2013-10-29, 09:46 AM
TheTempest Wrote:I'd say just join and compete just for the experience, or at least that's what I'm doing. I have never played Pokemon competitively, just created theme based teams to battle with my cousins.that's the spirit! of course, our teams will be pretty competitive, but being bound by types for example is quite the handicap. there's a good couple of pokemon that played smartly can murder my whole team on their own.
Icedemontrihorn Wrote:[COLOR="#008080"]I'll probably be more of an observer rather than a competitor.you don't have to participate, so to speak, in the same way ash doesn't have to become the champion to have fun/learn about pokemon, i just recommend trying the challenge for kicks.
Like I said, I am kinda new to the whole competing scene when it comes to this game so I want to make my team synergy just right for me before I do anything in SP. (The SP community seems to have really strong competitors so I am probably shying away from all this but watching the battles are fun!) [/COLOR]
Kunagisa Wrote:I'd volunteer to be fairy gym leader
NO
and i'm pretty much gonna work like you want, most of my free time is late at night. i suggested using a bigger pokemon rooster, but in the end everyone settled for 8 pokes for the whole thing in a way it's so that people try to find the weaknesses of their team and how to cover them. fighting gyms who are forced to be monotype is also a way to see how enemies synergize. using your fairy example, using something like steel/fairy to block poison super effectiveness, and then counter.
PDD: oh hey, dustin changed his mind to 10, that's team and 2/3's, not too shabby gym leader wise
oh, also just got informed that while you can't change pokemon, you can change items as much as you want, so that pokemon needs more speed? take the life orb away and slap a choice scarf, need to survive a hit to be able to wreck that leader? take the choice band away and give it a focus sash. items alone can change your whole strategy.