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Aidan, I can battle

K, I'm ready. Tell me when you are.

Great, I have to go eat dinner now. Alright, bye. Maybe after I have dinner?

Okay, TheSaint. I'm back.

djm111 wrote:

Double post for another guide, one I think every player needs to read.

Building your team effectively!

Building a Pokemon team is a lot like making a machine. You need a good set of parts, which work well together. Without either of these, teams are inevitably subpar.
Your team won’t work well if you have Groudon and Tyranitar teamed up and cancelling out each others weather bonuses, despite the fact that they are statistically superior pokemon. Likewise, Snover and Spheal do not constitute a good team even with Snover’s automatic hail inducing and the 100% accuracy it gives Spheals Blizzard, because they just aren’t powerful enough. There has to be a balance, which is when you see some of the powerful combinations which complement each other perfectly, such as Kyogre and Manaphy.

Every player should start their team from a point, a basis to build upon. This is generally a theme (Such as a Hail team), or a favourite pokemon which the player wants to use.
From this basis, they can start adding the next pokemon to the team, choosing ones which are work effectively with the chosen theme or starting pokemon. Every Pokemon’s move, ability, hold item and stats should be considered, as they’re all contributing factors to your teams effectiveness.

Visit www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon to read more about the pokemon, find out their exact stat boundaries, all the moves they can learn, and the ways they’re generally used. Bear in mind that the movesets listed there are the ones tried and most widely used in competitive pokemon play. However, the more creative player will make their own movesets specifically for their team, to just as good, if not better results.

For example, I started my team with Groudon, my favourite pokemon. It’s ability, Drought, also gave the idea for a sun themed team. So I looked through my pokemon to see who would work well with Groudon or sunlight, figured how to put them together for the best effect, and got my current competitive team. Players who have a team well thought out and put together like this will usually win against players who don’t, regardless of EV’s and such.


Finally, just because you have finished your team, doesn’t mean it is complete. There are always things you can do to improve it or entirely different pokemon you can add to it to have it work differently. You may have built your machine, but it always needs oiling, or it will go rusty.

I’m always happy to give advice and help with team planning, as I know it’s the most confusing but ultimately most rewarding part of competitive Pokemon.

I need help i want to start with cyndaquil and then work around the type disavantages

I'll battle someone. djm111, you still on?

RussianTourmiline wrote:

I have this game, but I need to train up.

Tonkie?

floatingmagictree wrote:

RussianTourmiline wrote:

I have this game, but I need to train up.

Tonkie?

Tonkie?

Aidan wrote:

floatingmagictree wrote:

RussianTourmiline wrote:

I have this game, but I need to train up.

Tonkie?

That's what I thought too when I saw the username. xD

Plus the people on her friend list are nikki and some Warrior Cat-associated username.

RussianTourmiline wrote:

Aidan wrote:

RussianTourmiline wrote:

Tonkie?

Littletonkslover. Minnesotan, big fan of Hetalia, makes random references sometimes...

I've never been there.



And more than one person likes warriors.


Anyways, I'll look her up.

Anyways, you two have a lot of similarities:

-Russia Fan
-Likes art
-Friends with Nikkiperson2(although you could have just added her to your list for the heck of it, however LTL and nikki were good friends if I recall)
-WARRIOR CATSSSHHH

RussianTourmiline wrote:

floatingmagictree wrote:

RussianTourmiline wrote:

I've never been there.



And more than one person likes warriors.


Anyways, I'll look her up.

Anyways, you two have a lot of similarities:

-Russia Fan
-Likes art
-Friends with Nikkiperson2(although you could have just added her to your list for the heck of it, however LTL and nikki were good friends if I recall)
-WARRIOR CATSSSHHH

I live in Russia, so you don't need to get upset over race.
Anyone can like art.
I like her animations and she seems nice too.
My username has no relation to the "Warriors" series. My friend reads it though.

Good, now I won't have to resent you. Tonkie annoyed me to no end.

Ive got Heartgold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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