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Posted May 27th, 2009
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Thanks, I'll probably put those in.
As for attacks, here's what I've got.
Espeon lvl 51
Future Sight, Grass Knot, Psybeam, Last Resort.
Dragonite lvl 92
Dragon Rush, Outrage, Fly, Dragon Dance
Empoleon lvl 86
Surf, Ice Beam, Drill Peck, Hydro Cannon.
Your pokemon should look more like this:

Espeon
Petaya Berry
Psychic
Grass Knot
Substitute
Shadow Ball

Dragonite:
Yache Berry/Lum Berry/Leftovers
Dragon Claw/Outrage
Dragon Dance
Earthquake
Fire Punch/Roost

Empoleon:
Leftovers
Surf
Ice Beam
Grass Knot
Stealth Rock/Toxic

These are just some options, there are others one could choose from.
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Seen December 8th, 2013
Posted December 5th, 2013
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15.9 Years
Thanks, I'll probably put those in.
As for attacks, here's what I've got.
Espeon lvl 51
Future Sight, Grass Knot, Psybeam, Last Resort.
Dragonite lvl 92
Dragon Rush, Outrage, Fly, Dragon Dance
Empoleon lvl 86
Surf, Ice Beam, Drill Peck, Hydro Cannon.
Just a basic few tips:
Never mix physical and special moves together unless you know you can pull it off (i.e. Infernape as a mix sweeper).
Move redundancy is redundant. Using two moves of the same type isn't suggested. It lowers your type coverage. Likely one move will be more powerful or practical than the other. If that is the case, then why bother having the move that is less powerful/practical when you could be using a move of a different type so that you can hit more Pokemon?
Never use moves that leave you helpless for a turn. Fly, Hyper Beam, Hydro Cannon, etc. They're all just begging the opponent to switch in a Pokemon that can potentially sweep your whole team.
Levels don't matter. With wi-fi's auto-level to 100 feature and programs like shoddybattle, everybody nowadays just assume that you have lv. 100s.
Always stick an item on your Pokemon. Even if it's just leftovers, something is better than nothing most of the time.

Also, you may want to look into EVs. A guide can be found here.

@ darthalex: Here is a good place to start.
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Posted November 24th, 2009
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Thank you soo much! I'm just starting this competitive battling stuff, so I'm still not sure about it all.
Could I just use Dusclops, since I don't have Dusknoir? Or would it be better to get one?
@Jpp8 Really? I didn't know the levels changed automatically. XD
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Thank you soo much! I'm just starting this competitive battling stuff, so I'm still not sure about it all.
Could I just use Dusclops, since I don't have Dusknoir? Or would it be better to get one?
@Jpp8 Really? I didn't know the levels changed automatically. XD
Its highly recommended that you do get one, it's stats are far more superior to Dusclops and it possesses a much larger movepool.
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i get the concept of ev's but how do you train them/ know what to train them on?
You train them by defeating the pokemon that possesses the desired Ev point, you train them on either the strengths of the pokemon or your own creativity(a Gengar with maxed attack for example).

For example, a special sweeper like Alakazam should fight and defeat pokemon with sp. att and speed Evs like Starly or Roselia.
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say for the special sweeper alakzam, right from the start of when you get it you should train it on only starlys and roselias?

can you have stealth rock and spikes/ toxic spikes at the same time?

also what would be a good example of good offensive team?
Yes you should, btw there are other pokemon with Evs far greater than those two like Golbat for Speed Evs or Haunter for Sp. Att EVs.

Depending on the pokemon, it is possible to have all 3/2 of those(only a select few can have them all).

You should go for a balanced team, an all Offensive team can be easily destroyed by tanks/defensive pokemon.

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You should go for a balanced team, an all Offensive team can be easily destroyed by tanks/defensive pokemon.
Actually, offensive teams are by far the most common types of team in the current metagame. Numerous attackers are powerful enough to break walls nowadays.

darthalex, an offensive team consists of fast hitting sweepers and revenge killers. There are numerous options for an offensive team. Obviously, it needs to be balanced to take advantage of resistances and such, but that's the general idea ;D

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Depending on the pokemon, it is possible to have all 3/2 of those(only a select few can have them all).

You should go for a balanced team, an all Offensive team can be easily destroyed by tanks/defensive pokemon.

thats cool, but can you have say stealth rock and spikes "in play" at the same time, so if someone switches in a whatever it gets hit by both SR and spikes?
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This is getting a little out of hand. There is another thread for team building.


I'd like to know all the multipliers all attack boosting elements sport.
For example, I know that the Life Orb raises attack or special attack by 1.3x,
Choice band increases attack by 1.5x,
And Wise Glasses boost special attack stats by 1.2x

Correct me if any of this information is wrong.
I'd also like to know:
How much simple type items boost stats by (nevermeltice for example)
How much Plates boost by (Spook Plate, Fist Plate etc)
How much stage modifiers boost by (eg, after using how, I get +1 attack, what multiplier is this?)
Abilities such as Chlorophyll and Swift Swim, Overgroww and Torrent.

And anything else you can think of that I have missed, please, let me know.
Thanks.
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That way, you can obtain natures easier (everstone + Ditto).
So when i'm finished, make a Pokemon hold an Everstone and breed with a ditto, and the resulting Pokemon will have the same nature as the Everstone-holding-Poke?

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somewhere in this forum it says +1 +2 ect But i think it increase by ).5 EG start at 1 then +1 makes 1.5 +2 make 2 Understand?

Only the Everstone holding ditto will passs its Nature Or if there is no ditto the Mother will pass its nature if holding everstone. But there is only a 50% chance

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So when i'm finished, make a Pokemon hold an Everstone and breed with a ditto, and the resulting Pokemon will have the same nature as the Everstone-holding-Poke?
No, but there is a higher chance that it will.

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in competetive UU, is there any poke thats used quite a lot that you need an answer for?

starting to design my team and need to know if there is anything like that to take into account
Off the top of my head consider these Shaymin, Scyther, Yanmega and Swellow :)
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Would it be leagal to used a
Shedinja, Spiritomb and a Skill Swapper in a double battle to make a wondertomb? XD poster a team i had but it diddent get approved

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ok I need help finishing this team. Its not really super-competitive, but it needs to be decent/above average


Gallade
Drain Punch
Swords Dance
Close Combat
Psycho Cut

Vaporeon
Ice Beam
Surf
Hydro Pump
Acid Armor

Magmortar
Thunderpunch
Flamethrower
Lava Plume
Confuse Ray

Drapion
Toxic Spikes
Poison Jab
Cross Poison
Ice Fang

Staraptor
Brave Bird
Close Combat
Endeavor
Fly

(Empty Spot) pls help!


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