Conor

if you use the traditional section in the duel room there is no ban list. and I'm talking about adding in extra bans we might want want, but what is this program you're referring to?

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I'll let you know what you can abuse in a week or so.

Well thats why the ban list is up for debate, if we just wanted to use the current ban list on DN we could... but there might be a few other cards people might want off.

Hey everybody, I had the idea of having a tournament for those of you that play on Dueling Network. I know a lot of people use to but I'm not sure if it's still as popular as it once was. I believe we had one once before, but I didn't play at the time. Rules: 1.) single elimination tournament. We may actually go with a round robin style tourney if we only have a small amount of entries. 2.) Ban list for cards. We would have to organize one ourselves based on what all of you want. Also, If we want to use a ban list from a certain time period (ex. fall 2011) we could do that too. 3.) Matches would have to be completed in 1 week following the posting of the brackets. 1 week per round that is. 4.) You can only use 1 deck throughout the entire tournament. In order to enforce this, you would have to send me your deck upon entry in a pm through the forums here. Sign ups close December 10th. Once we have registration complete we will take a week to decide the ban list as well as let you guys send me your decks. -Conor P.S. sign up by commenting here. sign up list Phoenix Rotom Poe Gummi Ikaru Skwayz unknown guy Ryner Owen Kaito-

i think having a choice metagross is a bad idea when he has acsses to agility. I think its agility, or maybe rock polish or automatize. point is, is that it has accses to a double speed boost. this is much better for sweeping potential.

Hey, really like the team. Really I could only see a couple things i would do different. number 1 would be getting rid of crunch on Tryanitar for Stone Edge. It would give you more coverage and an even more powerful stab attack. The other thing i might suggest is that this team switches a lot I would imagine. I might reccomend a Gliscor with u turn over skarm. could maybe help you get damage when switching. Idk what else to say. teams legit

