Competitive Battling Guide: Pokemon Selection

[bostonmin3]

someone please give me some advice I'm a beginner in competitive battling

P.S. is rhyperior a sweeper?

[bostonmin3]

is cradily considered to have low stats?

[UltimateMatt000]

I have a specialty team of 6 walls

[UltimateMatt000]

@UltimateMatt000 Regigigas, Gigalith, Reuinclus, Dewott (Eviolite), Vanilluxe and Cryogonal

[Striker1246]

Bravo! Your level of knowledge of this game is highly commendable. Are you currently signed to a team for the 2011 Nationals? Team Bokugrada is looking for true connoisseurs of the Pokemon label, and you seem to fit the bill. If you are interested, please PM me with your info and game roster. Cheer!

[McFeeSUCKS]

Fuckin feeding em drugs doesnt max them out dumbass

[azndrftking]

NO SLOPOKE!

[mrboss2252]

on the sweepers probubly the most common would be scizor

[blakahn]

@mrboss2252 Scizor is a wall yah noob.

[MegaSonicmaster]

@blakahn scizor has multiple movesets... scizor is mainly used as sweeper newb -.-

[leeannmichelle1]

@blakahn your bothe newbs scizor serves as a wall but makes a better sweeper

[SwordFighter151]

@Brandontrann if they have a pokemon that resists the move or has high defenses, if you predict what they'll do, you can counter it.

[seand132]

dude this guy used confuse ray on me. :P

[XbrrTz]

i just usedmy action replay to get infinate cash, bought 99 of each special pokemon drink, and maxxed out everyones stats

[ovERloRD2407]

@XbrrTz fail

[ovERloRD2407]

@XbrrTz you do realise it doesn't work like that?

[Luna874]

@XbrrTz

you do know that pokesav will save you A LOT of time

[teamSDF]

@XbrrTz ... that doesnt max out stats... in fact they are generally weaker than normally trained pokemon (at level 100)

[MooseChoob]

WIN

[Platinum865881]

I made a Trick Room team but I need to train it but it works great.

[Cornstalk123]

i showed my friend your ev training guide. hes a really strong christian and was happy when you said god bless. he liked your guide btw

[mario1stfan]

More Battles More Battles xD

[FearTheBeans]

i need to make good walls. my leafeon has great defence and my kingdra has good sp defence, but still

[Umbre0wn]

Your a noob, gengar has levitate so doesn't absorb toxic spikes!!!!! Darn..

[duskfire97]

My bad sorry ^^'

[jaidenfreak]

@Umbre0wn it absorbs bcoz poison type

[Umbre0wn]

But it has levitate, so it doesn't absorb!!!! Damn, be sure of your awnser before you say it!

[HOLYCRAP1234321]

Nidoking - Toxic spike/Roarer

Mamoswine - Tank-ish?

Rotom-W - Backup savior

Feraligatr - Wall/Tank/Sweeper-ish

Miltank - Wall

Metagross - Sweeper

Terrible?

[ryan28829]

can someone tell me is this team good:

jolteon

bastiodon

blissey

dusknior

salamence

magnezone

[PepsiownsCoke]

No it is not, you have 3 Pokemon that will die to any Ground moves (Jolteon, Bastiodon, and Magnezone). Also Blissey will die to any physical attack like the ever present Earthquake.

Garchomp would probably run through this entire team unless your Jolteon has Hidden Power Ice or if you Will-o-Wisp it Dusknoir.

[infernape4567]

my team will be

infernape

weavile

snorlax

jolteon

aggron

claydol

i chose these pokemon because infernape,weavile and jolteon :speedy and have high attack and sp.attack

aggron and snorlax : has very high defense

claydol: is my tank he has levitate and is resist to electric types

[SinanDira]

Aggron is not a perfect choice. Ground and Fighting type attacks -which are popular- deal fourfold damage to it! That makes Aggron hard to use.

[infernape4567]

thanks for telling me but i changed my team: infernape porygonZ mamoswine claydol typlosion raichu PorygonZ is a tank infernape is a sweeper mamoswine is a sweeper claydol is a tank typlosion is a double sweeper as in double battles because of lava plume and eruption raichu is a sweeper

[711cool]

im thinking about a team that's just like a sandstorm team (im not copying gigatitan): Tyranitar with high attack has earthquake,thunder fang,protect and curse and a mamoswine with also high attack with ice shard,earthquake,endure and stealth rock

[SinanDira]

Pokemon attacks reseive 50% additional damage boost if they were the same type as the attacker. So, Tyranitar would be more powerful with Rock and Dark type moves. It's called STAB (same type attack bonus). By the way, don't forget that Gliscor is imune to both Ground and Electric type attacks! So your Tyranitar can't hit him.

