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Rotation Battles is a very complicated format. You have to outpredict your opponent’s outprediction of your prediction of your opponent’s prediction. Do you go for the safest decision or go for the gusto? Any wrong decision you make can be devastating, so be prepared to make mistakes. Hyper...

Hello Smogonites. Battle Spot needs a bit more rep, so I have a fun proposal... Today I am issuing a challenge to you with a reward for meeting it of course! If you can outdo me in All Matches rating in Battle Spot Season 4 and beat my end of Season 3 score as well I will reward you with your...

Hey guys, check this out. So when you go to http://3ds.pokemon-gl.com/battle/ and view an ended season scroll down to the bottom and you'll see some of the top mons in any of the battle formats. Exhibit A: Top Triples 'mons for the second season. BUT WAIT, there's more... Exhibit B: You...

Hello everyone! I've been using and fine-tuning this team over the first season. It peaked at 1845 on Battle Spot, but unfortunately, I missed the top 100. (I'm not sure what my final raking was, but it was somewhere in the top 150-300s). If you can give me some advice where I went wrong, I'd...

Intro to Battle Spot Triple Battles - the only way to ladder 6v6 is at the battle spot. The main thing you have to keep in mind in Triples is... How are you going to set up a sweep? First you must get around all of the Fake Outs, Follow Mes, Trick Rooms, Tailwinds, Weather, etc. If you keep...

After looking through some of the threads in The Suggestion Box and a few cans of Mountain Dew I had an idea... What if we had an easily accessible and searchable Wiki for Smogon's articles and such. I'm just going to throw out some ideas that'd make a Wiki make our lives all the more easier. I...

Like Jumpman16 said in the other thread that people need to specify what percent they'd be happy with for something to become Uber. I figured it'd be fastest and easiest to collect that data in a(nother) poll.

Hmm, not 100% sure where to put this... I may be a little early to be concerned about this kind of stuff, but might as well discuss it. Since as Heart Gold/Soul Silver info is flooding in. There may be a number of pokémon shifted around the tiers and that could pose a problem for the statistics...

I've been using this under my alt nick of StealthRock and quite honestly it wins very easily. The thing is I know this team is far from perfection too. SpikeStacking just does so much its unreal. Its peaked at 4th on the ladder so far, I might be able to devote more time to it once college life...

The Return of Flame Orb Cresselia (Updated EVs) Edit: Currently peaking at 7th on the ladder. Edit2: Peaked at 5th, done laddering for the day. Hooray for hastily drawn doodles after pulling an all-nighter. I've gotten a couple requests to show people my team, so here it is. One of my...

I've been listening to quite a few users complain about Salamence and a number of them are calling for it to be Uber. With the amount of checks there are for it, it does not feel right. I don't think people would really consider Salamence for Ubers if Outrage was banned. So, I wanted to propose...

The Suspect testing has really helped spike interest in OU tiering and UU might benefit from similar treatment. I was kind of surprised at the substantial difference between the number of battles between the UU and OU ladders. September The OU Ladder had 183,396 battles. The UU Ladder had...

Okay you know I'd be one to quickly jump on this. With Deoxys in a Speedo gone there is absolutely nothing that can just throw down a speedy Taunt and put a stop to this move. Since you've heard this all to death I'm going straight to the point. Getting rid of Stealth Rock is kind of...

Intro: My style of battling centers around crippling the other team and taking advantage of any pinch they get into. This team is no exception to that philosophy. In Platinum most good teams have at least one Tricker. If you mimize the threat of that Tricker by having a set pokémon to receive...

Seeing as Deoxys-S was recently moved back up to the Uber tier. I thought why not look at the things that you, the user would consider to be something that would be most needing to be tested. Please, let's keep this thread as smart as possible. Recycling arguments over and over is not going to...

The main purpose of this team is to really screw things up with its trickery. Imagine using Trick on half of your opponent's team and with the way people think that its an overly offensive metagame... 6-0ing other teams is not uncommon. Star Struck (Jirachi) @ Choice Scarf Ability: Serene Grace...

Normal Form: Cut Form (Lawnmower): Exclusive move: Leaf Storm Frost Form (Refrigerator): Exclusive move: Blizzard Heat Form (Microwave/Toaster/Oven): Exclusive move: Overheat Spin Form (Fan): Exclusive move: Air Slash Wash Form (Washing Machine): Exclusive move: Hydro Pump Type...

Meta Knight (Metagross) @ Choice Scarf Ability: Clear Body EVs: 156 HP/108 Atk/244 Spd Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Trick - Ice Punch - Meteor Mash - Earthquake Man, this really screws with other leads that don't already have Scarf. If it all goes well I then switch to Togekiss or kill. Outruns...

Well seeing as this is rarely discussed among the general population of battlers I figured I might as well give it a go. If I hear another "I'm just so glad Garchomp is Uber" or "no way, we have to retest it when Platinum comes out" I'm going to beat you down with a spatula. We just voted the...

Ganon (Metagross) @ Choice Scarf Ability: Clear Body EVs: 108 HP/196 Atk/204 Spd Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Meteor Mash - Earthquake - Ice Punch - Explosion ScarfGross makes a nasty surprise for anyone unprepared for it. Its kinda like Agilegross, but without setup. Enough speed to outrun...