Some things get me when I look at this. People instantly think things can solve everything, or that's what it seems to me. I don't take the age thing personally, being eighteen(not that you will believe me :P). The post thing really gets me. (queue to look at my post count of two.) I don't post because I didn't know of the forums, until 2 weeks before the skymin vote, and I don't have the internet at home, or am familiar to the site. therefore, I simply watch for now to see who is who. I aready am getting a good glimpse too. The rating in shoddy? Better but flawed. I used to test all my new teams on the ladder, not caring wether my rating went down so much as my knowlege went up. So now I am working on the rating simply to get that squared off, although I keep finding people who end up giving me times like this;
he sent out a!
I sent out b!
he: hey i am new :D
I: ok. well maybe I can help.
he: OK!
(skip a few scenes)
he wins! (6-3)
I: O.O at least you can run the most common 6 sweepers =/ (heatran, electivire, and the like.)
he: hey your not bad!
I look at score, potential rating, feel bad from a nubble.
This is the problem in itself
People join, go to smogon, find the best sets, and use them. Granted it isn't a bad idea, but I get stuck at the "golden spot" (reffering to the fact that I get half newb almost uber teams) I tend to use more creative or unique sets(seeing as my starter is staying UU and staying in my team.) that are weak to certain things sometimes. Granted I can work around it, but it is almost like I DO have to put in the counters to certain pokemon until I am out of this spot! I really am in a bind. When it comes to these guys, I tend to know all I need. But when fighting...my skills aren't adequitly known.
As far as skymin goes? simple.
Skymin's damage ratio's tend to score what other then 2HKOs. Not good or bad. The fact it gets potentially OHKOed by ice shard? lol. You give flinch creds to something KOed by priority. Granted you can get the sub first, but expect it. Play to the sub, play to KO the sub, then it will be forced to attack, and risk damage anyway, or sub and lose HP. Life orb hurts and helps, as more damage is on both sides of the coin. If these meet? lolligags!
Say the sub is through. use some form of protection to figure out its intentions. If seed? Counteract with a powerful wall. If LO? Go with some disposable attacker, then follow with a pwerful attacker. Sounds easier then it has been for you? I apologize. It merely has been that easy for me, and I haven't even had luck when using him myself(not including one fight that I had recently, but I didn't know which team I was using. Still, he won.) The pokemon can be pushed away by any status effect, and can be blown away if you have a sturdy tank with roar/wind. It can be hurt more so by the abuse of SR. the pokemon is not resistant to bullet punch, or most other prioritys, and I even beat it with a linoone's extremespeed.
The pokemons stats are far from Uber. While the speed and SpA are great, that is all that is. If you go and look at the HP, this will accually work against subseeding. The HP needs to be max in oder for a sub to resist a seismic toss, but most blissey can use the ice beam that is the bane of Skymin. the defenses are not even note worthy because of the typing. There is nothing special about the attack, while iron head, zen headbutt, and othes are good, SpA runs the train, beating all of those move's usefulness.
Keep in mind I have every note of speed, power and flinchhax.
It is beaten by priority
It is walled by common pokemon.
It is not the best in the flinchhax, or even the subseed sets.
