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No, if you remove the status condition at any point you will lose. No recovering HP, no healing the status condition. You can always switch out to reset toxic turn count.

Safeguard does not protect end of turn damage. If you use safeguard to prevent the infliction of the status condition, you will lose.

So long as your pokemon has been afflicted with a status at the point in which the move is used. In other words, no shenanigans with a steel type using trick against something with a toxic orb. If you yourself are responsible for your pokemon not being afflicted with a status that is able to damage it, then you will forfeit. If your opponent used Knock Off, then that's beyond your control and very likely their loss. Knock Off will be allowed. The door isn't completely closed on this and it's something that we may decide to change between now and Sunday, but for the time being assume the rules as is. The reasoning is that Facade, Hex, and Venoshock get STAB bonus from their respective types, where a wider variety of pokemon have access to said abilities. Facade from a normal type is going to be much more potent than facade from anything else. Hex would instantly have a BP 130 and STAB from a ghost type, Venoshock would have instant BP of 130 and STAB from a Poison Type. I believe 5 out of the 6 nations have access to at least one pokemon with Guts. As of right now, yes. Though, it's subject to change between now and Sunday 6 PM EST once the matchups are announced.

It is said that in the end of days will be marked by fire, famine, and disease without relief. Well this week we have at least 2 of those. Every pokemon must hold a sticky barb. Additionally there will be no recovery allowed of any sort (Through Items, abilities, or draining moves). (Recaps/tl;dr will be in disclaimers) All battles will be OU this week. Any pokemon excluding ubers is permitted. Update: Item requirement changed to STICKY BARB To avoid confusion here will be a comprehensive ban list: Pokemon: Volcanion, Thundurus-T, Tornadus-T Abilities: Volt Absorb, Water Absorb, Dry Skin, Regenerator, Magic Guard, Rain Dish, Ice Body, Klutz, Poison Heal Moves: Fling, Knock Off, Rest, Heal Order, Milk Drink, Recover, Roost, Slack Off, Soft Boiled, Wish, Healing Wish, Lunar Dance, Leech Seed, Absorb, Mega Drain, Giga Drain, Draining Kiss, Drain Punch, Dream Eater, Horn Leech, Parabolic Charge, Pain Split, Leech Life, Oblivion Wing If I miss anything, please let me know. The matchups will be as follows: ✓ (5-1) Kingdom of Avalon ↔ Amazon Nation (4-2) (4 - 2) Nhadala vs ​Bazaro ✓ Secundum vs ​Drymus ✓ Acecy vs ​HYCROX 420 Arkhidon vs ​Quinn ✓ ✓ TRHStatement vs ​DashingStorm TimTim vs ​Sheepish ✓ ✓ Swimming95 vs ​Swampellow Replacements: (2-4) Gaia Nation ↔ Nation of Atlantis (3-3) ✓ (2 - 5) nickcrash vs Lugruf ✓ Taska vs DragonMasterKrim ✓ TarTar vs Inno ✓ ✓ TheDW66 vs xXTizaraXx Dragon116 vs Cyanna Cyril ✓ pbood2 vs mde2001 ✓ ✓ Sheep vs Sinikuro Replacements: (1-5) Phantom Vulcan ↔ The Ravenholts (3-3) ✓ (2 - 5) Sonata vs Odybld ✓ Azery vs Cobalt996 ✓ YinYang vs IntSys ✓ ✓ NovaKnight vs YoshiOfDarkness Simon vs Mikzal ✓ ✓ Imperial vs Trevore Reignited'Light vs Jacobliterator ✓ Replacements: LEADERS: Please send me your SEVEN participants and THREE substitutes as soon as you are able. Once I have the contestants for all 6 nations, matchups will be randomized and posted here. To Victory! DISCLAIMERS: See the bans list above. Have Questions? Please leave them in green below and we'll answer them to the best of our abilities. *Thanks Zumi for awesome logo!

This one catches my fancy.

Hey guys, so we'd like to hear what ideas you all might have for challenges in the 2nd half of the season. We may or may not use the entire idea or parts of it. Now I just want to make clear. We are not trying to limit what pokemon are able to be used but rather change the ways in which the competitors use the pokemon available to them. Oh side note: Upvote the couple challenges you like the most.

