Aside from being almost completely vulnerable to steel types it's actually not a bad moveset. I might suggest this moveset (it's also the moveset I'm using on my Kingdra)
People in the tourney might want to write this down :tpg:

Dragon Pulse
Ice Beam
Surf
Toxic
(Scope Lens to assist its ability Sniper or Leftovers if you intend to last in a match.)

Ah, about the ability, Sniper is better right? Swift Swim looks like I'd need to put rain dance on there to take advantage of it, or at least have it on another team member. I'd rather not give the computer a free turn to wail on me.

You're right about the steel problem, but I don't think it'll be too bad. Looks like water at least hits for regular damage. Also, there's several other team members that can help out.

For competitive play I think Swift Swim is ever so slighty better to have. If you play your guessing game right you can sweep with Kingdra by using Waterfall + Raindance and a choice band.
But if you get lucky with his Sniper ability you can take down just about anything in one hit. Just watch out for dragons that are faster than Kingdra.

If you want to get into the nitty gritty when comparing Kingdra to other dragon-types, I recommend using Psypoke's Comparer tool.

I'd eat this up if that other site didn't have the same thing and if I had any other favorite dragons aside from Dragonite. A little easier to read than the veekun one though.

I've never even heard of veekun. Just Serebii, Smogon (which is down), and Psypoke for the popular places. I do like some aspects of their comparer, though. The actual height comparisons are pretty cool.

Anyway, the purpose of recommending that tool is so that you can see who's faster, hits harder, etcetera, so that you know what you're up against if your Kingdra comes out against another Dragon. You need to know if you can take him or switch out before you get hit by Dragon Claw or worse, Draco Meteor.

Kai. you send me a pm but I think I said earlier in the forum that I can't be in it since I'm kind of on vacation

Well... this is what smogon says:

*runs a search* Ooh, so you did D:

I didn't even see that, with your posting in this thread I must've assumed you wanted to participate in the tournament. Ok, I've removed you from the roster.

Have you thought about making themes for competitions every month? Like, an Underused tournament or a Fire tournament? That'd be pretty fun, if enough people had teams like those prepared.

Anyway, I should be ready in time for next month's tournament.

Yeah I have given it some thought on themes like a little cup tournament (lv.20 and under) or a UU tourney. But in order to pull off stuff like that I'll need more participants in the future =o.

I'd add Marriland to your list also. Their site gets a lot of traffic and their forums have some pretty smart players. Personally, though, Marriland's best feature is their Pokedex. It's arguably the cleanest, most well-presented Pokedex out there.

It's an oft overlooked site, but it's got the goods to run alongside Serebii, Smogon and Psypoke, that's for sure.

Wow. Bookmarked, and will probably be the one I use from now on. Giving base stats on the Pokedex search page was a big plus, but experience needed to level up depending on growth rate, all sprites, color coding and height comparison with the trainer make it an easy choice.

Thanks for that, Crash.

bookmarked as well.

Bleh that was complicated. Ok the tournament thread is now up!

Sorry for the delay. I found out at the last second NightofShadow decide not to participate. That means Crash Landon will have to sit out for round one.
That also means that one person will sit out on every round.

Good luck everyone =)

anybody want to free-battle?

I have things to do soon but I'm up for a quick 4 on 4 if you're game.
I'll be waiting online.

ok, hold on.

Haha, nice match ^-^.
I wasn't expecting Darkrai or Arceus! I would've tossed in something a little stronger. And I couldn't hear what you were saying over the mic during the last minute before we logged off. Though I caught the part about you mentioning the two ubers were not EV trained. Still they packed a punch and if I didn't get my toxic spikes in play I would've lost real fast.
Also, damn your Skarmory for causing a draw against Miltank :tpg:.

I said the ubers were EV trained. I was basically saying that they were not worth it due to the fact that they WERE weak, no matter what way you trained them.

They were?
I thought Arceus had the highest base stats in the entire game. Any of its standard moves could throw my team around like a rag doll. Frankly, I thought you just made a few bad choices while fighting me (Thunder on Nidoqueen? =p.) Which was enough to turn the match around if you think about it.

It's true, Darkrai is weak defensively. But what do you need a defense for if you're putting everyone to sleep (and possibly gaining HP through Dream Eater?) I'm no expert on using legendary pokes but I wouldn't say he's harmless. Arceus on the other hand, well I don't know what happened there. You're supposed to Choice Band it and just use Judgement all over my pokemon :tpg:

well, the movesets I used were from Smogon, with Arceus' moveset being the dragon sweeper. A friend of mine gave me those pokemon, but I threw them away after the battle.

This finally got a European release last friday and I've been playing it a fair bit during the week. Having moved to a new house with decent wi-fi, I can now use my DS online too! I added my Pokemon friend code to the wiki page but bear in mind I've only got two badges so far...

Hey, this is probably the first time using the whole wi-fi thing in the game, but I was wondering if someone could help me evolve my Haunter by trading and back again. I'll be glad to help someone evolve something like that too.

Here's my friend code and name: Luis 4854-3804-5821

I won't be going anywhere any time soon, so you won't be left hanging.

If I had a stupid wireless connection working, I'd take you up on that offer. I need help evolving my Rhydon and Porygon.