N8theGr8

BANNED FOR AGREEING WITH SMOGON'S WAYS

BANNED FOR TROLLING lolactualreason

BANNED TO ADVERTISE THE NEW RULE IN THE OP

[quote]Congratulations Bullet on your new found Championship! After many trials he has finally beaten Lin! May you choose to move on to x-league or not we are proud![/quote] Well, he gets to reset his [s]counter[/s]team, but I still doubt he's going to do X-League. Because he thinks it's unfair... *stifles laughter*

The basics of this game are simple. You get to ban the person above you (not literally), but you need a reason for doing so. I'll begin by banning AmethystStorm because she's the head admin. BANNED FOR HAVING WHIMSICOTT AS YOUR FAVORITE GRASS TYPE NEW RULE: You cannot ban the person who banned you. In other words, it can't go: Billy banned Mays for [insert reason here]! Mays banned Billy for [insert reason here]! Just to avoid banning chains between two people.

I read that entire thing. All of it. My. Face. When: [img]http://images2.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/4978203/What-the-fuck-am-I-Reading.jpg?imageSize=Medium&generatorName=Doredia[/img]

>Abercrombie There is no "PFFFTCHCHCHHHH" image strong enough to describe my feelings here. As for strangers: You lucky bastard, I wear my top hat out and people just laugh at me. :c

I know, he puts fucking chains and shit on a top hat. It soils the greatness of them. :c I'd camwhore a pic for you all to fap to, but I'm feeling exceptionally lazy right now.

>Bullet >Likes GG Just one more reason to like RR over GG. Also, how the hell could you complain about RR being a snob compared to fucking [i]GG,[/i] of all [s]people[/s] Pokémon? Even if she [i]is[/i] French, it's still an improvement over GG whose sole task was to troll everyone but Luna, Elias, and Radomus. Furthermore, RR actually gives HIGHLIGHTS instead of just ~~~~~~~'ing through the entire night. tl;dr: Drama > Trolling, therefore RR > GG

I'd try it, but I'm the most horrible craftsman ever so it'd probably end up looking like a red Metapod once I finished.

Count me in, just trying to make a good team because a certain SOMEONE took my Sun idea. :c

[img]http://carlosanastacio.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/most-interesting-man-in-the-world.jpg[/img] He's the most interesting man in the world.

[quote]So you guys told me to post the sprite I wanted in here... I think ' [img]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081215155031/earthbound/images/a/a4/MEB10.PNG[/img] Can I use that? Would be sick. EDIT: now its 80x80: [img]http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/168057_10150114776583809_797158808_6204623_3375343_s.jpg[/img][/quote] Don't mind me; just moving this to the right thread...

So it's agreed, RR > GG?

I liked Rumor Roserade more. [img]http://paradoxdgn.com/junk/avatars/trollface.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.quebecgamers.com/impressions/cdi/faces_of_evil/animation_debut2.jpg[/img] Around here in Hyrule.

>Consistently >Consistent >Inconsistent >Banned GUYS BAN GEO NOW SMOGON SAID SO AND SMOGON TOTALLY ISN'T A GROUP OF ABUSIVE MAGGOTS

Bullet wins for being the only one with any form of creativity at all, other than Will, but he lost because Sunkern is a fucking boss and should be taken seriously.

Anyone who says "Pokemon is a game," and "Smogon takes Pokemon too seriously," I completely and thoroughly agree with (in fact, it's what I agree with above anything about Pokemon). Smogon has made countless abusive decisions just because one Pokemon is "better" than another, a la Latias, Garchomp, and Salamence. Pokemon [i][b]isn't supposed to be perfectly balanced[/b][/i]. There's a line you have to draw with things like Deoxys-A that take the fun out of everything, but it all comes back to the fact that Pokemon is a game. It's like saying Michael Jordan should have been banned from basketball for being the best. Do I have a problem with people who DO take Pokemon somewhat seriously and think their teambuilding through incredibly deeply? Of course not. That's passion. It's incredibly stupid once you're using power to manipulate a game just because it's a little bit unbalanced. Guess what? Salamence is better than Dragonite 99% of the time. Who cares? People still use Dragonite and and it can work really well, but Salamence is better for the most part. Note how in that Salamence-Dragonite comparison, both were OU last generation until Sally was banned for "over centralizing" the metagame. I thought that ban was the most bullshit of Gen 4 OU, above Garchomp and Latias who both honestly were still counterable in that metagame. My only question to this is why is everyone just now noticing how incredibly stupid Smogon is with their banning of anything that is remotely broken? I have virtually no respect left for them due to their constant complaining over things that you should just "build a little bridge and get over". But why say anything now? To be honest, I'm really finding it too coincidental that AmethystStorm, the master of rain, only starts to complain about Smogon once his rain is in jeopardy. I've been angered countless times due to Pokemon like Salamence being banned and saying Smogon is just idiotic for doing so. Because... [color=#000000;background:#000000;' onmouseover="this.style.color='#FFFFFF'" onmouseout="this.style.color='#000000']Pokemon is a game, like the one you just lost.[/color] tl;dr: Smogon's stupid, but Ame's also stupid for only catching on to this once his favorite strategy could become Uber. -- Doc, Heatran could give my team trouble if it's ballooned; otherwise I bring in my own Heatran in on a predicted Fire attack and Earth Power it's ass. My Heatran's scarfed so it'll outspeed. Also, Gyarados does well against Heatran because of immunity to Earth Power, Fire resist, and not taking super effective damage from HP Grass/Ice. Also, Gyarados has a good Special Defense anyway. Starmie...eh...Alakazam's Shadow Ball kills it. (I'm Sashed so I can come in on anything too) Also, Nattorei flat out walls it unless it's carrying HP Fire, which it never does because Surf/Boil Over, Ice Beam, and TBolt is epic coverage. Starmie's rare nowadays anyway and I've never seen one carrying HP Fire. Sure, it counters Nattorei, but other than that it's a wasted moveslot over Ice Beam which nails the all too common Dragons.

Rain isn't a problem because nothing in rain can counter Nattorei, one of the most prominent Pokemon in the 5th Generation. Don't say otherwise, you're just kidding yourself. This is why I've never seen rain as a problem, as MasterFetish/KingFetish is probably the most common Pokemon on any of my teams. The problem with Sandstorm is that first, you're not using a generally bad Pokemon to activate it. Hippowdon and Tyranitar both are fantastic on their own, and when you're building a team around their ability it just gets even better. Politoed and Ninetales are decent, but nowhere near those two. In addition, Sandstorm has way more options than Rain as for sweepers, due to many Pokemon having things like Sand Veil, Sand Power, Sand Throw, and the other sand abilities I might or might not be missing. Right off the bat, there's Doryuuzu, Garchomp, Randorosu, Gliscor, Cacturne, and Muurando. And those are just the Pokes that get fun boosts in SS, not things that don't take damage from it. Actually, to be honest, Rain could do better than it does if people decided to get their heads out of their asses and use things other than the all-too-standard Politoed, Kingdra, Zapdos/Jolteon, Nattorei/Erufuun, filler sweeper, filler sweeper team. It's unoriginal and makes me think you can't build a team for yourself. I'd be all for people who use weather provided [i]every[/i] rain team didn't use Kingdra and [i]every[/i] sandstorm team didn't use Doryuuzu. Neither are all that great and both can be countered easily. I see the perfect metagame as a metagame that isn't broken. Right now, the metagame is pretty nice as I haven't run into anything that's dominating over everything else. Things like Ditto get annoying really fast, but Ditto can be coped with and really isn't all that broken to begin with. Also, I'm just wondering why smogon would ban Drizzle + Swift Swim when Doryuuzu is flat out more threatening in Sandstorm than any Swift Swim sweeper. At +2 Doryuuzu is stupidly hard to take out and can't be revenge killed because of it's ridiculous Speed. Sorry to rain lovers, but Doryuuzu in Sandstorm > Kingdra in Rain. Kingdra may have more bulk, but Doryuuzu has raw power, a better set up move, and more threatening overall. Both, as I've said so many times before, can be dealt with and neither should be banned. My team consisting of Ferrothorn (Nattorei), Garchomp, Gyarados, Conkeldurr (Roobushin lol), Heatran, and Alakazam that I use competitively on my Acekard is undefeated after like 14 battles. I've faced weather of all kinds and it never has been an issue; in fact, [i]sun[/i] has given me the most trouble out of any weather. If I can deal with it, so can you; I'm not even that great of a battler. In short: Perfect metagame is where nothing is broken and everything can be countered, Drizzle + Swift Swim shouldn't be banned at all, and I am completely disregarding Ame's saying "DON'T MAKE THIS A DISCUSSION ABOUT SWIFT SWIM". -- I decided to edit in what I feel is broken within a balanced metagame and, more importantly, why it's broken. Also, I'll be listing what has been considered broken that I feel isn't broken by any means of the term. BROKEN: ~Manaphy - inb4 rainhate. Rain isn't why I hate this thing though. I hate it because it has good stats, good coverage, and gets the incredibly broken +3 boosting Tail Glow. Plus, it has good Speed and decent enough bulk so it can tear things apart. It's tough to counter due to being able to kill a hell of a lot at +3, raping an unprepared team. Other things that set up can still be stopped; it's much harder to stop Manaphy. ~Shadow Tag Shandera - The Pokemon I've always felt is broken. First, I'd like to point out how everyone always says Shandera is set up fodder after you kill something. However, that doesn't matter. Why? Because you can do that with any revenge killer. In fact, sometimes you don't have to lose a Pokemon to get a free turn against a choiced Pokemon due to immunities/resistances. But guess what? You can't do that with Shandera. It has the ability to pick off what it wants and then flee, while you sit there unable to do anything to stop it. Choice Pokemon that rely on Fighting/Normal moves are more hesitant to pick them solely because of Shandera being (or having been) everywhere. When I heard it was banned, I was overjoyed. ~Deoxys-A / Deoxys Normal - They're stronger, frailer Mewtwos. Deoxys-A is godly powerful and can decimate 90% of the standard metagame with its fucking awesome movepool. Deoxys trades power for being able to live through things like Mach Punch. Both I feel are too strong for OU and can function well in Ubers. ~Skymin - A sweeper with Serene Grace Air Slash as its prime move. Except this thing can outspeed a huge amount of Pokemon. Oh, and it gets a 120 STAB move with a positive side effect. With a scarf, this thing can rape. Even without, it can rape if it gets a Sub up. It's just too hard to find a way to beat a Pokemon when you're not doing anything 60% of the time, which is a number that can love you or hate you. NOT BROKEN ~Inconsistent - I am a strong believer that Inconsistent is an ability that never gave anyone trouble. It was given to some of the worst Pokemon in the game, bar Smeargle who's got awful stats to begin with, that relies solely on hax. It's the one thing that was banned that I flat out disagree with, although I'm very sure there's plenty more from where this came from due to smogon's stubborn ways of only looking from their perspective of the metagame, which can be played so many ways that...actually, the fact that it can be played in so many different ways is what makes the metagame so fun.

