What's up, everyone!? I'm Quantum.

I am a hardcore double battler. Having been playing doubles since late 2006, I've seen this style of battling come a long way. It's nice to finally see doubles getting some appreciation (and it looks to be on the rise too). Though I prefer 6v6 doubles and don't like the VGC that much, it's cool if you guys do; I still build VGC teams and battle with them.

That is my double battling background in a very tiny nutshell. ^_^ There is of course a whole lot more but I'd like to hear about you guys; what's your stories?

(This is technically an "introduce yourself" thread)

Hiya, my local league does vgc rules, and i am currently making a trick room team.

Is 6v6 or 4v4 more common? I'm designing my sunny day team and want to know what to plan for. Might as well post my lead combo for input, it more of a concept then an exact spread cause I'm lazy and haven't run calcs yet... Anyway;
Driftblim @ heat rock
Defensive ev spread to survive gengars shadow ball, rest in attack
Sunny Day
Shadow Sneak
Explosion
filler (recommendations?)

Shiftry @ focus sash
Jolly/adamant 252 attack 252 speed
Sucker punch
Fake out
Explosion
Seed bomb

Basically set up and explode to allow my other pokes in safely. Fake out disrupts pokes who would stop driftblim, and in there are any ghosts, sucker punch can dismantle them. Focus sash helps shiftry survive to get a chlorophyll explosion out. I'm not very familiar with Doubles except I know explosion is popular. Any input is appreciated!

4X4 is most popular because of the vgc
explosion is popular, but so is gengar. It usually has hidden power fire though, so it gives your shiftry problems. It also might carry substitute if it see's your sucker punch coming. A protect on your drifblim might be useful... T-Tar pwn's your whole team, setting up a sandstorm, then eating everything in sight.

Thanks a ton for the input gallade! Focus sash allows shiftry to surive in case of hp fire, I don't expect him to stick around anyways. Sub would really give me problems though... T tar adds to the issues I might have to divide something for him.

If your doing VGC rules, you could also just add in a groudon. It helps a lot against t-tar.

If I may, I suggest adding a dugtrio to the team. It adds a surprise element to the sunny day aspect of it, it traps non-flying/levitating pokemon and can hit those that attempt to switch with pursuit, earthquake as a powerful STAB to hit all except drifblim, and it can use sunny day as well! :D as for that last move slot for your drifblim, I would say skill swap so it can attain the arena trap ability whilst setting up sunny day through dugtrio and then switch to shiftry who explodes next turn... I might also suggest replacing shadow sneak with weather ball for that coverage against any steel types or worse: ice types! :O but that's just me... Lol it's up to you ;)

Greetings, everyone. I'm TheMaskedNitpicker, or TMN for short. I've been playing Pokémon since Red and Blue came out in the U.S., playing competitively since Ruby/Sapphire, and joined Smogon near the release of Diamond and Pearl. At that time I played both single and double battles regularly.

Over the course of the 4th generation, I slowly migrated to playing only double battles, which i found far more interesting. I eventually wrote a guide for those who are new to double battles, which you can find here. Right now I'm working on a suggested ruleset for Smogon's official double battle metagames, which I hope will be well-received by the site admins.

I prefer battling PBR-style, where each player sees the six Pokémon on the other player's team and then chooses four to battle with. I feel this allows each player to customize their team to the opponent, which helps to reduce the my-team-beats-your-team, Rock-Paper-Scissors problem that can pop up in a high-variety metagame like doubles. I also prefer to play games best two out of three to help reduce the luck factor.

I play with Item Clause and Sleep Clause. I don't play with legends or pseudo-legends (Dragonite, Tyranitar, Salamence, Metagross, or Garchomp), but I'm currently accepting challenges from players with pseudo-legends.

That's me in a nutshell. Thanks for joining the group! Also, a big thanks to Quantum for starting this thread!

Quick question: TMN, in the article, you mentioned that you would write a companion article about Doubles. Where's it gone to?

P.S: Mayeb we people can help with that ruleset?

Hey there, everyone. Im XxDarkArcaninexX but you can call me Arcanine. I've been playing pokemon since Red and Blue. I've played every pokemon game in the U.S. and am now playing Soul Silver. Honestly, I'm a noob when it comes to competitive play but I'm learning more and more about it and have to say, IT"S LOTS OF FUN :)

I like to do singles and doubles but enjoy doubles alot more because it involves more thinking and strategy than with singles. Besides, many people play "sweep-or-be-swept" in singles and it's no fun.

I play with Sleep Clause. I play with a 1 to 2 uber limit on teams (No darkrai). I do play with legends.