Power Creep: DPPt OU v. BW UU! (Round 4)

[Chou Toshio]

Introduction

Everyone has been impressed with the power creep of BW. The increase in power of Pokemon in BW has been so impressive, that UU has come into its own as a tier respected for high-powered battles. When people say "the lower tiers," in BW, they often mean only RU and NU--wait, when did UU become a higher tier? Probably about the same time people started comparing it to DPP OU. It's become a pretty common notion that there are startling similarities between BW UU and DPP OU-- not to mention the Pokemon, with top DPP OU threats like Azelf, Zapdos, Kingdra, Flygon, Swampert, Bronzong, Machamp, etc. etc. etc. finding themselves amongst UU's ranks. Well here's the tournament to finally settle the score. This team will feature head-to-head match-ups between these metagames, and give us an insight into which metagame really is (was?) stronger.

On one hand, DPP's packing some bad-ass beasts that still wreck OU today, like Tyranitar, Scizor, Heatran and Gyarados... on the other side, UU's got all sorts of new (and old) tricks up its sleave, with Pokemon like Darmanitan, Regenerator Slowbro, Mew, and Scald Suicune in the wings. Which side will rise to the top? Let's get this tournament going!

The newest BW OU list is out, and we will use it. (Unfortunately, nothing dropped, while Deo-D got banned to BL T^T )

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Rules:


... General Tournament Rules

• General tournament rules and regulations can be found here
• Fifth Generation
• DW UBERS (in order to allow DPP Only Items and Blaze Blaziken)
• Single Elimination
• Species Clause
• OHKO Clause
• Evasion Clause
• Sleep Clause
• Self-KO Clause
• Timed Battle
• Matches must be conducted on Pokemon Online
• KEEP LOGS PLEASE!!~
• Team Preview will be turned off, NO WIFI CLAUSE bringing battle conditions more in line with DPP OU-- a creative challenge for UU players.

NO TEAM PREVIEW IN THIS TOURNAMENT


Format:

Tournament matches will be a best of 3, with a format as follows:

Round 1: Player A: DPP OU v. Player B: BW UU
Round 2: Player A: BW UU v. Player B: DPP OU
Round 3: Both players free to use a DPP OU team OR a BW UU Team

So, both players will have a chance to use both metagames, and the first two matches will also be DPP OU v. BW UU. In the 3rd round, you will pick one.

important: Even in round 3, you cannot mix BW UU Pokemon and DPP OU Pokemon onto the same team!!



Rules for DPP OU Teams

• Standard DPP OU Teams (-rotom formes)
• All BW-Only Pokemon, Moves, Items, and Abilities are banned (No Dream World Abilities, no Scald, no Eviolite, no BW Pokemon, etc. etc.)
• All Pokemon listed on the DPP Uber List are banned (including Mew and Deoxys-D).
• All items available in DPP OU are allowed! (Feel free to use pinch berries, etc. Bring your Petaya Empoleon)
• All Rotom-A formes are banned, an unfortunate decision, seeing as how these play a key part of DPP OU, but considering how they can't get their Ghost-type in these matches, I decided they were in poor spirit of this tournament. Besides, you need to shark to get them on wifi anyway...

Essentially, your team should be as if you JUST transferred it over, except you can bring your items and can't bring your rotom-formes.


Rules for BW UU Teams

• Standard BW UU Teams
• All BW Uber, OU, and BL Pokemon are banned.
• BW UU Teams are limited to BW available items (NO PETAYA EMPOLEON)

PLEASE SAVE THE LOGS
(And send them to me)
This tournament is an interesting chance to see which of the two tiers is stronger. As the tournament host, I'd like to request that all logs be sent to me. Of course, there will be NO consequences for not saving the logs, but I want to collect as many of them as possible. OF COURSE none of the logs will be disclosed until the tournament is finished-- so be sure that I will not release any team information. I just want to have the logs as a good record of the tournament.

