Sabeta

I've played, I made some mages, and some other guys, and then I quit at around level 20. It was just too boring to me. No PvP at all is a massive turn off for any game. What's the point of playing if you can't prove your better than everyone else.

First off: Legendary Pokemon may not breed with anything other than a ditto, and even then only in rare cases. If I'm not mistaken, Spiritomb can breed with others of it's egg-group.

Legendary Pokemon are one-of-a-kind in the games. If you use a second Odd-Keystone, you can in fact receive a second Spiritomb.

So yeah, definately not legendary. Just somewhat rare.

Well here is my stance on hacking/cheating. I myself use/ have used and ARDS. With me, there comes a line. I will never do anything that the game does not naturally permit. So if the game says I can't walk through walls, then neither will I. Technically Wraith, there is the practice of RNG Abusing which people use to catch themselves flawless Pokemon. With me, I wont give my level 100 Latios perfect Ivs and make it Shiny. Simply because Latios can't have that. Whenever hacking, I will give my Pokemon the best they possibly can, and make it perfectly legal, by all pretense. I love using them to load up on supplies, I can never get enough, and I typically create many teams, so using them to spit them out faster helps tremendously. (Still, I make sure that the PID is legal, and that so are the Ivs) When it comes to other people, I feel that, as long as it's legal, I don't care.

I'm one of the few who likes Paul. I don't quote agree with his method, but I'm definitely down with his attitude. Of course unlike Paul, once I find the Pokemon I'm going to keep, I'll raise it properly, and with respect. (Although I wont go entirely easy on it.)

@Guested: I find it hilarious that most of the upper Smogon battlers don't follow the "BS". Gouki, Jumpman, and Husky have all stated NOT to follow their sets strictly. In fact, it is usually better to create your own, as the bulk of the crowd will use "Standard" sets, and as such, are far too easy to predict. Just sayin'.

With this in mind, an upgrade could be in order, simply to allow people freedom of choice. By all means keep the smogon sets in it, but allow for people to build custom sets if they wish to.

I always like to see what people can come up with when it comes to Skarm Bliss.

Dear Demon of Death. I regret to inform you that you have been Permanently banned from our site; under the pretense that nobody on this forum has "Spoken" anything. They are but mere words on a screen, and as such are not being vocalized. Thank you, and have a nice day.

Well, I would like to become an artist. Would it be too much to ask if any of you could teach me? I've been dabbling in Photoshop some, but I'm nowhere near as good as the people here. I don't even know where you guys get those cool fonts >.>

I don't understand why Mystery Dungeon is so popular. When the first one can out I bought the DS version but it seemed like every mission was 'go to a dungeon and get this pokémon/item'. The Dungeon parts weren't any fun, there wasn't much of a reward for completing the missions, and the plot was non-existent. I keep thinking there must be more to these games than I saw or they wouldn't keep making them. I sold mine three weeks later so it's not like I can pick it up to double-check.

I love Ranger: Shadows of Almia, though. Super charming. And I love walking around with my huuuuge pokémon entourage. I bought the first game but I haven't played it yet, can't wait for Tracks of Light to come to the US.

From what I understand of the first Mystery Dungeon, there in fact wasn't a vast variety of Plot. I think the game could be held similar to Portals, in that the game was meant to be relatively short, and cheap, just to see if fans would like it. It was very well received, and so they pulled out all the stops on making a sequel. PMD S/T/D (I'm just now realizing that the first letter of each 2nd gen Mystery Dungeon spells out STD >.>) This one has a very intricate and complex plot revolving around Time Travel and the destruction of the planet. Many missions are no longer save this, fetch that, but are "Hey let's go here" or "The bad guy is over that way." (I'm probably not selling you, but it really is much better than the first.)

As for me personally, I love the first Pokemon Ranger Game, enough even to 100% it (Snorlax was easy) Never played PR:SoA, but I want to, and I've never played PMD:BRT, but I loved Sky.

Many people like to play UU for the very reasons you are speaking. There is a much more vast metagame going on there, so if you want diversity, I reccomend UU. Many times, UU/Bl can in fact beat OU, but the best way to achieve this is to merely create Anti-Meta teams. I mean, who is going to expect a Stockpiling Cradily on a Sandstorm Team? (Not the best example, but it is one.) Black and White should hopefully Expand the metagame, but we'll just have to see.

Rankurusu, is one of my new favorite Pokemon (Green, Jell-o-esque Critter) With Magic Guard, it shows a lot of Promise. Life Orbs and Burn Orbs. All of these things could be loads of fun; However, based on Appearence alone, this poor guy will be UU. (Of course, without knowning things like Move-Pool/Stats, this is extreme speculation.) If it evolves, it will more than likely be OU. Ofc, that all depends on it's stats.

