Male
Texas
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 3rd, 2021
I mean the whole 'you can't counter everything' I thought at least was pretty common knowledge. In terms of deciding to make a team, the easiest way to go about it in my opinion is picking a central pokemon or core that you're interested in using. A lot of the times this Pokémon will be a mega, which is an awesome starting point because it's always going to be a centralizing pokemon and if supported well by its teammates is almost guaranteed to be effective, or a common typing core such as Fire/Water/Grass, Fairy/Dragon/Steel, etc. or even a offensive core with Specs/Band or defensive cores, but those are less common for a reason (aren't as easy to build around). Once you've decided what you want to try out - for example, let's say SubSeed Serperior. Realize its glaring weaknesses and find the best counters to those weaknesses with another Pokémon, like Landorus-T for momentum, rocks, and a counter to Pokémon that wall Serp such as Heatran. From there it's mainly about filling in holes. A spinner, a wall, etc etc.
I could go more in depth but I feel like it's pretty simple. I'm by no means saying I'm good at team building - I'm actually painfully average at it and have only had serious success laddering with other people's teams, but this is what I think is the best way to build.