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wh-wh...what the fuck are you even talking about? It's not "skewed to PvP players", it's just that there's nothing to fucking do in this game once you finish other than grind (cancerous), shiny trade (super cancerous), and PvP (cancerous by virtue of the grind). It's not that it's "skewed for pvp players", it's that there's nothing to do OTHER than PvP, so if they ignored PvP they'd be shit out of luck. The only reason this game currently has a playerbase is because it is the best pokemon mmo that exists. It is a terrible MMO, and it is a terrible pokemon game. It just happens to be the best at being both at once.

Double post because fuck it

Okay so after a few days of discussion with staff we have decided to make the following changes to the prize system: 1. The competitive gift shiny prize will be modified as follows. IVs will be slightly reduced in favor of creating combinations for hidden power OR a single egg move will be added to the pokemon with the previous 25 and 31 speed stats. 2. 1 Million Pokeyen OR 20,000 BP will also be awarded to the first place winner in addition to the shiny. 3. Second place prizes will also give the option of 10,000 BP OR 500 RP. I hope that the majority of players feel that this is an improvement on the previous system and will feel a lot more happier in future tournaments. I would also like to thank you all for your suggestions and patience while we worked on changing this.

Serious time #3: Why we're mad. You may have noticed the vitriol in some of these posts. Seems like them there OT'ers don't like their forum being closed up. Why all the fuss, though? After all, it's just an internet forum; don't these people have anything else to do but whine and post dank memes? Sure we do. I tentatively assume even the biggest NEETs among us have at least one friend, even if that friend is a pillow that we dry hump while crying about Witcher 3's downgraded graphics. We have hobbies, work, school, or virtual breasts to occupy our time. Thing is, this is the only place we really get to bullshit with each other. We might add each other on Skype, or Steam, or stalk each other at 3 am, but Off-topic is still our main meeting place. We live in different countries; different time zones. Off-topic is like the coffee shop in Friends, where we can all get together and fuck around--time delay be damned. We like it here. It has history. Granted, most of that history is stupid shit, but that's the way we like it. If a dude in a suit that looked like Drew Carey's evil twin came into your favorite local meeting place and put up a sign saying "no fun or gtfo," would you like that very much? If he came back and said he was gonna build a squeaky-clean, par-for-the-course Starbucks there, would you be very happy? It's a bit sentimental, but Off-topic is our coffee shop; our tucked-away bar. If it were something like the trade forum, we wouldn't give one-tenth as much of a fuck. But as much as you own Off-topic, it's our place. It's where we go for a bit of low-stress, medium-effort banter. It's something quite nice. So every time someone sticks their finger in the figurative pie, we get a little mad. A little sassy. When someone takes that pie and puts it in a safety deposit box for seemingly no reason, we get a little more mad. We want to keep having a good time in this coffee shop, bar, pie, or whatever the fuck metaphor I'm trying to use. This is where we talk to our dumb internet friends. Dumb internet friends are important, sometimes.

Look buddy until any series can top a name thats as stupid as Interplanetarypurplythornydragon, Yugioh will remain the king of autistic names.

DJ Filthyfrankie, you should go to rehab. Or be on an episode of Hoarders. I think you have an Amiibo problem. That's what they said about Beanie Babies. But then nobody gave a shit. Please send me a better PC so I can emulate that shit right now. For a while? My avatar's from a Game Grumps/Carl Sagan hentai. That's a pretty tall hand you have there. You had a potato salad avatar? Is that what you say when she asks why it isn't getting any bigger.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tHyqiXXb_s[/media]

I'm worried that someone might breed the wrong pokemon and lose them all because of a misclick of the second pokemon. It seems that after you choose the second pokemon to breed, the old man immediately takes them without any last minute takebacks. I don't know, but I think it might be safer if you added a "The pokemon you will be depositing are [POKEMON1] and [POKEMON2]. Are you sure?" or something like that.

Hey hey hey, deejaye. "Kill" is one of the forbidden words, maybe this 72 hour post restriction will teach you!

"Alright guys we've made you a specific forum just for offtopic on proboards, we've only banned 554 words and made malorne the only mod, enjoy!"

