Pokemon GITP League

[Ilnaeas]

Round Robins have been completed. Here are the Results:

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Elite Four Members
Rank|Name|Theme

• 4|PKF995|U-Turn
• 3|Terazul|Poison
• 2|Darkblust|Light-Weight
• 1|Goldfly|Flying
  

Gym Leaders
Rank|Name|Theme

• 8|TheTsyMan|Rain
• 7|Ilnaeas|Retro
• 6|Rikku|Eevee-lutions
• 5|Geno9999|Steel
• 4|Dragonus45|Martial Artist
• 3|Anatharon|Fatal-Flaw
• 2|Bue52|Nocturnal
• 1|KeeperOfLore|Ghost
  

Here is a link to how the Stats were calculated, if it helps it make any sense.
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I would like to have this league running by next week. I still need badges from many people. Let's get these in A.S.A.P.

Kelan

[Dragonus45]

As cool as this sounds, i just dont have the time to level pokemon and do all the other work that comes with competitive play anymore, its why i spend my spare pokemon time on shodybattle.

[Innis Cabal]

I'm totally up for it. Gym Leader Dark Type or Ghost

[Deth Muncher]

This was brought up in the Pokemon thread we already have, which I encourage you to go look through the backlog and see our discussions on it. Also, gonna request this get merged with that thread.

[Ilnaeas]

@DethMuncher I tried looking for a similar thread before I posted this, and had no avail, so if you could link me that would be great. Also, since this thread is purely about the league, I would rather it not be combined with another pokemon thread.

@Dragonus45 Personally, I have no problems with having a battle on Pokemon Lab or Shoddy Battle. I think we would just need to have some rules about what people were doing with their EV's and IV's, and have them send it in for verification. Also, with Wi-Fi, it will set your team to Level 50 automatically, so if you have the moveset that you want, and have EV trained at a low level, you don't need to level up too much.

@Innis Cabal Awesome, I'll need a team list.

Just so everyone knows, if there are too many people that want to be gym leaders and e4's, it will be narrowed down based upon theme, and the quailty of pokemon chosen.

(Example:
Water Theme - 6 Goldeen
Water Theme - 6 Politoed

The Person with the Politoed's will do better)

Anyone interested, could you send me a team list? And if anyone would like to help organize, a PM would be appreciated.

Thanks

[bue52]

Oooo I'd like to join, I can be the easy gym leader, we're playing on shoddy right? Can I be a gimmick Gym Leader, such as say a Rain user.

[Mando Knight]

I would be interested, but I don't really do Shoddybattle (PBR is a possibility, though), and most of my favorite 'mons are either terrible in competitive play or they've been kicked upstairs.

[SparkMandriller]

Really not seeing any advantage to this over just asking if anyone's up for a battle in the pokemon thread.

[Frozen_Predator]

seems an interesting idea, though i won't be availlable as a gym leader or e4 member (due to job related issues, cutting my wifi access to weekends). It will be fun to challenge them though if we can set this up.

it will be good for me to learn about all the new pokemon and competitive play, since i just got back to pokemon after a really long absence (seriously Silver is the last version I completed, played a bit of Ruby but then school and after that my job took too much of my time)

[AtlanteanTroll]

Or, if people enjoy it, they could join certain other forums and do PASBL.

[Qwertystop]

Ive got a Winner's Path (pokewalker) themed team and a Hail Stall, a few other teams as well but those are themeless. I'd be up for any spot those would fit.

Whats PASBL?

[Mando Knight]

Ive got a Winner's Path (pokewalker) themed team and a Hail Stall, a few other teams as well but those are themeless. I'd be up for any spot those would fit.

Whats PASBL?

Pokémon Anime-Style Battle League (or some variation of syntax thereof). Roughly, it's a more free-form version of Pokémon battling, where Pokémon might know more than 4 moves and can execute strategies like aiming for horns or dodging Flamethrower.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Pokémon Anime-Style Battle League (or some variation of syntax thereof). Roughly, it's a more free-form version of Pokémon battling, where Pokémon might know more than 4 moves and can execute strategies like aiming for horns or dodging Flamethrower.

This pretty much sums it up. It's basically Pokemon PBP.

[Ilnaeas]

It's a pokemon league... on a forums.

[PKF995]

This is just a suggestion, but might it not be best to wait for Generation 5 to come out internationally before trying this? I don't think many people will continue to play Gen 4 Wifi for long.

