The Pokemon Center League (Accepting Challengers)

[UltiMario]

THE POKEMON CENTER LEAGUE​

The Pokemon Center league is like the Pokemon League in any Pokemon game. There will be 8 League Members for a single challenger to fight. These 8 league members will all be using Monoteams, whilst the challenger is free to use anything. The Challenger wilcan fight the League in any order they want.

THE LEAGUE:
Cease Tick:Bug
kirbyraeg:Water
Writer Kupo: Poison
Choknater:Fire
UltiMario: Steel
supermarth64:Flying
Pink Reaper:Ground
ChiboSempai:Ice

Mood4food77:Recruiter

Within the league, you CAN challenge a fellow league member for their spot, if you want a higher spot so badly. The catch is, though, you don't have to use monotype teams when League members fight (unless you want to), so people don't get higher by simply type advantage.

General Rules​

MUST be done on Smogon
6 vs 6
OU <- MEANS NO GARCHOMP FOOLS
Evasion Clause
Freeze Clause
OHKO Clause
Sleep Clause
Species Clause
Soul Dew Clause

OPTIONAL:
Strict Damage Clause
Timed Battle

SAVE LOGS AFTER EACH GAME

Team rules​

League:
5 of 6 Pokemon must be chosen Type
1 Wildcard is optional

One a League Member chooses a team in Battle, they are stuck using that team for the rest of the matches. However, you may change your team whenever you want when awaiting a challenger.

Challenger:
Pokemon can be any types.

Once a team is used for the first battle, the team must be used for EVERY SINGLE BATTLE from the point forward. Every single battle. Why? To avoid type-based counter teams. But wait, how are we supposed to know that he didn't do this? With the recruiter.

The recruiter​

The Recruiter will be an "employee" of the PCL, the challenger will send their team via PM to the recruiter, and when they do, they are admitted into the league. The Challenger can change their team as many times as they wish (as long as you send the final version to the recruiter) until they go into the first battle with the first League member, in which they are stuck with it. This is why saving logs is so crucial. Logs will be sent to the recruiter from the League memeber, and the recruiter will compare the logs to the team of the Challenger. If anything is off, then the challenger's match with the League member in question will result in an automatic loss for the challenger. If the recruiter is ever found lying or sharing team information, they will be replaced.

The ultimate Mono-challenge​

At least on this board, anways. This is the ultimate challenge of mono-teams; with and against. This will show the maximum potential of using a Monotype team, and the ability for any given team to counteract one. Anyone that can scale this feat will be declared champion.

I wish good luck to all.

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charmander1065 vs Cease Tick (1) - Cease Tick defeats charmander1065 2-0
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[Terywj [태리]]

Oh this is the serious one.

I'll go post the "The Hierarchy of the PokeCenter" one, then. :D

-Terywj

 

[UltiMario]

LOL

You thought I was joking. Shame on you Tery.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

No I didn't. I just did not know which thread you were going to be posting.

-Terywj

 

[UltiMario]

Oh.

Mkay.

Hey you wanna sign up for anything while you're here? >:3

 

[SpiredMoth]

If only I didn't have such a horrible computer.

I'll offer to be the Recruiter, if that's okay.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

I can't battle. Therefore I'm flawed for this.

-Terywj

 

[UltiMario]

If only I didn't have such a horrible computer.

I'll offer to be the Recruiter, if that's okay.

Its OK if you plan to be very active.



But I really was thinking I should go with someone I trust a bit more. Tery or Spire would be my ideal recruiters, but if they're too busy for the job you get first dibs :3

 

[SpiredMoth]

I'm on as often as I can, it's my connection that cuts out at times. I'd understand if you want someone more reliable though.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

I'd be fine for being the Recruiter if necessary, although one thing I wanted to ask was whether or not fully teams are sent to the Recruiter (like movesets, etc.) or just the 6 Pokemon.

-Terywj

 

[Circa]

I can't battle. Therefore I'm flawed for this.

-Terywj

Not really. You'd just be a lower-down? That's what I'd assume anyway.

