The ADV BL ":blobsweats:" Tournament - Finals! [Won by McMeghan]

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ADV BL Tournament!
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Hi, welcome to the ADV BL tournament! Back in the ADV days, tiering was drastically different than it is today. It was subjective and arbitrary. They simply put mons that they judged too strong for UU and not good for OU in BL. There is a whooping total of 48 pokémons in the tier, making it a tier on its own, a drastically different metagame than ADV UU or OU. So if you're an ADV fan, play this, it's fun hehe!

Rules
  • The tournament will be single elimination.
  • Players will play a best of one series each round. Finals will be a best of three.
  • Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!
  • Matches will be played as ADV OU.
  • All the ADV BL and below pokemon are allowed! ADV OU and above pokémon are illegal!
  • Posting replays is not mandatory, but I'd prefer if you do so. :blobthumbsup:

Clauses
  • Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokémon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokémon.
  • Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same Pokémon on their team. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.
  • Evasion Clause: A player cannot use the moves Double Team or Minimize in their Pokémon's movesets.
  • OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
  • Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, he/she loses.
  • Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any pokemon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play.
  • Baton Pass Clause: Using the move Baton Pass is forbidden.

FINALS

McMeghan vs PasY_G

No deadline!
Best of 3!


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I won vs pasy in two, ggs.

I enjoyed playing in this tier and tournament. Gonna share my replays and some thoughts about the tier as well as my teams.

First off, the replays:
vs Noblesse Oblige: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen3ou-356560
vs HNBL: Dropbox link, download it if you wanna watch it
vs Beds: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-722963509
vs Pasy: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen3ou-363855
vs Pasy: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen3ou-363864

Upon seeing the Pokemons available in the tier, Stall seemed pretty strong, so I decided to build one. Since the final was a Bo3, I ended up using a team I got from Astamatitos, which was his own take on Stall. While Stall is pretty strong on paper, the tier definitely has some answers for it, be it by just packing Rest on set-uppers and playing the longcon or using other tools at disposal, such as CB Rhydon (which has no safe switch-in available at all) or even overlooked Pokemons like Girafarig or Xatu (Early Bird makes them much more threatening as CM sweepers). Overall, the games and teams really made me feel like I was playing the very old ADV OU tier we had shaped in the french community back on Netbattle...

The tier definitely has depth and could be explored more, but it's not like it has many occasions to develop so... until next time!

Finally, the team I built and some explanations regarding its build.
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Omastar @ Leftovers
Ability: Swift Swim
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Spikes
- Surf
- Protect
- Toxic

Chansey @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Toxic
- Soft-Boiled
- Seismic Toss
- Aromatherapy

Dusclops @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 136 Def / 120 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Mean Look
- Rest
- Night Shade
- Curse

Articuno @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 144 Def / 96 SpD / 16 Spe
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Ice Beam
- Roar
- Rest
- Protect

Blastoise @ Leftovers
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Surf
- Haze
- Rapid Spin
- Rest

Crobat @ Choice Band
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Sludge Bomb
- Hidden Power [Ground]
- Hyper Beam
- Aerial Ace

I kinda built this similary to an OU Spikes team. Omastar was my spiker of choice because it was pretty tanky and could help tank some stuff in a pinch like Regirock. Went with Protect/Toxic for recovery, in true Skarmory fashion.
Dusclops to spinblock, went with this set because I felt like it could give me the upperhand in a Stall ditto.
Chansey because special wall + cleric.
Articuno seemed like an amazing wall in general, could abuse Pressure and Spikes with Roar. Went with Protect on the last slot for Leftovers/Pressure/scouting.
Blastoise because it can spin and also is very tanky. Haze is always amazing to have at your disposal to prevent last-mon setups too.
Crobat as a fast revenge killer & safety net, playing an Aerodactyl-like role.
 
Yo grats, the first game really felt absolutly unbreakable with the team i had, second game tho rng went a lil against me but i also i messed up the last turns by killing entei x_x

The tier was absolutly fun, one of the most interesting "offtiers" ive played so far and im looking forward to play it in the adv teamtour!

And so in the end we still kinda met in finals Astamatitos :pimp::smogthink:
 
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