Hey guys, i know i just made an RMT for my hyper offense team, but I got bored with that team fairly quickly and made this team instead. It's been working out really well except for a couple things that i hope you guys can help me work out. Well, here it is. At A Glance Team Building Process I started off with my favorite lead Genesect. I love U-turning into Ferrothorn and setting up some hazards, or into my other wall porygon2 to toxic or get a free boltbeam hit. I decided if i was going to run Genesect, why not make a volt turn offensive core. rotom W is a perfect combo with genesect because of volt turn. Genesect and Rotom W cover each other's weaknesses almost perfectly and can use volt turn and u turn to switch to either and wall the incoming attack. Its really a very popular strategy and I'm just trying to give some kind of explanation even though probably most of you have seen it a million times. I then realized I needed hazards, so i decided to use my favorite physical wall Ferrothorn. He can Lay hazards, wall incoming physical attacks and deal damage to the opponent. I like to u turn into ferrothorn on the very first turn if im up against a physical attack to force a switch and lay SR. I decided next off I needed a special wall. I decided to go with Chansey, the very popular sp def sponge who could wall any special attack i needed it too. I could also use Toxic or T wave, depending on which i was using at the time, to cripple the incoming opponent on the switch. I soon realised that chansey wasn't what i was looking for. Chansey has no offensive capability which and i needed a tank with at least some offense. Porygon2 came in and did a great job. he could tank a lot of special attacks, and some no super effective physical attacks as well. He also has recover and access to boltbeam which is fantastic. Also, like chansey, Porygon2 could toxic stall out of certain situations. Next up on the list is Infernape. I thought it might be nice to have a mixed attacker to break stall teams. Infernape fit that role perfectly in gen 4, and still does today. Mix ape just wrecks lots of things and can ruin a teams synergy. once the opposing teams synergy is ruined, volt turn can come in and finish the team off. The final pokemon i chose to use was Salamence. Salamence was used to come in end game and just sweep. after one dragon dance, moxiemence is a very big threat. Once the threat of Ice shard and ferrothorn are gone, Salamence should have no problem. Well turns out i was wrong and Mence wasn't working out the way i wanted him too. he could do his job just fine against any non weather team. The problem was that Slamence could literally do nothing against weather teams, which is over 50% of teams on our ladder. So i decided that the team was lacking a spinner and priority. Hitmontop was the best option IMO. He has fake out, mach punch, and sucker punch, 3 different forms of priority that can just handle any situation. Also he has rapid spin to spin away hazards that wear down my volt turn. He also isn't working out exactly the way i wanted but he is doing better on the team than Salamence so I kept him. I'm right now considering a mamoswine because bulky Hippo is a problem. Swine can resist sand, crush hippos with ice, and has access to priority. Team @ Choice Scarf Trait: Download EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Hasty Nature (+Spd, -Def) - U-turn - Flamethrower - Ice Beam - Thunderbolt Pretty classical Genesect set, except i forgot the 4 evs for attack. I fixed it so don't worry about that one haha. lead who can scout with u turn, or use any of his 3 special attacks to take down a frail opposing lead. (F) @ Leftovers Trait: Iron Barbs EVs: 168 HP / 88 Atk / 252 Def Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk) - Stealth Rock - Leech Seed - Gyro Ball - Power Whip Ferrothorn here is my physical wall. Max def with a few attack evs invested to power up his two attacking moves. SR is the hazard of choice and leech seed is for recovery. I sometimes put Rocky Helmet over leftovers and it works just as well depending on what teams I am facing. @ Eviolite Trait: Download EVs: 252 Def / 4 SAtk / 252 SDef Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) - Thunderbolt - Toxic - Ice Beam - Recover Porygon2 is my special defense tank. Bolt Beam has some pretty awesome coverage. can take down most things that i switch into. Toxic is to toxic stall obviously and spread status. Recover to recover hp lost while tanking, i can either recover or Toxic the incoming pokemon depending on my health. (F) @ Expert Belt Trait: Blaze EVs: 128 Atk / 128 SAtk / 252 Spd Hasty Nature (+Spd, -Def) - Fire Blast - Close Combat - Earthquake - Hidden Power [ice] Infernape is my stall breaker. Fire Blast for skarm. Equake is for heatran. CC for chansey / Blissey, Tttar, and also heatrans with air balloon. HP Ice is for gliscor which are less common but still around. expert belt makes super effective hits even more powerful, which is very useful since stall walls can tank super effective hits sometimes. I decided to use it over life orb because damage from life orb and sand is really to much for nape to handle. @ Choice Scarf Trait: Levitate EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd / 4HP Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) - Hydro Pump - Volt Switch - Trick - Will-O-Wisp Rotom W is the classical set. max evs in Speed and SP Attk to maximize its volt turn potential. Trick to ruin set ups and will o wisp is to burn the set up pokemon after i trick it. (M) @ Leftovers Trait: Technician EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SDef Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - Fake Out - Sucker Punch - Mach Punch - Rapid Spin Hitmontop has triple priority to handle anything once i've worn it down. Mainly here to handle excadrill and other fast threats. Hitmontop also has rapid spin, which is very useful for this team. If i let hazards go up my pokemon can be worn down big time because I am always switching.

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Yeah that's one of the reasons i said i didn't like Thunder Punch and asked for a suggestion on a move i could use over it...

hey just nitpicking here with a couple things. - it might be beneficial to run shed shell on heatran because the usage of Dugtrio has increased a ton on the server lately. If you get trapped in by Dugtrio chances are heatran is out, and that completely ruins your synergy. - On Excadrill, Iron Head > Frustration. Iron head gets stab and hits most things neutral. It also can be quite useful with its possible flinching capability.

oh i depred and forgot to put multiscale on dknight.

