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    Tier Shift Tournament: Round 5 (Semifinals/Finals) [Won by Ciele]

    Final Stretch. Rules All standard OU clauses: Sleep, Evasion, Species, etc All UU and BL Pokemon gain +5 to all Base Stats. All RU and BL2 Pokemon gain +10 to all Base Stats. All NU and BL3 (Of which there are currently none regardless) Pokemon gain +15 to all Base Stats. All battles must be...
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    Tier Shift Tournament: Round 4

    Not much longer now. Rules All standard OU clauses: Sleep, Evasion, Species, etc All UU and BL Pokemon gain +5 to all Base Stats. All RU and BL2 Pokemon gain +10 to all Base Stats. All NU and BL3 (Of which there are currently none regardless) Pokemon gain +15 to all Base Stats. All battles...
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    Tier Shift Tournament: Round 3

    Round 3, Start! Rules All standard OU clauses: Sleep, Evasion, Species, etc All UU and BL Pokemon gain +5 to all Base Stats. All RU and BL2 Pokemon gain +10 to all Base Stats. All NU and BL3 (Of which there are currently none regardless) Pokemon gain +15 to all Base Stats. All battles must be...
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    Tier Shift Tournament - Round 2

    And after many long delays brought on by various causes, we finally enter round two. I was unfortunately forced to drop a few people and this will no doubt be a mess going into later rounds, but we'll see how it goes. Rules All standard OU clauses: Sleep, Evasion, Species, etc All UU and BL...
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    Tier Shift Tournament - Round 1

    [Art would go here if there was any (If you want to draw some, PM me!)] Sorry about the long wait, been a little busy. Here we go! Lots of players, looks like we're in for the long haul. All standard OU clauses: Sleep, Evasion, Species, etc All UU and BL Pokemon gain +5 to all Base Stats...
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    Tier Shift Tournament - Sign ups

    [Art would go here if there was any] And so, after several months, it's time to finally host a tournament for my incredibly lucky break. Er, I mean, highly successful Other Metagame. Part of me feels like I should give some big speech on how I'm very grateful to have gotten here. But I don't...
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    Tier Shift Metagame (THIS IS BW)

    Now, there have been a lot of metagames trying to get lesser used pokemon to see use; indeed, I'd wager a fairly significant percentage have this as either a stated or indirect goal. But they tend to do it with very specific fine tuning, careful editing of movepools and abilities. Screw that...
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    Crush and Slush

    When testing my previous team, I discovered that Terrakion and Azumarill have fantastic offensive synergy. Azumarill destroys Landorus, Gliscor, other Terrakion, Skarmory, Scizor (thanks in large part to resisting Bullet Punch), Gengar, and basically everyone that doesn't resist it. Terrakion...
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    A first attempt, I guess.

    And that's what I wrote before. Then I got some wonderful feedback from you guys, and this is my new team, now up to 1736 ± 55 Glicko2 on the OU Ladder. Shredder (Terrakion) @ Choice Scarf Trait: Justified EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd Jolly Nature - Close Combat - Stone Edge -...
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