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I don't think you can call Suicune, Starmie, and Swampert (the formers more than the latter) a variety of Water nor the Celebi, Breloom, Shaymin for the Grass spot to make up the core.
Well I'm beginning to wonder if I would have rathered Salamence centralization or the new Heatran/water/grass centralization we're about to get...old meta is seeming better to be honest.
I prefer to read battle logs with comments > watching a video (i'vetried the videos...but a well written warstory is more appealing to me personally
...u don't do that if you ever want to be on the leaderboard.....
To be completely honest I know that DDMence is pretty difficult for my team to take on, and the only reason why I haven't altered anything to specific be able to handle it is because it's just going to get banned soon anyway (there's really no question if it will or not) so I'm just kind of...
About two weeks ago my friend David called me asking me to help him make a team. I had not played for a few months consistently but I told him I would and so the evolution of this team began. He already had ideas and just wanted a direct peer review as the team was forming to help see things he...
One more thing: another important tool is the shoddy statistics. Indulging oneself in the data to be more aware of the most common leads or used pokemon (the top 10 leads and top 25 pokemon at minimum) should at least be accounted for pretty well to handle for the team during the team building...
As others have said, another strategy for creating a team is to select 1 or 2 pokemon you're really wanting to use and know the sets for them - then force the other spots to support their weakness/etc in order to make a successful team.
Online resources are also very helpful - the most...
My friend, David, runs the team as well. It could have been him.
What does Adamant kill in OHKO or 2HKO that Jolly can't that would make Power > Speed?
Ok, well, Gyarados that I've played haven't had Stone Edge a lot of the times. I guess I'm just fortunate so far on my matchups then...
I know but you were saying a good reason to keep Azumarril was because of Thick Fat but the ability Thick Fat doesn't benifit the team since the moves it resist are already inaffective moves against the rest of the team.
What was your username on shoddy?
Ok, well, let me explain why I put my "counters" or rather, my "reasoning" for each pokemon.
I've never had Gyarados been a problem. You said they can DD then Stone Edge Zapdos. I guess they aren't running Stone Edge as much anymore? I bring Zapdos in as...
Threat List
Bold Black lettering means no problem.
Bold Blue lettering means causes trouble, but nothing game breaking.
Bold Red lettering means potentially a serious threat.
Empoleon - Empoleon can potentiall sweep the team. If Empoleon uses Agility on the switch, Flygon can come in...
The origional outline of this team was origionally given to me by one of my friends, False, about 7 months ago. Since then, I have made changes to the team to adapt it to Platinum and the presense of Latias; as well as adapting it to the ever-changing "standard" pokemon found in average battles...
Well the people of Pojo are trading Falconpwnch's pokemon because we didn't know of the fact that it wasn't redis. I got mine from someone that had it is his redis. section so I redis. it. And so on and so forth. But now we know so I guess no harm done.