Deck Knight

Hey, DK, can you get on IRC soonish to talk about the new council size? The majority wants to increase the council size to 9, but with there technically being no council at the moment we've hit an impasse as for authority.

Well that's probably the most efficient answer I'm going to get, cheers.

http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthr...9366&page=9999

Hey, I need help with a reffing scenario here.

A1, Ditto (Who's faster) is going to chill, to which Cinccino is going to use Encore [Substitution].

Now, A2, Ditto will be using Chill again. Does Cinccino's substitution reactivate here?

had a nice convo with relatives about how much of a disappointment obama has been. thought of u !

Done my check :3

Do you mean if Starmie would be overpowered for OU? Hard to say, probably depending on what you consider overpowered. Starmie would be on par with Dragonite and Zam imo. The metagame would likely get a lot faster with all the move additions so it's difficult to determine brokenness. IMO, if you are saying that Zam and Dnite would have to be banned from OU, then Starmie would probably be a similar story; however, I don't think any of the three Pokemon would completely need to be moved to Ubers the same way Mewtwo and Mew needed in real RBY. It's probably a matter of how you define brokenness, and, of course, of how accurate our speculations are because it's impossible to visualize a brand new metagame without testing it.
P.S: On another note, what makes a difference for Alakazam is Calm Mind. Psycho Cut would just be a slightly better fourth move at best (over Seismic Toss / Reflect) on the real RBY Alakazam we all know, and would not be used if you give zam the possibility to run Calm Mind anyway.

sorry to pester you guy, but word on IRC was that you ruled that TLRs don't lock anymore, was just curious if people be slanderin again :x

It would depend on if you consider all moves as potential RBY TMs, consider them only as level up moves, or basically you base all the learnsets on appearance (e.g, Rhydon has a horn so it can learn Megahorn).
IMO either 1. you go for level up only moves specific for each pokemon and use the BW learnset as if it was equal to the RBY learnset (e.g, Tauros gets Work Up but doesn't get Stone Edge), or, 2. -which would be better in my eyes-, you just talk about moves that would be significantly good in RBY without getting into specific Pokemon that would learn them and basing your article on what each pokemon would gain from the move additions.
IMO, 2. would lead to pretty conflictive and hard to figure out stuff about which pokemon should learn which move and these things. Just my opinion!

EDIT: Oh nevermind, I just saw that you had already started with the article and the structure looks perfect!

yeah, that's cool. High crit moves like Cross Poison are a good starting point. Aeroblast :D Anyway, you obviously know what you are planning to do better than me so I'll wait until you start with the artcile and I'm a bit familiar with it. But I'll try to come up with a few ideas! ;)

Oh, I thought you were only going to do about bad/uncommon moves in the new gens. lol the list can get really big then!