OMotM Minitour - Almost Any Ability - Round 1

Hello friends. For a while now, the OM mod team has been working to try to bring more attention to Other Metagames through a variety of different means. The most prominent way of doing this was introducing the Other Metagame of the Month, which has generally been a booming success and has let to permanent ladder status for some of our Other Metagames. One way I hope we can do this is by giving another outlet to play more of our Other Metagames in a monthly minitour based on the previous month's Other Metagame of the Month. This also serves as a sendoff of sorts for our OMotMs, giving players one last opportunity to play the metagames in which they've spent so much time testing out different strategies and trying out new things.

Having said that, welcome to our first OMotM minitour! The standard rules for minitours and tournaments in general follow in the hide tags below.

Battles are to be played on either the Pokémon Showdown simulator, using the Almost Any Ability format under Challenge mode.

Here are some rules we enforce for players in tournaments. There is a good chance you will receive an infraction or potentially be banned from tournaments if you fail to adhere to these:

If your user name undergoes a change, it is your obligation to report the change to the hosts of any tournaments you are participating in, as well as your opponents in those tournaments.

Avoid dropping out of a tournament midway through unless you have a good reason for doing so. People that repeatedly drop out of tournaments without good reason may be punished.

If you do have to drop out, you must notify the host and your opponent.

Endeavor to complete your battles before the deadline of each round. If we notice a pattern of laziness, we may decide to punish you.


Once you have signed up and the host posts Round 1, it is strongly recommended that you contact your opponent immediately by posting on their profile, or a Conversation if you prefer (though this makes it more difficult for the host to track who is more active). Let them know when you think you will be ready to play, your timezone (assuming you set it when you joined, it should appear at the bottom of every page on the forums), and maybe your availability if you know what that will be. Try to respond in a timely fashion whenever your opponent contacts you. If someone misses a scheduled time and the match is in danger of going uncompleted by the deadline, the host will nearly always award the win to the player that showed up, so scheduling a battle is a sure way to avoid being eliminated by inactivity. Don't be lazy!


Sleep Clause: If a player has already put an opposing Pokémon to sleep using a sleep inducing move and that Pokémon is still sleeping due to that sleep inducing move, the player cannot put another opposing Pokémon to sleep using a sleep inducing move.

Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same species of Pokémon on their team, based on the National Pokedex Number. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.

Evasion Clause: Players cannot use Double Team or Minimize in any of their Pokémon's movesets.

OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.

Moody Clause: A player may not use a Pokémon with the ability Moody.

Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, he/she loses.

Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned.​

Disconnections and Timer Clause: In live tournaments with short time constraints such as the Smogon Tour, if a player disconnects or times out, the opponent may take the win. In other tournaments, if a player disconnects and contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If this is not feasible due to unreasonable battle length, highly improbable circumstances, or some other reason, the player who did not disconnect may choose to rematch with either the same teams or (the option to use) new teams. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment.

Simulator Glitches: Any battle mechanics not properly implemented in the simulator used for a tournament battle are fair game, unless explicitly banned by that tournament's rules. Illegal movesets that are not restricted by the simulator fall into this category as well. However, this does not include faulty tier scripts; for example, if there was a bug in the BW OU tier script that allowed you to use Drizzle and Swift Swim on the same team, taking advantage of this would result in disqualification in that battle. If a game breaking glitch is discovered, we will make a blanket tournament ban on that glitch via an announcement in the Tournaments forum until it is fixed.

Ghosting: The player in a tournament battle should be the one making their own decisions. Do not tell a player what move to make in a tournament battle (i.e. do not "ghost" them), and do not make your moves based on another person's suggestions. If we are made aware that someone playing a tournament battle is making some of their moves based mainly on the suggestions of someone else, punishments may be handed out to both parties involved.

Identity: Pretending to be another player in relation to a tournament battle is strictly prohibited. Do not try to impersonate or play as another player.

Rule Breaking: If a player breaks a rule during a battle, they are disqualified from that particular battle. If it was a single battle in a series, they will still have the opportunity to play the rest of the series.

Draws: If a battle ends in a draw in an elimination tournament or another tournament format that is unable to handle draws, there should be a rematch between the players with the option for both players to change teams.

Forfeiting: A player may forfeit their battle during or after the battle, as long as the result has not been confirmed by the host. If a player forfeits before a battle commences in the first round of a tournament, they are eligible for substitution if appropriate. We highly recommend that you do not forfeit your tournament battles just because you got lucky, but we do not enforce this.

Host / Tournament Director Decisions: The host may make a judgment call on the outcome of a battle with a disputed result, even if one player has broken the rules. If you believe the host has made an unjust decision, you may inform the Tournament Director responsible for the tournament of the situation and request that they make a final call on it.

Sportsmanship: If a player displays exceedingly poor sportsmanship before, during, or after a tournament battle, they may be disqualified or otherwise punished.​

For our first Other Metagame of the Month, the theme is Almost Any Ability. In addition to the standard OU banlist and clauses, Almost Any Ability has its own separate bans, which are as follows.

Banned Pokemon:
  • Archeops
  • Kyurem-Black
  • Regigigas
  • Slaking
Banned Abilities:
  • Arena Trap
  • Contrary
  • Fur Coat
  • Huge Power
  • Imposter
  • Parental Bond
  • Pure Power
  • Shadow Tag
  • Simple
  • Speed Boost
  • Wonder Guard
Banned Pokemon/Ability Combinations:
  • Prankster Smeargle
  • Sturdy Shedinja
Deadlines for minitours will be five days after each round is posted until the finals when you'll have as long as you want as long as you're reasonable. Any matches that aren't done by the deadline will be decided based on either activity or coinflip. Coinflips will be done in #othermetas in case anyone things I'm trying to cheat them out of a win. Hoping for 32 signups, but if we need to start with fewer, we will. And with all of that out of the way, have fun!

Signups:
  1. eriados
  2. scorpdestroyer
  3. Peef Rimgar
  4. Zewwok
  5. Lasagne
  6. Articuno I
  7. Pikachuun
  8. AWailOfATail
  9. Ranger Mike
  10. Asterat
  11. mallpal
  12. RotomPoison
  13. Kit Kasai
  14. tennisace
  15. Qwilphish
  16. Jaguar360
  17. Jacob
  18. Heisenß3rg
  19. The Reptile
  20. FearRattata
  21. potato14798
  22. Excitement
  23. Expulso
  24. TheCommadore
  25. Slowbrosky
  26. losedude
  27. Kl4ng
  28. Knuckstrike
  29. simsims2800
  30. Colossus
  31. Nozzle
  32. Hollywood
R1

RotomPoison vs eriados
simsims2800 vs Heisenß3rg
scorpdestroyer vs Pikachuun
Qwilphish vs Expulso
tennisace vs TheCommadore
Peef Rimgar vs Slowbrosky
FearRattata vs Colossus
mallpal vs The Reptile
Knuckstrike vs Zewwok
Ranger Mike vs Excitement
Hollywood vs Jacob
Kl4ng vs AWailOfATail
losedude vs Nozzle
Articuno I vs Jaguar360
Lasagne vs Kit Kasai
Asterat vs potato14798

R2

eriados vs simsims2800
Pikachuun vs Qwilphish
TheCommadore vs Peef Rimgar
Colossus vs mallpal
Zewwok vs Excitement
Hollywood
vs Kl4ng
Nozzle vs Jaguar360
Kit Kasai vs potato14798
 
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