Can someone give me the basics of competitive team building?

I’m not gonna ask you to build me a team; I just want the know-how.

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Here are some pointers I’ve accumulated through my time here on the site and the pro himself, JaJa (who’s name should still be JarJar):

Hope this helped you :)

Important information is in bold.__

The basic competitive team has

You can have mixed sweepers and mixed walls, physical tanks or special tanks just make sure that they can still dish out a mixer of attacks or take a mixture of hits between. For the sake of mathematics count them as

thus 2 mixed walls are needed to replace a physical and special wall and 2 mixed sweepers are needed to replace a physical and special sweeper[this is only a guide for beginners in competitive battling].

You need IVs and EVs that support a Pokemon’s role within your team.

[EXAMPLE]: In order for a wall to do it’s job probably - take hits for your weaker Pokemon - it needs the Individual and Effort values to make it’s HP/Defence/Special Defence as high as possible otherwise it will be fainted easily and not serve a functional purpose.

Make sure that you match a Pokemon’s stats with its role in a team; for example, don’t have a frail Pokemon function as a wall for your team. However…

There are exceptions so: just because a Pokemon has certain base stats, it doesn’t mean that it should have a certain role.. There are a few reasons why:

When thinking about movesets consider:

Basics:

A Little Bit More Advanced:

Of Course there are loads of roles in a competitive Pokemon battle.

Get a strong Pokemon to send out first with not many weaknesses and strong moves and stats. I Highly would do a fast Pokemon with good Defense stats. LIKE Garchomp OR Slow Bulky Pokemon LIKE Snorlax , Metagross , Vaporeon,

have moves like extremespeed , bullet punch , Aqua jet , mach punch , ice shard , …….. So that you can finish your enemy’s Pokemon off if your other Pokemon did not get the job done.

3.Have a Balance team. Have Fire moves , Water moves , Grass moves , ice moves , electric moves , Steel moves, Fairy moves , Fighting moves , and Ground Moves.

4 . Have at least 2 Bulky tanks on your team. LIKE Snorlax , Goodra , OR Lapras , Snorlax , OR Lapras , Goodra , . Have at least two Sweepers on your team LIKE Garchomp , Excadrill , Heracross , …… and Have At least 2 mixed Pokemon ( Good ALL Around stats ) LIKE Kingdra , Blastoise ,Vensaur , Dragonite ,

5 . DO COMBO’S …… like Yawn/Protect , Dragon Dance/Outrage , Calm mind/Psychic , Thunder Wave/Waterfall , Hone Claws/ Fly , Swords Dance/Outrage ,

6 . Always try to get Reflect And Light Screen Up to Double your Defenses.

HOPED I HELPED :)