I would consider myself an intermediate player at least when it comes to NPCs. I am new when in comes to battling against other players. I don't do good against legendaries, Pokemon that inflict status effects and Pokemon that buff and/or evade themselves up. I may not necessarily need any Pokemon bred now. I've been downloading a bunch of Pokemon from the Pokecheck website, but I don't know if I can use those in official Pokemon competitions that are held on the Pokemon Global Link website. I know that Smogon has competitions as well and I'm not sure how to get involved in those. I could download Pokemon all day, but I would like to get a solid team of six Pokemon that I could start practicing with by battling people on-line so I can get more experience. Drizzle Politoed is now my favorite Pokemon. I've had good experience using fast leads that have fake-out and team members that use protect. I prefer to use moves that hit 100% rather than ones with more power and have a chance to miss. I tried using a jolly Terrakion that has rock slide and wide lens and a pressure weaville with beat up as leads. Had good success with that, but couldn't get good back ups. I tried choice specs latios and suicune as back up, but I don't think the team had good synergy. I know whimiscott makes a better beat up partner, but that Pokemon is too advanced for me. I really could use some recommendations for a beginning competitive player.