wraith89

It depends really. OU has its own strategies and all with all its overpowered Pokemon, where most of them, in fact, are 4x weak to something (stares at Tyranitar, Gyarados, Salamence, Heatran, Scizor, Swampert, Gliscor, Celebi, Dragonite, Forretress, Magnezone, Heracross, etc...) so everyone does have a counter... but yeah, seeing the same Pokemon over and over again can turn one off (I'm talking about a certain crimson flash seeing the most usage, a twin sister of a certain blue dragon, along with some volcanic rock that came out of the... volcano, a dryad that can travel in time, and a certain aura Pokemon which everyone fanboys about... this 5 Pokemon combo is very popular now and I see the same teams over and over in Smogon's Shoddy). UU is fun and all... until stuff like Yanmega and even the insanely overpowered Alakazam recently joined in... and that evil Moltres just OHKOs everything in sight (some Pokemon shouldn't belong in UU and Heracross and Cresselia were THIS close in falling into UU this month) >.< But even then, UU is a different metagame and it has its own fun, such as all the grassers, meaning Sunny Day teams are actually viable due to no Tyranitar or Hippowdon or Abomasnow, and Pokemon like Gastrodon are just too cool to be left unused. So there you have it. I play more OU because everyone else only wants to play OU, but sometimes I bring a team of UU into OU and they seem to work quite well (some UUs are VASTLY underestimated). Of course, there is also Ubers... and Ubers is actually fun (albeit unbalanced). Make one mistake, and say goodbye to your whole team. And yep, stuff like Shedinja and even Seaking actually work in Ubers... much better than in their original tiers or OU.

What's wrong with Vaporeon? It is arguably the best Eeveelution out there =/ And Glaceon can also pass Barrier... but Vaporeon can pass Acid Armor. Umbreon can Wishpass with its bulkiness, but Vaporeon can do it better with its better typing... Yeah, I really would not go pure Eeveelution. Mind you, I DO have one... but it is purely novelty at best (although the surprise theme got people acting crazy over it, and my lead was a Taunt bait Umbreon). It gets ruined by phazers and Toxic Spikes. If you do want an Eeveelution team, get a couple of Eeveelution, mostly Vaporeon or Jolteon (blame Gamefreak for their electric favoritism) will do you good... and a couple of other Pokemon that can support it, like a Forretress to spin away Toxic Spikes, and some others. That team you have right now though, works fine for in game.

We have a winner Everyone I battle on Wifi has 31 IVs and perfect nature and perfect hidden power everywhere, as if it were Shoddy while I am like one of the few people playing with non-hacked Pokemon. I hate it Welcome to Project Pokemon.

By the power of Greyskull... I have the power!! Welcome to Project Pokemon o_o

Welcome ZeroIX. I like those aforementioned Pokemon as well... except for Infernape U_U I am 19 and you are 18... there is not much of a difference. =P

Hmmm... actually, you might want to replace Psychic for Stealth Rocks. Or... get rid of Registeel's Superpower for either Iron Head or Stealth Rocks. In a rain team, you really want Stealth Rocks so that 1) Focus Sashes are no longer a problem and 2) ensure neat 2-OHKOs on certain Pokemon. Bottom line: get Stealth Rocks in there somewhere, you need it.

Scwib, I uploaded the fixed Uxie up there. I put it in Legal and it looks fine right now. Tell me if anything is wrong with it. If I mess with it otherwise, it gives me Common GBA Event o_o

Fixed it. You had strange Hex values and the PID relationship was all wrong =| Uxie.pkm

I think you go to the Pokemon and click on Stats Edit and click All Max. That was how I fixed that problem. Or is it a boxed Pokemon? Tell me all its specs or just upload the PKM file in your next post and I will take a look at it.

... only Weezing has Will-o-Wisp, can Pain Split, Haze stuff around, is not trapped by Magneton and walled by it while the magnet can Magnet Rise... outclassed much? I think not. Although you might think of using Thunder on Weezing now that it is in a rain team... but if you are going to use Registeel, invest in a lot of Special Defense. It is one of the premier special walls in UU... and is just annoying. It might come in handy though... but do not dismiss Weezing if you need a physical wall. Also I do not know why people love Choice Banding/Specing their Floatzels... I would use Life Orb for versatility. Besides, Floatzel is not exactly very durable.

