Roswell

I hax'ed my way to a victory against Bazaro: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/reborn-tiershift-67027. Seriously, the hax in this match was stupid. Hopefully this means you have good luck in the championship match

Sure, I'm game for Tier Shift

Won vs. YinYang: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/reborn-lc-66203 Man, what a fun match. LC's more exciting than I gave it credit for Thank you, YinYang!

Won vs Wendel: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/reborn-nu-63763 Thanks for the fun match, and shame about the starting hax

I'm up for it, although do we know which Nation we'll be facing for it?

The challenge seems like it'd be hard to verify, but I'm up for it, regardless.

Bit late for this, but: Insurrection: Each team's leader may (for the remainder of the season) take one of the 7 people their opponents have put up to fight this week to fight for their nation. Mono-a-Mono: When submitting the team roster for the week, each team leader selects one of their types that week, and the team plays using 'mons from only that type (so Monotype). A Nation of Specialists: Each 'mon must have a different one of the six stats as its highest stat (with EVs taken into account).

For reference, if both preventing and healing status are banned, shouldn't these be in the banned tag as well: Moves: Safeguard, Misty Terrain, Heal Bell, Aromatherapy, Refresh, Rest, Psycho Shift, Magic Room (potentially Trick and Switcharoo as well, I'm not quite certain) Abilities: Leaf Guard, Klutz In addition, what about abilities such as Trace or Impostor, which could potentially give immunity to status (since certain abilities are not banned outright)?

Submitted a response. A subject I'll admit I only have an outside interest in, but good to see getting attention either way. BTW, in the "How much money do you spend" section, I'm fairly certain the "Less than" option could be removed, since there's an "Up to" option which covers it already.

Just confirming what I said before about being fine for this week, just in case my talk in the showdown group had suggested I hated this challenge

Does "recovery" refer to HP or status? i.e. is it allowed for the status to be recovered temporarily (such as to reset a Toxic reduction)?

When editing your signature, would it be at all possible to have the "my current signature" area also show the trainer card, or have a "Preview complete signature" button which did? On a related note, would it be at all possible to have an option in the signature editor that checks that the signature complies with all rules regarding the signature (Rule 4 in particular - Checking either for scroll tags or that the length of the signature is short enough)?

I'm still up for next week, unless the challenge is something I'm completely opposed to - Feeling good after beating the Don last week XD

All of these are probably terrible, but: A Distinct Lack of Choice: Every 'mon must use an item that restricts move selection (Choice items/AV) STABBity/National Pride: Each 'mon can only use moves that either gain STAB or are otherwise part of the Nation's type. (Like Dragon's one, but also allowing for STAB). Best Frenemies: Opponents share their type pools for the week. Battle Royale: Every Nation battling each other. 3 Nations with the most wins take the wins for the week. Team Battle: Split the 6 Nations into 2 teams. Team which picks up 2 Nation victories takes the victory for their entire team. Contest in Context: Each Nation selects a contest type - All moves used in battle must be of that particular contest type. Pokedex Algebra: Each 'mon in your team must share a digit in their National Dex number with one other 'mon in the team. Every Pokemon is Special: Any 'mon can only be used once among the teams used by a given Nation (i.e. if one Ravenholt member uses Bisharp, no other Ravenholt can) - This may require the team submission rule again. And one I'm not sure is possible: Mutual Respect: Each 'mon in a team must be part of the opposing Nation's type pool, in addition to your own Nations' (i.e., Heliolisk (Normal/Electric) in a Gaia (Normal) vs Avalon (Electric) matchup).

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/reborn-uu-61744 Managed to take a win against Kaito - Sadly too late for a victory for Gaia, but every little helps. (Note: Kaito is top tier showman 10/10 would battle again)

Seals become unlimited later on (w/ Level 3 Rod Shop after Chapter 20, IIRC). If you can't wait that long, other people's Rod/Staff Shops will stock them as well if they're level 3. And AFAIK, you can't turn Food into different food - Gotta go find those MyCastles for more food. Anyway, finished Conquest a few days ago (thanks in part to cheesing the Final Chapter) and, upon reflection, I honestly think I like the story better than Birthright. Also dat based Effie tho.

I'm fine with battling this week, although now there's very few weeks I won't be. I'm equally fine with not playing this week if necessary, however.

For week 4, I'm happy to jump in if need be, but tbh I feel like I'm best placed as a sub this time. Of course, if there's too many people to consider I'm happy to take a rest week too, since I'll probably build mock teams to help anyway.

So, when're you wanting to have our battle, mar_mar? Can't seem to find you on Showdown when I'm on, although that might just be because I'm looking for your forum name. Edit: NVM, found them and got it scheduled.

Elgyem

Remoraid.

Just getting in early on declaring my readiness for battling in Week 3.

Aegislash :3