Hi Everyone, many of you helped me with my previous thread where we examined the Gen I metagame in the context of the "standard" team. I had a lot of fun trying to figure everything out and am currently taking my team threw pokemon stadium 1. For those who are curious it was Tauros/Exeggcutor/Starmie/Alakazam/Chansey/Golem but I would agree that Rhydon and Snorlax are just as standard. As a side note, I currently have them all at the 47-50 mark and am doing gym leader castle. I'm considering how to have the levels for the PokeCup, I'm thinking lvl 55 Tauros or Exeggcutor as I almost always use these as my finisher or lead pokemon.
Moving on, I was hoping to do a similar exercise with Gen 2 so that once I beat Stadium I'll have something to do on my lunch hours. I've learnt a little bit about the metagame from other threads and the smogondex and this is what I've ascertained. Firstly, perhaps I should mention that I'll be taking this team through stadium 2 so you can't have the same item on two different pokemon. Okay lets begin, as far as I can tell there are stall teams and offensive teams in GSC and stall teams seem to dominate the metagame. I wonder if that's because all their pokemon use leftovers and if this remains to be true in stadium. Also, it appears that Curselax is the ultimate OU pokemon in Gen 2 so it seems clear that he would be on the standard team.
This is what I got so far,
Curselax
Raikou (Zapdos Counter)
Skarmory (Snorlax Counter)
Suicuine (Seems to be critical to a stall team)
Blissey (As far as I can tell it's standard to have a heal beller on a defensive team and also synergizes with Skarmory)
I don't have a sixth yet
I understand that there is no true standard team but if anything else maybe we could break it down to 10 or so that would be on a standard team. Also we should probably split the debate into stall teams and offensive teams. I hope you all enjoyed discussing the metagame as much as I did in Gen 1 and we continue to have fun.
Moving on, I was hoping to do a similar exercise with Gen 2 so that once I beat Stadium I'll have something to do on my lunch hours. I've learnt a little bit about the metagame from other threads and the smogondex and this is what I've ascertained. Firstly, perhaps I should mention that I'll be taking this team through stadium 2 so you can't have the same item on two different pokemon. Okay lets begin, as far as I can tell there are stall teams and offensive teams in GSC and stall teams seem to dominate the metagame. I wonder if that's because all their pokemon use leftovers and if this remains to be true in stadium. Also, it appears that Curselax is the ultimate OU pokemon in Gen 2 so it seems clear that he would be on the standard team.
This is what I got so far,
Curselax
Raikou (Zapdos Counter)
Skarmory (Snorlax Counter)
Suicuine (Seems to be critical to a stall team)
Blissey (As far as I can tell it's standard to have a heal beller on a defensive team and also synergizes with Skarmory)
I don't have a sixth yet
I understand that there is no true standard team but if anything else maybe we could break it down to 10 or so that would be on a standard team. Also we should probably split the debate into stall teams and offensive teams. I hope you all enjoyed discussing the metagame as much as I did in Gen 1 and we continue to have fun.