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Teambats
Welcome to teambats, a classic community event revived from the depths of Smogon history with a modern twist. Teambats are a competition between two teams of players to build a team under certain restrictions and duke it out. Both teams will have about 20 minutes to build their teams and then a designated battler is chosen. Cooperation within teams is allowed, preferred even, during the battle. Everything will take place in two separate group chats on Pokemon Showdown.

Rules:
  • Do not try to sneak into the opposing team's chat.
  • Do not try to leak information to the other team.
  • Be respectful to your opponents and teammates.
  • Follow the team-specific rules for that week.
Failure to comply to these rules could lead to your team's disqualification or being banned from future teambats.

Current Teambats Submissions:

  • give each side a different bad mon and make them have to make it work
  • give each side one good mon and one bad mon (same for both sides / different for both sides can be two separate ideas)
  • give each side two pokemon, with both sides being roughly equally good (example: don't give one sceptile and the other quilladin, etc). about 1/4th of the way into the allotted building time, reveal one pokemon that the other team was given. about 3/4ths of the way into it, reveal the other.
  • give each side a restriction that no moves over 90 BP can be used
  • give one side a restriction that all pokemon must be assault vest, and the other side a restriction that all pokemon must be choice specs
  • all pokemon used must be NFE, no eviolites
  • every pokemon must have a berry
  • both sides must build a team, switch their built teams with the other side, then try to lose with their received team (i'll link rules of that one tour i hosted for that)
  • only attacking moves allowed
  • best of 3, can't change pokemon after building first team but can change sets (allot time in-between to change sets)
  • doubles
  • vgc-style best of 3
  • give each side a restriction that they can only build a team of five pokemon.
  • gsc / adv / dpp / bw nu variants
  • only 3 moves allowed on each pokemon
  • no stealth rock
  • Ghostbusted - no ghost-types allowed
  • Team Teambats - everybody plays somebody on the opposite team (at the same time) using the squads they've built. winning side is the one with the most wins. if a tie, award both teams full points IMO. only do if there are even numbers
  • Luck Free - no move with less than 100% accuracy is allowed to be used, ban on brightpowder / sand veil / snow cloak
  • Lucky N Bad - all attacks used must have sub 100 accuracy, healing moves are banned (because stall would be gross)
  • Hazardous - rapid spin & defog are banned, magic coat / bounce / taunt are not
  • OM themes
  • Mono-teambats - host gives each team three different types and they have to choose one to build a monotype team with
  • Each Pokemon can only use 252 EVs (must submit teams to host before battle)
  • before splitting into teams everybody bans a move, item or Pokemon and that banlist is used
  • give each team one higher tier mon they get to build with (but isn't compulsory to use)
  • allot some time for both teams to decide on the Pokemon they will be using. Then reveal the 6 Pokemon to the other team and allow both teams to change 1 Pokemon as they build.
  • similar idea, except allow them to change only 1 mon in between matches of a bo3
  • viability rank restrictions eg. only restrict to s and a-rank, restrict to c rank or less, etc
  • give each team 1,536 (that's 256*6) EVs to spend on their whole team, so they can choose to have each mon having 252 in one stat with some leftover evs, or have some mons with 0 evs, etc
  • give each team 16 (2*6 + 4) (or some other number) moves to spend on their entire team. so some mons will have more moveslots than others.
  • at least 5 mons on the team must have a choice item (so there can be one mon without)
  • give them a certain amount of money and have them spend it on the Pokemon they wish to build with (and their price differs based on VR)
  • the first letter of each mon must spell a dictionary word (eg. BOTTLE - barbaracle octillery trapinch tropius lilligant exeggutor)
  • liar's rule - each turn both teams reveal what move they will use, and each team takes a turn to say it first. each team gets 3 lies
  • terrorist cup - every mon needs a boom move
  • no team preview if that's playable
  • stab moves are disallowed
  • each team gets one BL3 pokemon to use, different but fair ones
  • each team gets one (presumably non-broken) RU pokemon to use, different but fair ones
  • add-on to VR idea: one S rank, one A rank, two B rank, 3 C rank
  • total BST between all mons must be less than (pick an average number for NU * 6)
  • illusion clause; any pokemon can have illusion in addition to their normal abilities. it does not require you to use a certain amount of illusion pokemon or any at all
  • itemless - no items allowed
  • generational - each team gets to pick a single generation and can only use NU pokemon from that generation (megas count for the gen their evolved-from mon is in)
  • slow and steady wins - no pokemon can be above 75 base speed (shoutouts to the new speed gods, garbodor and claydol)
  • speed racer - no pokemon can be below 90 base speed
  • x-type moves are banned (maybe ban two different types of moves); dunno if you want only attacking moves or all (including recovery & hazards & such)
  • war of the weathers - each team must build around a specific weather, with at least one setter and two "abusers" of that weather. team can choose which it wants
  • stab-only - can only use moves that are their stab types
  • inverse battle
  • almost any ability - look up ruleset for that
  • give each team a random CAP that isn't fucking broken like that moth thing (like maybe the fire/grass or the ghost/fighting or the scout one or something)
  • every pokemon must know a boosting move or have a stat-boosting ability (speed boost)
  • metronome wars (assume even teams; every player builds a metronome team with pkmn using only the move metronome. does not matter if they actually learn it or not. only acceptable items are leppa berry and lum berry. every player plays against a member of the opposing team.)
  • head in the clouds - every pokemon used must be immune to ground-type moves (img)
  • an apple a day~ - every pokemon used must have an immunity to something. host makes call on if it counts as an immunity; ex. ground types are immune to electric, steel types are immune to poison, poison types are immune to toxic. immunity zangoose is immune to poison, toxic boost zangoose is not (but it'd be usable b/c immune to ghost). this is a bit complex but sounds silly enough to work
  • color-coordination - teams must pick a color of pokemon to use (options are red blue yellow black brown pink green purple grey white).
  • TWO STRONG - pokemon used must have EXACTLY two stats equal to 100 or greater and rest must be lower (there are a lot of interesting pokemon that qualify for that)
  • pity punches - pokemon used must only use attacks from their lowest attacking stat, and there must be at least a 15-point difference between stats (to prevent people from just using traditional good mixed attackers like rotter)
  • game of doubles - you can only use an attacking move once every three turns (it does not reset after each attack you use; for turns 1-3, you have one attack; for turns 4-6, you have one attack; etc). encourage players to pick pokemon that benefit from forcing a switch, perhaps?
  • first letter of each mon's ability must spell out one word (eg Magic Bounce Xatu / Aftermath Skuntank / Shell Armor Torterra / Technician Scyther / Effect Spore Vileplume / Rock Head Rhydon)
  • no revenge - choice scarf is banned
  • grounded - every pokemon must be susceptible to spikes
shoutouts to Zebraiken and scorpdestroyer for the majority of these ideas