On that first few turns, I did use Focus Blast predicting a Switch. Tyranitar is Switch-in of the Year for Gardevoir, so I almost always launch that first. Afterwords I played pretty badly, lol >.> GG

http://www.pokemon.com/us/games/strategy/vg_strategy-excel-at-the-pokeathlon/

I originally thought, that a Pokemon's Pokeathlon stats were 100% determined by the Hex Values of a Pokemon. It seemed Deceptively simple. 5 Stats, each with a value from 1-5. We know that Nature influences these, and so does ApriJuice. Technically though, it should be possible to create a pokemon whose Potential is maxed out. (The number of stars they have in any given stat.) But now I learn that Pokemon perform better on certain days than others. Where is this decided at? I know that there were some people researching this, so I decided to put this link here, since perhaps it will give people a better idea as to where to look. I don't think that it is any one byte; however, but perhaps the Contest Stats where simply Over-Ridden with this?

If anyone already knows the answers, can you tell me

1) Which values, if any, control a Pokemon's Pokeathlon Stats, as seen in a Hex Editor

2) How to Maximize these stats, even on a day where the stat is supposed to be low.

Or hell how is ALL of this determined, where does the game decide these things? Could it be related to PID?

I'm used to switching defensive standard teams, with good synergy.

But I thought I'd make a hyper offensive team base on Kamikazing.

All at the same time playing at my pace not the opponents.

Azelf @ Focus Sash

Info: Suicide Lead

Ability: Levitate

EVs: 6 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk

Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)

- Stealth Rock

- Explosion

- Psychic

- Fire Blast

Info: Standard lame lead but it gets the Job done, why I would use this lead is for it's explosion, to keep the pace fast.

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Mmkay, let's see. This is your standard Azelf Lead. It's been a favorite of many people for quite a long time. I've seen them used in nearly every battle, and because of this, many people pack a numerous amount of anti-leads. Now, there aren't a huge number of pokemon who can outspeed you, especially from the get-go. One Problem you may encounter is Trick-Scarf Leads. You go for rocks, and get stuck with that move. Thankfully though, Azelf can switch out and abuse it's new found speed later on. Watch out, Tyranitar completely obliterates you. Resists two of your attacks, and is immune to the other. A well placed Pursuit and your gone.

Jolteon (M) @ Leftovers

Info: Sub Passer Sponge

Ability: Volt Absorb

EVs: 252 Spd/252 SAtk/4 SDef

Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)

- Thunderbolt

- Substitute

- Baton Pass

- Hidden Power [ice]

Info: The first part of my amazing Duo. It also sub passes everyone, in which everyone here can benefit from it. Despite fragile defenses it's longevity is top notch, surviving many attacks because of Substitute, volt absorb, leftovers and high speed.

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So your going for the Jolteon and Gyarados Offensive Core. With near Perfect Synergy, not alot can get in your way. The problem with this Core though, is Skarm Bliss completely walls it. Not only that, but a Skarmory vs Heatran can start juggling your team around with Whirlwind. Of course it will switch to Blissey as soon as you get back to Jolteon, but it has already scouted many members of your team, and putting you at a disadvantage when it comes to playing mindgames. I see you have Mixnape later on though, so this weakness is covered.

Gyarados (M) @ Leftovers

Role: Physical Sweeper

Ability: Intimidate

EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd

Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)

- Dragon Dance

- Bounce

- Earthquake

- Waterfall

Info: The Second part of my amazing Duo, both are immune to each others main weaknesses. If everything goes off right for me, Jolteon with a Sub... baton passes to Gyarados and dodges an deadly earthquake. Then I dragon dance till my sub dies.

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Your standard DD-Dos. Might I ask why you choose Bounce? It's a completely terrible move, it takes sero prediction for your opponent to bring in a counter. I reccomend Ice Fange, nearly the same coverage, handles the likes of Gliscor better, and has better accuracy. It even has a Hax factor to help with it's lackluster power, even though with enough DD's you'll be all set.

Empoleon (M) @ Petaya Berry

Ability: Torrent

Role: Special Sweeper

EVs: 12 HP/12 Def/234 Spd/252 SAtk

Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)

- Agility

- Substitute

- Hydro Pump

- Ice Beam

Info: My favorite pokemon and the strongest sweeper (Imo), standard set for it, this thing wreck absolute havoc when fully set up, and setting it up isn't that hard. Doing 40% with hydro pump to a blissey once is a testament to it's strength.

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I have used Agilisubpoleon on numerous occasions, and it is quite the effective sweeper. Keep in mind though that you are walled by most any bulky waters, such as Vaporeon or Suicune (Especially the latter in the form of CroCune) I would reccomend squeezing Grass Knot on there somewhere, if you ditch Sub, I reccomend going with Life Orb in it's place.

