the team takes extra damage from that type and nothing on the team resists it. The No answer line under the strip names them all. Today's board leaves 2 of them open: Electric 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 columns stamped OPEN 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.

Where this goes next

Build

Open the team builder and run the same reading on a team of your own, with the whole dex to pick from instead of six.

Fix

Seat today's first three in the builder and let it shortlist everything that closes what they leave open.

Types

The type calculator for one Pokémon at a time, with the full matchup board.