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Welcome everyone, i am happy and thrilled to give you with the help of @HumongousNoodle the 1st and i hope not the last LC Invitational !! Ticket Holders: There will be 8 qualifying tournaments where the 1st place player and the 2nd place player will earn their ticket for the 16 seats invitational tournament. When you earn your ticket you cannot participate in the upcoming qualifying tournament. Reserve List: There will be a match for 3rd place for each qualifying tournament. 3rd place players will be listed higher in priority than 4th place players on the reserve list. The 3rd place players from the early qualifying tournaments will be listed higher in priority than the 3rd place players from the later qualifying tournaments. The same goes with the 4th place players. Grand Prize: So far the total cash prize is 100M and the distribution is planned as follow: - 70% 1st place - 20% 2nd place - 10% 3rd place Schedule: The first qualifying tournament will be Saturday 3rd May 21:00 UTC, the seven next qualifying tournament will be hosted every week-end, you can now register to play the 1st qualifying tournament on discord: https://discord.gg/P9duqA2rFx If you want to support this tournament, you can send a donation to the "Adagoss" account. Host and Helper: @DrakeHope @HumongousNoodle @gbwead @Mkns1070 I invite everyone who is interested in this tournament to join the LC Club and LC Discord: https://discord.gg/P9duqA2rFx

Ign: MadaraSixSix Discord: madara66 Country: France

Ign: Jaawax Discord: jaawax Country: France

IGN: Zokuru Discord: zokuru Nation: France

I, TheDH, would like to represent France as captain for World Cup 7. I consent that WC staff can confirm that I come from France. And my discord is etibamecus..

How should teams be created? Captain candidate with the best donation get to be captain for his country and captains chooses which players to add to their team Should Donations be used as part of the selection process? Yes, multiple people will want to be captain of their own team and its better to use donation to select them also add nice money to the prizepool, after that the captain selected by his donation can draft the team he want within the player limit decided by host, also player should be allowed to play for any team they have played in the last 3 world cup or a new team if they can prove their citizenship to said country/ now live in the said country ( IP adress can be verified at the discretion of the host with the help of the staff and if the player who want to change team agree. ) Should there be Qualifiers for in the Preseason? In the upcoming question i put 20 team for the event if we reach more than 20 team then the last 3 world cup winner should get a spot and the 17 remaining team should be picked by donation, it may seems unfair at first but we are all equal regarding making money in the game everyone can grind so no qualifier for me Could the same region/country be allowed to be represented by several teams? No, one country is one team for historical and lack of player some team should be able to merge together ( african nation for example ) Could a team represent more than one region/country? Yes, like said previously only for team that are known to lack player or have already been a merge in past world cup ( rest of Europe, african nation ect.. ) How many tiers should we have in weekly lineups and what should they be? Bo3 OU/UU/NU/LC/Dubs captain choice is stupid as your team is limited by the player available in your country and captain choice can give a unfair advantage. Personally not a fan of bo3 OU but last psl did have this tier and as someone who is all for consistency and psl is the biggest team tour event we should try to follow it Should there be predetermined amount of participating teams? Yes, imo if we have too much team it would drag the event too much, 20 is nice How many weeks total should the main event last? Depend the number of team but if we reach the 20 team like my previous answer, i would make 4 group of 5 team each playing each other 2 time so 8 week of regular season and 2 best team go play off for 3 week ( 1/4 + 1/2 + finals since there will be 8 team qualified at the end of the regular ) which result in a 11 week event How many weeks total should the preseason last? 1-2month look nice to let people choose if they want to be captain or not and then make their team.

He did in fact play the tier.

It is not a goodbye we will still keep in touch until your french is perfect!

I take this for 300k

IGN + Discord: TheDH / etibamecus. Motivation: Win the event as its the only tour including LC that i never won. And beat quinn for refusing to be my co manager. Accolades: been winning in LC since 2017. LCPL Seasons you've participated: 1 as manager 1 as player 1 as host

Wintrading is a shitty move to pull even more by someone like Art who is a big voice in the pvp community, but permabanning someone who did it once is just stupid If we compare it to similar situation where the involved people did not get permabanned. If staff decide to let artof ban then i hope they will also permaban any wintrader from now on, because right now it feel like they just wanted to get ride of ArtOf.

IGN:TheDH Tiers Played: ALL Timezone: GMT+2 Open to playing BO3 OU?: idk Discord: etibamecus. Fluff: Depending on who draft me i might throw.

