I was on shoddy about a year ago, my CRE was around 1500 or so.

I'm getting back into it now, recently, actually. My name on the smogon server is Wickerbasket.

Blisse

Canada3710 Posts

July 29 2010 03:19 GMT

#62

"Bliss " on Shoddy.

Yes, there's a space. I just find trying to create a team too time consuming. Would rather play games. I wonder if anyone has HeartGold/SoulSilver?

darkmetal505

United States639 Posts

July 29 2010 03:53 GMT

#63

I don't play, but I recently got into watching commented matches online. I usually follow TheKillerNacho (he stopped though =/ ), MTGXerxes, FrostyPixie, BlameTruth, etc. I'm starting to pick up on the metagame as in moves, abilities, and items. It's pretty interesting.

Celestial

United States652 Posts

July 29 2010 06:39 GMT

#64

The metagame has changed a lot with regards to tier lists, which have been pretty stupid at times. I use to play as Upmagic on Shoddy, Clefable was my favorite tanker no matter what.

pwnz0r

United States123 Posts

August 08 2010 04:57 GMT

#65

Damn I used to play on Netbattle all the time and was pretty damn good, but I haven't kept up with any of the Diamond/Pearl additions so I just stopped playing once that came out.

YoonHo

Canada1043 Posts

August 08 2010 05:04 GMT

#66

I tried to get into this long time ago, but I had no dedication lol. Everything just hurt my head.

Moa

United States790 Posts

August 08 2010 05:16 GMT

#67

I've looked into this before as well as breeding. I was overwhelmed by the complexity of everything and put my pokemon away.

McPwnage

Canada48 Posts

August 08 2010 18:32 GMT

#68

I've been playing the battle factory ever since I beat platinum since my team was overpowered to the point it just got boring, and I didn't want to raise my pokemon to level 100 but I liked the random stragety element (even though the battlehead cheats) and it was way more interesting but I've been looking into competitive pokebattling from blametruth and now I think it is something I might want to do

DoctorHelvetica

United States15034 Posts

August 08 2010 19:48 GMT

#69

I think Pokemon Online is the better simulator right now. My IGN is Stork and I usually play on the main server. I'll post my team in a minute, it's ok but I'm not really getting anywhere with it. I have a big fire weakness I need to address.

DoctorHelvetica

United States15034 Posts

August 18 2010 01:39 GMT

#70

bumping the thread. if anyone wants to play some games on pokemon online just send me a PM, it's a lot better than shoddybattle imo

right now im using:

Metagross @ Occa Berry
Trait: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP / 236 Atk / 12 Def / 8 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Stealth Rock
- Explosion
- Bullet Punch
- Meteor Mash

Gengar (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Shadow Ball
- Energy Ball
- Thunderbolt
- Trick

Scizor (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Swarm
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- U-turn
- Bullet Punch
- Pursuit
- Superpower

Salamence (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 232 Atk / 252 Spd / 24 SAtk
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Dragon Dance
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Fire Blast

Magnezone @ Leftovers
Trait: Magnet Pull
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Magnet Rise
- Substitute
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Grass]

Starmie @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Illuminate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Ice Beam
- Surf
- Psychic
- Rapid Spin

my main issue is dealing with bulky waters and im using magnezone to trap heatran and counter swampert. swamperts and other bulky waters can still give me some trouble. advice?

infinitestory

United States4053 Posts

August 18 2010 02:12 GMT

#71

On August 18 2010 10:39 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
bumping the thread. if anyone wants to play some games on pokemon online just send me a PM, it's a lot better than shoddybattle imo

right now im using:
+ Show Spoiler +

Metagross @ Occa Berry
Trait: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP / 236 Atk / 12 Def / 8 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Stealth Rock
- Explosion
- Bullet Punch
- Meteor Mash

Gengar (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Shadow Ball
- Energy Ball
- Thunderbolt
- Trick

Scizor (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Swarm
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- U-turn
- Bullet Punch
- Pursuit
- Superpower

Salamence (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 232 Atk / 252 Spd / 24 SAtk
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Dragon Dance
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Fire Blast

Magnezone @ Leftovers
Trait: Magnet Pull
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Magnet Rise
- Substitute
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Grass]

Starmie @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Illuminate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Ice Beam
- Surf
- Psychic
- Rapid Spin

my main issue is dealing with bulky waters and im using magnezone to trap heatran and counter swampert. swamperts and other bulky waters can still give me some trouble. advice?

