Happy Holidays everyone, and welcome to the second SM Secret Santa event! It’s similar to real-life Secret Santa exchanges, except grown adults won’t look at you funny for gifting them teams of Pokémon! In case you’ve never participated in a Secret Santa before, here’s how it works:
- Sign up to participate by Wednesday, December 14th
- DM me, and provide a single Pokémon or small core of Pokémon you would like to have a team made with.
- Get anonymously paired with another user.
- Design a team for your partner around their chosen Pokémon or core before the submission deadline (Friday, December 23rd)
- On Christmas Day, receive your gifted team via DM from me!
- (Optional but recommended): Discuss your team/thank your Secret Santa in this thread!
- To sign up, post "in" in this thread (or otherwise make it obvious that you want to participate in your post).
- Please, only sign up if you can commit to building a team for your partner. I can help a little if needed but can’t build for everyone!
- This is a Secret Santa – don’t reveal what your request was or what request you received!
- DM me (on Discord @Clem#3471 or on Smogon) with your requested Pokémon/core after signing up, but before the submission deadline. If you don’t send me a request before the deadline, your sign-up will unfortunately have to be disqualified! Don’t make me be a Grinch!
- Try to keep requests limited to UU-viable Pokémon. If you really want a team with an unranked Pokémon, you can request it, but the resulting team may not be as viable as you might hope!
- Requests of cores are preferable to requests of individual Pokémon (for example, Ash Greninja + Garchomp, instead of just Ash Greninja), unless one of the Pokémon is difficult to build with.
- It will make it much easier for your Secret Santa to build a team you like if you also include the style of team you would like built with your requested Pokémon/core (ex. bulky offense, balance, hyper offense, stall, sun, etc.)
- If you would like the Pokémon you request to have a specific set, please mention this in your request!
The sign-up deadline to participate in the project is: Wednesday, December 14th
The final team submission deadline is: Friday, December 23rd
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!