When a match is over, please PM me an aesoft replay private link, or attach the log file and e-mail it to me at meiwaku.dake@gmail.com

Format:

Tournament matches between 2 players will be a best of 3 rounds, with a format as follows:

Round 1: Player A: DPP OU v. Player B: BW UU
Round 2: Player A: BW UU v. Player B: DPP OU
Round 3: Both players free to use a DPP OU team OR a BW UU Team

So, both players will have a chance to use both metagames, and the first two matches will also be DPP OU v. BW UU. In the 3rd round, you will pick one.

^This seems to not have been highlighted enough, as several users have already asked me about which player uses what tier. :| Make sure you have at least 2 teams (a DPP OU team and a BW UU team) before going into your match... you will need both...

1. Trollmonchan vs Snunch
2. FlareBlitz vs TalkingLion
3. DarkLoïc vs Pesadilla
   
4. Eo Ut Mortus vs Pedrock
   
5. AlphaJolt vs [K-12] The Madchine
6. rockhp31 vs Cristal
7. pokebasket vs SubakSupreme
8. yee vs Limitless

Deadline: June 11th

[Limitless]

Contacted opponent.

[Temptation]

hprock31 should get the win, because I was barely active the last few days and I just couldn't find the time to do the last battle
please let him play instead of me

[Malekith]

Trollmonchan vs Snunch
FlareBlitz vs TalkingLion
DarkLoïc vs Pesadilla
Eo Ut Mortus vs Pedrock
AlphaJolt vs [K-12] The Madchine
hprock31 vs Cristal
pokebasket vs SubakSupreme
yee vs Limitless

[SoulWind]

Trollmonchan vs Snunch
FlareBlitz vs TalkingLion
DarkLoïc vs Pesadilla
Eo Ut Mortus vs Pedrock
AlphaJolt vs [K-12] The Madchine
hprock31 vs Cristal
pokebasket vs SubakSupreme
yee vs Limitless

[Chou Toshio]

Originally Posted by Fat Temptation

hprock31 should get the win, because I was barely active the last few days and I just couldn't find the time to do the last battle
please let him play instead of me

Okay

[yee]

won in some cool games with a cool player

[Limitless]

lost in some fun games, ggs.

[~GreenCore]

Trollmonchan vs Snunch
FlareBlitz vs TalkingLion
DarkLoïc vs Pesadilla
Eo Ut Mortus vs Pedrock
AlphaJolt vs [K-12] The Madchine
hprock31 vs Cristal
pokebasket vs SubakSupreme

[.Robert]

Trollmonchan vs Snunch
FlareBlitz vs TalkingLion
DarkLoïc vs Pesadilla
Eo Ut Mortus vs Pedrock
AlphaJolt vs [K-12] The Madchine
hprock31 vs Cristal
pokebasket vs SubakSupreme
yee vs Limitless

[Cristal]

I'm sorry but... I can't find hprock31

[AlphaJolt]

I left a VM for K12.

[Pesadilla]

VM'd

[Cristal]

Ah, it's alright, rockhp31 is the correct spelling + I know him, it shouldn't be difficult to get this done.

[pokebasket]

VMed

[McMeghan]

go loic ! xd

[DarkLoïc]

Answered to pesadilla

[Pedrock]

Won against Eo, 2-1, ggs.

[Rockhp31]

I often see Cristal in the French server, not really a problem to play I think.
(my nick isn't hprock31 but Rockhp31 :V)

[pokebasket]

activity post, i am waiting for my opponent

[TalkingLion]

Lost to FlareBlitz 2-0 in some very fun games. Good luck for the quarterfinals, I know you can win the whole thing!

[FlareBlitz]

Won against my opponent in a pair of good games. We didn't save the logs for the first game, but we did for the second!

[Pesadilla]

Activity Post.

[[K-12] The Madchine]

Activity post.

[DarkLoïc]

Originally Posted by Fat Pesadilla

Activity Post.

Are you kidding me ? I was one hour in late but you were connected when I was on. I asked if you were available to play now, I waited during one hour but you never answered.
Seriously...