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Here is my application to become the next best thing in PokeMMO. I am very artistic, LOTS of people have told me. I thought I should put my insane skills into PokeMMO. 5+ Years experience on Paint. here is an example of what I can do. Tell you you wouldn't buy this for 500rp? This one is for PinkWings Afro Hat (requested by JoshLindsey10) Dreads (requested by Shervinz) Booty (requested by Dedegendut) Heracross hat (requested by DoctorPBC) Ludi hat (requested by DaftCoolio) Mareep (requested by Dedegendut) Sword (Requested by BlitzRival) Self Portrait (requested by Toast) Fatty boi Vader Helmet with Light sabre (requested by Dishav) Latios Hat(requested by Dimbreath)

Details: 32 Players Unlimited Reserves 6v6 UU Tournament Single Battle Level 50 Date + Time: Date: Thursday 14th May Time: 6PM EDT | 10PM GMT Registration: You can register by posting your IGN in this thread starting now or whispering me (Noad) in game on the day. Location: Silph Co, Channel 7 Clauses: Sleep/OHKO/Pristine/Species/Hax Item/Evasion/Bag Item/Time/Self KO List of Clauses and what they mean Banned moves : Torment Baton Pass List of banned Pokemon: (Ban list is subject to change pending the tier council's decision) [spoiler] Wobbuffet Salamence Tyranitar Dragonite Aerodactyl Arcanine Blaziken Blissey Cloyster Dugtrio Dusclops Flygon Forretress Gardevoir Gengar Gyarados Heracross Jolteon Kingdra Ludicolo Magneton Medicham Metagross Rhydon Sceptile Skarmory Slowbro Snorlax Starmie Swampert Ursaring Vaporeon Venusaur Weezing Alakazam Charizard Dodrio Espeon Hariyama Linoone Machamp Marowak Slaking Slowking Scizor Tauros [/spoiler] 1st Place Prize: 2nd Place Prize: 30 Blue Shards Notes: You may AFK timeout your opponent as soon as the button appears. This clause will not be in effect for the Semi Finals or Final round, where you will only be allowed to press it after the referee gives permission to do so. Disconnecting during a match when result in a DQ. Hosts: Munya & Noad

Example : Parent X have the Nature needed : 25 31 31 31 31 31 iv Parent Y have the IV needed for average of certain iv : 28 30 31 31 31 31 iv The IV the breeder want is either : odd/30/31/31/31/31 odd/31/31/31/31/31 To get an odd hp he can use hp brace for parent X but he can't since he need the nature of parent X. To get an odd hp he cannot rely on average iv of parent X and parent Y since the median will be 26. This is where he use Not-Pass-IV brace, he put HP Not-Pass-IV brace on parent Y and boom he get 25 hp from parent X. Pros : -Easier hp breeding (is hard as fuark) -Less grinding to make a good comp (yea boiiiiiiiiiii) -Will be faster to make a good comp Cons : ???

OU2: Baraccus(2) vs Foxdism(1) win over FoxDSim special thanks to Fox for the rematch after the DC

[spoiler] [spoiler] [spoiler] Lf: NU [/spoiler] [/spoiler] [/spoiler]

I can't believe no one posted this yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA Anyways, awesome event. Wish I could be around for it.

I don't really see the changes as "minimal," and I'll bring up some points besides set diversity, because that's obviously an impasse at this point. 1. Playstyle diversity - we're not only limited to balance now. I've seen Offensive and Stall teams used to effect against the too-common Bliss/Weezing core that dominates the meta. While Think claimed that stall becoming viable is a bad result of the test, it's one of the variables we were testing with the ban. If Snorlax did limit playstyle/teambuilding, it definitely would show by the presence of teams designed to sweep or wall more than balance can. That's exactly one of the things that I saw as a result of the ban, but not to a degree where Stall is extremely centralizing compared to balance or offense, in particular, struggling to take down offensive teams that use Blissey to negate Toxic stall or carry potent setup attackers like Kingdra. Usage stats effectively say nothing about this because there's no quanitfier for playstyle. However, admitting "Yeah, stall became viable" and then turning around to say "nothing changed" is talking out of both sides of your mouth in the truest sense. 2. "Specially defensive cores" were less common than some are making them to be - I saw a rise of Defensive cores that checked different types of Physical/Special attackers. For instance, Defensive Ludicolo is a fine check against Water spam that can Giga Drain Starmie and other water sweepers to death, 40spdef Swampert gets 3-4HKO'd by offensive Starmie while resisting most other common special attacks outside of HP Grass/Giga Drain, and bulky Metagross can take hits from Starmie, Gengar, or Jolteon in a pinch and retaliate with a knockout blow. While these pokemon are less common than Blissey, all of them provide significant advantages for a team, such as not being Phys attacker/Dugtrio bait or containing other physical threats when needed as well (especially when facing CB'ers). Last point: I hate to say this as a person who's usually heavily in favor of statistical arguments, but this ban brought us into subjective-land, so obsessing over numbers doesn't really get you anywhere. Everyone who engineered this test ban admitted that we had to judge the subjective qualities (>not numerical) of the metagame in order to decide what to do about Snorlax. Usage stats weren't enough reason to ban it and they aren't a reason to unequivocally vote for it to coime back. If you think it's unhealthy that's a completely valid stance, but don't go masquerading about like this was some numerical test to begin with or that your characterization of the changes as (numerically) "minimal" isn't a subjective statement. I just as easily characterize 7% as a massive change in dynamics and all you'd be able to say is "NO, NO, UR JUST WRONG M8," which just leads you back to the same problem: we're talking about subjective aspects of the game, some of which aren't evident in statistics, just as they weren't before the ban.

