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Welcome everyone to the debut of a new project in this community: the Random Battles Ladder Achievements Project!
As we all know, grinding for hours and hours on ladders is one of the favorite activities of the people in this community and it's finally time to have a dedicated project that hopes to create something cool and fun for everyone involved.
We have some news this week!
The last seven days have been quite useful to understand what worked and what should be changed for the achievements. Pretty much all the challenges seemed to be feasible... maybe too feasible. At the same time, Shapeshifter has proven to be the toughest of the bunch by a clear margin because finding Ditto is not as easy as we thought and copying 4 pokemon en route to win the match are additional elements of difficulty. In a similar way, the "In Cold Blood" Side Quest has probably registered less kills than we expected. Therefore, we have decided to make the following adjustments starting from this week:
1) The Fun Challenges have a minimum elo required
2) The Fun Challenges require you to win the match in order to get the achievement
3) We'll try to formulate challenges that are less pokemon-specific and more group-targeted
Now, all these changes don't mean that we won't have exceptions in the future but they do represent general guidelines we are trying to follow from now on. There is another thing we want to add to hopefully make clearing challenges a tad more difficult and, most importantly, to discourage people from mass forfeiting games, but this might happen next week or in a future cycle.
Ok, enough rambling for now! Let's take a look at what week 2 has in store for the players!
Climber: Reach 1st place on the Hyperblitz ladder
Specifics: There are no specifics for this challenge
Questionable temporary logo by me
Welcome everyone to the debut of a new project in this community: the Random Battles Ladder Achievements Project!
As we all know, grinding for hours and hours on ladders is one of the favorite activities of the people in this community and it's finally time to have a dedicated project that hopes to create something cool and fun for everyone involved.
We have some news this week!
The last seven days have been quite useful to understand what worked and what should be changed for the achievements. Pretty much all the challenges seemed to be feasible... maybe too feasible. At the same time, Shapeshifter has proven to be the toughest of the bunch by a clear margin because finding Ditto is not as easy as we thought and copying 4 pokemon en route to win the match are additional elements of difficulty. In a similar way, the "In Cold Blood" Side Quest has probably registered less kills than we expected. Therefore, we have decided to make the following adjustments starting from this week:
1) The Fun Challenges have a minimum elo required
2) The Fun Challenges require you to win the match in order to get the achievement
3) We'll try to formulate challenges that are less pokemon-specific and more group-targeted
Now, all these changes don't mean that we won't have exceptions in the future but they do represent general guidelines we are trying to follow from now on. There is another thing we want to add to hopefully make clearing challenges a tad more difficult and, most importantly, to discourage people from mass forfeiting games, but this might happen next week or in a future cycle.
Ok, enough rambling for now! Let's take a look at what week 2 has in store for the players!
Climber: Reach 1st place on the Hyperblitz ladder
Specifics: There are no specifics for this challenge
Win Streak: Win at least 15 matches in a row with a fresh account
Specifics: "Fresh account" means we'll only consider the results coming from profiles registered on August 4th or beyond
You are allowed to clear your w-l record of your account and try again until you clear the challenge. Just use a "fresh" account
Specifics: "Fresh account" means we'll only consider the results coming from profiles registered on August 4th or beyond
You are allowed to clear your w-l record of your account and try again until you clear the challenge. Just use a "fresh" account
Mark of Mastery: Reach at least 1520 elo on the Hyperblitz ladder
Specifics: There are no specifics for this challenge
Specifics: There are no specifics for this challenge
Underrated: Win 1 match where you have a team of 3 Pokemon with BST equal or lower than 420
Minimum elo of your opponent pre-battle: 1150
- The Pokemon compatible with this achievement are:
- All your compatible Pokemon need to touch the field
- All your compatible Pokemon need to touch the field
Critical Crossroad: Win 1 match in which you score a critical hit in the last 3 turns of the game
Minimum elo of your opponent pre-battle: 1100
- Moves that are are guaranteed to score a critical hit do count for the challenge
- The crit itself doesn't need to be game-changing and decisive, it just needs to occur in the last three turns
- Crits from the opponent don't count
- The crit itself doesn't need to be game-changing and decisive, it just needs to occur in the last three turns
- Crits from the opponent don't count
Musical Chairs: Make sure to finish in top 25 on the ladder on a randomly selected day of the week, starting from Tuesday
- The randomly selected day will be revealed at the end of the week. We'll share a screenshot in the thread to show who qualifies for the achievement
- Please let us know in the thread if you have an account in top 25 so we can register that you have cleared the challenge
- The deadline for every day is midnight GMT +1 (UK time)
- You don't have to register a new account for this challenge
- Please let us know in the thread if you have an account in top 25 so we can register that you have cleared the challenge
- The deadline for every day is midnight GMT +1 (UK time)
- You don't have to register a new account for this challenge
Trio: Win 1 match where either you or the opponent roll 2/3 pokemon of the same “legendary trio”
Minimum elo of your opponent pre-battle: 1150
- The Pokemon compatible with this achievement are:
