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Doubles Teambuilding Competition What is the Doubles Teambuilding Competition? The Doubles Teambuilding Competition is a monthly competition where people who want to compete are given a Pokemon to build a team around. Once the deadline for team submissions has finished, a vote will be held for the best team! How to Participate To compete, reply with a Pokepaste of your team, as well as an explanation of your teambuilding logic. Please also include your IGN. Voting A panel of judges will select the best team after the submission deadline has passed! Judges: @Rakhmaninov @OrangeManiac @Lactosoid @Imabetheverybest1 Rules The submitted team must be viable for the current PokeMMO doubles format Don't copy other player's teams! Be creative! Prizes 1st Place = 1m + Team Featured in OP* 2nd Place = 250k This Month's Pokemon: Arcanine, Gyarados or Snorlax! Use 1 or more of these Pokemon to build your team! Deadline for submissions is June 20th 00:00 BST *Previous Winners: @ThinkNicerhttps://pokepast.es/e0a64be514489e65 @Fermie98 https://pokepast.es/4ebfe804cc4fcfdc

Welcome to UU Teambuilding Competition This is a competition where you prove your teambuilding skills. Basically, what we are going to do here is see who can build the better team, hence the name. for the first UU edition i will give you guys 4 pokemons to build a team around (the team you sumbit need to be a pokepaste Link ). Along with the team, you will post a short summary that may include: your teambuilding process, how the team works. After a week, I will close submissions and vote with judges The 4 pokemon you can build a team around : Gastrodon Alakazam Weavile Gligar Rules 1 The submitted team must be viable for the current PokeMMO uu meta 2 Need atleast one of the pokemon i listed above in your team 3 Don't copy other player's teams! 4 Be creative. We also judge on thinking outside of the box and trying to harness the potential from some Pokemon with creative ways. judges : Umbramol Lunarck QuinnW Huargensy Kriliin Mkns Deadline 31may 5AM CEST https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210331T030000&p1=338&p2=192&p3=232 Prizes: 1st Place Prize 1 3x31 2x30 pokemon that is in the team you builded + 10 pp max  2nd Place Prize 10 pp max Spanish version Bienvenido a la competencia de teambuilding en uu. Esta competencia sirve para demostrar tus habilidades para crear equipos. Basicamente lo que haremos es ver quien puede armar el mejor equipo. Para la primera edicion de este evento tendras 4 pokemones con los que pueden crear un team(el team que vayan a eligir tiene que estar en un pokepaste) Junto con el pokepaste, tienes que dar un breve resumen que incluya: tu proceso de teambuilding y como funciona el team. El evento durará hasta la proxima semana,luego cerraré y votare con los demas jueces. los 4 pokemones con los que puedes crear un equipo son : Gastrodon Alakazam Weavile Gliscor Reglas: 1 El equipo debe ser viable en el actual metagame de uu. 2 El equipo tiene que tener al menos uno de los pokemons mencionados anteriormente. 3 No copies a los demas! 4 Tambien juzgaremos creatividad. Jueces: Umbramol Lunarck QuinnW Huargensy Kriliin Mkns Plazo 31may 5AM CEST https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210331T030000&p1=338&p2=192&p3=232 Prizes: 1st Place Prize 1 3x31 2x30 Un Pokémon que este en tu equipo + 10 pp max  2nd Place Prize 10 pp max thanks a lot for the translation from tMoi

Made in USA (for dusty and squ@awkways) Well guys, about damn time. 17.5 months ago I began breeding shittos+ 80% eevee 20% other rares, about 4 boxes a day at least with several depression breaks in between. I cant even type rn im so god damn happy. Started December 9th 2019 and here we finally are. Ty game<3 #eeveeofthelake Final egg count: 53,031 Boosts: over 100 donator + charms used and countless shared charms, ty rich people

hahah, I've had so much fun in Altering Cave today. Ty for the charm @Spxter SRIF - Hang in there everyone! Altering Cave

It's been 3 years since i sold this like a moron.. I'm so happy.

Alakazam Nasty Plot Volt-Turn Pokepast: Teambuilding Process: Usage tips: Thanks for hosting this, I wanna see some good teams!

Let's start: https://pokepast.es/95f44076486d484e It's a bulky offense Team around Gastrodon. First off, although the team looks defensive in the first glance, it is supposed to be used as a pressuring team that relies on stacking damage before Mamoswine/Sigilyph can clean it up. Teambuilding process: Gastrodon Gigalith Slowbro Heracross Mamoswine Sigilyph Extra note: evs on Gastro optimize overall bulk, while retaining leftovers numbers. Evs on Sigilyph are so it can invest in both hp/spatk/speed and also make it so Porygon-z boosts the wrong stat.

