Help Out in Writing an Article for Beginners

[abhimanyu0003]

I am creating a document for beginners to introduce them to competitive Pokemon battling. I am attaching the document with this post. Please read it, and tell me what should be added/edited/removed. Your feedback will extremely help me and many others.

I need everything a beginner needs to know. I have initialised the project already. If I gain valuable contribution, I will post it as a simple thread, which will be an official project then. Please help, as this task is risky. We cannot go technical, neither can we be simple!

 

[Unbreakable]

Personally, I think that if you want to write an article for newcomers to this activity, you've come to the wrong site. "For beginners" discussions around here usually devolve into "how do I apply this concept to x situation?"

 

[Arcticblast]

http://www.smogon.com/dp/articles/intro_comp_pokemon (outdated, but yeah)
http://www.smogon.com/bw/articles/bw_pokemon_dictionary
http://www.smogon.com/bw/articles/bw_tiers

Just a couple things though:
- if you're writing an article intended to be used on Smogon, Showdown should be the primary sim used, since Smogon no longer supports PO.
- I'm no prose expert, but this doesn't seem to flow well at all...
- you confused stats with base stats

 

[abhimanyu0003]

Fine, and this is what you call "helping" from an "open society" which "loves to spread knowledge about competitive battling". You're doing it right. Do whatever the heck you want to do with this thread, I don't want any more "help" of yours.

 

[hyperbeem]

dont click it's a virus

 

[Arcticblast]

um

okay?

I mean yeah, in hindsight I should have been a bit nicer, but... isn't that a bit of an overreaction?

 

[Hulavuta]

Fine, and this is what you call "helping" from an "open society" which "loves to spread knowledge about competitive battling". You're doing it right. Do whatever the heck you want to do with this thread, I don't want any more "help" of yours.

I'm not sure if this is referring to Unbreakable or Arcticblast, but either way I think you might be taking it a little bit too personally? Arcticblast had some legitimate and helpful criticism and you shouldn't give up just because you didn't get it perfect on your first try. Honestly, I think this kind of article could be very useful so it'd be a shame if it was abandoned so soon.

 

[Oglemi]

lol if you're gonna be an ass to a mod then yeah don't expect any sympathy from me