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Nice thread, Light Screen and Roost is a combo that I didn't imagine could pretty much eliminate Dragonite's Ice problems. Is there any reason why the old Advanced Subpunch BoltBeam isn't viable anymore?

While Steel is probably a fair amount better, I'm throwing out Poison, for the Toxic Spikes absorption which encourages switching in, the fighting resist, no weakness to Stealth Rock, and two weaknesses only, which can be covered by dual typing as well. It also has bug/grass/poison resistances...

I haven't seen anyone mention Psych Up yet as an anti-setup move. If the poke has good enough defenses, he could pull of Psych-Up and Baton Pass to scout and avoid getting setup upon. I don't think Anticipate and Forewarn reveal enough useful information. Frisk would be fine, and I'd like to...

I've been playing a bit, and these seem to be the most common to me: Milotic (REALLY annoying to take down if you don't have a hard-hitting electric like Raikou), Regirock, Raikou, Ambipom, Crobat. I do see a nice amount of variety though, seeing everything from Nidoqueen, to Blaziken, and lots...

Yuck three ice weaks. If you replace TTar with Flygon, you'll need to adjust your team to make up for the four ice weaks, 2 4x, so that's not going to be good at all. I would not go Swampert>Vappy either, as losing that essential ice resist is awful. Put Fire Blast on Salamence IMO, as you...

Actually, we have done this in advance before: Vileplume was in UU, Bellosom, in NU. Only differences were the special attack/special defense switch and Aromatherapy (and the stone they evolved with, but that doesn't matter). I actually think that the Latis stat differences ARE enough for them...

I just checked up Skill Link. That is one AWESOME ability for Icicle Spearage!

Actually, that sounds like a great idea. If you can somehow EV Cloyster to survive a Draco Meteor, Icicle Spear can even easily take down Yache Berry versions (I'm pretty sure Yache only counts for the first hit), and break Garchomp's subs.

Not sure if this is new or not, but I like the idea. Lead Breloom @ Toxic Orb EVs not decided, but high attack, HP divisible by 4 Protect Substitute Focus Punch Spore Spore is filler, however funny that may be. Lead because that gives him a free Protect to activate Toxic Orb, and if the enemy...

1. Deck Knight - Interesting spread, nice number in speed, useful looking 2. futuresuperstar 3. Gothic Togekiss 4. King of Anime 5. Rhykune 6. DougJustDoug 7. sanjay120 8. Eric the espion 9. Lord_Sunday - Doesn't take hits well enough IMO and just overall too mediocre everywhere

Offensive hands down

Why not Focus Sash Wobbuffet + CS Exploder, then switch to another exploder? 4 Pokemon gone right there, or you could have the second exploder have some kind of setup to take advantage of the likelihood of both opponent's pokes using Protect next turn.

I find the best way to build an offensive team is not 6 sweepers, but more like 4 tanks that can to great damage + 2 sweepers. Tanks like that are stuff like CM Jirachi, Leaf Storm/Recover Celebi, Swampert, LS Zapdos. Generally stuff like that. Everything needs to be able to deal damage, but you...

All you really have to do is read the first six lines of the round in most cases, and just skim through the stall to get the gist of the para/flinch stall etc. etc. Nice win, I enjoyed the warstory.

Last time I used him, he sweeped an entire team (w/Slowking/Hypno/Vileplume/Golem/Stantler/Shuckle) with Reversal/HP Ghost/Bulk Up and Substitute. Sableye is a problem, but he's taking tons of damage with so few defense EVs.

I've had decent experience with UU, so I'll make an attempt at this. The main problem I see here is a lack of no-setup sweeping. Honestly I've tried Granbull and he's sucked for me. I usually prefer Fearow. You have no Ground resist, nor a Flying resist. Solrock resists both of these, and...

My best advice is to explain to them that there's a difference when fighting level 100 to level 100 (or and level x to level x), not level x to level y, and that when you reach level 100, its different if you EV trained. Tell them to compare Apples to Apples instead of Apples to Oranges.

Well, I use Venomoth and Articuno, if that counts. Roar Articuno + Stealth Rock Swampert is a great typing arrangement, especially if you have a rapid spinner around.

You might want to start of with Advance generation first (That's Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald/Fire Red/Leaf Green). That generation is much more established, and people are still trying to figure things out for Diamond/Pearl. Advance is quite a bit simpler, without the Physical/Special split, and with...