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Having trouble with your competitive Pokémon team? Be sure to check here if you need any help on it. Any teams intended for in-game and casual play should be posted in the In-Game Team Help sub-forum.
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Competitive Team Questions (and Incomplete Team Help)

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ShiningLust, Jul 2013: oh I didn't know cuz I've never used him so I didn't know
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Started by wolf

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CTH Guidelines

wolf, Aug 2012: Competitive Team Help GuidelinesWelcome to the Competitive Team Help sub-forum! These guidelines are here to give you a quick understanding of how the forum works, what the rules are, how to make certain threads, and where other threads belong. In...
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First competetive team!

jarodwr, Oct 2012: As you can see i'm not very experienced with team building xD, thanks for your help, i'll try and build an alternate team. is garchomp still banned from competitive play because of sand veil?
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Started by jarodwr

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Weather? Screw the weather! (Gen V Anti-Weather team RU)

PlatinumDude, Oct 2012: 90 Special Attack isn't that bad. Rain-boosted Hydro Pumps and Surfs are enough to compensate for that. If you want to deal with Substitute users, try using a Pokemon with multi-hit moves, such as Cinccino. It's frail, but it gets the job done:...
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Started by kierany9

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BW2 Sand Team

Keiran, Oct 2012: Thanks for the reply. :] I think I'll be going with the changes to Tyranitar and Excadrill. And I agree that I need something to check water- I was thinking either Cradily, DW Seismitoad, or Gastrodon but Ferrothorn would work, too. I'm not too...
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Started by Keiran

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B2 team help

LividZephyr, Oct 2012: Yeah, this team isn't going to do well in OU, even if it has one of the most used Pokemon on it. You have two Pokemon with Choice Bands, also. That's not always allowed since Item Clause could be in effect. I suggest that with Haxorus, you use...
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Started by Angelroid

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RMT OU Team

PlatinumDude, Oct 2012: While Superpower can be used to hit Ferrothorn supereffectively, it has redundant coverage with EQ, so Icicle Crash could be used as a more reliable Ice STAB instead. What's with some of your Pokemon's EV spreads? Rotom-W is better off with max...
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Started by Shirutenko

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UU team help.

PlatinumDude, Oct 2012: That's right. Slowbro is better off in UU than Slowking is because it can check Fighting Pokemon better: -Scald -Psyshock/Fire Blast -Thunder Wave/Toxic -Slack Off Nature: Bold EVs: 240 HP/252 Def/16 SAtk Item: Leftovers Ability: Regenerator
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Started by NirvanaNerd

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An OU team awaiting your help!

squirrelfeet, Oct 2012: I cannot help but be completely outclassed by PlatinumDude's more detailed analysis. All I can do is simply agree 100% with his comments...
3   1,033
Started by Ω Ruby and α Sapphire

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Rain Team

Thunder_Chad, Oct 2012: who ever said that he was going to have them all at once? He either runs stealth rock or spikes, one or the other.
7   1,310
Started by Bossk749

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help my uu sun team

PlatinumDude, Oct 2012: Xatu is a better weather set-upper, IMO, because of its Magic Bounce ability indirectly supporting the team. Victini is better off in an all-out attacking role: -Sunny Day -Roost -U-turn -Psychic/Night Shade Nature: Calm/Careful EVs: 252 HP/4...
1   900
Started by danaxe

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Team 'We're not gonna take weather' (peaked #46)

Thunder_Chad, Oct 2012: if you're going to use non weather, id immediately consider some type of offense. it doesn't even have to involve deoxys but i think that running weatherless staples like cloyster / dragonite etc would really be appropriate here. you know, id...
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Started by Evisector

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I made a 5th gen sand team. RMT?

Thunder_Chad, Oct 2012: you're going to have trouble switching into genesect. You don't have a solid u-turn switch in and every time genesect comes in on something that it threatens, it's a 50/50 as to whether it will u-turn for momentum or use move x to ko a pokemon. I...
3   825
Started by Reaca

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-Displeased Groan from reader- Yet Another Rate My Team Thread

Thunder_Chad, Oct 2012: you might want to take palkia off of your team it's not even allowed in standard...
2   655
Started by Vinniursa

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OU My first Team

Thunder_Chad, Oct 2012: this is a good team. It may be personal preference but I think that using an iron plate swords dance scizor and switching rotom-w to a chesto rest variant would really help in putting offensive pressure on this team. if you run a scizor set with...
9   1,466
Started by Shiny Glurak

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A shocking team

PlatinumDude, Sep 2012: While Iron Defense seems tempting to use, people don't bother with it outside of Baton Pass teams because some Pokemon will aim for the user's weaker Special Defense stat to cause loads of damage, especially if the user is weak to that move....
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Started by kierany9

