Shadow

Starting May 2024, I'd like to be part of hosting an unofficial version of the Team Tournament, specially targeted to Asian teams who can't access the usual official Team Tournaments due to time issues. This doesn't mean the tournament will be restricted: Everyone can join, this is just an alternative for Asian teams to be able to apply for playing a similar format than the held in the official Team Tournament.
With Queest's help, we'll try to expand this idea to the Asian-CN community in order to make the event more interesting and challenging.
 
Format
- Up to 32 Teams per month
- Up to 15 participant players per team
 
Registration Thread
A registration thread will be opened on the same Thursday of the week the event will take place, at 12 PM GMT, in order for teams to register. Up to 32 teams will be registered.
We don't allow 2 alt teams at the same time. In case you want to participate with an academy team, you can't participate with the main one.
 
 
Ruling.
- About the standings 
   - 10 points for the champion
   - 5 points for the 2nd place
   - 3 points for the semi-finalists
   - 1 point for the quarter-finalists (if teams registered = or > 16)
 
The main idea is to follow the similar format and tiers than the official Team Tournament, so the monthly tiering will be the exact same than the official TT, even though we may contemplate adding LC in the future if the event has a good success.
 
Monthly Prizes:
1st Place Team
3k RP to split as the Captain wishes.
 
2nd Place Team
1.5k RP to split as the Captain wishes.
 
Yearly Prizes:
This is a work in progress, but I plan to hold a tournament similar to the Cup of the year between the 8 highest-standing teams, awarding the first one with a competitive shiny depending on what we have around.
 
Location and Time
Silph Co. Ch.4 (1st F) /11 AM GMT (Can slightly vary depending on circumstances)
 
Hosts:
Shadow, Queest
 
Referees:
Shadow, TBD
 
Thread is up to be edited, looking for your feedback. 👌
 
 
 

Dugtrio now could trap more pokemon which he should not to.
 
Endeavor+eq kills chansey（0hp iv）, eq kills mienshao after 1 turn life orb recoil damage. With smack down it even kills Zapdos. With sash+endeavor, it could stops cm Suicune and Reuniclus sweep the game.
 
In my opinion, Dugtrio could keep it's role to do the counter play: ttar, zone, volcarona, kabutops etc. So most of time it should becomes useless just like it was two years ago with Dugtrio.
 
When it wasnt 100 atk and no Endeavor, it was fine. We could just nerf it back, if it is still not healthy, ban it.
 
 
 
 
 
 

仓鼠老师，mmo国人之光 ❤️
 

We're bringing Shaymin back down, why not, but for sure we'll run into exactly the same issues as when he was banned a few months ago. Seed Flare's SpeDef drop will still remain problematic.
 
It's good that Yanmega stays in UU, he had no place in NU.
 
Regarding Dugtrio, something should need to happen, especially since recently Dugtrio's movepool has ridiculously increased by gaining an  inappropriate access to Endeavor, among other things
 
 

Don't ask me to join your team again, thanks xo

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因官方公会锦标赛的参赛时间比较阴间（凌晨三四点），shadow打算举办一个迎合亚洲时区的社区版的公会锦标赛，所有的公会都可以参加，没有限制。比赛QQ群号：682540454
 
 
要求:
1.每个月最多32只队伍参加。
2.每个队伍每月报名最多15人。
 
报名：
报名帖会在比赛周的周四发布，最多32只队伍报名，不允许单号报名多个公会。
 
规则
 
分数
冠军 10分
亚军  5分
并列第三  3分
4-8名  1分
 
主要的思路是参考的官方公会锦标赛，如果大家希望后续也可以尝试加LC分级（不过我感觉应该不可能）
 
奖金
冠军  3K RP 
亚军   1.5K RP
奖金会给队长 由队长自由分配
 
地点和时间
丰源水镜市 频道 4  北京时间下午七点
 
主持人
@Shadow @queest
 
裁判（待定 有时间的朋友可以加群联系我，不白忙活有工资）
@Shadow
 
帖子之后还会编辑，大家有好的建议我们也会考虑，加一下QQ群讨论。
 
 
 
 

Not yet*
 

roto

Description 
Hey everyone, I am here today to celebrate the retirement and long lived story of @BaliAds He has asked me to host a 50M tag tournament in his honor (Don't ask my why on such short notice). This tournament with be a 5v5 tag format. Tiers are OU, UU, NU, Dubs, UT. To register either post here or DM me on Discord @necasintrouble. 

