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It has been a long time since I've posted an OI vanity thread - but having seen some comments in the "little things you like" thread about how welcoming and non-toxic Smogon is (relatively, at least - remember this is still the Internet), it got me thinking just how community-oriented a series...

+ Spikes & Toxic Spikes + Sleep Powder & reliable recovery are nice too + Good special bulk helps it lay multiple layers of Spikes + Excellent Scald absorber - Not much coverage - Weak physical Defense - Four-moveslot syndrome - Ferroseed gives it heavy competition as a defensive spiker [SET]...

[OVERVIEW] Zangoose is used in NU for one thing only—it's one of the most destructive wallbreakers in the tier, chiefly due to the insane power behind its Facade when poisoned, as it gets boosts from Toxic Boost, STAB, and Facade's secondary effect. Moreover, Close Combat, for Rock- and...

Hi everyone, noobcubed here taking a break from NU and presenting my first OU RMT! It's currently ranked in the 1500s, although I have been using a few other teams on the same alt so it's probably more a reflection of my skill as a player rather than the strength of this particular team...

Hi guys, it's noobcubed and I'm here with a team that has brought me a fair amount of success on the ladder. Now I know the ladder is the ladder, but i'm pretty proud of the team anyway, and I'm keen for any suggestions of improvements. So, without further ado: Aurorus @ Focus Sash - Blizzard...

Yo, noobcubed here, haven't done an RMT since Gen V, so I thought now might be a good time to get back into things. This team has got me to around #150 in the PU ladder but currently I'm stuck there. Hoping to break into the top 100 some time soon, and just feel the team needs a bit of tweaking...

Yay, a noobcubed vanity thread! Haven't had one of those for a while :) So my younger brother, who is probably more of a Pokemon nut than I am, firmly believes that Pokemon X and Y are the weakest games of the series. He has the following main complaints: a) (Most obviously) the game offers no...

I know, it's slightly old news now, but I was just wondering what people think about this. Is it Ninty's first foray into the mobile market or is that just the noise being made by Xbox/Playstation fanboys who are dying for N to drop from the console market so they can play themselves some...

Okay, so I wanted to discuss this but wasn't sure whether it should go here or in the more general Congregation of the Masses forum. Anyway... On another Smogon thread, one Smogonite (who shall remain nameless) reckoned he thought that there was no harm in children of maybe ten years old...

I think the situation is best summed up by the following table: Call of Duty: age of target audience, 18, age of real audience, 7 Pokemon: age of target audience, 7, age of real audience, 18 In short, Pokemon's demographic breakdown is bloody weird. It includes: The five- to seven-year-olds...

So this is a team I knocked up quickly to check out the post-Jynxpede meta (which, by the way, is so much better to play), and to tide me over until XY NU arrives, which should be soon-ish I guess. Not much else to say, really, it's somewhere between hyper-offense and bulky offense, with a...

So, it's been a few months since my last thousand-word vanity post in Orange Islands, and this is something I've been thinking about for a while. Because, it seems to me, Pokemon's influence on video games is a little hard to qualify, considering it is the second best-selling series of all time...

I ask this because of this page: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/top-anime-openings-or-endings-music-video.3499527/ There were so many embedded clips that Firefox crashed, twice, and this computer was bought three weeks ago, so its processing capabilities should be fairly good.

So, as far as I'm concerned, this is by far and away the best current show on British television, and a contender for the greatest of all time. That good, people. As such it practically demands a thread here. For those who don't know (and I don't really know how big the show is in the rest of...

It seems that brawlfest and I always make new RMTs within a couple of days of each other, and here I am again. This team has got me to fifth on the new ladder (apparently; I never actually check these sort of things myself), and is somewhere towards the stall end of the spectrum I guess but it's...

[Overview] <p>With Rotom-W presenting itself as a top tier threat in the Doubles metagame, one would obviously wonder why anyone would use Rotom-H instead. The answer is in its unique Fire - Electric typing, which in tandem with Levitate gives it a Ground-type immunity as well as resistances to...

Now, I'm assuming that most of us here love the Pokemon series, and it is a great series. But this is not a troll thread - rather I feel that I am probably not the only one that feels that Pokemon, as a series, has flaws that are worth thinking about. It's very possible to recognise the flaws...

[Overview] - As good as a Pokemon with 380 BST is ever likely to get when 600-BST juggernauts are roaming around the metagame. - Nearly every support move you could ask for, and Prankster to back them up. - Low defensive stats, but compensates with typing and Will-o-wisp / Captivate giving it...

So I've laddered too much with this team, probably around 300 battles in two weeks. That's too much when I have work to be getting on with. That explains the title, anyway. So, with my last team (who am i kidding? it was basically brawlfest's) was a balance team, arguably even semi-stall, with...

So I'm one of those players who isn't really getting into gen VI. At the moment the metagames still seem to be too unstable and too full of broken stuff for my liking, and everything will be shaken up again when Pokebank goes online. With that said, I decided to see the other delights gen V had...