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I posted this on the OU forum but I was told to post this here instead: Lately I have been thinking about what a 12 vs 12 pokemon battle would be like. The most obvious advantage over standard battling that I can think of would be that it would allow you to cover your weaknesses easier. Doing...

Lately I have been thinking about what a 12 vs 12 pokemon battle would be like. The most obvious advantage over standard battling that I can think of would be that it would allow you to cover your weaknesses easier. Doing things like finding a spot in your team for a rapid spinner wouldn't be as...

My favorite counter to cloyster is choice scarf starmie. It is one of the few pokemon that can outspeed cloyster after a shell smash and then kill it with thunderbolt.

I have tried using thunder wave before but I am always worried about my opponent using substitute or having lum berry. Whats the best way to deal with this?

I hate being outsped which is why I like choice scarf so much. I have run 3 of them on a team and still got a rank of 300 on smogons pokemon online server. If you are worried about being set up on just switch to another choice scarf user as they set up and then kill that pokemon on your next turn.

I just wanted to let you guys know the metagame is weak to choice scarf again. I currently have 3 choice scarfers on my team that peaked at 150 rank. If enough people find out about this we will have another one of those choice item fads that we had a few months ago (does anyone besides me...

One thing I have been trying to do recently is make teams with lots of electric and grass moves since water types are so common. Most people only have one counter to water pokemon and when it gets ko'd they can't counter the other water types. Depending on what the metagame is doing I try to...

I don't really like brave bird on skarmory since the recoil makes it get ko'd too easily. It also doesn't work very well with sturdy. Suicune really does need ice beam so that way dragons don't set up on it. Since suicune has so much defense it has plenty of time to wake up so it doesn't need...

I hate it when people ignore my topics. I got a new personal best rank on smogon of 111 so I guess this team is better than I thought. I think I might switch chesto berry for leftovers on suicune. What do you guys think?

Tyranitar (M) @ Choice Scarf Trait: Sand Stream EVs: 200 Atk / 56 SAtk / 252 Spd Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef) - Superpower - Ice Beam - Pursuit - Crunch I have been using this t-tar set for a long time since it works so well. Recently I have been experimenting using pursuit more. I...

There are much better ways to deal with terrakion than using virizion. When you focus on giving virizion too much speed you can no longer use a mixed virizion effectively. I don't really like that ev spread since virizion needs the special attack more than the attack in order to power up giga...

The thing that really seperates virizion from most pokemon is that it be given a combination of move types that almost no other pokemon can get. I like this moveset: Virizion w/ expert belt Giga drain Close combat Hidden power fire Stone edge I don't think you can get this sort of...

I have been experimenting with landorus on and off so I guess I will try him again. One other thing about my skarmory that I like that I forgot to mention is that with more attack and swords dance he can actually kill some rapid spinners. I don't like brave bird on skarmory because the recoil...

I guess I am the only one who doesn't like this team. The combination of virizion and scarf t-tar can almost single handedly take down this entire team.

Virizion @ Expert Belt Trait: Justified EVs: 168 Atk / 228 SAtk / 112 Spd Rash Nature (+SAtk, -SDef) - Work Up - Giga Drain - Hidden Power [Fire] - Close Combat Virizion is really underrated because it counters pokemon commonly found on rain teams. I avoided using him for a long time...

All 3 of those pokemon are weak to one of rotoms moves. You can defeat jellicent by using volt turn and thunderbolt on your moveset. I don't know why people use volt turn as there only electric move because it can make it very easy for water types with high special defense or sub to counter it...

I have experimented with this set: Gyrados w/ normal gem Dragon Dance Giga Impact Waterfall filler I was having trouble with rotom switching in to gyrados so I gave it giga impact which ohkos it with normal gem. It works as a good surprise ko. I have found it also works well against...

I guess I could try virizion again. I am not much of a fan of pokemon who depend on focus blast though. The problem I might have with virizion though is that it is weak to ice beam. I really don't believe my special attacking blissey is outclassed by other special attackers because not many...

Now that you mention it I have been losing to terrakion lately. Stone edge can do serious damage to gliscor if they predict the switch to him. The problem is I don't know what a good terrakion counter is. I was looking through the usage stats and it seems that terrakion does normal damage with...