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Welcome to PokeCommunity Stadium 2, a PvE Pokemon autobattle event
How does this event work?
Select a team of 6 rental Pokemon from Pokemon Stadium 2. Pits them against several trainers from Pokemon Stadium 2's Gym Leader Castle in Pokemon Showdown. Scores each match based on damage dealt and health remaining.
Comes with a twist: Cannot directly participate in the battle itself. Handles all the move selections for you. Chooses the moves semi-randomly. Applies to the enemy trainer as well. Amounts to being a step up from Metronome battles.
Do not worry about owning Pokemon Stadium 2 or using Pokemon Showdown, also. Requires neither to fully participate.
What do you control?
The Pokemon on your team. Chooses a team of six at the beginning. See the list of rental Pokemon further down for your options. Sticks with that team for the entire event.
The order of your team. Selects three Pokemon to send into battle, as well as the order. Make sure not to put a Baton Pass Pokemon in the back.
Each Pokemon's item. May give each Pokemon an item. Choose wisely. Sticks with that Pokemon for the entire event. Cannot give any two Pokemon the same item. See the Item List down below for your available items and their effects.
Each Pokemon's command. Instructs each Pokemon how to behave. Do you want your Kingler to never use Leer? Command it to be "Aggressive" so it will never pick Leer. Do you want Aipom to focus on status moves? Pick "Tricky". Allows you to change each Pokemon's command prior to each individual match. Listed all the commands directly below.
Commands
Aggressive: Always selects a damaging move (unless forced).
Confident: Selects a damaging move 75% of the time.
Quirky: Selects a damaging move 50% of the time.
Cautious: Selects a damaging move 25% of the time.
Tricky: Never selects a damaging move (unless forced).
Random: Selects all moves with equal likelihood. (Defaults to this if a command is not chosen. Uses this for enemy trainers.)
Clauses
Plays this on the Gen 2 Nintendo Cup 2000 format. (Could not figure out how to do it custom.) Includes various clauses, most of which do not matter.
Stadium Sleep Clause: Limit one foe put to sleep
Freeze Clause Mod: Limit one foe frozen
Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokémon
Item Clause: Limit one of each item
Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
Event Moves Clause: Event-only moves are banned
Notes Generation 2 mechanics as well. Will not encounter any Fairy types. Never technically designated any moves as "status" yet, also. Uses Generation 4 classifications for that.
Aces
Introduces a new mechanic to this year's iteration: aces. Designate one of your Pokemon as the team's "ace". Increases its level to 55. (Notably allows you to select Dragonite and Tyranitar now, but only as an ace.) Allows you to replace one of its moves with any other legal move it learns in Generation 2, in addition. Do not give it a move it learns at level 56+, an event-only move, OR a Generation 1 transfer-only move.
Extended this power to your opponents as well. Will always select their ace for their match. (Holds you to no such restriction.) One exception to this: Lance. Lists two aces on that team (Dragonite and Tyranitar). Will pick one of those, but not both.
Cannot switch who your ace is during the event, also.
Scoring
Every 1 damage dealt = 1 point
Every 1 hitpoint remaining after battle = 0.25 points
Awards a x1.1 score multiplier if you include a Pokemon who is not fully evolved in that match's team of 3. Increases to x1.2 by bringing two and x1.3 for all three being not fully evolved. (Note: Determines "not fully evolved" by Generation 2 Pokemon standards. Will not qualify for the multiplier by bringing Murkrow, for example.)
Rounds the number you get to the nearest whole number. Adds up the scores from all of your matches to determine your final score. Drops the lowest of your four individual match scores.
Mentions one last scoring change. Looks at the opponent's ending hitpoints for damage dealt this year. Previously counted extra damage dealt if the opponent healed somehow (Berry, Giga Drain, so on). Was annoying to keep track of.
List of All Rental Pokemon
Spoilered all the possible Pokemon below. Copy/paste these when sending in your team. Add your item after the @ symbol.
