BH The Balanced Hackmons Open - Round 4

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Welcome to the Balanced Hackmons Open!

Tournament Rules:
  • General tournament rules and regulations.
  • The banlist for this tournament is the same as the Balanced Hackmons ladder on the Smogon University server of Pokemon Showdown, and can be found on Smogon's strategy dex.
  • Best of three, single elimination.
  • If metagame changes occur during the middle of a round, they will take effect in the subsequent round.
  • Battles must take place on SmogTours.
  • S/V cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
  • Replays are required from Round 2 and beyond. Play on https://smogtours.psim.us/ to ensure that your replays are automatically saved.

In addition to earning points for the OM Grand Slam, this tournament is also part of the OM Tour Circuit and awards points based on how well you do.

Week 4

Osake  vs  XxLazzerpenguinxX
Akira 153  vs  Yoko
QT  vs  Fc
SammyCe123  vs  Clas

Deadline is Sunday, April 13th at 10:00 PM Eastern (GMT-4).
 
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couple predicts bc im bored

Osake  vs  XxLazzerpenguinxX
Sevag's teams are just... something, and they somehow consistently get the best matchup ever (see harvest blissey stall), but Osake is on a tear and I'm pretty confident that he wont come up short :psysly: siamato i snuck in a height joke are you happy

Akira 153  vs  Yoko
Pretty self-explanatory, Akira is a nightmare to prep and play against for almost every BH player and has years more experience than Yoko + I'm just more trusting in their play. Yoko could win, but they would need to play absolutely incredibly well or get perfect matchups.

QT  vs  Fc
QT's teams upset me at how quickly they generally get stomped by any form of hazard stack team, but Fc isn't a BH main so QT gets the de-facto pick here.

(Tbp24  vs  SammyCe123)
This is a round 3 predict and is really out there, but Tbp24 is a threat. Sammy is obviously incredibly good, but I've never seen someone with so much improvement and potential as Tbp. When I say I think they could be the next Sammy, I mean it, and that's included in BH. Only way Sammy is winning is with prep, because Tbp is winning 90% of the time with an equal matchup. either way they both scare me as opponents
 
Osake vs XxLazzerpenguinxX
Sevag will load an UNVIABLE team and will play it very dubiously, however it will still win. Osake is good but Sevag has plot armor.

QT vs Fc
QT has stopped loading regen balance with poor hazardcontrol 100% of the time and now loads it 80% of the time instead, this crucial shift means their victory is ensured because Fc can't reliably cteam to cover the bh experience gap.

Tbp24 vs SammyCe123
Hoping Tbp will continue to quickly improve, but I think this is where their open run ends. Sammy is very good and will have better prep unless Tbp gets good help, which might be tricky given all the bh players are too lazy to build bh these days.

SammyCe123 vs Clas
Sammy is IMO a better builder, but they've got comparable skill and Clas is better at prepping for their opponent so this is even, a 55-45 matchup.

Tbp24 vs Clas
As with Sammy, I think Tbp would need very good support to beat Clas just due to the sheer experience gap, and I'm not sure the requisite support is available to them.
 
Balanced Hackmons has been updated to correctly allow Pikachu-Starter and Eevee-Starter to be used in the format. Since this was a mechanics issue and not a tiering change / ban, the change is effective immediately and Pikachu-Starter and Eevee-Starter are legal in this Open, yes even the round three extension game.

Smogon Tours will not be updated with this change until next week, so in the mean time, we recommend either playing on main for the remainder of this round or using the below challenge code on stours:

/challenge gen9balancedhackmons @@@ +Pikachu-Starter, +Eevee-Starter

More information about the relevance of the new formes can be found here.
Osake XxLazzerpenguinxX Akira 153 Yoko QT Fc Tbp24 SammyCe123 Clas
 
Really sorry about this, but requesting an extension for Tuesday 6 pm +2. Clas and I ended up having schedules this weekend that conflicted a lot, and this time would work a lot better for the both of us.
 
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