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This thread is about asking question about this subforum, Battling 101, which is where newcomers can come to seek one on one tutoring for competitive play. Questions about the program Shoddybattle should probably be taken to the Shoddybattle subforum, located here. But, you should probably...

Just because we can cover 60% of the metagame with those three moves on Starmie doesn't make Starmie better than CAP10. The last move on that set with Starmie is usually psychic, just for a second stab, or some status move. With CAP10's potential movepool you can run those three to cover the...

Giving it reliable recovery, coupled with toxic/wow, and already having "usable" defenses and high HP will risk CAP10 becoming a stall/wall/counter wall. This seems counter to the design intent of customization to counter certain threats, as most pokes with similar movesets tend to counter or...

I've been using that kind of set up in team deathmatch, with Riot Shield/Pistol+Tacitcal Knife/Semtex/Stun Grenades. It only works really well on maps with a lot of enclosed space, if I have to sprint in the open I usually end up dead. Had a match on Estate last night, my team had the house...

A full page of people asking when the tutor program opens gets deleted but the thread still isn't locked. It's ready when it's ready; if they wanted us to know when it was going to open they would have told us already.

Astrith; if you're having trouble with Kabutops dying try out this Uxie from the Rain Offense Guide: Uxie @ Damp Rock Ability: Levitate EVs: 252 HP/252 Def/4 SpD Bold nature (+Def, -Atk) - Rain Dance - Stealth Rock - Memento - Psychic It has enough bulk to take two or three hits from anything...

Redundancy aside, if this Raikou is ONLY used against Rain Dance Teams, one can safely assume that Rain will be up at least some of the time making Thunder 100% accurate and superior to Thunderbolt. Still, do you want to have a dead weight poke on your team for the sole purpose of defeating the...