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Welcome to the second installment of the Monotype Seasonals! This is the third and final tournament of this circuit, and winning in this seasonal earns you points for an overall Monotype leaderboard. After this tournament, the top 16 players on this leaderboard will enter a seeded playoffs, where the winner of that tournament will become the Monotype champion!
SPECIFIC RULES:
- This is a standard Gen 7 Monotype tournament
- This tournament will be SINGLE Elimination
- All rounds will be Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown, on the Main or SmogTours servers.
- To encourage the development of the metagame, and so that everyone is on an even playing field, all matches must have replays recorded. If neither player posts or at least saves replays of the match, the game will be coinflipped regardless of whoever won.
Aegislash, Arceus, Battle Bond, Baton Pass, Blaziken, Damp Rock, Darkrai, Deoxys, Deoxys-A, Dialga, Genesect, Gengarite, Giratina, Groudon, Ho-Oh, Hoopa-U, Kangaskhanite, Kartana, Kyogre, Kyurem-W, Lucarionite, Lugia, Lunala, Magearna, Mawilite, Medichamite, Metagrossite, Mewtwo, Naganadel, Necrozma-Dusk-Mane, Necrozma-Dawn-Wings, Palkia, Pheromosa, Rayquaza, Reshiram, Salamencite, Shaymin-S, Smooth Rock, Solgaleo, Tapu Lele, Terrain Extender, Xerneas, Yveltal, Zekrom, Zygarde
Please note Landorus-I, Deoxys-D, and Deoxys-S are allowed
Please note Landorus-I, Deoxys-D, and Deoxys-S are allowed
Monotype Sample Teams
Standard Rules and Clauses
- Baton Pass Clause: Baton pass is banned
- Same Type Clause: Pokémon in a team must share a type, both before and after Mega Evolution
- Sleep Clause Mod: Limit one foe put to sleep
- Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokémon
- OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
- Moody Clause: Moody is banned
- Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
- HP Percentage Mod: HP is shown in percentages
- Identity: I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
- Scouting: Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using Fire-type" and "let me follow [user] around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter. I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. Everyone will have access to your replays from earlier rounds though.
- Timer Clause: As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time.
- Disconnections: Finally, in the case of a disconnect, the decision is in the hands of the player who did not disconnect. The options are: redo the battle move for move, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't do it.
round 3
RealShady vs. Amane Misa
Ice Tray vs. Haund
Zukushiku vs. TJ
Sabella vs. Pixel Pusher
Chaitanya1.9 vs. Luckyboy123[*DNP]
Arifeen vs. EricSaysHi
The Excadrill vs. iLlama
Cloud9 NxtLvl vs. 1 True Lycan
Waszap vs. Lord Sylex
King Billu vs. Leru
rnbs vs. Holy Break
zdrup15 vs. Alpha Rabbit
Wincon vs. Harpp
Vodoom vs. TheThorn
Life's Oblivion vs. Whitewash
HQuaze vs. Arlaxeon
extension deadline is Tuesday January 23 at 8pm gmt -5
round deadline is Saturday January 27 at 8pm gmt -5
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