The Official SRK Pokemon Ranbat Rules and Signup thread

Just 11? com’on SRK! lol

5 more for easy bracket making

have you told people in the pokemon thread in GD? Cos I’m suprised more of them haven’t joined.

Unforunately competitive battling isn’t what it was nowadays, it was a lot competitive when V1/Mid V2 poke threads were around at SRK. Some of us are trying to keep the scene going but a lot of people just stopped playing altogether or migrated over to smogon/serbei/etc.

im here
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add me please

I’ll take the case!

And by that I mean join the tourneying.

^ Sherlock homefag?! Aww well. Can’t win 'em all. lol So yeah. Do enter.

looks like 15 now, yay

so do i have this right:

By november 2nd, send a list of 13 pokemon that we will be using to you. 12 of the 13 are made public knowledge before it starts, all released at the same time. The designated secret guy is not revealed at that time. Then we can use any of the 13 pokemon on the list before each match

is that right?

also

i thought there was no item clause, is this not the case?

There’s item clause but I think we should vote on that ruling because it really isn’t part of the rules towards a standard battle (which most battles consist of that format on SRK)

The only people I’ve known to complain about item clause is generally people who use SS teams.

16 now. I’m in.

First question gets a yes. Send your list of six to me before the match and I’ll post you and your opponents list at the same time.

Second is…well I’ll let the fans decide.

Im in the camp for item clause

im a definite no for item clause. the less rules the better, im all for complete freedom and creative control in designing our pokemon team <3

ubers/sleep/evasion restrictions are only there because its been proven that they make the game ridiculous. theres nothing game breaking about any items, not even a little bit!! so needless rule imo

P.S. I know the argument for item clause isnt really about balance, but just about diversity/making it interesting. But I’m gonna go ahead and say that i think it actually does the opposite. Leftovers are no longer as dominating as they have been in the past before diamond and pearl. They’re only optimal on certain types of pokemon. Anyone whos played me knows I don’t use much leftovers. And we all know thats what item clause is really about, leftovers.

But item clause limits the ability to make certain themed teams, and kinda ends up restricting yuo into special sweeper, physical sweeper, choice user, tank, wall type formula of team-building instead of letting you use all kinda crazy combos.

unecessarry!

i’ll scrub things up by joining also, Add me to list of competitors

sign me up for this too

as far as the item clause goes; it would be interesting. not to mention more time efficient, considering the thousands of leftovers animations we have to endure over the course of battling. wall + leftovers = jumping cvs2 turtle vega. heinous to watch, but sadly effective.

item clause is gay, no thanks please

I can handle IC, if that’s part of the rules I can start using my berries and bands more.

Too much confusion there, so screw it.

Bah, I could care less about leftovers, but I didn’t really want to go up against 3+ banded sweepers in a team.

Oh well. Guess I’ll need Knock Off just in case.

I don’t care about item clause…personally I feel better not using it…but then again…if it HAS to be in…nor worries…though the majority here I bet will rule for no tiem clause