Let's try something : https://pokepast.es/4ddfda5d0c3f1ee1 Alakazam: because p2 still i the tier imo that's almost the only set of alakazam viable in UU atm. It still be a very dangerous cleaner/sweeper after a nastyplot but the real problem is his almost inexistant bulk so i tried to make it easier to set up. Umbreon: the best friend for alakazam, wanted to find a pokemon who can easily set a sub and use batton pass to alakazam to not use the sash on the switch in. Empoleon: needed to have a strong defoger since i run focus sash on alakazam. can toxic some special wall that can be ennoying for alakazam. Also ,p2 still a real probleme in this tier and knowk of can be really usefull to knock the p2's eviolite or some scarf mon that can outspeed Alakazam. EV spread: outspeed P2 with few speed Rotom: with some weakness to fight and ground , i needed something that can check these 2 kind of type. Also have a lack of momentum with the 3 first mon something that can use volt switch or uturn isnt a bad idea. Since we dont have ghost type that can easily keep momentum , i choose this little rotom to get all these job done at one time. Gliglar: since the team still weak to fight type move , i decided to take another fighting resist with me, also i didnt have any volt switch immunity and no stealth rock. The EV spread is to resist to hidden power ice from rotom heat specs. Porygon Z: thinking about an UU team without him kekw. Can spam tri-attack with the metronome and can also come easily with umbreon's sub.

https://pokepast.es/b353aa47b03204fc okay so this is a team, i normally use, hitmontop and togekiss help a lot this team, wideguard blocks heatwave-muddywater-eartquake-rockslide-discharge, pretty common moves that can destroy or seriously damage this team , now my english isnt the best but i will try, speed with hitmontop and togekiss is needed in case u want to outspeed certain thins, like non speed ev blastoise, or in the case of togekiss with tailwind on his side, outspeeding crobat , the rest its simple, rotom-w and mamoswine work pretty well since mamoswine can hit dragons and grass and help rotom with priority(ice shard) while rotom can boost thanks to his bulk , or keep pressing with eartquake and discharge combo , anyway going into chandelure and scizor, theyre the best option agains tr, chandelure hits really hard a lot of tr setters, and scizor can just boost and bpunch you to death or bug bite to death, i forgot to said tailwind helps the team with the main issue which is SPEED, overall the teams works pretty fine with the support that hitmontop and togekiss offers, as well as the coverage the mons have. IGN: juaie

23rd OT

https://pokepast.es/05714fdd72f89897 this team is basically a revamp of the team that i ran in [UU] Bug catcher Time finals vs Wallarro Zam + Scrafty Ok so i'll start with Zam, amazing underrated mon in UU imo with a huge sweeping potential but his problem is the lack of bulk in a tier with a lot of scarf (Krookodile, Flygon,Staraptor and Rotom) which means easily revenge killable. Protect is kinda here to scout opposing scarf u-turn and the colbur is here to avoid zam to be rk'd by Krook with a pursuit after you scouted which move they locked on. Keep on mind that Zam is an absolute beast if YOU DON'T MISS Focus Blast (gl). Calcs: My second choice was between Heracross with spikes support and this big boi since they both resist dark. I feel like Scrafty is better here because dragon dance is another threat that the opponent will have to deal along with nasty plot zam. This set allows to wall mons that can annoy Zam like Dusclops, Bronzong and Spiritomb. Taunt annoys hazer like Vaporeon however you'll have to be lucky with the shed skin proke. This spread allows Scrafty to outspeed Porygon-Z and Roserade after a dd and rest is to maximize its bulk. Crobat is the best UU mon imo, amazing speed tier and very useful resistances. Zam and Scrafty are both weaks to heracross this is why i put crobat in there which resist both stab (stone edge burned can hurt but the rest of the team can deal with that) spreads allow to outspeed max speed Jolly Scrafty after a DD, max def and rest in HP to maximize its bulk. Basically needed a volt switch blocker to stop lanturn/rotom heat to pivot like they want. Could have chose another mon of this list aka gastrodon which is a better tank but fuck walls we want stuff that like truck. Toxic sub is a great combo to stall out Slowbro/vapo and earthquake them back to deal big damage as mentionned above. Another very useful mon for the team, basically the switch in to punish with Rocky Helmet stuff like Staraptor BB or Flygon DC that you scouted earlier with Zam. Metagross also set Stealth Rocks and combo very well with Swampy against Rotom-H. Checks stuff like Snorlax, can 1v1 forretress that spin vs metagross and beat crobat which annoy scrafty. Last but not least, the unkillable mon aka P2. Well huh the duck is here to check and even come in on threat like Sigilyph, Specs Yanmega and hit like a truck anything that isn't a wall. Goodluck all and amazing event Quinn UwU IGN: iMat

