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Structuring Your Team – Competitive Pokémon Guide
Structuring a team is the most important part of Pokémon battling. Your team needs to be catered specifically for your style of play, and there is no right or wrong way to structure a team if it works for you.
Some players prefer all out offensive teams with three powerful offensive Pokémon of special attack, and another three of physical however these teams, while dangerous, can sometimes suffer from being shut down by a more tactical team with more balance.
My personal recommendation for the ideal team set up is to have:
The Lead is the first Pokémon that you send out, and you’re best off picking it based on the rest of your team. You want a lead Pokémon that’s able to start the game off to your play style.
The Sweeper is the position that ideally you would want at least one of your Pokémon to hold, while all of your Pokémon should have some offensive capability, the sweeper is the Pokémon that’s meant to hit hard. I would advise two sweepers, one physical and one special, however it’s your call.
The Wall is your defensive Pokémon, ideally with defence so high that it can take a hit from a powerful sweeper as though it’s nothing. It’s common to see a physical and special wall on a team.
The Wall Breaker exists to… you guessed it, break walls. A wall breaker doesn’t have to be as fast because it exists to defeat slow Pokémon. What it should have is decent attacking power in both its physical and special attack, so that it can hit hard with both. This means that your opponent can’t switch out to another wall safely as both of their defensive Pokémon are in danger.
The Annoyer/Support is a role that can sometimes be filled by the lead, or by your wall but it will generally do things to support your Pokémon by either healing them, or by making it more difficult for your opponent’s team to damage them through status moves.
These are my personal recommendations and I will break down each one in more detail to give you a better idea of how to make use of these roles. So join me next time when I will be breaking down the ideal lead!
High on Life gets its first major paid DLC next week. From October 3, you can experience High on Knife. The offering was announced by a strange claymation trailer, and while you can still expect a silly experience, the developers wanted to make it spooky.
Announcing the DLC, Squanch Games CEO Mike Fridley said: “High On Knife is still hilarious and weird, but we’re getting spooky. Maybe not ‘I may never sleep again’ terror, but ‘my dreams are going to be broken for a while’. Imagine body horror, but your horrible body gets worse. We need your trust for now.”
Consider our curiosity piqued. Would you have bought High on Life for PlayStation or played it before? Any thoughts on High on Knife? Are you considering another serving?
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 appears to be a completionist’s dream, like its predecessors. Famous developer Insomniac Games has revealed a partial list of Trophies for the upcoming release, likely excluding spoilers. The lesson is that you must do almost everything to get Platinum.
Gongs include 100% completing every district in the game, including quests, collectibles, and crimes. You must also buy all gadget upgrades, unlock all suits, and complete combat missions as Peter Parker and Miles Morales. It seems simple, but you must do everything.
Here is a partial list of spoiler-free Trophies. After browsing, let us know if you’ll go Platinum. Doesn’t it look fun to unlock?
After an alleged data breach this week, Google Trends registered a 277% increase in “delete PlayStation account” searches. Ransomware group claimed to have “successfully compromised all of Sony’s systems” and sold stolen data. The Japanese giant says it’s investigating.
Despite no leak confirmation, search data suggests many gamers are eager to close their accounts in the aftermath. A 277% increase in search traffic is alarming, but we don’t know how many queries it represents.
Sony was hit hard over a decade ago when a PSN data breach took down its online network. This led the company to offer free security and several games as compensation. Naturally, it increased behind-the-scenes security.
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