Date & Time
Sunday, 28th April | 11AM EST | 3PM UTC | 4PM BST

Location
Silph Co Ch 5, Kanto

Rules

Format 
5v5
OU, UU, NU, Doubles, Untiered

Standard Single and Double Battle Rules 
(Please make sure when challenging doubles you chose the Ubers tier)
Bracket will be made 5-10 minutes prior to event start and randomized

Activity Wins
If a player has failed to show up by 10 minutes after the last duel starts you may whisper me to get an activity win

Registration
You must register at least 5 players (One for each tier) and at max 6 (Allowing for 1 substitute)
Prizes
1st Place
50M to split between all participating members

(Prizes may take a few days to distribute)

Tag：KKKKK
 
Players: ZioMOJI, XiaoSH, lncieroar, Konishiwa, Konbauo, KDQ
 
Big thanks to Necas and BaliAds for hosting such a exciting tour.

I want to buy a scythe pls
 
I currently have 400M in cash and a skeleton costume to trade or sell

UU now has Bronzong, Entei and Mandibuzz. It is time to drop shaymin
 
Also it has Politoed, we could test Torkoal UU

medicham 2.0. 
Surely yanmega won't be a problem this time.

I meant raising another official dugtrio discussion to finally get it out from our metagame. I can't stress enough how horrible was TC's decision to allow dugtrio to stay

Two questions, one request:
 
1. Are we really allowing Yanmega to drop to NU?
2. When can we re-test Dugtrio for a potential ban?
3. Caio please do not quote me

恭喜以下获奖者  
 
 第1名
Chibaguilai    19:27:07    175
 
 第2名
AxDGB    19:07:36    173
 
 第3名
metanty    19:36:39    166
 
 第4名
sylqw    19:12:27    10
 

 

 
萌新活动抽奖已发放完毕！！！

I rarely agree with Pachima, but I do this time.
 
This is the only part I believe to be misrepresented because I don't think Dugtrio deletes a significant portion of the format when you look at the most common OU mons 1 by 1.

I want to stress out something important; if there is a problem, it's not AT or Dugtrio, but indeed the combination of both. AT by itself is not banworthy, just like Wonder Guard on Shedinja specifially is not banworthy. Since bans are never permanent on PokeMMO, I think if something gets done about AT+Dugtrio, we need to consider the potential nerfs. I think banning AT or nerfing it does not make sense since the ability is completly fine on Trapinch and Diglett. Reducing back Dugtrio's base attack to 80 like it was in the past would be imo completly cannon and authentic to the original games. 

I'm personally fine if TC determines Dugtrio+AT as banworthy. I think there are good reasons to vote for or against that ban. However, I truly fear the nerf that will come afterwards and I really hope people will push for the attack stat reduction and not something else. Every single pokemon in OU that Dugtrio traps will be affected positively by an attack stat reduction except for Magnezone and Ttar that I mentionned earlier and that's a good thing.

Not gonna lie, I hate this statement a lot. It's extremely biased and should not be considered as factual. That's just nostalgia talking most of the time. People tend to remember past PSLs more fondly than recent PSLs while also remembering their past experience as better than they actually were while in reality, PSL is probably just a series of ups and downs since the first edition and not a negative slop forever going down like people like to claim. The treatment recent PSLs get is not fair because they are not looked through an objective lens but rather through a subjective nostalgia-type of lens. Things changes, meta changes, people changes so does most elite and top players. Old top players become washed or leave altogether, new top players break through and replaces them and this happening is not a bad thing, it just shows the community can replenish itself with new skilled players. It's not because you and your friends used to take part in past PSLs that all things happening after that period have gone down hill in quality. It's a very self-centered way to view things and very inaccurate. It feels like some are trying to delegitimize new events just because they are not in them or because it's not like it used to be, it's very disingenuous for new players who are trying to make a name of themselves. Some people look down on PSLs now and like to drag it down simply to elevate the times they were in it which is what kills the hype IMO.
 
 

Starting May 2024, I'd like to be part of hosting an unofficial version of the Team Tournament, specially targeted to Asian teams who can't access the usual official Team Tournaments due to time issues. This doesn't mean the tournament will be restricted: Everyone can join, this is just an alternative for Asian teams to be able to apply for playing a similar format than the held in the official Team Tournament.
With Queest's help, we'll try to expand this idea to the Asian-CN community in order to make the event more interesting and challenging.
 