I think Robo and I are happening on Saturday? Also I can edit the OP for Thinky C: I even drew him a picture to cheer him up ~ [spoiler] ;-; Finals will suck without thinknice [/spoiler]

I think that's what entitlement is

The other things are just an endless grind barrier for PVP. Why would you play trainer tower if you don't want the battle points for comps? inb4 "t-t-trainer tower is fun to some people maybe" lmao ok. They don't, that's why they're fucking useless. On top of being generally worse than a regular comp and super scout-able. Hence why you never see "comp" shinies being used, even the "good" ones.

is it my turn to be boss yet edit: pagequeen, that means you HAVE to give me boss now

munya what are you doing? [url=https://forums.pokemmo.eu/index.php?/topic/54506-official-tournament-prizes/page-3#entry1081261]Have you not read the gospel?!?!?!?![/url] everything you have said has already been said and proven to be wrong before. saying the same thing over and over again does nothing but waste peoples time and prove that your mind has already been made up and nothing anyone says will change it regardless of whether you are wrong or not. that is [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanaticism]fanaticism[/url] and what is the point of having a suggestion box if all criticism meant to make the game better is dismissed out of pride and refusal to see that the game is not perfect?

Welcome to the Official PokeMMO Team Tournament of June 2015. These are monthly competitive tournaments where teams can test their skill against each other. Players battle as teams (3 at a time). Teams can switch out which members compete between rounds. [CiX] Cloud IX will be given the opportunity to defend their title from May. They have earned a registration slot. We will have three types of battles per round. These battles are OU, UU, and Doubles There will be three matches at a stage, the matches will fall into place as followed: The top spot will be an OU match. The middle spot will be an UU match. The bottom spot will be a Doubles match Registration: Date: Friday, 26th June Time: 4:00 PM EDT| 8:00 PM GMT NEW: All the players that are playing must be registered! The maximum of registered players may not exceed 10. Only those players are allowed to play for your team. One representative from their own team registers their players (posts edited after the tournament has begun will lead to DQ) Team Name: Team Tag: Registered Players: Team Captain: (Note: The Team Captain is who I will be contacting if I need to relay information to your team.) Alt Teams: If I notice your team is an alt team, when creating the bracket and reserves list I will put that team on the last spot of reserves. Details: 16 Teams 6v6 Level 50 OU/UU/Doubles Date & Time: Date: Saturday, 27th June Time: 4:00 PM EDT | 8:00 PM GMT Location: Silph Co Channel 7 Clauses: Sleep/OHKO/Pristine/Species/Hax Item/Evasion/Bag Item/Self KO List of Clauses and what they mean. Banned Moves: Singles OU and UU Torment is also banned because of a bug. Baton Pass is flat-banned, so no pokemon can use it. Doubles Mirror Coat, Counter and Torment are banned because of a bug. Baton Pass is flat-banned. Banned Pokemon: Wobbuffet, Salamence, Tyranitar, Dragonite, Snorlax and Blissey are banned from OU singles.(Allowed in Doubles) Banned from UU: [spoiler] See Ubers above OU Aerodactyl Arcanine Cloyster Dugtrio Dusclops Flygon Forretress Gardevoir Gengar Gyarados Heracross Jolteon Kingdra Ludicolo Magneton Metagross Rhydon Skarmory Slowbro Starmie Swampert Ursaring Vaporeon Venusaur Weezing BL Blaziken Dodrio Espeon Hariyama Linoone Machamp Marowak Medicham Miltank Slaking Sceptile Tauros[/spoiler] Notes: You are allowed to press the AFK-timeout button as soon as it appears. (Except in semi-finals and finals) Disconnecting and Battle Freeze during an official match will result in a DQ. Disable 'Await Key Press In Battle' under the Gameplay tab in settings and choose moves in a timely fashion to avoid Battle Freeze. 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. If the inappropriate tiers and clauses are selected, your match is voided, and you will be asked to rematch. Once your match is called you will have 10 minutes to report to the table. A 5 minute warning will be given to you via whisper if you are not at the table. No time extensions will be given. Finals and semi-finals will not be Time Claused. Prize: 10.000 BP each for the 3 winning players Entry into Hall of Fame for the winning team.