I'll join as Poison (I fail with Dark despite my love for it), if you'll have me.

EDIT: Also, why Timed? It's basically the most worthless clause when not laddering.

 

[mood4food77]

what about meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?

:D

 

[Terywj [태리]]

what about meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?

:D

For a position or Recruiter? I is confused, y'know.

-Terywj

 

[mood4food77]

i'll do recruiter

 

[UltiMario]

m4f wants to be recruiter????!?!?!?!

I'm sold. You get to be it.


Also Writer if you read more closesly you'll realize timed is optional.

 

[mood4food77]

okay, let me get this straight

a person would PM me his team and i would review it and see if it's legal, that's all?

 

[UltiMario]

A challenger would PM you his team. After that, his team is fixed into place.
Now, once he starts battling, logs of each match would be saved. It would be your job to check each log and make sure he didn't change anything about his team between battles.

You're pretty much the anti-cheating device.

Edit: For the League members I've decided we'll go with the honor system. You won't need to check them. A Challenger can simply report a league member as using a different team or illegal team, so theres no issues.

 

[mood4food77]

oh, that's not bad then

 

[UltiMario]

I've already got a team for this made. Lol.

Steel is soooooo easy to make a good team with.

 

[supermarth64]

Taking Flying because STRONG FLYING.

Lol SR weak.

 

[UltiMario]

Two down, eleven to go.

 

[Cease Tick]

I'll take bug.

Lol SR weak.

if I have to choose another type I'll take poison

 

[CT Chia]

Nooooooo I wanted bug!

Can my 2nd place Challenge Board rank get me it?

Otherwise, I'll take Ice I guess

 

[Circa]

I love how I posted that I'd join and had a typing chosen, yet you didn't include me. And you included supermarth, who posted after me. So either you missed me, or you're doing some type of pick-and-choose that's really going to get you nowhere when trying to find people of skill level, as you'll easily run out of "top players" before you hit 13.

And sorry that I didn't see the word OPTIONAL when it was included in the list of clauses, with no break in between the ones that aren't OPTIONAL and the ones that are OPTIONAL. I see a list of clauses and I just straight-away look for Timed, because I can assume all the rest on my own. I was pretty sure there wasn't even a such thing as an OPTIONAL clause. It was either you have it or you don't. But I guess that's just me.

So once again I'll say it. I'll join as a member, and I'll take Poison.

For the record, I haven't had a good past few days, and it's because of something kind of like this scenario (albeit more serious, considering it involves 65 ****ing dollars and my credit score). So that's why my post may be a little...less than happy.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

=\

I'm sorry, Writer. Do you wanna hug?

-Terywj

 

[Circa]

No. I'm not the hugging type. Sorry. :\

 

[UltiMario]

I honestly missed that part of your post.

 

[kirbyraeg]

this thread looks mad srs. but also very interesting.

 

[Circa]

I honestly missed that part of your post.

Wow. Talk about getting serious for no reason. .___.

I'll start working on my team as soon as I find the inspiration. I have some ideas, but working it all together could take a while.

EDIT: Interestingly enough, I could make a 1st gen team for this as well (I have a 1st gen team that I ladder with, and my NU team is 1st and 2nd gen) lolololol. They had 6 different 1st gen variants of Poison. Found that out a couple weeks ago when I decided to do a Mono-Poison run-through of LeafGreen.

 

[UltiMario]

Trying to Gimmick team a gimmick team? Interesting twist, but I don't think It'll be too successfull

 

[Circa]

Not really. It wasn't the plan, it was just something I noticed. Although...

Arbok/Muk/Weezing, Beedrill/Venomoth, Crobat (just because Golbat existed; although I could do without tbh), Gengar, Tentacruel, Nidoking/Nidoqueen, Venusaur/Victreebel/Vileplume. I've got a lead, a sweeper, and some tanks/wallbreakers that I could make use of. Sure it wouldn't be the prettiest thing in the world, but I could definitely make it work. It's not like there's much for Poison in the later gens anyway. Just Roserade and a couple of frail sweepers. :\

I don't really care about revealing what I'd make use of for this, considering some of my choices are pretty obvious.

