Recent content by Daniel Watanabe

So I've spent a good month working on consistency. I got to about ~1500 on the showdown VGC ladder with this at the highest. It's basically Araquanid with support, because I have an Araquanid fetish. I really need help finding a decent counter for Kartana outside of Arcanine. Arcanine was...

Now that we're seeing the meta settle down and stabilize, here's my advice: Drop Oranguru and Wishiwashi. If you're dropping Telepathy/Instruct Oranguru you might as well drop Wishiwashi, because there are better Water types out there (Araquanid, etc.) that can hit harder than Wishiwashi...

AWESOME REVIEW!!! thank you so much serapis! I'll try the stuff you recommended for sure :D

http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/rate-my-sandstorm-team.3557076/

Alright people, this is my first RMT thread for ORAS Doubles, so please take it easy! The main objective of this team isn't to OHKO anything, but to abuse the sand and gradually wear the opposing Pokemon down with tough spread moves. I have found on Battle Spot that the 1/16 sand damage racks up...

It looks solid, but I would change a couple of things: I would get rid of Talonflame altogether, because there isn't too much that it can do that Zard Y can't. Having one pokemon with a 4x weakness to rock is risky already, let alone two (Landorus-T is everywhere). If you need a Tailwind user...