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I've found weather teams to be ineffective for singles battles, but that's just me. The politoed set I have is able to be modified for singles though, it's only helping hand that changes. I've found perish song to be a good option, and toxic is another. Surf > hydro pump in almost all cases...

Have you thought of bulking out the defences a bit for darmanitan at all? I'm just wondering, that's what I would do and give it a life orb, sheer force negates the life orb damage. Worked a dream on my steelix. Just a thought, everything in general looks pretty good though. Good luck with it.

If you can rebreed politoed do so. The metagame these days is so much more about defence. My politoed is calm. 200 hp / 120 def / 100 spatk / 88 spdef Protect Helping hand Ice beam Surf I use it a lot combined with storm drain gastrodon. It works really well for me.

Welcome aboard. I'm new also, turned up yesterday. I am also an aspiring master, it's always a pleasure to find new competition :D Again, welcome :)

The best way to make any real progress is to do some research and speak to those who are competitive. It's all about knowledge, in my opinion anyway. Feel free to shoot through a message if you have any questions :)

After the last international challenge, I hate dealing with abomasnow. They were the bane of my existence during the tournament -.-

Hitmonlee is my favourite. Hitmontop is the most useful though

I EV train everything. If I think I want to use a pokemon, I will ev it to see how it functions. Then at least I know how it will be roughly should I need to breed in an egg move or something at some point. I also check the IVs of all my pokemon, I won't bother training anything I've bred that...

Yes! Another Aussie. How many of us are there running around this place? I'm really enjoying this place so far to be honest :)

The Tyranitar that I used competitively in the last international challenge is as such. 200 atk / 172 def / 132 sp def. It is Sassy natured. I put 0 into hp as I ran it with a focus sash. You want Tyranitar to out-slow other weather instigators like Abomasnow and Politoed. My moveset that I...

Critical hits can be a part of skill though. Part of competitive battling is knowledge. I'm currently working on a Sniper Drapion, holding scope lens to up the critical hit ratio. The moveset I'm thinking of includes night slash and cross poison, both of these moves have a naturally high crit...

Best Offensive: It's kind of hard to say, there are a lot of excellent offensive sweepers. It doesn't just depend on the typing either, some pokes with great typing have a really ordinary ability to go with it making it not as good as it should be. I've found Arcanine to be a really solid...

Many thanks for the welcomes. I was pretty unsure about what I should actually put in an introduction. I'm definitely going to have check out this server that you guys have for battling. Once I finish work on the team I'm building for the Spring Friendly this month. ;) I'm turning 25 in a...

Hey everyone. Just thought this should be the first thing I get done really. I am a new member, but definitely not new to the pokeworld in general. So yeah, I guess that's really about all. Totally looking forward to getting to know some people and get some battling and trading and whatever...