Hey I know this thread's a bit old, but if you're still interested, check out this thing called Pokemon Online. It's basically a battle simulator, where you can make a team of any pokemon, choose the stats/ability/level/item/moves out of everything available to it. Then you can battle a bunch of other people with your team, and make any changes, etc. I'm not sure how being a "professional battler" works, but if you need practice or are debating which moveset/type would be better, or whether you should switch out/use a certain pokemon, it seems like a pretty good way to test it out. (And get practice against all types of different teams without needing friend codes, etc.)
Dude, the people over at Smogon are insane. Pokemon is one of those games that has a maximum skill level where you can't really progress beyond with hard work or talent, it's mostly luck and assembling a team for most situations (which everyone who's decent does). Hence why I don't play Pokemon competitively
Well the only thing with battling competitively nowadays is it is all limited to Black/White, which I think is ridiculous because a large portion of all Pokemon species are left out, but this also leads to the same general trends being repeated. Plus all the battles are Double Battles. So yeah, it is all about adaptation which leads to EVOLUTION get it? But yeah, Smogon, Marriland, and Bulbapedia have helped me out immensely. Now I just need to get out there and do it.
i got platnium anyone wanna battle im really strong i usually use 3 main pokemon and i can use more any battle level just let me get ready before hand my main pokemon are kyogre milotic and spirtomb anyone wanna battle pm me
Lol do UU tier and below. OU and uber tier is boring. I used to play competitively a lot. And as for practicing and trying out new teams, I suggest googling pokemononline. VERY helpful. and basically the only thing I play when I play pokemon. sav'ing them is just too much work.