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sounds powerful, looking forward :]

won against rooreeloo, gg http://pastebin.com/QBJ18Eur call it a cupcake!

here's log for emvee vs ancient http://pastebin.com/F4c7F5qv

jolly aegislash is actually viable, but only if you're running max speed and sacred sword in order to speed creep and ohko max speed adamant bisharp

what exactly is this supposed to mean,,, please educate us on what 'wrong reasons' to play pokemon are lord cow,,,, also anyone who watches pokeaim stay tuned to watch him get donked by kamina in POCL :]

since kam has finally decided to man up and post a pic (plus got a new mac so wanted to mess around with photobooth :] ), i, the fresh prince of man making, must follow so that i don't look like a woman (actually women post more selfies so forget that LOL!) now, in order to be a man maker, one must first be a man. observe,,, notice the beginnings of a man making beard KONI CHIWA MADA FAKAS

happy birthday :]

i am a certified elitist and have stacked 4 attacking moves on pokemon before :[ we elitists always avoid 252/252 spreads, idk what that's about there

won against explosms, gg http://pastebin.com/2NgCSYCt

ah wow such crime much criminal maybe you'd have heard of such a thing as an appropriate punishment to fit the crime? or perhaps you support stuff like the death penalty for jaywalking?

has nothing to do with it there was hardly a discussion anyway, more like just 'oh let me show off my huge tour host e-peen and do what i like even if it's completely illogical' now i can bet one of the following two things will happen: a. all these posts deleted b. shitty argument for why these people should be suspended from nations followed by a 'AND THAT'S FINAL/NO MORE POSTS' meaning no one can pick apart those terrible points

why did one of them only get 1 week while the rest got 4-5 weeks anyway lol

You misunderstand me. What I mean is as of now, if you log in on the server and click find battle in Ubers/OU/UU/RU/NU, if you find a battle it will be wifi. Meaning it is currently the default.

Well, the default tier as of now is wifi, so I suppose the non-wifi group should be raising public awareness to preserve their precious non-wifi ladder. In any case, the fact of the matter is, in the past non-default tiers have died out, so default tier is an important thing. If you think it doesn't matter or that you can raise enough awareness to circumvent this problem, that's fine, but we're going to need a default anyway so there's no reason not to have a vote.

Many people will just get on and ladder on whatever they're loaded on, so it's a fairly big thing. As said before, many of the non-default tiers have died out.

There will be separate ladders... we're talking about the 'default' tier, as in the tier your team will automatically load into when you log in.

Of course you will have a slight advantage at the start there, which is your reward for winning the initial mind games. I didn't think that your initial post was a response to mine. However, it's rather redundant to make a post that includes points that a previous post has already countered, which is what that post did. The options clearly say: A. Default, B. Side tier. It's already optional as it is, this is simply to decide the default tier for the ladder (there has to be one, right?)

Ahhh the authority on what a skilled player is coming through here. You've undoubtedly witnessed many skilled players in action while playing here on reborn. I'm really not sure what you mean by 'winning turn 1' here, you can get a favourable lead matchup through prediction and that gives you an edge but hardly the game. 'Preserving your pokemon' - again, I'VE ALREADY COVERED THIS WITH THE EXAMPLE I GAVE WITH THE HEATRAN AND ROTOM. The aim of any competitive pokemon community is to eliminate as much luck from the game as possible. It's still going to be a thing, but less so is always better. If you aren't replacing those degrees of luck with skill, then tell me, what are we replacing it with?

Again, I've already gone into huge detail on why it is less skill based, while you are just asserting "oh it's not as luck based if you have the skill".

I also addressed all your points. 'pokemon is already so luck based let's make it even more so' doesn't make any sense of all and that's your points #2 and #5. point 4 is really irrelevant, and what I posted takes care of the rest. EDIT: I've already gone into detail on why it makes the game too unreliant on skill, try and actually counter the points I made lol

It's more competitive when skill pays off. If it's too luck based there's less reason for someone to strive to get better, hence making it less competitive.

tl;dr - 'pokemon is already so luck based let's make it even more so' Why should we even out the playing field for less experienced players? Of course better and more experienced players should have the edge in a competitive game, you can hardly call it competitive otherwise. As I said before, it's fine for fun battles, not for competitive ones. Basically didn't address any of the points I made at all lol

I'm not sure why people are saying rupe didn't read the entire thing, his posts covers basically everything kiozo said. The lack of team preview was perfectly fine in gen 4, when there weren't as many big threats and ridiculously hard hitters. However, in gen 5 and especially gen 6, there are simply way too many overpowered and/or arguably broken pokemon that it's simply impossible to have balanced games without team preview. How exactly does one be 'prepared for threats in multiple ways' when there are so many threats and just 6 teamslots? I've peaked #1 on smogon/PO ladders in every gen from 4 to 6 and I have no clue how one does this in the current meta, would be nice if you could shed some light on this. It's pretty much as rupe says, checks for threats in this current meta are so shaky that dealing with a threat will leave that check severely weakened. Lets say I run two checks for CB talonflame on my team, heatran and rotom-w. Either one of these two will get pretty worn down by 2 or more brave birds. Now, which one are you going to pick here to deal with it? It will all come down to luck in the end. If I pick Rotom-W and it gets too worn down, if my opponent has belly drum azumarill left that will sweep me. If he/she has something like sub SD mawile instead, then I lucked out if I chose Rotom-W to deal with talonflame, but tough luck if I picked heatran. At least with team preview, you can be smarter about what you let get worn down and what you sacrifice. The thing is, the XY metagame of now is very much based on team matchups. Taking out team preview just makes this far worse. With team preview, a good player at least has the chance to play around the disadvantage. Without it, a bad matchup is almost an auto-loss, even if you are a far better player than your opponent. Non-wifi clause is fine for fun battles and stuff, but if you're talking about real competitive play (which I assume the ladder is supposed to be), wifi clause is a must for gens 5 and above.

Talonflame does a number on this team (CB smashes everything, SD beak roost set straight up 6-0s this), so go with a tyranitar over maybe umbreon: Tyranitar @ Leftovers Trait: Sand Stream EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SDef Relaxed Nature (+Def, -Spd) - Stealth Rock - Crunch / Pursuit - Ice Beam - Stone Edge / Rock Slide Gives you a rock setter which you currently lack (like how are you going to bait defogs for bisharp with no hazards lol) Brick Break isn't a good move on Bisharp (it isn't a good move in general), whatever it hits for super effective isn't going to be doing much more than your neutral STAB cause low base power. You got to be running knock off on bisharp to abuse this gen's knock off buff, smacking stuff with nearly 100 base power + STAB. If you want a fighting move you could try low kick (because pretty much everything you'd want to hit with this is a heavy mon) over swords dance but it really isn't necessary. EDIT: I just noticed you run 252 hp on bisharp, go for 252 speed instead. bisharp is frail af and not going to be tanking any hits anyway, and if you don't invest in speed you'll get outsped by pretty much anything that runs speed lol.

It's not in the rules but it's common sense really that you should speak to your leader, you can't expect to make the roster when your leader doesn't know if you are active or available to play or not. If you don't like going on the server you can always send him/her a PM on the forums.