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Well, I think some of the most common teams in Shoddy competitive play right now include...


-Garchomp
-Tyranitar
-Bronzong
-Heatran
-Celebi


Other common pokemon:

-Lucario
-Blissey
-Metagross
-Mamoswine
-Cresselia
-Gengar
-Infernape
-Gyarados


Really, the best way to catch up on competitive play is to browser through this. The "tier" category is the one you should note:

-Uber is for truly overpowered pokemon, most competitive play is either all or doesn't include ubers.

-Limbo is for Wobbuffet ; it's currently undecided whether or not he's uber.

-OU is "Overused" ; the most commonly used pokemon in standard competitive play

-BL is "Borderline" ; other powerful and somewhat commonly used pokemon, generally too powerful for "Underused" (which is a tier designed so that less-used pokemon have a chance to play)

-UU is "Underused" ; they're not used very often in standard competitive play.

-NFE is "Not Fully Evolved" ; they're pretty much never used. I guess they don't show up on that page unless you change the settings.

-NU doesn't show up there, but that's "Never Used". There tends tto be a huge overlap between NFE and NU, I think.

Get a Smeargle if possible and have your fiend, if possible, Do this following moves. Spore, Endure, Endevor, and something that always has 100% hit rate and have the smeargle hold a saalac berry and at a low level. Now endue the foe's attack the berry will kick in, then use spore then endover. The use the other attack. You can take out a whole team if done right.