Caliginosus

What do you guys think of the current state of NU? I personally think Druddigon and Durant are quite uncompetitive. Druddigon has absolutely no counter play, there is no way to prevent rocks or a glare para; rapid spinners take very high dmg from spinning on rocky helmet + rough skin and all defoggers (except for emolga that can't roost in front of eq) are weak to glare. Durant hits so hard while being so fast. I don't think any of the mons, that are currently being used to deal with Durant, have access to instant recovery moves. We are stuck in a chaotic metagame where everyone tries to paralyse each other in order to stay faster than threats that can't be managed defensively. I'm not sure what could or should be done about it, but I believe Druddigon and/or Durant are very problematic right now.

Need a decision on this by tomorrow and as of now it seems like theres a lot of uncertainty about if this ban accomplished anything other than dropping clamperl, and if that is a good or bad thing.  Any input from anybody outside of the TC would be great.

Sorry, a team named [Cringe] doesnt exist yet.

Your account was terminated due to persistent sexual content in public chats and general chat rulebreaking under several accounts. You were given this warning the last time that you were banned for it, earlier this month:
 
Your inappropriate messages, each of which were either related to sexual or racist content in public, resulted in 8 warnings/mutes under your main account within this past year, a few under alternate accounts, and culminated to a permanent ban. Unfortunately, we're not interested in serving players who can't stop talking about their boy bits, and we feel like you were given more than enough chances to quit it.

Have you ever played the original games?

A better way would be the ability to "link" your location in a similar fashion to how you link Pokemon, so for example writing "@Ver" would autocomplete to [vermillion], and using the clients translation / localization system the other player would see it in his chosen language...
 

The reason why Ubers are even a thing is that there are Pokemon that are so miles above everything else that the metagame only revolves around those specific Pokemon and anything beyond them has no reasonable chance to succeed when the players know what they're doing. If you think that Ubers as a metagame is less stale, then even by definition you are wrong because the purpose of OU tier in response to Ubers is to not have a stale metagame due to overly powered creatures. If you think there's a problem with OU metagame you're so much more better off by voicing your opinion about specific problem in OU rather than asking a completely new metagame and a dozen or so new Pokemon (when everyone knows they're being kept away for a reason).
 
Also omegalol @ using The Garbadors noobstomping as an example, nah we actually tier based on assuming that players can play.

Phase 5  searching shiny bulbasaur
idk encounters
13 OT LussyNL (Alt account)

FINALLY 31 SHINY MY FIRST RARE

We have 8 matchmaking windows for UU every day and 8 matchmaking windows for NU everyday. Considering 64 players tournament in these tiers struggle to fill, it's very clear 8 matchmaking windows per day is excessive and there is no way our player base can sustain these matchmaking windows. UU and NU players can't find matches because they are a small group split between too many windows and, after failing repetitively to find a match, players just stop signing up.
 
If the 16 matchmaking windows were distributed evenly between UU, NU, LC and Doubles, each tier would have 4 matchmaking windows per day and imo there would be a much greater chance for the playerbase of each tier/format to find matches. 8 matchmaking windows for OU is working very well, so it's imperative imo that, if LC and Doubles matchmaking are added, it doesn't end up reducing the amount of representation OU currently gets.

5 Players in your team vs 5 other players in OU / UU / NU / LC / Doubles. Everyone battles at the same time in their respective tiers. As for the second question, people consider Doubles as a gimmick, hence why it's called a format instead of a tier. 

Details
Automated Tournament | Single Battle | 128 Players | 6v6 UU | Bracket
 
Date  
Sunday, 27th October
 
Time
4PM UTC | 12PM ET | 1PM BRT | Time Zone Converter
 
Registration
Registrations will open 15 minutes prior to the tournament. You can register by clicking on the PvP menu option (Masterball icon) and then select "Tournament Signup". You may only enter on one account. 
 
Clauses
Evasion / Sleep / OHKO / Unique Species / Self-KO / OP Item
Tournament Clauses Explained
 
UU Ban List
 
Banned Moves
 
 
1st Place Prize

GIFT SHINY Sandile
Your choice of nature, 2 moves, 2x31 and 4x25
&
1,300 Reward Points

2nd Place Prize
700 Reward Points
 
3rd - 4th Place Prize
250 Reward Points
 
5th - 8th Place Prize
125 Reward Points

Underrated title, made me laugh out loud when I saw the prize XD

Just for you, we'll consider it.

As someone that grew up with these games, knowing them like the back of my hand, I very much appreciate the additional difficuly and limitations. Not being able to sweep the story with Starmie and co relaxes my min-max mentality, opening the door for being creative with whatever comes my way; decent wild catches, GTL bargains, using competitively shitty TM's (Rock Tomb saves lives), etc. I often end up with a weird team of cheap semi comps that are perfectly capable of completing the story by beating most of its trainers, having to grind only a level or 3 for the E4 (which now also heals your team after each win). Any serious grinding I have to do to can be attributed to my own mistakes composing a functioning team.
 
I brought a team of fresh comps a few times, mostly because I wanted to see how fast I can run through the story. I would not do this for money though (perhaps I'm doing something wrong). I'm basically sitting out scenario's that I already know will happen, aka mashing buttons. Riding the bike properly is the most challenging part.
 
I also don't care too much about the untradable items. Considering alt runs imply you have a main, you have plenty of better alternatives to generate money. In my opinion, alt runs are mostly for laidback casual plays. They still generate some easy valuables for your main (never had them net 1m though!), but also protecting the overal MMO economy.

Since this seem to be the shiny encounter thread...
I've caught my first shiny :D <3 A beautiful shiny Oddish
 
https://imgur.com/a/AGm0qby
 
I'm very lucky since i was just looking for Amulet Coins and it wasn't even a horde one, and ALMOST ran away from her but I realized in the last moment that it was a shiny XD

Hi, I'm new to this, after a long time in search I managed to capture My Favorite Pokemon in Shiny. Thanks to the strangers who encouraged me when I thought about leaving it and the people who congratulated me when I got it, it may be a game and nothing else but sometimes they make you as happy as a child with their first gift and make you forget the problems that You have in your day to day. Good luck to all in your searches.
 

 

thx I have successfully chainbred clear smog on horsea and got a lucky modest nature when hitting 5v :)

The point is, no one was warned that the boss would stop working before the event was over, that was the problem.

It scales down, I don't know how far it scales down though, if you bring a full team of 50's, hes 40, not sure how far it will scale
Incorrect.

Can you elaborate on that? Perfect IVs are not needed for comp play. The breeding system makes total sense in a MMO enviroment.
And all Pokes are the same? I run several different sets of the same Pokes and come up with new ones all the time/ run into them. Sounds like a lack of creativity/research.
Edit: Well, I don't really run into a lot of randoms with creative stuff, just saying the possibilty is there. Bad wording.

Most notable victory
 
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ubers-1000460414

The grind actually makes me fall asleep in my chair sometimes.  That's why I don't play too often any more.  I end up with back/neck pain from this game!  :P

Throh sweep xD
 
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7randombattle-610451405