Chansey shouldn't wall rain, most rain teams run at least one physical attacker such as Mega Scizor. The principle I was thinking about was to run multiple rain breakers and have Kingdra and Aruqanid overwhelm each other's checks and counters. I'm still new to battle spot though and usually play 6v6 singles so maybe that principle is more useful and needed there
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ya that's more like it, honestly you deal with a playstyle's checks with bringing what you think will beat it in team preview, 1/3 of your team being the same role is fine in 6v6 if you know what you're doing, but it's a bit more overwhelming to have 2/3 of your team doing the exact same thing, with pelipper on there as well. it's basically lending your way to getting solo'd by something, and even if you don't get full 3-0'd by something that's good against rain e.g. fini, bulu; you'll end up being in a really disadvantageous position
Yeah that makes sense. Side note, Z-Hypnosis Xurkitree, Pelipper, and Kingdra is killing it on battlespot right now. Nobody seems to prepares for rain
Try this
Porygon2 @ Eviolite
Ability: Download / Trace
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
- Recover
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam / Toxic
Anyway there are even a spdef set and an offenisve set and theh are goos too.depends on your team.
Even the evs spread can be different, like 244 hp 252 def and 12 spe
Download is useful on more offensive variants of Porygon2, or variants that want to make more use of Porygon2's movepool to actually threaten stuff at times. Trace is very good but it doesn't give Porygon2 offensive utility in most cases, so some people prefer giving it a possibility of gaining some offensive presence. Even without investment a +1 Ice Beam or Thunderbolt is still doing decent damage and this is useful for dealing with offensive threats more efficiently.
Well, Download gives you a boost (which is never bad) so you can have a sure ohko on MMence with Ice beam (without boost it is 56% of OHKO, that is not bad but better be sure than repented), more damage on Aegislash with SBall (but you have to get the boost before).
On Offensive Porygon2 it works great.
Trace is mostly for circumstances, for example you can use an Intimidate against the opponent, switch on Flash Fire users and so.
Download used to be better anyway.
EDIT: Ops, you guys are so fast lol
Hi everyone, Im quite new to BSS but can't seem to get a team or build a team that works. I was hoping someone would be able to help me build or give me one with a good starting point! thankyou.
http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sm-battle-spot-singles-sample-teams.3593055/
It's just one but one day it supposed to have more teams.
Also on you tube you can find some BSS channel. You can have an idea by watching their teams and the opponents' ones.
Thank you I dont care! I will be searching around the net now! I just was not sure how much luck i would have :)
I've finally decided to bite the bullet and work on SRing an HP Fire Tapu Lele. I've been looking around on the Timid vs. Modest debate, and I haven't really seen anything beyond 'both are good'. (also the WIP Analysis seems to have been invaded by a Salamence analysis).
I'm assuming Timid lets Scarf Lele outrun basically anything since it beats out Pheromosa, while Modest simply piles on the damage (though Lele is hardly lacking in this area). The thing is I don't know if Timid helps much outside of the Scarf set, and Modest seems like it helps more in any situation where you need to hit with coverage.
I'm leaning towards Modest just because it seems like it'd be more versatile in terms of item used (possibly important due to Item Clause), but I'm curious if there's a more compelling argument for Timid.
I'm assuming Timid lets Scarf Lele outrun basically anything since it beats out Pheromosa, while Modest simply piles on the damage (though Lele is hardly lacking in this area). The thing is I don't know if Timid helps much outside of the Scarf set, and Modest seems like it helps more in any situation where you need to hit with coverage.
I'm leaning towards Modest just because it seems like it'd be more versatile in terms of item used (possibly important due to Item Clause), but I'm curious if there's a more compelling argument for Timid.
LegoFigure11 and myself both have some free timid HP fire Lele for/from giveaways, but do not have modest yet iirc so you could aim for that if you wanted to contribute to the pool of stuff we're collecting for distribution.
Hi everyone im new to battle spot singles was wondering whats a good counter to koko i realize hes S, but hes just stomping my teams lol, also do people usually run teams like vgc where even if you arent a weather team you run kingdra to have an answer to rain?
To answer your question, Marowak-A, Porygon2 and Tapu Bulu are good answers to Tapu Koko
For future reference, use the Simple Question Thread for this type of question
Well, I managed to get a Modest HP Fire Tapu Lele (after a rocky start of Synchronize failing eight times in a row and making me think I was going insane). Currently working on maxing it out for Hyper Training. I assume the procedure here is someone takes it, clones it, and returns a copy? The only Facebook Giveaway thread I found wasn't very specific about how it's all done. I also can't imagine I'm particularly 'credible' with my low post count mostly about the Battle for Alola, though I obviously claim it's not hacked.
