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aww theme tour is over i was winner ! Hero was second place Brackets are here http://challonge.com/MonoGenThemeTOUR prizes will be given shortly

signups start now n_n

^ yea false alarm it was actuallyup

:L there seems to be a problem with the server so tourney might be postponed :c

This theme tour will be mono gen! This means that you pick one gen and you have to use only pokemon in that generation. But wait! There is a catch! No mega pokemon will be allowed to balance out the generations (looking at you gen 1) Pokemon who are considered uber will also be banned in this tourney They are the following pokemon Tier for this tournament is reborn OU so only these following pokemon are banned Arceus (all forms), Darkrai, Deoxys-A, Deoxys-N, Dialga, Giratina, Giratina-O, Groudon, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Kyurem-W, Lugia, Mewtwo, Palkia, Rayquaza, Reshiram, Shaymin-S, Xerneas, Yveltal, Zekrom, Manaphy, Zygrade The tournament will be run this Saturday, 7pm EST (GMT-5) for signups and 8pm for the tournament itself! The rules are as follows Freeze Clause Sleep Clause OHKO Clause Self KO Clause Evasion Clause Species Clause Disallow spectators [till finals] Hope to see you If you have any questions before hand feel free to contact me via server or make a post. This tour will also be hosted Saturday just like the last tour (3/1/14) Reward for first place = Participants times 51 reborn rupees

glad so many people enjoyed it ^^ next week (this saturday) will probably be monogen incase any of you people want to start team building now.

yes it was. Refrain from doing that or maybe edit it and put an actual Trevenant set. The Phantom Trevenant (M) @ Leftovers Trait: Natural Cure EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 Spd Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk) - Leech Seed - Will-O-Wisp - Phantom Force - Substitute Since rotom so popular there is the Trevenant to counter. Pretty much in this set you leach seed opponent and than phantom force and opponent can't attack so they lose hp while you gain leftovers and leach seed while being invulnerable. they can switch to normal poke to stop it but than you can try and burn them. you can make max sp def if it fits better than way in your team. Substitute is if you think opponent will switch and make it easier to make predictions. 8 speed to out speed other trees and take less from rocks

interesting idea but i think it would take to long to set up. I have the good ol Terrakion sweep double set. Pretty much Weavile (M) @ Choice Scarf Trait: Pressure EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Beat Up - Ice Punch - Night Slash - Low Sweep use beat up on Terrakion with justified at the start of battle and with party of 6 pokemon it should make terrakion maximizes its attack while take almost no damage. After that you can beat up another pokemon if your still alive somehow in the first round. since you are scarfed you should out speed scarf terrakion and most likely opponents pokemon as well. not really that good in VGC since most people run fake out but if you are just facing random friend who has no idea how to doubles should work. Terrakion @ Choice Scarf Trait: Justified EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Rock Slide - Close Combat - Earthquake - Poison Jab Just rocks slide after you get to plus 6 and anything that doesn't resist will automatically die (assuming it hits all the time) and those that resist will take a lot of damage and maybe taken out by weiviles beat up.

Tourney is over! Hero winner again n_n! but Hakuna coming in close second o: Hero will get prize shortly http://challonge.com/UnderdogeTournament and a thank you to all the people who participated ^^

TOURNY HAS STARTED !!! http://challonge.com/UnderdogeTournament

It might help in teambuilding to know the pokemon who are below rank 50 in popularity! the list of those viable pokemon are in the below paste http://pastie.org/pastes/8759146/text?key=12wi6fhjgpwzablhrdqhkg

yeaaa they used to be every week but than i was busy with stuff but not anymore!

Hello Everyone! The point of this theme tour is for everyone to try out the pokemon who usually are not getting the spotlight in the newly formed 6th gen meta game! We will be banning the top 50 most used pokemon in 6G OU pokemon according to PO. The banned pokemon will be listed below http://pastie.org/pastes/8757860/text?key=ti1uxwa1mfaddtgpwcp9ya Pokemon who are considered uber will also be banned in this tourney They are the following pokemon Tier for this tournament is reborn OU so only these following pokemon are banned Arceus (all forms), Darkrai, Deoxys-A, Deoxys-N, Deoxys-S, Dialga, Giratina, Giratina-O, Groudon, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Kyurem-W, Lugia, Mewtwo, Palkia, Rayquaza, Reshiram, Shaymin-S, Xerneas, Yveltal, Zekrom, Manaphy, Zygrade The tournament will be run this Saturday, 7pm EST (GMT-5) for signups and 8pm for the tournament itself! The rules are as follows Freeze Clause Sleep Clause OHKO Clause Self KO Clause Evasion Clause Species Clause Disallow spectators [till finals] Hope to see you If you have any questions before hand feel free to contact me via server or make a post. This tour will also be hosted Saturday just like the last tour (2/22/14) Reward for first place = Participants times 50 reborn rupees Shout out to Heroic for inspiring the idea and getting the list of most popular OU pokes! :]

Congratulations!

