How to make a Competitive Pokemon Team: Part 1: Adding in the Pokemon

Hello everybody!

I have decided to make a tutorial to make a great competitive Pokemon team in any tier!

Before we start, the websites I will be commonly referencing in this series include:

http://www.smogon.com/

http://www.marriland.com/tools/team-builder

Now lets get started!!!

First, choose which tier you want to do, if you can't decide, pick a Pokemon that you love, then find what tier it is in. For this example I will be doing the OU tier, for it is the most commonly played.

To start your team, pick a singular Pokemon which you want to use. I decided on a Salamence. So lets input Salamence on our Marriland Team Builder.

As you can see, I have added in a Salamence. On our chart we see he is weak to Ice, Dragon and Rock. Which a Steel type could wall completely! I'm gonna chose Ferrothorn, although he may not resist Ice, he can still take the hits.

As you can probably tell, we have a ton of resistances now! But we are still weak to Ice types, so a good fire type could easily cover that for us. I think I'll use Volcarona, which can take ice type moves quite nicely. 

As you can tell, we gained a weakness when adding Volcarona, and we have 2 rock weaknesses and only 1 resistance. So adding in another steel type could be a very viable option! I'm gonna decide on adding a Magnezone, whose weaknesses are covered by our Salamence.

Now we have a resistance for absolutely every type! But we are still really weak to Fire types, so adding a Water type would be a very reasonable option. Keldeo seems to work pretty well on this team, so I'll add him.

Now we have all of our Pokemon except one. We have plenty of grass resists, so a ground type would be a viable option. So I'm going to add a Mamoswine. 

Now our team is balanced and is ready to get their movesets! Tune in next time!