Name: Dark Nikuman
Alt: Whistle Baby
Ladder standing: None yet!
Alt: Whistle Baby
Ladder standing: None yet!
:[Congrats to Lavos for starting this challenge with a bang!
Shame on anyone who uses Sun, Deoxys-D, or a Baton Pass team to cruise through this challenge >:o
Whoa. Unlucky one and LuckyNumbers... lol.Im "The Unlucky One"
I hope I'm not making some huge mistake, but wasn't Scizor banned into this challenge? It's quite obvious noone is using it - it would be breaking the rules of the challenge...I have a few Pokemon and playstyles I'd like to inquire about; has anyone been able to successfully utilize one of the old, tried, and tested catch-all Pokemon of DPP - BW1, Scizor? I have seen very few of these, and I'm interested to see if people are simply slapping other Pokemon onto their teams!
This is just a guess; probably many players perceive Sun based team as not that much "outsiders", hell Lavos' sun team was everywhere on the ladder some weeks ago, and it was extremely successful. At least, this was my reasoning behind picking something weatherless over a Sun team: it's much more in the spirit of the challenge.Also, what happened to sun offense? I had high hopes for that, as Lavos's sun offense team only needs a replacement of one Pokemon (albeit, an important Pokemon) to play in this challenge, but it seems to be a non-factor, unlike last time when three sun teams qualified!
My team handled it by not giving any free switch opportunities, and through priority / revenge killing. I had no real counter for it, but still handled the genie quite well. However, I was very interested in the Specially Defensive Rotom set; I tested it quite a bit outside this challenge, and it proved itself extremely effective not only for Tornadus but as a check to a wide range of "special" threats.Last but not least, what is everyone using to counter Tornadus-T and Genesect? The best rain counter, in my opinion, is easily specially defensive Rotom-W. It's now on downright all of my teams because of its utility, and I'm pretty surprised to not see it everywhere. How did you guys handle these threats? Discuss! I want to know how this challenge has forced you to think outside the box!