Celebi is a great option for getting rid of bulky waters (I run Grass Knot, Recover, Toxic, and Perish Song). Another plus to Celebi is that it almost 100% lures out both Heatran and Scizor. Heatran is often choiced, which allows you to switch to your Salamence (isn't Salamence banned now?) and get a free Dragon Dance, while you can take down Scizor with Magnezone trap.

EDIT: or try running Grass Knot on your Starmie, Psychic really only nets you coverage on Gengar and Machamp, neither of which your team is especially weak to

double EDIT: go put technician on your scizor right now, and natural cure on your starmie

nineninja9

United States194 Posts

August 18 2010 02:19 GMT

#72

On August 18 2010 11:12 infinitestory wrote:
Celebi is a great option for getting rid of bulky waters (I run Grass Knot, Recover, Toxic, and Perish Song). Another plus to Celebi is that it almost 100% lures out both Heatran and Scizor. Heatran is often choiced, which allows you to switch to your Salamence (isn't Salamence banned now?) and get a free Dragon Dance, while you can take down Scizor with Magnezone trap.

He's not using shoddybattle so by extension I don't think he's playing on Smogon servers.

Personally I don't think I'm all that qualified to comment on the team because I really haven't been keeping up with what a metagame with Salamence is like.

gosugarrett

United States21 Posts

August 18 2010 02:30 GMT

#73

British gliscor is the gayest set ever. sand veil needs a nerf.

geetarzero

United States217 Posts

August 18 2010 02:45 GMT

#74

so true...i used to scoff at the idea of truly competitive pokemon until i was exposed to the strategical depth of the game.

OnceKing

United States939 Posts

August 18 2010 03:16 GMT

#75

Salamence is uber now, so he's banned from OU.
Or at least this is the case on Shoddy, I'm not sure how it is on Pokemon Online (for example on PO Wynaut isn't banned from OU while it is on Shoddy)

RedTerror

New Zealand742 Posts

August 18 2010 04:07 GMT

#76

My team is:
Red Leader (Smeargle) (F) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Own Tempo
EVs: 252 Atk/6 Def/252 Spd
Naive nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Spore
- Endeavor
- Extremespeed
- Stealth Rock
---
Red King (Steelix) (M) @ Chesto Berry
Ability: Rock Head
EVs: 252 HP/6 Atk/252 SDef
Sassy nature (+SDef, -Spd)
- Curse
- Gyro Ball
- Rest
- Earthquake
---
Red Joker (Gengar) (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 100 Atk/252 Spd/158 SAtk
Hasty nature (+Spd, -Def)
- Shadow Ball
- Trick
- Focus Blast
- Explosion
---
Red Queen (Dragonite) (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 248 HP/44 Spd/218 SDef
Calm nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Toxic
- Roost
- Flamethrower
- Heal Bell
---
Red Ace (Starmie) @ Life Orb
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 6 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Surf
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
- Psychic
---
Red Knight (Infernape) (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Blaze
EVs: 252 Atk/192 Spd/64 SAtk
Hasty nature (+Spd, -Def)
- Mach Punch
- Overheat
- U-turn
- Close Combat
---

The team works wonders

Smeargle - lead, can usually take out at least one other pokemon (plus more if the opponent doesn't catch on) as well as sleep one and set up stealth rock

Steelix - physical wall, comes in handy lategame when there might be nothing to properly deal with him

Gengar - he is my super fast special attacker/card-up-sleeve, deals with difficult pokemon such as stallers with trick and explosion

Dragonite - special wall/toxic staller/cleric, very easy to switch into and very tough, just have to look out for ice attacks

Starmie - special sweeper, especially helpful against gyrados and dragons.

Infernape - mixed sweeper/revenge killer, I used to have a scizor here but I had nothing to deal with heatran plus infernape generally outperforms him. Works well with smeargle to finnish off pokemon and to scout with u-turn.

atenthirtyone

United States88 Posts

August 18 2010 04:36 GMT

#77

I used to play it on shoddybattle quite a bit on the smogon server back in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. I tried to get back into it during Diamond/Pearl but really never found the time or the interests to keep up.

holy_war

United States3590 Posts

August 18 2010 04:40 GMT

#78

When did salamence get moved to uber? I haven't kept up lately.

Kaminate

United States49 Posts

August 18 2010 04:47 GMT

#79

I used be an avid smogoner and wifi/shoddy battler back in the day. Since I formatted my computer, I didn't bother to save my shoddy team, so if I go back to play I will have to remake a team. My username on shoddy's smogon server was Nate though. Was about 1400ish.