Level 51
the orchestra plays the prettiest themes
After a while of theorymonning and test battles with a few of my acquaintances, I've finally gotten around to posting this thread. :>
RPmons, short for Role Play-mons (also because Role Play-mons sounds stupid and the hyphen looks pretty awkward), can essentially be seen as a parallel to Glitchmons. In RPmons, any Pokemon capable of learning Role Play ordinarily (by either level-up, breeding or move tutor), is allowed to have any ability it wants. All Pokemon, however, must have perfectly legal movesets; EV spreads should also still total 510.
Before I go any further, let me just say that this is not an actual glitch in the game, unlike Glitchmons. Don't waste time fooling around with Role Play ingame; you won't get anywhere.
Although RPmons may just seem like BH or Hackmons with way fewer options, let me assure you that it is much more balanced, and as my test battles with users rlyn99 and Snowflakes have shown, more enjoyable for that. For example, the only Prankster-Spore user in RPmons is also one with one of the worst stats: Smeargle. The two users capable of utilising No Guard-OHKO have speeds of 60 (Abomasnow) and 70 (Bisharp). Furthermore, Bisharp's OHKO move, Guillotine, doesn't even work on Ghost-types.
The current banlist for RPmons is as such:
Abilities
RPmons can currently be played only on Debug Mode or Hackmons; as such, Team Preview is off. Make sure you choose your lead properly!
After you've played this metagame a bit, we need your help. Is Moody balanced enough to stay in? Should Mewtwo, Deoxys and Thundurus be banned? What about all the other Uber Pokemon incapable of learning Role Play? Your opinion *actually* matters! :o
To end off my post, below are two of my battle videos from duels with the two aforementioned users. Enjoy!
Level 51 vs rlyn99
Snowflakes vs Level 51
RPmons, short for Role Play-mons (also because Role Play-mons sounds stupid and the hyphen looks pretty awkward), can essentially be seen as a parallel to Glitchmons. In RPmons, any Pokemon capable of learning Role Play ordinarily (by either level-up, breeding or move tutor), is allowed to have any ability it wants. All Pokemon, however, must have perfectly legal movesets; EV spreads should also still total 510.
Before I go any further, let me just say that this is not an actual glitch in the game, unlike Glitchmons. Don't waste time fooling around with Role Play ingame; you won't get anywhere.
Although RPmons may just seem like BH or Hackmons with way fewer options, let me assure you that it is much more balanced, and as my test battles with users rlyn99 and Snowflakes have shown, more enjoyable for that. For example, the only Prankster-Spore user in RPmons is also one with one of the worst stats: Smeargle. The two users capable of utilising No Guard-OHKO have speeds of 60 (Abomasnow) and 70 (Bisharp). Furthermore, Bisharp's OHKO move, Guillotine, doesn't even work on Ghost-types.
The current banlist for RPmons is as such:
Abilities
- Multitype (cannot be copied by Role Play; doesn't even work on Pokemon besides Arceus)
- Wonder Guard (cannot be copied by Role Play)
- Pure Power/Huge Power (balancing purposes)
- Moody [pending, not banned as of yet] (balancing purposes)
- Mewtwo [pending, not banned as of yet] (balancing purposes)
- Deoxys (all formes) [pending, not banned as of yet] (balancing purposes)
- Thundurus-N [pending, not banned as of yet] (balancing purposes)
- Everything in Ubers which can't learn Role Play [pending, not banned as of yet] (balancing purposes)
RPmons can currently be played only on Debug Mode or Hackmons; as such, Team Preview is off. Make sure you choose your lead properly!
After you've played this metagame a bit, we need your help. Is Moody balanced enough to stay in? Should Mewtwo, Deoxys and Thundurus be banned? What about all the other Uber Pokemon incapable of learning Role Play? Your opinion *actually* matters! :o
To end off my post, below are two of my battle videos from duels with the two aforementioned users. Enjoy!
Level 51 vs rlyn99
Snowflakes vs Level 51