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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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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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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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[RMT] RU / NU Team

--Nirvana--, Mar 2012: Now, to be honest, I don't really know what tier this team belongs in :P (I do now... it's UU!). Anyways, this is my team and so far, I have had some luck with it. I still feel it could be better. Here it is: i. Drapion: Held Item:...
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Blasting to the Past

.Gamer, Jan 2012: I was considering Taunt on Gyara I just wasn't sure what to replace. I do have some problems with Spikes and Stall in general due to my lack of a Spinner and was considering Starmie over Kingdra but I'm not sure how much I'll miss the Specs power....
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Rate my WiFi Team

$lowking, Mar 2012: Wow, thanks for the input. I was thinking I could eleminate the threat of taunt by switching out to Blissey, but I suppose you are right... I am aware that Garchomp is uber. I will look at this later, but I must go now.
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Rain Dance Team Help

$lowking, Aug 2012: Thank you so much! This will help tremendously! For the last slot I am deciding between the Toxic Spikes Cruel and the Extreme Speed Dragonite. I'll make up my mind eventually, but thank you!
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My Personal Best [OU] Team

PokeMastro, Jul 2013: I have been fiddling around and made a "baton pass team" consisting of Skarmory for Def Wall, Blissey as SpD Wall, Espeon and Huntail as Passers, and Gengar and Heracross as SpA and Atk sweepers respectively, not a great team at all but have yet to...
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Dodrio Based NU Team [Advice Wanted]

PlatinumDude, Apr 2013: Keep Armaldo. It's the rest of the team that needs work. Another Pokémon to consider is Sawk, who can beat the Rocks and Steels that plague Dodrio: -Close Combat -Ice Punch -Stone Edge -Earthquake/Reversal/Toxic Nature: Adamant/Jolly EVs: 4...
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White Team.

14Henderson7, Nov 2011: *Applaud* I applaud you on your excellent detail of changing. And now that I see where you're coming from, I'm going to do some more homework and come out with a newer team. This time I'll throw some descriptions on what role they play.
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New OU team, let's build off it.

14Henderson7, Mar 2012: Another Update added.Testing to begin....now.
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Sandstorm FTW

sent1mental, Jan 2012: Starmie and Cradily needs to go you dont really need a spinner when you have gliscor, lucario and landrous immune to toxic and not to mention 2 of them arent hurt by spikes. leftovers on TTar > focus stash. focus stash is for suicide leads and in...
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Monotype Team

Ratty524, Dec 2011: First of all, for your leads, I would either choose crobat or gengar over drapion. Crobat's immunity from flinches makes it an expert for dealing against fake out leads, most notably infernape and meinshao, and with 130 base speed it will have no...
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Sandstorm Help?

14Henderson7, Nov 2011: Tried Reuniclus, didn't work so well. I may try Alakazam with magic guard instead. Tested cradily with curse, not so efficient. Think ill stick with what I got. Magnezone does better than empoleon. Thinking I may try Starmie or even Heatran....
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First competitive team.

TheGr8, Oct 2011: I mentioned my set with Lum Berry earlier as well, eh personally I do fine with just DD and Lum Berry.
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After a long break...

14Henderson7, Feb 2012: It's a consideration. Depends on if I can find a reasonable replacement for someone for a Stealth Rock user without hurting the team.
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Sandstorm OU

PlatinumDude, Apr 2013: Mixed lead Tyranitar is perfectly viable, as while it doesn't have the best Special Attack, it can use its wide special movepool to surprise its counters, so the OP probably chose its current set for the surprise factor. I'd say that Gastrodon is...
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Started by 14Henderson7

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my first team.

1ninjadude1701, Jun 2012: thanks making changes. i am very new to competetive battling so thanks. For replacing.golem how is rock how about a fighting type?
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Lookin' for a Legendary Replacement

1UpedAngel, May 2012: Hello, I'm 1UpedAngel, and I'm looking for some help deciding on a replacement for my current Latios (Quick note, this team is only competitive between me and my friends, so don't go ballistic over something like my Serperior, please. That's just...
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Help on my offensive andstorm team.

