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Read-only Pokémon Champions VGC data: legality, usage stats, type analysis and matchup calcs.
Remote server: your requests and data go to api.pokemcp.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http vgc-teambuilder https://api.pokemcp.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
list_formats — List the Pokémon Champions regulations this connector supports, with each one's id, dates, whether it is current, team rules, number of legalookup_pokemon — Get a Pokémon's types, base stats, abilities, weight, alternate forms and any Mega Evolutions legal in the supported regulations (with the Mvalidate_moveset — Check whether a Pokémon can learn each of the given moves in any Pokémon game, counting moves inherited from its pre-evolutions and base forvalidate_team — Check a team against a Pokémon Champions regulation: each Pokémon is on the regulation's allowed list, Species Clause, Item Clause, at most analyze_team_types — For a list of Pokémon, count how many are weak to, resist or are immune to each attacking type, and report shared weaknesses, types nothing get_top_usage — Rank the most-used Pokémon in a regulation by the share of ladder teams they appear on, from the most recent month of usage statistics loadeget_pokemon_usage — Show how one Pokémon is typically built in a regulation: its usage and rank, and the most common abilities, items, moves and stat spreads asget_teammates — List the Pokémon that most often share a team with the given Pokémon in a regulation, as the share of its teams that include each one. Use iget_checks_and_counters — List the Pokémon that most reliably beat the given Pokémon on the ladder, ranked by Smogon's checks-and-counters score. The data records oneget_usage_trend — Show one Pokémon's monthly usage and rank in a regulation across a range of months, with its net change and peak. History exists only for moget_meta_shifts — Compare a regulation's usage between two months: the biggest risers and fallers, Pokémon that newly reached meaningful usage and Pokémon thaget_usage_momentum — Fit a trend to each Pokémon's monthly usage across a range and list the fastest rising, fastest declining and most volatile. These are descrcalculate_damage — Calculate how much damage one move does from one Pokémon to another in Pokémon Champions doubles: the damage range, the share of the defendecompare_speed — Work out the Speed of several Pokémon in Pokémon Champions and the order they move in, including the effect of items such as Choice Scarf, Tcheck_team_threats — Check a team against the Pokémon it is most likely to face in a regulation. For each threat (the most used Pokémon by default, or the ones nNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.