Warning: Do not watch if you don't like gore http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/randomdoublesbattle-243818017

I'VE REACHED DANGER MONKEY STATUS

IGN: BurntZebra be prepared to read some true greatness Lorelei (Mono Water) [spoiler] For Lorelei, I wanted to remain somewhat faithful to her original pokemon, except I decided to take advantage of the variety that water gives. I noticed that ubers gives the opportunity for baton pass to be allowed, and I intended to take advantage of that, and eventually made it the theme of all the elite four member's teams. Ludicolo @ Leftovers Ability: Rain Dish EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD Calm Nature - Giga Drain - Surf - Leech Seed - Protect Gyarados @ Liechi Berry Ability: Intimidate EVs: 68 HP / 252 Atk / 188 Spe Jolly Nature - Substitute - Flail - Waterfall - Dragon Dance Vaporeon @ Leftovers Ability: Water Absorb EVs: 252 HP / 128 Def / 128 Spe Bold Nature - Baton Pass - Wish - Acid Armor - Substitute Gorebyss @ Leftovers Ability: Swift Swim EVs: 252 HP / 28 SpD / 228 Spe Calm Nature - Baton Pass - Agility - Amnesia - Substitute Golduck @ Leftovers Ability: Damp EVs: 252 HP / 28 Def / 72 SpA / 156 SpD Calm Nature - Calm Mind - Rest - Surf - Psychic Clamperl @ DeepSeaTooth Ability: Shell Armor EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 Spe Modest Nature - Rest - Surf - Hidden Power [Electric] - Ice Beam Ludicolo gives the team some defense and can be used to get double switches so gorebyss and vaporeon can operate to the fullest. Vaporeon and Gorebyss are the best two water baton passers as they have a nice amount of boosting options and vaporeon has substitutes that can take a seismic toss. Although we don't have shell smash for gorebyss, it still has nice boosting with agility and amnesia, great when paired with vaporeon's acid armor. Golduck and clamperl were the two receivers I had in mind for the water type team. Golduck, which might seem like an odd choice over slowbro or slowking, since the movesets are pretty similar, but lacks the bug weakness which I was fearful of, as cb heracross is quite threatening to a slowbro, even with an acid armor on its side. Golduck also has a useful ability with damp, meaning pokemon like snorlax/metagross can't explode on it to take it out. Clamperl might not be known to the world, but has an unbelievably high special attack with deepseatooth, which doubles its special attack, similar to marowak's thick club. This makes clamperl hit extremely hard, even without a special attack boost. Shell armor is quite useful as it does not have to worry about critical hits as it rests away damage. Gyarados is the clean up sweeper, as if it gets a clean switch and sets up a substitute, its pretty much game over with flail/waterfall coverage. Ev Spreads are fairly straightforward, the baton passers have enough speed to outspeed jolteon/aerodactyl after one agility, and rest is put into bulk. Ludicolo is a mixed wall for special attackers and physical attackers. Golduck ev spread is mostly for taking special attacks, in case someone crits, and its not the end of the world. Clamperl needs all the special attack it can get as it can't boost its special attack any further. Gyarados has enough speed for adamant heracross, max the attack, and dump the rest in hp. If you can make it past Lorelei, you are a formidable opponent. [/spoiler] Bruno (Monotype Bug) [spoiler] So as I stated before, I wanted to have a baton pass themed elite four, and I noticed the bug type has a lot of baton pass users to take advantage of. Although Bruno is normally ground or fighting or something, I imagine he enjoys bugs as a hobby when hes not pwning noobs in the E4. Ninjask @ Leftovers Ability: Speed Boost EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Substitute - Baton Pass - Protect - Swords Dance Scizor @ Leftovers Ability: Swarm EVs: 252 HP / 124 SpD / 132 Spe Careful Nature - Baton Pass - Swords Dance - Substitute - Iron Defense Gunthug (Ariados) @ Lum Berry Ability: Insomnia EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Baton Pass - Spider Web - Megahorn - Agility Heracross @ Leftovers Ability: Guts EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spe Adamant Nature - Low Kick - Megahorn - Rock Slide - Substitute Armaldo @ Leftovers Ability: Battle Armor EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Swords Dance - Rock Slide - Earthquake - Substitute LeTyrone (Metapod) @ Leftovers Ability: Shed Skin Shiny: Yes EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD Careful Nature - Tackle - Iron Defense - String Shot - Harden Ninjask lead is obvious as it can't switch in too well and can pretty much set up substitutes to boost its speed vs any pokemon. Leftovers gives it some longevity along with protect. The idea is to get 1-3 speed boosts to boost to the next baton passer, scizor. Scizor is in charge of boosting attack and defense. Alternatively, the ninjask can baton pass to Gunthug, the ariados, who can in turn spider web and trap the opponent and lead to some easy boosts after you baton pass to scizor (assuming this mechanic works). Heracross and Armaldo are the receivers of the boosts. They are both capable of sweeping once they have received a few speed boosts from ninjask, and 1 or 2 swords dances. If you are feeling dangerous, instead of baton passing those boosts to heracross or armaldo, you can baton pass to the metagod himself (no not you senile), metapod. Metapod will sit there and win you the game by taking hits for days at +6 defense and firing off those powerful tackles, leaving your opponents trembling in fear. Shed skin allows metapod to not have to worry about status as it will get healed every few turns. Again, ev spreads are fairly straightforward, most of them aim to outspeed the relevant meta at +2 speed, hit as hard as possible, and put the rest into bulk. [/spoiler] Agatha (Monotype Psychic) [spoiler] The other common baton pass type is psychic, which seemed like the obvious choice for Agatha, as she seems like she would be into that kind of thing. Exeggutor @ Lum Berry Ability: Chlorophyll EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Light Screen - Reflect - Explosion - Sleep Powder Mr. Mime @ Leftovers Ability: Soundproof EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe Timid Nature - Substitute - Baton Pass - Calm Mind - Barrier Espeon @ Leftovers Ability: Synchronize EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe Timid Nature - Substitute - Baton Pass - Calm Mind - Psychic Girafarig @ Salac Berry Ability: Early Bird EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature - Baton Pass - Agility - Mean Look - Endure Alakazam @ Leftovers Ability: Inner Focus EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Modest Nature - Substitute - Psychic - Hidden Power [Ground] - Encore Solrock @ Lum Berry Ability: Levitate EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature - Baton Pass - Cosmic Power - Substitute - Morning Sun Seems like all the hip kids nowadays have a suicide lead to set up their baton pass chain. Exeggutor fits the role perfectly with access to both screens and explosion to get the first baton passer a clean switch. To my surprise, girafarig was able to learn mean look (I guess I can imagine a giraffe giving kids mean looks at a zoo), so I wanted to take advantage of some unfair trapping with the combination of baton pass and mean look. Agility is to boost the speed for the other passers, but just in case girafarig is not able to set up an agility, it can resort to endure and salac to boost its speed so the chain does not die. Girafarig will most likely baton pass to Mr. Mime to set up barriers, and possibly some calm minds. Once Mr. Mime is too low on hp, it will try to baton pass out a substitute to espeon to finish off the calm mind boosts. The sweeper is an encore alakazam with substitute. Psychic and hidden power ground covers most pokemon, as steel types can't take a +6 psychic from modest alakazam. Encore is there for pokemon that try to status alakazam as it substitutes. Solrock is mostly there as an emergency set up, in case the first chain fails, as it can set up cosmic powers fairly easily with its somewhat unique typing and instant recovery. [/spoiler] Lance (Monotype normal) [spoiler] I was a bit conflicted on what the last E4 member's type should be, since the options were narrowing down after using bug, psychic, and water. Then I remembered normal type and the god tier smeargle to use. Stantler @ Lum Berry Ability: Intimidate EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD Careful Nature - Thunder Wave - Reflect - Light Screen - Return Smeargle @ Salac Berry Ability: Own Tempo EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Spore - Baton Pass - Substitute - Belly Drum Kangaskhan (F) @ Lum Berry Ability: Early Bird EVs: 68 HP / 252 Atk / 188 Spe Adamant Nature - Fire Punch - Return - Crunch - Substitute Snorlax @ Leftovers Ability: Immunity EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD Impish Nature - Body Slam - Fire Punch - Counter - Rest Girafarig @ Lum Berry Ability: Inner Focus EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Calm Nature - Calm Mind - Baton Pass - Psychic - Substitute Porygon2 @ Lum Berry Ability: Trace EVs: 92 HP / 252 SpA / 164 Spe Modest Nature - Agility - Thunderbolt - Ice Beam - Tri Attack This team has two different boosting strategies, one of which is to baton pass a belly drum with smeargle to kangaskhan, which should be able to sweep in most circumstances, thanks to some great coverage with fire punch and stab return. The team first starts off with stantler though, since it has access to intimidate, dual screens, and thunder wave to slow down pokemon for smeargle to set up substitutes on them. Smeargle will either spore the pokemon or just belly drum if they are not threatening enough to smeargle sitting behind dual screens. Smeargle will substitute down to 25% to activate salac and then baton pass to kangaskhan to destroy everything. If kangaskhan doesn't sweep somehow at +6 attack and +1 speed, the back up plan is a combination of girafarig and porygon2. Girafarig will set up as many calm minds as possible and then send its boosts off to porygon2 which will then agility and have another chance at sweeping. Porygon2 has great coverage, with its moves only resisted by shedinja and magneton. Snorlax is on this team mostly as a back up for specific threats. Dragonite is a threat to this team since superpower destroys everything, except snorlax who is able to take a choice banded superpower and ohko dragonite in return with a counter. Snorlax can also take other strong physical attacks which may threaten other pokemon on this team. Most of the evs are fairly simple. Stantler is to take special attacks on leads since it has intimidate to weaken the physical attacks it takes. Smeargle needs max speed to pull off the sub drum set, and 252 hp allows it to take some hits, especially behind screens. Kangaskhan has enough speed to outspeed the tier at +1, bar electrode and ninjask. Max attack and dump the rest into hp. Snorlax needed max hp and defense to take a choice band superpower from dragonite, which is quite useful, and is only 3hko'ed by choice band dragonite dragon claw. Girafarig has a mix of speed and bulk with a calm nature. Porygon2 has enough speed to outspeed base 130s (jolteon/aero) after an agility, maximize special attack, and the rest into bulk. [/spoiler] If someone beats all four of these teams, they are obviously a l337 h4x0r and need to be banned. I actually had a fun time building these teams since baton pass is banned in our current meta (I'm assuming its normally allowed in ubers). edit: took out some massive space in between E4 members

