what po said is all good but you cannot forget about payback being another great option (thanks to his poor speed) and if obtainable, knock off is a must
Go to the Competitive Pokemon thread and read any of my 9846 rants and if you have a few hours(and braincells to kill), any post by Mood4food.
Although you may just quit playing at that point, lol…
In all seriousness, its an okay place to gather knowledge on game mechanics and common sets, but for your own safety, do not venture further into that place’s philosophy or “metagame”…
look, i don’t care if you don’t want to run standard, that’s all fine
i’m trying to help you run something that is not entirely outclassed, as in, run an option that the pokemon already covers, and i back it up with reasoning, that’s it
you want to run a stalling garchomp set of substitute/dragon tail/earthquake/toxic, go ahead run it, i’ll suggest something else and you take it how it lies, i’m only trying to help
and just for the record, yes, a lot of people who post on smogon are idiots, just taking a gander at the stall thread to prove this
Go to a gamefaqs forum for any popular fighting game and imagine people actualy took them seriously and made and followed rules based on the scrubbiest of the bunch bitching about how Sagat is op, throwing more than one fireball in a row is cheating and invinciblity frames should be patched out or whatever.
Then mix it with a bunch of pricks being condescending twats towards anyone who isn’t exclusively using whatever’s left of the top tier after the scrubwave ™ has washed over it.
That is Smogen in a nutshell.
It has correct numbers on shit but that’s about all it’s good for.