URPG Devolution Tournament Discussion - Sign Ups Closed

Re: URPG Devolution Tournament

Cause Ash told me too.

13k-10k=3k

Fixed cause i cant math

 

Can I make the suggestion that these battles not be 6v6 for the whole tournament??

For one, a 6v6 battle is really long and people don't always have time to complete them, especially when they are competitive as in a tournament. Couple that with the fact that first round battles rarely all get completed anyway and makes me think it should be brought down to 4v4.

EDIT: Sorry for not making this point earlier, but when I read the thread it didn't occur to me that all battles would be 6v6

 

I think 6v6 is alright tbh. These will be more fast paced than regular battles since the "good" mons are pretty offense oriented and there isn't a lot of bulk going around.

@Monbrey ;


I don't wanna be that guy (jk ofc I do lol) but Cranidos should really probably be banned is the general consensus.

349 Attack and Sheer Force is ridiculously collosal. And then you have a 140 BP STAB move on top of it. Unlike Rampardos its other stats are actually p good. To put it in perspective, anything with 249 (100 less!!) in an offense is really good as there's literally about 15-20 things that have this. 349 and the other benefits is really hard to stop. Anything that resists rock is wrecked by eq/superpower. It also has rock polish gg.

Anything really useable that had bulk has pretty much been banned already and there is only Purrloin and Riolu as prankster users that can maybe stop with swagger (or twave purrloin).

Without any boosts Cranidos' Head Smash OHKOs a lot of things with decent bulk that are hit neutrally by Rock. If Tangela, Lickitung, Munchlax and Misdreavus were around it'd be a lot more manageable but they too are broken. Also Cranidos was banned in the last basics tourney after it was proven OP round one iirc.

It's far more broken than Porygon or Cottonee at the very least!

If it's still allowed in then I advise anyone who can to use Torchic + Cranidos because you'll definitely win if you don't play poorly.

 

I think 6v6 is fine, and it's what a competitive bracket tournament should be.

As for Cranidos, I wish you, or anyone, had made the case earlier. Based on the fact that unboosted Head Smash can OHKO, and bulky Pokemon that could resist it have been, I'll add it to the ban list, only because its a very strong case. Now that the tournament has started its even less likely I'll make changes.

I'm also standing by my original call - only moves that the basic learns via the same method may be used. Level-up moves for the FE that are TM or BM for the basic are not usable. I will however allow interchangability between TMs and BM/MT/SM, as I still consider this move purchased, and therefore usable.