To get Agility on Empoleon, you need a female penguin to breed with a male Floatzel with Agility (not so hard, is it?) The problem is, Empoleon has amazing resistances, but his three weaknesses (Electric/Fighting/Ground) are too common. We cannot add another Ghost in your team because that would give you THREE Pokemon weak to stuff like Tyranitar or other darks, which is not good at all... and adding Empoleon means another Ground weakness. Joy. So you have Arcanine/Milotic/Dragonite/Celebi/Gengar/Umbreon... A physical wall... what about Skarmory? Insane physical defenses, can spike/stealth rock, roost away damage, and blow stuff away... however it hates fire and electric moves and most special attacks in general. I suppose Celebi can take electric attacks and fire attacks can be directed at Arcanine/Dragonite/Milotic... hmm... and it can wall most Metagross and blow them away while racking up SR or Spikes damage) Skarmory@Leftovers/Shed Shell (first item for recovery, second to escape from Magnezone, which Skarm absolutely hates) Impish Nature 252 HP/X Def/X Speed (switch around the speed to hit 180-182 and put the rest in defense... and put some in attack if you feel you are not doing enough damage. Someone tells me with 212 Attack Skarmory can OHKO any Infernapes using Brave Bird in switch-ins... but max HP is a must.) - Whirlwind (breed with Pidgeot or Staraptor to get this, if not, use Roar) - Spikes/Stealth Rock (pick one, but Skarmory is one of the few capable spikers while so many stuff can SR, but you are lacking someone to SR) - Roost (must have) - Drill Peck/Brave Bird (first one needs breeding with Fearow or Dodrio, the latter needs breeding with Staraptor)

I still think we need a physical sweeper or a mixed wallbreaker that benefits from the rain too... like Huntail or Kabutops =/ Persian is there for consideration though... if Electrode fails. I also had an Articuno set up rain, but not immediately from the start.

LOL I do not play on Smogon often (I think I only did three times in total!)... but I suppose Mirror Coat has its own uses. If you were to play on Shoddy, you would see more things running Hidden Power Electric (just because they get to manipulate their IVs and whatnot). And you are right. Wifi is a different environment from Shoddy, and I like it that way. But if you want to try an abusive set, try a Bold Milotic with 252 HP/252 Def/6 SpA with Rest + Sleep Talk + Ice Beam + Surf. It is pretty fun because not only is status no longer a problem, but Rest activates Marvel Scale. And I am glad to see people play with their favorites, not because one thing outclasses another. Hypnosis is a bummer... everybody here knows me and how much RNG hates me (just ask ANYONE here) and it always misses for me but everytime they use it it always tends to hit... and when I DO hit, they wake up immediately. As for Celebi? You sure love speed boosting Pokemon o_o Where did you get one anyways? Since yours is a - SpA version, I would try something along the lines of Swords Dance + Baton Pass. Baton Pass at least is not affected by Pursuit, but U-turn could be useful I suppose. Do you have a spare Leftovers? Leftovers is probably the most useful item for Celebi. But then again... there is nothing you can really pass SD to other than Dragonite or Arcanine... so what about... Celebi@Leftovers Jolly Nature 252 HP/6 Atk/252 Speed - Leech Seed/Baton Pass - Seed Bomb - Swords Dance/U-turn - Protect/Substitute Subseeding is a pain... and Sword Dancing to attack with STAB Seed Bomb is an even bigger pain. I just don't know what to do with your Celebi though... I will have to think about it more because I do not know how exactly it benefits your team... the dryad does take water/ground attacks aimed at Arcanine and grass/electric attacks aimed at Milotic though...

Actually, you will never reach the same bulk as Dragonite with a Bulkymence and maintain an attack as powerful as Dragonite would... which I pointed out. Keep trying but you won't... unless you attack from the special side. Also it is not susceptible to Togekiss's Air Slash or Jirachi as a Bulkymence is. And I believe she is playing on Wifi, not Shoddy so unless she lived in Japan, there is no Extremespeed sets yet aside from GTS and whatnot. However, for Milotic, I will agree with Illithian. Suicune usually does the job better and can also Rest + Sleep Talk to get rid of status while Calm Mind boosts its Special Attack and its already impressive Special Defense. So what can Milotic do over her fellow bulky water? Hypnosis. Milotic is bulky enough to afford one miss or two if the shaky accuracy hurts. Mirror Coat is cool and all, but then again, I do not know what special attackers aside from electrics or some oddball like Specstile with Leaf Storm would actually be encouraged to attack Milotic's forte (base 125 SpDef!). They would usually attack its weaker base 79 defense, so Mirror Coat does not see much use, but it can net a surprise KO if you can predict correctly. But other than that, try Hypnosis.

Nah, I like Dawn's design from Platinum... and skirts make women look more feminine... so it was all right, although... she must be freezing (longer skirt then?) =P ... the new female character looks a bit too Marioesque to me still. The hat is cool, but overalls with shorts? Yeah... design clash there... I think I will call her Maria from now on.

Trivial games? This isn't a game and there was a topic like this before. =O I like Water types of course... they happen to be my favorite. But that does not mean I do not like Fire types, there are many Fire types I happen to love, but I just love Water Pokemon better, especially stuff like Politoed or Azumarill... frogs and bunnies ftw!

