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Into The New World :: Generation V Competitive Metagame Discussion

UltiMario

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So anyone that said Slowbro was bad...

Zapdos + Slowbro.

I swear to god this core is invincible. With other team support to cover TTar, Blissey and the like (CONKELDURR) better it gets even worse.

**** lightningrod.
 

Wave⁂

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I think Volt Absorb Lanturn and CM Raikou are some "decent" counters. And Dory, if you have Sand support.
 

kirbyraeg

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told ya.

those guys can eat a boil over/toxic for their trouble (i think a lot of slowbro will start running toxic+boil over just because he's being used as a wall vs sandstorm sweepers), and zapdos can subroost stall for toxic/burn damage while switching in on those hits coming in on slowbro.
 

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I've been seriously underestimating the power of Lightscreen/Reflect my whole competitive pokemon career. I'm running a team right now with light clay espeon, bulk up Roob, CM Rank, and Curse Nattorei. It's amazing how easy it is to set up and sweep with screen support, especially if the person setting up is bulky to begin with.
 

UltiMario

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Probably for anti-everything

Block Rocks, spikes, seed, Taunt, etc AND set up screens?
 

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i got a question. is it legal to use mystery gift pokemon that know event moves

ex. the shiny entei from the gamestop mystery gift that knows flare blitz?
 

Terywj [태리]

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I'd try laddering on Shoddy if they didn't have team previews. I'd much rather play on Pokemon Online's server's UU where the Latios roam free.

...That was an exaggeration, but you understand my point.
 

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I've been seriously underestimating the power of Lightscreen/Reflect my whole competitive pokemon career. I'm running a team right now with light clay espeon, bulk up Roob, CM Rank, and Curse Nattorei. It's amazing how easy it is to set up and sweep with screen support, especially if the person setting up is bulky to begin with.
Oh man, it's almost as if someone who was me mentioned that on just the other page :mad:
 

UltiMario

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Good ****, Ulti. Not to many ZapBro in that top 50?
I actually got to like 1299 legit then set my rating super far to beat up wimpy people until that point.

yeah....

The only real ZapBro I fight are in Cease Tick's Team. Holy **** Cstick knows how to build a defensive core. Other than that, I saw one in the 1100s.

It's a severely underestimated duo, though. I hope it never picks up, though, because then we'll have to build a new team.
 

The Real Gamer

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Nice Ulti. I've also had a bit of success currently in the top 100 on the PO leaderboard atm but that's obviously not as impressive since it's PO.

If only Smogon didn't have team previews...
 

Wave⁂

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Or you could use Tyranitar and have a good Attack stat. Spiritomb has Sucker Punch, though...
 

Wave⁂

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You should have scrolled down to show how you're above Ulti.

Or you're not above Ulti, and it's a different server. Regardless, well done!
 

The Real Gamer

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Haha I wish the Smogon server didn't have team preview cause I would have loved to. XD

Expect a RMT for the team that got me there once the tournament is over.
 

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Not the highest I've made it though. I think I once made it to 6th on either this account or my alt, but it was largely because at the time everyone else was new to the meta and had no idea what they were doing. This made it really easy to just grind through with my old Ubers team from Gen IV (slightly modified). It was also back when only 1 person had above a 1400, as opposed to now where nobody in the top 8 has below a 1500.

I recently just started playing Standard Ubers but I haven't been able to even get up to a 1200 rating yet because there's so few people who play it now.
 

The Real Gamer

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Hence the reason the joke was supposed to be funny.

But nevertheless being #1 simultaneously on two different servers must take a **** load of time.
 

UltiMario

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I wish I could go onto the PO server just to ladder up to like #2 and be an *** lol
 

Terywj [태리]

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If you log into the Pokemon Online server, they have a "UU list" which is really just an OU list--therefore defining the lower tier. I personally just picked Pokemon I wanted to use and tried to be on the UU ladders. Dream World UU doesn't have Zuruzukin but WiFi UU does so that's what I'm playing.
 

UltiMario

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As a warning, I won't be appealing to all audiences in this future post, especially not ones of the PO or Wifi Kind.
 
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