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I highly suggest everyone that wants to get better at SM OU to try the official laddering tournament occurring right now. It is essentially laddering until you gain enough points to qualify for the tournament. It is extremely hard to reach this point, but you get to experience the full range of the metagame that is available on the ladder. This ranges from stall, hyper offense, veil offense, webs, gay shit, and then once in a blue moon, a balance team. Not but seriously, this is a fun tourney and event to participate in. It all takes place on main server showdown and smogon forums. If you don't make it this cycle, there is always more cycles.

Sign ups: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogons-official-ladder-tournament-iv-cycle-3-signups.3612288/

Sample teams: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/olt-laddering-teams-from-1000-insert-number.3610784/

 

I'll probably be posting cool replays I have or my progress every cycle, gl to all participating.

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7 hours ago, londark said:

Made a team pretty fast, i'm not really happy with it, since i'm having quite some issues with it, especially against dugtrio, and i'm seeing a lot of them...

 

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-619564501

 

Suggestions for it are appreciated, but Tapu Lele isn't going out of the team

Well the only thing that really gets trapped by dugtrio on your team is heatran, so I'd probably recommend changing it to a magma storm earth power set with toxic and either stealth rock or taunt (if you go stealth rock, then you can potentially replace Ferro with a check to stuff like cb zygarde. 

 

I also dont think lopunny and tapu lele work that well together, as psychic terrain blocks lopunny from using fake out, but I guess they have a decent offensive synergy of wearing down steel types.

 

Theres also something I don't like about zapdos and lando together. Not sure what it is, maybe because I run kyurem black a lot and it's pretty easy kos when someone runs 2x flying types and no ice resists. Mega defog scizor is an option over ferrothorn as well, which checks a lot of annoying threats in OU (zygarde, kyurem, lopunny, etc) and allows you to run 3 attacks on zapdos.

 

Edit:

watched rest of your match. Life orb on lele is generally pretty meh. Generally want a z fighting/specs if you're after power. Also volt switch on zapdos isn't really too popular, discharge is more common as it's quite annoying with paras.

Edited by BurntZebra
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