Playstyles and Team Styles in RBY?
Apr 22, 2015 7:22:17 GMT -8
Post by piexplode on Apr 22, 2015 7:22:17 GMT -8
Thought it would be nice to reopen the discussion on playstyles and styles of teams in RBY. I've started teaching people here and there about RBY, working on a guide, etc. and I realise that I only really know fully certain aspects of RBY.. I don't think playstyles in RBY will ever be fully black and white, but there's definitely a fairly vivid scale of offense to defense, and then variations within offense [from marco's more special inclination in general, with starmie, zam, jolteon etc being fairly common at the moment, to isa's more physically aggressive focus ~ I think this is correct but if it isn't correct me], whilst I find myself to favour more defensive teams [I'm yet to go down toxic leech egg route though] and clever switching and generally I value a team more as a cohort of synergysing members that offer me a variety of options during battle, rather than so much of a focus on individual mons that perform their own singular jobs well versus any matchup. I also like playing wrap occasionally but tend to choke with it a lot :[ So, does anyone agree with me that playstyles in RBY are more well-defined?
Physical offense - Tauros+Lax+other primarily physical attackers like Rhydon/Golem, mixed attackers like Lapras and Zapdos, and at the more extreme end, pokemon such as raticate, dodrio, and kangaskhan
Special offense - the specfalling power of Zam/Mie commonplace, Slowbro and Jolteon are common options too.
Offense tends not to be directly falling into one category, but rather a mix of the two [the 'standard' build of lead/big 4/wildcard tends to be fairly in the middle, leaning towards physical offense maybe. But stuff like a kingler squad tends to be more physically oriented, whilst teams like marco's jolt lead zam etc team is definitely more specially oriented, for example. Specially offensive teams tend to be more defensive than physically offensive ones, since good specially offensive mons work well defensively also. Then you have more defensive stuff like lapras+rhydon cores, and then leech egg, reflect chansey, maybe toxic egg.. that seems to sorta define 'stall'.
Thoughts??
Physical offense - Tauros+Lax+other primarily physical attackers like Rhydon/Golem, mixed attackers like Lapras and Zapdos, and at the more extreme end, pokemon such as raticate, dodrio, and kangaskhan
Special offense - the specfalling power of Zam/Mie commonplace, Slowbro and Jolteon are common options too.
Offense tends not to be directly falling into one category, but rather a mix of the two [the 'standard' build of lead/big 4/wildcard tends to be fairly in the middle, leaning towards physical offense maybe. But stuff like a kingler squad tends to be more physically oriented, whilst teams like marco's jolt lead zam etc team is definitely more specially oriented, for example. Specially offensive teams tend to be more defensive than physically offensive ones, since good specially offensive mons work well defensively also. Then you have more defensive stuff like lapras+rhydon cores, and then leech egg, reflect chansey, maybe toxic egg.. that seems to sorta define 'stall'.
Thoughts??