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Can confirm this man is a mad genius and can't draw bats for shit
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18 hours ago, EverGreenTaiga said:
Can somebody explain to me why Venusaur is in NU? I know it doesn't get Chlorophyl or its Mega here, but Venusaur's stats and movepool versatility make me question how it's placed so low. I've even been using one in OU and I'm having success with it! It takes care of the Rotoms (and formerly Swampert), Milotic, Magnezone + Gengar (with certain builds), and most of the Water/Ground/Rock/Grass types in the tier. It's even got a nifty Fighting resistance! Now am I suggesting Venusaur is OU? No, not even close. I just personally think Venusaur should be UU, or at least banned from NU at a minimum. Something that gets Giga Drain, Power Whip, Energy Ball, Sludge Bomb, Earth Power, Earthquake, Leech Seed, Sleep Powder, Synthesis, Growth, and Swords Dance as well as having the stats to run any of these moves well just simply shouldn't be sitting at NU in my opinion.
Thoughts?
Have you played or watched NU matches? Venusaur is a very strong Pokemon in the tier but it isn't overwhelming in any capacity. There are plenty of strong mons in NU that work well in OU. Hell I've had plenty of OU teams that use 2-3 UU/NU mons. Tiers are first of all based on usage, so Venu is not used enough to be OU and it's not used enough in UU to rise to UU either. Most likely because Venu has tough competition with Roserade that does a lot of things that Venu does and more. And in OU the grass slot faces competition from Breloom and Rotom-Mow.
Just because a Pokemon works well in a higher tier doesn't mean it's broken in lower tiers. Otherwise we could ban Clefable, Spiritomb and Mantine from NU too because they all have good niches in higher tiers. Some mons even work better in higher tiers than the tier they are actually in.
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OLT April (this month is solely run on donations so please consider supporting the tournament)
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For general information see the first post in this thread. The tiers you can sign up for this month are OU, UU and Doubles. The available tiers for signup this month are OU, UU and Doubles!
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This tournament is exclusively for Optic Members.
Welcome to the OLT, this goal of this tournament is to provide a learning environment and a competitive environment for our (aspiring) competitive players, while also selecting our monthly TT roster.
How it works: Every month there will be three tiers available for signups. These tiers are based on the tiers required for TT that month as well.
Signups will be open for a short period of time. In this period you may signup for any combination of tiers.
Once the signup window is closes a Round Robin bracket will be created for every tier seperately. The only thing provided next is a deadline.
You have to schedule all the matches yourself with your opponents within the given deadline. You do not have to do the matches in order of the bracket, as long as all your matches are finished before the deadline you are good to go. Once every match is completed, the top 2 of each tier will face each other in a Best of 3 Finals. During the finals you are allowed to change teams without limit.
The top 2 will be considered the champions of the respective tier that month and will be the first choices for the TT lineup :)Important: During the Round Robin stage you are NOT allowed to change your team. You sign up with one team and that is the team you have to use continuously in the tournament until the final stage.
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2. Open the 'teambuilder' found on the left
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6. Click on that and you get a pokepaste like this: https://pokepast.es/105f38749dbcbd28, this link is what you ultimately send to the host.
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Welcome to Week 12 of the PBS! There are a few matches still left in Week 11 so please finish those asap. All the unfinished matches in Week 10 are now declared no-contest, which is Mat vs Stelian I believe. After this there is one more week left of Round Robin. This week we'll see the teams tied for #1 battling it out!
Doubles Series Playoffs, Bracket for Doubles
Please read the rules carefully, especially for scheduling.
Singles Series:
Porygoners
vs Luke :(
Team Quiler
Pacos Fighter
SIhAx
vs Super Shell Smash Bros.
Team Geschmacksverkalkung
vs Wombo Combo
Super Burrito Bros.
vs High Five Woopers
Yuno & Yuki
vs Vermilion Villains
War of Pacific
vs Team Arte
Announce your match in this thread at least 30 minutes before it starts.
The deadline for the matches is from now until Monday 12th 21:00 UTC+2
All matches will be played in Vermilion 4
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15min for Doubles bronze match
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Tacos vs Luvdiscs after
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So here we are Week 11 for Singles and at long last the finals for the Doubles Series. Big congrats to Dank Void and Luke XD already for having such a consistent showing. Last time these teams faced off, Luke XD sure got a bit lucky, but will they allow luck to take over the game again? Or will we see a different strategy for both teams? They will be fighting for the prize of 4.83m! (Second: 1.38m, Third: 690k).
Please read the rules carefully, especially for scheduling.
Finals Doubles:
Dank Void
vs LukeXD
Bronze match Doubles:
Super Taco Bros.
vs Long Distance Luvdiscs
Singles Series:
Super Burrito Bros.
vs Team Geschmacksverkalkung
War of Pacific
vs Yuno & Yuki
Vermilion Villains
vs High Five Woopers
Super Shell Smash Bros.
vs Team Arte
Wombo Combo
vs Porygoners
vs Luke :(
vs Team Quiler
SIhAx
vs Pacos Fighter
Announce your match in this thread at least 30 minutes before it starts.
The deadline for the matches is from now until Monday 5th 21:00 UTC+2
All matches will be played in Vermilion 4
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13 hours ago, Munya said:
This is probably whats happening by the looks of it, also discussed Lucario and Haxorus, haxorus got a resounding no, Lucario was a bit more split but still voted no.
