Competitive Battling Discussion of the Week #31

[Professor Palutena]

What tiers do you enjoy playing in?

Why do you enjoy those tiers?

What tiers do you want to learn, if any?

What advice do you have for someone starting to play in one of the tiers you play in?

 

[MrGatr]

What tiers do you enjoy playing in?
UU, and RU, and NU. OU is too cliche for me, and Ubers is getting boring.

Why do you enjoy those tiers?
Diversity mainly, you always are on your heals as to how much damage something is gonna do. What set it is, what underacted threat have you forgotten.

What tiers do you want to learn, if any?
I'm happy in UU

What advice do you have for someone starting to play in one of the tiers you play in?
Use Kingdra and Bronzong on every team.

 

[Keeper of Night]

What tiers do you enjoy playing in?
I only just started getting into the VGC.
But right now I mostly play OU, and sometimes UU and Ubers as well.

Why do you enjoy those tiers?
OU allows me to use lot's of different pokemon, which is what I enjoy most.
Also, so many people use Rain, it's fun finding ways to use it against them.

What tiers do you want to learn, if any?
RU would be fun to try sometime, but I need to get better at UU first.

What advice do you have for someone starting to play in one of the tiers you play in?
Always have a Rapid Spinner, and try to use some hazards of your own. The extra damage goes a long way on some matches. Also, if you don't have a fire type on your team, HP Fire is great to use against Ferrothorn or Forretress before they line your field with hazards.

 

[Chaos Jackal]

What tiers do you enjoy playing in?
I mostly play VGC.
Why do you enjoy those tiers?
I just don't have much of a chance for other tiers, mostly because I often use Pokemon that are banned in OU (Thubdurus, Garchomp) and OU uses Pokemon banned in VGC (Jirachi, Deoxys)
What tiers do you want to learn, if any?
I'd like to play Ubers. I think it would be fun to run wild with big 680 BST Pokemon
What advice do you have for someone starting to play in one of the tiers you play in?
VGC is dominated by weather even more than OU. If you play VGC, prepare your own weather team or prepare a general anti-weather team. Otherwise you're most probably toast.

 

[Momentum]

What tiers do you enjoy playing in?
Mainly DP Tiers, especially the lower ones. DP LC is totally my favourite, but OU is ok as well.
I don't really enjoy BW OU because everything is overpowered or overbulked, you have a hard time if you don't use the same shit over and over, it simply does not depend on prediciton and planning if you win but on the match up and how good he is at clicking at volt switch and u turn! BW Lower Tiers like NU, RU and LC are ok for me I kinda can enjoy them, but BW as a whole isn't as good as ADV and DP were.

Why do you enjoy those tiers?
I love playing DP because for me it is the most balanced and rich in variety, you can be succesfull with any playstyle. The only thing I dislike about DP OU is the overuse of Heatran but that's fine I guess. I'm generally a huge LC fan because it is a fast metagame where prediction can win you the most difficult match ups. Eviolite kinda destroyed that but DP LC and ADV LC were simply genius metagames.

What tiers do you want to learn, if any?
I'd like to get into Triples and VGC, used to love DP OU Doubles but nobody plays that anymore lol.

What advice do you have for someone starting to play in one of the tiers you play in?
Think when you are making the teams, simply try to cover every type of a Pokemon and if you are not stall be sure to have a lot of speed and priority in your team. Hazards are helpfull too. If your team is slow then have something to spread para. Going first is important because it helps against hax!