NB is a joke, end of story, and before you start rambling on about how wrong I am on this also, I'll lay down why it is.
Okay, what the fuck are you smoking? NetBattle >>>>>>>> In Game by how much a blue whale is bigger than an ant
1.) No work is required for any of it, you can simply pull some strategies off of sites like Smogon.com and win more than 50% of your battles if you have half a brain ( I have done this, and succeeded )
yes there is work to be done as there is way more to battling than just picking random pokes. u need Skill, luck, and good Prediction to win
2.) You have have multiples of items that would not be possible using a regular game cartridge or two even, for instance a team full of Pokemon with Leftovers.
ty for proving yourself wrong. NetBattle makes that so people arn't stuck with shitty sitrus berries and shell bells._.
3.) You can give them a variety of TM's, for instance you can have a whole team full of Pokemon with EQ if you'd like, which would mean you would have to get to that point in the game 6 times over to get said TM for all of your Pokemon.
read above bolded comment only replace items with moves
4.) Joke strategies like Smeargle can dominate because people can basically do whatever they want, whenever they want, with any Pokemon. Because of this, it is a necessity people build teams, or at least parts of them, to stop this one strategy. If that isn't cheap, I don't know what is.
lol smeargle
At the end of the day, you can cry as much as you want about Double Team, but the fact of the matter is, it -seems- so bad to you because the probability of you missing is increased on Netbattle. I can prove this using both Paralysis and Sleep, I have -never- been frozen for as many turns on the actual game by paralysis that Netbattle attempts to convey.
to make the game more damn fair. Freeze hax = gay so they do that to still make it as real as possible and to make it fair
The probability system on Netbattle is flawed, which is why you can sit there for 10 turns asleep. That doesn't happen in the real game. You know what does happen in the real game? Nothing involving the strategies many of you live and die by. I'd frankly like to see your teams on your cartridges

, I'd enjoy sweeping them with 2 Pokemon, it'd be fun.
sleeping for 10 turns = major hax
Netbattle requires no training or work, and might aswell be backgammon in terms of strategy. Also, don't bring your idealistic strategies into IN-GAME TEAM RATE, they aren't talking about Netbattle here, they're playing on an actual cartridge.
no pokemon is more like chess. and yes we can because, save hidden power, most of the statigies work ingame aswell.
Also, if any of you who hold Netbattle up as some sort of God send program have actually attended -real- link battle tournaments, how did you fair? I'm guessing not very well, and you cried when you lost and went back to Netbattle.
'real' link battle tourneys = double team fest...
Oh and one more thing, last night I created a team where all of the Pokemon on it had Double Team, and I laughed while guys like the above posters whined about it. Now I will proceed to get flamed for bashing their psuedo-strategic God send " Netbattle ".
lol noob. u prolly lost to weezing
* Puts on his flame resistant suit *
Lets see it boys.