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So me, Whiskey Tango , NOVED , and DragonWhale were just chatting about Pokemon, and the subject of Triples and Rotations came up. Whiskey Tango brought up that there are a lot of really cool japanese resources that could help players a lot, and we realized "Hey, since Japan sorta owns the Battle Spot metagames, it'd be great if we could use their resources to up our game too!"

So basically, this thread is gonna list some Japanese resources, blogs, youtube channels, etc. Just stuff that can be useful to people new and old alike! This post is by NO MEANS complete: Feel free to bring up some stuff for me to add, and to discuss what they bring forth!

General

Pop Channel - An awesome youtube channel that features tournament battles for all the metagames!

Singles

Doubles

Triples

Choko's Blog: This is a blog from an excellent Triples player who always gets in the top echelons of the ladder! He's sure to have some good advice to share!

Rotations
 
PumpedAaron said:
Of course Choko's blog is Japanese and I can't read it but... well at least I can see the Pokemon he uses together.
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If you're using Chrome, run a basic translation of the page. It'll get you the core ideas, though there are still some oddities. Ex. "toylyl" is a corruption of a Japanese abbreviation for Trick Room under Chome's basic translator.
 
PumpedAaron said:
Of course Choko's blog is Japanese and I can't read it but... well at least I can see the Pokemon he uses together.
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Yeah I can confirm that Chrome does a great job, you still need to interpret the translation yourself a fair bit because obviously Chrome doesn't know Pokemon move names, just a loose translation of what the Japanese names mean (such as Scapegoat for Substitute, Earth Throw for Seismic Toss etc.). If you don't wanna use Chrome for whatever reason, you can just go to Google Translate and enter the page's URL into the text box and it will load a translated version of the page.

I've been having a lot of fun checking out singles teams in the link the Jibaku shared, however I find it pretty tricky to navigate, so here's the page which lists all the top ranking singles teams with links to their blogs. I've been trying to find Glalie teams so I just ctrl+f 'Onigori' and check out all the links, so if you wanna build a team around a particular Pokemon I definitely recommend trying that out. I found one with a classic stall core (Chansey + Gliscor + M-Bro) which I'm going to shamelessly steal and try out for myself

edit: the one thing I'm struggling with all these Japanese blogs is understanding why / how the allocate EVs, a lot of Pokemon have very specialised EV spreads but don't have any descriptions on what they're meant to survive / outspeed / 2HKO etc... So researching all the possible conclusions is pretty tricky
 
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Wait, in choko's blog there're even links where is explained the team? And where? I never found them.
For single teams list I stole the Doseidon team (Rhyperior, Charizard-X, M-Gengar, Breloom, Klefki, Thundurus) but I must say that, If you are not the originally player that made that team, it's hard win with that. (Or simply I'm noob, but I hope is not that :P )
 
Melon Vodka said:
Wait, in choko's blog there're even links where is explained the team? And where? I never found them.
For single teams list I stole the Doseidon team (Rhyperior, Charizard-X, M-Gengar, Breloom, Klefki, Thundurus) but I must say that, If you are not the originally player that made that team, it's hard win with that. (Or simply I'm noob, but I hope is not that :P )
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Re: Choko's blog: The page linked to in the opening post doesn't have full team breakdowns with move sets, EVs, etc., but it does offer general descriptions below each archetype (they can be a little hard to parse with basic translation, though). Mostly they're just starters; apply some common sense with the Pokemon and read the basic descriptions and you should be on your way to building a functional team.

Other entries on the blog, accessible from the right-hand column, do contain more complete breakdowns, or explorations of individual Pokemon (ex. Calm Mind Sylveon having its own entry).
 
http://oras-pokemon.com/ has a lot of pokemon analyses, and other useful articles. You can use the search bar and type in the japanese name of any pokemon you want some info on and there will usually be a couple different entries about it. It's mainly singles but there are some doubles/triples stuff as well.

This is one of the main sites I use for info on trends that are used mostly by the japanese.
 
Sorry I should've specified. Those are the top 50 most used Pokemon on Rated Battle Spot.

First column is for Singles
Second column is for Doubles
Third column is for Triples
Fourth column is for Rotation
 
These guys also post rating-based usage stats (<1600, 16-1800, 1800<). It's not uploaded yet as they're probably still gathering data. (for singles, btw)
 
Thanks a lot nouthuca! Really cool to see what's been popular outside of the top 12 this season. I'm looking forward to seeing the rating-based stats soon.

It looks like Serperior usage has slightly dropped, and Azumarill has picked up. Poor Porygon2 has dropped even further, I wonder why it keeps slipping? I can't remember where Dragonite was last season but sitting at 22 seems a little low based on how many I see / how well it works for me. Chansey appears to have dropped completely off the top 50! I guess having a special wall isn't so important anymore with all the big physical hitters?
 
cant say said:
Thanks a lot nouthuca! Really cool to see what's been popular outside of the top 12 this season. I'm looking forward to seeing the rating-based stats soon.

It looks like Serperior usage has slightly dropped, and Azumarill has picked up. Poor Porygon2 has dropped even further, I wonder why it keeps slipping? I can't remember where Dragonite was last season but sitting at 22 seems a little low based on how many I see / how well it works for me. Chansey appears to have dropped completely off the top 50! I guess having a special wall isn't so important anymore with all the big physical hitters?
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Variation of usage is as follows.
Serperior:13→15
Azumarill:16→14
Porygon2:17→20
Dragonite:23→22
Chansey:47→52
It looks like there is a change, but the change is not so much because order is five drops and utilization will be reduced 1 percent. It is difficult to answer the reason for that.

Usage of Chansey has it becomes low utilization for reasons that use of Chansey is limited rather than the evaluation of Chansey.
http://aaaapokemon.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-148.html
"最終７位"(Season 11 #7) is using Chansey and party like he has used is something that strengths of Chansey is utilized.
 
good to be back friends!

for doubles, some great Japenese blogs are Oldmanvgc and Chironvgc's blogs, which post about relevant Japanese metagame developments and succesful teams in real tournaments for the doubles atmosphere.

While I don't know if the blogs contain any information on it or not, XY battle spot doubles (where non pentagon was allowed) was very big in Japan, and players looking into playing this season's doubles ladder could sure appreciate some tips from the experts.

there are tons of Japanese blogs from the top players, but these are written in Japanese, whereas the top 2 listed are in English.
 
One suggestion I have for anyone interested in the Japanese BattleSpot singles scene is to check out Niconico. Japanese players stream their Battle Spot battles, which is something hard to find here in the US.

Twitch is very much based on 6vs6 singles which is kinda meh if youre into BattleSpot. Some users on Niconico require you to have a premium membership to view their streams, but its like 5 bucks a month. Not that bad.

http://nicovideo.jp

NOTE: In the search bar, click "Live" for live streams and type in ORAS. Boom.
 
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