PlatinumDude, Feb 2013: Normally, I'd make Tyranitar a setter-upper of Stealth Rock, but since Metagross is already carrying it, a Choice set might be better: -Crunch -Pursuit -Stone Edge -Superpower Nature: Adamant/Jolly EVs: 180 HP/252 Atk/76 Spe (Adamant) or 4...
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Rate my Team

Aurasphereboy, Oct 2012: that's a good team! It would be nice to know what abillitys they have and what level they are
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4th gen team help

PlatinumDude, Aug 2011: Togekiss needs Roost in the third slot so it can keep paraflinching the opponent. Swampert needs Ice Beam over Ice Punch so that it can deal with physical walls more easily, and the EVs need to be this: 248 HP/216 Def/44 SDef. Gengar can also...
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Started by 7Mufasa7

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Dream World UU Team.

97Tarsier, Jul 2011: Speed isnt really a problem with this team since these pokemon are actually Bulky excluding Arcanine
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New to battling. Rate my team.

MartyrXLR, Apr 2012: Your Haxorus is good, but it's going to struggle behind... well, almost everything. I would recommend giving it a choice scarf with Rock Slide instead of Dual Chop. Surf over Hydro Pump with your Cloyster. You're going to want the reliability...
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Monotype dragon team

A Sadistic Bastard, Apr 2012: I just need a way to combat Gastrodon. I actually had a 6 win streak using this team in my team in triple battles. Gastrodon ruined it.
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OU team

A Sadistic Bastard, May 2012: I might actually try that. As for Latios, I would rather have it inflict a large amount of damage immediately then switch out.
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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...
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A quick question...and please rate my team!

Musica, Jan 2012: So it was nerfed? >_< My bad, I didn't know about that in this Gen. I guess your bet as a spinner would be Starmie, but if you want something that can lay down entry hazards too, you can use Tentacruel. Just get ready for Spin Blockers.
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Started by 何贤豪

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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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Need help on building my OU team

PlatinumDude, Jul 2012: While Sceptile can do kinda well in OU, it's somewhat frail and it can easily be revenged by Scizor. Ferrothorn can pull off a similar job that Sceptile does, only that it's slower. If you want to keep Sceptile, that's fine: -Stealth Rock/Spikes...
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Started by Adryel

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[Pokemon White: First competitive battling team]

Snorelacks, Aug 2011: I think you probably want to go UU, and if you choose to do so, Shiftry might support your team really well. It can run Baton Pass, Lead sets, or just sweep on its own. If you use Shiftry, however, it will give your team three Pokemon weak to...
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New at this, some help would be great

PlatinumDude, Oct 2012: What are your Pokemon's EVs? Anyway: A miss from Night Daze could be costly for Zoroark, considering its low defenses, so it might be a better idea to use Dark Pulse instead. EV spread should be 4 HP/252 SAtk/252 Spe. Luster Purge is a...
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First ever pokemon team help

AKBlue, May 2013: 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...
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depressed teams in your area

Alaskan Husky, Jul 2013: Hi! Thanks for responding. EVs are for the most part random, I guess. I used an old specially defensive spread that was hip on Smogon in Latias-era 4th gen, which is... admittedly not the best way to go about choosing spreads, haha. It works fine...
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Potential Pokemon Online Rock Gym Leader Team

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lineofdeath, Jan 2013: Gigalith could go, tyranitar to me is better.
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(Gen V RMT) Can i have a Substitution??

.Aero, Jun 2011: Your team threw me off a bit, and I thought you wanted me to rate a team of 9 pokemon. xD I recommend throwing the pokemon that you no longer use into a spoiler tag to keep them separate. Scolipede isn't the best pokemon at his job. Other pokemon...
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Started by altaria221

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Gen IV: First Trick Room

Amore, Jun 2011: Metagross would be good...but that leaves me with 3 Fire weaknesses, two resists and a pokémon that, if it survives beyond its' initial outing, will be OHKOd by anything it isn't immune to. What would I swap Gyarados for? Dragonite can't really...
2   1,570
Started by Amore

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rate and suggest my pokemon team

andres230195, Dec 2011: Hello everybody :) I don't know too much about making really good teams, actually I'm a noob when wi-fi battles come so, could yo please rate my team and suggest moves EV's and items please? I don't care much about the natures and i know it's better...
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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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Fifth Gen Generic Sand

PlatinumDude, Feb 2012: This isn't a rate, but I wanted say some things regarding your EV spreads on Tyranitar, Landorus and Scizor. Tyranitar needs all the power (or bulk) it can get (252 HP/4 Atk/252 SDef). Landorus' HP Ice already hits Gliscor and Salamence hard...
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Started by antemortem

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team rate thread yeah!