Gengar (M) @ Expert Belt

Role: Suicider

Ability: Levitate

EVs: 4 Atk/252 Spd/252 SAtk

Hasty nature (+Spd, -Def)

- Shadow Ball

- Focus Blast

- Thunderbolt

- Explosion

Info: My designated suicider, I explode on whichever pokemon I think might cause me trouble.. SB, FB and TB for good coverage.

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Okay then, more or less your standard Gengar, you really should be using ScarfGar or Specsgar. Trust me when I say that the little extra power/speed is very much needed for Gar. Exploding is fun, but watch out for enemy ghosts, they can ruin you, if they are scarfed (and you aren't) you'll be in for a hurting. A relatively nice pokemon though, especially with it's good coverage.

Infernape (M) @ Life Orb

Role: Wall Breaker

Ability: Blaze

EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk

Hasty nature (+Spd, -Def)

- Fire Blast

- Grass Knot

- Nasty Plot

- Close Combat

Info: The trump card under my sleeve. I fall prey to blissey, skarmory, gliscor, hippodon etc. As long as my opponent has blissey it unlocks this pokemons hidden potential. I switch to Infernape, the blissey often runs away to it's defensive wall counterpart. That's when I nasty plot and my opponent realizes he got trapped. Sometimes he switches back to blissey only to get 1HKO from close Combat.

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Well this guy is commonly seen on Hyper Offense teams. You always want one mixed attacker, and Infernape is one of the best. I have zero complaints about this particular pokemon. Watch out for Gliscor though, it might not be faster, but it can survive a hit and KO you with Earthquake.

This team is suicidal, attacking until it dies. Bringing on the next counter until it dies as well. Baton Passing helps them set up, as my pokemon just need one free turn to set up.

Alot of this sets are standard but the way I play them is different.

I noticed some minor errors. Such as Offence (Pretty sure it's Offense), and Kamakazi (Actually Kamikaze [Kah-mee-kah-zay] Japanese for "Divine Wind") On a pokemon related note, It would almost seem like you've missed some crucial aspects of Hyper Offense. Where is your Choice Scarf Pokemon? as well as a Choice Band. You should have one of each if you are running Hyper Offense, the entire point is to Obliterate your opponents as fast as possible, without giving them the chance to do anything in return. It feels like you might have missed that point, otherwise, it's a good team, just not quite Hyper Offense.

A few notes to remember also, is that you have no priority moves. This will severely dampen your chances for success if you opponent manages to set up a sweep. I believe it takes gyara only 1 or 2 DD's to outspeed your team, and run right through it. To rectify this, at least in part, run a good priority abuser like Lucario or Scizor. I think that's all I have to say about this team. Also, to help with the team rating process, it hellps to include lengthy paragraphs on how the pokemon fights, as well as many scenario's it's been in, it shows us you've actually battled with it, and you will also be able to tell us it's weakpoints, for fixing.7/10

Well that's pretty much where you can find me. I'll keep an eye out.

Yanmega should stay BL. I've seen his sweeping capabilities as a lead in OU, and they are quite outstanding; however, it will never be good enough for OU, unless SR gets nerfed hard. The fact that it can only join the frey a maximum of Two times, is quite hard on him (Less if we factor in SS) not to mention the abundance of priority users (coughscizor) Will leave him sorely hurting. Very short repy, but it seems everyone else has made better points already.

As for Umbreon, it really depends on the metagame it's in. I mean, if we still had Salamence, Latias, and Garchomp, you can bet it'd be UU, but for now it seems to be OU. Perhaps, due to the flip-floppyness of it's nature, it should just take the middle ground and go BL.

I was once on a site with a reputation system. They called it "Karma" There. I personally thought that it was a good idea, but it was Horrid in practive. Many people were abusing the system to their fullest potential. The admins had it set up so that anyone with-10 Karma lost posting privlages, and they ended up with -50. For no reason at all. Many other members were recieving negative Karma on extremely well thought out and considered posts, simply because the ideals of that post differed from that dealing karma at that time. I think it is a decent idea, but one that is far to easy to abuse. A system like GameFAQS, would probably be better, but I've no clue how it actually works.

Sure, I suppose, if you catch me on Smogon's Server, feel free to drop a challenge.

I was writing a HUGE response to this, but I accidentally hit the back button on my mouse:( Because of this, I'm just going to condense that message. I have a lot of tough points that need to be made, and I refuse to sugarcoat it. Read it and rant at me about how I'm wrong, I don't really care, I'm just helping you out. If you feel the need to try to defend yourself against someone helping you, then you should be worried about other stuff rather than whether or not this team will succeed.

Don't worry, I hate sugar-coating. While I do understand you are trying to help, I will in fact defend my reasonings. I do this Primarily, because if I didn't justify anything I did, then I'd just be listening to what any idiot tells me. While I doubt you are any less intelligent than anyone else here, I will still uphold to this. If you can prove your points over mine, then I can see clearly how I was wrong, and will listen as needed. There may be times when I agree, so it's not like I am going to completely set myself against everyone, just to make a point.

