Welcome to the official 35 Pokes March 2024 SWISS Tournament!
35 Pokes is a unique National Dex-based metagame in which 35 Pokemon are randomly generated each month. This naturally means that some months end up being much more memorable and beloved than others, with one of these months being March 2024. This month saw a massive amount of new players (myself included) join the community thanks to a now-classic YouTube video made by Portobello, and as a result became the most active month in 35 Pokes history. A meta centralized around Swampert, Weezing-Galar, and Regice quickly developed, and players scrambled to figure out ways to break through this intimidating core. A particular Regice strategy became so legendary that is was featured in its own video by EvelynIsBased. The recently concluded 35 Pokes Premier League saw further metagame development, with the meta shifting towards faster-paced offense teams with Rotom-Fan and Ribombee, as well as the notorious Seaking. This meta clearly still has room to grow, which is why the long-anticipated March 2024 retro tour is happening now!
hosted by GCGoat and Ember Celica
Tier Rules:
The following Pokemon are allowed:
Form Clause: Player may have two Pokémon of the same species, but not of the same form, on their team. For example, a Rotom-Fan and a Rotom-Mow is ok, two Rotom-Fans is not.
Sleep Clause Mod: Player cannot induce sleep on more than one of the opponents Pokémon at once.
Z-Move Clause: Players cannot use Z-Moves.
Terastal Clause: Player cannot terastallize their Pokémon.
Mega Stone Clause: Mega Stones are banned.
Evasion Clause: Player cannot use evasion boosting moves, items, and abilities, including but not limited to: Bright Powder, Double Team, Sand Veil, and Acupressure.
Banned moves:
Fissure, Sheer Cold, Guillotine, Horn Drill, Last Respects, Acupressure, Hidden Power
Banned Abilities:
Shadow Tag, Battle Bond, Sand Veil, Snow Cloak, Moody, Tangled Feet
Banned Items:
Kings Rock, Razor Fang, Quick Claw, Bright Powder, Lax Incense
On Dry Passing: Baton Pass is legal, however You cannot have a combination of Moves, Abilities or Items that allows you to intentionally or unintentionally pass boosts, a substitute or passive recovery (Ingrain, Aqua Ring...) to another Pokemon. This includes abilities such as Defiant and Contrary.
/challenge gen9nationaldex35pokes @@@ -All Pokemon, +Unobtainable, +Past, -ND Uber, -ND AG, -ND OU, -ND UUBL, -ND UU, -ND RUBL, -ND RU, -ND NFE, -ND LC, +Oricorio-Base, +Wigglytuff, +Phione, +Politoed, +Ninjask, +Samurott-Base, +Galvantula, +Mesprit, +Scrafty, +Rotom-Fan, +Greedent, +Seaking, +Swampert-Base, +Weezing-Galar, +Shelgon, +Leafeon, +Cacturne, +Turtonator, +Magmortar, +Lilligant-Base, +Sirfetch’d, +Oricorio-Sensu, +Persian-Alola, +Farigiraf, +Pinsir-Base, +Primeape, +Tatsugiri, +Dugtrio-Alola, +Flygon, +Regice, +Ditto, +Grafaiai, +Pidgeot-Base, +Palossand, +Ribombee-Base
Tournament Rules:
This tournament uses a Swiss format, where everyone plays as long as they can make knockout bracket. The knockout bracket will be single elimination, with size depending on playercount. All matches will be a Best of 3 using the challenge code above.
Once Round X concludes, there will be a non-perfect amount of players qualified (with some X-3 score or better) for Playoffs. Seeding will prioritize ranking, with players who achieved a qualifying record being seeded higher the earlier they qualified. Within ranks, these players will be ranked by Resistance, which is the cumulative win percentage all of their opponents throughout the Swiss phase. The exact number of weeks and number of wins will be dependent on signups.
Once Round X concludes, there will be a non-perfect amount of players qualified (with some X-3 score or better) for Playoffs. Seeding will prioritize ranking, with players who achieved a qualifying record being seeded higher the earlier they qualified. Within ranks, these players will be ranked by Resistance, which is the cumulative win percentage all of their opponents throughout the Swiss phase. The exact number of weeks and number of wins will be dependent on signups.
- General tournament rules and regulations.
- This tournament will consistent of 7 SWISS rounds followed by a single-elimination bracket for the remaining participants
- Players will be eliminated after 3 losses in the SWISS stage, and after one loss in the elimination stage
- If metagame changes occur during the middle of a round, they will take effect in the subsequent round.
- Battles must take place on Pokemon Showdown! using the challenge code above.
- S/V cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Replays are required. Play on https://smogtours.psim.us/ to ensure that your replays are automatically saved.
Sample Teams:
Legendary Cact-Ice by AReallyShiftyGuy Specs Ribombee Offense by AReallyShiftyGuy Band Seaking + Sensu Bulky Offense by ThyUnitPossessCopium Flygon + Galvantula Balance by GCGoat Mixed Politoed Offense by GCGoatMarch 2024:Replay List
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| Rank | Pokemon | Use | Usage % | Win % |
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| 1 | Swampert | 21 | 75.00% | 42.86% |
| 2 | Weezing-Galar | 19 | 67.86% | 36.84% |
| 3 | Mesprit | 12 | 42.86% | 41.67% |
| 4 | Farigiraf | 10 | 35.71% | 60.00% |
| 5 | Cacturne | 10 | 35.71% | 30.00% |
| 6 | Regice | 10 | 35.71% | 30.00% |
| 7 | Oricorio-Sensu | 10 | 35.71% | 50.00% |
| 8 | Politoed | 9 | 32.14% | 55.56% |
| 9 | Magmortar | 8 | 28.57% | 87.50% |
| 10 | Ribombee | 8 | 28.57% | 37.50% |
| 11 | Rotom-Fan | 7 | 25.00% | 42.86% |
| 12 | Dugtrio-Alola | 6 | 21.43% | 83.33% |
| 13 | Galvantula | 6 | 21.43% | 50.00% |
| 14 | Flygon | 5 | 17.86% | 80.00% |
| 15 | Scrafty | 4 | 14.29% | 75.00% |
| 16 | Ditto | 4 | 14.29% | 25.00% |
| 17 | Grafaiai | 3 | 10.71% | 66.67% |
| 18 | Samurott | 3 | 10.71% | 33.33% |
| 19 | Leafeon | 2 | 7.14% | 100.00% |
| 20 | Seaking | 2 | 7.14% | 50.00% |
| 21 | Tatsugiri | 2 | 7.14% | 50.00% |
| 22 | Turtonator | 1 | 3.57% | 100.00% |
| 23 | Oricorio | 1 | 3.57% | 100.00% |
| 24 | Ninjask | 1 | 3.57% | 0.00% |
| 25 | Lilligant | 1 | 3.57% | 100.00% |
| 26 | Phione | 1 | 3.57% | 100.00% |
| 27 | Pidgeot | 1 | 3.57% | 0.00% |
| 28 | Persian-Alola | 1 | 3.57% | 100.00% |Signups will be open until <t:1749340800:F>, post "in" to sign up. Good luck!
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