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Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 12:38:22 No.33279560 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>33279578 >>33279661 >>33279672 >>33281286

>want to get into competitive Pokemon
>none of the Pokemon I actually like are considered viable
>all of the ones that are I either only moderately like, or hate
Why does it have to be like this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 12:43:03 No.33279578 Report

Quoted By: >>33279715

>>33279560
Just go on showdown and play in whatever tier your favourites are viable in.
Or just say fuck it and bring Drapion to OU like I do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 12:46:28 No.33279595 Report

Quoted By: >>33279620 >>33279629

>Want to get into competitive
>I suck at anything that isn't biking/running in circles
>Try to get into online competitions
>My ass returns to me on a silver platter
>Try to showdown
>Is fun, but full of everyone using the same teams, often a far cry from actual in-game usage
>Still suck at it, get bored
>Try to into battle tree
>"But my strategy's perfect AJDBEHSLFBWOZ!???"
>Suck at analyzing issues in my team
>Get bored
>Year later
>Nothing's changed

I like watching battles and I like playing them. It's just, I suck when it comes to actually making viable strategies, and constantly losing doesn't really motivate me to try harder either.
Is it me, or is the learning curve for competitive just incredibly steep?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 12:53:46 No.33279620 Report

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I know that feel
>>33279595
and this too aside from the battle tree being easy to handle. I'm content with shiny hunting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 12:55:18 No.33279629 Report

Quoted By: >>33279635 >>33279668 >>33281167

>>33279595
>Is it me, or is the learning curve for competitive just incredibly steep?
If you want to use a team comprising of anything other than Arcanine, Gyarados, Garchomp, Tapu Lele, and Kartana, then yeah, you're gonna have a hard time.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 12:57:13 No.33279633 Report

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When it comes battling, you either use the best or start going in the lower tiers.
Unless it's Battle Spot, in hich case you have to learn to be creative.
>that one Gliscor/Vaporeon/Chandelure team I had a time back

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 12:57:25 No.33279635 Report

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>>33279629
Of that list, I've only ever used Arcanine. I guess my wanting to be original is being a hindrance.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 13:03:03 No.33279660 Report

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>>33279635
That's how it is, unfortunately. There are now over 800 mons, but competitive teams boil down to about twelve of them, maybe not even that. It all comes down to stat distribution, movepool, and abilities.
From what I've seen, the American competitive scene is less about actual fighting and more about trying to destroy the opponent's setup before they can really start. It's part of why Intimidate is such a popular ability.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 13:03:21 No.33279661 Report

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>>33279560
Gamefreak tries to balance out the shitty designs by making them very strong so that at least one group of players (competitive) likes them. Otherwise you get complete trainwrecks like Spinda which no one uses and no one likes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 13:05:16 No.33279668 Report

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>>33279629
>still promoting your dead meta
kys

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 13:06:33 No.33279672 Report

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>>33279560
The cool thing about tiers is that, if a Pokemon isn't viable in one of them, it will probably be in other

Just search for the tier your bro is in and main that

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 13:18:25 No.33279715 Report

Quoted By: >>33281154

>>33279578
Thete is still a problem. The smogon tiers are not good at dividing pokemon.
For example I cant use Salamance and Stoutland toghether.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 17:17:10 No.33281154 Report

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>>33279715
Yes you can.
You can bring lower tier mons into higher tiers.
Use CB sandrush stoutland with tyranitar or hippowndon, then a z fly salamance and fill in the rest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 17:19:14 No.33281167 Report

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>>33279629
*giggles*

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 17:36:42 No.33281279 Report

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The best teams are cookie cutter with one oddball. Be that an oddball set on a premier mon, or a totally irrelevant mon, it just needs to be unprepared for.

For example, I was playing OU. I saw some guy use and build around Mega Altaria. I had nothing for his bulky ddance roost heal bell return set because he built around it with Dugtrio Magnezone, Lele, and some other mons I can't think of.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 17:37:50 No.33281286 Report

Quoted By: >>33281382 >>33281392

>>33279560

You can be good at competitive Battles or you can have fun.

Pick one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 17:51:42 No.33281382 Report

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>>33281286
typical excuse bad players use to justify being bad

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Aug 2017 17:54:02 No.33281392 Report

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>>33281286
I've had more fun doing competitive battles than I've ever had playing through the shitty single player.

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