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i don't think having "another sweeper" is your problem. many teams are dedicated to setting up single sweepers like ddtar, using a combination of residual damage, walls, and wallbreakers to open up the crucial setup turn. this, i believe, is the standard formula for balanced teams (if there is...

nice rmt, but i'm not sure about the team itself. a couple of questions. -what, exactly, is the winning plan behind this team? while countering threats used to be a valid strategy, it has been made clear that there are far too many threats in dpp play to make merely countering them a useless...

ninjask + 5 strong attackers may seem like a decent idea for an offensive team on paper, but it is a bad idea to rely entirely on passing speed boosts. strong priority movers like scizor, mamoswine, or the occasional weavile, will render ninjask to a single use--or perhaps none at all. lead...

kd24, gouki, darkie, and jabba seem to have the right idea itt joining the ranks of the enlightened

by "turn them into a phazer" i literally meant turn them into a phazer. give suicune or swampert roar. lucario is clearly not going to be boosting up on the other four team members, and while it may seem like a really good reason NOT to fear lucario, i simply can't just ignore the fact that it...

with the exception of nidoqueen, you seem to have a large lucario weakness; the very lucario build you have can ohko your entire team after a swords dance. this could be somewhat remedied by turning either suicune or swampert into a phazer, thus preventing lucario from getting the necessary...

sonsaku hakufu must lead us to victory ;_; stylistically, gyara HAS to lead, but zong really does make a lot more sense strategy-wise. probably if i had to use this team again, i'd make that change first. to address swampert: hp grass on heatran is a super plus and i'd be willing to implement...

thanks so much for the rate gorm :) i actually did try reflect and light screen on a few occasions in place of bronzong's eq. earthquake encourages the opponent to go on the offensive, as opposed to screens which often prompt stalling until the screens go down; this is why i ultimately chose...

Team Ikkitousen - D/P Metagame The ideas behind this team were first drafted in the earliest days of D/P, when Motor Drive was supposed to be THE most awesome ability ever and Electivire was a pretty common sight. Ikkitousen was originally a GyaraVire based team, with GrowthTran, Lucario, and...

i'm so ready for more espeon in my life, signal beam will make it so much more viable. psychic/signal beam/shadow ball/bp seems like it could work for a specs set, and if we really wanted we could do four attacks (hp ??? because fighting might be redundant?) more jolteon helps too, i love...

curse certainly makes this thing more viable but not by much. as much as i like the notion of simple making it easier to grab boosts, i still have my main problems: 1) mamoswine has had this sort of option available except with slightly better moves. ground+ice stab, (possible) 120 bp...

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Team Ichigo Mashimaro I find it very difficult to build a strong defensive team, and I'm also not a huge fan of stall play (experiencing restalk Bronzong vs. Psychic/Ice Beam restalk Cresselia ruined me for that game). You might find it easy to imagine my dismay at the predominantly...

gengar, garchomp, weavile, gyarados, deoxys-s, yanmega, and suicune are a few threats that i notice can run straight through your team. running some variant of bronzong over cradily would be a nice defense against all of those but suicune and gyarados; standard bronzong would work nicely, as it...

i'm a fan of the absorbing abilities, particularly flash fire and volt absorb. free immunity to a type that would normally only be a 2x resist, plus immunity to common status moves (will-o-wisp and thunder wave) are really useful to turn "forced" switches into your advantage. their effects...

thanks for the comments, guys! nice to see there are a few ikki tousen fans around as well. @earthworm: i'll take you up on that offer next time we might get the chance. :)

http://www.smogon.com/forums/announcement.php?f=52&a=29 "official" OU threat list. http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225 this is one RMT i know of that has a longer threat list. use whichever you prefer.

usable UU threat list: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Counter_Attackers_9/topic/385875/1/ also keep aerodactyl, weezing, venusaur, miltank, shedinja, and articuno in mind, as they are recent tier changes. as for a UU team building guide, i don't know if there's one somewhere on the forums here...

i'm not the most confident battler out there. some of the peeps on shoddy who know me might be able to tell you that--i've recently resorted to playing nonstop cycles of cascada's "bad boy" in order to enhance my battling abilities. (it worked for husk during smogon tour, and was in fact his...

i've always picked a person in my time group that i don't really want to lose to, and gone after them. it helps to run a few "niche" races where you'll be competing multiple times with the same people, so you get to know who you want to stay with all the way from the beginning of the race...