DashingStorm

I'm going to go with the fact that I'm able to put smiles on the faces of people around me, be it far away (through forums or games), or people close to me (or even at work)! How I do this, I have no idea, it just happens when I say stupid things or sub-consciously do the right thing/say the right things? The brain is a weird thing to have.

Mmmyessssssssss. Quite right. Time to breeze through the competition. :B

We all know F stands for FABULOUS. /shot

Your Forum Name - DashingStorm Your Server Name - +DashingStorm The Year You Joined Reborn - 2013 or 2014, idr :[ Your Favorite Type (Yes you can have more than one) - Dragon/Psychic/Water Your Least Favorite Type - Dark/Normal Did you participate in the first installment of PokeNations? - Yes #Apophyll Nation!!!! Your Social Security Number - Your what now? General Availability - Daily Give back Apophyll Nation or riot >:[

Thanks for all the input so far, everyone! I'll address these as we've discussed them so far with the other staff members; - We're discussing the point of where we could/would unban certain legendaries, we've yet to find a reasonable balance though. - We'll steer clear from that item for now, unless we can figure out a system for (other) tokens as well. - That all depends on the leaders, I really don't have any influence on that so I can't really comment on the amount of times we can/will/should have them. - More tournaments are optional and can just happen on the spot if things go quiet a bit later* on. - Soundtrack? In-game or during League? In-game, not sure yet. During League, how? - Other way to pump up challengers, elaborate and give ideas, maybe? *Later meaning during the last hour or half hour of League, if most challenges have been done. - The moveswaps are most definitely a no. We can think of alternative ways (ie. move swap tokens for purchase, with increasing prices after every purchase per person) to compensate for that. Otherwise, team building can be accomplished and/or rated in the Rate my Team thread for the League! - The standings and stuff was previously done by only me (yes, tedious as fuck, I know), which resulted in a lot of delays due to my stupidly crowded work schedule. A day only has 24 hours, and when you work for 6-12 hours a day, sleep for 6-8, and have to somehow live in the remaining hours, there's only so much a single person can do. We're resolving this in the near future, to be prepared with a team of at least 2 people to maintain the S2 standings thread in the future. - Leader interviews, huh? Sounds interesting, but I'd have to reach out to Gallade and ask if he's willing to do these interviews. - With League running as short as it did in S1, we've been contemplating on an extra day in case of need (like, only if extremely necessary when League hasn't been able to run for a full day), but we're not entirely certain how we'll be able to fix this as of yet. - B5 and B6 were meant to only be available once a week, because when challengers got to B5, they would have free choice every day on who they would challenge. Same goes for B6. When we revisit and change the brackets, we'll figure out what we can do to remedy this, if needed. - Legendary Pokemon in UU or lower (and Mega Evolutions), would give people the opportunity to use Megas like Mega Aerodactyl (the fastest UU ever), Mega Beedrill (not too far behind Aerodactyl), Sacred Fire Entei, Cresselia, Mega Sceptile, Mega Sharpedo, Suicune, Zapdos, Diancie, and even Hoopa. I know this doesn't sound too broken, but do keep in mind that leaders are bound to a monotype. Just having one of these Pokemon could put a player at a huge advantage, as most Mega Evolutions have access to an extremely wide movepool to cover (almost) all types. We may allow this regardless, but we might put a restriction/limitation on this if we end up implementing this. - The plea system sounds a bit too complicated to implement, though I agree on the fact that getting "stuck" on one leader is a really annoying thing. We're working on a different method to remedy this, by means of a (maybe) moveswap/re-challenge token when x amounts of losses in a row have been reached. - This is still open for discussion right now, but with what we currently have on paper, a 7th mon might not be that far away at all. We're not entirely sure just yet, though. - See Chubb's second comment for explanation. - See above. The main reason we couldn't add a fourth day, or even start earlier at the time, was because of the leaders' timezones all being different ones. It was annoying enough for me to be able to figure out a suitable timezone for all of them to be able to be (somewhat) available during weekends, I was happy that some sacrificed their Fridays to show up on League, then live their lives afterwards. >< I'm pretty convinced that even for S2, we won't have a 4-day (or longer) League weekend. Starting earlier is (somewhat) up for debate, but we're almost certain the times will stay the same. We could maybe start half an hour earlier at the most, I'm not entirely sure yet. (That would mean queues would open up at 12:30 PM PST instead if this happens) - How about we ban Shadow Tag instead? - You more or less answered the first one yourself mister Champion. - See my comment on Commander's comment regarding UU and lower Legendaries/Megas. - Would have to find and approach Gallade because I believe he's on vacation right now, and I don't wanna disturb him with something that's still a few months away. Thanks for all the comments so far! We're taking everything into account for S2, and we're discussing the points we haven't really made decisions for, but when we know what we can/want to do for S2, we'll announce it all in a while from now! If there's anything else you'd like to see, or if you have more feedback for us, just comment and we'll be sure to read/see it!