Expect PTS some time this month. Apparently "Battle Frontier is tedious as hell and stupid complicated" or something. edit; This means it'll be incomplete when it hits PTS fyi.

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Details: 32 Players Unlimited Reserves 6v6 UU Tournament Single Battle Level 50 Date + Time: Date: Friday 15th May Time: 5PM EDT | 9PM GMT Registration: Registration will open 10 minutes prior to the tournament. To register post an IGN in this thread. You may only register one person per user. Edited posts will NOT be accepted as a valid registration. Here is a link to the bracket that will be used for the tournament. Location: Silph Co, Channel 7 Clauses: Sleep/OHKO/Pristine/Species/Hax Item/Evasion/Bag Item/Time/Self KO List of Clauses and what they mean Banned moves : Torment Baton Pass List of banned Pokemon: (Ban list is subject to change pending the tier council's decision) [spoiler] Wobbuffet Salamence Tyranitar Dragonite Aerodactyl Arcanine Blaziken Blissey Cloyster Dugtrio Dusclops Flygon Forretress Gardevoir Gengar Gyarados Heracross Jolteon Kingdra Ludicolo Magneton Medicham Metagross Rhydon Sceptile Skarmory Slowbro Snorlax Starmie Swampert Ursaring Vaporeon Venusaur Weezing Alakazam Charizard Dodrio Espeon Hariyama Linoone Machamp Marowak Miltank Slaking Slowking Scizor Tauros Umbreon [/spoiler] 1st Place Prize: Winner's choice of Shiny Tradeable Crobat OR 20,000 Battle Points OR 1000 Reward Points 2nd Place Prize: Runner Up's choice of 10,000 Battle Points OR 500 Reward Points Notes: You may AFK timeout your opponent as soon as the button appears. This clause will not be in effect for the Semi Finals or Final round, where you will only be allowed to press it after the referee gives permission to do so. Disconnecting during a match when result in a DQ. Do not block your opponents, or the Staff running the Event. If there is evidence of this and disregarding staff requesting you to unblock said individuals you will be DQ'd. Volpi Clause (requesting to change channels for your matches) will not be allowed for this tournament. Entrants are encouraged to uncheck "Render Overworld in Battle". (Menu -> Settings -> Video). Once your match is called you will have 10 minutes to report to the table. No time extensions will be given. Host: Noad Refs: CaptainGrey Darkshade

Your sword, master.

If this goes through onto live I am many of my friends I know will quit. This impacts UU the hardest and why would you punish a bracket that isn't broken to begin with?....... If it was broken the name of the bracket wouldn't be "Under Used" because if they were so broken PEOPLE WOULD USE THEM. If you implament this then whoever makes these decsions really wants the most hybrid pokemon game ever which is really dumb because all you are really doing is LIMITING play styles.

rip 8-0

I won http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen4ou-232106406

That's not comp, it's just ev trained.

obvs troll, you winning? lol

never5get team whiteknight

I find it hard to believe you fully understand how this impacts UU, seeing as it's been implemented for like 4 months.

That's why we are having these tournaments ;)

Decided to cut milk out of my diet. Milk is now under cheat meals for me :( I wanna get cut as fuck this summer. I wanna have real abs for the first time in my life

Yeah, I have 30 blue shards sitting in my inventory for second.

i call bullshit, an angel is born whenever hisagi sings. Your argument is invalid.

