Your First Strategies

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  1. Trucy

    Trucy New Member

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    Pretty self explanatory~

    When you started your quest to become a competitive Pokémon master, who/what strategies did you choose?

    i personally started off with a Ninjask baton passing to a Gallade with Close Combat, Night Shade, Ice punch and Leaf Blade. Netted me a decent win-loss ratio, and gave me a good first impression of the whole competitive battling thing.

    Until I realized what Stealth Rock was.

    Discuss :3
     
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  2. Mattstah

    Mattstah Emotional Sickness

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    Baton Passing with Mew. Didn't work out so well as it does for me now.
     
  3. Archerknight

    Archerknight Legends

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    I made the long Baton Pass chain, which I still use in OU adv.
     
  4. Platinum

    Platinum ~tilde~

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    I used Reversal Heracross in ADV, it was so good if there was no Ttar, sadly after that I realized there were too many Ttar around.

    Old days, good memories ^^
     
  5. User Name

    User Name Life is a maze

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    Well, I joined competitive battling rather late, so Trick Room was, IIRC, my first-ever team. :P
    And I never felt the full depth of how inexperienced I was until I realized I had given my Shell Break Cloyster a Choice Band. XD
     
  6. Key

    Key Avid Ideologist

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    My first "strategies" consisted of copy/pasting smogon movesets.
     
  7. チャンピオンワタル

    チャンピオンワタル HYPER BEAM!

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    My first "strategies" consisted of Hyper Beam.
     
  8. champagne papi

    champagne papi if young tokyo tom don't trust you...

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    Mixed sweepers everywhere. My first team EVER (on NetBattle I was 10)

    Mixed Claydol
    Mixed Dnite (with Outrage lol, in 3g)
    Mixed Marowak
    MixMence
    Mixed Metagross
    Mixed Gyarados

    One word. Pro.
     
  9. Zeffy

    Zeffy Member

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    This. My friend told me to do so. When I found out that over half of their sets doesn't work much, I reinvented myself.
     
  10. HeroOfSinnoh

    HeroOfSinnoh Banned

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    I use a Brongzong dual screen. I still do >.>
    Boy ... I need to brush up my skills.
     
  11. Cake

    Cake Member

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    Attack until they die. It works.
     
  12. Drigger

    Drigger Fabula Nova Crystallis

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    Let's see

    Endure Reversal Blaziken was a Win in gen 3 Ou then Tyranitar started spoiling things, I dont even think thats a viable strategy anymore...

    I'm a more defensive battler but I had a Ninjask to LO Heatran for a while but that got Pwned so i just went into the monotonous Flygon Scoutting sets but that's life

    I dont have a set strategy right now but Speed Boost Blaziken FTW!!
     
  13. PhoenixClaw

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    I remember using a BellyZard with Substitute. It rarely worked, but when I got to pull it off, there were many casualties.

    Oh, and an Encore Machamp. I was amazed how many people would try to set up on him only to get screwed over. It was glorious.

    There was even a time I ran ScarfChamp. That was rather fun.

    But nothing compares to:

    Toxicroak @ Black Sludge
    Ability: Dry Skin
    Nature: Impish (+Def/-SpA)
    EVs: 252 HP/252 Def/4 Spe
    Bulk Up
    Poison Jab
    Rain Dance
    Sucker Punch

    Been using this thing for 2+ years and it still manages to sweep teams. No one ever expects this.
     
  14. Nexus

    Nexus Legend Killer

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    I used a LEafeon with flail . WAS okay . ANd my lead was a SD weavile ! man that was awesome .
    My oppenents just SR up while SD .I always get +4 or +6 early and have swept like 20+ teams with it?
    ANd also I used a stall ludicolo which was awesome . EVs were MAX hp and 100 def 152 sp.def
    MOVes-
    -Toxic
    -RAin dance
    -protect
    -leech seed
    ( WIth rain dish and protect dude FTW !! IT restores a hell amount of HP each turn . DOnt know how it will work now though
     
  15. Archerknight

    Archerknight Legends

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    Oh, I remember in the battle factory for me. I thought this Gyarados was good:

    Fire Blast
    Hydro Pump
    Thunderbolt
    Blizzard
     
  16. Shawn Yasumara

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    Munchlax @ Leftovers
    Ability:Thick Fat
    Sassy Nature (+Special Defense,-Speed)
    EV's:252 Special Defense/150 HP/108 Attack
    Curse
    Return
    Zen headbutt
    Ice Punch


    Mini-Curselax.I used this in OU during my earlier days of battling.It was actually quite successful.
     
  17. champagne papi

    champagne papi if young tokyo tom don't trust you...