Format
- Up to 32 Teams per month
- Up to 15 participant players per team
 
Registration Thread
A registration thread will be opened on the same Thursday of the week the event will take place, at 12 PM GMT, in order for teams to register. Up to 32 teams will be registered.
We don't allow 2 alt teams at the same time. In case you want to participate with an academy team, you can't participate with the main one.
 
 
Ruling.
- About the standings 
   - 10 points for the champion
   - 5 points for the 2nd place
   - 3 points for the semi-finalists
   - 1 point for the quarter-finalists (if teams registered = or > 16)
 
The main idea is to follow the similar format and tiers than the official Team Tournament, so the monthly tiering will be the exact same than the official TT, even though we may contemplate adding LC in the future if the event has a good success.
 
Monthly Prizes:
1st Place Team
3k RP to split as the Captain wishes.
 
2nd Place Team
1.5k RP to split as the Captain wishes.
 
Yearly Prizes:
This is a work in progress, but I plan to hold a tournament similar to the Cup of the year between the 8 highest-standing teams, awarding the first one with a competitive shiny depending on what we have around.
 
Location and Time
Silph Co. Ch.4 (1st F) /11 AM GMT (Can slightly vary depending on circumstances)
 
Hosts:
Shadow, Queest
 
Referees:
Shadow, TBD
 
Thread is up to be edited, looking for your feedback. 👌
 
 
 

We have finally reached a point when, in the very rare situation where Caio is right and Sweet is wrong, some hiveminded people brainlessly side with Sweet, dismissing Caio, not because it is the logical thing to do, not because the argument tells them to do so, but simply because in their minds the argument is less important than whoever claims it. (Tip: It isn't)
 
Weavile IS a Serperior check. I don't care what gimmicks you want to extrapolate, or whatever you want to say or imply or claim. There is proper terminology in the Pokemon world and instead of actually fighting for or against the actual arguments, we loop between semantics where some have no idea what they are talking about. 
 
Thank you VadimEmpoleon for going through it properly. 
 
Regarding Dugtrio, and, most specifically, Gb's post on it. It is true some of Dugtrio's targets can dodge. Some can pivot, others have enough bulk. Yada yada. But you missed the fundamental point. Dugtrio is not supposed to hard switch against them. It is supposed to gain free momenum beforehand so it can then trap its target. There is only one way (Barring the very irrelevant Shed shell), to prevent this, which is to never play the Pokemon before Dugtrio is taken down. Congratulations! Dugtrio has successfully pressured their threats without even being on the field. This is unhealthy. 
 
Or, is it? Magnezone and Tyranitar can, in a way, accomplish the same. So what is the difference between these two and Dugtrio? The amount of targets they possess. The first two have very limited choices, while Dugtrio is able to delete a very significant part of the format. This is the main reason why the Pokemon was chronically banned in most formats. It is very easy and worthy trading a death so Dugtrio can then safely delete the threat you want to get rid of.
 
But what is the unhealthy part? Is it Dugtrio? Is it Arena Trap? The issue with this question is you cannot completely separate the Pokemon from their ability (Or whatever else they possess). Afterall, Diglett and Trapinch are not an issue. Does this mean Arena Trap is inherently unhealthy? Both yes and no. 
 
Since this is probably hard to grasp at first glance, let me find something else: Wonder Guard. Is it broken, or unhealthy? Not necessarily. Afterall, Shedinja is harmless with it. Let's see another harmless Pokemon in OU: Jolteon (Yes, irrelevant enough so it is not even OU). Jolteon with Wonder Guard would be both broken and unhealthy. This is interesting because Jolteon by itself isn't an issue, and neither is Shedinja with the ability. It is the combination of the two that would make it a problem. 
 
Maybe you can argue Arena Trap isn't unhealthy. You can definitely argue Dugtio isn't broken. But you can't simply state that because A and B are not an issue and share an ability with C, then C isn't an issue either.
 
To answer the question. What is the unhealthy part? Not one or the other separately, but simply the combination of the two. 
 
(Yes, I understand Wonder Guard Jolteon doesn't exist. The argument is still the same)
 
 
 
 

Im pretty Sure that kyu wasnt an Admin from the beginning, i think He was just promoted pretty early

Plz add Magic Room and Gravity aside as well 🙂

I might have some, depending how much you pay kappa

wake up in 3 am and let's have stall vs stall breakfast♥