Just starting to get into Wifi battles. I was thinking of making a team based around Bisharp and Rotom-Wash. any good sets that I can use and what good teamates to go with so I can experiement with them.
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Rotom-Wash @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 248 HP / 236 Def / 24 SpD
Bold Nature
- Volt Switch
- Hydro Pump
- Will-O-Wisp
- Pain Split
Bisharp @ Life Orb
Ability: Defiant
EVs: 4 Def / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Knock Off
- Sucker Punch
- Iron Head
- Swords Dance
Keldeo goes well with Bisharp as it deals with Skarmory and Quagsire, and Latios also goes well with it, as it counters opposing Keldeo, which is a problem to Bisharp. Pokemon like Scarf Landorus-T and Mega Scizor are great for wearing down Keldeo as well, which opens up a lot for an eventual Bisharp sweep.
OU, UU, RU, NU, and (soon....) PU are all linked together with bans. Thus, whatever is banned in OU is banned in UU, RU, NU, and PU. Whatever is banned in UU is banned in RU, NU, and PU, and so on.
Obviously, the
I'm sure you already know this because I've seen you knocking about the forums. The hypothetical second part of your question is much more interesting and highlights the measures that have been taken to (and I'm stealing a legal phrase to an extent) narrowly tailor the bans to match the necessity of the ban.
Let's say OU banned BP and UU still wanted it. I think it would be unprecedented, but UU could (I think?) unban BP, but this would cause its own problems in terms of maintaining the tiering system as a hierarchical device. I hope that made sense, but I don't know how to say it better. I use UU as an example because UU is a well-known dictatorship.
Or it would mean Smogon Civil War. I think perhaps someone more skilled/advanced than I could answer this more fully, so I'll restate the question: What happens in the event of a rift between the tiers as regards bans?
*This is somewhat controversial, but I'm straying too much from OU to elaborate on this.
Is there a way to find replays of "good players" like this thread:
http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ous-spl-coverage.3498462/ ?
I've searched in a couple of forums but couldn't find any. :/
http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ous-spl-coverage.3498462/ ?
I've searched in a couple of forums but couldn't find any. :/
How often do you guys see densis' team on the ladder? Look at these screen shots, for my terror on how popular it may be/come...
http://puu.sh/cG7HF/63677797d7.png
http://puu.sh/cG7CN/3a571043ff.png
Cottonee has more usage than a B ranked mon... surprised cottonee was never ranked tbh
http://puu.sh/cG7HF/63677797d7.png
http://puu.sh/cG7CN/3a571043ff.png
Cottonee has more usage than a B ranked mon... surprised cottonee was never ranked tbh
In addition to what ChristovaOnIce said, Little Cup is a completely seperate metagame in a similar vain to Ubers. Bans affecting OU, UU, RU, NU, and so forth have no bearing whatsoever on the LC meta.
That's what I was hoping. My speed pass Torchic team is now safe to keep wrecking scrubs.
Yeah, with a rash nature that should be a great mixed rock polish mega diancie with a moveset of Moonblast, Earth Power, and Diamond Storm.
It's pretty rare for that to happen within the same generation (i.e. XY / ORAS) since most are banned for being broken, and it's pretty rare for a Mon mid-generation to suddenly become unbroken.
Yes. The moment it evolves, it gains the ability Aerielate and its normal moves become flying type.
Confirmation, just watched somebody test it in OU monotype; mega evolved and hit with supereffective flying damage from quick attack on the same turn.
http://www.smogon.com/tiers/ou/ban_history
That should be an interesting read for you. That should be required reading for all new players actually, but then again most people don't read the forum rules... Anyways, Kyu-B was initially sent to Ubers and then unbanned mostly due to bad typing and movepool. Garchomp was also unbanned in a roundabout way when Sand Veil was banned under the Evasion Clause and it gained a non-Sand Veil ability.
roxanne was correct, but it's important to note it does not gain the speed boost on the turn it Mega Evolves. It uses 85 base speed on the turn it evolves, and then 105 speed every turn after.
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Yes and no. It does gain the boost to the speed stat (for the purposes of calculating things like Gyro Ball or Electro Ball) but the turn order will not change until the next turn.
go to replay.pokemonshowdown.com and enter the name of the user in the search. :)
Anyone know any good competitive podcasts? I'm interested in hearing about both the Smogon metas (OU...NU, Ubers, LC) and non-Smogon metas (really just VGC).
VGC Podcast: Team Magma
Any that I could download to an iPod?
Rhyperior is probably the best answer to bird spam, as the only thing it really has to fear is close combat from choice banded staraptor which it can probably shrug off thanks to its sky high defense and solid rock, and maybe the rare hydro pump from mega salamence.
Choice Scarf Tyranitar is a great answer on offensive teams, while Rhyperior and Rotom-Wash are the better answers on more defensively oriented teams :]
Heatran could also fit in on both offensively and defensively oriented teams, while also keeping Talonflame and M-Salamence (w/o earthquake) in check, and it can work well around CB/CS Staraptor with Protect to scout the move.
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