Before we actually got around to creating basics and stuff, I had contemplated on a different name, but was soon changed because I felt like it wouldn't fit the entire League x fangame thing, so I spoke to a few people and ended up PM'ing the original Pokemon Redemption creator, he said he was fine with me/us using the name for our fangame (which may mean he's gonna rename his or not, idk yet), I have no idea how this will pan out and can only see this unfold as we progress. We're indeed not just jumping the gun here by saying "oh we're gonna make a fangame" and not actually take this seriously. We're working with a group of now 8 people to get the basic things ready for the first episode, which includes storyline, (side)-quests, mapping etc.. I doubt we'll have E1 ready before S2 starts up, I'm pretty sure everyone can agree on the fact that a rushed thing, is a sloppy thing. To clarify for everyone else; Yes, there is indeed a game called Pokemon Redemption already in progress/on hold. StarryD has given me his permission to use the name for our own, Redemption League-based fangame. This may or may not mean there's going to be 2 games with the same name, if this seems complicated to maintain, we'll get together and figure out a solution for this. For now, just keep in mind that a second thread for a game with the same name may pop up whenever we feel like we're ready to present what we have!

As you may or may not have heard, the first season of the Redemption League is coming to a close soon. How soon? Well, May 1st will be the final day of Season 1! We had hoped to go on a little bit longer (originally June something), but due to traffic getting more quiet by the week, we thought it'd be a wise idea to stop S1 so we could prepare for S2, with new ideas, a fresh start, new brackets and a few more surprises in store for those who will be returning for S2! What can you expect for S2? - Completely new brackets > People will be moving up and down on the bracket list, we won't give away who will go where though! - (Bi)-Weekly tournaments for special prizes! We're gonna try to make these tournaments a twice-a-month thing, rotating in format every time we host one! - A brand-new "League" will be popping up during S2! The Champions of S1 will have the first go at this special League, which will be known as the Redemption League EX, where the Redemption League leaders will pose an even bigger challenge for the Champions! (Redemption EX is only available to those who have obtained 18 badges and have defeated Celeste in either S1 or S2) But that's not all! For those who have missed it, we're also developing a fan-game named Pokémon Redemption! It'll involve all of the League's leaders and a new cast of characters that has never been revealed or spoken of before! The official thread for the game will take a little while to create, as we want to prepare a bit more before we can showcase the things we're going to be delivering to you all! So, we'll be seeing you all this upcoming weekend for the finale of Season 1, I hope!

Simple solution; Don't post in threads that are 2+ months old and create one of your own (in the appropriate section).

