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The Haunted Light Fixture of Doom
Hello. I am a learning player in the Pokemon competitive scene. I have made a decent OU team based on establishing a sweep with Kyurem-B, and I wanted to create a variation of that team in UU, only this time using Chandelure as my sweeper. In the Kyurem team...
What does Agility Zapdos have over Rock Polish Gliscor? Gliscor appears to have more defense and more recovery (12% Poison Heal and no cancelation in sand > 6% Leftovers or none in sand), while Zapdos has higher speed and the ability to hit common threats such as Tornadus-T and Keldeo harder.
Wrath of the Ice Beast
Hello. I am fairly new to the battling scene and I tried my hand at making a team from scratch. My team is centered around Kyurem-B with team support aimed at allowing the black ice dragon to pull off a sweep. So far my team is decent yet it feels incomplete. I can't...
Changed the Ev spread and added Spikes on Ferrothorn, changed the nature and attacking moves of Starmie, and replaced Chandelure with the suggested Heatran. I tested Ferro with the Helmet, and I observed that it wasn't being used, so I kept Leftovers because the extra recovery helped more than...
Intro:
Greetings, Smogonites. As a frequent reader of RMT posts and spectator of the OU meta I decided to try my hand at team construction and competitive play. I have noticed that the metagame is overrun by common themes such as weather, hazards, and the ever-present behemoths such as Genesect...