Hello and welcome to Assist Wars! This pet mod aims to recreate the feeling of assist characters from fighting games in a 3v3 pokemon format. To achieve that, each pokemon line gets assigned an "assist move". When a specific pokemon is benched during a battle, its assist move can be used by the mons that are on the team. Considering three pokemons will be benched, all pokemons on the team effectively have a total of 7 moveslots! However, this comes with the drawback that assist moves can only be used once per match. This opens the gate for a frantic metagame where mindgames have an even more important place than in standard tiers!
Submission rules
This mod follows a system of weekly slates! Each weeks, 5 pokemon lines are going to be made eligible to receive submissions. We're then gonna vote for which submission for each line should get in the mod.
When submitting an assist move, be sure to have every element listed below:
- Name of the move
- Name of (at least) the last pokemon in the line
- Typing of the move. Try to make it correspond to one of the pokemon's typing, but if there's a good enough reason to break the rule, exceptions can be made.
- Category of the move. Physical, Special, or Status. Assist moves follow those as well!
- Base Power (BP) of the move.
- Accuracy (Acc) of the move.
- Misc. Here you put the additional categories of your move (contact, ballistic, sound-based, etc...) and priority.
- Effect of the move. Be sure to include both secondary effects (ones that have percentages) and other info like recoil, or even just what your moves do in the case of a status move.
- Niche. How and when would you use that move? Keep in mind that it's gonna be made for a 3v3 format and, more importantly, that the pokemon that you are subbing for will NOT be able to use that move!
Code:
:ss/<insert pokemon's name>:
[B]Name[/B]: x
[B]Typing[/B]: [IMG]https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/<insert typing>.gif[/IMG]
[B]Category[/B]: [IMG]https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/<insert category (physical, special, or "other" for status>.png[/IMG]
[B]BP[/B]: x
[B]Acc[/B]: x
[B]Misc.[/B]: xxxx
[B]Effect[/B]: xxxx
[B]Niche[/B]: xxxxOther important submission guidelines
To ensure that assist moves aren't too powerful as to make you chose a dead-weight pokemon solely for the move it provides, three different paths of balance are possible:
1- Simply have moves that have a low impact on the game overall but that can have specific uses, like a +1 speed boost or a low-BP coverage move
2- Drawbacks, like low accuracy or recoil damage
3- Conditions, in which case a move could only be used with a specific set-up, like a move that would only work under rain or if the target has more than 1/2 of its health.
Another thing we're going to do to ensure you don't feel the absolute need to use unviable mons is that in general, make more popular pokemons have stronger/more versatile moves than unpopular mons. This kinda goes against how things are done in pet mods in general, but to be sure to keep the "modes" aspect of 3v3, you'd still want to be able to chose different configurations of 3 mons with your team of 6, something that's not possible when 3 of your mons are ZU mons with busted assist moves. Basically, when submitting, you want to consider that in battle, your gonna be choosing between the pokemon and the move, and you want this choice to be as much of a 50/50 as possible.
Finally, about choosing, and I cannot stress this enough, the pokemon you sub your move to will not be able to use it! Only other pokemons will be able to make use of it. For instance, giving a Trick Room setting move to a TR abuser wouldn't really be of any use, because not only would it not have access to it, the rest of the team would probably follows a different archetype that wouldn't require said TR!
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