i play this everyday swag

username is thiggist

Thank you for sharing this.
Totally trying this now.

If you're new to competitive Pokemon simulation, I HIGHLY recommend you go to Pokemon Showdowns! forum, smogon, and use a proven team that's done well (top 50 or so).

Typically, those guides will tell you a good team, the goal of the team, and the team's major threats.

Tryin the beta

pokemon is my childhood. I will demolish everybody.

this thing is confusing though.

Haha not confusing at all.

ohyeas was searching for a similar game since a quite long time (cant play the original pokemon's online and i ever wanted to try that)

just registered (i think i did) BlubKill is my name yo
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okwtf so complex any advice on a team? :<

Well you could play randoms ;) And get a feel and create a team when you're familiar enough.

Here's what you want to do:

1)

Go to: http://www.smogon.com/forums/forums/rate-my-team.52/

If you want a non-OU team, go to "Other" Teams

2) Choose a team to understand the basics with

Typically people post teams that you can be incredibly successful with looking for little ways to tune it up.

http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads...ked-4.3491188/

Click on the bottom "importable", hit copy on all that, and paste it in imports when you "create a team"


3) Play! You need to play and understand the metagame you're interested in.

ahh was searching for something like this, thx hax. gonna have a look at this later. actually i just made some random team with some random pokemon i thought of they're strong, gave them some items and skills... made one round where i got fked by some enemy pokemon which got for some reason later 3x attack. did onehit all of mine :<

Team building without first understanding:

1) The meta game (UU, OU, etc)

2) Your play style (stall, weather, ultra offensive, etc)

3) Threats and Gimmicks (like keeping a phaser alive if they have venomoth)

Is silly and blind. It's hard enough to learn the game, make a team when you legit understand it. You should be at the point where you know the opposing Pokemon's style, goal, move sets, and item choices relatively accurately upon first team preview before you go off on making your own team.