If you have any other ideas for teambats, shoot me or any other moderator a message to let us know!

1/16/16
Condition: Pokemon can only use three moves
Winners: Parpar, Silver Aurum, Teddeh, Montsegur, Ijjob, ChrisLoud, MaroGod, PrinceLucian, Jarii
Replay: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-318305549
 
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Disjunction

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http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-318305549

That's the end of the first teambat! The theme for this week was that each mon can only learn 3 moves.

It was extremely fun to host this and see how everything played out. I highly recommend that everyone participate in these when you can. Big shoutouts to all the people who showed up and made this a really exciting event!

TEAM 1
allstar124
Based Loser
GyRro
Peli
Sep2936
Shaneghoul
Quite Quiet
TTFTW
Yogibears
Team: http://pastebin.com/azSvcxhU

TEAM 2 [Winners]
Parpar
Silver Aurum
Teddeh
Montsegur
Ijjob
ChrisLoud
MaroGod
PrinceLucian
Jarii
Team: http://pastebin.com/szRYqg13

EDIT: QQ graciously provided logs from both teams
Team 1: http://pastebin.com/XNV1FgCw
Team 2: http://pastebin.com/fpn6cLn9
 
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Unfortunately replays are down, but since it was such a good game here is the logs in a paste http://pastebin.com/rZfja9Am Loki's team won!
Theme: No moves over 90bp, modifiers that change a moves bp are allowed as are moves that change power like Stored Power and Heavy Slam

Avengers:
Disjunction
Quite Quiet
Marilli
allstar124
chrisloud
jarii
peli
superepicampharos

Loki:
Deej Dy
basedloser
Blaziken1337
lolbro
marogodd
ttftw
xrn476
(only 7 cause 2 ppl backed out after the start)

Avengers team: http://pastebin.com/akpMG2Vq
Loki team: http://pastebin.com/cCCQjLeN

Avengers chat logs: http://pastebin.com/pMnfyutH
Loki chat logs: http://pastebin.com/rNJvhDAA
 

Ares

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Hi, there is something I wanted to address in regards to these teambattles. They are ment to be fun and not serious, yah winning would be great but being negative in your teamchat makes it unfun. Don't be a bad teammate and second guess moves or the Pokemon you picked, don't be passive aggressive and say stuff in chat like, "oh if we had brought Musharna like I had said we would of won". At the end of the day Pokemon is just a game and these aren't even for pixels.

If Disjunction or I see you being negative in your team chat we will PM you to let you know what you're doing if you continue to make it unfun then that may result in a brief teambat ban. Sorry to be serious on a fun project like this, but this is just something that we needed to get out of the way.
 

Disjunction

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added the following formats

  • before splitting into teams everybody bans a move, item or Pokemon and that banlist is used
  • give each team one higher tier mon they get to build with (but isn't compulsory to use)
  • allot some time for both teams to decide on the Pokemon they will be using. Then reveal the 6 Pokemon to the other team and allow both teams to change 1 Pokemon as they build.
  • similar idea, except allow them to change only 1 mon in between matches of a bo3
  • viability rank restrictions eg. only restrict to s and a-rank, restrict to c rank or less, etc
  • give each team 1,536 (that's 256*6) EVs to spend on their whole team, so they can choose to have each mon having 252 in one stat with some leftover evs, or have some mons with 0 evs, etc
  • give each team 16 (2*6 + 4) (or some other number) moves to spend on their entire team. so some mons will have more moveslots than others.
  • at least 5 mons on the team must have a choice item (so there can be one mon without)
