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Hey! We're paired up for the OU Mini Tournament. What's your timezone and general time you're on? Mine is GMT -6 (I live in Illinois) and I am usually on after school on Monday. I can probably be on Sunday as well.
Kiyo man... we seriously need to meet again! We fell behind a bit, and there's less than 3 weeks left in the round! I'm always on Showdown as TEzeon, so feel free to PM me at any time.
Hey man, sorry about Tuesday. I was at a friends and totally lost track of time. I don't know which days you can make it, but I'm going to be on Showdown everyday from now on. Whenever you can make a session, just meet me there!
Hey, if you're on tomorrow around 3PM my time (1 PM yours IIRC) then we can battle then. Otherwise, if you're on past 8PM my time (6 PM yours IIRC) we should be fine.
When I build a team I just try to make sure the team covers its own weaknesses. Beldum Labs synergy calculator is great for defensive synergy. and from an offensive standpoint i basically test things out and see if i have trouble with a certain poke, and if i do i find a viable replacement. If I'm serious about it I might even make a checklist of the top 30 pokes on the usage statistics. But in general if your team supports itself its gonna fair pretty well.