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Teambats
Welcome to teambats, a classic community event revived from the depths of Smogon history with a modern twist. Teambats are a competition between two teams of...
This thread is here for the simple purpose of having everyone identify themselves for the upcoming Sawk vote. As a reminder, you need to attain at least 2600 COIL to vote in this test, so don't make a post here unless you've met these requirements for the first ladder already. Please provide a...
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NU VIABILITY RANKING
Welcome to the official NU Viability Ranking thread. These rankings have been revamped to meet a new stricter set of criteria as to avoid over inflation and Pokemon being placed in a rank that doesn't denote their appropriate abilities. The concept...
Hi, this thread is meant to primarily discuss one of two things: possible additions/updates to completed analysis and is the place to go to if you want to make a case for a Pokemon that doesn't have an analysis but believe it should receive one.
The first entails the following:
-Whether an...
NU Speed Building Tour
Teambuilding is usually a time intensive process where builders can spend hours on a single team perfecting it. However, recently I've really enjoyed something I've dubbed as "speed building" where you spend 5-7 minutes building a team before you play your tour match...
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NU VIABILITY RANKING
Welcome to the official NU Viability Ranking thread. If you've visited the Viability Ranking thread for any other tier, you should be familiar with the concept of this thread - we will organize the Pokemon in our tier into ranks...
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Ok so recently I've had a couple of users comment on the fact that there really isn't anywhere to post their teams that they don't feel are RMT worthy but still wish to share with the NU community. This is the place to do so. I've also decided this is the...
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Additionally, please do note that today's tour allows both Sneasel and...
For those of you that don't know what a NUzlocke is, its a challenge imposed upon ones self where after a Pokemon has fainted you are no longer able to use that Pokemon anymore during the challenge. Its a bit different during an ingame playthrough, but during a ladder challenge that is the...
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Send a PM to "Montsegur" on Showdown when you win your match, losers need not PM as it could cause confusion.
**Please join smogtours server to participate in today's tour: http://smogtours.psim.us/.
Additionally, please do note that today's tour is ORAS NU!
General...
Putting this on hold till the suspect is over
bzzzt
[OVERVIEW]
Analytic, godly power, absolutely destroys things on switches, strongest electric type in the tier
good typing allowing it to switch into various attacks as well as being good offensively
It can play a number of roles in the...
Week 1
ORAS
[MESP] QueenofLuvdiscs vs. Kiyo [MUSH]
[MESP] Can-eh-dian vs. Zebraiken [MUSH]
[MESP] mencemeat vs. iplaytennislol [MUSH]
[ART] TRICKING vs. Scorpdestroyer [WOB]
[ART] Teddeh vs. Shuckleking87 [WOB]
[ART] Blapperl vs. Steve Angello [WOB]
[BEAR] liberty32 vs. Faji [VILE]...
Articuno the Frozen Burd Pokemon
[OVERVIEW]
Articuno is a very interesting Pokemon in the Never Used tier for one main reason, its typing which acts as a double edge sword. On one hand its typing is amazing offensively being able to hit the majority of the Never Used tier neutrally with its...
This thread is here for the simple purposes of having everyone identify themselves for the upcoming Typhlosion / Cameruptite vote. As a reminder, you need to attain at least 2400 COIL to vote in this test, so dont make a post here unless you've met these requirements already. Please provide a...
Shamelessly stolen from other similar threads in OU and Doubles with modifications and additions to meet PU's needs.
It has come to the attention of various QC members that many analysis have been repeating similar mistakes. The goal of this thread is to mention some of those mistakes so that...
Shamelessly stolen from other similar threads in OU and Doubles with modifications and additions to meet Battle Spot's needs.
So seeing as Battle Spot analyses are starting out and a lot of new contributors have a lot of questions on how to write, I'm posting this to help writers avoid some of...
Shamelessly stolen from other similar threads in OU and Doubles with modifications and additions to meet NU's needs.
It has come to the attention of various QC members that many analysis have been repeating similar mistakes. The goal of this thread is to mention some of those mistakes so that...
Kiyo
~ Woe to you O earth and sea, for the Devil sends the Beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short. Let him who hath understanding reckon the Number of the Beast, for it is a human number. Its number is six-hundred and sixty-six. ~
Introduction
So I haven't posted an RMT in...
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The Next Best Thing
What is this?:
I for one, along with many others I'm sure, feel as though there is some untapped power within the Battle Spot environment. There is substantial evidence for this idea in the form of...
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Battle Spot Victim of the Week
Every generation is different and the metagame is constantly changing with new releases and "newly discover Pokemon"; however, there has always been and always will be threats. Whether they...