You might be thinking, "Holy shit he's still alive?" - I am, even if just barely. Welcome to adulthood, where work takes priority above having fun and/or free time! Er-hem, because the last theme tournaments were popular (to a certain extent), we've decided to give this another go and host two more of these tournaments, to be held next weekend! We'll be keeping things nice and simple; We're doing another Redemption Singles and Redemption Doubles tournament. The Singles tournament will be held on FRIDAY, APRIL 15TH, and the Doubles tournament will be held on SUNDAY, APRIL 17TH. Depending on how busy these days are, we'll either do them during League hours (give or take 2 hours into League hours), or near the end of League hours instead. We won't be surprising you with the "secret" prizes anymore, I'll state right here and right now what the winners of each tournament get! For winning the Singles Tournament on Friday, you will receive 750 Rupees and a Move Swap Token. For winning the Doubles Tournament on Sunday, you will receive 500 Rupees and a Double Move Swap Token. So uhhh, yeah. I think that's all? I have one more thing I'm trying to get around to, but I'll have to check a few things with a few people on when/where we can do so. Hope to see you all participate next weekend!

This is being written extremely late, but I kept forgetting to create this thread after the last tournament had ended and I have been caught up in work for wayyyyyyyy too much lately, so excuse my absence from the League. I'd like to know if you guys enjoyed the Theme Tournaments we've held (granted the first one was a complete bust because of the tournament system not working on Showdown back then, we might re-do that one sometime idk), and if you'd possibly like to see more of these in the upcoming future! Yes, yes, you guys all want to know what "secret" prizes we distributed among our winners, and I'm sure that people familiar with the old Reborn League might know of the existence of certain items that could be purchased in the Site Shop when they were still available, but yes! We had similar secret prizes to those as well! Allow me to elaborate on the concept idea we had before we started the tournaments; Our initial idea was to fill Spring Break, spread across the entire world with all the different countries and timezones we all live in, with 3 tournaments spread across the 3 weeks Spring Break would last (some having Spring Break a week earlier or later than others). Nice concept, but it needed some oomph to it, so we decided to create tiny things and eventually came up with a few potential ideas, which we discussed on and kept in the running for the tournaments. Naturally, we also wanted people to have a different option, say if they wanted to change their Showdown sprite, maybe save up for Ace or whatever reason they could think of, so we came up with the idea to pitch in some Rupees as well, so people had a choice to either get the rupees or the secret prize. We've had a few things ready, but these are the ones that stood out enough to be first-time prizes for the first-time theme tournaments we've hosted; You're all probably wondering why we're not implementing all of these into the League; The answer is quite simple. We don't want you guys to have an easy time going through the League. Who knows, we could potentially have these items in the Site Shop for season 2 (yes, we're planning on having S2 but don't ask when it'll be cause idfk), but we'd definitely put restrictions or limitations on them. So fun fact; the people who actually won the Singles and Doubles tournament, both picked the secret prizes, but missy loudmouth aka Helen, won the Triples tournament, meaning nobody got the third prize. We deemed the last prize to be a little bit over-the-top, so we went with the single Move-Swap Token to be given out to both Swimming95 and Marky B to be their "secret" prizes. The final prize was supposed to be the Re-Challenge Token, but Helen unfortunately snagged that one away and tossed it back in the vault for safekeepings. First time I've seen her do something useful -cough- >> Sooooooooooo, what do you guys think about having more Redemption League-related Theme Tournaments? Would you like to redeem yourself in the next one (if we have more)? Would you like to have another shot at Redemption? Let us know!

Looks like a OU-viable team to me, I'd probably run Close Combat over Mach Punch and Bullet Punch over Sucker Punch on Hitmontop, but that's just me. Volcarona without Bug Buzz just looks awkward, but it could work..? You also don't have anything to get rid of hazards (aka Defog/Rapid Spin) so that might be a problem for leaders who use hazards? I'd get rid of Tyranitar and get something with hazards maybe. Everything else looks standard/solid, I think? If you're going to replace something for a hazard user, I'd replace either Malamar of Klefki. Go for Ferrothorn/Skarmory maybe? Both get dual hazards and methods to heal themselves. Surf Greninja is a risk since you're damaging your own team in Doubles/Triples battles, maybe opt for Scald or even Hydro Pump if you're worried about that (I see why Klefki has Light Screen though). The rest looks pretty standard/solid imo.