Interesting, can we get some TC input on why P-Z but not Hax? P-Z has way more immediate power than Haxorus and in a way even has more spamable STAB. It has more potential sets than Hax that need a larger variety of answers and it can carry Trick which is.... tricky. Especially with Jelli moving out of the tier it's curious that P-Z is being considered for a retest. What are the metashifts that justify a retest of P-Z, while not justifying a retest for Hax? I'm curious.
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Vs orange in 30min
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Thyplosion competes directly with Blaziken for a fire slot in NU too and Blaziken is one of the best NU mons in the tier right now. I actually don't think Specs will be viable for Typhlo, yes the calcs look amazing and 100 base speed seems like enough. But NU is filled with scarf Blaziken and Rotoms that dent Typhlo hard enough that Eruption doesn't matter anymore. Being easily revenged by Dug is definitely not what you want from you fire wallbreaker either. So ya the calcs for specs seems overwhelming, but it isn't that realistic imo. In fact Charizard would be the better specs abuser because it doesn't get trapped by Duggie.
All in all, we couldn't have asked for a better group of simultaneous drops as they all help balance and check each other. Slowbro helps with Azumaril, Giga and Azu with Typhlo, and so on.
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Imo it's too soon to quick ban Azu. The CB set is the most threatening and consistent set I'd argue, BD sounds nice on paper but will prob be hard to pull of and can even be easily stopped (it would likely get a kill first). Even then the CB set is stopped by things like Rocky Helm Quag, Slowbro, Tangrowth, Alomola. And those are just the safest switch ins to most of its moves. At +6 Haze Golbat and Mantine can put an end to the boost while common mons like Venusaur and Sceptile can take a +6 jet and kill it. Mind you that ice punch will really not hit mantine or golbat that hard when it isnt boosted by CB and even defensive Venu would be able to take 3.
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I even would say it fits offensive and defensice characteristics well, the fact is p2 CAN break through most of the tier with just 2 moves and it does this while walling the majority of the tier as well. Almost no mon that isn't incredibly obviously broken fits an uber characteristic perfectly, that's why these characteristics are stupid to use in the way they have been used. You should always look at what characteristics are most present and which one it combines to be the menace that it is. Which is why I'm saying p2 could be banned OR AT LEAST suspect tested under the guise of a combination of offensive and defensive characteristics.
I just say this because the TC has a habit of pointing to these characteristics, pushing their glasses up and saying "well actuallllyyy it doesn't fit x characteristic perfectly because'. And because of that most mons only get banned under the guise of 'unhealthy'. This isn't the right way to go about that and I hope TC members can see that as well.
So yeah I'm in support of at least a suspect test.
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Congratulations to the top 4 that made the cut for the playoffs of the Doubles series! To everyone else that participated in Doubles, I hope you had a lot of fun in this format and hope to see you next season. Without further ado, let's stat off with the semifinalist of the Doubles Series.
Please read the rules carefully, especially for scheduling.
Semifinals Doubles:
Dank Void
vs Long Distance Luvdiscs
Super Taco Bros.
vs LukeXD
Singles Series:
Team Geschmacksverkalkung
vs Vermilion Villains
SIhAx
vs Luke :(
Team Quiler
vs Wombo Combo
Porygoners
vs Super Burrito Bros.
Pacos Fighter
vs Super Shell Smash Bros.
High Five Woopers
vs War of Pacific
Yuno & Yuki
vs Team Arte
Announce your match in this thread at least 30 minutes before it starts.
The deadline for the matches is from now until Monday 29th 21:00 UTC+1
All matches will be played in Vermilion 4
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15 hours ago, NagaX said:
10 mins from now
Ehm, who won
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Vs Zigh soon
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On 3/3/2021 at 1:00 PM, Huargensy said:
Tyra conkel seems more dangerous to me than the combination with hydreigon, pursuit of some ghost / psychic, you eliminate crow's feet and the drain that conkel will spam will be to fear, skarmory at a certain point ceases to be a counter, because you must be careful of roost in front of the, hippowdon is more constant than skarmory, but ice punch takes a good toll, 2hits ko if I remember correctly, honestly, I think this should be analyzed, I see it unbalanced unless, until I put the hidden
This is literally true for any fighting type in OU
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Bumping this because, yes please. We have the percentages in battle log already, have move PP used be in the same spot as where you can check stat changes.
[PBS] PokeMMO Battle Series S1 - Week 13
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Posted · Edited by ThinkNicer
Welcome to Week 13 of PBS, the last week of RR for the Singles Series. Top 2 automatically qualify for playoffs while top 3-6 will have to go through preliminaries.
Bracket for Singles
Doubles Series Playoffs, Bracket for Doubles
Please read the rules carefully, especially for scheduling.
Singles Series:
Vermilion Villains
vs Team Arte
Super Shell Smash Bros.
vs War of Pacific
Super Burrito Bros.
vs Yuno & Yuki
Wombo Combo
vs High Five Woopers
Luke :(
vs Team Geschmacksverkalkung
Porygoners
Pacos Fighter
Team Quiler
vs SIhAx
Announce your match in this thread at least 30 minutes before it starts.
The deadline for the matches is from now until Monday 19th 21:00 UTC+2
All matches will be played in Vermilion 4
Current Standings: