I didn't realize it had been 3 years since the last time we did this.
Just like the Singles Showdown, this tournament will take place on the battle simulator Pokemon Showdown, which can be found here:
http://pokemonshowdown.com/ (Pokémon Showdown! battle simulator)
The procedures will be as follows: You will all have until May 18th 2017 to sign up for this tournament, and just like every other tournament all you need to do to sign up for this is post in this thread saying that you wish to compete. Once the deadline has been hit, I will be using a random number generator to give every competitor a random type out of the 18 that exist. Then, you must create a team containing only Pokemon of that type and you will all battle it out to decide who the champion is. A few things of note:
- Dual-typed Pokemon can be used freely as long as one of their types matches your mono-type. For example, Aegislash would be eligible on a mono-Ghost or a mono-Steel team.
- If a Pokemon's base form doesn't match your mono-type but its Mega Evolution does then it cannot be used, so Mega Charizard X cannot be used on mono-Dragon teams because regular Charizard is not a Dragon-type. This also works in reverse: If you were using a mono-Flying team with Charizard on it, you would not be allowed to use Charizardite X since he would no longer be a Flying-type upon Mega Evolving.
Any moves and abilities that cause a Pokemon's type to change are banned from use. The moves and abilities in question are:
- Protean
- Colour Change
- Forecast
- Impostor
- Transform
- Conversion
- Conversion 2
- Camouflage
- Reflect Type
- Soak
- Relic Song
Unfortunately this has resulted in Kecleon, Ditto and Castform being completely unusable, so if you do get Normal as your assigned type then note that all three of these Pokemon are effectively banned from use.
Just to clarify, Silvally is legal, but it needs to match your team's type, so it will need to have the respective memory for RKS System if it's on any team type that isn't Normal.
Otherwise standard rules apply. The following stuff cannot be used:
Pokemon
Arceus
Blaziken
Darkrai
Deoxys (All formes)
Dialga
Genesect
Giratina (All formes)
Groudon
Ho-oh
Kyogre
Kyurem-W
Lugia
Lunala
Mewtwo
Palkia
Rayquaza
Reshiram
Shaymin-S
Solgaleo
Xerneas
Yveltal
Zekrom
Abilities
Moody
Power Construct
Sand Veil
Snow Cloak
Items
Gengarite
Kangaskhanite
Lucarionite
Soul Dew
...and the following clauses apply:
SPECIES CLAUSE: No two Pokemon on a team can have the same National Pokedex Number.
EVASION CLAUSE: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned from use.
OHKO CLAUSE: The moves Guillotine, Sheer Cold, Fissure and Horn Drill are banned from use.
FAIR PLAY CLAUSE: If a match would end in a 0-0 draw due to the use of Selfdestruct, Explosion, Destiny Bond or Perish Song, the user of the move in question loses.
SLEEP CLAUSE: No two Pokemon can be put to sleep at once on a team. Self-inflicted sleep from Rest and randomly-inflicted sleep from Effect Spore do not count towards this.
I think that's everything, I'm sure someone will correct me if it isn't.
Two final things of note: This topic is for signups and queries only. Any post in this topic that is neither of the aforementioned will earn you a SPAM warning. Also note that any player who signs up for this and then drops out without a good reason once the tournament properly starts will be banned from future tournaments, as always.
Sign-ups are officially go. You have just over two weeks to sign up, so don't be late.
SIGN-UPS:
- StevenUniverseDiamond
- TeamPlasmaAdminLazuli
- Lord of Pain
- Midnight Princess
- Andrewski2000
- Psycho Monkey
- Mr Fishykarp
- Koopa000
- I Never
- Shocari
- MegaAbsol
- Dwayna Dragonfire
- Jagson
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