Lifted all the level 100 rental Pokemon from Pokemon Stadium 2's list. Leveled them down to 50. Feel free to browse them on somewhere like Serebii or this Rental Pokemon pastebin too. May be easier to read.
Notes three things:
1. Maximum DVs on all of them, unlike the rentals in Pokemon Stadium 2. (Locks in Hidden Power to 70 power Dark, also, if you take that.)
2. Selects 0 Friendship for Pokemon with Frustration and 255 Friendship for Pokemon with Return.
3. Ran into issues with Pokemon Showdown enforcing certain rules. Forced a few changes.
Restricts Tyranitar and Dragonite to be ace-only. (Evolves at level 55. Must be that to be legal.)
Cannot select Mew or Celebi. (Banned for being Uber.)
Replaced Suicune's Mist with Psych Up. (Learns Mist at level 51.)
Replaced Hitmonlee's Reversal with Jump Kick. (Learns Reversal at level 51.)
Larvitar @
Level: 50
IVs: 30 HP
- Rock Slide
- Earthquake
- Hyper Beam
- Swagger
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Item List
May select any of these items for your team. Copy/pasted it from Showdown with some rearranging. Regains any consumed items between matches. Do not forget the limit of one of each item. Stays with the Pokemon for the entire event too. (Posted an Item pastebin for alternate viewing.)
A change from last year: No Leftovers. Was too good.
Spoiler: Item List
General items
Black Belt: Holder's Fighting-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Black Glasses: Holder's Dark-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Bright Powder: An attack against the holder has its accuracy out of 255 lowered by 20.
Charcoal: Holder's Fire-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Focus Band: Holder has a ~11.7% chance to survive an attack that would KO it with 1 HP.
Hard Stone: Holder's Rock-type attacks have 1.1x power.
King's Rock: Holder's attacks without a chance to flinch gain a 10% chance to flinch.
Magnet: Holder's Electric-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Mail: Cannot be given to or taken from a Pokemon, except by Covet/Knock Off/Thief.
Metal Coat: Holder's Steel-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Miracle Seed: Holder's Grass-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Mystic Water: Holder's Water-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Never-Melt Ice: Holder's Ice-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Pink Bow: Holder's Normal-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Poison Barb: Holder's Poison-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Polkadot Bow: Holder's Normal-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Quick Claw: Each turn, holder has a ~23.4% chance to move first in its priority bracket.
Scope Lens: Holder's critical hit ratio is raised by 1 stage.
Sharp Beak: Holder's Flying-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Silver Powder: Holder's Bug-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Soft Sand: Holder's Ground-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Spell Tag: Holder's Ghost-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Twisted Spoon: Holder's Psychic-type attacks have 1.1x power.
Single Use Items
Berry: Restores 10 HP when at 1/2 max HP or less. Single use.
Berry Juice: Restores 20 HP when at 1/2 max HP or less. Single use.
Berserk Gene: On switch-in, raises holder's Attack by 2 and confuses it. Single use.
Bitter Berry: Holder is cured if it is confused. Single use.
Burnt Berry: Holder is cured if it is frozen. Single use.
Gold Berry: Restores 30 HP when at 1/2 max HP or less. Single use.
Ice Berry: Holder is cured if it is burned. Single use.
Mint Berry: Holder wakes up if it is asleep. Single use.
Miracle Berry: Holder cures itself if it is confused or has a status condition. Single use.
Mystery Berry: Restores 5 PP to the first of the holder's moves to reach 0 PP. Single use.
PRZ Cure Berry: Holder cures itself if it is paralyzed. Single use.
PSN Cure Berry: Holder is cured if it is poisoned. Single use.
Pokémon-specific Items
Light Ball: If held by a Pikachu, its Special Attack is doubled.
Lucky Punch: If held by a Chansey, its critical hit ratio is always at stage 2. (25% crit rate)
Metal Powder: If held by a Ditto, its Defense and Sp. Def are 1.5x, even while Transformed.
Stick: If held by a Farfetch'd, its critical hit ratio is always at stage 2. (25% crit rate)
Thick Club: If held by a Cubone or a Marowak, its Attack is doubled.