Ign: TheDH Locations: Ruin of Alph What/if: Indiana Jones discovers pokemmo's ruins and mysteries ! "OUR CLAN ENGRAVED WORDS IN THIS PLACE"

Entei run Flare Blitz on sun set to be sure to take care of gastrodon and other key pokemon that can take sfire on sun, so he also suffer from the recoil but i agree that it's still not the main move he gonna use on sun but have to be taken into consideration. Sun actually does not have a great winrate so maybe Entei would have a even better winrate without sun lmao, why i think it's irrelevant to talk about entei in sun is because when facing a sun the issue isnt entei ( well ofc he's a issue but because he's entei ) it's taking care of the sun wasting turn or using your own weather, we are talking about entei as a pokemon not entei in sun entei in sand entei in bulky offense or entei in stall. Overall i just think that talking about any pokemon and his power in a very accurate archetype is useless to deem the pokemon banworthy or not. Even more when the said archetype suffer from a bad winrate while being one of the most played archetype. But i understand why people have to talk about it as they see Entei a lot in sun. Anyway i hope that the new change will give us a new meta where entei is not as broken as he is right now otherwise i think we might need to ban it. Let's wait and see That's prob the best analyze i saw of entei so far, JJ the GOAT

He didnt ignore it, you were clearly out of subject and also using false information. Zenor still pointed out that you're post was irrelevant to the actual subject of this post and also that he didnt take part on the OUvitational event you talking about + you clearly attacked on your first message with false information. Zenor still was nice enough to not just report you for being out of subject or irrelevant to the subject or even for spreading false information about him, but instead just told you. He's prob one of the only few people Who still give you some attention and take the time to answer your nonsense prob 99.9% of the community would have ignored or reported you so show some damn respect kid. To talk about the subject of this thread ( well only the part that concern me ) as someone Who hate grinding i do like the actual alpha system and exp candy and i know a lot of grind hater like myself do like this feature so i hope to never see it changes

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I don't think in my opinion that it's realy relevant to speak about entei in sun, sun is an archetype that you lose or win depending on MU only and not if the oppo play entei in it or not, but its a fact that he make sun stronger. He's also great against it as the usual sun played in the actual meta litteraly have no switch in to entei in sun. Which is why i believe we should focus on entei in general and not drift on entei in sun even if i fully understand why the subject was brought.

