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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #90 on: August 27, 2013, 12:47:55 pm »

Yes, but I said before that I would do so, and I don't feel like going back on that.  Even if I had a fun idea for a rebuild once I lose. ^_^
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #91 on: August 27, 2013, 01:28:25 pm »

Tried chrome and that seems to work slightly better. However, apparently either all the names I've ever used anywhere are taken, or the registering thing is broken at the moment. Even adding bay12 after my more common names doesn't work which makes me believe it's the former because that seems like a weird string of characters to just add to your name at random.
Edit: Tried IE just for kicks, got the expected result of no difference at all.
Edit Edit: Wait wat. It seems to actually be working now after a single refresh. Well uh. Okay then. I guess I'll just use IE? >_> <_<
Edit Edit Edit: Aaaaand it's broken again. Also unfortunately the wailmer line can only learn the inferior self destruct. Still gonna use team suicide.
« Last Edit: August 27, 2013, 01:54:45 pm by Person »
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #92 on: August 27, 2013, 01:39:53 pm »

it's the showdown server, its just shit

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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #93 on: August 27, 2013, 02:12:49 pm »

Everything to do with account creation is currently slowed down or halted because of a high load on the servers. The servers themselves are pretty decent, but I believe one is down for a software update and traffic is higher than expected for today. There are usually just more of them, is all. Give it a while, it should sort itself out.
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #94 on: August 27, 2013, 03:07:45 pm »

Think I've basically got my team done. It's probably far from optimal, but I don't care too much. Obviously I have to include some attacking mons though because otherwise at best I could only tie. Also I just noticed how many steel types I put on my team. Probably mere coincidence though, because rock/steel types learn explosion most frequently.

Forretress
Steelix
Mew
Electrode
Metagross
Accelgor (This one knows final gambit, which is a fighting move that causes the user to faint, but the target loses the same amount of hp the user did. Fits the theme well enough.)

Won't be using a sideboard poke because I know that there are so many ways for this to go wrong.
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #95 on: August 27, 2013, 05:11:50 pm »

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that's hardly a theme, that's just an opinion that basicaly fits any pokemon apart from the very strong ones small is an opinion to...


Though I gotta wonder why exactly roserade is underrated. in every post mentioning poison or grass in the monotype talks, roserade was mentionedas a defensive poke,mine is offensive, it certainly stands out, rather than being underrated. and starraptor is hands down the best starter bird, a brutal sweeperjust because it's good doesn't mean it's not underrated
if somebody can link me to the latest usage stats I'll do a barely used theme and limit my options to the 10 least used Pokemon from each tier. 
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #96 on: August 27, 2013, 08:51:23 pm »

Smogon July 2013 Usage Stats
Assuming you're leaving out Ubers, that would limit you to...

OU: Spinarak. Barboach, Spearow, Klink, Gothita, Horsea, Ekans, Ducklett, Snubbull, Slugma
UU: Tynamo, Torchic, Mareep, Nincada, Snubbull, Seel, Vanillite, Wurmple, Herdier, Karrablast
RU: Mareep, Finneon, Luxio, Tranquill, Nuzleaf, Spinarak, Anorith, Seel, Klink, Torchic
NU: Beldum, Gible, Gulpin, Hoothoot, Swablu, Burmy, Gothita, Petilil, Sewaddle, Chingling
LC: Sentret, NidoranF, Weedle, Whismur, Slakoth, Combee, Burmy, Tympole, Wurmple, Kricketot

Those are... not good options. You might consider just using anything under 1% in a tier. That way you end up with neat but underrated Pokemon like Hitmonchan, not crap that someone used once as a joke like Slugma.
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #97 on: August 27, 2013, 09:16:27 pm »

I'll just use an all red team then
Scizor
Volcarona
Breloom
Ferrothorn
Gyarados
Latias
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #98 on: August 27, 2013, 09:36:53 pm »

Ah fine I'll pitch in.


Is this acceptable?
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #99 on: August 27, 2013, 10:37:27 pm »

So, I just went through the pokedex and put all the ones that seemed to fit on a list.

I used 400 lbs as the cutoff point, except for Magnezone, who's 396 pounds. It seemed close enough. The rest of them are in because they're described in the flavor to be very strong.