  • give them a certain amount of money and have them spend it on the Pokemon they wish to build with (and their price differs based on VR)
  • the first letter of each mon must spell a dictionary word (eg. BOTTLE - barbaracle octillery trapinch tropius lilligant exeggutor)
  • liar's rule - each turn both teams reveal what move they will use, and each team takes a turn to say it first. each team gets 3 lies
  • terrorist cup - every mon needs a boom move
  • no team preview if that's playable
  • stab moves are disallowed
  • each team gets one BL3 pokemon to use, different but fair ones
  • each team gets one (presumably non-broken) RU pokemon to use, different but fair ones
  • add-on to VR idea: one S rank, one A rank, two B rank, 3 C rank
  • total BST between all mons must be less than (pick an average number for NU * 6)
  • illusion clause; any pokemon can have illusion in addition to their normal abilities. it does not require you to use a certain amount of illusion pokemon or any at all
  • itemless - no items allowed
  • generational - each team gets to pick a single generation and can only use NU pokemon from that generation (megas count for the gen their evolved-from mon is in)
  • slow and steady wins - no pokemon can be above 75 base speed (shoutouts to the new speed gods, garbodor and claydol)
  • speed racer - no pokemon can be below 90 base speed
  • x-type moves are banned (maybe ban two different types of moves); dunno if you want only attacking moves or all (including recovery & hazards & such)
  • war of the weathers - each team must build around a specific weather, with at least one setter and two "abusers" of that weather. team can choose which it wants
  • stab-only - can only use moves that are their stab types
  • inverse battle
  • almost any ability - look up ruleset for that
  • give each team a random CAP that isn't fucking broken like that moth thing (like maybe the fire/grass or the ghost/fighting or the scout one or something)
  • every pokemon must know a boosting move or have a stat-boosting ability (speed boost)
  • metronome wars (assume even teams; every player builds a metronome team with pkmn using only the move metronome. does not matter if they actually learn it or not. only acceptable items are leppa berry and lum berry. every player plays against a member of the opposing team.)
  • head in the clouds - every pokemon used must be immune to ground-type moves (img)
  • an apple a day~ - every pokemon used must have an immunity to something. host makes call on if it counts as an immunity; ex. ground types are immune to electric, steel types are immune to poison, poison types are immune to toxic. immunity zangoose is immune to poison, toxic boost zangoose is not (but it'd be usable b/c immune to ghost). this is a bit complex but sounds silly enough to work
  • color-coordination - teams must pick a color of pokemon to use (options are red blue yellow black brown pink green purple grey white).
  • TWO STRONG - pokemon used must have EXACTLY two stats equal to 100 or greater and rest must be lower (there are a lot of interesting pokemon that qualify for that)
  • pity punches - pokemon used must only use attacks from their lowest attacking stat, and there must be at least a 15-point difference between stats (to prevent people from just using traditional good mixed attackers like rotter)
  • game of doubles - you can only use an attacking move once every three turns (it does not reset after each attack you use; for turns 1-3, you have one attack; for turns 4-6, you have one attack; etc). encourage players to pick pokemon that benefit from forcing a switch, perhaps?
  • first letter of each mon's ability must spell out one word (eg Magic Bounce Xatu / Aftermath Skuntank / Shell Armor Torterra / Technician Scyther / Effect Spore Vileplume / Rock Head Rhydon)
  • no revenge - choice scarf is banned
  • grounded - every pokemon must be susceptible to spikes