I will repost what i said before on the UU discussion thread. Entei movepool even if limited is actually almost perfect for the actual UU metagame sacred fire destroy everything and crunch ( for Jelli ) + stone edge ( for fire type ) make his check so limited actually only gastrodon full def and snorlax thick fat at least full HP can perfectly counter Entei, and dusclops to some extent ( one def drop from crunch is enough to make it a 2HKO on dusclops: 252+ Atk Choice Band Entei Crunch vs. -1 252 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Dusclops: 84-100 (57.1 - 68%) -- guaranteed 2HKO ), i consider them perfect counter bcs they don't care about the burn and don't get 2HKO by sfire or the coverage move and have reliable way to heal themselve. All the other check/"counter" are at least annoyed by burn: Gigalith, hippodown, Gligar, Donphan, physical swampert, flygon physical or mixed and other flacu already listed, also 1 out of 5 (20%) Entei are played with a +Speed nature meaning it can be a speed tie against flygon. But even if they are annoyed by burn they still can annoy Entei with stab for Gigalith Hippo Gligar Donphan Swampert and Flygon and some of them can use a heal move. For me the biggest issue is that it's so hard to rk entei, bcs of his great bulk priority don't do much even if the mon is weak to sr ( 252+ Atk Choice Band Adaptability Crawdaunt Aqua Jet vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Entei: 164-196 (86.3 - 103.1%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO the strongest prio against him isnt a OHKO if full life ) scarf or the few faster mon usually lack the power to rk him Even if low he can take a EQ Krook scarf if full life: 252 Atk Krookodile Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Entei: 182-216 (95.7 - 113.6%) -- 75% chance to OHKO but that still good to rk Pz scarf adaptability: 252 SpA Adaptability Porygon-Z Tri Attack vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Entei: 118-140 (62.1 - 73.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO ( don't kill even after entei took SR ) Pz scarf Download: +1 252 SpA Porygon-Z Tri Attack vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Entei: 132-156 (69.4 - 82.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO ( 50% chance to kill if entei took sr ) Raikou specs: 252 SpA Choice Specs Raikou Scald vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Entei: 158-186 (83.1 - 97.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO ( 16% usage of the item) Raikou not specs: 252 SpA Raikou Scald vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Entei: 106-126 (55.7 - 66.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO ( expert belt is 31% chance to OHKO if entei took sr ) Heracross scarf ( 26% item usage) : 252 Atk Heracross Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Entei: 128-152 (67.3 - 80%) -- 37.5% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock Fera: 252 Atk Life Orb Feraligatr Aqua Jet vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Entei: 88-109 (46.3 - 57.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock All of them are not a 100% chance to OHKO on a full life entei an not a 100% OHKO after entei take SR, also entei have Espeed and can kill them if they are low hp, for me having such an issue in revenge killing such a devastating mon offensively is not healthy. You do not ask Entei to break fire resistant ( unless it's a Entei sun ). Most fire resistant mons available in UU are annoyed by the burn that is likely to happen. Fire resist/mon used to check Entei annoyed by burn: Physical and mixed Flygon: 40% usage life orb, 16% usage scarf and 9% usage Ground gem which mon more than 1/2 flygon all those are annoyed by burn also jolly Entei speedtie with him Gligar: Get burn and have to go for a toxic roost strat Donphan: Played 60% of the time with an adamant nature so burn is annoying Hippodown: Nullify his leftovers and make him very passive even more than usual Tentacruel: Nullify his leftovers and he have no recovery move Gigalith: Nullify hist leftovers and he have no recovery move Feraligatr: Make him useless if he have to switch in Druddigon: Nullify his leftovers or cripple him if he's rocky helmet he still can glare and set up rocks so i guess it's not so bad Swampert: Nullify offensive set like bulk up and nullify leftovers of defensive swampert and he have no recovery move Quagsire: cripple him if he run rocky helmet and nullify his leftovers, he still can win thanks to scald and can set up hazard which is not so bad Fire resist/mon used to check Entei not annoyed by burn: Rotom-Heat full def: Can absorb sacred fire well but can't come freely bcs of stone edge also no recovery move Snorlax: Have to run rest which killed AV Snorlax ( 16% AV usage in 10/2023, 4% AV usage this month so far ) Dusclops: Not so free because on def drop crunch can make it a 2HKO but it's in the advantage of dusclops thanks to pressure i believe Gastrodon: Still huge to nullify his leftovers but usually gastrodon just don't care about anything entei can do and have a recovery move Ninetales: Set up sun for entei but it's still a fire resist so i had to list it here he's prob the worst fire resist to play against entei Poliwrath: just have to run rest which is common on the defensive poliwrath great mon against entei Jellicent: Can't come freely because of crunch but can curse body and still absorb very well sfire Seismitoad: Played most of the time offesive ( 73% usage of life orb ) can get 2HKO, but if he's played defensive he tank realy well sacred fire and don't realy care about burn with earth power and scald, but he have no recovery move so the burn nullify his leftovers which is huge Arcanine: Can't come on a stone edge even after intimidate but can absorb any fire attack very well also have recovery move and can't get burn Other mon are to low in usage right now to be discussed as check/counter of entei in my opinion ( RIP vapo ) In my opinion he's a little too centralazing for the tier, dusclops was at 7% usage before entei and now at 11% ( for a pokemon that get destroyed by Crawdaunt which imo show how much people prepare way more against Entei than Crawdaunt who was deemed banworthy by a lot of people ) I also believe that's Entei is the main reason gastrodon is used so much like don't get me wrong gastrodon is a great mon by himself, great typing sr, immu water win against a lot of UU top tiers. Even if it's a little too centralazing like i said before i don't think it's something UU playerbase can't handle for now, tiers shift gonna happen and maybe mandibuzz/salamence will help against Entei or the rise of Empo in OU will make milotic or vapo played ( 2 possible defog go from OU to UU and the best defog counter go OU so milotic competitive as a shot also Marvel scale make him a great counter of sfire as he benefits from the burn ) To resume my opinion: Even if great movepool for actual UU metagame and Sfire is a broken and his counter are realy limited i don't think he's banworthy right now because of tiers shift and that we didnt explore every way to check/counter Entei. I think that's he's banworthy because of how hard it is to rk him compared to other similar strong offensive mon like p-z or crawdaunt one have no bulk and the other have no speed 2 thing that entei have, and for a pokemon that is so hard to counter/check having such few way of rk is definitly not healthy. We'll see after tiers shift