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Sun Team [No Legendaries]

kierany9, Sep 2012: While it isn't a bad team, you seem to have awful type resitance(Like my Electric team, Gliscor is an instant defeat for everyone). Let's say a Torkoral with Fire(Like Fire blast), Ground(Like Earthquake) and Rock(Like stone edge) moves. Two thirds...
5   1,488
Started by WaterIse

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my ghost team. help?

shakes2206, Sep 2012: Thanks heaps but what would be the solid 6 u would choose as a team?
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I'm posting this NU're not gonna stop me! [NU RMT]

Zeffy, Sep 2012: This is pretty much my first NU team, so to speak. It's pretty solid as it is, I think it checks most of the major threats in NU, but there still seems to be holes that I can't patch. Maybe I'm just overreacting, but either way: rate my team! :P ...
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Started by Zeffy

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Black Team

PlatinumDude, Sep 2012: I agree with Wolflare; this looks like a competitive team to me. Anyway, make Jellicent's EV spread 252 HP/36 Def/220 SDef so that it has a slightly easier time taking physical hits and to prevent Starmie's Psyshock from 2HKOing Jellicent. ...
2   833
Started by benuc184

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Pkmn asleep

wolf, Sep 2012: Unless the Pokémon has the ability Early Bird, there's no way to wake them up other than simply waiting. Of course, you can use Sleep Talk so sleep isn't as crippling. Snore can also be used, but it isn't very good. Also keep in mind that each time...
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Started by WingedDragon

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My second shot at RainDance Teams [UU&RU]

Fafiq, Sep 2012: And instead of who in the UU team should I put it? Slowbro?
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My Team

WingedDragon, Sep 2012: So pretty much for each pokemon I have I should have another one to negate the weaknesses? What are peoples thoughts on Sableye?
4   812
Started by WingedDragon

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First UU Team, rate please

PlatinumDude, Sep 2012: It might be a better idea to use this over Scrafty; you don't want to have more shared weaknesses on the team.
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Started by Jolteon*

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Evs and Ivs

wolf, Sep 2012: Question answered. Next time ask questions related to the Pokémon games in their respective forums (see: B2W2 Quick Questions).
3   685
Started by gimmepie

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RMT for Random Match Up

Nineray, Sep 2012: @platinumdude and @windowx I was worried about blaziken thanks for the advice. I will be ditching sammurot and torterra then replacing them with jellicent and Virizion. Il'll try to elaborate more when i get back
4   660
Started by Nineray

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[RMT] The Artist Appears

Thunder_Chad, Sep 2012: Thanks for the awesome suggestions guys! I will be sure to test them out and edit the original post if they work out well! -TChad
3   887
Started by Thunder_Chad

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[RU Trick Room] Team help

Medlis, Sep 2012: I was looking for a pokemon capable of using both Wish and Trick Room. Audino seemed to fit, with its lower speed. I changed the items as suggested and changed U-turn for Volt Switch.
3   1,143
Started by Medlis

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Wi-Fi Team Help?

Sheraseo, Sep 2012: I'm still having second thoughts about Zapdos and whether to swap him for another electric type Pokemon, i'm trying to basically cover as many elements as i can.
2   820
Started by Sheraseo

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I like Eelektross [NU RMT]

Vrai, Sep 2012: hlo nica, only rating because you asked! firstly, don't use defensive cm gardevoir - that's honestly misusing it, imo. it's not going to be taking any physical abuse well (sawk still 2HKOes it with close combat after SR, among many other things)...
3   2,173
Started by Ho-Oh

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[RMT] Rain Dancing is fun!

Fafiq, Sep 2012: Yeah, sorry for not anwsering in the topic for a moment, currently I'm like trying to solve myself in the mysteries of tiers :) I made a RU team for a moment, but it doesn't work since most of the pokes I want to use are UU. So maybe I'll try to...
4   1,270
Started by Fafiq

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Hail team help

DusknoirZac, Sep 2012: I am going to be recreating my team, so I'm basing it mostly on Abomasnow, Kyurem, and Walrein. I have access to Conkeldurr, Scizor, Terrakion, Jellicent, Tentacruel, Lapras, Glaceon, Chandelure, Ninetales, Haxorus and Dugtrio. I can get other...
6   1,412
Started by DusknoirZac

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Need help building team synergy

Bossk749, Sep 2012: Okay, I'll go with that, then. Thanks for explaining everything and helping out with my team (that goes for everyone who helped me). Now after I edit this post, I'm going to work on breeding them and then tell you the results after a couple of...
16   1,897
Started by Bossk749

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Uber team rate & help

Scaryghoul, Sep 2012: Thanksies ^^ I followed your advice and swapped Dusclops out for Reuniclus (Stats below), and changed blissey's stats around to what you mentioned. As for Landorus, I decided to make a separate pure OU team(just a mirror of the uber version but with...
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Started by Scaryghoul

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Random Team wins Local Tournament