if you thought we would run out of ideas, scorpdestroyer and Zebraiken have ensured the stability of teambats for a long ass time
 
Warriors Win!!!! http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-321749986

Well done to the warriors for beating the spurs in the No Luck challenge, in this theme you can only use moves with 100% accuracy. This was really fun to host and the turnout was much better then I expected :D If i'm honest the teams were a probably a bit unfair but that's the way the randomiser works i guess.

San Antonio Spurs:
Quite Quiet
allstar124
Based Loser
GyRro
markpaw
Peli
Yogibears

Their team: http://hastebin.com/ugufugiwat.md
Their logs: http://pastebin.com/uVDqmgqp


Golden State Warriors:
Kiyo
HJAD
Deej Dy
Blaziken.
lolbro
Parpar
TTFTW
Syncrasy

Their team: http://pastebin.com/E7US9ivu
Their logs: http://hastebin.com/vewisuwiga.vhdl

Thanks guys for making this really enjoyable looking forward to the next one :D
 
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-323101944 Cats win!

Congratulations to team Cats for winning this teambat, and a good job to both teams in general. I apologize for basically screwing everything up and being a terrible host(I managed to schedule for the same time as an official tour, poorly explain the rules, mess up the timer, and choose obvious team names, gj me), hopefully I can do better in the future D:
So sorry to team Dog(e)s, that was completely my fault about Aurorus.
Regardless I hope both teams had a good time, and that future teambats flow more smoothly. Hopefully others will learn from my mistakes at least?


LucianVega
Skillfullydodgeit
GyRro
Based Infamy
comrade83
Parpar
Brandonbeast999
Syncrasy
Teddeh
http://pastebin.com/3CSqm09j
http://pastebin.com/AWpWTEv5


rasvictory
blapperl
TTFTW
marilli
Sep2936
shaneghoul
peli
markpaws
http://pastebin.com/nX9buJC2
http://pastebin.com/378s6qHh
 
I wasn't there for the Teambat but we all make mistakes. So it's fine :)
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-323101944 Cats win!