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Entei movepool even if limited is actually almost perfect for the actual UU metagame sacred fire destroy everything and crunch ( for Jelli ) + stone edge ( for fire type ) make his check so limited actually only gastrodon full def and snorlax thick fat at least full HP can perfectly counter Entei, and dusclops to some extent ( one def drop from crunch is enough to make it a 2HKO on dusclops: 252+ Atk Choice Band Entei Crunch vs. -1 252 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Dusclops: 84-100 (57.1 - 68%) -- guaranteed 2HKO ), i consider them perfect counter bcs they don't care about the burn and don't get 2HKO by sfire or the coverage move and have reliable way to heal themselve. All the other check/"counter" are at least annoyed by burn: Gigalith, hippodown, Gligar, Donphan, physical swampert, flygon physical or mixed and other flacu already listed, also 1 out of 5 (20%) Entei are played with a +Speed nature meaning it can be a speed tie against flygon. But even if they are annoyed by burn they still can annoy Entei with stab for Gigalith Hippo Gligar Donphan Swampert and Flygon and some of them can use a heal move. For me the biggest issue is that it's so hard to rk entei, bcs of his great bulk priority don't do much even if the mon is weak to sr ( 252+ Atk Choice Band Adaptability Crawdaunt Aqua Jet vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Entei: 164-196 (86.3 - 103.1%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO the strongest prio against him isnt a OHKO if full life ) scarf or the few faster mon usually lack the power to rk him Even if low he can take a EQ Krook scarf if full life: 252 Atk Krookodile Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Entei: 182-216 (95.7 - 113.6%) -- 75% chance to OHKO but that still good to rk Pz scarf adaptability: 252 SpA Adaptability Porygon-Z Tri Attack vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Entei: 118-140 (62.1 - 73.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO ( don't kill even after entei took SR ) Pz scarf Download: +1 252 SpA Porygon-Z Tri Attack vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Entei: 132-156 (69.4 - 82.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO ( 50% chance to kill if entei took sr ) Raikou specs: 252 SpA Choice Specs Raikou Scald vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Entei: 158-186 (83.1 - 97.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO ( 16% usage of the item) Raikou not specs: 252 SpA Raikou Scald vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Entei: 106-126 (55.7 - 66.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO ( expert belt is 31% chance to OHKO if entei took sr ) Heracross scarf ( 26% item usage) : 252 Atk Heracross Earthquake vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Entei: 128-152 (67.3 - 80%) -- 37.5% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock Fera: 252 Atk Life Orb Feraligatr Aqua Jet vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Entei: 88-109 (46.3 - 57.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Stealth Rock All of them are not a 100% chance to OHKO on a full life entei an not a 100% OHKO after entei take SR, also entei have Espeed and can kill them if they are low hp, for me having such an issue in revenge killing such a devastating mon offensively is not healthy.

IGN: XwipeFr Time Zone (UTC Format): UTC +1 Discord: xwipe Preferred Tiers: OU Fluff: I hate dubs so much that sia recruited me Donation: 350k

IGN: TheDH Time Zone (UTC Format): UTC+1 Discord: etibamecus. Preferred Tiers: UU LC Fluff: Pls shadow don't draft me, we lived a beautiful dream last season but it's time for both of us to walk our own road. @Shadow Donation: 1m

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You pretty much resumed everything. Imo the biggest issue back when LC was still available is that there was no real organized community around LC. If u didn't have friends or teammate that used to play LC then it was a very lonely experience, no one to talk meta, no one to train ect... Basically between 2 LC tournaments there was nothing to do for a LC player and because of that no one was a main LC. Not even me who now claim to be a LC main would have said in late 2020 that LC was my main tier. There was no benefits being a main LC compared to being a main OU/UU/NU or even Dubs. No MatchMaking meant that LC was doomed. If we had some MatchMaking, we could at least test our teams and comps. I'm sure some people would have stay loyal to LC and i'm pretty sure that 16 seats tournament would still be filled to this day, even if you don't agree and i hope that if MatchMaking LC is one day introduced then we will be able to prove you wrong. Now LC have a real community with player who main LC as a tier even if it's unofficial, the meta is stable and people who join the LC club or LCPL discord new and old get all the help they need. I also would like to add some data from LCPL 3 which got 120 sign up, out of those 120 sign up, 96 player got drafted in different team out of those 96 drafted players 45 played LC OU ( Official LC if it come back as official ) Meaning that at least 45 people have enough LC ressources to play LC tour and hypothetically 96 players have the ressources to play LC. For me it is therefore entirely possible that today the LC community fills tournaments with 32 seats easily, for 64 seats tournaments i prefer not to comment yet but judging just from LCPL 3 stats it is possible to also fill them

A matchmaking ranked would be the best thing devs and staff dont need to care about it bcs no tournament, we already have a random battles as matchmaking and its not a tier so why not LC ? Also it would be easier for New player to learn by watching matchmaking and trying lc with a matchmaking since u Can play it anytime