Nick’s Rainy Adventure

It’s that autumnal rainbow time of year where nature is so splendid and vibrant, and where I love rain the most. I live in a rather rainy place, and while I love the rain, I love rain the very most after warm days and where it’s not been mostly rain for the last 5 months.
I’ve been thinking about rain a lot lately, and how lovely it can be.

In the online battle simulator of Pokemon, Pokemon Showdown where I can whip up a full stated team in a couple minutes has the rain weather. Rain teams are built around turning the weather to rain (you can learn about all the effects it has here), and then sweeping teams with fast powerful attacks while the rain is still up. In this post, I will share a competitive hyper offensive rain focused team for every major tier of Gen 9 Pokemon (tiers are based on usage/power level), from the bottom at PU, to NU, RU, UU, OU, and UBERS.. plus a little something extra at the end.

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