I play Showdown casually, and use Natdex for teams that have themes/watever comes up in my mind. But whenever I chose a Pokemon to go inthe team it's illegal, which I get, people don't want to fight a whole team of OUs and Ubers, but I'm not doing that, I'm having fun building a ramdom team. So, a Natdex Anything Goes can be a great way to play the game, but to prevent players from building competitive teams there could be a limit to how many OUs and Ubers ( 1 or 2) in any given team.
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Rejected Add Natdex Anything Goes
- Thread starter Dr Brownie
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You can challenge a person to NatDex Anything Goes (as Dorron noted), so it still exists in that sense, even if it lacks a ladder.
The ladder isn't coming back up anytime soon. It's an eyesore in battling notorious for super unfun, cheesy, annoying gimmicks like ReviveCats, and its an eyesore in coding because it's built on hypothetical guessing how mechanics never sharing a game (e.g. Mega and Tera) would interact together. (To be clear, this means it is not a fault of the coders, but just that nobody knows how certain interactions are "supposed" to work.)
I still disagree with its removal despite all that, so like I get you, but I'm in no position to do anything about it anyway.
Any limits on teambuilding for an AG format are never going to happen. It's just not Anything Goes anymore at that point. Any restriction that you think makes the tier fun again, 99% will not work the way you think it will (eg your idea leaving ReviveCats untouched). Competitive optimization is inevitable when you let players build teams.
The ladder isn't coming back up anytime soon. It's an eyesore in battling notorious for super unfun, cheesy, annoying gimmicks like ReviveCats, and its an eyesore in coding because it's built on hypothetical guessing how mechanics never sharing a game (e.g. Mega and Tera) would interact together. (To be clear, this means it is not a fault of the coders, but just that nobody knows how certain interactions are "supposed" to work.)
I still disagree with its removal despite all that, so like I get you, but I'm in no position to do anything about it anyway.
Any limits on teambuilding for an AG format are never going to happen. It's just not Anything Goes anymore at that point. Any restriction that you think makes the tier fun again, 99% will not work the way you think it will (eg your idea leaving ReviveCats untouched). Competitive optimization is inevitable when you let players build teams.
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We also are not bringing the ladder for Nat Dex AG back. It caused tons of issues with demands for bans (which aren't allowed in AG, bans in AG means its not AG anymore) on strats causing major issues like revive cats and tera electric shedinja. If you want to play a "do anything you want format", I recommend playing this format (or another like custom game, or gen 9 AG) with another person via challenge (where you can agree on rules). You can also play Nat Dex Ubers if you want to ladder, it has some bans but thats the most free (excluding hackmons formats) format with a ladder.
We also are not bringing the ladder for Nat Dex AG back. It caused tons of issues with demands for bans (which aren't allowed in AG, bans in AG means its not AG anymore) on strats causing major issues like revive cats and tera electric shedinja. If you want to play a "do anything you want format", I recommend playing this format (or another like custom game, or gen 9 AG) with another person via challenge (where you can agree on rules). You can also play Nat Dex Ubers if you want to ladder, it has some bans but thats the most free (excluding hackmons formats) format with a ladder.