Pokémon Showdown: The Eagledome

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Pokemon Showdown is site that allows users to build teams to their specifications and pit them against each other, or to use randomized teams in random battles, or even enjoy the monthly "seasonal" metagame. It's a fun way to try out interesting and different strategies without tedious breeding, and lets you play with people you otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity to. But you all probably knew all that already, given how much we talk about pokemon in general and showdown specifically on the IRC. So why am I making this thread?

I thought it'd be fun to catalogue who on the forum plays and what teams they've got and types of battles they like; it'll make it easier to find someone to play with, match up with other similarly-minded eaglites, and get opinions on strategy and build. Plus, we could even occasionally run Eagle Time tournaments with whatever criteria sound like fun! I'll try to keep this OP updated as people post and stuff happens or even the needs of the thread change, but before I can do that, you've gotta get postin'.

Playerlist:

BestTeaMaker

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SpoilerCurrent Teams:

OU?:

• Mono-Bug
  
• Bounce-Pass
  

UU:

• Baton Pass
  

Bigro

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OU?:

• Shuckle Trick Room
  

Garuru

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SpoilerCurrent Teams:

OU:

• Mono-Dragon
  

UU:

• Rain Team
  

LC:

• Sand/Rock Team
  
• Tiny Cup
  
• Fail Cup
  

Kíeros

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SpoilerCurrent Teams:

OU:

• Joke Team
  

RU:

• What do you mean, Rarely Used?
  

LC:

• Tiny Cup
  

Mehgamehn

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SpoilerCurrent Teams:

OU:

• Team Street
  
• Team Street Remix feat. DJ C0balion
  

Schazer

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SpoilerCurrent Teams:

OU:

• Mono-Dark
  
• Mono-Flying
  

UU:

• Something Stupid
  

LC:

• Only the Best
  
• A Different Little Cup Team
  
• Tiny Cup
  

SleepingOrange

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SpoilerCurrent Teams:

OU:

• Mono-Dark
  
• Mono-Bug
  
• Mono-Water
  
• Mono-Rock
  
• Mono-Ghost
  

UU:

• Wallers-n-Stallers
  
• Snow Warning Warning
  

RU:

• It's Too Bad They're Mediocre
  

NU:

• It's Too Bad They Suck
  

LC:

• Fun in the Sun
  
• Entry Trickery
  
• Weenie Cup General
  
• Big Gay Babies
  
• Reactionaries
  
• Changeup
  
• Tiny Cup Team
  

VGC Doubles:

• Generic Double Battlers
  

SMEARGLE CUP

Superfrequency

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SpoilerCurrent Teams:

NU:

• An NU Team Starring Solara
  

LC:
[*]Itty Bitty
[*]Switch-In α
[*]Switch-In β
[*]Tiny Cup

Plaid

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Current Teams:

OU:

• Mono-Poison
  

TehPilot

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SpoilerCurrent Teams:

OU:

• A Team
  
• Another Team
  
• A Third Team
  

RU:

• An RU Team
  

Other:

• Emerald Dream Theme Team
  

Upcoming Tournaments:

Inaugural UU Tourney: Saturday, May 4th
Players:

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SpoilerBestTeaMaker
Bigro
Ed
Garuru
Kíeros
Mehgamehn
Mr. LL
myw
Nopad
Plaid
Schazer
SleepingOrange
TehPilot

Uh, Superfreq, are we allowed to be discussing über teams in here? Shouldn't it just be restricted to OU and below?

Ahhhh, the best thread!

I have my poison mono team up there which has to be OU because of a few particular members, but it's largely still built around gen 4 and needs some tweaking. Still up for battles whenever though!

Uh, Superfreq, are we allowed to be discussing über teams in here? Shouldn't it just be restricted to OU and below?

Uber is a tier with rules and its own metagame though, not a list of things never to use. Why restrict it to OU and below?

Well it doesn't help that SF's image doesn't load for me I will admit

that would have helped the joke yes

I want to make some more mono teams. Mono teams are fun. I had a trick room team halfway done at one point too... hmm.

But I've never competitive pokemon'd before

*Commercial Housewife hands-up shrug+stare helplessly into camera*

Seriously though Ben I challenge you to a NU match.

I'll take the case!

This thread also can serve as a handy place to post replays of inter-eagle battles if we like.

But I've never competitive pokemon'd before

*Commercial Housewife hands-up shrug+stare helplessly into camera*

Haha, meee neither, really. I know there are a few of us who have, but I think for the most part the skill level is overall slightly-serious-casual.

