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Alolan Raichu is a great offensive sweeper with good Speed tier allowing to outspeed notable threats like Virizion, Sigilyph, Drapion and Houndoom, decent Special Attack, good offensive typing and a really good movepool.
With the new unique Psychic typing Alolan Raichu is now able to...
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Barbaracle is a powerful Pokemon with access to the coveted move Shell Smash, making it one of the most feared threats in the tier. With decent defensive stats Barbaracle is able to set up a Shell Smash on most defensive Pokemons like: Garbodor (without Seed Bomb), Golbat, Mega-Audino...
Shuckle is the only Pokemon in NU capable of setting up Sticky Web and Stealth Rock, making it a great asset to hyper offense teams. Due to Shuckle's ability, Sturdy, it is able to hold a Mental Herb and prevent Taunt users from blocking it from setting up its entry hazards. Unfortunately, it is...
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Sceptile is one of the most threatening Grass types in the tier thanks to it's amazing Speed, Special Attack and movepool + the fact that it's able to run multiple sets. Also both its abilities are helpful to its offensive capabilities, Overgrow powering up its Grass-type moves once...
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Welcome to the NU Good Cores thread, where you can post, discuss, and debate about an essential part of teambuilding: Cores, and the synergy between certain Pokemon.
Effective cores are very important in competitive Pokemon, and any good player...
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Thanks to Montsegur for some of the OP layout and making the VERY FIRST Bazaar thread ever (yes this is really a thing and y'all should acknowledge that).
Have a team that you desperately want to share with us? Does your squad hit the right balance between memes and...
Shoutouts to Raseri for helping me.
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The Rules:
In this tour you're able to use RU mons that have a usage of 4,5% or lower in NU!
RU pokémons that are allowed in NU:
| 59 | Dugtrio | 4.23534% | 6509 | 6.186% | 4931 | 6.077% |
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Neverused Teambuilding Competition
Hello and welcome to the fourth edition of the Neverused Teambuilding Competition! The goal of this project is to observe and better understand how experienced NU players go about building their teams...
Ye Olde Mr. Skeltal' Pink Fiesta!
Hey guys, it's Jariibo with my second RMT. This time I made a NU RMT. This RMT is inspired by iplaytennislol; his tutoring in NU was insanely fun! It made me a lot better and I learned a lot. So now that that’s said, let’s get into the teambuilding...
Introduction:
Hey guys, jariibo here! I've being playing on PS for a decent time now and I wanted to make my first RMT. I made this team with atomicllamas while I was being tutored by him, and I was able to peak within the top ten with the team we made.
Team Building Process:
The team...