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Hello everyone, why Flip Turn and Volt Switch can't be used as items in fortemons whereas U-Turn can ? I mean, if it's just a matter of a specific pokémon being too strong because of these moves, then U-Turn should be forbidden too, right ?
The OP (as well as the other first few posts) needs an update as there is some outdated information on it (shared power’s permaladder and permaladder spotlights for example)
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Ok, is anyone gonna do something about Trademarked? Its currently inactive and no action seems to be taking place.
With so many metagames available, the reality of most rotational OMs is that they lose a lot of activity in between gaining ladders. While they tend to retain a challenge format on PS, things like tiering action and resource updates are unlikely to happen without an active ladder to actually test the credibility of said resources before posting them. So yes, "no action seems to be taking place" because Trademarked is currently in between ladders, and that's perfectly fine.
Well, obviously it's tough to have bans on OMs that aren't either OMotM or LC but there's stuff like Ho-oh, Regigigas, Topsy Turvy (trademark) and Burning Bulwark (as a trademark) that should be simple bans and don't require testing to be banned. Also, it is part of the daily tournament cycle in the OM room so while it doesn't have a ladder, there are still some games taking place every now and then. Bans that require testing are not my concern.
I mean, Trademarked is a pretty crazy tier. Perhaps they're looking for a bigger sample size than a small roomtour once a week before getting into voting on those particular things, especially considering that not a single person has actually posted explaining why they believe these elements should be "simple bans". The point you intended to make kind of defeats itself here.
I was reading up on Inverse, having had the idea of a backwards type chart myself. Has anyone played much of this meta? If so, how did you like it? Is it too centralized around the dominate types? I can see why Normal, Ice, Bug, Rock and Grass rule the roost in an inverted type chart.
It’s a neat idea, I’d like to see it explored more with a permanent ladder.
It’s a neat idea, I’d like to see it explored more with a permanent ladder.
That's pretty much National Dex if im understanding correctly.
No, is all gimmick in one pokemon of the team, to explain Best, all pokemon have acceso simultany to all gimmik, 24 gimmik in total
Ex: Pikachu-Cap-Z have acces to dinamax permanetly and the gmax in the case of the teambuild have the gmax factor, and he sostain the ampharosite to megaevolve, and have tera to teratalized into flying type, and one time per duel he can use 1000000 volt z move with minus power to balance the signatura z-move with secondary effect with z-move with no secondary effect and all atack have secondary effect of de dina/gigamax form, incluided the secondary effect in this case of a higher chance to critic of 1000000 volt
It sounds extremely unbalanced, we avoid approving ideas that aren't likely to go beyond a for fun format, as people will eventually get tired of everything being decided by overpowered strategies that often don't leave much room for player interaction.
Either way, new OM ideas go here: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/metagame-workshop.3709907/
Read the first post before posting.
Also avoid double posting, edit your messages when there is nothing in between them.
Is easy to balance, is mix and mega but more mechanic (and this format is alrededor unbalanced), only restric the dina/giga atack to the power of the base move, and ban mega Stones and Z-move like beedrilite, medichanite, swamperite with basic water dinamax move kommonium-Z, and to probaid more variety add New 3 custom mega Stones based of sinnoh starter, is form more custom to mega Stones, and add the option in teambuilder to maintance the original ability to not depend of the megas abilities. In the case of you detect more unbalanced combo
Crazy how first blood flew off the radar this gen.
I just wanted to mention that Foresighters is listed twice
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Hey everyone, I'm still working on an OM suggestion, but I would like some advices/opinions about the form and content :
1) Regarding the premise : for those who don't know yet, I'm terribly clumsy when it comes to write premises, as they're not either intelligible or simple enough. For this one, I wanted to work around the concept of bypassing types resistances and immunities.
2) Regarding this concept : a Pokémon should be able to go past the resistances/immunities of types whichever move is used (offensive or status). However, I would like to make this the less hazardous possible, like, up to two types per Pokémon, and these types would be chosen according to a criteria.
3) Regarding this criteria (that's where it becomes off-the-wall) : I have two ideas so far, first is a color code (see RGB colour chart) using base stats as parameters (where Red = [BS1], Green = [BS2] and Blue = [BS3]), the color is then compared to types' ; second is the coverage (for example Iron-Valiant dual type is resisted by Poison-type, so it would ignore Poison-type resistances), but It doesn't seem practical enough.
1) Regarding the premise : for those who don't know yet, I'm terribly clumsy when it comes to write premises, as they're not either intelligible or simple enough. For this one, I wanted to work around the concept of bypassing types resistances and immunities.
2) Regarding this concept : a Pokémon should be able to go past the resistances/immunities of types whichever move is used (offensive or status). However, I would like to make this the less hazardous possible, like, up to two types per Pokémon, and these types would be chosen according to a criteria.
3) Regarding this criteria (that's where it becomes off-the-wall) : I have two ideas so far, first is a color code (see RGB colour chart) using base stats as parameters (where Red = [BS1], Green = [BS2] and Blue = [BS3]), the color is then compared to types' ; second is the coverage (for example Iron-Valiant dual type is resisted by Poison-type, so it would ignore Poison-type resistances), but It doesn't seem practical enough.
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I just submitted my own OM suggestion, so I've read all the rules and can maybe help.
I think your idea is not specific enough right now. It should be a clear concept so make sure that when you post the suggestion you worked out which ideas you want to go for and come up with a clear premise.
The idea isn't really clear to me how you've written it down right now. The first criteria seems to suggest for example all blue Pokemon will be able to get hit with electric type attacks regardless of typing. The second one seems to me like just a way to completely get rid of resistances and immunities, or am I understanding this wrong?
Types have colors (see on this link : https://gist.github.com/apaleslimghost/0d25ec801ca4fc43317bcff298af43c3). So, my first idea was that, when you gather base stats to make a color code, then look in a color converter (https://htmlcolorcodes.com/), you find the type(s) for which a Pokémon ignore resistances/immunities. Here is an example : let's say we take HP, Att and Def of Azumarill (100,50,80) and use the stats as color values where Red value = 100, Green = 50, and Blue = 80. If you look in the converter, you should get #643240 which is close to Fairy Type. So, Azumarill would ignore Fairy-type resistances and immunities. I hope it became clearer for this part, I don't know if it should be mentionned in a OM suggestion. Of course, I would provide for each Pokémon the types they'll ignore in a table so that Smogon dev don't have to make any calculation.
To sum up my idea of metagame : Pokémon use their base stats as color codes to return types for which they'll ignore resistances/immunities. Yet, it's hard to figure out a good way to display it, that's why I'm looking for advices in the writing.
This would be too complicated for random ladder players to understand.
Is not something you can easily figure out while playing.
uh, they can see the rules on smogon for further explanations anytime, but by default I would :
1) show the types on screen
2) add a clause like : "the types' a pokémon ignore are displayed"
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