Just got Pokmon SoulSilver.
My sister got it because she wanted the Pokwalker.
Laugh.
Anyone play on Shoddy battle? Anyone have a Dratini with Extremespeed?
fought a stall team today, fuckin sucked
walrein + icebodyl/leftovers/subs/protect is fucking cruel.
Bullet punch Walrein to hell. one of the best things to stop him since it hits him b4 sub. also having counter weather effects like hippodown/Tyranitar helps dunno if you have any of those.
Bulky sword dancer/nasty plotters can also put stall teams in place.
Navigating through Erika’s gym was very irritating. :xeye:
Agreed. Literally just had to smash my face into walls until I found one that wasn’t. 
I mean, you could KINDA tell where the entry point was, but it was incredibly deceptive.
Exactly!
Just picked up HeartGold, can’t wait to get started up 
Then I’ll have to finish up Platinum and transfer my Pokes over.
Just beat Clair and went to Dragons Den- I took the elder’s quiz, but I didn’t get a Dratini (extreme speed or otherwise). Is there something I’m doing wrong, because it’s getting annoying. I’ve reset several times already-- I want my Extreme Speed Dratini dammit!
Anyone know what the deal is?
EDIT: I’m an idiot. Didn’t realize you had to leave and re-enter the room to get it… lol.
I couldn’t use BP Scizor because it was UU.
Electrode rapes in UU in my personal opinion… but im not a UU battler per se. and in fact in relatively new to COMPETITIVE battling only been doing it since emerald
My ‘Make it Raaaaain’ team is doing surprisingly well on Shoddy.
Didn’t expect to do this decent since I barely started getting into competitive pokemon again.
Puffsy on the smogon channel.
Anyone have a spare Larvitar? Female preferred? Thanks.
As a RD lead sure, it can still get the job done. Personally though, I haven’t seen many Electrode in the UU metagame if at all really. Probably why it’s NU this generation.
That’s the way to go, if your getting back into competitive battling shoddy is the answer. It’s so damn fast :looney: you could try pretty much anything there.
Too bad I actually had one, Adamant natured. But she became a starter for ingame campaign via HGSS, the only one I have now is one that is Careful.
The only problem with shoddy, unless you are playing with the REALLY good shoddy people, a lot of them are not at all good at dealing with things that are unfamiliar. I’ve 6-0 swept OU teams on shoddy using only venonat and raichhu before, just because they are like ‘wtf do these things do?’. I’ve run a lot of nu/uu/ou hybrid teams on shoddy that turn out really well, but then when I play them against people who actually know what’s going on it turns out a lot worse.
Technically, wouldn’t that happen to anyone who isn’t familiar with dealing with those situations, regardless if they’re on DS?
a lot of people I play with are better at adapting, just because the way we play we run into stuff we have no idea what it does all the time. I find on shoddy people often get completely shutdown if they don’t know exactly what it does. They jus teem to assume 'I’ve never seen that before so it probably sucks), and do something dumb and risky. When I play with my real life friends, if we see something we have never seen before most of them assume it has a purpose and try to play very carefully around it.
Yeah, one of the reasons I left competitive Pokemon is because of the lack of creativity and adaptability of your average player. Heck, I’ve even had a friend of mine go on a 40-game win streak while half his team was weak to Ice… all beacuse we would do off beat tactics and unusual movesets to screw with peoples’ expectations. I never thought a Physical Alakazam could work, but I’ll be damned if it wasn’t one-shotting Tyranitars and screwing over Blisseys with Focus Punch.
I’m thinking about getting back at it, but if I do, I don’t know if I could go totally hardcore competitive like I did back in the day… I’d probably do things like Double Battling and Bounce Gyrados lol…
We do a pokemon draft, all the pokemon(non ubers) are put into a pool, then each player one at a time gets to choose a pokemon, once a pokemon is chosen no one else can take it. We take 10 pokemon each, then over the course of a few months we all battle. Each week you face your opponent, you choose 6 of your 10 pokemon and do battle. You get points at the end of the match for each pokemon you have left standing, after 4 rounds the person with the most points wins, and you can switch out pokemon between rounds. It’s a really cool environment, it forces you to build semi solid teams with pokemon you never thought you’d use, and try synergies you’ve never thought of. It’s a really fun environment. I highly recommend it if you can get 15-20 reliable people to do it(more than 20 and choices start to become really limited, less than 15 leaves teams too OU IMO).
wth is shoddy?