Congratulations to team Cats for winning this teambat, and a good job to both teams in general. I apologize for basically screwing everything up and being a terrible host(I managed to schedule for the same time as an official tour, poorly explain the rules, mess up the timer, and choose obvious team names, gj me), hopefully I can do better in the future D:
So sorry to team Dog(e)s, that was completely my fault about Aurorus.
Regardless I hope both teams had a good time, and that future teambats flow more smoothly. Hopefully others will learn from my mistakes at least?


LucianVega
Skillfullydodgeit
GyRro
Based Infamy
comrade83
Parpar
Brandonbeast999
Syncrasy
Teddeh
http://pastebin.com/3CSqm09j
http://pastebin.com/AWpWTEv5


rasvictory
blapperl
TTFTW
marilli
Sep2936
shaneghoul
peli
markpaws
http://pastebin.com/nX9buJC2
http://pastebin.com/378s6qHh
 
Hey everyone, next week I will be hosting one on Wednesday, February 3rd at 4:00 PM EST (GMT -5).
However so as not to collide with the Official Roomtour signups will go up at 3:50
 

Ares

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The other guys win! http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-324805946
Theme: Speed build only 10 minutes to make a team & liar's rule - each turn both teams reveal what move they will use, and each team takes a turn to say it first. each team gets 3 lies
Did this one spur of the moment so a little smaller and not announced here.

The Guys:
jarii
basedloser
ttftw
umlaug
watchog
team: http://pastebin.com/khNRLjCt

The Other Guys:
Quite Quiet
abahu
blapperl
rynhazeldorf
shadestep
team: http://pastebin.com/2apipv8r

This was a bit slow as a spectator, but reading both chats the mind games were intense. Came down to a Fire Blast miss.
 

marilli

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I'll try to host one Sunday (Feb. 7th) 4:00 PM EST, but might try to be flexible with the timestuff with potentially SPL / tour matches people might want to watch. I remember the last time teambats happened on weekend it got delayed for tour games, we'll see.


EDIT: Thinking of hosting a bit earlier, starting 3:30PM or so!
 
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Team Superman wins! http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-327420036
Theme: Your Choice - Each mon must hold a choice item and you must have at least one of each choice item.
Like Mont i did this spur of the moment to make up for the one i missed on Wednesday due to PS! crashing. Still got a decent outcome tho which is great :D

Team Superman:
Blast Chance
Bert C
Blaziken1337
Jarii
Parpar
SU DI NOI
Team: http://pastebin.com/hvB2j0Mi

Team Batman:
Gyrro
Quite Quiet
0dd Dell Robbia
lolbro
LucianVega
TTFTW
Team: http://pastebin.com/UKKm1xdt

This one was really fun to host and it was pretty cool that both teams came up with klutz golurk as a way to get around the limitation. Good job to both teams i think it was really well done on both sides :D
 

marilli

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Team Edward wins 2-0
Theme: Sideboarding
You must bring 9 Pokemon and pick 6 out of 9 to battle.

Both teams first submit a team of 9. Then, both teams will be told what 9 Pokemon your opponents brought. Given that context, both players will pick 6 out 9 Pokemon they brought. Sets / spreads / items cannot be tweaked between the series barring obvious mistakes

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-327861188
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/nu-327851664

Team Edward:
blaziken1337 aurosis, hydrofan, lolbro, maxdman, notnova, oshonypokegod, saviorsx
http://pastebin.com/4yFvQEku

Team Jacob:
quitequiet, bighairypenguin, brandonbeast999, gotanappetite, gyrro, lucianvega, ttftw
http://pastebin.com/Fx0AqQBk

Cool teambat, ggs. It took much longer than I expected, which was unfortunate because it led to a quite a bit of rushing.
 
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