Hey I'm new to competitive pokemon & wanted some advice on a few things for the SS generation of games. I wanted to start in a category like RU as I thought, perhaps it would be a little more forgiving. But coming from casual pokemon to competative pokemon has been very strange for me.
I spent the last week watching videos on good team building, how roles work & what there purpose is, how the diferent Smogon tiers work & all sorts of things, but I am still finding it all very hard. First thing to consider is I am use to building teams around a theme, like a colour theme or animal theme etc. But I increasingly find myself split between RU, UU, NU etc when I try to do this & I don't know if thats a ok thing to be doing or a bad call all around?
Not to mention then there is categories on smogon that I find are not explained well or I can't find videos about like NUBL, or RUBL etc, I think the BL stands for Ban List, but then I find myself wondering, ok, but why am I not aloud to use that pokemon I like, what is so bad about it that makes it banned & where am I banned from if I use it? Am I band from all online play? Just torniments? ranked competitive fights or?
A great example is I wanted to make a pokemon themed around the colours pink, white & black as it reminded me of my favourate treat "marshmallows". I found a perfect colour candidate in Bewear, but then found out it was NUBL. Ok but is that a bad thing? does that just mean I'm not aloud to use it in NU? Or am I not aloud to use it at all? If I am aloud to use it in RU... is there any other pokemon that people could advice to go with my colour theme?
To lay down some ideas of what I am after. I am looking to build some sort of balanced team with maybe 2 offensive pokemon & the rest being walls, utility etc. I feel like this will give me a bit more freedome to experience what competitive pokemon is really about, being slow enough to allow me time to think, but also the ability to lay down some hurt once I get the hang of things.
Any advice would greatly be appreciated, thankyou for reading. xoxox
I spent the last week watching videos on good team building, how roles work & what there purpose is, how the diferent Smogon tiers work & all sorts of things, but I am still finding it all very hard. First thing to consider is I am use to building teams around a theme, like a colour theme or animal theme etc. But I increasingly find myself split between RU, UU, NU etc when I try to do this & I don't know if thats a ok thing to be doing or a bad call all around?
Not to mention then there is categories on smogon that I find are not explained well or I can't find videos about like NUBL, or RUBL etc, I think the BL stands for Ban List, but then I find myself wondering, ok, but why am I not aloud to use that pokemon I like, what is so bad about it that makes it banned & where am I banned from if I use it? Am I band from all online play? Just torniments? ranked competitive fights or?
A great example is I wanted to make a pokemon themed around the colours pink, white & black as it reminded me of my favourate treat "marshmallows". I found a perfect colour candidate in Bewear, but then found out it was NUBL. Ok but is that a bad thing? does that just mean I'm not aloud to use it in NU? Or am I not aloud to use it at all? If I am aloud to use it in RU... is there any other pokemon that people could advice to go with my colour theme?
To lay down some ideas of what I am after. I am looking to build some sort of balanced team with maybe 2 offensive pokemon & the rest being walls, utility etc. I feel like this will give me a bit more freedome to experience what competitive pokemon is really about, being slow enough to allow me time to think, but also the ability to lay down some hurt once I get the hang of things.
Any advice would greatly be appreciated, thankyou for reading. xoxox
