Recent content by DonDonKun

For some reason my results for the competition aren't displaying at all (ranking, total points, W-L ratio), which is weird since it shows all the battles I participated in. Any advice on this?

Didn't have time to play any of the 3rd day matches, which worked out since I was pretty satisfied going 19-1 and ending up around 1750 for the first two days. I've already shared my thoughts on the level of competition so I'll mostly be talking about my team. The gist of this team was fair...

Stuck it through and finished 9-1 today, bringing my total to 19-1. The match I lost was against a Gengar/Alakazam/Arcanine/Dragonite/Clefable/Vaporeon team. The Vaporeon caught me off guard with a Work Up/Baton Pass set and the rest of the team wore my Slowbro & Clefable down to the point where...

Dragonite, Nidoking, Clefable, Snorlax, Alakazam, Slowbro. Huge weakness to CurseLax and OHKO users but I wanted to go more offensive so no Magneton.

Hmm, if rating determines your ranking and doesn't require you to play all 30 battles I'm wondering if I should call it quits soon. 14 battles, no losses yet, 1700+ rating. A couple of these have been nail-bitters (even the ones I've managed to 6-0 or 5-1) and it's not helping my heart lol. I...

10-0 for day 1. Ran into 2 freebie teams (in game teams probably just battling for the free Dragonite), but aside from that the level of competition wasn't bad. Came across some odd sets like Stockpile Weezing and a Porygon of all things (I forgot how powerful Analytic Tri Attack could be)...

1. Most Gengar run Sludge Bomb over Sludge Wave for the 30% poison chance. The 5 lower base power usually won't come into play to matter, and the poison chance can turn the tides of battle against something like Snorlax or Chansey (forcing them to heal sooner, allowing you to capitalize on...

The set I use is this one: Magneton Ability: Sturdy Level: 50 EVs: 148 HP / 252 SpA / 108 Spe Modest Nature - Volt Switch/Thunderbolt - Flash Cannon - Rest - Sleep Talk Speed EVs give you 103 speed, which is enough to outspeed most Venusaur. Rest in bulk. Modest and Max SpA...

Magneton with Sturdy and RestTalk is generally a good answer to Sheer Cold Articuno as barring HP Ground it walls it indefinitely. I use one on my stall team and it's prevented OHKO users from running all over my team. Stall teams can also run RestTalk OHKO mons like Articuno, Seaking or...

Now that signups have started, is anyone going to be running a full stall team for the competition? I know stall is more than viable on Showdown where you essentially have unlimited time but the 60-min format could prevent longer games. Offensive teams have shown to be viable on the ladder as...

I run 3 RestTalkers with good special bulk on my team. Am I paranoid about Venusaur? Nope. Not at all lol.

You beat it by running Sludge Bomb and Synthesis. Running more special defense if needed.

Vileplume would work as a good check to Venusaur. Immune to Sleep Power and Leech Seed and with a combination of Synthesis and Sludge Bomb you beat it 1 vs 1 or force it out. Vileplume also makes a decent cleric with Aromatherapy, can check Clefable and trolls random contact attackers with...

I run a very similar team (then again a lot of teams are looking pretty homogenous at this point, heh) to this on the ladder and I agree that Gengar is a major pain for a bulkier build. I don't have too much to add to what has already been said but I'd second Whirlwind -> Crunch on Snorlax and...

One thing I forgot was that Chansey got Wish, so a set with Softboiled/Wish/Seismic Toss/T-Wave or Toxic would be really useful in sustaining your team members that don't have access to a recovery move (which isn't hard to do given how easily Chansey forces switches against a lot of special...