Indigo Plateau
UU Leader
Taken over from starry blanket
Thanks to Ark for hosting the UU version of this thread, giving me the idea for doing the thread in this manner as opposed to previous editions
Co-hosted with Team Pokepals & FMG & Gross Sweep
Approved by Team Pokepals
(Until we get a real banner)
Hello everyone and welcome to the new, revamped SM OU Weekly Research thread! In this thread, the focus will be on playing with a variety of different Pokemon through a laddering competition phase, where the goal, along with being the highest on the ladder compared to the other competitors, will be to see how each of the test subjects of the week fare in the OU metagame. The laddering phase will be paired with a discussion phase, where anyone that is participating will give their thoughts on the test subjects' performances in the metagame, what sets are best, the teams they fit on best, etc.
Procedure/Rules:
Thanks to Ark for hosting the UU version of this thread, giving me the idea for doing the thread in this manner as opposed to previous editions
Co-hosted with Team Pokepals & FMG & Gross Sweep
Approved by Team Pokepals
(Until we get a real banner)
Hello everyone and welcome to the new, revamped SM OU Weekly Research thread! In this thread, the focus will be on playing with a variety of different Pokemon through a laddering competition phase, where the goal, along with being the highest on the ladder compared to the other competitors, will be to see how each of the test subjects of the week fare in the OU metagame. The laddering phase will be paired with a discussion phase, where anyone that is participating will give their thoughts on the test subjects' performances in the metagame, what sets are best, the teams they fit on best, etc.
Procedure/Rules:
- Each week, 2 Pokemon will be chosen as our "test subjects".
- There are two options in order to participate in the research:
- You can go on Pokemon Showdown and create a brand new WR# alt and proceed to try and top the ladder. You do not have to reach #1 on the ladder; you will only be competing against everyone else who has signed up with a WR alt for that week.
- WR Alt Example: WR(Week#) (Name) - WR1 Eclipse for Week 1, for example.
- Alternatively, you can ladder with an alt of your choice as long as you provide evidence that the alt belongs to you. Since this is a new addition, please reference this post for further details.
- You can go on Pokemon Showdown and create a brand new WR# alt and proceed to try and top the ladder. You do not have to reach #1 on the ladder; you will only be competing against everyone else who has signed up with a WR alt for that week.
- You will post in this thread with your alt name as well as the Pokemon(s) that you will be using for the week. If you want to make a new alt, edit your post in the thread saying that you made a new alt. If you fail to post in the thread with your corresponding alt, you will be disqualified from winning for the week.
- From there, start laddering! Get a team with any of the test subjects and go try and reach the highest on the ladder competing with the other WR competitors.
- The laddering phase and discussion phase begin immediately at the start of the week; you may post at any time during the week for the discussion phase.
- During the week, you must post in this thread about your experiences with any of the test subjects that you played with. Note: You don't need to post any more than once during the round. Your post doesn't have to be insanely detailed, although the more detailed your post, the better of a chance of you winning the discussion phase of each round.
- When posting, you can include (but are not limited to):
- Strategies used
- Sets used
- How you went about building with the Pokemon
- General strengths / weaknesses you noticed about the Pokemon
- If the meta is in favor of the Pokemon or not
- How the Pokemon fares in high level / tournament play (examples are nice here)
- And much more...
- There will be one Hall Of Fame for the posting phase which users will compete to have their name in.
- There will be two winners of the posting phase, one for each test subject; the winners of the posting phase will be the users who make the best post about their test subjects in all of the different categories listed above; the winners of the posting phase will be decided by my co-hosts and I.
- Also recommended is that you please save your replays while laddering. Replays are always nice to see directly how the Pokemon perform in battle, so please save replays often to show how the tesr subjects do in normal matches.
- Your posts for the posting phase don't need to be super lengthy & detailed, but they shouldn't be super short and simple. I'm not gonna put some arbitrary regulation on how many sentences you should have, but you should have at least a small paragraph.
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