Recent content by Padeli

Had a lot of success with this team in July, got to 1900s on a few occasions with it: https://pokepast.es/82c5967b40e2db36 best was 1954, prob not gonna do better than that any time soon. I guess people call the first five "forre 5", so it's just forre5 jirachi which is totally nothing new...

1954 with spalding (click for replay) to me its more of an avocado for some reason.... just my usual bi annual ladder run, made this one a few weeks back 7/9, not that 1900's is even remarkable anymore lol. However, this might be one of the higher (highest..?) forretress runs so I wanted to...

**not a pro so take everything I write with a grain of salt** In theory forretress has two very desirable traits, one being that it gets spikes and spin in one slot, and while weak to spikes itself, its reasonably bulky and sand immune. The other is that it has potential to beat skarm 1v1; e.g...

Yeah I totally agree that there's a huge variety of stuff that can work and that's definitely an argument against what I said - I don't mean to give the impression that what I think is absolute, the answer to this question is not clear at all imo! You're fs more experienced than me so I will...

The answer to the main question you ask in the first paragraph is yes in my opinion: I do think that some strategies/Pokémon perform slightly better for laddering while others work a little better in a tournament environment. I expect that the win rates/usage stats for specific pokemon are...

It was mentioned to me that I should make a post summarizing, for conciseness, my teams from 2024 in the new team sharing thread. I spend a ton of time either playing or thinking/theorizing, so I have only 3 builds to share. There are two other older teams, one with offmie and one cele/cune...

I was in the zone and got 1933 today: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-2282510832-kboy3s3bb1xic8pno2pgawsk14k630hpw?p2 Loving my new team, feels very comfortable

Hello all, One more post to follow this up. I managed to get to 1867 (now 1933, see update) with "sand spam v.2", made some changes: https://pokepast.es/c92eedb1f9069738 Tyranitar: Flamethrower Skarm: Tox over tect Jirachi: Body slam over tox Aero: bug over flying It works much better with...

Two free competitive ladder teams both peaking #1 FA 2024 + ADV metagame and ladder thoughts. Hi everyone, As some of you know, I'm one of the more active ladder players in the last year (dare I say the most active?). Played >10k ladder matches this year across lots of alts, topped 10+ times...

Hello all, Just going to update this post many months later. Played a ton of ADV since then and peaked many more times with various teams, such as joltspikes in June (my version) and some other el-classico variants in March, though most notably this team I made had the highest peak. Just going...

Really awesome to see people taking interest in my team. The answer to your question - you don't! Lol. That team is very offensive there's not a strong answer to the likes of Zapdos, Gengar. The primary way you try to answer zapdos with the above team is to use your BKC tar to switch in 1-2...

Hi all. As of this post, I've topped the ladder #1 with a bulky offense TSS, using sub-liechi aero. Within a day of using it I shot straight up to #1, and as oppose to my last BO TSS team with offmie (with I don't think is that good...), I am confident this is a strong team. This post is just...

When I wrote about rest I was referring to rest zapdos! Certainly not rest bliss, haha. I'll keep experimenting. I do really think I prefer a cleaner on this kind of bulky offense team that is good into levitators as oppose to one which is blanked by Flygon, Claydol, etc. (which makes starmie...

Agree, after using the team more its just a cute team with some hidden techs (taunt tar, drill peck, etc) and performs well on the ladder. As for offensive starmie, it is good. I think offensive starmie is underrated and fun to use. But it is not consistent at all because you rely on pump, so...

hey guys. Im an old player (~10 years, this acc is from 2013 and the account Paaadeli has some of my old activity on it, I recently recovered this one) and have been playing adv on the ladder casually the last year or so. I was hoping a more experienced player could tell me why whenever I use...