How do I think in a strategic way? I'm worried that as a noob to competitive battling, I'll never be able to come up with new ideas.
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Keep battling, everyone starts where you are. You have to adapt your team to the bigger threats that can destroy it. Believe me, It's easier said than done. I'm still in the 1100-1200 bracket, and can't think of what to replace. Haha.
Just lurk the threads and posts a little bit more to get a better understanding of terms and how to play. :3
In the end it all boils down to practice, though.
yeah I was. As I edited and said, I found out that I was in the wrong forum after all.
Imo, you cant tell someone how to think in a strategic way. but it's all about your mindset. Like Cerib said, keep battling and get a better understanding of the metagame. I assume you pretty much know the basics of type match-ups and such, so just think of your weaknesses and how to cover them, and also once you battle more you'll notice the more common types in whichever tier you choose to battle in so you can start thinking about how to take them out while still protecting yourself.
As for team set-ups, you can go for a balanced team with a few sweepers, a nice wall or two, and some good support mons, or you can go for a wall team and try to toxic or burn stall. there are many stategies and as you battle you'll find more than you ever knew existed.
Are there any tournament applications open now?
Ok, I have a few questions.
1: In your "battling 101" tutoring program, how exactly does one interact with a tutor? Does it happen on Pokemon Showdown, the game itself, and/or live chat?
2: What exactly is a "round"? I noticed it on the schedule thingy.
3: Whats the difference between the mentor-ship program, and the tutoring program?
1: In your "battling 101" tutoring program, how exactly does one interact with a tutor? Does it happen on Pokemon Showdown, the game itself, and/or live chat?
2: What exactly is a "round"? I noticed it on the schedule thingy.
3: Whats the difference between the mentor-ship program, and the tutoring program?
There are always tournaments going on in the respective tiers thread list, along with tournaments going on in the tournaments section of smogon, http://www.smogon.com/forums/forums/tournaments.34/
You just look for any that say signups and post in, after reading the OP. Right now Farmleague is going on which is a big smogon tournament open to everyone found [thread=season-6-farm-league-sign-ups.3524883/]here.[/thread]
The battling 101 program is designed to teach users how to battle competitively in a tier of their choosing. You can interact through a number of ways, irc, skype, or on PokemonShowdown. You will end up playing on one of the servers, probably PokemonShowdown.
You sign up for a round and get paired with a tutor, within that rounds timeframe your tutor will help you get better at competitive battling.
The mentorship program is to help you get better situated within smogon itself, while the tutor program is more designed to help improve your competitive battling skills.
Vryheid
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Can someone explain to me what's the deal with King's Shield's priority? The reason I ask is because both Bulbapedia and Smogon list it as +3 while Serebii lists it as +4. The +3 answer doesn't make much sense to me because that means it would share the same priority bracket as Fake Out, and a faster Kangaskhan with Scrappy using Fake Out aught to be able to beat out King's Shield due to it's faster speed. Of course, this doesn't happen in-game.
According to serebii in oras you can find them only on SS Tidal or with the pickup ability
Hmm if by using the ability, where would I be able to find it
After every battle, pickup will have a chance of finding an item. Leftovers can be obtained from Lv81-100 pokemon with pickup, but it's a rare item.
What's IRC and how do I get it?
IRC stands for Internet relay chat, and there's multiple client for it. You can use mibbit, a web browser IRC.
also check this out for more irc help!
I see, thanks a lot!
I suggest you just ask here
I did the pickup method with 6 lv. 100 pickup mons and after 30 hours I had ~5 leftovers. It's really not worth it imo...
If you really need leftovers just ask in the thread I linked you above.
What is a good to way to level grind besides the Secret Base Blissey method in ORAS?
Sky pillar is a good way to go.
Alright, so if I don't want to interact via voice chat, I don't have to right? It's all optional I assume?
You really should be open to how your tutor wants to communicate, but if you really wanted to then you could only communicate on PS / forums.