https://pokepast.es/6be3c7a0310c8daa I picked Alakazam because its a Pokemon I like and use but don't really see it at all in PvP Rankeds or Tours, but I think it has a really nice potential with following set: IGN: RealDevilLegend

This was a PvE-only change. Please read the text before ranting.

I think we should work towards having a new seasonal tournament event. The automated tournament system can really afford a great opportunity to limit time investment by staff to make this event a reality. There could also be a theme to help guide prizes. How I would foresee this happening? 32-man qualifying events (2 per week x8 weeks, make sure to have rotating days and times to accommodate different time zones, emphasis on weekends) 1st Place: Invite + RP 2nd Place: Invite 3rd/4th: Reserve 32 man finale (in-person, double-elimination) 1st: First choice Shiny Pokemon + RP + Champion Signature 2nd: Second choice Shiny Pokemon + RP 3rd: Third choice Shiny Pokemon + RP Prize options: Three top tier prize Shiny Pokemon. I don't even know what these would be today, options might include: Volcarona, Rotom-Wash/Mow, Milotic, Scizor, Chansey, or to a lesser extent Salamence, Dragonite, Tyranitar, Breloom, and Skarmory. Seasonal tournament events are always a great way to reward the competitive community and build interest in the game. Streamers record matches and post them on their respective streaming/video platforms and that is free advertisement. It also shows a healthy, active game that attracts more players. In-person events while taxing on staff, are also a throwback to an older time that might attract older players that want to be seen. It would also attract older players that want attention and fame. We can then recreate this format for other tiers during future seasons.

For a very long time my mind's been running treecks on me 23985 eggs total 51935 single encounters 1015 hours since last shiny kinda sus BUT WE DID IT! <3

Mawile cute animation i made in spare time i hope y'all like it :) She doesn't know what it is but loves it nontheless!

Let me start off by saying that the PvP update about a year ago was a good step towards the right direction. The effectiveness of the update can be seen that it resulted in people playing Underused and Neverused tiers at least sometimes, which is something that before never happened before. In addition, the inclusion of Doubles to matchmaking has been successful for the most part. The problem with the Matchmaking system is that it is still not rewarding enough. To be honest, it's not even close. In addition, the foundation of PokeMMO economics are broken or at the very least unfair to competitive players. The casuals (or "farmers") are the suppliers and competitive players are the consumers. The problem is that for the most part, this works only in one way. For a healthy MMO economy, both of these groups have to have something that the other group may desire in order to make the endgame economy balanced. The problem is that competitive players have no commodity to sell to the casuals. The seasonal vanities are untradable, the vanity prizes are untradable, the shiny prizes are untradable, even the budget comps from matchmaking rewards are untradable. Everything that is tradable from the matchmaking rewards are something that the casual players could already get with minimal effort, besides PvP Mystery Boxes and Battle Point purchasable items which are pretty much the only exception to the rule I'm saying right now. (And ironically the people desiring the Battle Point prize items are other PvP players). And what comes to tournaments, the only tradable commodity is the Reward Point prize reward which even though is nice and useful is definitely not fair in terms of difficulty-to-reward, considering how difficult it is to win 64+ player tournaments against the best PvP players in the game (unless you have thousands of hours of experience). In my opinion, the fix for the economy would be to have more competitively obtainable prizes that are 1) desirable 2) unobtainable by the non-PVP playerbase with minimal effort. This would balance out the economy by making the demand two-way and thus make it more fair for competitive players. It is important that it is viable to increase your wealth by both playing casually and also by playing PvP events. Currently it is (still) not that way. It is quite saddening to see that most competitive players are getting resources by selling their old time limited vanities because these are the only commodities the casual playerbase is interested of buying from competitive players. This is why we need something else to sell to casuals - if tradable shinies are completely off-limits it can be useful tradable items (such as shiny charms) to tradable desired vanities, for example. This way the casuals would supply competitive players with competitive Pokemon/breeders/useful battle items and the competitive players would supply the casual playerbase with desired items and vanities. I think this would highly balance out the PokeMMO economy by making the demand two-way. Looking forward to hear your opinions.

