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Rate My Team Writing Workshop
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Since we've had this forum up, I've seen Rate My Team's come and go without users really putting much thought into them, including myself. This workshop is designed to help you build your Rate My Team from the team right down to the format. You can ask us for any sort of help, including and especially in help writing the RMT. We'll help you with descriptions, format, pictures and the actual team. After this program, I hope you will be able to present Friendcodes with an astounding team and format to boot.

Team Help

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If you are looking for team help, you must follow the specific format for the degree of help you are searching for, as it helps our assistants a great deal. If you are simply looking for a move to fit a set or a Hidden Power, list your team and just ask what move could work in that spot. If you know every Pokemon you want but only have a few movesets down, post all the sets and Pokemon you are using in a spoiler. If you have only one Pokemon or one specific set in mind, post it and we'll suggest usable partners. Always verify with Smogon before you ask for partners because if you can find the answer on Smogon.com, we don't really need to reiterate it for you. To use Smogon, just seached the name of the Pokemon you have in mind and make sure you read the whole page. They have possible team mates and many sets you can add to your ideas.

These specific members can probably most likely help you in this area and I would definately talk to them before asking anyone else for help

Nolie
Ballade
R3I

Of course, anyone can help but these members can give you the best options and fullest answers. I'll add more members here as I see members giving good help. I ask that if you see a suggestion that you disagree with, don't just talk about why it shouldn't be used but give reasons as to why they should use the set you propose. Absolutely do not suggest any non standard sets unless you've tried them yourselves.

One thing you should do before asking your team to be checked at one of the more advanced stages is to check The Marriland Team Builder for obvious weakness in type or to a specific Pokemon.I cannot stress this step enough. If you've got four weaknesses to the same type without mentioning you want to remove those weaknesses, It'll be pretty obvious that you haven't checked you team in The Marriland Team Builder and we're not willing to give our time to helping you if you aren't going to work at it yourself.

Writing the Rate My Team
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After you know the exact team you will be using and you are all ready to prepare a RMT, this is the place to be for you. First off, you should know that the standard RMT format would look something like this:

Celebi@Leftovers
252 Hp / 220 Defense / 36 Speed
Bold Nature (+Defense, -Attack)
-Grass Knot
-Thunder Wave
-Recover
-Hidden Power [Fire]

Pretty simple right? You can always make variations with your personal format but if you aren't the creative type this is a great standard.

Pictures seem to be a bit of a problem with the forums. If you think a RMT is only as good as it's team, you're wrong at that point. It's sad to say, but a team that doesn't have a good format despite a great team is probably the one getting ignored. I'm not saying that a flashier RMT with a poor team is better than a modest RMT with a brilliant team, but a good format helps in attracting readers and ultimately rates. To add a picture, click on the

icon and a box will appear asking for a url. If you have the URL, just copy paste it into the box and click OK. These are various places to get the URL's for pictures.

Pokemon Elite 2000 - Sprite Resource
Arkeis.com - Pokemon Factory

If you still need help getting a picture in your post, I'd be glad to help you. I'll post the

with spaces so be sure to remove the spaces in your post for the picture to show up.

If you need help with descriptions, just post the set and a general overview of the team and what the certain Pokemon does for the team. No descriptions will be suggested without your help and approval.

If you need to write down a team you've used on shoddy but do not want to go through the tedious work here is a shortcut courtesy of Rookie:
How to copy/paste a shoddy team.

1. load up your team in the "edit team" tab so you are in the team builder
2. Click "Tools" and under "Tools" click "export to text"
3. highlight the pokemon and its moveset in the "export to text" box
4. while holding ctrl press c
5. you now have copied your shoddy pokemon

Now that you've got the tools and help you need, you'll have your perfect RMT in no time. Hope we've helped. Happy Writings!