[711cool]

Yes but i have mamoswine so maybe i can make that gliscor faint

[VINCEJisSONiCtheMC]

damn... I came across this by accident

I didnt know pokemon could go this deep.

[myTyranitarRulz]

my team is goin to be

Tyranitar

Blissey

Milotic

Yanmega

Skarmory

but i`m having troubles selecting my last pokemon =/ cud sum1 tell me what to use plz

[TheMonkeyBlu]

You have 2 special walls? I would suggest a sweeper of some sort, and you could almost remove one special wall and replace it with a sweeper too. I usually run teams with a physical wall a special wall and 4 sweepers.

[T1921070]

lapras

[spicytuna64]

Froslass

[Mercoidcam]

lol i used to do the same thing when i was little . get legends and teach them hyper beam and their signature move lol

[matteste]

Now I'm trying to build up a team but I have a little hard to select the last 2 pokemon and some of the others moves.

My team is made for double battles.

[matteste]

I have: Heatran-item unknown *Flash fire -Sunny day -Flash Cannon -Lava plume -Earth power Gallade-Expert belt *Steadfast -Protect -Ice punch -Fire punch (to power up heatran) -Psyco cut

[matteste]

Yanmega-Item Unknown *Speed boost -Giga drain -Air slash -Signal beam -??? Breloom-Toxic orb *Poison heal -Facade -??? -??? -???

[weaselman12345678902]

breloom

focus punch

subsitute

[MyMarioBrother]

my wall is shukle

[steeleagle17]

Probopass can't take many fighting moves

I have an aggron and it has way more defense than probopass

It can't take a strong fighting move

[steeleagle17]

Probopass has horrible attack and special attack

You usually don't want to put attacks on it

[destinydood]

weavile is a good match with smeargul with belly drum spore baton pass and another attack so you can sweet the hell out of your opponend\

[Mercoidcam]

i used 2 do that 2. i used to get all the strongest legends and hyper beam fire blast etc. and try and do that i nvr rly thought of moves like sword dance and status effect moves. so this kinda helped. but i no a friend whos legend team is not that .good. he has 4 psychc and 2 dragons. hos entire team can get knocked out by 2,3,4 weaviles. cuz dark wins psychc and ice owns dragon

[ultimatpokemonmaster]

excellent job with the guide is very useful, oh and dont worry dont be so nervous xD, continue like that with the guides, to be honest i learned one or two things!

[10mcmullenj]

is it good to use a blissey to thunder wave a pokemon and then switching into a vespiquen when it is safe and then defend ordering up to wall a opponents team

[4ncinator]

are probopass good walls couse ima gonna ev train one they have good moves like stone edge... eq ,thunder wave. i know x4 weakness to fightning but i think his uber def can withstand it...

[josiepussy]

Not nessicarily, it depends on wether or not the opponent is holding a plate or life orb, ect. Also, don't forget the criticals, if they land one, you'll be wrecked.

[gamefreakY]

i need a team with types that cover each other... and i need a wall.... THINK i'm gonna use ninjask, MEDICHAM, and an ice typ.... but i don't know what ice pokemon is (special) defensive.... (and has especially physical attacks)

[shaymin999]

try arcticuno for good sp.def but its mosty a sp.attkr not only bye stat but also bye move-pool. Or you could try lapras with pretty good sp.def(317 max)supported by massive HP and attk ok (295 max) pt a curse on that for better def and attk and mabye an iceshard to avoid the speed drop.

hope that helped.^-^

[josiepussy]

couldn't you use abomasnow? Or Glalie?

I'm not sure, I don't really pay musch attention to the ice type. maybe Gigatitan could help you out there.

[GeneralSecura]

Good guide.

It's really too bad that the DP metagame focuses on offense too much. Good defensive Pokémon like Steelix, Bastiodon and Aggron are unusable due to the offensive overweight.

[Akamatsaru]

You STILL nead a bucket hat

[GigaSonicX]

Lol, I'll look into that...

Not.

[GigaSonicX]

Can someone comment on the guide itself?

[6777pokemonmaster]

@GigaSonicX Lol i finaly found the subscribe buttion today if i knew where it was before i would of clicked it a long time ago -.-

[Jasonh980]

If used eruption, make sure that your opponent doesn't attack your baton passer on the turn baton passing or else it's power decreases...

[sirplayalot11]

thats how i was too back then,full of attacks that kick ass!never believed in status boosters until last year,^_^

[nptter]

im fith lol

[Jakeaxemurderer]

in doubles i usually have 2 wallz, 2 sweepers, and a supporter

[ivanman2009]

yay! im the first to watch! GIGASONICX ROX MY SOX!!

[ivanman2009]

oops im not first....

YAY IM SECOND!