https://pokepast.es/151daef0fb05083b Okey i did an XD team, The idea of the team is to catch pokes with pursuit krokodile that do not allow the full potential of a fighting type to be exploited (in my case i chose toxicroack because I think he's great in the tier, leaving vaporeon useless and being a perfect check for the water types)

https://pokepast.es/9b8872124575d201 My team is based on putting pressure on the opponent with pokemons with great offensive potential, with walls that can give them the moment to hit or kill, Poliwrath is like a brake for Azumarill BD and hit hard with CC, it is the fighting pokemon I was looking for , Typhlosion Specs to hit HO teams hard, Yanmega is a good wallbreaker, with wearing down Porygon or Lanturn it can sweep whole teams, Gligar / Forrethres / Porygon are solid walls, also 2 of them are capable of giving time for the 3 Sweepers what do I bring

Thank you to everyone for participating in our team event, We had a record setting prize pool and turn out, with a whopping 25 entries! Shout out to DrayoWolf for finding a shiny Phanpy during the Phanpy event, Legendary. 1st Place Prize + $5,000,000 Nakkura - 157 - 12:53:05 2nd Place Prize + $3,500,000 RedHoooood - 155 - 12:22:23 3rd Place Prize 3 Shiny Charms + $3,351,751 Martirino - 152 - 12:34:46 4th Place Prize 5 DAMP ROCKS + $2,000,000 SirFall - 26 - 12:54:54 All the event information is in the spoiler below

Nice competition, G L all.

ooh just what I needed for uu matchmaking

We are actually looking to improve the state of gems and what they cost in terms of PvP in a future update.

On the topic of Indian food, here's some samosas:

If Shed's ability is coming back for PvE then the trainers should be a lot harder. If the game detects that you have a shedinja in your team, the trainers will have a new set of teams made to counter it. Then it all boils down to your skill or how well you can predict the system. See… Balanced. As all things should be.

That's so cool, sadly I have no idea about the uu meta Gl to everyone taking part in this

Just happened to stumble upon this comment. And what has one thing to do with another lmao. Shedinja barely ever saw any usage in pvp, while draco hydra was one of the most one turn dominant pokemons we ever had pvp wise, which is where he is relevant.

As a representative of the Tier Council, I wanted to write and explain that banning these items falls out of our jurisdiction. Regardless, we have been in discussion and we unanimously agreed that hax items such as Quick Claw, King's Rock, and others are not inherently broken. With that said though, we further debated whether they should be banned as they add no benefit to competitive play. These items promote "poor" play by encouraging players to rely on RNG, by removing otherwise helpful items for a very small chance of benefit. Furthermore, these items when actually making an effect on a match simply do so by hurting "good" play. Meaning, when these items result in a momentum changing or game-winning play, it is at the loss of the player whom had the advantage. My opinion is that this is not healthy for our metagame. Counter arguments are that these items are unlikely to be used and even more unlikely to have an effect in a game. Usage is incredibly low and better players recognize there are better items to be had, excluding the Skill Link + King's Rock strategy which has picked up. Overall, the TC was split in their vote(5 for and 4 against) when it came to hypothetically banning these items. FYI, we do not disclose individual votes.

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Yep, seems like you called this one perfectly. Personally, I'd respect it if someone in staff explained me why I'm completely wrong here but we're not even getting that. But then at the same time there's no one from staff saying that at least some of these points I made or someone else made in this thread are legitimate concerns. I understand these things are hard and making decisions in such large scale is difficult. But sharing an opinion at least gives feedback whether the visions of community and staff are even remotely on the same path. Instead, it's a complete radio silence.

What do you mean Orange??? You don't like paying around 10k every time you play a Doubles game? Slowly losing money on Gems and Sitrus berries is the true endgame of mmo

