>>19513647What you should probably do is steal some good RMT from smogon and start playing. Improve your prediction skills, get to know what sets are used in the meta; you can help yourself by checking the smogon XY analyses in the forum, it's not a problem when you're beginning
When you've used multiple RMTs and figured out what's your favorite playstyle, try to join some room on PS like cpg or #pokemon on the Smogon IRC and ask someone to teach you how to teambuild. You can also subscribe to Battling 101 on Smogon but I've never done that so can't tell you how it is, if someone on smogon IRC tells you to do B101, just tell them you don't feel like joining a tournament and being with a tutor everytime just to learn how to teambuild
Listen to the guy teaching you how to teambuild, how to fix up weaknesses in a team; just use smogon sets when teambuilding, it's not a problem when you're beginning, and they're usually the best sets for that pokémon
Try making a few teams and ladder with them; don't only save your wins, most importantly, save your losses and view them when the battle is over to see why you lost. Is it because you mispredicted? You didn't know a pokémon ran an attack? You let a pokémon get KOed early on when it could have been useful afterwards?
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