Suiseiseki · #10Only a few legendaries are barred, the other ones are limited to 2/6 pokemon:
As for a vs match, I'm just waiting till I can catch him on IRC so we can swap FCs. It will certainly go up, though.
Ha, the only reason I haven't been on IRC much is because I keep forgetting to hit up Chatzilla. lol
My current fascination is the UU tier, since we both pretty much agreed the OU tier is broken due to Scizor. I've seen enough CB Scizors and damn Lucarios, and Tyranitars on PBR to be completely sick of that tier. UU allows me to be more creative with setups, especially making tanks and stallers actually viable. It is actually my creativity and obscure setups that allow me to sweep my opponent's OU teams because they're tailored to counter OU threats, not UU threats, and the fact that they've never seen a Swellow sweep 3 pokemon before...My rule for BL pokemon is that they're automatically placed in the highest tier that they borderline. For example, Crobat used to be UU, but is now BL, therefore, it would be considered the next tier up, OU. Raikou used to be BL, but is now officially UU, therefore it stays in UU.
As far as the VGC '10, I would do HORRIBLE here, simply because there's two types of play I don't use and HATE playing.
Doubles, and Ubers. Put them together and it's a total mess.
Every strategy I use comes from single battles. Once I move into Doubles, it's basically a Rain Dance, Toxicroak Dry Skin with Surfs hitting it repeatedly until the other team falls. Or it's a Zapdos/Garchomp fest with Discharge and Earthquake. The strategies are completely different and what works in Singles, does HORRIBLY in doubles, and vice versa.
Stack on Ubers and now you got what Suis was talking about, Specs Kyogre coupled with some sort of Water Absorber, damn Mewtwos and whatnot, and of course, they ban the one pokemon that I ABUSE in Ubers. Timid Darkrai using Dark Void with a Focus Sash. LOL
If I were to actually compete, I'd have to brush up on the mechanics for breeding and EV training (as far as the new hotspots are in HGSS). It's so much easier to just type in a few numbers and be done, even if it does involve PID/IV trial and error. If I were to turn in my copy (pretending it's a real cart, I mean damn, I can nc.exe the damn sav file back and forth, remember...) of HGSS right now (or Platinum because that's where all of my competition pokes are), they'd scan it and find absolutely no evidence of hacking, when in reality, the entire save file is pretty much
filled with hacks. This would definitely be a moral issue on my part, but then again, there's probably many people who try to get in and are caught.
I predict that this competition will be totally broken with all of the Ubers running around, and since Scizor is absolutely wonderful in the Uber field (it has its own Uber setup...), it's usage will skyrocket even more than it already is in the OU metagame. It's only logical...you make one tiny (or in this case, big) change, and you cause multiple unintended consequences. If Scizor were to be voted Uber, it would not only change the Uber metagame to accomodate for the shift, but also the OU tier. With the absence of Garchomp, there was less of a need for something to pack Ice Beam (note: Blissey without Ice Beam), and with Scizor, there will be less of a need for Flamethrower or HP Fire, and can be used for something else, like dealing with Tyranitar and Lucario.