PlatinumDude, Sep 2012: You could be right; sorry. I was just giving him a bit of advice there. xP But year, I kinda agree with you; achieving a win with a random team like that sure was amazing. xD
3   899
Started by Spoofus

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this is my pokemon platinum wifi team

le dragon, Sep 2012: let me know any adjustment such as item carried move sets and pokemon changes.(if needed) oh and please rate my team out of 5 thank you! starmie: impish nature ability illuminate moves:surf t wave thunderbolt ice beam item wave incense
0   1,244
Started by le dragon

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RMT: So Stall Me Maybe <3

Fire Flyy, Sep 2012: This is actually a good team so here's a rate. This team looks like it has an extremely hard time with Volt Turn, your only real decent switchin to Rotom-W is Dragonite, and he's Stealth Rock weak, a smart opponent could easily take one turn to...
4   1,343
Started by Saturated Hue

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Song of Perseus

Fire Flyy, Aug 2012: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm girl
0   873
Started by Fire Flyy

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Rate and make suggestions on my wifi team!

PlatinumDude, Aug 2012: Just so you know, we need to see the EVs and natures of your Pokemon, not just their stats. :/ Anyway: Despite the fact that Seismitoad's stats are balanced, its special movepool is better than its physical one. Seismitoad's current stats also...
1   642
Started by rodrigo296

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Sweep/annoy team

IceFyr1928, Aug 2012: I am working on getting/training the pkmn!
4   1,116
Started by IceFyr1928

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Six Paths of Pain (Dragon Team Support)

RealDon, Aug 2012: Is move-set of Dragonite alright? Also thanks for other info did make those changes.
2   1,262
Started by RealDon

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My OU Team (RMT)

Captain Fabio, Aug 2012: Please don't post in threads that are over a month old. Locked.
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Started by Absol

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UU Team Help.

Soar, Aug 2012: Wow i always kinda thought Bisharp was good xD But one thing i have noticed is that a big threat to this team is Porygon2! Focus Blast's accuracy can often be a letdown when i need it the most. But no team is perfect. Any other thoughts?
8   1,229
Started by Soar

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Help me make a better Wifi team

Novaxxbite, Aug 2012: every trainer should battle in his/her own way, developing unique strategies ect. maybe use the team you have set up and and have a test battle with another trainer so you can get a feel of how to use them in a real battle and the opposing trainer...
2   1,034
Started by zombie101

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NU RMT; I Wanna Go

Perriechu, Aug 2012: I'm back! n___n And with a cute NU team that hasn't done too badly, tbh. It's got its flaws, which is why I'm obviously making this RMT. But it's also got a few wins under its belt. Let's just jump right in, shall we? ...
0   824
Started by Perriechu

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Mono Fighting OU! An RMT

xxIGNorant, Aug 2012: Now that I think about it, it certainly does make sense to give the goat some more speed. I may keep T-wave, but replace Iron Head with Volt Switch and also change the nature. Before putting Medicham on this team, I was at a loss at what to do for...
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Started by xxIGNorant

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Rate my OU team

PlatinumDude, Aug 2012: Seriously? >_> No way. Terrakion is holding a Choice Scarf, which means that if it uses SD while holding said item, it gets locked into the move until it switches. This Terrakion set is meant to be a revenge killer, not something that can plow...
2   923
Started by Camzikazi

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Rate My OU Team Plzz

Perriechu, Aug 2012: no DON'T. Dragon Dance would be useless as he's running a Choice Scarf on Haxorus and Gastrodon doesn't need Surf since it isn't running an offensive set.
3   1,101
Started by GreyShadow

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Houses Of The Holy (Ubers)

Fire Flyy, Aug 2012: I'd put kyogre in your threats list, it 2hkos your entire team Ianeh: tell him specs palk > dialga sr on ferro exca > kabu and scarf ogre Divination: lol k Ianeh: :3 Ianeh: .-. Ianeh: - lila so in short specs palkia gives you another...
1   1,216
Started by ManOfSteele

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UU Team

Soar, Aug 2012: I stand corrected, I ran into 4 or 5 CBFlygons today. But i took your advice and bated the outrage with Gligar the switched into my Bisharp. Saved myself from a few sweeps. As for Sharpedo, it is a pain in the butt -_- I was running tests with...
6   1,430
Started by Soar

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Rate my pokemon showdown team

PlatinumDude, Aug 2012: Dragonite can somewhat check Breloom while Sleep Clause is in effect, due to it resisting its STABs, but it also has to watch out for Stone Edge: -Dragon Dance -Outrage -Fire Punch -Earthquake/Roost/ExtremeSpeed Nature: Adamant/Jolly EVs: 252...
5   21,793
Started by A Sadistic Bastard

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I need a bit help here..

Camzikazi, Aug 2012: i like it.ANOTHER! maybe add a more powerful flying type attack or even hurricane if you feel like it
5   1,050
Started by Pokemon Trainer UV
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