Also, to anyone who wants me to add them to the OP: it would be helpful if you gave me the name and tier of your teams, just so I can organize them properly and other people can find appropriate opponents more easily.

Back when HG/SS came out there were enough of my friends with the game that we actually managed to hold our own little tournament. I think I got 5th out of 11, being thoroughly trounced by the dudes with competition teams and one chick who managed to escape my deadly Marowak with a Flying type (knew I should've taught him Thunderpunch)

Anyways, I'm game for a little casual battling. Lemme go hunt down the stats from my team and I'll load them up.

Battle time!

I like to run a Mono-bug team starring Durant and a Bounce-Pass team starring Espeon.

Haha okay little cup teams are just ridiculously fun to build, I think I'm addicted.

I also should mention I'm basically always up for the frenetic fun of a randbat; hit me up here or on IRC if you're ever in the mood.

Hahaha yesss this is the thread for me (as Slorange knew well in advance)

I have a super-boring Little Cup Team, OU Mono-Flying and Mono-dark teams, and I'm working on something special/awful for RU right now.

I am totally ready for battling.

I have three OU-ish teams, an RU team, one misc. team I used for a specific fight on this very forum, and I'm always throwing together new things. Ping me on IRC or on Showdown itself if you want to battle.

I introduced competitive poke battles to a friend a long time ago and we only played like once or twice, he's been nagging me to play with him ever since, I guess I could use this as an excuse to build a team and shut him up.

I've been out of the loop since platinum so I guess I'm gonna have to do a little research first, I wanna try UU/NU.

I may be up for some random battles at some point. I made like two dozen different teams on the old Pokémon Online thing, and I have a favourite team I'd like to play again, but that was all under 4th Gen rules so I may be horribly out of date by this point.

Wow I kind of hate this. It's like 100% metagame. The whole game is planning for every possible team, which you can't. So ... ?

Well that's only if you go super tournament serious final destination, i just care about kicking ass with the 'mons i like.

It's not all meta, though. I've used literally the same team with the same moves and EV layout dozens of times with the same person so she knows exactly what to expect and I've still come up on top due to good read of her as a person and good planning. It's definitely a very different game from normal Pokémon so it takes a bit to learn, but in casual online battling it isn't all about meta team builds.

Anyone who's just larriking around with friends knows that the real fun's taking something barely semi-viable the you like, like Tropius, and figuring out how to make it work 7 times out of 10.

If you give yourself a particular specification for a team (a particular type; a particular tier) you're going to have a limited set of potential pokemon to work with, so then it's just personal preference that dictates the "best" team you can make from that limited set.

Personally I like randbats because all the Pokemon in it run "viable" sets that they've most commonly used in their various tiers, but then (attempts to) balance it with tiered levelling. It's good revision for what any given pokemon in any given match is likely to be packing, and eventually you learn that switching your flying/grass type in on a water type is almost always an ice beam away from suicide.

BestTeaMaker's baton pass team gave my monotype dark team a run for my money. With some tweaking it'll wreck my shit, considering his finisher was a Stored Power Espeon.

I wanted to mention but you went off IRC, so: why not Suction Cups Octillery to finish? It's stats are lousy, but it's got solid multitype special coverage (including STAB Water Spout fuck yeah). Cradily is another Suction Cups user - also hella slow but it has Curse and Recover as fun options.

Also you should try out some Quiver Dance with Masquerain (hahahahahahaha) or Venomoth. Volcarona might work as a finisher (that also has Calm Mind!) if you could stand to keep Smeargle with Ingrain on the team.

Okay, I've done a team, which I like to call "Whaddaya mean, Rarely Used?". No points for guessing what tier.

EDIT: And an OU Joke team. I'm not telling you how to defeat it, though; I'm not that nice.

I'm gonna make the fabled TEAM STREET (I fabled it me I did fuck off Aesop) and then maybe actually ask someone how to make a real team afterward

loljk Team Street gonna fuck everyone up forever like it was Harry Potter stepping onto flying broomstick fuckorgy

EDIT: Goes without saying who the captain of the S.S. Sky Sweeping Sex is

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Man, nothing like a casual battle out of nowhere.

BestTeaMaker vs. Slorange [OU] - Pass Team vs. Monowater

BestTeaMaker vs. Slorange [OU] - Pass Team vs. Monodark

Analyze away. I think I might try making LC and UU pass teams.

TehPilot vs. Slorange - Mono-Dark vs. An OU Team

An excellent first fight! Quite enjoyable.

I'll probably throw a team up later or something. Can't guarantee it'll be all that good.

There, I have a Rain team I guess (UU).