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Offense VS defense

Do you preffer offensive batteling or defensive?

  • Offensive

    Votes: 39 78.0%

  • Defensive

    Votes: 11 22.0%
  • Total voters
    50

Walrein

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    I'm more of an offensive-minded trainer-most of my Pokemon are sweepers, I also like Choice items very much. The defensive Pokemon I do run are the likes of Walrein and Articuno-those stallers and supportes that are still cepable for attacking when needed; I just have a hard time using offensively-immobilised Pokemon (read: I never used Shuckle)...Ice is also a rather shaky defensive typing, but fanatstric on the offensive side.
     
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    well in emerald i never cared about strategy and weakness. all i cared about was getting my pokemon strong enough to ko almost anything even type disadvantages. until i got gale of darkness in wich case it completely turned that around.
     
    For me it is speed and strong attack so I can hit them as hard as possible...but with that I must also have strategy too...
     
    I lean more towards offense when I create a team, however I do have the odd tanks and defensive Pokemon (e.g: Golem etc. :))
     
    I focus on offense but with some Defense is necessary to gain offensive abilities like Leftovers Gyra that I use.
     
    They're both useful, but I use offense more than defense. But defense is effective when I'm battling others. xD
     
    My party is usually offense but I still use some tankers like Golem to help me beat my friends when I connect to them.
     
    Defense is only useful when battling offensive minded trainers; however, offense works just as well against offense. That said, I'd like to be the first to say I'm a defensively-minded trainer.
     
    Offense, definalty. I know it helps and everything, but defence to me seems like a waste of time. Beter to go offensive, in my point of veiw. If defense flats your boat, go for it, but im the offense guy. XD
     
    I understand the values of defense and if you were to ask me which was better, I'd say defense. However, I find it easier to find, build, and use movesets built around offense... I like defense but find myself using offense more often.
     
    I definitely play offensive, mainly because I don't have the patience to focus on Defense. Speed is a major focus for me, because it drives me crazy when my Pokemon faint because they aren't fast enough to land a hit first. Special Attack and Attack come next, and I just think of HP/Defense/Sp. Defense as a bonus. Which is probably why I absolutely fail at competitive battling, but I only battle in-game anyways. ._.;;;
     
    Like the sweeping ranged team. Get rid of them fast so they don't have a chance. Although I do try out some other teams, the sweeping ranged one is the one I like best.
     
    The question is sort of vague. Obviously most people play through the actual game with a purely offensive team; what point is there in doing otherwise when you're not battling competitively? It'd just take too long, and wouldn't be worth it at all.

    That said, when it comes to competitive battling, I prefer a little bit of both. I also dislike pokemon like shuckle, since people can switch in on him and set up, so he's not that great. Blissey is a very defensive pokemon, but I've seen her manage to sweep four or more pokemon in a row because she's so difficult to take down, and has a move like seismic toss which is reliable damage all the time.

    Battling with purely defensive teams can go okay, but usually if anything goes wrong it's not good. It's always good to mix defensive and offensive together; a well built team with both offensive and defensive pokemon will most likely be able to take out a team that's purely offensive. There are different strategies, though... so for a doubles hail team I'm making, there's a surprising amount of defensive pokemon on it; mainly because stalling is something that hail teams do fantastically. :)
     
    Depends what you're trying to achieve. if you're looking for a quick battle, an easy way to finish off the opponent, offensive for sure, but if you want to induce status and slowly watch them get KO'ed, then a stall technique would be suited there, so defensive. They're both great, but I like offensive mainly because I CBF waiting 1 hour to finish a battle.
     
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