Yung

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I'd like to nominate:

@Ivysaur for his extensive contributions to the Pokemon Sub-Forum, hosting both the Neocodex Pokebattle Royale and the Neocodex Pokebattle Royale Round 2. Ivysaur is consistently active and overall helpful.

@Napiform her continued dedication and activity is superb and she is a shining example of what it means to be a Codexian. She is hands down one of the most active members of this forum and deserves recognition for her contributions and time.

@Stuck he goes above and beyond providing graphics and services to the forum and deserves better recognition for his work. His contributions can be seen on every page under every avatar.

I don't think I have the ability to do it myself, if you're asking my permission then go ahead. Maybe make it 'Hearthstone/Battle.Net ID' or something @Kate?

 

You can edit the title yourself.

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My understanding has been that we implemented the entire nomination and voting system and set forth the criteria for Advanced+ that we currently have to prevent people from spamming their way to 500 posts. It's as simple as that. The nomination and voting system is to buffer spammy members from automatically gaining the rather extensive list of perks involved with earning the rank. It is also my understanding that the reason this system was implemented was because prior to the voting people were spamming to 500 to earn the rank. Anyone deserving of the rank does get Advanced+ it may not happen as quickly as you'd like but you will get voted in provided you remain even slightly active.

I just hit 115 Flatleaf!

I just gathered finally and there are Flatleaf being given out now.
 
So that's fixed.

I hate klink and klang, and the vanillite line.  I can't really say why.  I'm not a big pikachu fan either, I think I just get tired of pikachu!

 

Yeah I can agree with you there. I don't really understand those two evolutionary lines.

 

I like the Pichu line though, Raichu looks awesome imo.

Gen 3 OU:

I'm a complete newbie when it comes to the playing competitively and would really appreciate some advice. :3

 

Forretress @ Leftovers

Ability; Sturdy // Nature: Careful // EVs: 252 Hp, 4 Def, 252 SDef

Earthquake

Spikes

Rapid Spin

HP Bug

 

The one that comes first in my team to lay out three layers of spikes (if possible)

 

Blissey @ Leftovers

Natural Cure // Bold // EVs: 252 HP, 252 Def, 4 SDef

Wish

Seismic Toss

Protect

Toxic

 

The status absorber and inflicter. Also a 'healer'.

 

Dusclops @ Leftovers

Pressure // Careful // EVs: 252 HP; 36 ATK; 20 Def; 200 SDef

Pain Split

Will-o-Wisp

Focus Punch

Night Shade

 

Another status inflicter. The rapid spin (and normal/fighting type etc.) blocker.

 

Celebi @ Leftovers

Natural Cure // Timid // Evs: 252 hp;80def; 176 speed

Recover

Swords Dance

HP Fighting

Leech Seed

 

The wallbreaker (sorta) <.<

 

Zapdos @ Leftovers

Pressure // Calm // EVs: 252 HP; 32 def; 224 SDef

Rest

Sleep Talk

Thunderbolt

Roar

 

The scouter. I'm considering replacing sleep talk for substitute but I'm not sure ;v;

 

Suicune @ Leftovers

Pressure // Bold // EVs: 252 hp; 252 def; 4 speed

Calm Mind

Surf

Ice Beam

Rest

 

Erm.. the sweeper? lol

Ice beam to get rid of threats such as Salamence/Dragonite

Surf.. STAB owo

 

Spoiler

A really stupid question, but should I be making teams that can, for example, sponge super effective hits for another pokemon? (bah that wording /facepalm) Is it possible to make a "perfect" team like this? xD

 

e.g. Dusclops is weak to ghost/dark[?], so I get another pokemon that is immune to ghost/dark which is either Blissey/Snorlax

 

 

Okay... first off:

 

Forretress

 

Standard Blissey build, looks fine to me.

 

Your Dusclops is interesting, I'd favor Toxic over Burn since Toxic will result in the eventual death of the opponents pokemon unless immune. Is there a specific reason for this coverage on your team or are you just trying to cover a little bit of everything?

 

Celebi:

 

Your last two are their standard builds and work fine for the roles you've selected for them. I'd favor other pokemon but that's me. Overall not a bad looking team for Gen 3 OU.

@Napiform

 

@Sweeney

 

@Bone

 

@Nymh

 

@Ali

 

@Strategist

 

@blue

 

@Magical

 

@Stuck

 

@Eefi

 

@Maha

 

@Galadriel

 

@Kate

@DasBear

 

@athayde

 

@Rocket

 

@Tailwind

 

@Trichomes

 

@Bee

Yung's Guide to Competitive Pokemon Team Building

 

 
Getting into competitive Pokemon battles can seem both fun and daunting, but I'm here to put your mind at ease. Beyond beginners luck you're not likely to be an overnight Pokemon Champion however it is easy and quite fun to get into making competitive builds.
 