Enemy Teams
Squares off against Pokemon Stadium 2's Gym Leader Castle Round 1 teams. (Serebii link or pastebin link.) Will face 2 random gym leaders, 1 random Elite Four, and Lance.
Provides full opponent information below. Always picks their ace for the match. Selects 2 of their remaining 5 Pokemon listed randomly, as well as the team order. Always faces the exact same Pokemon and order as every other participant. Keeps things fairer.
Dragonite @ Focus Band
Level: 55
IVs: 30 HP
- Hyper Beam
- Thunder
- Steel Wing
- Dragonbreath
Steelix @ Ice Berry
Level: 50
IVs: 30 HP
- Hyper Beam
- Iron Tail
- Earthquake
- Dragonbreath
Tyranitar @ Bitter Berry
Level: 55
IVs: 30 HP
- Hyper Beam
- Crunch
- Rock Slide
- Earthquake
Bombarded you with plenty of information. How about an example battle?
Participant's team: Magby, Ampharos, and Nidorino. Chose the Confident command for each of them.
Whitney's Team: Dodrio, Miltank, and Stantler. Picks moves fully randomly for these.
Check the attached .zip file at the bottom of the post for the replay. (Cannot attach HTML files like last year, unfortunately.)
Dealt 166 + 42 damage to Whitney's Pokemon. Adds up to 208.
Lost the battle. Ended with zero hitpoints, obviously. 0 * 0.25 = 0.
Brought two not fully evolved Pokemon. Puts the multiplier at x1.2.
Score = (208 + 0) * 1.2
Score = 249.6. Rounds that to the nearest whole number.
Score = 250 points
Submit your teams to Devalue via private message on the forums or by direct messaging "devalkyr" (without the quotes) on Discord. Remember to give your Pokemon items too. Reveals these teams after the results of the first match, for the record. Feel free to ask questions in-thread or through the methods just mentioned. Permits users to join midway through the event also.
Leads off with an appropriate trainer for your first match: Leader Falkner.
Created three achievements for this event too. Awards each of these to a single person, barring ties on the tiebreaker.
Just the Right Spot: 10 points. Land the most critical hits in a single battle. (Tiebreaker: Highest average number of criticals across all your battles.)
Down to the Wire: 10 points. Win a battle with the least amount of health remaining on your team. (Tiebreaker: Highest maximum hitpoints for the team.)
Incredible Pokemon Force: 10 points. Win a battle in the least number of turns. (Tiebreaker: Fewest average turns for all your battles.)
Signed up! This looked like a lot of fun last year. I'm glad I was able to catch it this year and can show off my poor team-building skills to the world
How did everyone fare? Attached all the replays in a .zip file at the bottom of the post. Encourages people to watch them. Witnessed some real highs and lows.
Spoiler: Jbsundown
Realized the slight error about using Whitney's name and avatar after finishing the battle. Never changed it from the example battle. Whoops.
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 16
Remaining health: 0
Criticals: 0
Almost went quite differently. Queued up two False Swipes on Farfetch'd after the Slash that took down Pikachu. Could have lived on 1 hitpoint for a while and fired off more Thunderbolts. (Queued up three Thunderbolts on Turns 5, 6, and 7.)
Did not even remember Pidgeot having that PRZCure Berry.
Bad luck on Piloswine, also. Gave it the Quirky command, which led to a 50% chance of using Mist. Unfortunately chose Earthquake when it did feel like attacking.
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 25
Remaining health: 285
Criticals: 1
Bad luck there. Might have been able to sweep with Tyranitar if it had chosen Rock Slide on Turn 1 (and hit). Continued with Snorlax's refusal to Headbutt. Was going to finally Headbutt again on the turn it fainted (and the next).
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 17
Remaining health: 206
Criticals: 1
Saw the travesty coming after selecting Zapdos's first twenty moves. Chose Thunder 9 times of 20, for the record. Compounded that bad luck further with trash Thunder accuracy. Also compares really poorly against kpac_xjinx's Zapdos.