Legendary birds
Legendary birds in Galar
Legendary beasts
Weather trio
Lake Guardians trio
Creation trio
Creation trio (origin forms)
Tao trio
Light trio
Loyal Three
- Getting a Kanto Legendary bird like Moltres and a Galarian form of the same trio like Articuno Galar doesn't count
- Getting a Johto Legendary beast like Suicune and a paradox pokemon of the same trio like Gouging Fire doesn't count
- Fusions like Necrozma Dawn Wings/Dusk Mane and Kyurem White/Black don't count
- Getting a Sinnoh legendary like Palkia and the origin form of Dialga doesn't count
- Pokemon like the Regis and the Forces of nature don't count according to Bulbapedia because they are apart of a larger group
- All the compatible Pokemon need to touch the field
Legendary birds
Legendary birds in Galar
Legendary beasts
Weather trio
Lake Guardians trio
Creation trio
Creation trio (origin forms)
Tao trio
Light trio
Loyal Three
- Getting a Kanto Legendary bird like Moltres and a Galarian form of the same trio like Articuno Galar doesn't count
- Getting a Johto Legendary beast like Suicune and a paradox pokemon of the same trio like Gouging Fire doesn't count
- Fusions like Necrozma Dawn Wings/Dusk Mane and Kyurem White/Black don't count
- Getting a Sinnoh legendary like Palkia and the origin form of Dialga doesn't count
- Pokemon like the Regis and the Forces of nature don't count according to Bulbapedia because they are apart of a larger group
- All the compatible Pokemon need to touch the field
Cosmopolitan: Win 1 match where your team is composed of pokemon each belonging to a different generation; win 1 match where the same applies to your opponent's team
Minimum elo of your opponent pre-battle: 1150
- To understand which generation a pokemon belongs to, do !dt name of the pokemon
- All the compatible Pokemon need to touch the field
- All the compatible Pokemon need to touch the field
Status Quo: Witness at least 3 of the main non volatile status conditions in the same match and win the battle
Minimum elo of your opponent pre-battle: 1100
- The status conditions for this challenge are: paralysis, poison, burn, sleep, freeze
- Poison and badly poison count as the same
- Being drowsy doesn't count: the pokemon needs to fall asleep the turn after
- The way the status has occurred doesn't matter, the important thing is that it's visualized on screen
- The same pokemon can receive more than one status during the battle
- The Pokemon of the opponent count for this challenge
- Poison and badly poison count as the same
- Being drowsy doesn't count: the pokemon needs to fall asleep the turn after
- The way the status has occurred doesn't matter, the important thing is that it's visualized on screen
- The same pokemon can receive more than one status during the battle
- The Pokemon of the opponent count for this challenge
Mini Marathon: Be the person to get the most points in the mini marathon!
Specifics:
On Saturday, we’ll run back to back to back Spotlight tournaments in the room for 12 hours! We'll start <t:1755342000:f>and finish <t:1755385200:f>. We'll have 1 tournament every 1h and 30 minutes, for a total of 8 over the course of the mini marathon at 12-24). Be the person who gets the most points!
General Rules
Here are some general guidelines we have reprised from other LAPs and adapted to the current project:
Here are some general guidelines we have reprised from other LAPs and adapted to the current project:
- All battles must take place on the Spotlight Ladder on Pokemon Showdown.
- Please give proof that you completed the challenge to validate your achievement. Our preferred way to do so is by sending replays in the dedicated thread. This is particularly true for the Fun Challenges, while screenshots are normally better to show you have cleared the Standard Challenges. In any case, hosts will specify how to submit the results in case of very unique challenges.
- You can get several achievements from the same battle/account, unless explicitly stated otherwise. I'll like your post once I've taken it into account.
- Achievements can be submitted in PM to me if you want the account you used to remain inconspicuous; I will be posting them in the thread (giving your Smogon username) myself. Please only do it as little as possible though; it's less fun.
- Past performances will not be counted; any submission needs to be verifiable on the server (by checking at the rank, WL, and such) at the moment they are posted. I.e. if the LAP starts on August 4th, you can't send a screenshot of you topping the ladder on August 1st to claim one of the Standard Challenges.
- You are obviously allowed to update your posts to showcase you have improved your records on the ladder (this is especially important for the Standard Challenges but it could also involve other challenges) as long as you do so before the deadline.
- Naturally, don't try to cheat, for instance by submitting an achievement with an account that's not yours and yours alone. In addition to that, don't mass forfeit games on the ladder just to speed up the process of obtaining the achievements. If caught doing so, you might get exposed and made fun of (but also infracted of course).
- Achievement levels may be subject to change at host's discretion.
The Prizes
Standard Challenges: The person with the most Standard Challenges won is going to get room prize winner in the Random Battles room for one month. In case of tie, that reward will go to the person who has registered the highest peak elo.
Fun Challenges: Everyone who clears all the Fun Challenges of a specific week will gain 3 tokens to be used to start a tournament in the Random Battles room. If no one clears all the challenges, we'll give 2 tokens to the person(s) who have gotten the most achievements.
Side Quests: For the Side Quests, the idea is to have a predetermined set of unique prizes that will be randomly assigned to the winners of the challenges. People won't know these prizes in advance but they will have to wait for the last week, when the results of the roll will get publicly announced.
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