Ame, to be honest, if you really want I'd be able to teach Ikaru. Thanks a million for doing this Ika...I'm just so busy lately and I'm really stressed out and cards aren't helping. >.<

ReverLiechi Hitmonlee @ Liechi Berry Trait: Unburden EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Speed / 4 Defense IVs: 30 HP Adamant/Timid Nature - Bulk Up / Meditate - Endure / Substitute - Reversal - Stone Edge / Rock Slide Because Hitmonlee's Speed will already be ridiculously high once Unburden is activated, a Salac Berry isn't necessary. Instead, Hitmonlee wants more power, so go for a Liechi Berry. The goal, as with all Reversal sets, is to get down to 1 HP and wreak havoc with a max power Reversal. Endure is more reliable, but if Hitmonlee is behind a Sub when he's at 1 HP there's practically nothing that stops him other than residual damage. If you are going to use Substitute, you have to use no HP EVs and 30 HP IVs to get down to 1 HP. Bulk Up lets you do something if you get a free turn, but Meditate might be a better option while using Endure because Hitmonlee's goal is to get down to 1 HP which is harder with more bulk behind him. Reversal is obvious. Because Sucker Punch is illegal with Unburden, the choice between Stone Edge and Rock Slide comes down to whether you want power or accuracy/flinch chance. -- Taro, you need to change your set, Unburden is illegal with Sucker Punch and therefore it cannot be used.

[b]IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME.[/b] Good page though. Epic face is epic.

We all know why GG doesn't have to spiral into emoville! [color=#000000;background:#000000;' onmouseover="this.style.color='#FFFFFF'" onmouseout="this.style.color='#000000']SHE GETS TO HIDE HER LACK OF SKILL BEHIND THE 458024580243754837 PSYCHIC LEGENDS FOR THE X-LEAGUE[/color]

Loneliness He stands there, alone; wishing more than anything for something to be beside him. He searches, trying to find something to comfort him, but shadows tint everything black. Nothing is there to hold out its hand for him, to give him something to hold on to. He sighs, more hollow than an empty bottle, and shuts his eyes. He reflects on himself, his life, looks at his triumphs and shortcomings, wonders if he even is worth anything, and hopes more than anything that he'll find something to love. To cherish and trust. He shivers, although he has a coat on. He desires, he wishes more than anything just to find something to make his life worthwhile. His heart heatedly races, hurting from the pain he has been trapped in for so long. He whispers something to the shade, hoping anything while hear his call, but no one does but himself. He stares up into the sky, a deep grey canvas that stretches infinitely, and continues to hope. Hope treats him like a friend, always there, but it promises nothing. He stands silently for one last moment, and then suddenly races away as fast as he can. He flees, escaping everything except the loneliness that clings to him eternally. I second Ame.