Connect VGC Teambuilder
1. Add the connector
VGC Teambuilder is a remote MCP server. Add it to your assistant as a custom connector using this address:
https://api.pokemcp.com/mcpIt works in Claude, in ChatGPT and in any other MCP client that supports Streamable HTTP. Each product’s help pages explain where custom connectors are added. There is nothing to sign in to.
Using something else? See the steps for coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, for other assistants such as Grok, Gemini and Perplexity, and for agents and self-hosted apps such as OpenClaw and Hermes.
2. Ask a question
Once it is connected, ask as you normally would. Your assistant decides which tools to call.
- “What are the ten most-used Pokémon in the current regulation, and how is the top one usually built?”
- “Which Pokémon are most often paired with Kingambit, and what reliably beats it?”
- “Which Pokémon have gained the most usage over the last three months?”
- “Does my Garchomp’s Earthquake knock out the usual Kingambit, and which of them moves first?“
3. Bring your own team
Paste a team in Pokémon Showdown’s text format, or just list the Pokémon, and ask what you want to know:
- “Is this team legal in the current regulation?”
- “What are this team’s shared weaknesses, and which type would patch them?”
- “Can Incineroar learn Fake Out and Parting Shot?”
Tips
- Name the regulation if you mean one other than the default. Ask “which formats do you support?” to see them.
- Mega Evolutions have their own names in the usage data, such as Charizard-Mega-Y. You can use those names anywhere.
- Usage percentages are shares of teams or sets, not win rates.
- Check the limits on the Tools page before relying on a legality answer: move data comes from Pokémon Showdown and can lag Pokémon Champions.
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