Is the next tourney Nats?
and after nats is worlds right?The next "real life" tournament for the US is Nationals, but there's another international challenge in June I believe.
hathater said:breloom or scizor? they both have technician, priority stab etc. scizor has a better typing, while breloom has spore.
No offense, but this is kind of a stupid question, and a pretty vague one at that. The logic in the question is like comparing apples to oranges: you can't label them similar because "they have Technician and priority STAB". Both have completely different roles on a team and both have different counters. Which one you're going to use depends on what the rest of your team looks like.breloom or scizor? they both have technician, priority stab etc. scizor has a better typing, while breloom has spore.
wrongThere's a chance they'll still be detected as hacked even if Pokécheck didn't pick any problems up.
What I've found that works well to counter rain in trick room is this Gardevoir:ok, thanks I'll look into this.
The main problem with that combo is going to be people disrupting your setup. The second-biggest problem is going to be people taking out volcarona via, e.g. priority thunderwave, before it can sweep. In general, your biggest problems are going to be Water- and Rock-type opponents, which are hard to OHKO with your spread moves, and which can often KO you back if you let them live for a turn (and you can't avoid letting at least one live for a turn).Hey people! Recently i have been trying to create a team based on hitmontop + volcarona. Any advice for what pokemon will do best as their team mates? Any threats i should look out for? Thanks so much in advance for your advice!! :)
Thanks alot for your informative advice!! It helps alot! :)The main problem with that combo is going to be people disrupting your setup. The second-biggest problem is going to be people taking out volcarona via, e.g. priority thunderwave, before it can sweep. In general, your biggest problems are going to be Water- and Rock-type opponents, which are hard to OHKO with your spread moves, and which can often KO you back if you let them live for a turn (and you can't avoid letting at least one live for a turn).
As such, you're going to want your supporting mons to deal with those types well. Some sort of sun inducer would help protect you against rain (and to a lesser extent sand); unfortunately, Ninetales sucks, but you might nonetheless want to use it. Alternatively, you could put Sunny Day on the set of one of your supporters. Having grass-type coverage in the rest of your team also seems useful; that would work quite well with sun, given how most Chlorophyll sweepers are grass-type.
A different possible way to support the team is with Fighting-types, which are good against Rock-types, not bad against Water-types, and often have Wide Guard. This is what your Hitmontop should be doing already, of course; it's up to you whether you feel you need more backups with a similar plan.
The remaining thing you probably want is a backup lead strategy. If the opponent has a faster Fake Out, their partner can quite possibly take out Volcarona before it can set up. This is unlikely to come up very often, but you might want to dedicate a team slot to an alternative strategy (not that I can think of one right now); you have six slots, so you can afford to use one of them only in niche circumstances.
I've seen rumours of 8am being registration, but I'm not sure how much I trust them. It seems reasonable, at least, due to there being an extra 3 rounds this year compared to previous years.Im planning to go to the brimingham UK vgc nats. But I'm cab out 2 hours away from it. Doe anyone have a link to times of registration or the start of the event (if there are any) so i can start planning?
you should try liepard. it's been rising in popularity and can be really effective.I've been rejiggering my team around, and I've come across a bit of a problem.
I for sure want to include a fakeout user on my team, because from both experience and lurking around here, it seems that's just a smart thing to have. I was planning on using Hitmontop, since he was one of my biggest foils at the last VGC tourney I participated in and seems really very useful, but then I was thinking. At this point, everybody and everybody's dog knows that most Hitmontop are going to be using fakeout, and will probably just protect first turn. That's what I learned to do eventually. What's the best way of dealing with that, then? I probably sound dumb asking, but what's the best ways of taking advantage of a first-turn protect?
I was considering going for another lesser known fakeout user, but is it really worth the surprise factor when that pokemon probably won't be as strong as Hitmontop anyway? Even though so many people use him by now that most people would have a counter for him to start with.
I guess long story short (too late) is it better to go with the "obvious" choices, even if chances are good that people will very much know how to deal with it?
If you can predict the Protect, punish it with Feint.I was planning on using Hitmontop, since he was one of my biggest foils at the last VGC tourney I participated in and seems really very useful, but then I was thinking. At this point, everybody and everybody's dog knows that most Hitmontop are going to be using fakeout, and will probably just protect first turn. That's what I learned to do eventually. What's the best way of dealing with that, then? I probably sound dumb asking, but what's the best ways of taking advantage of a first-turn protect?
If you're hell-bent on Scyther, then it depends on if outspeeding Garchomp is useful (and it probably is for Scyther). In which case, you'll need Jolly and at least 236 Spe to outspeed Jolly 252 Garchomp. If that's not so important, then bulk will probably be your next priority.OMG
been away for 2 months, so much has improved!
gotta totally restart black2
so much news about x/y to catch up on,
best nature for scyther?