[Mando Knight]

This is just a suggestion, but might it not be best to wait for Generation 5 to come out internationally before trying this? I don't think many people will continue to play Gen 4 Wifi for long.

This was my other (unstated) feeling. Especially with the number of potentially decent Pokémon, the removal of Stealth Rock as a TM, and most importantly perpetual TMs.

[PKF995]

Truthfully, many people (like me) have already imported a Pokemon game from Japan or are battling 5th gen competitively on Pokemon Online. Yeah, not a good idea at the time.

There are a lot of good Pokemon in the new generation, both new and old, particularly when you put Dream World abilities into the mix. *glares at Shandera, Politoed, and Ninetales*

[Ilnaeas]

At this point, I just wanted to find out how many people would be interested. If we did start before Gen 5 came out here, then we would have to decide on if and when we wanted to switch, and take some time to prepare.

Just wondering, how is this idea PBP? We are actually battling online.

And I would strongly prefer to use the actual game cartridges, than with Pokemon Lab.

[Level8Mudcrab]

I have never done any competive battling myself, and don't have wi-fi access so I wouldn't be able to join in. I think it's a great idea though.

The gym leaders should be focused on a single type, like in the games, or maybe even do dual type leaders, but use a full team of 6. The elite 4 shouldn't be restricted by types so that they have a more rounded team and are harder.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Just wondering, how is this idea PBP? We are actually battling online.

No, no. It's completely PBP.

[bue52]

I think we can just play with whatever pokemon we have available. We'll be using SHoddy right? I don't have pokemon battle revolution so it'll be impossible for me to play if we do play on PBR.

[Goldfly]

This is certainly an interesting idea, but I agreewith the people that said that we should do this once Gen 5 comes along in North America/Europe, or do it on PO. Gen 5 just makes so many pokemon so much more viable...

[Ilnaeas]

Since most people do seem to want to do it over ShoddyBattle or Pokemon Lab (ShoddyBattle v2) I think that's what we will do. This way we can give everything a test run before Gen 5 comes out so it can be serious then.

I think 3 people have expressed interest so far, that leaves 8 slots open.

If you want to be a gym leader/e4 message me with this information:

Name
Element or Specialization:
List of Pokemon to be used
How many hours you could give up for challenges?
Why you would make a good gym leader? (Strategies, personality etc.)

Thanks

[Level8Mudcrab]

Someone should design badges that people can display in their sigs once they've earned them.

[Ilnaeas]

@Level8Mudcrab - That was exactly my plan

If I became a gym leader, I already have my badge design. So if the leaders want to design their own badge, that is cool. but if someone would like to design those that would be awesome!!

We then also need Trainer Cards to go into signatures, is there anyone who would be willing to come up with an card for us. (I'd be hopeless at it

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[Lhurgyof]

Blech, the new games are crap. As much as I love pokemon, count me out unless it's over the first few games.

[SparkMandriller]

Yeah, you guys should play R/B. Those are fun and balanced and not completely awful.

[Qwertystop]

Yeah, you guys should play R/B. Those are fun and balanced and not completely awful.

Firstly: Check the match-ups and stats and such for psychic types in R/B. How is that balanced?

Secondly: I believe there is another Pokemon battle simulator that already has B/W Pokemon (not shoddy battle or Pokemon lab, I think it's called Pokemon Online or something).

Thirdly: Kelanrox, that badge of yours seems a bit more of a Champion thing to me, you know? It's not based around one type or anything, and most gym leaders are mono-type.

[Mando Knight]

Firstly: Check the match-ups and stats and such for psychic types in R/B. How is that balanced?

Detect Sarcasm check: Failure

[Ilnaeas]

Thirdly: Kelanrox, that badge of yours seems a bit more of a Champion thing to me, you know? It's not based around one type or anything, and most gym leaders are mono-type.

@master256 - Oh Dang, I was going to try and have a retro theme, and the badge was supposed to be very 8 bit-esque.

Well I know I will only be using Gen 1 & 2 Pokemon, but I don't know about others. I still encourage everyone to play.

I checked out the Pokemon Online thing, it looks great, and we can use gen 5 pokemon. So thank you so much master256. I think we should do our battles here. This means that the challenge won't be in training your Pokemon, as much as it will be stragedy, which I think is a great idea.

So, I have one person who sent in their app. Still need more :P, once we have a full house we can begin.