 

[mood4food77]

gengar, tentacruel, and roserade are OU

crobat is BL

drapion, nidoking, nidoqueen, qwilfish, toxicroak, venasaur, and weezing are UU

arbok, ariados, beedrill, dustox, muk, seviper, skuntank, swalot, venomoth, victreebel, and vileplume are NU

if you really want a usable poison team

roserade, weezing, crobat, gengar, drapion, tentacruel

you could use nidoking in there but that's your most well rounded team

 

[Circa]

Not exactly. I'm going to fit things into the team based on what exactly they give said team, not just because they're proven to be the most overall effective.

For instance, you have two Pokemon on that team whose best functions are as TSpikers, and likewise you have two Pokemon on that team whose best functions are as leads. Their best roles are relatively redundant when overlapped, and I could likely find something better for an alternate role as well. Because of this I can tell you right now that at least one of those Pokemon won't make it on my team, despite their tier placement.

That team is also hindered to hell and back by paralysis, but that's beside the point.

 

[mood4food77]

haha no

you have a spikes lead, special sweeper, rapid spinner, physical wall, physical sweeper, and an annoyer

tentacruel doubles over as a special wall also

no job is doubled over

it will only get hit by paralysis if they can hit you, the team is fast, you're faster than almost every non-electric t-wave user (even some electric ones), it won't be a problem (also, crobat, drapion, gengar, and weezing all learn taunt, which helps in avoiding twave and other non attacks, it also helps that outside they're pretty bulky outside of gengar)

 

[Cease Tick]

poison has no steels
no steels = ***** by salamence
good luck

ultimario, if all of the good players are becoming gym leaders, then who will be left to challenge the league?

 

[mood4food77]

that's the point

the gym leaders are supposed to be good and tough to get through
a nobody is going to beat them all and then defeat the elite 4

just like the games

weezing does a decent job on salamence as long as salamence has no special moves

 

[Circa]

Which it usually does, thanks to either being named MixMence or being DDMence, which would get ***** by Skarmory without Fire Blast.

I'll just have to go back to good old Chomp days to take out Mence: ScarfGar w/ HP Ice.

I rarely run Tentacruel as a spinner. If I use him, it's to set up Toxic Spikes and tank special hits. It'll still have Rapid Spin on it, but it's just not something I take the time to use. And as far as speed and taunting goes, I wouldn't run Taunt on half of them, and despite speed, the team doesn't have much power (bar Gengar, and to some extent Drapion) until they've gotten in a boost or two. This means that if they can tank even one hit, they can severely hinder my team.

Like I said, I have some ideas on what I want to do. It's just putting it all together in a workable way that can be hard. I should be fine though.

 

[UltiMario]

poison has no steels
no steels = ***** by salamence
good luck

ultimario, if all of the good players are becoming gym leaders, then who will be left to challenge the league?

Hmmmm.....

There WOULD be enough people for one or two challengers, but that would be no fun.

Maybe just 8 Gyms, nothing else? That would garuntee enough challengers.


Also, guys, REMEMBER, You're allowed ONE Wild Card. You don't need to have ALL the same type.

 

[Circa]

Oh snap, wild card? I missed that part. Well ****, that actually makes it more complicated for me. I suck when trying to find a wild card to use. In the mono-color tournament I actually wasted that slot on an Armaldo.

Granted, Armaldo won me a match against Riddle. But still.

 

[UltiMario]

I would recommend a Steel Type of some sort, as Cease Tick did.


Edit:

A change has been made. In order to have enough challengers, the roster has been cut from full 13 to 8 Gyms for the time being. Anyone that beats these 8 Gyms will be declared the "Champion" and hold the status as such. Anyone that beats all 8 Gyms after him will be allowed to battle him for the Champion title. Any Non-Champion victors will be listed as such. If we ever get 4 Non-Champion Victors, an elite four will be created. Any victor can challenge the Champion for the title.