Del Murder
is an EoFF Hero and/or Heroine
Feel the Bern
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Don't worry, I'll gladly help with tips even if we're still in the tournament. But I'll keep it in Visitor Messages (or maybe PMs would be better?) I'll be going to sleep soon, but a quick start;

"Constructed competetive pokemon" is a bit different from the tournament we have here. First of all, the addition of held items, mega stones and the fact that you can build and balance your own team entierly makes the team building process very important and a lot more detailed than just trying to pick moves for the six pokemons you ended up hatching.

The most played singles format is by the "Smogon rules". Smogon is a community that basically tries to balance the game as much as possible, by applying some special rules and banning some mons that are considered too powerful/broken (such as Mega Kangaskhan for example). They also have a sleep clause, which means that you are only allowed to put one opposing pokemon to sleep at a time. This is because sleep, even though slightly nerfed in Gen 6, is still a very broken and easily abused status and pokemons such as Breloom could be nearly unstoppable if they were allowed to Spore everything.

The Smogon rules are pretty easy to look up and learn though for the most part, they mostly do make sense, and if you want to get into competetive pokemon in the singles format, then Smogon is pretty much the way to go.

I'll give you some direction on team building later, as well as things to keep in mind while playing.

I know you don't. I just really am a very sore loser. I hate losing, and I hate people seeing me lose even more. Talking it over just helps keep me from being frustrated by it.

This is one of the things I hate about competition. The better one person does, the worse it means another person did. You bragging about your own skill makes me feel like you're mocking me for my lack of skill. It's frustrating, and I don't handle it well at all. I know you didn't intend it that way, but that's how it feels.

Congratulations on the good match, and I'm sorry I'm such a sore loser.

Ready.

Wait. It's almost dinner time. I'll be called away mid-fight.

Can you wait half an hour?

Hey, Del. You still up for a match?

Jinx has it. It's one of my personal favorites. If she followed my tip (Coil + Zap Cannon), there's gonna be hell, believe me.

Yeah, that's true. And levitate is just so broken. I mean, it was so lame of me to use Earthquake with that Marowak

He's resistant to most of my pokes :/

Seriously, only Pietro could do something with his fairy move, but even then, trout. No wonder Flygon didn't get a mega evolution

Still a great game, though