THE DAY HAS FINALLY COME! I predicted this over a year ago, and it's finally happened!
That's right, Gamefreak is doing a 3DS Little Cup Tournament in May! This is huge: these tournaments often get more players than Pokemon Showdown's ENTIRE userbase, so this is basically the biggest exposure for Little Cup EVER!
To celebrate this happening, we're having a bit of a collaboration here: The Little Cup and Battle Spot forums are going to team up, to discuss and prepare for this metagame! Let's try to top the 3DS tournament!
Here are the rules to get you started on discussing this!
That's right, Gamefreak is doing a 3DS Little Cup Tournament in May! This is huge: these tournaments often get more players than Pokemon Showdown's ENTIRE userbase, so this is basically the biggest exposure for Little Cup EVER!
To celebrate this happening, we're having a bit of a collaboration here: The Little Cup and Battle Spot forums are going to team up, to discuss and prepare for this metagame! Let's try to top the 3DS tournament!
The big changes compared to Smogon's Little Cup rules are numerous though, so I'll detail them here.
1. This metagame is 3 vs 3 singles. This means that you bring 6 Pokemon, but can only choose 3 to battle. This usually makes games faster paced.
2. EVIOLITE IS BANNED! Expect this to make games a lot faster paced! Also, Soul Dew is banned for some reason lol.
3. There is no Uber list in this metagame. This means stuff like Scyther and Swirlix are legal!
4. Berry Juice is allowed!
5. Item clause is in full effect here. So sorry, only one Pokémon can carry Berry Juice...
6. This metagame auto level downs Pokemon to 5. This means that genderless Pokemon have full access to their movepool!
7. Pokebank is BANNED. This means that moves that require previous gen tutors are illegal!
8. No OHKO, Sleep, Evasion, or Moody clause here! That sounds scary as hell, but trust me, battle spot is usually able to deal with this just fine, so I'm sure people will be able to deal with it here :P
This thread will be in both the Little Cup AND Battle Spot forums somehow, so both userbases should expect to see some new faces! This may be moved + redirected, or maybe here will just be two threads that will be linked together. Either way though, I think we'll need both Little Cup and Battle Spot Singles knowledge to decode this metagame, so let's team up!
Before we start, I want to set out a little goal here: Let's try to get out a functional threat list by May 15th, which is a week before the tournament starts. If we do this, it could go a long way towards getting people prepared for this metagame!
Have fun people!
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Since a huge part of playing these tournaments involves breeding your team, a bunch of really nice people have done the hard work for you and are hosting a giveaway featuring all the top tier threats! What's even better is that all the Pokemon being given away are shiny so you can battle in style. Go claim what you need and thank those running it