Evening, or Morning if you will, it's half three here in the UK.
I'm JT, or Jimmy, and I'm 22. Been playing pokémon since '97 when I first got my hands on Red version from a friend who's dad bought if for her in america, I then got yellow, blue and continued into Gold, Crystal, Ruby, Emerald, Leaf Green, Diamond, SS, W, W2 and then X (still got a 5 day wait for ORAS here in the UK!) so as you can tell I've played a lot. That said I never really got into the IV/EV/Nature side of things until SS and even then it wasn't really for comp play as such, more so I could whoop my 6th form friends that also played.
Come XY I decided to get a bit more into the comp side of things, learnt how to breed properly and consulted smogon more that previously to get move sets, EV spreads and the like, however I only ever had limited success on battle spot and things. This is believe is partially down to the fact I don't really know how to build teams all that well, I built one consisting of TTar, M-Chomp, Defensive Gastrodon, AV Goodra, CB Talonflame and Stick Web Gavantula. The idea being that Gav would sticky web, with a Sash then if possible either threaten what was before it or Volt Switch out. Gastrodon and Goodra formed my defensive mons, able to take a few hits, inflict status and when able let off some damage. Ttar and M-chomp were then my sweepers, DD Ttar setting up Sandstorm and blowing as many holes as possible so that with Stick Web support I could bring Chomp into the storm, M-Evolve get the sword dance off and wreak. With Talonflame being there to break things. It worked when everything went to plan however anyone with different weather setters, fast non-grounded mons, or simply hyper offensive pressure that could prevent my setup tore it to bits.
My other draw back I guess is that I am a HUGE Dragon fanboy * and I have been since Gen 1. My league team on Blue was funnily enough identical to Lance's - Gyarados, Charizard, Aerodactyl and 3 Dragonites (you wouldn't believe the money I spent at the game corner!) Which usually leads me to creating teams of either entirely (psudo) dragons, or megas that gain the dragon typing. I had yet more limited success with a hyper offensive team consisting of MegaZardX, Multiscale Dragonite, Latios, Garchomp, CritDra, and either MixMence or Gyarados. As you can imagine any seasoned player with a decent ice or fairy could tear holes in me if I didn't get my setup. Of course sometimes it did go very well and I'd take an ice beam on Multiscale Weakness Policy Dragonite giving a + 3 Atk an +1 Speed in a single turn however priority was always an issue, not to mention hazards.
Heh I realise I am going on and on, sorry about that. I guess what I'm really looking for on Smogon, besides of course the community side (none of my friends play anymore it is somewhat saddening) is a greater knowledge of team building and how to create decent synergy between mons that I enjoy while still covering weaknesses and the like.
* just to iterate how much of a fanboy I am for dragons - I have already bread a 5IV team for AS when I get it consisting of: 31/31/31/x/31/31 Jolly Bagon, 31/31/31/x/31/31 Jolly Trapinch, 31/x/31/31/31/31 Modest Horsea, 31/x/31/31/31/31 Modest Swablu, 31/x/31/31/31/31 Timid Trecko and finally an old Dragonite HM slave - JUST for my playthrough, each of them carrying as close to their final moveset as I can give them in their lowest forms (tailored a little to promote ease of gameplay - i.e substituting the low PP hard hitting moves for their 85-95 Power alternatives, Fire Blast to Flamethrower and the like) - ALL dragons, or will be and for the most part native to the original RS. I wanted to try and regain some of the feel of the first time I played Ruby.
TL:DR Im Jimmy, I love Dragons, I played all Gens, I'd like to get better at team building. OU is probably where I'll stay. Cheers!
I'm JT, or Jimmy, and I'm 22. Been playing pokémon since '97 when I first got my hands on Red version from a friend who's dad bought if for her in america, I then got yellow, blue and continued into Gold, Crystal, Ruby, Emerald, Leaf Green, Diamond, SS, W, W2 and then X (still got a 5 day wait for ORAS here in the UK!) so as you can tell I've played a lot. That said I never really got into the IV/EV/Nature side of things until SS and even then it wasn't really for comp play as such, more so I could whoop my 6th form friends that also played.
Come XY I decided to get a bit more into the comp side of things, learnt how to breed properly and consulted smogon more that previously to get move sets, EV spreads and the like, however I only ever had limited success on battle spot and things. This is believe is partially down to the fact I don't really know how to build teams all that well, I built one consisting of TTar, M-Chomp, Defensive Gastrodon, AV Goodra, CB Talonflame and Stick Web Gavantula. The idea being that Gav would sticky web, with a Sash then if possible either threaten what was before it or Volt Switch out. Gastrodon and Goodra formed my defensive mons, able to take a few hits, inflict status and when able let off some damage. Ttar and M-chomp were then my sweepers, DD Ttar setting up Sandstorm and blowing as many holes as possible so that with Stick Web support I could bring Chomp into the storm, M-Evolve get the sword dance off and wreak. With Talonflame being there to break things. It worked when everything went to plan however anyone with different weather setters, fast non-grounded mons, or simply hyper offensive pressure that could prevent my setup tore it to bits.
My other draw back I guess is that I am a HUGE Dragon fanboy * and I have been since Gen 1. My league team on Blue was funnily enough identical to Lance's - Gyarados, Charizard, Aerodactyl and 3 Dragonites (you wouldn't believe the money I spent at the game corner!) Which usually leads me to creating teams of either entirely (psudo) dragons, or megas that gain the dragon typing. I had yet more limited success with a hyper offensive team consisting of MegaZardX, Multiscale Dragonite, Latios, Garchomp, CritDra, and either MixMence or Gyarados. As you can imagine any seasoned player with a decent ice or fairy could tear holes in me if I didn't get my setup. Of course sometimes it did go very well and I'd take an ice beam on Multiscale Weakness Policy Dragonite giving a + 3 Atk an +1 Speed in a single turn however priority was always an issue, not to mention hazards.
Heh I realise I am going on and on, sorry about that. I guess what I'm really looking for on Smogon, besides of course the community side (none of my friends play anymore it is somewhat saddening) is a greater knowledge of team building and how to create decent synergy between mons that I enjoy while still covering weaknesses and the like.
* just to iterate how much of a fanboy I am for dragons - I have already bread a 5IV team for AS when I get it consisting of: 31/31/31/x/31/31 Jolly Bagon, 31/31/31/x/31/31 Jolly Trapinch, 31/x/31/31/31/31 Modest Horsea, 31/x/31/31/31/31 Modest Swablu, 31/x/31/31/31/31 Timid Trecko and finally an old Dragonite HM slave - JUST for my playthrough, each of them carrying as close to their final moveset as I can give them in their lowest forms (tailored a little to promote ease of gameplay - i.e substituting the low PP hard hitting moves for their 85-95 Power alternatives, Fire Blast to Flamethrower and the like) - ALL dragons, or will be and for the most part native to the original RS. I wanted to try and regain some of the feel of the first time I played Ruby.
TL:DR Im Jimmy, I love Dragons, I played all Gens, I'd like to get better at team building. OU is probably where I'll stay. Cheers!
Last edited:
