pokemaster649

okay we can trade today if you want

I'll think about things myself first. I'll be busy the next few days, so probably no time or not much time for pokemon. We'll see!

Placement means nothing (that matters to me) in this tournament anyway. For me, it only matters if it is actually a good indicator of your skill in team building and battling, but the reality is that it's not.

There are four main factors that affect your placement:
1) number of battles you had (win or loss)
2) number of DCs (usually DC wins)
3) your actual team building skill
4) your actual battling skill

Even without DCs, placement still don't matter unless I've actually had enough battles such that rating would actually reflect true skill, but that will almost never happen because 1) I won't have that much free time, and 2) even if I do have that much free time, that doesn't mean that other players will, and if other players' ratings don't reflect their true skill, then that means winning or losing against them won't reflect how good or bad I am either. Sooo yeah, very simply, it doesn't matter to me, because it'll never come to a point where it actually means anything to me. :P

Hah, I don't even know. Didn't bother checking. I think my rating was only in the low-ish 1700s anyway.

Back.

Thanks! Sorry you didn't get to place, better luck with those darn disconnections next time!

I checked the results and they didn't put me up there either...did you use any hacked pokemon?

What were we trading for again? You deleted my VMs so I forgot.

bummer man :/
I got like 163

Thanks! Sorry to hear that you got DQ'd :(

Yeah I'm not putting scarf on Ttar. It's fine as a one time thing, but if I'm aiming to get to the semifinals, etc. scarf is not the way to go.

I don't like Garchomp though, haha. Never used one, probably never will. Nothing wrong with it, but I just don't like it. Well, it's also not a counter to Volcarona. After a little bit of damage (let's say a fake out), Volcarona can OHKO Garchomp with Bug Gem Bug Buzz. It does resist fire and is neutral to bug and outspeeds Volcarona, but if opponent leads with Fake Out + Quiver Dance and I don't have Chandelure out, something my team's fainting on the 2nd or 3rd turn.

... One of the reasons why Crobat is good, haha. Outspeeds and OHKOs Volcarona, immune to fake out, OHKOs plenty of rage powder pokemon (for those that do Rage Powder + Quiver Dance), 4x bug resist means Volcarona either dies on the turn it attacks (if it gets a QD and outspeeds Crobat) or it forces Volcarona to use its fire move (making Volcarona easily predictable).

I was actually even thinking about Gyarados since it has intimidate, counters Volcarona well, and is ok in rain aside from Thunder abuse users. But just an intial thought. Gyarados has problems too. Anyay, I have to go now, ttyl.

EDIT: It does ok in rain, but definitely doesn't counter rain.

Woops! Hm, I liked Hitmontop when I used it. Intimidate is pretty useful, sometimes game deciding. Ludicolo is only faster in rain though. Otherwise, both have base 70 Speed (It's just that more often than not people don't put much speed EV on Hitmontop because Fake out and Sucker Punch take up two moveslots already... and the fact that Ludicolo has swift swim means it probably should run at least some speed).

After taking a closer look at my team though, I think Ludicolo might be out. Tyranitar, Latias, and Scizor are all hurt badly by Volcarona. Ludicolo will increase that bug weakness further. Sure, I guess I could put a scarf on Tyranitar and go for a surprise OHKO on Volcarona... but not my original intention, and not good for best of 3 matches anyway. Chandelure's my only safe counter for Volcarona at the moment.

Yeah I thought about Gastrodon, but didn't like being 4x weak to grass (and slow). It will likely do better in sand compared to Ludicolo or Rotom-W though. But yeah, maybe standard Rindo set will work.

Tyranitar, Latias, Hitmontop, Scizor, Ludicolo, Chandelure, Landorus. Thinking of losing Ludicolo, but team will be too rain weak, so was thinking of getting rid of Landorus instead, but that's less offense.... which might be ok. Rotom-Washer instead of Ludicolo works too... heh, standard rain-counter pokemons.

Haha, it's good. I have ideas for another team. Maybe will be ready in a few days if I have time to breed/train up for it. ... Right now have 7 members though... have to cut one out and decide. How you doing?

Thanks!

Can't battle on school days, I only have 2.5 school days left so we can battle this weekend if you can.

I haven't really tested it on PO, since PO sucks. But it has won me many games on GBU random matchups. I might test it on PO someday.

I already have a goodstuffs team that has both Rotom-W and Salamence.

But however, I haven't tested a team around rest/talk pokemon, I will this weekend.

I have a few ideas.

Scarf salamence/standard Rotom-W lead can score unpredictable OHKOs on Latios, Garchomp, etc. It's pretty common in the Japanese metagame and it is rare here but it's really effective if you don't know how to play against it.

Another idea is rest/talk Cress with psycho shift with a nice substitute user in the back row. Rest allows more livability while sleep talk can be fired off while it's sleeping to have a 50/50 chance of spread sleep to the foes pokemon. One you have all the threats to your substitute user, you can get a free sub or set up. Some great pokemon that can work under a sub are Garchomp, Latios, Zapdos, etc. Other pokemon that work well as sleep/talkers and can learn psycho shift are Togekiss, Sigilyph, etc.

I have seen those before and those are unreliable and frail.

Just show me the ideas, usually I just slap things together on PO, test them, then make changes if I need to.

Oh right guts Facade Swellow. I don't think I'm brave enough to try that for VGC. I've used it before. It seems just too frail and too prediction-reliant to work. I can't say I have amazing prediction skills, and with Swellow (being so uncommon), it'd be hard to predict how the opponent reaction. It just dies to basically anything. To be honest, I've tried both Quick Feet Ursaring Facade and Guts Swellow Facade before and Ursaring was the better one, when I tried it out in Platinum and HG/SS. It's a little bit slower, but it can at least take a neutral hit most of the time (and having only one weakness means it's usually taking a neutral hit... and it also outspeeds all fighting types with quick feet). I'm most likely not going to go with Guts Swellow/Ursa. If it's Guts anything it's probably Conkeldurr or Hariyama, but I'm not going to go for either anyway.

Not really, it's like I don't really trust anyone in seniors...