Unsurprisingly, most are steel, rock, or ground types...
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #100 on: August 28, 2013, 01:07:03 am »

So, I just went through the pokedex and put all the ones that seemed to fit on a list.

I used 400 lbs as the cutoff point, except for Magnezone, who's 396 pounds. It seemed close enough. The rest of them are in because they're described in the flavor to be very strong.

Unsurprisingly, most are steel, rock, or ground types...
So your pick was "Big strong pokemon" thats not to cool mayn.
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #101 on: August 28, 2013, 03:14:48 am »

no, the theme was "Sumo", which in itself is okay


I dare however ask how exactly Magnezone fits the bill. It might be heavy, but it also floats, has no limbs, and is generaly just a chunck of magents, rather than a sumo fighter, who is heavy mostly because he is fat, like snorlax.


We will see about that once he posts his choices.






ICBM: nice try to make a team entirely of OU, however:


Volcarona is decidedly orange, not red.


Brelloom (I assume you meant the shiny form) is also orange.


Ferrothorn in it's shiny form has red vines...that's it. The clearly dominating color is this greenish-yellow of the shell.


Red has to be the absolutely dominating color, not just a small highlight, like weaviles headress thing, or ferrothorns vines. I am a bit disappointed that despite the post explaining this tournament  that this tourney is about themes, so one should go with the pokemon that are the most red, as red as they can be. When making a choice here, the choice is not "which strong pokemon have some red on them" but "which red pokemon are strong" or actually "which mons are the reddest". It clearly said that this was non-competitive, why else would I carry unfezant and tropius, if not for their deliciousness. Certainly not for their competitive strengths...


Scizor, shiny Gyarados and Latias are very red, and perfect choices. Volcarona and Brelloom are very borderline. I would have considered them if there wasn't even "Orange pokemon" as an option on the list, or maybe if there were no other choices. Ferrothorn is just not red. Maybe 15% red.


Just looking around, very red, maybe the most red would be Darmanitan, the king of red. Also Parasect, Rotom-H, Bisharp and Krookodile and maybe Octillery. Blaziken is also allowed, if it doesn't use speedboost, an ability that would put it in ubers.. Among the shinies, an obvious choice would be Dusclops, Skuntank or Scoliopede.


You are not starved for choices here.




I made the first round non-competitive to bait gain the interest of new players and expand the league, wouldn't be cool to steamroll over their clearly non-competitive themed-teams with a team of only OU powerhouses. Every team has some strong and some weak mons.


If you find that boring, rest assured that the next tournament will contain competitive teams. As a preparation for it, I will offer anyone who hasn't played competitive before help in teambuilding, and those who ask for it can even subscribe the more experienced players as advisors during tourney battles, to level the field a bit.
In our first tournament, the competitive teams (mostly mine) absolutely annihilated all opposition, and that's not really fun, Dwarmin even quit because of it.
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #102 on: August 28, 2013, 03:26:05 am »

I think my team can dominate, with its current set of skills. I dont want to die D:
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #103 on: August 28, 2013, 03:29:42 am »


Scapheap: Team Myth
Akroma: Team Dinner
Kansa: Team Weather
Culise: Team Dance-off
Barbarossa:Team Human Clothes
IamanElfCollaborater: Team Undead
DaveTheGrave: Team Colors
Webaddict: Team Eevee
Rolepgeek: Team Sumo
Person: Team Suicide
Furtuka: Team Sillyface
ICBM pilot: Team Red, or possibly something else yet?


12 people, nice and even brakets


I am putting the more experienced players against eachother right off the bat, so that half of them will find themself in the Losers braket (double elimination once again) right off the bat. I think the good players will surely be able to pull through even if they have only one life remaining, while the fresh players won't be steamrolled instantly. Also, because last tournament ended too soon, I still owe Barbarossa a fight.


and here we go:





everyone, please contact your opponent and post the replay here as soon as possible. Don't take too long.


ICBM, please fix your team in time. If you decide you don't wanna join this afterall, I guess Rolepgeek advances for free, unless someone is willing to pick up the spot quickly?
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Re: The Bay12 Pokemon League, Rated E for everyone
« Reply #104 on: August 28, 2013, 07:32:31 am »

Now that I think about it, is it fine to just switch the order of your team? I'm ok with it if it isn't.
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