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Oh come on, the second one wasn't that bad. The first one, however, is in a mental ward because of Lucifer. At least neither were edgelords, just one was into one for some disgusting reason.

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Right, plop your squads here for signing up so the staff and leaders can keep track of your teams. I'd say something about cards but god knows I failed to deliver those last season so I might as not bother with them this season. Apologies in advance but when you're the only one working on them, all motivation gets shot down immediately. Regardless of that, all teams should be in spoiler tags as per last season. Rules and Banlist are in here. As for the start date, its October 26th, 2018.

It's back and it's better than ever, quite literally so considering our winrates from S1! I'm your amazingly questionable host, DW and I'm here to tell y'all that the Mythos League is back! But without further ado, here's the laydown. We have 12 single typed leaders, 3 E3, and 1 Champion. In addition to that, leaders have 4 wild cards but they must have a move of their type (ex. Araquanid with ice beam if it's the ice leader's wildcard or p2 with ice beam). You also get 8 pokemon, just in case you need that extra member on your team if you can't fit defog! Or perhaps if you'd run a monotype, for instance, you could patch up its weaknesses. Rules haven't changed much but as a reminder and out of formality: >Challengers will be allowed to choose eight Pokémon to use in battle against the Leaders >Challengers will be allowed to fight only one Leader per day. >Challengers will be restricted to two Legendaries on their team. >Challengers will be allowed to restart the League once per month but will lose all of their badges. >Silvally and Arceus are locked to one type on a challenger’s team. Unless they are in their Normal Forme, they must be equipped with their proper Memory. >Z Moves are banned. >If an illegal Pokémon, item, or move is found on a challenger’s team, that fight will be considered a loss for the challenger. >Once moves are in the sign up thread, they're final unless you change them with a move token, which are given out in tours or in normal bracket progression. Banlist Gen1 - Mew, Mewtwo, Zapdos Gen2 - Suicune, Lugia, Ho-Oh Gen3 - Luvdisc,Deoxys, Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza, Latias, Latios, Jirachi Gen4 - Heatran, Arceus, Manaphy (with CM or Tail Glow) , Dialga, Palkia, Shaymin-Sky, Giratina, Cresselia, Darkrai Gen5 - Keldeo, Zekrom, Reshiram, Kyurem-W, Kyurem-B, Landorus, Thundurus, Tornadus, Victini, Genesect, Terrakion Gen6 - Zygarde, Volcanion, Hoopa-U, Xerneas, Yveltal Gen7 - Tapu Bulu, Tapu Koko, Tapu Fini, Tapu Lele, Solgaleo, Lunalla, Pheremosa, Magearna, Kartana, Buzzwole, Celesteela, Necrozma, Marshadow, Xurkitree, Blacephalon, Naganedal Items - Salamencite, Kangaskhanite, Gengarite, Diancite, Lucarionite, Blazikenite, Mawilite,Metagrossite Clauses - Battle Timeout, Sleep, Species, Evasion, Swagger, Baton Pass, Freeze Abilities - Shadow Tag, Battle Bond, Speed Boost on Blaziken Unbanned Legends: League Hours will run two times per league day on the Reborn Showdown server, and are as follows: Early: 12:15-2:30pm EST (5:15-7:30pm GMT) Late: 5:30-8:30pm EST (10:30pm-1:30am GMT) on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays! And finally, expect the start date and the sign up thread to be out asap as well, with the 1st reveal following it a few days later.

This week is all about stabs! In fact it's megagaitiate, or was it megagaytiate? I can't spell this so lemme drop this: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/metagamiate.3604808/. Essentially all mons here get an -ate or an -ite ability, similar to pixilate or aerilate! This means normal moves become stabs and recieve a 20% power boost! For dual typed mons, there's a special condition however. If it's not shiny, it uses the primary typing but if it is, it uses the secondary typing. For example, non shiny ttar with have rock stabs, but shiny ttar will have dark stabs! Questions in shit as usual. MATCHUPS REEEEE Eclipse vs. Polaris in LC! Will the water be swallowed by the darkness or will the darkness be drowned out? Sun Valks vs. LightGayzers in UU! Will they triumph once more with their typing or will the Gayzers break their defenses? Zodiac vs. Zion in NU! Will the poison finally beat the earth in claiming souls, or will the earth show their superiority again? Aight get ya rosters in n shit, I DID MY JOB HYCROX-SENPAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII aight yeet on this bitch. EDIT: in polaris vs. whoever the fuck, shellsmash, taillow, and slushrush are banned in gay bois vs. hot lusty fairies, primarina is banned

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Without ado, lemme push these bad bois out this week Light Gazers v/s Zion OU Azery vs pyrromanis sorry stepdad but az is just a notch better Lordofcold vs Wendel Easy win for LoC tbh SnowGlaceon vs Boomdiada Giving it to boomdaida on merit alone RosWellNow vs Crimson Dragon Even, but I'll give it to crimson Joker vs EternalLight_95 Joker wins no questions asked Subs: Alex, DragoKnight/ ???, ??? III. Sun Valkyries v/s Polaris UU Jelly vs 99 Losses Probs the hype match this week tbh, no clear winner. Epic C vs Riku Could go both ways, but I'll give it to Epic Ghost vs Zanshouken Easy win for ghost Yinyang vs Bigjra Probs gonna be close tbh. F1lthy vs Psychic Sheep Filthy nabs this one Subs: Viri, DemICE/ Njab, Blackpoi