I would agree with memjee about that Dragonite. First off... if you want Dragonite to not be outclassed by Salamence, you would NEVER run Jolly. Period. Jolly Dragonites are just Salamence-lite. Adamant, however, is pretty awesome. Because of the huge Attack stat, Dragonite will get a big attack bonus just for running Adamant while Jolly can allow you to... hit 284 speed max? That does not help outspeed anything =( Sure that Mixnite there is a copy + paste wallbreaking Dragonite... which I myself rarely use, but nevertheless effective. In fact, I run a Dragon Dancing one too! But wait... isn't Dragonite supposed to be outclassed by Salamence on Dragon Dancing? Well, not if you take advantage of the one trait it has over Salamence: its overall bulk. That means, invest more in HP to show Salamence who is king (or queen in your case... although my Dragonite is female too). So in this case, we can run this set of EVs (this is the Dragonite I use quite a lot... the only Salamence I use is Specsmence ): Dragonite@Leftovers/Dragon Fang/Lum Berry/Yache Berry Adamant Nature 224 HP/84 Atk/200 Spd - Dragon Dance - Outrage - Roost - Substitute/Earthquake/Light Screen I have seen Salamence running very similar sets trying to outlive Lucario and take its Extremespeeds. However, Dragonite has the defensive advantage. With those EVs (assuming 31 IVs everywhere, but change your EVs accordingly to fill in those missing stats if you need to), it will hit: 379 HP/357 Attack/226 Defense/212 Special Attack/236 Special Defense/246 Speed 246 Speed is there to outpace bulky Zapdos and other stuff that like to sit at 245. It also has the advantage of outpacing max speed Jolly Tyranitars... who would lose out a lot of bulk for putting in THAT much speed... and power for using Jolly, so ha! Salamence trying to run a bulky set like that will need to adjust their EVs to 192 HP/120 Def/160 SpD/36 Spe with Adamant nature... and will hit the following stats: 379 HP/336 Attack/226 Defense/230 Special Attack/236 Special Defense/245 Speed And as you can see, not only will it stick at 245 Speed with the same HP/Def/SpDef as that aforementioned Dragonite, but it also loses out quite a LOT of attack (21 points to be exact)! So the only reason to actually use Dragonite over Salamence would be its overall defenses... and to take advantage of its attack. Do not ever run Jolly on that thing... EVER =( So here is the explanation. Those stats hits 246 to outpace 245ers and yadda yadda... the HP EVs are, that HP is odd numbered so that you can switch into Stealth Rocks 5 times instead of just 4, and the remaining goes into attack. If you want the optimal leftovers recovery 384 HP, run 244 HP/64 Attack/200 Speed instead, and the attack power still hits 352, which is pretty high. As for the moveset, Dragon Dance is needed, Outrage is your usual STAB attack and not many things like to eat a STAB Outrage after a DD, Roost is there to heal the dragon's HP when it is low, and Substitute is helpful for scouting. You can replace Substitute with Earthquake so that an unsuspecting Steel who thinks Dragonite will Outrage will switch in to eat an Earthquake instead (note: there are things named Skarmory or Bronzong that will laugh at your face for doing that, but Dragonite has no business dealing with them anyways, at least not this variant). Light Screen is an option just in case something like a Vaporeon wants to come in and Ice Beam the dragon to death and makes Dragonite a better team player. The items? Well, there is Leftovers if you like extra health recovery, but Dragonite will not be doing as much damage as wanted. Dragon Fang is there because you originally suggested it and it seems that Outrage is the only attack you are planning on using. Lum Berry... well, that somewhat defeats the whole purpose of having Substitute against status, but it is one time use. However, it has another usage: remember Outrage's secondary effect? How it confuses the user after 2-3 turns? Problem solved. Dragonite gets to go on an Outrage for another time! Yache Berry is there to reduce the potency of an Ice attack against Dragonite... it does help and Dragonite is bulky enough to take at least 1 Ice attack... from stuff not named Abomasnow or Glaceon, but that's another story. Since your Dragonite uses Outrage, make sure you get rid of Steels and other stuff before attempting to sweep with this. Priority move users like that blasted overused Scizor with its Bullet Punch and Lucario with Extremespeed and the most dangerous against Dragonite, Mamoswine with its 130 Attack and STAB Ice Shard (!!!), should be gotten rid of. It is amazing how all three are weak to Fire, is it not? Your Arcanine could deal with Scizor easily, Lucario somewhat, but Mamoswine's EQ should be avoided and it might be lucky enough to survive a Fire attack =| This Dragonite is a late game sweeper and is bulky enough to live through late game onslaughts not named 6 DD Gyarados =P Use it later in the game once all its threats are out and it will make your opponents cry. (!!) Gotta go study for a test, bye!