At a Glance Teambuilding Process Before i start, I would just like to say that Slant deserves a lot of credit for this team because we did this team together. Okay, so the first thing we decided we would need is an SR lead. I suggested Deoxsys S, but slant brought up that azelf can explode after it lays rocks and that was a big plus. After an SR lead, We discussed the biggest problem fro a physical hyper offense team, which is physical walls. Obviously the biggest physically defensive wall around is Skarmory. We thought a good way to beat a skarmory would be Blaziken. Blazeiken's fire can deal super damage to skarm, even if they are physical attacks. Next up on the list, we thought priority might be a good idea. Breloom has a very nice stab mach punch that after a swords dance can kill off many threats. Breloom also helps to deal with sand teams and some rain teams that don't use Toxicroak. The reason Cloyster was chosen is because he is just such an offensive powerhouse after shellsmash. The set that we gave him also lets him become quite a stall breaker. Next Pokemon was chosen by Slant. Like Cloyster, Dragonite is a huge powerhouse. double priority is always nice with mach punch and extremespeed. His biggest advantage is to come in on a lot things with resistance and get to set up a DD. The last pokemon was solely my choice. Slant was reading off a list of pokemon that could possibly fill the 6th slot, but then I had to leave and say hi to my family sicne it was Thanksgiving, when i came back Slant was gone so I was like... Okay lets use Terrakion. It was the perfect choice because he just comes in late game and sweeps everything. He really is the key player in the team and usually is the one who pulls off the sweep. Analysis @ Focus Sash Trait: Levitate EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Hasty Nature (+Spd, -Def) - Explosion - Stealth Rock - U-turn - Fire Blast Azelf is here to lay rocks and explode, and it generally works well. main problems I encounter are when someone thinks their cool and sends out ferrothorn, in which case I'll just fireblast. U-turn mainly for a filer move, I don't think I've even used it. (M) @ Leftovers Trait: Speed Boost EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - Hone Claws - Blaze Kick - Hi Jump Kick - ThunderPunch Blaziekn here is pretty standard. Hone claws is to boost attack and accuracy. I prefer hone claws to SD because the accuracy boost is much needed considering Blaziken's main moves are Hi Jump Kick (85 acc) and Blaze Kick (90 acc). Thunderpunch i put in to deal with bulky water typer but it deosn't seem to be doing what i want it to do. any suggestion for a move over thunderpunch would be appreciated. (M) @ Life Orb Trait: Technician EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Spore - Mach Punch - Bullet Seed - Swords Dance Standard, Breloom set is standard. Well idk if life orb is, but i use it. Spore to put things to sleep with high accuracy. Mach Punch for priority. Swords dance for moar power, and its easy to use when you opponent is alseep. Bullet Seed for stab and boost from technitian. Like i said... Standard. If i can come in on something slower, i can usually spore and sweep with mach punch and bullet seed. the only time this doesn't work out is against speedy teams and when the oppoenet has Chandelure or Gengar. Oh and Breloom pretty much shits on sand so that helps. (M) @ Focus Sash Trait: Skill Link EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef) - Icicle Spear - Shell Smash - Rock Blast - Hydro Pump Cloyster is power. Shell smash with rock blast and Icicle spear is pretty classical. the real originality in this set is Hydro Pump over Ice shard. this was suggested by Slant and it works pretty well to break stall, The two multi hit attacks can take out special walls like chansey, Ren, Blissy. Hydro Pump takes care of most other walls such as Skarm and Heatran. The pokemon that causes this set problems are Jellicent and Ferrothorn. The bad news is, is that Jellicent and Ferrothorn are quite a popular core so... yeah, i encounter them a lot. (F) @ Lum Berry Trait: Inner Focus EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd / 4 HP Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - Dragon Dance - Outrage - Fire Punch - ExtremeSpeed Dragonite here has the standard Outrage set. One Dragon Dance brings his speed to 388 which ties scarf Chandy that don't have hidden power ice, and his Attack becomes 604. fire punch hits steels which wall outrage. Extremespeed becomes super powerful priority after a dragon dance. Outrage is obviously just for huge stab damage. Dragontie is a huge player on this team and working fantastically. @ Choice Scarf Trait: Justified EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - Close Combat - Earthquake - Stone Edge - Sacred Sword Terrakion is a huge powerhouse that i never really used until now. I tried to start off by using a SD sub set, but I wasn't really good at using it. So i switched over to a scar set and its been doing great. Close Combat is the main attack because it hits with powerful stab. Equake hits lots of things hard as well. Stone Edge is for Flying types that aren't affected by equake and that resist CC. It also gets stab so yeah! finally its Sacred Sword, which i use over CC sometimes when people try to set up a bulky wall with stockpile or something. Sacred Sword isn't affected by stat changes so it says F U to quagsire who try to SP. Export

You can give constructive criticism without being mean. there was nothing wrong with the advice you gave, just how you gave it. You know i laugh at the trolling you do a lot of the time and I hang out in The AO channel all the time. its not that i don't like you or something, its just this time you took it too far.

skwayz, stop. seriously stop thats basically bullying