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    Even before NetBattle, I was only training my starters and legendaries, considering other pokemon to be bad. So my Yellow first team :

    -Level 82 Pikachu
    -Level 75 Mewtwo
    The rest are HM slaves.
     
  18. Stofil

    Stofil Hello Miss Galaxy

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    Toxicstall Ludicolo with toxic, dive, ice beam and leech seed.
     
  19. ladysalamence

    ladysalamence Member

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    My strategy exactly.
     
  20. Archerknight

    Archerknight Legends

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    When playing my gameboy, all my pokémon had to ONLY have attacking moves. I considered others rubbish.
     
  21. champagne papi

    champagne papi if young tokyo tom don't trust you...

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    Lol. So I did. Bar sleeping moves and Spikes (I've always liked Spikes, dunno why)
     
  22. Erebos

    Erebos Banned

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    No, I always tried to get pokemon which also had Recovery. Morning Sun Espeon :3
     
  23. Crystal Moogle

    Crystal Moogle Ayaya~ Administrator Administrator

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    This
    Flash excluded of course.
     
  24. DDwhiscash

    DDwhiscash Member

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    When I first started to play it was like this ..... Sceptile and Salamence faint...I lost. 4th Gen I had a pretty decent team

    Machamp,Scizor,Heatran,Gyarados,Electivire and Garchomp. That was my first team , then electivire turned into poop
     
  25. eric the espeon

    eric the espeon is an espeon.

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    RSE Baton Pass team with Zen Headbutt Metagross as the recipient (yes, I know the problem here). And an eeveelution BP team.
     
  26. Wavy

    Wavy prince of the sea Server Moderator Server Moderator

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    I used to throw a team together of all my favorite kickass Pokemon with balanced EVs and a bunch of attacking moves

    ;(

    I really wish that worked out better. I used to think that Swords Dance raised attack by exactly 2 points.
     
  27. Hectord25

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    The Offensive was(and is) my strategy, using Swords Dance Lucario and Choice Specs Salamence, i use Offensive Teams because i found stall boring, and Rain/Ice Teams aren't my style, i prefer shorts and fun battles, and not a long and boring one.
     
  28. Gilad

    Gilad ¯\(°_°)/¯

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    Well i had skamory as a lead... and um.. iirc dusknoir for last. I had dragonite, Breloom, vaporeon and i don't remember the last pokemon, maybe it was aracnine. ;_;
    (skam, beloom, dragonite, vappy, ?, dusknoir) = Order.

    anyway, this team failed. :3
     
  29. Gtfo

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    I remember back when i was a noob at my first battles on smogon i pretty much used pokemons with high att/sp.att stats and always lost..like one team was:
    weavile
    gyarados
    magnezone
    mamoswine
    gengar
    glaceon

    And this was totally random ._.
     
  30. champagne papi

    champagne papi if young tokyo tom don't trust you...

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    I remember at a point my team featuring a Hail Glaceon with Blizzard... some guy made a video of this on youtube... If I find it, I'll post it.
     
  31. nesan

    nesan Love is blind

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    Toxic stall. That's how I got into stall.
     
  32. SSP

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    I first started playing competitively in the D/P metagame. My first strategy was complete offense with Special Attacks, kind of like HO, but not really. It lead me to Smogon, where I learned the importance of team synergy and prediction skills.
     
  33. Music Man

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    My first strategy was leading with a Starly with Focus Sash+Endevor+Quick attack, Nijask+Luxray, and a priority sweeper Lucario. Worked very well... Until people discovered the usefulness of Stealth Rock.
     
  34. Slipperjeans

    Slipperjeans Loose pants

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    Copying random Smogon sets. Best strategy ever.
     
  35. Wulfert

    Wulfert It is me

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  36. Contest Master Majin

    Contest Master Majin Member

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    Well, I'd spam X Attack / Speeds and Hyper Potions, and then sweep.
    Competitively, I started late Gen 4 (after Salamence was banned), and I picked random Pokemon. Turns out, CeleTran wasn't that bad.
     
  37. Jules

    Jules i make you MANGRY

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    Create movesets on pokemon that could hit as many pokemon as possible for super effective damage.
     
  38. Slipperjeans

    Slipperjeans Loose pants

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    lol Electivire
     
  39. Plaatinum10

    Plaatinum10 だけUbers

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    Think of awesome pokemon, get to serebii POTW and make sets from there. My first team on smogon was a Ninjask baton passing to a metagross or kingdra. =P
    I owned many noobs there.
     
  40. Yukari

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    I took a few of my favorite Pokemon (coincidentally, the ones I chose were all OU) and gave them Smogon sets.