Team Building Basics Guide

[Noctourniquet]

Haha, thanks a lot. Yea, I didn't expect her to find this, but it's good that she did. Btw, I haven't abandoned the second part of the guide, it is coming and it'll be up within the next couple of days.

[SapphireL]

Nice guide, I like it - though I didn't expect SapphireL to sticky it, since she rarely appear nowadays xD

:/ Well, even though I don't appreciate that comment, I suppose that's true... but I mean, I do have college/university as well as a job... so yeah...

[Mexifry]

Very useful guide indeed!
Im excited for the second part because I have been looking more and more into EV and IV Training/Breeding now that I've beat Red.
Gonna show this to my friends who want to learn a little more about stuff when it comes to battling against real people and in game. heh

[foxyman1167]

Any idea when the second part of the guide will come in?

[Noctourniquet]

^ I'm not completely sure. I'll be working on it over the weekend as I've been a little bogged down with coursework and a couple of personal issues atm, and I'm not really up for writing a guide. So, expect it tomorrow or Sunday.

EDIT: Mehh, I decided to crack away at it a bit more tonight. EVs, IVs, and Resources are up here. Enjoy. As before, post any comments and corrections in this thread. The worked examples are coming in a new post later.

[[GS]]

Brilliant work on the 2nd part. There's some stuff in there
that even I wasn't clear on, lol. I'm too ill to go through and
do any corrections, but I just wanted to commend you on
another job well done. ^^

[Noctourniquet]

^ Heh, thanks, although I'm replacing Umbreon since, in use, it would probably need some Atk rather than balanced defences. But tomorrow, when it's not stupidly late/early. xD

[foxyman1167]

SpellCheck time.

A an offensive Pokémon is a Pokémon designed to take out many opponents very quickly with attacks that are normally STAB Boosted.

Remove the A.

This Empoleon maximises its Speed, which gives it an actual stat of 240.

Maximizes.

As this is not competitive, you do not need to EV to survive attacks from certain threats, but rather you should work on optimising your Defences.

Optimizing.

Firstly, the Max HP + Equal Defences style. Pokémon with fairly all-round Defensive Stats will want to employ this style, as they will benefit most from bring able to take hits from everything evenly.

Defenses.
Being.

Now, we already have Max HP invested because Umbreon has a mediocre HP in relation to its other Defences. The Def, SpDef, and Nature will come together once we do a little maths and find out how to even them out.

Defenses.
Math. (This isn't really a spelling mistake, its just math sounds better to me in there.)

Now for the next style. It's far simpler than the previous one because it is easily to recognise where it is needed, and employ it.

Recognize.

Finally, the third style of investing only slightly in HP and investing heavily in your Defences instead.

Defenses.

A more appropriate and beneficial method to use would be to run a 4 / 252 / 252 spread, with the 252s being your Defences.

Defenses.

I have not covered hybrid spreads, combining Offence and Defence.

Offense.
Defense.

[AlCario]

^Most of those are just differences between American and Australian/British english, so they don't really matter too much unless you feel like being pedantic.

[foxyman1167]

Yeah I realized that after I posted that, but I just added them in case.

I didn't say it before, but nice job on the second piece, good stuff in there.

[Noctourniquet]

^ Thanks for pointing them out, although I decided to leave them as they were since I'm not too bothered about changing a spelling which was technically correct to begin with. I changed the other issues, though.

Thanks. I hope some people are getting some use out of it. I know all the numbers make it a little unfriendly to beginners, but that's just how it is, really.

[Terry. T.]

Brilliant. I'll try these one day instead of going freestyle. But may I suggest that in the Hall and when you can use Roar/Whirlwind, you can then run HyperBeam moves as after you attack, you can just get the other Pokémon to Roar you out. In the hall them moves can tear up anything. If you are scared about them, keep like Flamethrower or Energy Ball up back. I tried it once and it worked well.

[Terry. T.]

Brilliant. I'll try these one day instead of going freestyle. But may I suggest that in the Hall and when you can use Roar/Whirlwind, you can then run HyperBeam moves as after you attack, you can just get the other Pokémon to Roar you out. In the hall them moves can tear up anything. If you are scared about them, keep like Flamethrower or Energy Ball up back. I tried it once and it worked well.

[Noctourniquet]

^ Hyper Beam-esque moves are really only viable on Slaking in the Battle Hall, and this isn't a Frontier guide, so. The Roar strategy is alright, but it would require your partner in a Double Battle to waste a turn roaring you, so that time could be used better. They still aren't viable.

[Terry. T.]

^ Hyper Beam-esque moves are really only viable on Slaking in the Battle Hall, and this isn't a Frontier guide, so. The Roar strategy is alright, but it would require your partner in a Double Battle to waste a turn roaring you, so that time could be used better. They still aren't viable.

There will be a way. After all, the world's highes Hall Streak is held by a Blast Burn-Flamethrower-Focus Blast-HP Dark Infernape, Choice Specs Timid. I think that's right according to what I heard DX

[Noctourniquet]

^ As I said, this isn't a Frontier guide, so even if that's true, it is irrelevant.

[Terry. T.]

^ As I said, this isn't a Frontier guide, so even if that's true, it is irrelevant.

Oh yeah. This ain't the guide for me. But V4E's guide doesn't help me either so... meh.
*is off to STTR to sort out an argument*

[ungulateman]

Terry, shut up and go away. Any Infernape with that set will get murdered as soon as a Ground-type (and more of the Ground-types in the Hall have Brightpowder than any other type) looks at it.

The current record is 260, by Jumpman, with his Kingdra.

[AlCario]

Yeah. I'm just saying that STTR is a bunch of crap now.

*is off to STTR to sort out an argument*

Looks like you've finally found where you belong.

[Dan The Poke Man]

*Applause*

Nice guide.

I now understand what a few terms are, now. (Such as Tank and Sweeper)

And I now have figured out what to do with my recently obtained shiny Torkoal and Ninjask.

Ty~