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SirDusty's Phrantic Phanpy's Catching Event (This event is for in-game Team Mr Members only) Date- -Sunday May 23rd Time- 1pm EST/12pm CST/5pm GMT Location- -Kanto Canyon Entrance Below Island 7 PC Duration- -1 Hour for Catching + an additional 10 minutes to submit Scoring -Total Sum of IVs + Nature Bonus = Total Score Pokemon accepted as valid entries -Phanpy only Nature Bonus -Brave +7 -Jolly+5 -Serious +3 Rules -To win 1st-3rd the Pokemon will be sorted by high to low, you need to submit an entry that scores the highest -To win 4th place the Pokemon will be sorted by low to high, you need to submit an entry that scores the lowest -If anyone finds any shiny during the catching event they will receive a covid elbow bump high five and 1m from Awkways. Note, this is independent from the prize pool. -If team [Mr] is not your main account's team you must donation at least $1,000,000 to eligible for the prize pool winnings -You can only submit one entry -All Pokemon must be caught within the event time at the event location -All pokemon must remain unchanged (Untrained/Unevolved) -You must be the OT of the pokemon -You can link your entries to me, Sirdusty, via whisper Host: Sirdusty Prizes Note- Prizes are subject to changes as the prize pool incrases (Donations can be sent to Awkways Via in game mail) First Place +$5,000,000 2nd Place +$3,500,000 3rd Place 3 Shiny Charms + $3,351,751 4th Place 5 DAMP ROCKS +$2,000,000 Donations: SirReezy- 4m+Shiny heracross + Shiny sableye Awkways- $2,000,000 Ohji- $2,000,000 Sirdusty- $2,000,000 Cacot- $1,000,000 Hopechan- $1,000,000 KiryuMoeka- $1,000,000 Mayushii- $1,000,000 Zakkosauros-$1,000,000 xAiEnmax- 3 shiny charms Redhoooood-$501,751 Drayowolf- 5 DAMP ROCKS and $150,000

Guía de NPC (Revancha con entrenadores) Introducción Bienvenidos a esta guía para el farmeo de dinero al volver a derrotar a los varios entrenadores y líderes de gimnasio del juego. Esta guía es una traducción de la guía "[Money Guide] NPC Re-Match Guide" realizada por la usuario Staggiiee , y tomando unos fragmentos de la traducción del usuario NagaHex (NagaX), tratando siempre de ser lo más fiel a la original posible y teniendo los datos actualizados hasta el parche más reciente (Changelog: 02/04/2020). Retomo esta guía ya que la anterior quedó solamente con las regiones de Kanto y Hoenn y actualmente hay 2 regiones más (Teselia y Sinnoh), y creo que, a pesar de no ser la mejor manera de obtener dinero, es una buena manera de hacerlo cuando se tienen Pokémon de nivel 100 y quieres poner poca o nula atención al juego mientras haces algo más como ver vídeos, series, etc. Notas importantes Las cantidades de dinero listadas en esta guía son con el siguiente formato: Entrenador Fulano = $1000 Siendo "Entrenador" la ocupación del entrenador (Cazabichos, Joven, Montañero, etc), Fulano el nombre del entrenador y $1000 la cantidad de dinero que este da al ser derrotado. El tiempo que debes esperar para volver a retar a los Entrenadores es de 6 horas (1 día del juego) y a los Líderes de Gimnasio de 18 horas (3 días del juego). Algunos NPC no se incluyen en esta lista ya que dan una muy baja cantidad de dinero con relación al tiempo que toma llegar a ellos y derrotarlos (Por ejemplo, que tengan 5 Pokémon a nivel 50 y solo te den $500). Por diferencias de traducciones a idiomas regionales, algunos nombres de los NPC pueden variar. Esto no cobra mayor importancia ya que de igual manera los entrenadores mencionados permanecen en la ubicación que se muestre. (Puede que el Joven Chano en esta guía aparezca como Joven Joey, pero reitero, el nombre de los mismos no es de importancia). Por motivos prácticos, la guía separa a la región Kanto de las Islas Siete, a pesar de que las mismas pertenecen a Kanto. Los Pokémon usados en los videos no son obligatorios, simplemente son algunos que se consideran los más prácticos para hacer una limpieza fácil y rápida vs los entrenadores. Los combates de gimnasio son en formato DOBLES, no en formato Individual como el resto. Los tiempos enlistados a continuación son un aproximado de lo que puede tomarte si lo haces poniendo una mínima pizca de atención; si le dedicas mucha, el tiempo se reduce drásticamente. Puede variar, además, dependiendo de la suerte del combate (Como que falles algún ataque, tu oponente te haga retroceder, te metan un crítico, etc.). El factor suerte puede aumentar o disminuir el tiempo que requieres para esto, que no se te haga raro si a veces haces 45 minutos y a veces 60 o más. Preparativos A continuación, el dinero que todos los entrenadores dan por derrotarlos (Editandose) Kanto Islas Sete Hoenn Teselia Sinnoh Pero, como habrán imaginado ya, no todos los entrenadores acá enlistados valen la pena, así que una ruta personalizada fue diseñada con el fin de ayudar a los jugadores a sacar la mayor cantidad de dinero de manera eficiente y sin gastar muchos recursos (Como repelentes) y en una cantidad de tiempo razonable. Pueden ustedes agregar o restar entrenadores que quieran! Disfruten! KANTO Dinero Obtenido: $95,233 ($142,849 con Moneda Amuleto) Batallas: 19 [12 Entrenadores, 7 Líderes de Gimnasio) Tiempo Aprox. : 45-60 minutos Guía: HOENN Dinero Obtenido: $101,812 ($152,718 con Moneda Amuleto) Batallas: 19 (11 Entrenadores, 8 Gimnasios) Tiempo Estimado: 45-60 Minutos Guías: TESELIA Dinero Obtenido: $131,681 ($197,521 con Moneda Amuleto) Batallas: 19 (9 entrenadores, 10 Líderes de Gimnasio) Tiempo Estimado: 60-75 minutos Guías:

