Brawl is almost entirely grassroots. If you mean on that level, then yes. It's up to us to do it though (with a little help from Nintendo). Smogon has been stepping up coverage slowly every year. This year we hit a snag with the format shift, but I think we can make US Nationals and then Worlds better than last year from a coverage perspective.This is kind of off-topic, but do you guys think that Pokemon will ever be an E-sport? You know, like be part of the World Cyber Games and whatnot. I mean, it does have a big enough fan-base. Even more so than Smash Bros Brawl, and even that's played competitively .
This. At Apex, we wanted to stream the finals for the pokemon tournament (whcih certainly would have helped Pokemon as an e-sport, considering the stream had as many as 6000 viewers), but there is no possible way to stream Pokemon in any reasonable quality without the technology that is used in the battle boxes at official tournaments. Nintendo giving access to the DS dev kit (or making the next system compatible with TVs or PCs) would help Pokemon grow tremendously.2010 and likely 2011 regionals were as large and in many cases larger than any single Smash tournament in history. As far as Nintendo games go, this is the biggest. To get as big as something like SC I think would require a stronger working relationship between the community and developers than we have now.
You can find most of the important VGC info here:how do i sign up for a battle and how does this work? is there a thread you can link me to? sorry to disturb.
You're correct, outside of the banned Pokemon list, Nintendo has no "tiers", just what you can use and what you can't use.I'm fairly certain the answer to this is no, but does nintendo do any sort of tiering (of pokemon, like nu and uu etc...) at their tourneys?
It can be used, but it must be in the language of it's origin location. So Chlorophyll Venasaur would need to be Japanese to be legit.quick question:
Can you use a pokemon with a dream world ability that hasn't been released in your country but has been released elsewhere? ie: chlorophyll Venusaur
Breloom is simply too frail of a pokemon with too many weaknesses that are common in VGC, to be using a healing set with. In singles you can have a little more success by using poison heal w/ toxic orb, but in doubles, the only way to use loom is with sash. don't waste your time with substitute either. The best loom set is as follows. Protect, spore, seedbomb, superpower/drain punch. Mach punch sometimes does well on breloom as well. It's up to you whether you use jolly or adamant, but definitely one of the two, with full evs in speed and attack, as you'll be compensated for low defenses with the focus sash.I'm not sure what I should run on my Breloom. I'm running toxic orb with poison heal and Spore, Drain Punch, Seed Bomb, I'm just not sure if I should have protect or substitute. Breloom would Spore both Pokemon before using protect or substitute. So I'm leaning toward substitute but I'm not sure.
More generally: if it was obtained legitimately (without glitches), and it's not specifically on the ban list, you can use it.quick question:
Can you use a pokemon with a dream world ability that hasn't been released in your country but has been released elsewhere? ie: chlorophyll Venusaur