Anyway, I guess if you guys want to clone it for giveaway material just send me a PM (or profile message or whatever) on how to go about that.
if you EV train it either lego or I could take it off your hands and level it up to 100 and hyper train for you. you should try catching us on either discord or PS.
Stats of Season 1 are now out : https://3ds.pokemon-gl.com/battle/
Apologies, Internet has been spotty lately. I've already gotten the Modest Lele both EV and Hyper Trained (except for the Pretty Good attack), so that won't be necessary. I assume it's just a matter of getting it cloned. I'll try to catch one of y'all later this evening or tomorrow. I assume I'm looking for the Battlespot room on Showdown?
Pokebank is up everyone!
http://www.pokemonbank.com/en-us/news/
"Pokémon Bank has undergone major updates and now works with Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, making it easy to transfer Pokémon from multiple copies of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon—including the downloadable versions—to a single game! You can also use it to transfer Pokémon you’ve caught in the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console versions of Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Yellow into your Pokémon Sun or Pokémon Moon game. Pokémon from Pokémon Omega Ruby, Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, Pokémon X, and Pokémon Y can also be brought into Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon in the same way.
To celebrate this update, all Pokémon Banksubscribers can get a Mewnium Z, the Z-Crystal that only Mew can use. When you launch the new Pokémon Bank and receive the gift, a new Wonder Card will appear in your Pokémon Sun or Pokémon Moon game. You can use the Mystery Gift function to claim your Mewnium Z.
Note that this gift is for Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon players only. It is not available in Pokémon X, Pokémon Y, Pokémon Omega Ruby, or Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. Also, you can get only one Mewnium Z, even if you use Pokémon Bank with multiple Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon games. If you have Pokémon Bank, be sure to use the service by October 2, 2017, to get your Mewnium Z."
So THAT's how you get Mewnium Z.
Hm. Is the Psychic Terrain added before or after the Z-Move? 185 BP off of an OK base 100 attacking stat + Psychic Terrain sounds pretty solid for a nuke.
"Pokémon Bank has undergone major updates and now works with Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, making it easy to transfer Pokémon from multiple copies of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon—including the downloadable versions—to a single game! You can also use it to transfer Pokémon you’ve caught in the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console versions of Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Yellow into your Pokémon Sun or Pokémon Moon game. Pokémon from Pokémon Omega Ruby, Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, Pokémon X, and Pokémon Y can also be brought into Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon in the same way.
To celebrate this update, all Pokémon Banksubscribers can get a Mewnium Z, the Z-Crystal that only Mew can use. When you launch the new Pokémon Bank and receive the gift, a new Wonder Card will appear in your Pokémon Sun or Pokémon Moon game. You can use the Mystery Gift function to claim your Mewnium Z.
Note that this gift is for Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon players only. It is not available in Pokémon X, Pokémon Y, Pokémon Omega Ruby, or Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. Also, you can get only one Mewnium Z, even if you use Pokémon Bank with multiple Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon games. If you have Pokémon Bank, be sure to use the service by October 2, 2017, to get your Mewnium Z."
So THAT's how you get Mewnium Z.
Hm. Is the Psychic Terrain added before or after the Z-Move? 185 BP off of an OK base 100 attacking stat + Psychic Terrain sounds pretty solid for a nuke.
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That's left 'Pik-Ash-unium' Z for the next movie.
According to Serebii, 6000 players have been banned from the PGL due to hack. Is it possible that GF willingly delayed the release of the Bank from the start of Season 2, just to check if people used non-Alolan mons before they could legitimately used them ?
If yes, that could lead to a more safe competitive place. If no, hackers are just bad hackers.
If yes, that could lead to a more safe competitive place. If no, hackers are just bad hackers.
I wouldn't think about it too much. Without knowing the exact reasons of the bans it's hard to tell how good this actually is. Serebii also said on his personal twitter that he's concerned about whether these bans were good or just due to the bad hack checks. Recently a lot of legal pokemon aren't getting through 'hack checks' and that might be contributing to some of these 6,000 bans.
Regardless of what these bans were due to, I don't think it has any relation to Bank being 'delayed' or should be any sign of Gamefreak improving their hack checks in the future until we have more information.
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