Research Week - Ubers Edition!
Duration: April 10th - April 24th
Thanks to Texas Cloverleaf.
Duration: April 10th - April 24th
Thanks to Texas Cloverleaf.
Research Week looks to investigate Pokemon that have potential in Ubers, be it in stats, movepool, or supporting their team, to serve as an innovative choice in today's metagame. These are Pokemon that, for the most part, remain relatively untested. I've selected 3 Pokemon I feel, with help from everyone else, could see the rise of new and powerful sets, or the fulfilment of a particular niche. Perhaps the title is a bit of a misnomer; in fact, this installment (and likely future ones) of Research Week will continue as long as the discussion does, and that's where you all come in.
If you have anything to say about any of these Pokemon, please post about them! It doesn't matter if you've used them or have just faced them in battle, anything is fine (but please, do try them). Just be sure to back up your posts with good competitive reasoning, such as damage calculations! Posting replays showcasing the pokemon you selected is especially encouraged.
• Be open-minded, don't just say something is terrible and walk away; at least look into them and see what options they may be able to utilize!
• Feel free to theorymon, but make it clear that you are theorymon'ing. At the end of the week, however, I want discussion to move towards how useful the Pokemon actually are in Uber, and what sets are effective on them.
• Just because an analysis has been done for a Pokemon doesn't mean there isn't more to explore; it's quite possible that something might have gone unnoticed or is missing.
• Do not post in this thread complaining about the Pokemon I choose and/or suggesting ones we should do for future weeks. I want discussion to stay on topic about the 3 Pokemon we are "researching". Feel free to VM / PM me these suggestions, but don't expect the next research week to have all the Pokemon you suggested, or any of them.
So, the 3 Pokemon we will be looking at this research week are Landorus, Kyurem, and Victini.
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How useful are these Pokemon in Uber? What sets can they run effectively? What gives them trouble? What advantages do they have over other Pokemon? What roles can they fill in teams? Are they worth the team slot on your team or is it outclassed?
Discuss; the discussion that come out of this will surely be illuminating! Don't forget, you're not just limited to this topic to discuss these Pokemon. The #ubers irc channel is a perfectly suitable place to discuss them as well. Feel free to take the discussion to #pokemon as well. At the end of the discussion period, hope we can reach a general consensus on how good these Pokemon really are, and that we might find some interesting discoveries.
Alright, now that that's out of the way we can get to the fun part of this. First up, Reasearch Week will now have a duration of roughly two weeks. The reason for this is as follows:
The Research Week Challenge:
In order to participate in the challenge, simply post what Pokemon you're trying and your fresh new alt (yes, this is mandatory). Post battle logs, experiences with your team on the ladder, and generally how a Pokemon has worked out for you: past or present.- Users will use any number of the research week mons on their team
- Users will attempt to reach as high as possible on the ladder with the Pokemon. Breaking past the 1350 mark on the ladder with your registered alt will earn you a spot on the Hall of Fame: Gold Class. Crossing the 1300 mark will secure you a Silver Class spot while a 1250 rating will earn you a Bronze Class spot. Post a screen-shot of your peak in order to achieve this, and a pastebin of your team.
- Users will be expected to post their experiences with the pokemon they use, the teams they used, the problems they encoutered while trying to make the said pokemon work.
- If a user does not participate in the discussion, he will be passed over.
There will also be an archive of the successful teams who managed to break the ladder benchmarks. The archive will consist of the teams used along with the rating achieved by the said team and some comments for the user who built the team. Teams which displayed a significant amount of creativity but fell short of the points cutoff may also be featured in the archive. This will be decided on subjectively by the Uber moderators.
Rewards:
Winning the Research Week challenge grants you prizes. Here's the rewarding system:
** Getting HOPs in #ubers might take four wins, and maybe more, depending on our judgment if you deserve it or not.
Furthermore, quality posting may be rewarded with larger avatars or custom titles, even if you did not win the challenge. So get out and post!
Winning the Research Week challenge grants you prizes. Here's the rewarding system:
- Winning one RW will grant you VOPs (+) in #ubers.
- Winning two RW challenges will grant you a larger avatar.
- Winning three RW challenges will grant you a Custom Title.
- Winning five RW challenges will grant you HOPs (%) in #ubers.
** Getting HOPs in #ubers might take four wins, and maybe more, depending on our judgment if you deserve it or not.
Furthermore, quality posting may be rewarded with larger avatars or custom titles, even if you did not win the challenge. So get out and post!
- barry4ever - barry4rw
- shrang - FREEZE ALL
- Tomahawk9 - Rapidash
- TrollFreak - ROFLMAO
- Fiction. - monarchy of roses / jolly good fellon / fadeaway
- jonathanrp - JRP2 / JRP3
- T-Dogg - T-Weakk
- locoghoul - alexis breeze / Selen
- Furai - 4sweto
- ThunderBlunder - Thunderblunder2
- Splendiferous - Hoooooo
- Steven Snype - Andrew
- NTT - Something Witty
- Focus - Nucleae / Karpe Diem / Tony Balogna
- Novaray - NovaResearch
- HSA - IcyColdMofo
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