You Don't Need to Teambuild to Play Pokémon
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How to play Pokémon if you don't want to worry about making the teams yourself.
Written by Wolfe Glick
Teambuilding / Picking A Team Without Teambuilding
Many players instead use teams that others have built. These may be teams that have done well in previous tournaments in the format, teams that someone they believe to be good at teambuilding have given them, teams they found or saw online and recreated, et cetera. Even though teambuilding is a fundamental part of the game, you don’t have to do it yourself. Building a good team is a way of giving yourself the best tools possible to win, but battling and making use of those tools is what determines victory. In other words: you can’t play competitive Pokémon without battling, but you can play without building.
There’s no right or wrong way to play Pokémon, and if what you love is the battling itself, that’s completely valid.
If you have a team that you want to use, but you’re not sure how to operate it, click here.
“One point I normally make to newer players is to not force your own team too hard. I think a lot of newer players start out and feel the need to innovate and build their own team (and there’s nothing wrong with that at all). However, it’s tougher to build a “structurally” sound team as a newer player as that’s something that comes with experience. Thus, for players who are more focused on winning battles and improving, I normally recommend for them to try out more established teams. That way, when you lose, it’s a bit easier to identify what went wrong.”