Recent content by BARON9

Thank you both for the advice. @TheMantyke - you're so right! It's very exciting to see double battles finally getting a little more love. I'm reading up as much as I can. @The Knights of Wario Land - You're right about Nidoking...I'm definitely leaning towards using Protect with him since no...

Thanks for the feedback, FlamerMPE - while I would usually have 6 for a full doubles team, the local tourney I'm participating in only allows for 4 pokemon (similar to VGC).

Hi everyone - I've been out of Pokemon for a while now, but it's slowly coming back to me. Double battles were once a specialty of mine and I would really appreciate some advice on my retro doubles team for a local tourney. The Leading Duo... Two of my favorite Pokemon of all time happen to be...

Clefairy is the devil. Decided to do a Nuzlocke run on Soul Silver with Chikorita (Dahlia) as my starter. Caught a female Geodude (Bellum) in Dark Cave and demolished Falkner and Bugsy. I trained up Bellum until she evolved into Graveler and taught her Rock Smash JUST to deal with Whitney's...

Great warstory! It's nice to see the doubles metagame receiving some love with Gen 5. It's pretty crazy how much of a boost Mental Herb received this year...Trick Room teams are becoming increasingly harder to counter now. Then again, rain is just as difficult to counter (to me, at least) so...

Fantastic battle, TMN - your war stories always prove to be entertaining and thought provoking. Just when I'm getting used to double battling strategies, you leap ahead and introduce these new triples strategies haha! Definitely will be trying out triples sometime soon. I noticed that you have...

I've been doing really well in the Battle Subway with this team: Standard Uxie Trick Lead @Choice Scarf Bold - 252 HP | 252 Def -Trick -Thunder Wave -Flash -Memento Tyranitar @Leftovers Adamant - 252 Atk | 252 Sp Def -Substitute -Dragon Dance -Crunch -Brick Break Sigilyph @Life...

Does the opponent still receive damage by Rocky Helmet if the defending pokemon has a substitute up?

Tranquill (the second normal/flying bird evo) has to be the most annoying wild pokemon I've encountered so far.. I swear it has to be part psychic, because it predicts my moves EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. If you try and attack, it uses Detect. If you try and set up or inflict status, it uses Taunt. If...

I ran a Sub/Protect/Last Resort Snorlax with a 252 Atk/252 Def spread on PBR wifi and had great success. With team preview it's much easier to prepare for any ghosts/steels/rock types that your opponent may have and prepare accordingly. With the right support, LR Snorlax can be deadly as long as...

Thanks again for the battles and the rate, TMN! I definitely agree with you about re-training Bronzong. I didn't realize that Gyro Ball's power would increase that much from a lower speed IV. After our battle last night, I've thought about ditching Bronzong entirely. He could have really...

Thanks to everyone for the advice so far - I appreciate it! @Ethanftw - I have gone back and forth on using Explosion with Bronzong, so I totally see where you're coming from here. The only thing that pushed me away from Hypnosis was that Rotom-H is going to be paralyzing/burning enemies...

First and only bump. I would like some feedback/suggestions on this team. -Thanks-

Doubles. Many people like myself love creating new, unique strategies to utilize in the double battle metagame. I mean, there is an entire thread dedicated to it in the forums that has some really great strategies hidden between the pages. After a long Pokemon hiatus, I jumped back in...

Quick question- Does Magic Coat reflect back the effects of Taunt?