Anti, Nov 2011: Thanks Impo :) I removed Hardy in favor of Bold. That was a pretty silly oversight though I guess it's nice to know that even without a beneficial nature Rotom is still awesome? Thanks though, haha. I have been testing Heatran...so far, mixed...
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Started by Anti

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Gen 5 Team RMT [Coming back to Competitive Battling]

PlatinumDude, Jul 2011: Shadow Ball has little utility on Rotom-W this generation, so Hidden Power (Fire) or (Ice) can go there instead.
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Started by Apple Juice

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My first OU Team in awhile.

Ho-Oh, Mar 2012: On Jirachi you really need Iron Head with that set, while it seems good to get by on just Body Slam - you don't have a flinch rate on it and you're just basically halving your opportunities for their attacks not to hit (uh you know what I mean) for...
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Started by Apple Juice

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Looking for help.

PlatinumDude, Mar 2013: Metagross is good, yes, but I'm not sure where it should even go. Here are some sets you can choose from: -Stealth Rock -Meteor Mash -Pursuit -Earthquake/Hammer Arm Nature: Adamant EVs: 252 HP/96 Atk/160 SDef Item: Leftovers or
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Started by arcanineforprez

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Rate my HG/SS Team

Arceus Whisper, Aug 2011: Thanks you guys for the advice,I changed to charge beam on Manectric instead of roar, changed Gardevoir's nature and run Will-o-Wisp instead of take down on Camerupt. Your advice is greatly appreciated
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Need help with my team

PlatinumDude, Aug 2011: This Dragonite set is good, but it doesn't really need ThunderPunch. It's better left to Fire Punch or Earthquake for Steels. Also, you can consider adding Roost instead of ExtremeSpeed and use Multiscale as your ability so that Dragonite isn't a...
10   792
Started by archeops14

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My Fire Mono Team

Miss Doronjo, Feb 2013: People generally like to put Sunny Day on Ninetales to use on prediction of a opposing weather-starter switch. For instance, say you send in Ninetales against a Ferrothorn, while the opponent has a Drizzle Politoad. You can predict the switch to...
3   2,486
Started by Aryan143

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A Rainy Team

PlatinumDude, Feb 2012: You can get Rotom from an in-game trade in B/W, then breed it with Ditto for the right Hidden Power. As for Gyarados, I suppose it's an acceptable alternative: -Rest -Sleep Talk -Waterfall -Dragon Tail/Roar Nature: Impish EVs: 252 HP/252...
5   681
Started by Asrodrig

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A Sunny Team

Asrodrig, Feb 2012: I'm a fan of weather teams. I've ran Sandstorm, Rain, and even Hail teams before, but Sun always seemed like the least effective of the lot. Gen 5 fixed that with Ninetales. Read and rate! :D Ninetales: The Sun Summoner...
0   670
Started by Asrodrig

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AtavanHalen343's Little Cup Champeenship Contenders

AtavanHalen343, Apr 2012: Could a mod please close this? I didn't think through this enough and I'm not gonna be using/updating this team further.
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Started by AtavanHalen343

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[OU] Balanced Team

♫Walk♫, Apr 2013: Thanx for the reply. You are right on the Aerodactyl Ill play the. For the Terrakion over Mienshao .. To be honest you migth be right, the reason why I put Mienshao is because I read somewhere that Hi Jump Kick was a really strong move.If I...
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Started by ♫Walk♫

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Kanto OU Team

RandomTrainerWhoCould, Jun 2012: Machamp could use Payback to hit ghost types, so you can get rid of thunderpunch for that. Dragonite can use Dragon claw over Outrage because you really don't want to get locked into that Outrage, especially if it's a bulky DD set. And the special...
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Started by Aureol

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Rate my Unova team if you will

Aust77, Jul 2011: Mods, if you'd kindly delete this thread, I'd appreciate it. It was not properly written for CBC; I'm not experienced enough in battle lingo to have a proper RMT yet. Sorry.
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