PU PU Winter Seasonal - Round 1

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Welcome to the second PU Seasonal! These seasonals will be part of the PU Circuit. Entering in this seasonal earns you points for an overall PU leaderboard. After a number of seasonals (depening on activity), the top 16 players on this leaderboard will enter a seeded playoffs, where the winner of the tournament will become the PU champion! There may also be other prizes in store, which are still being discussed.

Specific Rules:
  • This is a standard ORAS PU tournament.
  • This tournament will be a double elimination tournament.
  • If you drop out of the tournament immediately after losing in winner's bracket, you will be banned from future PU circuit tournaments, and potentially risk being infracted.
  • All rounds will be best of three.
  • Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!.
  • To encourage the development of the metagame, and so that everyone is on an even playing field, all matches must have replays recorded. If neither player posts replays of the match, both players will suffer an automatic game loss. (If you were in losers' when you played, you are both out. If you were in winners', the winner is in losers' and the loser is out.) There may be some exceptions to this rule.
  • PU is a usage based tier. Essentially you can use anything that is not in a higher tier; NU effectively serves as the PU banlist. However, there are several Pokemon and one move banned from PU which are not in NU or a higher tier; aka BL4. This consists of Barbaracle, Carracosta, Exeggutor, Linoone, Throh, Vigoroth, Victreebel, and the move Chatter.
Standard Rules and Clauses
  • Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
  • Sleep Clause: You cannot inflict sleep upon more than one member of the opposing team.
  • Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned.
  • OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
  • Endless Battle Clause: Anything capable of intentionally creating an endless battle is banned.
Pairings
Lana Del Seldo VS RivalET
silver97 VS ssneak
Eternal Spirit VS Huston
Holiano VS Kyuss
GyRro VS Shaneghoul
Peli VS GeneralAnnoyance
Hyjack VS Impact
Arkian VS zdrup15
-Snow VS Cuzzie123
PTF VS TheKFC
Omastar VS King UU
rozes VS Rodriblutar
fairytale VS Iron Pyrite
HANTSUKI VS Lonny1309
Golden Freddy's VS thecrystalonix
GustavoYAY VS Megazard
Optical Real VS rural
Confide. VS Specterito
Raseri VS Tricking
wisc VS Kiyo
lolbro VS Arifeen
TTFTW VS HJAD
Sanjay. VS Guilas D
Real FV13 VS Anty
Doctor_DraX
Runebane33 VS RawMelon
eaglehawk VS Darkwurmy05
shadowkid17 VS Twixtry
Mishimono VS miltankmilk
Kushalos VS all falls down
IvoPost VS ProfessorMasterChief
Austin VS Rayzark
-Grim VS amber lamps
shartruce VS galbia
Mysterious M VS MaroGod
Lax VS Barian
BrandonBeast VS Al'Akir
Joshz VS tjdaas
Jethalal VS mayomayo
Sweep VS R0ady
Mizuhime VS shadestep
Mr. NudistoBeach VS Zero Returns
fatty VS SaiyanMaster95
YABO VS thinkin
cityfolk VS Murdercow
Hiro97 VS Teddeh
Dundies VS ManOfMany
Raiza VS Wooly Ampharosite
PokeLuver VS Tect
EnemyJurist VS byronthewellwell
Haund VS Kingofcrimea
passion VS Ununhexium
Entei. VS Doctor Gucci
Your Stupidity VS Feliburn
Twix VS KJ Corp
ErcaPerca VS John76
Senpai D.M VS Syncrasy
slurmz VS Thisbemyalt
trc VS cryalot
jeran VS DaSpoofy
Azkul VS Thatwackycruton
Dominatio VS Shuckleking87
Haruno VS LightningLuxray
scpinion VS Diogo

Subs (in order):
TheKFC
GustavoYAY
Mizuhime
DaSpoofy
Sweep

Deadline

Thursday 4th, 8pm gmt+0 (3pm est)

General Tournament Rules:
  • Identity: I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
  • Scouting: Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using stall" and "let me follow [user] around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter. I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. Everyone will have access to your replays from earlier rounds though.
  • Timer Clause: As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time.
  • Disconnections: Finally, in the case of a disconnect, the decision is in the hands of the player who did not disconnect. The options are: redo the battle move for move, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't do it.


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Beat Dundies in 3 very intense games, GG.

Game 1: Replay lost

He won. He brought a very good balance team with a Simisear, which I couldn't really deal with, despite having both a Politoed and Monferno. I made some poor plays which allowed much of my team to get worn down to the breaking point. I was basically banking on a Drifblim sweep to end the game or at least wear down Stunfisk for a Monferno sweep. But he played his Stunfisk well, got up rocks and denied me mine and kept all his mons at full health which made it too much to pull off.

Game 2: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pu-323469834

I won. I brought a Sticky Webs team, and he brought an interesting Altaria-Klang balance. With webs on my side and no hazard removal on his I thought I had the obvious advantage. But I still needed to wear his Stunfisk and Altaria down a lot if I wanted to have a lategame sweep with either Monferno or DD Altaria. It became a game of cat-and-mouse switching and seeing if I could create a hole to break down his defensive core. In the endgame, I got a bit luck and made a 50-50 to set up Swords Dance with Monferno against his Altaria.

Game 3: http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/pu-323474487

I brought rain and he had another Lumineon squad. I thought I had no chance against Lumineon, but he stayed in on a Roselia (perhaps an overpredict for Drifblim), and I was able to both wear it down, sleep his Pawniard, and set up Toxic Spikes. From there it was just a matter of handling Drifblim with Encore and waiting for the right opportunity to set up rain and sweep.
 
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