Executive Decision: The intermission forum

Between the Code Geass and the One Piece forum, I announced that we would be having a Death Note intermission forum. However, since that would be far too difficult to moderate, I will be having a pokemon tournament instead. This is a short, efficient, and fun way to get the intermission.

huh? pokemon?

Yes, pokemon. don't worry, all of the stat, damage, and what not will be calculated with the original Gen 3 pokemon equations. The only difficulty is choosing which pokemon to give to the players, otherwise this would already be complete.

um, so this would be like playing ruby/sapphire/emerald then? if there are 3 or fewer players, then the original starters [all of those were good XD] otherwise... eevee? [the 3 stone evolutions, espeon, and umbreon]

no, this is over all gens. Don't worry, the pokemon selection pool will be different for all participants... No player will have more than 1 legendary, for example

up to gen 6? maybe we could have access to all starters initially?

You can pick 2 starters, which MUST be from different gens, 1 legendary, and 3 others. All pokemon will battle at level 100.

ah, ok. umm, so we form a team and then it is like the tournament in the manga?

Basically, yes. In terms of damage and what not, I will deal with that

ok. in terms of gameplay, is it like gameboy? or like forum? also, you may wanna look at smogon, and at banning certain pokemon that are way powerful - for instance the uber tier [look for smogon university], so instead of 1 legendary, instead 1 uber pokemon. i say this cause some legendaries, in practice, are not so hot, unlike certain other pokemon

Oh don't worry. I know EXACTLY which pokemon to ban (i.e. White kyurem who has glaciate, etc.) The gameplay will actually be on 5 different google docs (1 for each person's team, 1 for the acutal battles).

got a list yet?

List is almost done. I have to decide whether or not to ban Lucario

i don't think its in the uber tier, probably is ok

Well, considering that, I'd have to ban mega evolution then

itmay be easiest to allow 1 uber pokemon [legendary or no, doesn't matter], and 1 mega evolution, unless the megas are impractical :/

1. Smogon classisified Wobuffet as an uber, I bet to differ. I will also be limiting their move selection pool, so we don't have to worry about that.

2. Mega evolution banned

that is interesting