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Welcome to the ORAS Lower Tiers & OM Hub! This thread will contain resources for ORAS Ubers, ORAS UU, ORAS RU, ORAS NU, ORAS PU and ORAS LC. This thread will serve as a place to discuss each of these respective tiers. Different posts will contain Viability rankings and Sample teams. Feel free to refer to the Lower Tiers Discussion Thread to discuss your favorite aspects of these metagames, underrated threats...
Art Direction - ideally the mons should be - primal groudon, hydreigon, venusaur, mesprit, rotom frost and mienfoo.
If any doubts do pm me on smogon or on discord - alpha1013.
Welcome to the ORAS Lower Tiers & OM Hub! This thread will contain resources for ORAS Ubers, ORAS UU, ORAS RU, ORAS NU, ORAS PU and ORAS LC. This thread will serve as a place to discuss each of these respective tiers. Different posts will contain Viability rankings and Sample teams. Feel free to refer to the Lower Tiers Discussion Thread to discuss your favorite aspects of these metagames, underrated threats...
Requester: Rarelyme Tournament name:Lower Tier World Cup Projected Deadline (Sign-Up thread goes live): June 9th Art Direction: The mascot is Litwick so we would like it to be central in some ways. As its a World Cup, having a globe or a map would also be mandatory as well as the name of the tour (can also just be LTWC). Other than that, you're pretty free to do whatever looks good to you. We thought about using the Litwicks' flames to display the letters LTWC or just have the Litwicks light up the globe for instance. You can contact me on Smogon or Discord (rarelyme) if you have any questions!
Requester: Rarelyme Tournament name:Lower Tier World Cup Projected Deadline (Sign-Up thread goes live): June 9th Art Direction: The mascot is Litwick so we would like it to be central in some ways. As its a World Cup, having a globe or a map would also be mandatory as well as the name of the tour (can also just be LTWC). Other than that, you're pretty free to do whatever looks good to you. We thought about using the Litwicks' flames to display the letters LTWC or just have the Litwicks light up the globe for instance. You can contact me on Smogon or Discord (rarelyme) if you have any questions!
Requester: JoaF Tournament name: ADVLTL I Projected Deadline (Sign-Up thread goes live): End of May Art Direction: Up to artist's discretion but preferably has prominent Pokemon from all ADV tiers ranging from LC to Ubers, but with a focus on low tiers. For more direction, consider some combination of the mons in the paste (preferebly stick to the the blue theme or the red theme. https://pokepast.es/118240e02a2c5ead
Requester: Showl For: Monotype Usage Statistics Archive Art Direction: In a magic circular library, groups of maushold put books scattered around on the shelves, room is full of unown's as well and why not other in-theme 'mons like chandelure family?. At the center, a Psy mon (perhaps Alakazam?) reads a book with "SV" on its cover. Feel free to dm me to discuss it further.
Requester: Showl For: Monotype Usage Statistics Archive Art Direction: In a magic circular library, groups of maushold put books scattered around on the shelves, room is full of unown's as well and why not other in-theme 'mons like chandelure family?. At the center, a Psy mon (perhaps Alakazam?) reads a book with "SV" on its cover. Feel free to dm me to discuss it further.
Requester: Imperator Romanum For: New Other Metagames called Battle Fields. Art Direction:
Premise:
In Battle Fields, any battlefield condition with a timer becomes permanent once activated, unless directly replaced, removed, or reversed. This includes all effects that apply to one side of the field, both sides, or the entire battlefield. Specifically, the following conditions become permanent:
I'd like to lean into the concept of weather, terrain and room/misc wars which is to be expected in the metagame. I was picturing a rectangle split horizontally into three equal sized, flat rectangles. Then, the larger rectangle is split across its center, creating six boxes in 2x3 structure. Each horizontal rectangle would represent the major battle field conditions rivaling against eachother. So the top box could have Torkoal facing of with Pelipper, perhaps flanked by some prominent abusers (Venusaur, Kingdra etc.). The second level could then be terrain, with Rillaboom and Indeedee - flanked by their best abusers (Sneasler is banned though, so maybe not them). Perhaps Hawlucha and Iron Crown? For the last rectangle I think Trick Room vs Tailwind could be nice, but this could also be gravity or any of the other arena condition with is permanent. The background for each of the boxes/sides should be battle field condition they represent. So sun behind torkoal, rain for pelipper, etc.
Most of the BF conditions outside of terrain/weather aren't clear rivals. So if you're struck by creative lightning figure out an interesting way to showcase multiple of these conditions at once that would be interesting. It could be trick room vs tailwind, but with each setter also having reflect/light screen up. I don't know. You could do it in one of the ways I suggest or go your own way with it, I'll be thrilled regardless.
Requester: Murphy Lawden Tournament name: SS National Dex Last Chance Projected Deadline: will need ideally before round 1 is posted so around 1 week time from now (15-16th June) Art Direction: something using the following image as inspiration:
Obviously doesn't have to be exactly this (please don't make it exactly this) but same idea. Also the name should have "Sword and Shield".
