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[OVERVIEW] Sandslash is often overlooked in RBY OU, but it realizes a dangerous niche with its unique combination of typing, movepool, and speed tier. After a Swords Dance, Sandslash threatens a 2HKO on every Pokemon in the tier, and at base 65 Speed, it is just fast enough to outpace many...

Introduction Welcome! This is my play on "Hyper Offense" in Gen 1, as my team lacks the Lax and Chansey that can make Gen 1 OU games drag on for so long. Although this hurts the viability of this team in the eyes of some, I feel like the team is strong enough on its own merit in the context of...

Let's Take It to the Stage! As many people know, Gen 3 UU is a very diverse metagame, with a lot viable play styles, and it's said that nearly every pokemon available in the format has a viable niche. After hearing so much about this format, I decided to give it a go using a combination of my...

Introduction Here I am again, with another team full of only somewhat viable pokemon that will make people yell at me. Still though, this team has been a lot of fun to play with, and it has tools to deal with some of the biggest threats in the metagame. I feel like my replays will show more...

Introduction For starters, this team is a bit immature. I only had around a month to tinker with it on the ladder, so the EVs/Natures are probably not as good as they could be. Still, for someone with no real Gen 7 experience, I was surprised by how effective this team was, after some tweaks. I...

Introduction So, I've spent some time familiarizing myself with the ladder and team, trying out about 1/2 of the fully evolved Gen 1 population trying to best figure out the flaws with my team, and this is the result. Again, since it lacks the Big 4, psychics, or any sort of sustained gimmick...

Introduction So yeah, this is my Gen 1 OU team. I've been using it for about a month, and to my great surprise, using pretty much only my favorite pokemon, it's pretty good! (~1300 ladder ranking, beat standard teams with normals, psychics, RhyGol, etc. about 60% of the time) I know I could...