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I'd keep Starmie because of bolt/beam and spinning. A pokemon with better stats and a similar coverage will obviously be better. Hmm You could switch Gyrados with Dragonite and have him learn aqua tail. If things go bad near the end for your Lucario or Garchomp you could try to set up an Outrage Sweep. "Better" Water Types is sort of broad, but in Gyrados' situation I see a Flying/Water: Icebeam Surf Aqua Ring/Dragon Dance Earthquake moveset or something along the lines of that. Maybe Blastoise/Lapras/Milotic/Kingdra could take it's place. Natures I at least try to have 1 stat (which I need) that it's beneficial too. Of course this has caused me to have so many eggs and is very time consuming. Before I started to EV train I would just try to level to 100 as fast as I could. Then it occured to me that some of my natures were just downright unhelpful sometimes hindering. So I'd have to re-level the same team from scratch just for a peace of mind (x Gengar Moveset: First move that comes to my mind is ShadowBall then somewhere along the lines of Suckerpunch/Payback Meanlook w/ Destiny Bond (Tricky to use) Confuse Ray/Hypnosis.

Well they're all on my sig. now :) I'm mostly on Sierra Leone, unless I'm MVPing with Faron, or it's WoE hours then I'm on Vitale.

Yeah I can't believe I missed that >.> Just switch out Blaziken/Lucario depending on battles. I've never been a huge fan of gyrados, mostly because of 4x electric and an annoying stealth rock weakness. Having Ice coverage is good especially because you'll need to predict when your opponent will try to counter your Garchomp (assuming he/she has a dragon type on their team, and excluding worrying about ice because of your Lucario(Fighting)/Blaziken(Fire) setup. Talonflame is a keeper. Starmie as a spinner and Bolt/Beam coverage is very useful to your team in particular, speed and sptk come to my mind, for full utility or dmg. Also Mega Venusaur is a beaaast xD

+1 To SlingerzDeluxez's idea on base colors. A Cape Color Changer or enabling the Valk Helm to go "Universal" with rings and capes would be a great update.

Welcome to the server! I'm sure you'll have some fun here and once the server is back up, hit me up :)

Yes, I too have come to the conclusion where it depends on what your enemy's team looks like and what tricks he/she has up their sleeve. Well Good Luck to your team building and battles then :)

Well because I've played more 5th gen then 6th I usually baton passed agility and double team to Gardevior and then Calm Minded from there before a sweep. Sptk Lucario can be a great Dragon Killer with Dragon Pulse. For Support, an entry hazard set up can come to play or a dual screener which I prefer to have. Maybe someone who can also haze or rapid spin. A Gengar or Porgyon - Z could be useful but is a coin toss in typing.

Well I see your points and reasons behind Aegislash. You are right, my friends also tell me most sweepers major in physical damage, while I myself am still a fan of Sptk sweeping. For Gardevoir, if you do not plan too Baton Pass it, then Max EV's in Sptk and Spdf would be a safe bet. Remaining into Def or Spd depending on the rest of your teams EV's. Calm Mind to me is a necessity, Psychic is a powerful move, for the other two ( Pain Split, Hypnosis/Will-O-Wisp, and Shadow Ball comes to mind at the moment). If you end up taking Gardevoir out and face a pkmn who can 2KO you before You can 2/1 KO him then being able to have Reflect/Light Screen in your move set could provide use in that situation or Wish/Protect (If it plans to kill you with a 2 turn move). (EDIT/NOTE) Your 4 Pokemon really are Solid Picks, usually the nearer I am to completing a team the harder it becomes to make sure the last spots are filled well :)

