Your First Strategies

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  1. Blitzamirin

    Blitzamirin Waluigi! Number one!

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    Curse/Avalanche/Rest/Sleep Talk Regice in OU :3

    LO Thunder/Overheat/Draco Meteor/ExtremeSpeed Ray in Ubers =/

    Sash Focus Blast/Grass Knot/Draco Meteor/Dragon Dance Haxorus ._.
     
  2. Darklight

    Darklight Nothing is True

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    My first "stratergy" was using the strongest pokemons with the strongest moves.
     
  3. Harlot

    Harlot i look like the pope

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    Scizor (M) @ Salac Berry
    Trait: Technician
    EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
    Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
    - Swords Dance
    - Reversal
    - Endure
    - Bug Bite

    thought of it by myself 8]
     
  4. Darklight

    Darklight Nothing is True

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    That's too pro >:O.
     
  5. WizzleKidd

    WizzleKidd Wizzlin' PO since Feb '11

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    LOL my first strategies were 'ensure that every pokemon on team has a move that is super effective against all of its weaknesses'.
     
  6. Dr. Fuji

    Dr. Fuji Active Member

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    hmm my first not entirely gimmicky team was defiantly a short pass team using ninjask and later gorebyss.
     
  7. Hobbes2

    Hobbes2 Aren't I dead or something

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    endure salac reversal. I WON MY FIRST MATCH! and lost from there
     
  8. TheUserFormerlyKnownAsFPT

    TheUserFormerlyKnownAsFPT Woof

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    Back on PokeLab, towards the tail end of Gen 4, I ran a half decent noob TR team. Banette/Uxie/Exeggutor/Octillery/Marowak/Camerupt. I remember my Marowak ran Outrage ._.
     
  9. LördKX

    LördKX Archivist of Memories

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    I started out playing t-spikes stall in UU. With stuff like regirock. Simply put, it didn't work well.
     
  10. Fosco

    Fosco .dancin

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    For some reasons I used to hate rain and sand teams which dominated OU because of Drizzle/Swift Swim and Sand Stream/Sand Rush synergies, so I spent some time building a very stupid anti-weather team with a Power Herb/Solar Beam Ninetales (who was intented to Solar Beam Ttar and Politoed as they switched in) and a Choice Scarf Golduck because it gets Cloud Nine (an awesome ability assigned to awful Pokemons). Of course my team was really weak, but it was one of my first teambuilding experiments and I enjoyed a lot playing with it.
     
  11. SPS

    SPS um ........ no

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    i had a lot of stupid ideas when i was a noobie, my first team was pretty much a smash pass gorybess and some other random stuff like dragon dance charizard, those were the good days :3
     
  12. A Moon Gust

    A Moon Gust dot

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    When I first played PO, all of my Stats would end in 100 like 100,200,300 etc. I taught Azelf was the best lead at that time. I don't remember my first team fully but I know I use a gallade and whimiscott. I loved gallade from the beggining and i still do. Gallade hasn't failed me yet. :)
     
  13. TacoBell

    TacoBell i'm a noob ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    I didn't really have a strategy when I first started, I just stuck a bunch of my favorite pokemon (who had horrible synergy together) and called it a team. I also used like 4 STAB moves on each pokemon, and didn't know about physical/special splits, haha. Good times. :3
     
  14. RedJoker25

    RedJoker25 Resident Lurker Server Moderator Article Contributor Server Moderator Article Contributor

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    Power and speed. All I could think about.
     
  15. Aldarian

    Aldarian New Member

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    I went to Smogon and picked stuff like kid in a candy store. My first try was some kind of stall team put together from the sets there. Of course that would have demanded most prediction for success so it wasn't a bright idea. On top of that even though none of the pokes except maybe wobuffet&sigilyph is horrible on its own, together these six are simply an awful set.

    Wobbuffet (F) @ Leftovers
    Trait: Shadow Tag
    EVs: 200 Def / 56 SDef / 252 Spd
    Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
    - Encore
    - Counter
    - Mirror Coat
    - Safeguard

    Politoed (F) @ Leftovers
    Trait: Drizzle
    EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
    Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
    - Scald
    - Hypnosis
    - Protect
    - Perish Song

    Sigilyph (F) @ Flame Orb
    Trait: Magic Guard
    EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 Spd
    Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
    - Cosmic Power
    - Stored Power
    - Roost
    - Psycho Shift

    Tentacruel (F) @ Leftovers
    Trait: Rain Dish
    EVs: 252 HP / 240 Def / 16 Spd
    Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
    - Toxic Spikes
    - Rapid Spin
    - Scald
    - Protect

    Blissey (F) @ Leftovers
    Trait: Natural Cure
    EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
    Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
    - Stealth Rock
    - Softboiled
    - Toxic
    - Water Pulse

    Skarmory (F) @ Leftovers
    Trait: Sturdy
    EVs: 252 HP / 232 Def / 24 Spd
    Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
    - Roost
    - Spikes
    - Whirlwind
    - Brave Bird[/HIDE]
     
  16. two sides of one coin

    two sides of one coin sick of all her shit

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    Terrakion/Jellicent/Ferrothorn/Chandelure/Cloyster/something else was my first team. It was amazingly fun to play with. Still is.
     
  17. B. Rizzo

    B. Rizzo A relic of the past, given new life.

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    I built a random team of my favorite pokemon all the way back in 2005 while I was on Netbattle. I can't remember what I used specifically.
     
  18. Stoled_my_nick

    Stoled_my_nick New Member

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    I used some pokémons that i considered powerfull (gyarados,jolteon,gengar,forretres,charizard,alakazam) and i made a team that was pretty competitiive...i want to take it back for testing with better evs and movesets...it was nice..
     
  19. Seiki

    Seiki :derp:

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    My first strategy?
    Spam moves that sounded tough.
     
  20. DSM01

    DSM01 Jammin' out

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    Who doesn't start out like this? Offense will always be able to draw players in, noob or not. My most successful team back on Shoddy was Aero/Jolteon/Flygon/Starmie/Infernape/Scizor. Flygon was of course Scarfed, Ape had Mach Punch, and Scizor had Quick Attack. My strategy was to outspeed the opponent and keep the pressure on so that they couldn't get anything going, which is why all the Pokes were either blazing fast or had powerful priority. I don't think I need to mention that this team was completely flattened by stall, though. I started playing competitively the week Mence was banned, so I was still a scrub at the time. From the looks of it, I'd say that I would have thoroughly enjoyed VoltTurn...
     
  21. Poison Pharaoh

    Poison Pharaoh New Member

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    I remember when I first played Pokemon Pearl; in the Battle Tower (Doubles section) I used a Sun Team consisting of Exeggutor holding a Heat Rock, and Moltres holding a Power Herb (with Solarbeam)as my two leads. I also I remember finding out that Breloom could learn Spore as an Egg Move, and that Shroomish learned it at Level 45. It took me a few hours to hatch a Shroomish with the correct moveset. These events occured a long time ago; when I only played Pokemon for fun. Now I'm not fond of 'Weather' teams; as they are very popular, and one 'Weather' team is a good counter to another 'Weather' team.
     
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  22. D-21

    D-21 Lurking

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    When it use to be for fun against IRL friends, it was use whatever looked cool and was Lv.100!