Don't worry, if you don't have the "cares" to make the changes i can. In Research center you are supposed to give good sets to help other people who want to try out different pokemon or, in this case, different play-styles such as LC. Eves are especially significant in LC tier where all the stats are low to begin with so losing even 1 point in a stat is usually game changing. To analyze your Taillow set you have 1 ev which is unused which could of been used in HP Without the evs its hp is 20 but with it, it becomes 21 which is about a 5% increase in hp now consider pokemon who are lvl 100 who usually have hp in the 200/300 that would be a loss of 10 to 15 hit points (35 hit points for blissey) for absolutely no reason. Taillow is also weak to rocks but instead of losing 25% every time it switches in, you would only lose 23.81% (so it can switch in and out more than 4 times if it takes no damage from opponents) I understand that there was no way for you to know that but next time you, or anyone else, post a LC set i expect more effort on the effort values(EVs). Long story short, even if you think "people get the point" you are expected to post proper eve sets for LC pokemon and hopefully next time you have the "cares" to do so. also your second post on the thread was completely useless and did nothing to expand upon other options of taillow.

LC sets have different evs than lvl 100 pokemon. Hinaru gets a pass since i'm sure eves don't even matter in that set (quick attack will always do 1 damage) but in your set, Ryan, you have extra evs in special attack and speed which go to waste. http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/little-cup-ev-spreads.64199/ is a good place to find out about evs on LC pokemon or you could just use the team-builder and keep trying out eves until you know which one gives the maximum stat value (which is what i do [admittedly]). <----- Applies to anyone who is going to make a thread in the research center with LC pokemon. anyhow i used to use physical taillow in LC last gen and i guess it can work this gen 2 GUTS! Strong User (Taillow) (F) @ Flame Orb/Toxic Orb Trait: Guts EVs: 36 HP / 236 Atk / 236 Spd Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - Brave Bird - U-turn - Quick Attack - Facade Truly a beast to be reckoned with! with guts and flame orb, Facade does just as much as boomboost but is backed up by a much stronger base attack stat. Brave birds also hits like a truck but should only be used against ghost pokemon or extremely tanky grass pokemon such as Tangela since it will already be taking a lot of damage from burn/toxic. U-turn is for momentum and if you predict a switch to counters such as magnamite. Quick attack is last slot to take down quiver dancers or revenge killing other sweepers which have little hp remaining. Evs are pretty self explanitory i have max speed and attack and i am adamant instead of jolly since i have access to a priority move. Rest Eves are in hp to make it odd and take less damage from stealth rocks.

Heroic was the winner! http://challonge.com/pokemon1ineach ^ were the results

Signups Officially begin! And i got you Jory!

^ rationale: Mega pokemon are not new pokemon found in the pokedex but instead new items for older generation pokemon.

signups are only in 7pm EST (GMT-5) Saturday (tomorrow) ^^' and eeveelutions depend on the generation they were introduced. I.e you can use have espeon (2nd gen) and sylveon (6th gen) but you cannot have espeon and umbreon since they were both introduced in second gen.

Happy valentines day (or singles awareness day) In this theme tour we will allow only one pokemon in each generation for a combined total of six pokemon (idea credited to bazaro). Mega evolutions do not count as 6th gen but instead as the gen they were originally from (i.e mega charizard-y would count as your gen 1 pokemon). Tier for this tournament is reborn OU so only these following pokemon are banned Arceus (all forms), Darkrai, Deoxys-A, Deoxys-N, Deoxys-S, Dialga, Giratina, Giratina-O, Groudon, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Kyurem-W, Lugia, Mewtwo, Palkia, Rayquaza, Reshiram, Shaymin-S, Xerneas, Yveltal, Zekrom, Manaphy, Zygrade The tournament will be run this Saturday, 7pm EST for signups and 8pm for the tournament itself! The rules are as follows Freeze Clause Sleep Clause OHKO Clause Self KO Clause Evasion Clause Species Clause Disallow spectators [till finals] Hope to see you If you have any questions before hand feel free to contact me via server or make a post. Unlike previous tours, this will be hosted on a saturday since most people live in different timezones and cannot stay up late on sunday. reward for first place = Participants times 50 reborn rupees

O: nicely made rmt as usual I think ev spread is to 1 hit ko gengar with shadow sneak after hazards 144 Atk Spooky Plate Aegislash-Blade Shadow Sneak vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Gengar: 248-294 (94.6 - 112.2%) -- 68.8% chance to OHKO nice team tho like the originality and synergy and props on taking my title ;[ can't really think of any major threats to team :[

In reborn ladder the points are arranged in ELO rating system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system If you win a match you get points depending on the opponents ranking and same for losses glad you are having fun!

To my understanding it means that they have been mentioned but are not good enough to be included in the list. @the post keep practicing! Slant is also right about the teambuilding aspect of it. When making a team always formulate a plan for what each pokemon job is and how it contributes to the overall team. If your really new i suggest watching other people's battle to maybe get some inspiration.

thanks for all of the warm welcomes ^^;. i will try my best to moderate the trainer school.