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Hmm, haven't joined in myself even if I lurk in every competitive subforum there is. Anyways, I've only faced one Assist/Shuffling team which I then horrendously lost against just because I had no idea what it was until too late. (I even had a counter to it; Golurk denies his own rocks to Ditto...

Ampharos is going to be the one I'm testing this time, under alt Enxai. As Punchshroom said, it was kinda difficult finding a niche that wasn't utterly outclassed by Eel. Finally decided on abusing both Amp's pretty decent survivability (non-weakness to all forms of priority is great) plus...

I'll be joining in again, trying out Victreebell on a HO sun team, using a more or less standard set of Growth/Solarbeam/Weather ball/Sludge bomb. Since I haven't tried it yet... Nothing yet to say. Might try it afterwards on a non-sun team, but not yet. Alt's going to be NalesSA.

Actually, Swoobat didn't fare all too well against the two or three stall teams that I fought while laddering. Munchlax, Grumpig, or Mandibuzz always rear their ugly heads to stop you on those, and it's more or less impossible to muscle through them. Swoobat fared best against Balance more than...

Not very often, I must admit, but I've rarely needed more/I've rarely tried for more than +2 plus that Salac berry +2 speed boost. And I've never wished I had psychic over Stored Power, since the only thing that Psychic is revenging that Air Slash isn't are... Poison types, really. The massive...

Not quite my peak (I think that was 1768), but I never got into the 1800s, never mind the 1850s. Since I won't have time to ladder for the next three days, I guess I'm done at Bronze. Here's the team: http://pastebin.com/9pGeh1X9 Now, to add on to what scorpdestroyer said about Swoobat. My...

Joining with alt Absurdium... I'll be testing out Swoobat this round, and seeing how it can be used in this metagame. I feel as if it's fighting for a spot with Jynx, the former being able to boost its Sp. Def and higher speed but the latter having Lovely Kiss and an initial higher Special...

Hm, this possibility would've made Dodrio simply outstanding in the previous metagame, where rock and steel types were the hugest hinderance to the flightless bird - I even tried a Work up/HP Fighting set at one point, just to see whether there was a chance that Dodrio could beat its counters...

Meh, why not? Alt: Nevermored Word: Snails

Mmm, this is true for offensive Luxray: Guts sets are generally outclassed by Zangoose/Ursaring for speed and strength. However, I've had a great deal of success with Restalk Roar Luxray on a spike-stacking team: Intimidate by itself forces a lot of switches, and Roar just makes things better. I...

Uh, besides the whole Hypnosis accuracy thing, there's another problem. If Sawk starts in, then CC brings Persian down to 1 HP. Assuming Hypnosis hits, next turn switch to Drifblim as Persian gets +1. You have only a 51% chance to KO at that point, though if you factor in Bite's flinch chance...

Yeah, seems as if I have to give up my 1 Pokémon dream... Rotom-S was the closest thing I could find without relying on speed-ties with Sawk, but then Drifblim wins by virtue of Ghost gem unburden Shadow-ball, followed by the mind games of Sub and CM, since Rotom is forced to attempt to Thunder...

Edit: Bahaha. Seems as if Punchshroom beat me to, well, the punch. No matter. Back to finding a normal type that can conclusively 1HKO Drifblim... xD Sadly, I don't think the above counter holds, since So, the worst case scenario is when Sawk is in and uses Stone Edge on whatever. Duosion can't...

Hm, I may be wrong here, but I think the core can actually bypass our friend Probo here if it tries to come in on Piloswine. It takes a ridiculous amount of max damage rolls, but here's my chain of events: Probo switches into Icicle crash and SR, for 45 + 20 = 65 damage. 259 HP left. Probo's...

Rotom-F @ Leftovers Trait: Levitate EVs: 252 SpA/252 Spe/4 HP Timid nature - Blizzard - Thunderbolt - Will-o-wisp - Pain split So, first, the scenario where Piloswine's in first: So upon switching into SR and an Icicle crash, Rotom's at worst at 47% after leftovers. Use Will-o-wisp, Pain Split...