Does anyone here play Pokemon competitively?

[DragonPick]

Dude...

DragonPick and anyone else

People do nothing but use spikes and stealth rock's and use healing moves... this is so lame. lol

Think of those moves as IAGB and Spirit Charge. They are really good. Get a pokemon who can learn Rapid Spin to combat that, else it's going to keep happening

 

[FrothyOmen]

Dude...

DragonPick and anyone else

People do nothing but use spikes and stealth rock's and use healing moves... this is so lame. lol

You've gotta learn to make reads when people are going to do that and combat it effectively.

There's a single move that counters all of that.... its name is Taunt

 

[STB Sgt Reed]

You've gotta learn to make reads when people are going to do that and combat it effectively.

There's a single move that counters all of that.... its name is Taunt

nah, forget that... I'm doing it back. Who's the best pokemon that can use whirlwind and spikes?

 

[Solo]

Fuck Smogon, Serebii all the way.

I tried play competitive once... EV Training's not for me. I use the mons' I like.

 

[STB Sgt Reed]

lol, I just won with Skarmory by doing this:

spikes, spikes, spikes... whirlwind, whirlwind, whirlwind, whirlwind

Then I brought Mew in and up my attack then baton passed back to skarmory. lol

This is so lame!

 

[STB Sgt Reed]

Fuck Smogon, Serebii all the way.

I tried play competitive once... EV Training's not for me. I use the mons' I like.

what's a smogon and serebii?

I'd like to use my favorite "mons" but they all suck apparently. =/

Team I just made is:

Skarmory, Mew, Gyarados, Genesect, Alakazam, and Tyranitar

 

[Solo]

what's a smogon and serebii?

I'd like to use my favorite "mons" but they all suck apparently. =/

Team I just made is:

Skarmory, Mew, Gyarados, Genesect, Alakazam, and Tyranitar

Smogon for competitive play.
Serebii is basically your ingame stuff. If you're looking for an certain item, move, Pokemon, event, best go there.

They're sites.

 

[STB Sgt Reed]

Anybody know how you can get it to where you don't have to choose a nickname and make a team every time you go to the pokemonshowdown.com site?

Or do you just have to do it every time?

 

[LuciusAxelrod]

I dabble in competitive pokémon. This summer I placed 12th at the VGC Nationals in Canada using a gravity team. It was pretty fun.

Fuck Smogon, Serebii all the way.
I tried play competitive once... EV Training's not for me. I use the mons' I like.

EV training isn't even the real hard part. I feel like getting the proper IVs for your guys is a heck of a lot tougher, especially if they are legendary (no breeding tricks) or if you need a weird set to get a specific Hidden Power.
But if you're going to be playing competitive pokémon then you're probably going to be making your own guys using a save editor. They still have all legal values, of course, but you don't have to take the time to raise them yourself. It lets you focus on the metagame instead of taking months to breed your team (and then finding out it's garbage).

 

[DragonPick]

Anybody know how you can get it to where you don't have to choose a nickname and make a team every time you go to the pokemonshowdown.com site?

Or do you just have to do it every time?

Just type your name in on the top right. The site works on cookies and that's just as good as signing in

 

[STB Sgt Reed]

Just type your name in on the top right. The site works on cookies and that's just as good as signing in

lol, since I'm at work... I run on incognito mode and then delete that stuff.

 

[Solo]

I dabble in competitive pokémon. This summer I placed 12th at the VGC Nationals in Canada using a gravity team. It was pretty fun.


EV training isn't even the real hard part. I feel like getting the proper IVs for your guys is a heck of a lot tougher, especially if they are legendary (no breeding tricks) or if you need a weird set to get a specific Hidden Power.
But if you're going to be playing competitive pokémon then you're probably going to be making your own guys using a save editor. They still have all legal values, of course, but you don't have to take the time to raise them yourself. It lets you focus on the metagame instead of taking months to breed your team (and then finding out it's garbage).

IV isn't all that hard. Breeding for legit shiny Pokemon is hard. >_>

You can always go to one of those Pokemon sites, they'll breed a 31 IV for you. Although.. you won't if they're legit or not.

 

[DragonPick]

lol, since I'm at work... I run on incognito mode and then delete that stuff.

lol, sorry man

 

[FrothyOmen]

I'm on right now if anyone wants to play... head over to www.testyourchat.com , it's TYM's official IRC channel, we can chat there and get some games set up on showdown

 

[Solo]

Here is one of my Pokemon vids.

 

[THTB]

what's a smogon and serebii?

I'd like to use my favorite "mons" but they all suck apparently. =/

Team I just made is:

Skarmory, Mew, Gyarados, Genesect, Alakazam, and Tyranitar

Use who you want. You can make viable teams without going all top tiers.

 

[smokey]

Havent played since like a few months back, been playing too many other games and pokemon b/w2 coming out changed the meta around again and i got put off. The new forms for the genies blow me away, and theres just so many stupid combinations of OP shit now that its getting too much.

I basically only played defensive pokemon with a stall/counter team in mind, but now the meta has shifted to pokemon with overpowered typings and attacks and all the good stall teams lie in OU and Ubers now and anything lower tiered is so limiting.

Might play some games again at some point if i find myself free to do so, but you better have 100+ turns worth of time on your hands because haxxorus sweeps bore me.

 

[Xavier Pendragon]

Favourite tier has got to be UU, especially on Pokemon Online, we have Metagross and Hydreigon there, but Roserade is apparently broken on PO.

 

[THTB]

Favourite tier has got to be UU, especially on Pokemon Online, we have Metagross and Hydreigon there, but Roserade is apparently broken on PO.

Wait wtf? Hydreigon and Metagross in UU? PO community is on crack.

 

[Xavier Pendragon]

Wait wtf? Hydreigon and Metagross in UU? PO community is on crack.

Yeah, Hydreigon's a suspect already, Metagross isn't too bad though. They also dropped Jolteon, Toxicroak, Tornadus and Meloetta, but they don't let us use Roserade.

 

[xInfra Deadx]

Yeah, Hydreigon's a suspect already, Metagross isn't too bad though. They also dropped Jolteon, Toxicroak, Tornadus and Meloetta, but they don't let us use Roserade.

Wait...since when?

 

[THTB]

Yeah, Hydreigon's a suspect already, Metagross isn't too bad though. They also dropped Jolteon, Toxicroak, Tornadus and Meloetta, but they don't let us use Roserade.

The fact that Roserade is over Tornadus is dumb. Roserade is good, but not that good. Meanwhile, Tornadus in weather is cheesy as fuck. Toxicroak in UU is barely believable...same with Jolteon.

 

[Xavier Pendragon]

Wait...since when?

Since PO's October tier shifts.

The fact that Roserade is over Tornadus is dumb. Roserade is good, but not that good. Meanwhile, Tornadus in weather is cheesy as fuck. Toxicroak in UU is barely believable...same with Jolteon.

I know, they seem to think Roserade can counter every spinner, although I think Hitmontop does OK against it.
I've been using a rain team on the ladder with Tornadus, Kingdra, Raikou, Toxicroak, Azumarill and Metagross, and it's gotten me to the top 50 on the ladder (until I got haxed by stall teams D: )

 

[Espio]

I don't play competitive Pokemon, but I love Jinx.

 

[xInfra Deadx]

Since PO's October tier shifts.

Oh so this is recent news then...interesting...