First Competitive RBY

[BusterBlader128]

So it'll be jank.

Starmie
- Blizzard
- Recover
- Surf
- Thunderbolt

Alakazam
- Psychic
- Recover
- Seismic Toss
- Thunder Wave

Exeggutor
- Explosion
- Psychic
- Sleep Powder
- Stun Spore

Chansey
- Ice Beam
- Softboiled
- Thunder Wave
- Thunderbolt

Rhydon
- Body Slam
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Substitute

Tauros
- Blizzard
- Body Slam
- Earthquake
- Hyper Beam

[Kuiper]

So it'll be jank.
Making an RBY team isn't that hard. Just slap a bunch of standards together and you're set to jet.

Playing RBY, on the other hand, can be quite another issue, and you really need experience to play well, if only for first-hand experience on damage percentages and other such things.

Starmie
- Blizzard
- Recover
- Surf
- Thunderbolt
Well, this is interesting. Starmie leads are usually used to paralyze, but then again nobody does because throwing out random Thunder Waves from something that Chansey loves to switch into is dumber than, well, not much. Anyway, I really like this set, but for it to be effective you need to play it like you only have Blizzard/Recover. Basically, if you're using Surf against Tauros, don't use Blizzard until your opponent is confidient that you don't have it and brings in Exeggutor. Same goes the other way around. Basically, you're losing a very important move for what can be a very strategic advantage, so you'd better be making good use of it.

Alakazam
- Psychic
- Recover
- Seismic Toss
- Thunder Wave
Reflect Alakazam is something that can royally screw your opponent if they don't have a real counter, and late game when you've taken out the opposing Starmie/Eggy, you can have some real fun. 'course, in the event that they're packing something like Slowbro, you're sunk, but with Seismic Toss you don't do much outside of just landing psychics on stuff and spreading paralysis.

Exeggutor
- Explosion
- Psychic
- Sleep Powder
- Stun Spore
You should probably be leading with this, and it kind of helps if your only sleeper is faster than vileplume. Either ditch this for a faster sleeper, or put Sing on Chansey, unless you decide to take out Starmie for Gengar or something. Oh, and when I'm not using Eggy as a lead, I actually prefer Mega Drain, just because it's makes it a better counter for rock types. Then again, that's usually something I did due to a lack of water, and since you've got Starmie, that shouldn't be an issue. Double-Edge is also an option, and lets you win against opposing Exeggutor and such.

Chansey
- Ice Beam
- Softboiled
- Thunder Wave
- Thunderbolt
Seriously, of all the Chansey sets I hate this one the most for being totally bland. I actually used it once effectively, but that's because I had gotten a tourney opponent in familiarity with my tendency to use Counter over one of the electric attacks. Anyway, I'd say either put Sing here over Thunder Wave or maybe Thunderbolt, or use Counter if you're planning on getting a better sleeper. Or do both, IIRC MattW played SB/Counter/Sing/IB chansey once upon a time, and a pretty good job of things.

Rhydon
- Body Slam
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Substitute
On a team like this, I'd really think you'd get more use out of Golem simply because you're using the notorious special stalling trio of Chansey/Alakazam/Starmie, and if you're up against identical trios, it really helps to be able to boom somewheres, and there are sometimes you don't want to blow up your only sleeper. (You really should get another sleeper.)

Tauros
- Blizzard
- Body Slam
- Earthquake
- Hyper Beam
Not much else you can do here. Actually, not ANYTHING you can do here, unless you like Leer. =X



You only have one sleeper. It's usually advisable to have two, and if you only have one it should probably be Jynx, unless you have something like an Arcanine lead. Basically, once an opposing Jynx puts your Eggy to sleep, your only sleeper is asleep, meaning your opponent got an advantage that you didn't. You really don't want to let that happen.

You only have one Exploder. Explosion really helps against Starmie, Alakazam, and Chansey. It's also really great for taking out opposing Tauros. You don't have much in the way of Tauros counter (a Starmie without Thunder Wave, no Counter on Chansey), so I'd advise having Golem over Rhydon so you can switch it into Hyper Beam and blow up. Relying on Tauros and Alakazam special falls against Chansey isn't really a great idea, and it is ALWAYS advantageous to Explode on an opposing Chansey, unless it's with something like Gengar that isn't a guaranteed KO.

Keep in mind that losing in RBY doesn't mean your team needs improvement. It's easy to lose due to a bad judgement call, such as making a gamble against Chansey with Tauros before determining whether it has Counter or miss-predicting an Explosion, or simply bad luck, such as losing the speed tie against opposing pogeyz of same species.

You really should know that use of Chansey, Alakazam, and Starmie in tandem will get you into a lot of REALLY nasty stallwars. I general, I usually have a natural gravitation to Chansey, and rarely use either Starmie or Alakazam at all, and never all three together. But then again, you might like matches that are determined by Psychic PP and paralysis on Alakazam. Whatever floats your boat.

[PokeFan Wally]

Pretty nice team you got there. Like the Tauros thats cool. And starmie that's interesting! GJ :p

[Kuiper]

Pretty nice team you got there. Like the Tauros thats cool. And starmie that's interesting! GJ :p
I assume you are merely being facetious, particularly with the Tauros comment.

[J Man Cool]

if you are using starter starmie, I'd really suggest thunder wave. It's better so you don't get mowed down by gengar.

[Kuiper]

if you are using starter starmie, I'd really suggest thunder wave. It's better so you don't get mowed down by gengar.
Blindly throwing out Thunder Wave on the first turn with the thing that Chansey most loves to switch into is, no offense, dumber than dog ****. Besides, your opponent is going to assume you have Thunder Wave anyway, and either switch to Chansey, or Explode or summat.

[J Man Cool]

i don't know why t-waving chansey is that bad. That ho is now slower than Rhydon, allowing it to substitute and therefore own chansey very well.

I understand that freeze and sleep against chansey is very pleasurable, but para also gives you that 25% chance to get beaten down by Pokemon.

Plus, you have eggy to put something to sleep, which probably won't be chansey anyways, and starmie, chansey, and tauros with ice attack. I highly doubt you are going to go out and Blizzard Chansey with tauros to begin with, and starmie isn't going to stay in there to begin with. So you have chansey left.

If you are going to rely on chansey's freeze platform to beat the opposing chansey, then you deserve to lose. Paralysis is much easier to accommodate, especially with hard hitters like rhydon and tauros out and about. If he really worries about this, I'd suggest losing chansey or zam in favor of snorlax, giving you an alternate exploder, plus yet another way to take advantage of the paralyzed chansey.