also tfw keep switching between this thread and the OT suggestion thread because no where else to go urghNN

Dont be scared when you see its dark out.

oh, i see ;-;

Id kill myself if malorne was a mod

Dont worry guys im sure we'll get OT back soon /nervous laughter

I really really hope they don't take away doubles from TT.

Telf is the best VGC player in the PSL.

Why on earth would I ever trade this DASHING GENTLEMONKEY?

I'm now realizing since we're combining all the threads I usually don't post in into this thread, I really don't like a lot of you. pageking for orcywoo

bitch im fab

What fun? It's an endless grind. The day I see a human say they enjoy the battle tower is the day I'll swallow a shoe full of lead lined razorblades tipped with arsenic, because I'm that confident in how tedious it is. It might be fun at first, but it most certainly is not sustainable long term. And don't say you enjoy it, I did specify human, we all know you're some inhuman being who exists for no purpose other than grinding shit and giving it away for no reason. I saw those 500 shards. As for battle frontier, I'm not sure how that could be "fun" either. It's a grind just like Battle Tower, only half the facilities are a tremendous pain in the ass to the point of not being worth your time. The only really interesting one is the Battle Factory, which is a damn shame, because trying to play in it heavily punishes you. It's much more difficult than other facilities due to the heavy randomization inherent in it, but the reward doesn't compensate for that whatsoever, and as far as I'm aware there's no intention of changing that because #nofunallowed. Plus, you can't use your shitmon shinies there anyway so lol.

Legitimate question, why are you guys letting munya speak for you guys? Like the man clearly has no idea what he is even talking about. I just dont get why we cant have a skillful way to earn wealth in this game, guys have no problem letting new players become infinite wealthier than the veterans.

+1 I'd return for that

Perfect.

Ursaring - Jolly -- 30 - 31 / 30 - 31 / 28 - 29 / 30 - 31 / 30 - 31 / 31 Swords Dance / Facade / Crunch / Superpower Lf offers B/O: 600k LightningSun

rip killiminati

Took me a while to read it all, but it did give a meaning to my life

You motherfucker, you know exactly what you made me think for a second.

frankie u little fuck mail me your wii u and the game right now.

they dont play pvp why would they need that