Definitions:

• Starting off involves finding your pokemon, for this I recommend Smogon's Strategy Pokedex. On here you'll see a list of pokemon alphabetically, their type, what tier they're in, their abilities, and their stats.
• Next you should choose the tier you're interested in battling in. Tiers are pretty simple. To keep it short and sweet you can filter for Tiers, and then select which tier you're interested in.
  • When looking at this list you will see Ubers at the top and going in descending order you'll see NFE (Not Fully Evolved) at the bottom.
    • LC (Little Cup) can use everything in the LC tier and below (NFE).
    • NU (Never Used) can use everything in the NU tier and below (LC & NFE).
    • RU (Rarely Used) can use everything in the RU tier and below (NU, LC, & NFE).
    • UU (Under Used) can use everything in the UU tier and below (RU, NU, LC, & NFE).
    • OU (Over Used) can use everything in the OU tier and below (UU, RU, NU, LC, & NFE).
• The next thing you're going to want to decide is what kind of team you want.
  • WEATHER: If you look at Politoed for example (OU Tier Pokemon) you'll see one of it's abilities is Drizzle this creates Rain on switch in which boosts water type moves and makes moves like Thunder hit with 100% accuracy. This ability works really well with a pokemon such as Kingdra for example (UU Tier), you'll notice one of its abilities is called Swift Swim and it doubles its speed in the Rain giving you an advantage over your opponent. This is a good example of how you could start to put together a Rain team. Other themed teams include Sandstorm  and Sunny/Sun.
  • BALANCED: In this type of team set up you'll want to focus on having a few specific roles filled: ATT Sweeper, SpA Sweeper, DEF Wall, SpD Wall, Hazard Setup, and Status Afflicting. This may seem like a lot but many people have one or more Pokemon pick up more than one of these roles. Clefable (Fairy type, OU) for example works as an excellent SpD Wall, or a decent Def Wall, and a great Status Afflicting. Some players prefer to stick to Att or SpA Pokemon only for their sweepers but a true balanced team tries to cover the full range.
  • FOCUSED: Some players prefer to pick one or two Pokemon, Abilities, or Moves and build their team around that focus group. In an ExtremeSpeed team the focus is to use Pokemon with Priority moves, specifically ExtremeSpeed, such as Dragonite, Togetic, and Arcanine. Any other pokemon are used for their niche priority moves or as support for the Sweepers. Sableye is popular for its Prankster ability which increases the priority of Status Inflicting moves by 1 meaning they usually move first before the opponent. Taunt, Toxic, Thunderwave, and Will-O-Wisp are all popular Status Inflicting moves which can benefit from being used by a Prankster Pokemon.
  • HYPER-OFFENSIVE: This play style is extremely aggressive and mainly entails the usage of five or six Sweepers. The pokemon used are generally able to give themselves boosts such as Dragon Dance or Shell Smash and then proceed to sweep the enemy team independently. These pokemon tend to be fast but slower sweepers are still formidable when used tactfully. Deoxys-Speed is a popular Uber tier H-O Sweeper and Dragonite is a popular OU H-O Sweeper.
  • STALL: This is virtually the opposite of Hyper-Offensive. The objective here is to wall and burn or poison your opponents to death. While the occasional STAB move may faint an opponents pokemon the main objective here is to stay alive. Using pokemon with Recover moves is vital, making those such as Clefable popular for this style team.
• After that you're ready to start building your teams, you'll want to choose your medium for battling Pokemon. A popular choice is Pokemon Showdown.
  • Pokemon Showdown has some really great features. When you're in battle type /weakness POKEMON to see a list of weaknesses that pokemon posses so you can use your best Super Effective move against them! If you are against a Dragonite for instance you could use /weakness Dragonite and a list showing Dragon, Fairy, Ice, Rock (not counting abilities) will display. A type in BOLD means the move type is 4x effective.
  • If you'd prefer to broadcast your check of weaknesses you could use the !weakness POKEMON command instead, then your opponent will see what you see. The /weakness POKEMON displays to you and you alone.
  • You can also use the /effectiveness MOVE, POKEMON command to see how effective a specific move is against a specific Pokemon or type.
  • Other useful commands include:
    • /data POKEMON
    • /data TYPE
    • /data ABILITY
    • /data ITEM
    • /dexsearch MOVE, POKEMON (Tells you if a specific move is compatible with a specific Pokemon)
    • /dexsearch MOVE, ALL (Lists all Pokemon that learn that particular move)
• Have fun with it; it's quite possible to use really dynamic teams and do well with them.

TL;DR:

 

Strong Pokemon, Weak Pokemon

That's the only selfish perception of people.

Truly skilled Trainers should try and win with their favorites.

 

Thanks for the response. I didn't know that reflection doesn't even block the icons anymore. What I meant to ask was:

1. Can reflected icons be blocked again by the attacker if the attacker moves first? second? What was it originally?
2. I heard reports that they no longer use opponent's strength boost. Do regular reflected icons also use opponent boost? And do you have to click first or second?

 

 

1. No reflected icons can't be block and/or reflected and never have been able to. The reason for this is to prevent endless loop turns.
2. Okay so...
   1. I've tested a 1.5 boost against a 7 boost and the damage was consistent with a 7 boost. It may have been isolated to the items I was using.
   2. Regular reflected icons do not use your opponents strength boost though I believe TNT said somewhere eventually they all would.
   3. Second iirc.

What are your beliefs and do you believe that it is in our best interest?

 

Do I believe laws are opinionated? Yes.

Do I believe laws are made in our best interest? In the most general of sense, yes. More often laws are made to protect in some degree those making the law.

Do I believe that law makers are opinionated and that influences the laws they pass? Yes... hence every political conflict over law making. In the U.S. Congress there is a primarily two-party system and the law makers are extremely opinionated. Welcome to politics.

I personally use the daqtools site and place my bets based on those adjustments. My yield is profitable enough that I'm rarely making less than 400k a week.

@KlienBucket if I may make a suggestion. You should add a single button that opens all 20 tabs for you so that you don't have to click each one since you already gotta close all 20. 21 clicks is a lot less daunting than 40.

 

I do really love this web app that you've created and I'm definitely using it to my advantage. Thank you very much for the contribution.

I would like to donate a Shiny Clauncher in Pokemon X & Y to the winner of this mini tournament. So good luck everyone.