The one reason I dislike Snorlax is because all it takes is 1 slip up and you usually lose a couple of your pokes. You slip up in this meta against a sp wall, you don't get punished by losing half your team, it makes games much more exciting. Even though Bliss stalls, it's simply easier to remove than Snorlax imo.

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I mean, we're gonna win anyway

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Yey for double posts. So, in the original Snorlax thread we established that Snorlax does not fit any of the Uber criteria well enough for it to be banned. It can't reliable sweep on its own and it can't wall as much of the metagame as it would like. There is no point in discussing this further as it has been discussed and the only reason we have this suspect test is because the council agreed that it did not fit the uber criteria of an offense, defense or support Pokémon, or any combination of those. We have this suspect test because we want to know if Snorlax was influencing the metagame negatively. This has yet to be proven. The metagame is not more enjoyable and the diversity it offers, is not really diversity. In fact stall got even more effective with Snorlax gone. Seeing as offense had quite some common answers to Snorlax like Machamp, Rhydon, Gengar and Metagross. Stall however had a hard time dealing with Snorlax outside of Skarmory, as Weezing doesn't fit stall teams too much. Oh, but now I don't get punished for running special attackers? Is what we are hearing oh so often now. This is the biggest delusion you can give yourself. We are even more punished for running special attackers in this metagame. And special attackers require the support of Dugtrio even more than in the Snorlax metagame. Why is this? Well Snorlax was often favored above Blissey and of course it was way more superior than Ludicolo or Umbreon. But, Snorlax was breakable by Starmie or SS Kingdra or even Jolteon. Now that Snorlax is gone people immediately opt for Blissey, and Blissey is impossible to break for special attackers, unless you run some gimmicky mono-attacking set. Even worse, if people don't opt for Blissey they opt for a double special defensive core meaning that special attackers do not have to break through one, no they have to break through two walls in order to become effective. In the Snorlax era you often only had to break through Snorlax, which really wasn't that hard because it's so quickly worn down by repeated switches. So what variety do we have? The usage stats suggests that we have minimal variety as there are some Pokémon that became more viable, but there are enough Pokémon that became less viable. Oh boy we can use a special defensive core now! News flash, you could do that in the Snorlax era as well. Defensive Ludi was the only Ludi used in the Snorlax era and we are seeing that it's the only effective Ludi set in this meta too. It was just way inferior to Snorlax, and special cores are still way inferior to Blissey. The only difference in this metagame is that Blissey is more passive than Snorlax but this metagame is actually even more punishing for special attackers. Also a lot of teams carry Metagross, Weezing is still a very common Pokémon and Gengar and Forretress are still on the top side of the usage stats. These are all Pokémon that naturally deal with the most common Snorlax sets, although Gengar needs his Disable set (which again makes his versatility less problematic). What do we get out of this? Nothing, I repeat fucking nothing has changed. Or there hasn't been enough change to warrant the ban on Snorlax. Oh yeah, what was this test for again? Oh right if Snorlax was unhealthy for the metagame. Result: this metagame is still shit (dw I watched tournies and PSL matches). What does this mean? We don't have a reason to ban Snorlax. Or we could pull a UU Council and ban it anyway because it's supposedly 'bad for the meta'. Done.

has no one mentioned this devourer of time? http://agar.io/cause yea

after long discussions cause dede has a terrible timezone, we will be battling friday night at 9:30pm EDT

hue one more time

The Ultimate Shiny Fish Collector [spoiler]Wanna buy my seaking?[/spoiler]

Those are just examples of wallbreakers. Theres a lot more Pokemon that can do that. Machamp Guts heracross Cb/sd scizor (very good synergy with kingdra) Subpunch gengar (yay now snorlax can't setup on it) Azumarill (a little slow but it can work) Swellow Basically anything with over 100 attack with choice band or subpunch can work. Stop complaining about walls if you don't use wallbreakers. You don't NEED a special wall, as long as you make a good team with resistances (I know, shocking) A good example of a bulky offensive core: Bulky dd gyarados + arcanine + subseed breloom Cm slowbro + offensive venusaur + arcanine These are just a couple off the top of my head, yeah they have a couple weaknesses but that's why it's a core and not a whole team. If you think teambuilding is restricted you prob just suck at making teams and need to git gud

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Think me and Jice are going on Thursday at 9 pm EDT

All we need is rentals and battle dome. Fuck all those other gimmick places.

I had a mayweather joke, but it ran away

ftfy