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Random shenanigans is how.

It wasn't a good set-up, but surprisingly mach-punch and bullet seed alone carry it. It sounds like it shouldn't work, but it does.

So I'm going to detail the team that I'm using. Bisharp wasn't working out the best for me, so I tried swapping it with a Breloom that exactly matches the one I have for my first team on the 3DS, though I'll include both.

Also, export apparently includes nicknames, so you can also see their dumb names.
I've also included alternate moves that I'm not sure on, as I'm still working out the set.
Finally, the natures for the Jirachi and Manaphy are set to ideal, though they won't be on the 3DS.

The good version always sells way less, which is why they started getting weird with them. Platinum had abysmal sales, just like Emerald and Crystal, so they tried something different by making Black 2 and White 2 instead of a Pokemon Grey. When even those didn't sell, they scrapped the third title system and never made a Pokemon Z. It's likely that there will be no middle game for sun and moon.

Remakes, on the other hand, tend to sell really well, which is why they made ORAS.

I'm sort of dragging this out in a lot of posts, but writing it all out helps me think about it.

So after some thought, the team I've decided on so far would be:

Jirachi, Manaphy, Bisharp, Mega-Altaria, Galvantula.

On edge: Heatran, Shaymin, Tyranitar.

The team's a weird combo so far, which is what I like. I'm not going for the most hyper optimal there is, otherwise this group would be some boring standard mix of pure commonly seen OU Pokemon (I am aware that that is a tautology).


The way I look at it, I tend to try for a team that can balance a focus on the stats of Attack, Sp. Attack, Defense, And Sp. Defense.

The current set-up looks to be: Physical/Special Attacker, Special Attacker, Physical Attacker, Mixed Attacker + Mixed Defense,  and Frail Set-up.

The on edge Pokemon: Dubious Bulk, Annoyance / Special Attack, and good overall and a possible wall but uncertain.

Then there's the need to examine and holes in type coverage, both offensively and defensively. This is something that I'm terrible at and can't really be evaluated until I make move sets for everything.

It's been a long time since I was in this thread, but I'm here because I'm trying to build a competitive team again after a long having not really played. My interest was mainly sparked after the Sun and Moon announcements. I'm mainly using Smogon as a reference point, but am not being absolute with it.

I came here in the past to get help building a team and it turned out great. Team was, though to spare the details since its not the focus of this post: Skarmory, Breloom, Tentacruel (It was shiny, that's why its here), Gardevoir, Latias (shiny), and Mega Sableye. It's a great team that can deal with most situations and even counters the few uber non-legendaries that pop up on 3DS multiplayer.

As for a new team, after years of fiddling with Pokemon, I now have an over abundance of those small, cute legendaries, and wanted to make a team using some.

So far I have:
Jirachi (From the 2011 HG/SS event.)
Nature: Timid; Item: LeftOvers
Planned EVs: Sp. Atk and Speed
Moves:
-Wish
-Psyshock
-Flash Cannon
-Draco Meteor (Unique event only move, if it needs to be ditched, I have a spare, neutral nature'd Jirachi to use instead.)

Manaphy (From the event that started on the first.)
Nature: Bashful ;Item: ?
(I make most of my event legendaries neutral natured, due to being easier to reset for and in case the far-future meta-game gets weird)
EVs: ?
Moves:
-Tail Glow
-Scald
-Energy Ball
-Ice Beam

A to-be Bisharp
(I got a shiny Pawniard in a trade ages ago, ignored it due to its nickname, only now looking at it and noticing it has the right nature, ability, and good IVs. Was dumb to ignore it.)
Nature: Jolly; Item:?
Ability: Defiant
EVs: ?
Moves: ?

This is what I've got, and I'm not sure where to go from here. I sorta like using neat/absurd Pokemon and would be willing to use UU or potentially even lower ranking Pokemon if they help fill gaps on the team. At a quick glance, I need a mega, walls for both attack types, and maybe another physical attacker.

As for the remaining potential cute legendaries that  I could use, though aren't due to being redundant (Special attackers, ect.):
Celebi, Said Spare Jirachi, Shaymin, Victini.

I feel like Diancie would fill a nice hole in this potential team and fit its absurd style of tiny legendaries, except I managed to miss every single Diancie event and trading for one would be a nightmare of task to accomplish.

But, muh ships.

On a side note, I feel like Davekat is going to crash and burn, horribly. Hussie's been joking about Davekat on twitter, and the last time Hussie flaunted about a ship on twitter (VriskaxMeenah), they got scooted off to irrelevance. Meanwhile, I think Hussie was silent over the JohnRoxy stuff that made the fandom flip out.

Also, has the fandom never heard of the concept of a platonic relationship?

I'm slightly upset that so much of the story has been essentially undone.

It can be sort of justified if you think about it from a meta-perspective of restarting from the last save, with GAME OVER and what not.


Side note, saw the URL before I had even made it past the first page-thing, which is a rather blunt message.