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Hello everyone, we're going to play a little game. OOH I LOVE GAMES. Today we will be playing Simon Says. Simon says. "Stop reviving old threads". Oh good you didn't respond to a thread that hasn't been posted in for over two months. Simon says. "Use the edit button rather than posting twice in a row." I see you are well versed in the art of the edit. Well done! Simon says "Post things relevant to the topic." So I told her that she like, has to not be such a jerk~. Hey I didn't say I was the best example. "Post Dank Memes" AH Simon didn't say. Simon says. "All your forum are belong to me." Wha.... Simon are you okay there buddy??? Simon says. "Global domination is mine MUWAAHAHAHAHAH" Ok he didn't actually say that but he is being promoted to Global Moderator for being such an exemplary auth in the few sections he's taken care of so far such as Team Showcase, On the Hunt, and Fan Game Expose. Keep up the good work buddy!

Will be officially updated with all new sets tomorrow. -Removed Skarmory set that didn't have Roost. Please keep new sets coming and be on the look out for sets in there right now that are just ridiculous. Update: No need to give sets in the way I asked before. Just give them as you would if you were pastebinning a team export.

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Hardly anyone gets away with a mass shooting. And even if they do it's a few days tops. I'm glad you're thinking proactively, but if you ask me, we have to fix the problem at the roots. To do that, we must first recognize what the issue really is, however that's rather debatable.

Pretty sure it'll just be the rival battle theme. But who knows. Surprise me!

More often that you'd think. The problem is, you don't hear about these incidents on the news because it doesn't get a chance to escalate. Gun ownership helps prevent robberies quite often. It very well may be different in other countries, but a majority of the citizens with higher crime rate such as Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans for example all have very strict gun laws. Now, this also comes back to what I said before, a lot of it is the culture and economic status of the individuals committing the crimes in these cities. Look at it this way. Countries with worse economic status, more people living in poverty almost always have higher crime. As is comparable to why cities have higher crime rates than more suburban areas. With that said, law abiding citizens should have a right to protect themselves from the people who are committing said crimes. The trade off of banning guns in the United States would likely be, yes a small portion of criminals would no longer be able to commit the crimes they intended, but at the same time, the average Joe who is just living his day to day life is powerless to defend himself from the majority of criminals who will not be stopped by such laws.

That's a pretty idealistic thought. Anyone who is dead set on mass shootings is going to do them regardlessly.

You can't count on the police as is, even doubling their patrol I feel is relatively insufficient. Google turns this up: The average school shooting lasts only 12.5 minutes. According to Homeland Security statistics, the average police response time is 18 minutes. The only true defense against this threat is to reduce law enforcement response time to these incidents. I'm sure that you can replace school with 'X' and still be fairly spot on.

Ame has said it's coincidence. She chose that design for Titania because of Scizor primarily. 'Titania' name came from Titanium. As for Terra and that character from Ruby. Terra from Reborn pre dates RWBY considerably.

The whole notion of weapons training is relatively overblown in the united states. Only about 1.5% of deaths by firearms are accidental, and even with training, many are still likely to happen. Nearly 2/3 of all deaths by handguns are suicides. The issues we have are cultural. Many homicides are committed by those often in lower social standing who fall in with the wrong crowd. Honestly, if we want to reduce crime, we have to make other alternatives more feasible and better discourage some of the cultural notions that lead to individuals being corrupted by a life of crime. There will still be shooting no matter what we do, but couple that with better mental status evaluation would be the most efficient way to fix the issue. Aside from hunting we don't USUALLY need guns for private use. I own a gun myself, and I hope I never have to use it outside of the range. However, if someone goes somewhere and threatens other innocent people or god forbid starts taking shots at them or me or someone I care about, you'd better believe I won't hesitate to take action. "It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it." I've been a proponent of the legal owner of the gun receiving any punishment that the user gets when committing heinous crimes with it. (Death penalty excluded, I am anti death penalty as a whole regardless). The biggest issue is not the 'Gun Show loophole' but rather the underground black market for weapons purported by organized crime. Why do I need a firearm? To make sure that I'm not defenseless against a criminal who doesn't care about gun laws. ----- Also Cool Girl, I know that's what the media wants you to think, but no this is not the most deadly mass shooting in US History. http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/the-worst-mass-shooting-in-us-history-was-not-in-orlando https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege In the Waco Siege a fire broke out, but the shooting went on for 3 hours. Notice something about both of the incidents? The U.S. Army? The FBI? Both official organizations. They're just trying to sweep it under the rug.

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Maybe for a crucial week 10 matchup or Championship matchup.

It's fine if you all want to do this, however I'm having two stipulations: 1. The committee will not be involved with it. 2. You do not do it via text during the battle as it's likely to frustrate the competitors if they have to see and deal with it.