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I never really liked the idea of 'UU Doubles'. It either implies we have tiers for Double Battles at the moment, which we certainly don't, or that the tiers from Singles apply to Doubles no problem, which they also certainly don't. To be fair, it should be obvious that some pokemon are going...

My only real issue with it is that the only Pokemon from that list that has any chance of surviving an Explosion is Scizor, but that's just if you use it along with Explosion. Persian gets a special notice because he not only gets STAB, but also a boost if you use it with Technician.

I was considering Cresselia for Latias's place on my team, but I'm already trying to SR for a good Palkia, and I already have a good Latias to use.

Hail would probably have to come from Abomasnow, who I see as a bit too frail for a game filled with Ubers. Sand would probably favor Tyranitar over Hippowdon; they're both weak to Water, but Tyranitar has the higher Special Defense, AND gets the 1.5x Special Defense bonus in Sand. As for...

I think that changing the rules would just make things unnecessarily messy when Worlds rolls around, and now suddenly people from one country or another will have to make a totally new team because they can/can't use Ubers. So even if they make it so VGC2010 is similar to VGC2009, I'll probably...

Actually, I did list a way to prevent the Skill Swap, in the form of a Follow Me Pokemon. Skill Swap is normally meant to target an enemy, so it can be affected by Follow Me, unlike a move that only affects the Partner, like Helping Hand. And that's just if you're holding the Choice Scarf; if...

While effective in some cases, this isn't really a very new tactic for Doubles; in fact, I'd say that it's probably one of the first sort of teams someone might come up with for a Doubles team, based on the following thought process. 1) Pokemon X would be great if he had Ability A. 2) Pokemon...

I was mostly interested in the crazy fast part. Out of all the ubers that are allowed, he's the fastest Taunter of the bunch.

In a Double Battle, if I use a two Pokemon that both have Pressure, and the opponent uses an attack that hits both of my Pokemon, will Pressure activate once, or twice, since the move targeted both pokemon? The criteria for Pressure to activate is that the Pokemon that has it as an ability must...

Well, I'm home for most of this week due to fall break, so my number one goal is making a beta VGC team just to use against people on PBR, in order to see what's popular. The current team is going to be Palkia/Latias/Dialga/Filler, just because Palkia and Dialga are the only legendaries I could...

Maybe, but if the sun ever goes out, or changes to rain, they're in for a world of hurt. I was thinking a bit more about the team, and I guess the reason Ho-oh and Shedinja seemed so out of place was because I was only considering Cresselia using Swagger on Groudon. A +2 Sacred Fire in the Sun...

The Cressellia probably only has Trick Room for the purpose of canceling out the other team's Trick Room, especially since the teams goal seems to be making sure Groudon outspeeds the other team, through Icy Wind and Tailwind. And Shedinja in Doubles is kind of a strange situation, and one...

Yeah, I'd like to know what sort of teams people are trying, and which ones seem to work. Thinking about my team more, and how I want to handle different kinds of weather (and by different kinds of weather I mean Rain) Palkia seems like the best choice. If the weather teams were 100 percent...

By the way, how does Japan handle their tournaments, as far as setting up the ladder? Do they do the horrible random draw thing as well?

Well, I was planning on using a Giratina in this tournament, so that's definitely one of my two ubers. Since weather is going to be such a clusterfuck, I'd rather make a team that relies on something else, like Screens. Speaking of Weather teams, since Water Spout and Eruption will no doubt be...

I remember reading somewhere that Pokemon found from Pokewalker areas have egg moves. Is there a chance of them having combinations of egg moves that are otherwise impossible to get?

Would people join or attend a league without being a member of Go-Pokemon? Because that one league in Vermont I mentioned earlier has 3 people listed from the previous cycle. I might just wait until the summer, when I'm back in Southern Vermont and can just go to Massachusetts.

How exactly does Dratini get Extremespeed, anyhow? If it's an egg move, no one he can breed with learns it.

Do you get a Dratini after beating Clair? I'm trying to figure out how he could get Extremespeed as an egg move.

That said, there ARE some pokemon that can have some fun with Power Swap now, like Tangrowth and Altaria. They can use Leaf Storm/Draco Meteor, and then transfer the SpAtk drop.