1.Concept: Weather is a gimmick style of play in generation 4. No point in arguing against it, that's the way it is. Running two weathers is like shooting yourself in the foot. There are several times when you will be wasting turns trying to get the right weather up, and you could easily accidentally help the opponent or hurt yourself. You can't truly abuse both weathers well together, and I think that the cons FAR outweigh the pros. Also, I have a feeling that you thought up this concept, then tried to find stuff that fit it without thinking too much of strategy. I don't think this concept can truly take off, and I especially don't think that this team is using this concept to its full potential (whatever that is).

Most weather teams are Gimmicky. Especially Sunny Day and Hail. (Rain sees some use thanks to Swift Swim) Sandstorm; However, is not. With the ability to completely negate most Leftovers users (Namely Blissey, Celebi, and Suicune) Their ability to stall is already cut down. Constant wear and tear of the Sand, will damage a large portion of the rest, such as Gyarados and Infernape, both of whome typically carry Life Orb, adding onto the Damage. When you count SR Damage, Gyarados really can't stick around for very long. Added to this, is Rock Types (Tyranitar) gain a 50% Special Defense boost, allowing them to take hits much better. Plus, some really killer abilities like Sand Veil (Actually I think that's the only one.). Keep in mind Sand Veil was one of many reasons Garchomp hit the BanWagon. I find Sandstorm to be "Super Effective", and Tyranitar wouldn't be in the Top 10 OU if that weren't true. I realize that THIS team in particular is Gimmicky, as you said, it's like shooting myself in the foot, but I find that I don't use Rain as much. Here's how it would work in a real-scenario. If my opponent has a Sandstorm Team, I could shift gears to Rain Dance, robbing them of their advantage, and giving me one as well, whereas if they were anything else, I stay Sandy. I did the best I could to keep pokemon who could function in both weather's adequetly, and feel that I lived up to this quite well, albeit, the team is now compeltely out of date, which is partially the reason I brought this over from where it was orginally posted, as to help it recieve a sort of "Makeover" . The strategy, if you will, is Bulky Offense. It is how I always used to play, since my style typically involves lots of switching around.

2. Little effort put in: Despite the fact that you know this team is outdated, you posted this RMT with stuff about Salamence and Latias. I'm fine with you asking about how you can replace Latias, but you are writing like they are both still usable (thankfully they are gone). Also, you obviously haven't looked into or even thought about even month old shifts, let alone present day activity in the metagame. You are hit hard by Fire/Water/Grass core and stuff that try to beat it. Even older stuff like Mixmence, DD mence, Breloom, Scarftar, and Latias tear this team apart. Really, it feels like you were just bored, saw the forum, and decided to post this team. [/quote/

Quite a considerable amount of effort went into making the orignal team. It was very good back then, and yes it is now extremely out of date. I more or less posted this straight from the original. In all honesty, I was pretty damn bored, and just posted this because it was the only RMT I had on hand, and I did want to post one. ~Shurgs~ you caught me here. Moving on.

3. The other stuff: Look at the top 15 OU of July. Of the top 15, you have problems with ALL of them. Gengar or Starmie will stop a LOT of these problems. As it is obvious you haven't tested this concept or this team out anywhere near halfway enough, or at all recently, I'm not going to bother saying much more until you've fixed the thing up, or at least explained it a bit more. If you want me to try it out or try battling it, I'd be happy to oblige, just tell me when you want to meet on Wifi or Shoddy.

I have tested a more recent version of this team, an example of which can be found in the Warstories section. The team still isn't quite up to snuff. I would actually, be interested in a battle (I almost always am). I'm on most days from 10:30-6:00 GMT-5 (I think, whichever one is Eastern Atlantic Time [uS]) Shoddy Server would be prefferable.

I got around to rebuilding this team on Shoddy, with some of the changes you suggested. I liked what I saw, the results were pretty impressive. For a lackluster example I posted a Warstory in the Warstory section. As for weathers being Gimmicky, It's completely untrue (At least for Sandstorm.)

Uhuh...

~Pulls out Light Sabre~

Hello. I felt like posting a War Story up here. It's nothing special really, just some battle I had on Smogon's Server. Enjoy

The teams, in order of Appearence~

Sabeta's Team

Satos' Team

I wasn't paying attention this match, like at all. Hell, I wasn't even playing as well as I normally do. Anyway, this is just here so I can have something to show off. Enjoy reading it, it was more fun typing this up than the battle itself. Ciao

Hmm, I see. Ah well, I was mostly hoping to put the aforementioned things up there for my own Personal use, and for those who needed it as well.

Another name that mine is only one character away from. The other is Sabata, the Dark Boy, from the Boktai Series. (Sabata, is if i'm not mistaken, a common Spanish name)