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I go for pokemon whom I really like, which are generally also usable in competitive.
For example first time I saw Ninjask I loved it! Amazing looking poke
Then there is Tauros, been one of my favs since I was a wee child watching pokemon.
Typhlosion IMO is the coolest fire pokemon from the...
You should still IV breen but not go for godlike. Such as if you use Swellow go for purely as high posible attack and speed and dont wry too much about the others. Its not that difficult you just have to put some time into it :>
When I traded over my Adamant heracross from emeral I got near to no adamant heras whilst breeding it with a random natured hera from Diamond. I finally got another female adamant ad put that instead and it was working much much more often.
only rason I use belly drum is because it immediately maxes attack rather than risking a few DD's in which you can die fairly easily. Smeargle is rather fragile. Generally passing just the belly drum to a fast poke who can agility themselves seems to work well too. Or a fast pokemon in general...
I tend to go with
Smeargle @ Quick Claw - Jolly
252 Speed / 252 HP
Spore
Belly Drum
Agility
Baton Pass
If it pulls off and you BP the Belly Drum and or Agility to a pokemon, you can sweep whole teams with near to no effort. Its not easy to pull off against a good player ofcourse but still...
Due to playing competitive battles purely on Netbattle I have not had the need to EV train before. But now with Wi-fi I want to make my team on my actual game too.
However EV training still confuses me slightly :<
What I really want to know is where you have a level 1 hatched pokemon you...