So does anyone else just steal teams off of Smogon's forums

I refuse to do so even though I'm quite like you. I just make up shit like:

Golbat @ Eviolite
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Toxic
- Super Fang
- Roost
- Defog

and hope for the best

>>29898997
That's what's recommended until you figure your way around a metagame. There's really no shame in using good RMTs and shit as long as you understand how they work and the concepts behind the decisions made when teambuilding.

Be shit, play more, git gud. If you're using premades you're skipping the shitty "I want to play a full Eevee/monotype team" phase which is nothing but a good thing.

>>29898997
i actually invented assault vest tangrowth's set right when its HA was discovered and someone posted it to smogon after reading about it here

>>29898997
That's what you're supposed to do.

I just played UU and 1v1 when I first started. Losing is motivation enough for me to get good.

Premades...what are you, a baby?

>>29898997
Japanese teams are better, plus the community isn't a bunch of brainwashed sheep

>>29898997
If I did that I wouldn't play half of my favorite mons

Plus, I play online ingame and the smogon rules hardly matter there.

>>29900908
How are they better?

>smogon

>>29903169
Not him but didn't they beat the crap out of the American team last year and commented on how the American teams were just too predictable or that smogon ws giving out wrong info, something like that.

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That's how games work you dumb shit faggots. 99% of the community copies the 1%. That's how it works for chess strategies, for card game decks, for RTS building orders, etc etc.


Has nothing to do with being incompetent. Why would you waste your time making meme "original" sets when you can use things that were created by the top players and have been tested and perfected by tens of thousands of people before you?

>>29903267
Where to find jp teams?