Thanks for renewing my faith in this topic with your good questions! Keep an eye out for Round 47, as I will be opening it up again fairly soon!
I guess your welcome :p
But I don't like the sound of Round 47 being opened fairly soon since that sounds like less than 9 days!
Anyway, ofcourse I'm reading and trying to learn on my own, but it's so much information to get from smogon. It's hard to filter out all the unnecessary stuff and know what information to really take in (In the end every bit of information is important I guess, but when your new theres alot you could skip just to get going). Theres like 10 different movesets on all the (apperently) popular pokemon and after a whiles reading it just becomes to much and you don't know what to focus on.
Thats why the Battling 101 program feels so awesome cause they won't be throwing around unnecessary information, they will (atleast I hope they will) give you handsdown tips like: "if the lead is Azelf, expect this" based on whats popular right now so that you'll be able to get a "good" competetive start.
Since I probably won't be able to take part of the program for a while:
1. Is there any "basic-competetive-teams" that aren't super awesome but rather easy to use so I can get used to using shoddy and competetive battling generally?
2. What would you call "basics" of competetive battling and how would you suggest me learning on my own? I've been reading RMT's to try to learn whats commonly out there, but its still kinda fuzzy since their tactics and the tips are for just that team and so on, but I guess I'm getting some basic knowledge of things there. The dictionary (
http://www.smogon.com/dp/articles/pokemon_dictionary) is nice aswell, especially the commonly used roles part and other smogon articles. But hey, any tips where to seek knowledge?
3. Would you recomend (since I plan to get a spot in the program sooner or later) to do some "trial and error" team creating/battling or rather keep learning through reading and wait for a tutor?
4. Would you recomend any of OU or UU over the other when it comes to beginner "friendlyness", both as where to get tutored and where to get started on my own? (It feels like OU is the most fun later on so I guess thats where Im gonna get tutored but hey, what do I know)
5. I don't really like the idea of "borrowing" someone elses team in RMT to get going since one of the ideas (for me) with pokemon is ultimate customization to everyones gamestyle, but would you recomend it? Or is it even taboo to "borrow" peoples teams (I dunno, haven't read through the RMT rules yet)
I realize these questions are a bit more on how to get started generally rather than questions about the Battling 101 itself but its still connected and I'm just so pumped to get started. I would very much appreciate answers as good as to my first questions (Thank you Philip7086), even though they may be sliding on wether to fit here or not (I'm not really sure where they would fit >.<). I'm just excited to get started!
//Theft