Polaris VS. LightGayzers Personthing v. Azery PT >Az anyday of the week 99 Losses v. Jman He's got 99 losses but Jman isn't one. Venus v. ZEL Sorry MAma but this dude outskills a decent amount of the tour last I checked. DigitalAmber v. SnowGlaceon Dunno these guys but I'll give the win to LG DarkMaster v. Dragoknight Same as before Subs:Anstane, Riku/Alex,Roswell SUN VALKS VS. ZION Baz v. Void Void is a god so Baz is defo taking the L here DemICE v. Pyrro Looks even but I'll give the win to pyrro as the supreme greek. Yin v. Wendel Sorry god but Yin can actually beat someone for once. Epic C v. EternalLight95 Epic, you've gotten a bit cocky as of late with Renzo and Eternal is superior regardless. She takes the W Winter v. boomdiada Unsure about either of them, so I'll leave it as a tossup. Subs: Xiri,Filthy/Sparky,Trevore

Matchups! Eclipse VS. Zodiac Kamina v. NDG Hycrox v. GoldenVeggie Fink v. St0mpa Lowkey v. Amine Lia v. Celeby Subs: Commander, DeeEmZee/Leon Vermillion,DiamondTiaraIsBest Polaris VS. LightGayzers Personthing v. Azery 99 Losses v. Jman Venus v. ZEL DigitalAmber v. SnowGlaceon DarkMaster v. Dragoknight Subs:Anstane, Riku/Alex,Roswell SUN VALKS VS. ZION Baz v. Void DemICE v. Pyrro Yin v. Wendel Epic C v. EternalLight95 Winter v. boomdiada Subs: Xiri,Filthy/Sparky,Trevore

Right lads, we got week 5 of nations coming in! Can you believe that this is halfway done for most of us? Because I can! This week is themed around colors. As an explanation about colors, all pokemon have them and it's quite easy to look them up! (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pokémon_by_color) It's also a useless category in the pokedex! The restrictions for this week are that you need to have 3 colors minimum on a team. In addition, you can only have at most 2 mons of the same color! Isn't that better kids? As usual, questions in this. Now, our matchups! Eclipse VS. Zodiac in RU! Will the edgelords conquer their inner toxicity or will the toxicity consume them? Polaris VS. LightGayzers in UU! Will the waves drown the rays of light or will the light conquer the deep dark ocean? SUN VALKS VS. ZION in LC! Will the furnace be toppled by the earth or will the flames consume the land? And for banlists this week: Arena Trap/Magnet Pull banned in SV vs. Zion. In that same matchup, Drilbur is also banned. Strength Sap is now unbanned in this matchup. All Leaders get ya rosters in ASAP and all that good shit.

DMBY (Braviary) @ Leftovers Ability: Sheer Force EVs: 248 HP / 48 Atk / 128 Def / 84 Spe Lax Nature - Heat Wave - Brave Bird - Bulk Up - Roost Right so this set came to mind while thinking of ways to put a ground immunity on the team and I noticed that bulk up + brave bird did work. naturally I couldn't just do it with regular old superpower due to stuff like scizor, mega aggron, their other physically defensive steels. So I opted for SF heat wave here. It didn't do the job vs. specially defensive aggron in the end but it was fun. Have some calcs: 0 SpA Sheer Force Braviary Heat Wave vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Scizor: 272-324 (96.7 - 115.3%) -- 81.3% chance to OHKO 0 SpA Sheer Force Braviary Heat Wave vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Forretress: 344-408 (97.1 - 115.2%) -- 81.3% chance to OHKO after Leftovers recovery 0 SpA Sheer Force Braviary Heat Wave vs. 248 HP / 252+ SpD Klefki: 90-108 (28.3 - 34%) -- 98.7% chance to 4HKO after Leftovers recovery 0 SpA Sheer Force Braviary Heat Wave vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Cobalion: 148-176 (45.8 - 54.4%) -- 52.3% chance to 2HKO All standard calcs anyways. I also ran payapa on queen b/c of psychic types like garde and delphox but it was standard coverage + rocks.

Right, I didn't battle this week, but in the event that I had to be subbed in, I built a team naturally so I ran some heat Regigigas @ Leftovers Ability: Slow Start EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Ice Punch - Earthquake - Fire Punch - Return Pyroar @ Wise Glasses Ability: Moxie EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Taunt - Entrainment - Heat Wave - Hyper Voice A bit of a fun gimmick I had used in gen 6, moxie over to regigigas and boom! A sweep. Stabs and coverage to hit their types and pyroar was a good special attacker that could taunt as well. The only minus is that it couldn't run unnerve, which would've been superior.

This exists again, eh? Let's get started then (No particular order -)

It's the night here, so here's a story for everyone! There once was a band of lads who had to pick three things out of 18 in order to find a prize alongside 5 other groups. First they picked the normal option! It was bland, but it did the job. Then they used...other means. They delved into the toxic side of things, using liquor, drugs, or even poison to get their job done. That didn't work. Finally they chose the worst route, torture. They found the prize but the torture killed the victims. On their death beds, they vowed to haunt our MC's for eternity! They became.... GHOSTS . Oh and the poor lads banished them.