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Uvood · Oct 8th, 2012, 12:38:41 PM

Wanted to post on my current progress with Articuno and Swampert. I have had 14 battles, and Articuno is surprisingly powerful. I've actually been able to sweep teams with it, the only problem is keeping stealth rock of the field. If stealth rock is up, I have to force a free turn on something like Dragonite or Gliscor, since no one expects agility from Articuno. Swampert has been doing really well, people expect him to set up rocks and be a tank, but with choice band, I'm getting a lot of surprise kills on pokes. I'm running it in tandem with Choice specs Politoed, which has also been getting loads of surprise kills, since, like Swampert, people expect the defensive version. It has gotten me to 1600 ranking and I'm slowly climbing. Don't know if the team can get high enough for hall of fame, the team probably needs some adjustments, but it's been real fun to use so far and been doing far better than I expected :).

A few replays for those who wants to see the team in action:

http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/ou2596185

http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/ou2597128

http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/ou2596878

http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/ou2598094

Edit: if someone wants to help out with the team, just pm or reply here. Help is always appreciated ;).

Oct 8th, 2012, 12:38:41 PM	#221
Uvood Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 44 Where none has ever tread	Wanted to post on my current progress with Articuno and Swampert. I have had 14 battles, and Articuno is surprisingly powerful. I've actually been able to sweep teams with it, the only problem is keeping stealth rock of the field. If stealth rock is up, I have to force a free turn on something like Dragonite or Gliscor, since no one expects agility from Articuno. Swampert has been doing really well, people expect him to set up rocks and be a tank, but with choice band, I'm getting a lot of surprise kills on pokes. I'm running it in tandem with Choice specs Politoed, which has also been getting loads of surprise kills, since, like Swampert, people expect the defensive version. It has gotten me to 1600 ranking and I'm slowly climbing. Don't know if the team can get high enough for hall of fame, the team probably needs some adjustments, but it's been real fun to use so far and been doing far better than I expected :). A few replays for those who wants to see the team in action: http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/ou2596185 http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/ou2597128 http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/ou2596878 http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/ou2598094 Edit: if someone wants to help out with the team, just pm or reply here. Help is always appreciated ;). __________________ I try my best to be cheerful, no matter what. If you challenge me, I hope you do your best to be as well :). Last edited by Uvood; Oct 8th, 2012 at 1:07:24 PM.