Ah yes, Curse Snorlax brings back old battles. Gardevoir was my first pure lvl 100 trained pkmn :) While it's fairy type is a nice addition to countering Dragon Types and the damage output it can have after using Calm Mind (especially baton passing to ready a sweep) I think you could lead with a Gengar. Although I wouldn't need Aegislash if I had Gengar unless you want a more better ghost tank and just lead instead with TalonFlame who's priority ability is very useful. If using Aegislash, you could Utility with say a Blissey and maybe go Skarmory too. So far your team seems promising and I find the pokemon very interesting. If I had to choose from that list I'd try Gardevoir/Magnezone first :)

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Well I too don't understand why they ban so many Pokemon. I've always tried to play how "the show would". Where nothing is banned. If i made it too the Pokemon League with a team of 3 Metapods, or happened to catch a MewTwo through my journey, well then it shouldn't be banned. (Of course it isn't as simple as this when it comes to the competitive games.) I agree with the whole "everyone uses Dragon types". That has made me love using my Lapras in my Rain Teams. You have 3 atk sweepers. I'd say for a more balanced team, have a Tank that can either cover your team's weakest def. type or actual typing. I'm used to having Snorlax because of his Thick Fat ability, Silk Scarf Stab Body Slam, Rest, and (insert utility/annoyer move/hidden power counter) "here". Also a status inducer couldn't hurt, whether it be para/slp/psn/ or my personal favorite (annoyer) a "life leacher" (leftovers/leech seed/mega drain/ingrain) A utility could be an option but because your sweeping, a baton passer would be a better choice. Although, the way I see it, if you plan to baton pass then your power would be coming from a diff. place. Your powerful sweepers will need higher def. types to carry out the baton pass. I myself love light ball Pikachu. Although I prefer Raichu when team building comes into play. Azumarill can also have the Huge Power ability which is somewhat useful. You could potentially Tank/Sweep with Magnezone but I see Jolteon as a more offensive pick.

Well server is back up and automated events are on so I'm guessing it is stable again.

Yo yo yo, its Dani! hahaha everyone is pretty much afk (off doing w/e) or waiting for servers to come back up

I've played Pokemon starting with Sapphire and Ruby then worked all the way to 5th gen competitive. Although I am not as active as before. I mainly breed and train for perfect EV's (multiples of the same pokemon but w/ different stat arrangements) and then went to online matches. Ranked was the most fun because I'd always encounter new team tactics from other players (more experienced) which I could then test and practice. Now I've settled in favoring Sweeping with Sptk, Tanking, Evee-loutions, and Rain Teams. I've followed Smogon's data and site ever since the beginning but I have strayed from them over time. Their definitions of "Uber, OU, etc." don't meet mine.

"I have yet to acquire a tight grasp on the ABC's and 123's of Love."

After Step 22 is completed (Talking to the Forger) your items 1 Oridecon Anvil, 100 Coal, 300 Iron, 1 Books on Legendary Weapons, 100,000,000 Zeny, are supposed to disappear. These are your "payment" in advance to the forger to have him help you on creating your L.Wep. Now you have Step 23: Hunt for those items specified in the guide: 300 Burning Hearts 200 Live Coals 15 Enriched Elunium 15 Enriched Oridecon 1 Hammer of Blacksmith Lastly Step 24: Simply hunt for Heroes Remains, or buy ( 50m - 70m zennies ) from a player (Can be found in the "Vending" building in Fcity or if someone is pubbing to sell them ) I'd rather buy because it isn't that expensive and it'd be a better use of time to farm money then hunt for the Mob imho. If you do not have the money you can farm at @warp abyss_03 and use @ali 7444 to pickup only the treasure chests (drop) which sell for 150k ea. at npc venders. Tip: Kill only yellow Acidus - they drop the treasure chests. Also Good Luck :)

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Hello Slingerz! Welcome and good luck ;)

Last I saw (month ago) Hero Remains are being sold for 50m - 70m.

Hmmm, Mat was dead already. But Vinor and You were most likely killed by an intruder >.> We need a new spot anyway, but still sorry about that.

*Dies slowly and comes back >.<* Yes I didn't realize it until now el ew elll....How silly of me,i can edit to be something else :P