How to Teambuild in Pokemon - Part 2: What types of teams are there? | Competitive Pokemon EXPLAINED

Back again with the second installment of my teambuilding guide. When learning how to build competitive teams in Pokemon, I felt that it was important for newcomers to understand what type of team they wanted to build. But as I worked through the process of explaining that, I quickly realized that the roles used in these teams needed to be explained, too - which lead to my previous video on the roles found in competitive teams. Next episode we'll be covering the makeup of offensive and defensive cores in the game, which should put us in a great position to make our own teams - so stay tuned!

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Music used:
Blue Wednesday - New Shoes
Various Brock Berrigan music from his amazing Point Pleasant album.

Outro music:
Future Girlfriend 音楽 - Benson cut 今夜

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[dj]

I gotta say, your musical taste is Uber tier.

[tyroneallen]

Honestly, I think hyper offence and stall are usually the stronger teams, while balanced or bulky can be more creative and harder to use consistently

[namomattrix]

_Looks at the bell icon_
Me: I wonder who uploaded at this hour.
_sees Nathan uploaded part 2_
O.O

[phanpy]

Great video you covered everything you need to know with these types of teams or at least the basics amazingly.

[Eubanksy]

I'm definitely more of a VGC player these days, but I love your videos and think your knowledge and ability to explain that knowledge is great. Your content is fantastic and I really hope you keep it up!

[MathewDrafts]

Awesome work as always mate! Really enjoying this series. I find bulky offence very difficult to define as you said, but I think it’s still my favourite play style :)

[aussieemu]

Nathan, mate. This is a good video and I agree with all your points except one: There is another member on the Spectrum of teams:
The cheese team.

[luiegiii]

Bro what are you talking about that first video was fire. It was really helpful to understand the concepts. This game is hard and a good foundation is really great.

[iBenjamin]

I always struggled a little to figure out what was the right picks for a balanced team. since I would prefer to play balance if I was starting out in competitive. seems like it's pretty simple to choose for balance. a couple offense, a couple defense. throw in some utility defense.

[WiIICheck]

I thoroughly enjoy building bulky and weather offensive teams. I’ve tried defensive strategies, it just isn’t for me :(

[Revrberations]

Just found your content, going through it now. Good stuff! To touch on the Offense archetype, I always seem to build my weather teams (I love weather teams) as Bulky Offense-oriented, even Rain! I find it nice to have that backbone of 1-2 pivots to compliment a weather-abuser/sweeper, and it certainly smooths out match-ups where going too hard on a monotype-esque team can get you resisted and countered by one enemy coverage move. Excellent video!

[qlorainium]

sheeesh, ready to make a team now after rewatching all the episodes back and back.

[moy]

Your vids are helping me with makeing teams!

[durdlekingdom]

Hi it's me, ya boi from the future

Thanks for this video series, it's going to help with the S/V meta that's developing right now

[foreststickofficial]

I have been playing with very seperate pokemon roles. I have 2 sweepers like mimikyu
3 stall like cottonee and 1 balanced

[yu_gup]

Love the video keep doing what you do.

[kryder]

Great videos man. I’m very new to competitive (hence why I’m watching your videos) and I was wondering if any of this applies to the vgc rules in the 2v2 format.

[eznorelol]

I underestimated someone using butterfree... I learned my lesson

[metrapatra]

Gravity's one of those moves I've always wanted to make a team around. A video about it would be great!

Also do you plan on doing videos about doubles/VGC or only singles?

[THESHADOWMASTER]

My current team is a dark-type with Grimsnarl and tyranitar walls, yveltal and urshifu sweepers, and currently reworking the last two.