Tournament BDSPPL IV - Commencement Thread

guess I'll start this off

For anyone interested in joining our team, the Lake Erie Slowpokes will be holding tryouts over the course of the week. You're also welcome to come and just vibe if you'd like.

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With a new edition of BDSPPL comes people who have likely never (or at least barely) interacted with BDSP. I'm glad that we have the opportunity to share our metagames with unfamiliar faces, and I wanted to find ways to help inform the less familiar with some aspects of the format. Of course, one of the main things that comes to mind when talking about BDSP is the movepool cuts/limitations, which will likely be one of the bigger issues for newer players coming into these tiers.

All that to say that I made a document listing all the major movepool cuts on every Pokemon in every tier in this tournament over the past two days. Fuck me this was a pain to do.

Some quick notes (that are also mentioned in the document):​

  • Fully Dexited moves (ex: Pursuit, Hidden Power (bar Unown), Return/Frustration, Refresh, etc.) are not listed in the document as lost moves
  • IoA move tutor moves are not in BDSP's code apparently so they aren't listed as lost moves
  • Only lost moves that I considered relevant to a given Pokemon were listed; this is to help cut down on some of the "noise" that is caused by a bunch of frankly useless moves for some Pokemon being listed. We don't need to know that Feraligatr lost Seismic Toss, for example
  • If the move exists in BDSP but was initially added to a Pokemon's movepool in a game that was released after BDSP, it will not be listed. I hope that that would be considered obvious
  • Some moves are bolded, which indicates that it was actually an addition to a Pokemon's movepool that originated in BDSP
  • Knock Off and Toxic have their own mini list that says what kept those moves; this was done because of how widespread they were in previous titles, making it easier, more quick, and more helpful to list out what actually has the moves instead of saying "Yea this lost Toxic" 200 times in a row
  • Everything is separated by tier for convenience sake
  • If anyone feels a lost move should be listed on a given Pokemon or removed from the list, just let me know and I'll edit it when I get the chance

I was originally planning on keeping this document for my own team, but after thinking about it a bit more, I figured it would be best to share it with everyone else helping run this tournament. I feel that it's only fair that everyone has access to the same information, and I would hope that this helps as many people as possible ease into these tiers, especially if they're new to them.
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