Give us a gadget like a watch or something which we can access whenever we want to view the contents of our box. If you would like to move or withdraw anything then you need to go to a pc. All you can do with this accessory is to just have viewing permissions of the box and its content (mons). I would also suggest that we have the ability to link mons from our box to any chat we want through the accessory. Its just a QOL update but I believe it's an update that everyone will welcome.

SHINY RATE IS FAIR

Allready working on a build haha

Same. Won't stop me from trying though.

Some useful teambuilding guides: Sprite Models: https://pokemondb.net/sprites

i don't think i will cuz i love my shiny pachi

All thats left are a lv 20 bibarel and lv 20 scyther Rip to my teammates 2nd shiny.

++++++++++++++ 1 I've been playing this game for like 2 or 3 years, coming with some hype and dropping for months every time, and during this experience the competitive side of the game was the only thing that made me still logging in after ending all the regions E4. This is the real endgame for A LOT of people. What I felt after knowing that I would have to do repetitive and braindead gym runs everyday in order do build my teams, instead of playing the competitive game that I was wondering to, was that it has no point for me to waste precious two hours of my day, everyday, just to farm money. I want to have some fun on my own way and be rewarded for playing this way. I know that some people really enjoy the farm side of the game, but this actual state of the game just make me less interested of playing it. I'm really proud of the engagement of everyone that posted here, it's a really important subject to discuss and we need to make the staff to feel our feelings this way.

still in development?

id be down for a tradeable limited pvp vanity each season that can be obtained multiple times

IGN: Darkoure as a Budding Chef Inspired from Pokemon Season 8 Episode 48, Hail to the Chef Our glorious Restaurant at Valor Lakefront with his Fivestar Chef Mr. Mime and his Rival Sneasel. Also thank you for coming my precious guests Katzukiangel, ARCHorstTwo, DaneCrone. <3 A Special thanks to Munchlax for not leaving this restaurant at all xDD

Don't tell me you put that on your pineapple pizza

Yuno being... well Yuno Anime Mirai Nikki Gasai Yuno + Amano Yukiteru IGN: GasaiYunoSan

that album cover

Let me share my personal input into this controversial topic. First, allow me to separate the mentioned abilities/items into two: 1- Sand Veil /Snow Cloak. 2- King's rock /Quick claw. 1) They require specific conditions in the field to trigger (aka weather). They are also shared information both players possess (since its an ability). Therefore, the miss rate provided by these abilities is not much different than, let's say, a miss from Hydro Pump. In which case, it's up to the players to play in the way they maximize their victory chance. In sum, and in my opinion, I can't say that 1) falls within rng or uncompetitive status, because that would mean stuff like Hydro Pump or Focus Blast would be too. What you can argue, however, is that a 20% fixed dodge rate under said conditions is broken, but that's a bit out of topic. Let's move on. 2) These require no specific conditions in the field to trigger. King's rock relies in outspeeding only, while Quick Claw virtually requires nothing at all. The main problem here is that an opposing player has no way to know whether these items are being used before they actually activate themselves (or via superhypermegaultratopkekuseless gimmicks like frisk). This unfortunately removes all sort of skill put into the match, as there is no realistic way to consider these variables to the most optimal winpath, or in other words, puts the game completely in rng hands, essentially removing the "competitive" aspect of it. tldr; rng mechanics are always super bad. Rng abilitiescan be arguably labelled in the broken status, while rng items, such as King's rock and Quick claw should be labelled under Uncompetitive status and therefore banned/removed/whatever you want to call it.