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This is a brief guide to team-building for beginners and intermediates.
Well, not so much team-building; more like...team-editing.
Making a team of mostly OU's is pretty easy, but there's still a lot more to consider.
Here are 10 things to remember when making a team:
- A good team never has more than two weaknesses to the same type (Dugtrio and Arcanine, for example). Also, having attacks of all different types is pretty essential as well.
- As for sweeps, walls, tanks, and supporters, it depends on what kind of team you want to build. Stall teams will consist of walls, and sweeper teams consist of...yeah. A regular team has a special sweep, a physical sweep, a special wall, a physical wall, and then two walls/mixes/supporters. But seriously though, it doesn't really matter too much, as long as you still have good coverage and balance and stuff.
- Not that I can predict the future or anything, but I'm pretty sure almost all of your items will consist of choice items and life orb, berries, and leftovers. Try to stick with that. (:
- Sweepers should be fast and have powerful, STAB moves, and walls should be fat and sturdy (like blissey) have status-changing/healing moves. Tanks should be bulky with fairly equal defenses, and supporters should complement your team as much as possible. It's best just to stick with the basics :)
- Most teams have Stealth Rock or some type of spikes. It helps.
- The best teams have lots of OU pokemon. They're OU for a reason!
- If you use pokesav, PLEASE know what you're doing and use it properly. It's probably best to not make all your pokemon shiny with 31 IV's in everything. ;P
- Be aware of standard rules as well as some other clauses. Some people don't like stall teams or skarmbliss, etc. );
- If you can, test your team against yourself or your friends before you enter any tournaments; you'd be surprised at how much you learn about your team from a battle or two.
- Be...clean. If you have voice chat on and your fire blast misses, don't yell ******** ***** ***** **** ****** **** right in the other person's ear. Name your pokemon appropriately as well. Please. Oh, and be a good sport. :D This includes not DCing on purpose because you're losing.
As long as you keep all that in mind, you should be good to go for the most part.
Also, to help perfect your team, here is a list of the most common, strongest pokemon. How many can you counter? How many can't you counter? Copy and paste into some sort of document and go through these pokemon with your team in mind. Start from the top and delete/make a different color the pokemon you can already counter.
The trick to editing your team is adding things to help counter more pokemon, but not subtracting things that make you lose counters.
LIST OF THREAT POKES MOVED
Too big of a post.
Well, not so much team-building; more like...team-editing.
Making a team of mostly OU's is pretty easy, but there's still a lot more to consider.
Here are 10 things to remember when making a team:
- A good team never has more than two weaknesses to the same type (Dugtrio and Arcanine, for example). Also, having attacks of all different types is pretty essential as well.
- As for sweeps, walls, tanks, and supporters, it depends on what kind of team you want to build. Stall teams will consist of walls, and sweeper teams consist of...yeah. A regular team has a special sweep, a physical sweep, a special wall, a physical wall, and then two walls/mixes/supporters. But seriously though, it doesn't really matter too much, as long as you still have good coverage and balance and stuff.
- Not that I can predict the future or anything, but I'm pretty sure almost all of your items will consist of choice items and life orb, berries, and leftovers. Try to stick with that. (:
- Sweepers should be fast and have powerful, STAB moves, and walls should be fat and sturdy (like blissey) have status-changing/healing moves. Tanks should be bulky with fairly equal defenses, and supporters should complement your team as much as possible. It's best just to stick with the basics :)
- Most teams have Stealth Rock or some type of spikes. It helps.
- The best teams have lots of OU pokemon. They're OU for a reason!
- If you use pokesav, PLEASE know what you're doing and use it properly. It's probably best to not make all your pokemon shiny with 31 IV's in everything. ;P
- Be aware of standard rules as well as some other clauses. Some people don't like stall teams or skarmbliss, etc. );
- If you can, test your team against yourself or your friends before you enter any tournaments; you'd be surprised at how much you learn about your team from a battle or two.
- Be...clean. If you have voice chat on and your fire blast misses, don't yell ******** ***** ***** **** ****** **** right in the other person's ear. Name your pokemon appropriately as well. Please. Oh, and be a good sport. :D This includes not DCing on purpose because you're losing.
As long as you keep all that in mind, you should be good to go for the most part.
Also, to help perfect your team, here is a list of the most common, strongest pokemon. How many can you counter? How many can't you counter? Copy and paste into some sort of document and go through these pokemon with your team in mind. Start from the top and delete/make a different color the pokemon you can already counter.
The trick to editing your team is adding things to help counter more pokemon, but not subtracting things that make you lose counters.
LIST OF THREAT POKES MOVED
Too big of a post.
Last edited by Lotteries on Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:49 pm; edited 10 times in total
