This thread is for those who already play Pokemon either competitively or casually just on the consoles/emulators, or even if you haven't played for years, or ever.
First of all the best (in my opinion anyway) battle simulator is Pokemon Online
download:
http://pokemon-online.eu/For the game itself and how it works, I will post a couple of links that are optional to read, but reading and understanding them will help with a lot of things.
For the first of these, here are the type effectiveness and resistances, vital to play Pokemon well.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Status_ailmenthttp://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Priorityhttp://www.smogon.com/bw/tiers/http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pokemon_by_National_Pokedex_numberAnother good way to understand how COMPETITIVE battling works is to watch videos of battles, some good youtubers who do these are:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Haydunnhttp://www.youtube.com/user/kwandaoren66http://www.youtube.com/user/shofuhttp://www.youtube.com/user/emperorznbFor building your actual team on Pokemon online, or for the DS (using Pokegen [?] which I don't use as my DS brokeded.)
This a great video explaining the best ways on building a team, you don't need to follow it for a good team, but it's one way.
PokeMoshPit - Guide to Team Building for Competitive Pokemon by Faladran [Smogon Team Rater]Some extra basics of Pokemon
Competitive Pokemon terminology explained + questions answeredHopefully if enough people use this thread we could build up a collection of competitive and generally good teams.
-For reading how the Pokemon are designed use this:
Pokemon @ Item EV's - total of 508, max of 252 in one stat. putting 4 in a stat will raise the stats value by one. E.G starts with speed of 200. Putting 252 Ev's into speed will make the speed = to 263. Nature gives a boost to one stat and lowers another. (or does nothing) E.G Adamant is +Atk -Sp.Atk. Ability (if choices)
Move 1
Move 2
Move 3
Possible Move 4 (i) / Possible Move 4 (ii) - if there are 2 plausible moves for the set
(ways that you use it here)
For ideas on movesets etc for a specific pokemon, just Google "Smogon -Pokemon name-" and click on the B/W link.
Here i'll put a team that I've recently made, and am struggling to improve, (I'm sure it can be improved)
Gensect @ Expert belt Timid Nature (-atk + spe) 252 Sp.Atk. 252 Spe. 4 Def
Flamethrower
Ice Beam
Bug Buzz
Hidden Power - Ground
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Salamence @ Choice Scarf Adamant Nature (+atk -Sp.Atk) 252 atk 252 spe 4 def - Moxie
Outrage
Earthquake
Brick Break
Rock slide
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Mamoswine @ Life Orb Adamant Nature (+atk-Sp.atk) 252 atk 252 spe 4 HP Thick fat Ability
Ice Shard (priority)
Icicle Crash
Stone Edge
Earthquake
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Sableye @ Leftovers. calm nature (-atk +spdef) 252 hp 136 def 120 sp.def Prankster ability
Substitute
Will-O-Wisp
Confuse Ray
Night Shade
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Breloom @ Toxic Orb, adamant (+atk - spatk) 252 atk 252 spe 4 hp Poison Heal
Substitute
Focus Punch
Mach Punch
Seed Bomb
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Heatran @ Air balloon Timid (+spe -atk) 252 sp.atk. 252 spe 4 spdef.
Stealth Rocks
Fire Blast
Earth Power
Hidden Power Ice
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Will add in tactics and such for those Pokes when I've tested out a bit more and stuff.