Recent content by Jbates

I myself use a focus sash floatzel lead on my rain dance team. it has waterfall, rain dance, crunch and ice fang. you're pretty much guaranteed a rain dance, and then you can put the hurt on the fragile+fast types that you are leading against. I haven't tried out kristy but it also sounds...

I've used a trick room team in the past with fairly good success. It had Bronzong, Slowbro, CB Lax, SD Rhyperior, Porygon2(definately recommend, esp if you have gyarados problems), and Donphan. All of my pokes were pretty bulky, and it worked well.

when you/your opponent depends on hax to win, i think that it takes all of the strategy(aka fun) out of the game. i'm mostly referring to powderchomp here.

props:special metagross slops:everything else like others stated, all you did was let pokemon get killed and switch the next poke in. prediction was nonexistant, and this was not any showing of raikou's true power. like pneuma said, raikou may as well have been any other fast special sweeper...

sorry about the original formatting, i had to get off the computer in a hurry in the middle of posting this, i'll finish it for you guys. @cynthia, it was just a regular scarfchomp. surf was an afterthought over FB since in rain surf would be more useful

I have been running this rain dance team of mine for quite a while on shoddy, and i started to play one night after leaving shoddy alone for at least a month. I was kind of bummed after being ranked 7 on the ladder the day after it was created only to fall off of it within a couple weeks due to...

this is the most hilarious moment ive ever been in, last night. it was 2-2, my floatzel was asleep, and i knew i was probably gonna lose. luckily, i was carrying SURF on my garchomp since i was using a rain dance team (fb would be weakened and surf increased int he rain). Floatzel woke up...

i have written one warstory in my time here, and it received positive feedback(by no means archive worthy). the thing i kept foremost in my mind was letting people know what I was thinking. the battle itself was pretty good (i lost 0-1) and i chose it to show that the BL metagame is awesome as...

lol any time. that was a great battle.

thanks everyone and @hrothgar-i don't think ANYTHING not on smogon's ou list is taht accurate. when i first made my team i had yanmega on it, which is not on smogon's ou list, but definately too OU for BL play.

it covers the ground weakness though...and yes i think i've fought u before. that fake out mach punch hitmontop was an annoying SOB.

that's why 2 of my pokes have levitate as their ability.

Hi I've been a member of smogon for a while but I have'nt posted very much. Ive been playing shoddy a lot for a couple months and in the past week I've fallen in love with the BL tier. It's a lot of fun, believe me. Anyway, since not many people play BL, I was challenged for the third time by...

yeah he gets cut. but why the hell do you even care about the evs/nature of your fricken hm slaves edit:stefywefy beat me to that

I remembered Mike Papagianis' name from somewhere, and lo and behold he was in an issue of nintendo power (v193). they were talking about some tournament in seattle where some chris darling kid beat him in the finals. mike was using groudon, blissey and exeggutor, and chris was using rayquaza...