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Are you tired of throwing Surf on that Water type Pokemon of yours? Want to try and escape having a Grass type slap your opponents silly with Vine Whip?
Welcome to the silliest Challenge for a game built around STAB: The "Same Types Are Bad" Challenge, or, "STAB-less"!
The Rules
0. You may use any Pokemon you wish.
1. You may not use a STAB-move on your Pokemon when in battle.
2. For runs where you intend to catch dual-types, you must either choice "Semi-STAB", for where only the primary type is not-usable, or "Pure-STAB", which moves of either type are not usable. This will hold true across all Pokemon you catch (that is, you can't say you exclude both from a Spearow but not from a Pidgey).
3. Status moves may be of any type, but must not deal damage. The status affliction must be the primary action. In short, if it has a Base Power, it's not a status move.
4. If you have a Pokemon that starts with a move that would grant STAB in battle (say, a Krabby with only Bubble), you may use that move until you learn one that isn't STAB. At that point, you must no longer use the STAB move.
5. Because of the restrictions for some HMs (Fly or Surf, for example), you may teach them to Pokemon that have that type. They cannot use the move in battle, though. A good example: A Lapras can learn Surf, but because it is a STAB move, it can have it on the moveset for surfing around, but cannot use it during a battle.
6. If a Pokemon can only learn moves that are STAB, such as a Normal type that can only learn Normal type moves, they are allowed to use those moves. However, only one such Pokemon like this can be on your team at a time.
7. Pokemon that gain new types after evolving but learn moves of that type prior to evolution can use the move until evolving. Then you have a choice: keep the move or evolve and no longer use it. Or, perhaps, you think strategically about when to evolve...
Exemptions:
A. Since Smeargle learns Sketch, if a Normal-type move is sketched as the first move Smeargle learns, it can be used. That is, if a L1 Smeargle used Sketch and it learned Quick Attack, it could use that until Level 11, when it learns Sketch again.
B. Because Metronome is so random, and STAB is uncontrollable, any Pokemon that can learn it is eligible to do so. However, you may have only two Metronome users on your team at any one point (in the hopes of avoiding a Metronome run).
Your Choices
As with many of the other challenges, you can do a Single Challenge of a specific game...or the Ultimate Challenge. Ultimate Challenges must have at least one game completed from each region: Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, and Alola. Ultimate Runs may be done in any order and in any main series game.
Note regarding Galar and Paldea (or, in the future, any additional regions):
If you choose to use Rom Hacks such as difficulty or all Pokemon available, those are eligible, but the rules above apply given what was changed. For example, if Charmander was now Fire/Dragon instead of Fire/Flying, Dragon moves are no longer usable but Flying moves are.
If you end up completing a set of Singles in each region using either Semi-STAB or Pure-STAB, you'll qualify for the Ultimate and will be moved there (so no need to claim initially if you aren't sure you'll get around to an Ultimate).
Endpoints
A game is considered beat when the credits start rolling for the first time.
Sign-Up
Please read the above carefully, asking any questions you find necessary for clarification or your own curiosity, and if you choose to attempt the challenge, include the following form in a post:
Challengers
Semi-STAB Single:
Pure-STAB Single:
Semi-STAB Ultimate:
Pure-STAB Ultimate:
Hall of Fame
Semi-STAB Single:
Pure-STAB Single:
Semi-STAB Ultimate:
Pure-STAB Ultimate:
Welcome to the silliest Challenge for a game built around STAB: The "Same Types Are Bad" Challenge, or, "STAB-less"!
The Rules
0. You may use any Pokemon you wish.
1. You may not use a STAB-move on your Pokemon when in battle.
2. For runs where you intend to catch dual-types, you must either choice "Semi-STAB", for where only the primary type is not-usable, or "Pure-STAB", which moves of either type are not usable. This will hold true across all Pokemon you catch (that is, you can't say you exclude both from a Spearow but not from a Pidgey).
3. Status moves may be of any type, but must not deal damage. The status affliction must be the primary action. In short, if it has a Base Power, it's not a status move.
4. If you have a Pokemon that starts with a move that would grant STAB in battle (say, a Krabby with only Bubble), you may use that move until you learn one that isn't STAB. At that point, you must no longer use the STAB move.
5. Because of the restrictions for some HMs (Fly or Surf, for example), you may teach them to Pokemon that have that type. They cannot use the move in battle, though. A good example: A Lapras can learn Surf, but because it is a STAB move, it can have it on the moveset for surfing around, but cannot use it during a battle.
6. If a Pokemon can only learn moves that are STAB, such as a Normal type that can only learn Normal type moves, they are allowed to use those moves. However, only one such Pokemon like this can be on your team at a time.
7. Pokemon that gain new types after evolving but learn moves of that type prior to evolution can use the move until evolving. Then you have a choice: keep the move or evolve and no longer use it. Or, perhaps, you think strategically about when to evolve...
Exemptions:
A. Since Smeargle learns Sketch, if a Normal-type move is sketched as the first move Smeargle learns, it can be used. That is, if a L1 Smeargle used Sketch and it learned Quick Attack, it could use that until Level 11, when it learns Sketch again.
B. Because Metronome is so random, and STAB is uncontrollable, any Pokemon that can learn it is eligible to do so. However, you may have only two Metronome users on your team at any one point (in the hopes of avoiding a Metronome run).
Your Choices
As with many of the other challenges, you can do a Single Challenge of a specific game...or the Ultimate Challenge. Ultimate Challenges must have at least one game completed from each region: Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, and Alola. Ultimate Runs may be done in any order and in any main series game.
Note regarding Galar and Paldea (or, in the future, any additional regions):
Spoiler:
If you choose to use Rom Hacks such as difficulty or all Pokemon available, those are eligible, but the rules above apply given what was changed. For example, if Charmander was now Fire/Dragon instead of Fire/Flying, Dragon moves are no longer usable but Flying moves are.
If you end up completing a set of Singles in each region using either Semi-STAB or Pure-STAB, you'll qualify for the Ultimate and will be moved there (so no need to claim initially if you aren't sure you'll get around to an Ultimate).
Endpoints
A game is considered beat when the credits start rolling for the first time.
Sign-Up
Please read the above carefully, asking any questions you find necessary for clarification or your own curiosity, and if you choose to attempt the challenge, include the following form in a post:
Code:
User:
STAB Style (Pure or Semi):
Game(s):
Single / Ultimate:Challengers
Semi-STAB Single:
Spoiler:
Pure-STAB Single:
Spoiler:
Semi-STAB Ultimate:
Spoiler:
Pure-STAB Ultimate:
Spoiler:
Hall of Fame
Semi-STAB Single:
Spoiler:
Pure-STAB Single:
Spoiler:
Semi-STAB Ultimate:
Spoiler:
Pure-STAB Ultimate:
Spoiler:
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