SDK Pokémon Tournament

This BB thread is for discussing the annual SDK Pokémon Tournament, which I held for the first time last year, and I'm currently holding again this year, as I mentioned in my Year of the Draconid blog.

Now that it's actually a thing, I plan on using the NatDex Doubles Ubers battle format for this year's tournament, although I am personally leaning towards using a modified version of those rules that allows for the use of Shedinja—which was banned due to its unique ability to exploit Terastallization with its Wonder Guard Ability—as well as all 77 CAP Pokémon, evasion-increasing moves, OHKO moves, and multiple Pokémon of the same species being on the same team.
(I see no reason to unban the move Assist due to the possibility of “Revivecats” becoming an issue, though.)

In order to make the above modifications to NatDex Doubles Ubers rules for your matches in the tournament, challenge your opponents on Pokémon Showdown using the following command:

/challenge gen9nationaldexdoublesubers @@@+Shedinja,+CAP,!Evasion Moves Clause,!OHKO Clause,!Species Clause

Anyway, I'm also working on more rental Pokémon and teams for people to use for the tournament, and if anyone else wants to join the tournament bracket, please leave a post here or in the tournaments channel of my Ryuusei no Tami Discord server. saying as much.

……想像力が 足りないよ —伝承者ヒガナ

I wish I could join, since I love Pokémon games, and I normally don't get to play them with anyone. But I can't becauae I don't have any compatible devices :(

because*

The distinguished Amjam spake:

I wish I could join, since I love Pokémon games, and I normally don't get to play them with anyone. But I can't becauae I don't have any compatible devices :(

Dang, that stinks! :(
(I was in the exact same situation myself back in 2020, when Divine Crusader held his Pokémon Showdown tournament.)

I'll be sure to share transcripts of the battles with you at least though, and if you know someone here on Paint who'd be willing to battle on your behalf with a team that you came up with, I'd allow it as well. :)
(I tried to do that myself back in 2020, although it ultimately didn't work out.)

……想像力が 足りないよ —伝承者ヒガナ

The distinguished DCTheGamr spake:

i shall try to win this one

Hopefully i will have some time to prepare before the tournament, which I suspect will be the case (hell, if i dont procrastinate, i might get it done almost immediately).

I've been testing out the new NatDex DUbers format with regular rules lately, and (as expected) Calyrex-Ice w/TR and Calyrex-Shadow seem pretty popular, as do Primal Groudon and Kyogre, EKiller Arceus, and the usual annoying Incineroars and Fargirafs that annoyed the heck outta me in NatDex DOU.
(Although my Salamence + Dragonite duo took countered the former perfectly, the latter was a PITN.)

Although I've only had a few matches so far, I'm not seeing a lot of Mega Rayquazas or Terapagoses, and you can bet your Heavy-Duty Boots that I'll be bringing both to the tournament. Tera Starstorm seems even better than I had expected (I've been using a Choice Specs set), and the only type that Terapagos is weak against is Fighting, and so fae it doesn't seem like Koraidon or any other big Fighting-types are that popular, although I'd assume Zamazenta is.

Anyway, me adding the CAP Pokémon and getting rid of the excess clauses might have an impact on the meta, and certainly adding Shedinja will. Teravolt, Turboblaze, Mold Breaker, Sunsteel Strike, and Moongeist Beam are all reliable ways of taking Shedinja out regardless of what its type is, and so it'd probably best to be prepared with a few Pokémon with those, since Terastallizing can technically be used to protect Shedinja sandstorm damage, Leech Seed, poison, burns, etc.

……想像力が 足りないよ —伝承者ヒガナ

The distinguished Draconid_Jo spake:

The distinguished Amjam spake:[quote]
I wish I could join, since I love Pokémon games, and I normally don't get to play them with anyone. But I can't becauae I don't have any compatible devices :(

Dang, that stinks! :(
(I was in the exact same situation myself back in 2020, when Divine Crusader held his Pokémon Showdown tournament.)

I'll be sure to share transcripts of the battles with you at least though, and if you know someone here on Paint who'd be willing to battle on your behalf with a team that you came up with, I'd allow it as well. :)
(I tried to do that myself back in 2020, although it ultimately didn't work out.) [/quote]

(Sorry for seeing this so late!)

Thanks so much, but don't worry about it! :D I hope you, and everyone else enjoy it, and good luck!

Here's the current bracket for the tournament:

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Draconid_Jo AKA Dracovish_Jo

Amjam

Aeries

CdogYEET AKA Mrctothec

Chronophage69 AKA Chronophage69

DCTheGamr AKA Digital Cheese

Flying-Mongoose AKA theflyingmongoose

Peanut1999 AKA Peanut1999

Weeeheeep AKA Weeeheeeep

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I still don't have @Amjam or @Aeries Showdown usernames, and both @Aeries and @CdogYEET have suggested that they might not be able to participate, but I've chosen not to remove them from the bracket until I am certain that they won't be able to participate.

……想像力が 足りないよ —伝承者ヒガナ