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Silver knowledge (for whatever that's worth nowadays). Might also have gotten bronze tactics; did not keep track of my win streak but I laddered straight from upper 1200s. Is there any way to check that?
I got platinum guts with Steelix Medicham and Glalie. I was tooling around the ladder for about a month with Weezing Regice and Donphan but changed things up and this team clicked. I'll link the most recent replays. Fun team with a lot of mixup options...
Claiming Bronze knowledge! After a ~15 year hiatus I have come back to play ADV ou and achieved this after about 3 weeks of on and off play. Had to retool my ancient team a bit. The game is very different now. Wish netbattle had had a ladder feature. Lol
Things that took me by surprise:
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Hey I bought my first pokemon since FR/LG and I need some help. Trying to get a handle on how the metagame has changed since then.
Tapu Bulu @ Choice Band
Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Wood Hammer
- Horn Leech
- Megahorn
- Superpower
I picked Tapu Bulu...
I don't want to cause this thread to fill with useless posts. kazumi I apologize for being a little overbearing when I criticized the layout of the RMT, but after all the post does contain a team and it should be rated.
Cruiselax, as you can see I put a comma after skarmbliss which led to the...
there's no way to account for luck in team building. you didn't offer him any suggestion as to fix this boah hax weakness. thanks for telling him that some luck will cause "tremendous damage" but that's not really helpful at all!
Saying that Boah and Swampert give this team problems EXCEPT FOR ZAPDOS!!! is dumb. His bulky sdef oriented restalker zap is easily one of the best counters for those pokemon.
it's difficult to take this thread seriously for a few reasons
1. the ridiculous amount of unnecessary color coding that you put into it. seriously, everyone on this board knows the typing of the pokemon you mentioned. damn you even put a fucking KEY in there.
2. neurotic use of bold and...