Requester: Imperator Romanum For: New Other Metagames called Battle Fields. Art Direction:
Premise:
In Battle Fields, any battlefield condition with a timer becomes permanent once activated, unless directly replaced, removed, or reversed. This includes all effects that apply to one side of the field, both sides, or the entire battlefield. Specifically, the following conditions become permanent:
I'd like to lean into the concept of weather, terrain and room/misc wars which is to be expected in the metagame. I was picturing a rectangle split horizontally into three equal sized, flat rectangles. Then, the larger rectangle is split across its center, creating six boxes in 2x3 structure. Each horizontal rectangle would represent the major battle field conditions rivaling against eachother. So the top box could have Torkoal facing of with Pelipper, perhaps flanked by some prominent abusers (Venusaur, Kingdra etc.). The second level could then be terrain, with Rillaboom and Indeedee - flanked by their best abusers (Sneasler is banned though, so maybe not them). Perhaps Hawlucha and Iron Crown? For the last rectangle I think Trick Room vs Tailwind could be nice, but this could also be gravity or any of the other arena condition with is permanent. The background for each of the boxes/sides should be battle field condition they represent. So sun behind torkoal, rain for pelipper, etc.
Most of the BF conditions outside of terrain/weather aren't clear rivals. So if you're struck by creative lightning figure out an interesting way to showcase multiple of these conditions at once that would be interesting. It could be trick room vs tailwind, but with each setter also having reflect/light screen up. I don't know. You could do it in one of the ways I suggest or go your own way with it, I'll be thrilled regardless.
Requester: zastra For: UM Community Create a Team Art Direction: Here's the list of relevant mons you could include in the art (thx to a fairy for the base list):
NFE: Misdreavus, Vigoroth, Quaxwell
AG: Miraidon, Koraidon, Calryex-Shadow-Rider
2v2 Doubles: Incineroar, Flutter Mane, Iron Hands
Ubers UU: Landorus-I, Mewtwo, Arceus
1v1: Primarina, Iron Hands, Iron Crown
ZU: Floatzel, Mesprit, Charizard
Requester: Imperator Romanum For: New Other Metagames called Battle Fields. Art Direction:
Premise:
In Battle Fields, any battlefield condition with a timer becomes permanent once activated, unless directly replaced, removed, or reversed. This includes all effects that apply to one side of the field, both sides, or the entire battlefield. Specifically, the following conditions become permanent:
I'd like to lean into the concept of weather, terrain and room/misc wars which is to be expected in the metagame. I was picturing a rectangle split horizontally into three equal sized, flat rectangles. Then, the larger rectangle is split across its center, creating six boxes in 2x3 structure. Each horizontal rectangle would represent the major battle field conditions rivaling against eachother. So the top box could have Torkoal facing of with Pelipper, perhaps flanked by some prominent abusers (Venusaur, Kingdra etc.). The second level could then be terrain, with Rillaboom and Indeedee - flanked by their best abusers (Sneasler is banned though, so maybe not them). Perhaps Hawlucha and Iron Crown? For the last rectangle I think Trick Room vs Tailwind could be nice, but this could also be gravity or any of the other arena condition with is permanent. The background for each of the boxes/sides should be battle field condition they represent. So sun behind torkoal, rain for pelipper, etc.
Most of the BF conditions outside of terrain/weather aren't clear rivals. So if you're struck by creative lightning figure out an interesting way to showcase multiple of these conditions at once that would be interesting. It could be trick room vs tailwind, but with each setter also having reflect/light screen up. I don't know. You could do it in one of the ways I suggest or go your own way with it, I'll be thrilled regardless.
Requester: Showl For: Monotype Usage Statistics Archive Art Direction: In a magic circular library, groups of maushold put books scattered around on the shelves, room is full of unown's as well and why not other in-theme 'mons like chandelure family?. At the center, a Psy mon (perhaps Alakazam?) reads a book with "SV" on its cover. Feel free to dm me to discuss it further.
Requester: Murphy Lawden Tournament name: SS National Dex Last Chance Projected Deadline: will need ideally before round 1 is posted so around 1 week time from now (15-16th June) Art Direction: something using the following image as inspiration:
Requester:zo For:National Dex 1v1 Art Direction: We thought it would be pretty cool and fitting for Dragapult to be using a Ghostium Z Z-move. It's a little difficult to explain what the concept is, so our talented council member glitched drew up an idea: View attachment 734831
this is just a concept and doesn't have the Z-Move itself or anything, I'd be glad to see it interpreted in an interesting way because Z-Move Dragapult is a novel idea for us. Dragapult represents the tier well as a potent threat that's also from Gen 8 and also can't use Z-Moves normally, so that's why it's the Pokemon of choice.
Requester: Murphy Lawden Tournament name: SS National Dex Last Chance Projected Deadline: will need ideally before round 1 is posted so around 1 week time from now (15-16th June) Art Direction: something using the following image as inspiration:
Think this might be around my 20th workshop post so I wanted to quickly say thanks to everyone so far for letting me make art for their posts on smogon, I love doing it c:
Think this might be around my 20th workshop post so I wanted to quickly say thanks to everyone so far for letting me make art for their posts on smogon, I love doing it c:
Requester: Anchor9 Tournament name:CAP 36 Playtest Tour Projected Deadline: Just do it in like a week or two. Art Direction: Some sort of action shot of both forms of Ramnarok that says “Ramnarok Playtest” too. It doesn’t have to be that elaborate and you can be creative about it. Thanks!
Reference: Finished Product Thread
Reference 2: CAP 35 Playtest Art
Requester: JoaF
For: ADV Lower Tiers Hub
Project Deadline: 3-5 weeks?
Art Direction: A mix of ADV Pokemon surrounding a bonfire in a Firelink Shrine type of setting. You can maybe see ghost types in the background trees, maybe certain legendaries in the night sky. Or even a Deo overlooking the bonfire looking down from space. And lastly somewhere that displays the thread title. The Pokemon used in the placeholder art on the post are all solid choices to use but feel free to take liberty with this part as long as multiple low tiers are being represented. Thank you!