Could not believe that Burnt Berry triggering.
Still managed the second best score (as of writing this), however. Not too shabby.
Processed that match first. (Was still in the mindset of the example battle that used Whitney.) Realized while saving the replay of the match. Used the correct team, though. Seemed silly to redo the match.
I see plenty of Snorlaxes this year as well, although not as domineering anymore... It wasnt the most ideal pick for this particular matchup, we'll see how it performs in the upcoming rounds.
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 21
Remaining health: 77
Criticals: 0
Cannot believe that Destiny Bond. Or the two Counters and a Mirror Coat actually doing something.
Fun fact: Thought you picked Girafarig, Arbok, and Magby. Ran that battle before you sent your intended order. Scored 625 points with the other team. Worked out that closely somehow.
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 36
Remaining health: 0
Criticals: 0
A heart-breaking loss. Left 7 hitpoints on Forretress. Apparently paid dearly on luck for hitting the first Blizzard on Steelix. Landed 2 of 5 Egg Bombs. Meanwhile, a full Rollout from Forretress.
Wonders if Snorlax would have lived without that Earthquake critical. Lined up two Fire Punches on the next rounds. (Plus side: Never Headbutted. Would have done so on its 14th attack, as well as the 16th - 18th attacks.)
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 26
Remaining health: 0
Criticals: 2
Almost clawed that back. Flinched Steelix when it was at literal 1 health and about to Iron Tail. 25 health left on Forretress, by the way. Would not have fainted to recoil damage.
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 9
Remaining health: 426
Criticals: 1
Hung on with a mere 4 hitpoints. Saved you so much health...probably. Does not know how well Hitmonchan's Ice Punch on its 4th and 5th move would have done. Queued up Snorlax's Fire Punches super late too (move #8).
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 21
Remaining health: 593
Criticals: 1
Marks the first time this event where 20 queued moves was not enough. Would have gone well beyond it if that last Headbutt did not finish it. (Turns 22-25: Rest, sleep, sleep, Rest.)
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 22
Remaining health: 0
Criticals: 2
Fell victim to the Jasmine's tough lead, like several others. Might have been a wildly different story with a different order.
Current scores
Dr. Yellow: 1367 (710 + 657)
wolf: 1318 (620 + 698)
apro: 1290 (693 + 597)
Aquacorde: 1254 (590 + 664)
kpac_xjinx: 1191 (666 + 525)
5qwerty: 1150 (657 + 493)
Arcaneum: 897 (630 + 267)
Jbsundown: 865 (636 + 229)
StarstruckFlora: 626 (0 + 626)
Kitty: 491 (491 + 0)
Current achievement leaders
Dealt the most criticals in a battle: 5 (Aquacorde, Round 2)
Least amount of health remaining in a win: 40 (Aquacorde, Round 1)
Quickest battle: 4 turns (kpac_xjinx, Round 1)
Enters the Elite Four for your Round 3 match. Battles Karen, the Dark type user, with her ace Umbreon. Where is Houndoom? Who knows? (Would have been the ace otherwise.)
Elects to answer a question in advance. May note Attract on nearly all of Karen's Pokemon. Does that work against your Pokemon? Appears to default to male on Pokemon can be male. Only chose female for Chansey. Use that information how you will. Feel free to ask if your Pokemon is male, female, or undetermined, if you are uncertain.
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 26
Remaining health: 119
Criticals: 2
Lots of criticals from Karen near the start. Bopped themselves in confusion an awful lot too. Made good use of all those Defense drops from Zapdos, in the end.
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 69 (nice)
Remaining health: 0
Criticals: 2
...What was that battle? Actually ran Umbreon out of Confuse Rays and Moonlights. Actually would have survived if Umbreon still had Moonlights left. Queued up a Moonlight for that turn. Could not do that. Skipped it to do the next move.
Full disclosure: Messed up entering a command once (Turn 53). Chose Sleep Talk by mistake. Resulted in Dewgong getting an extra Aurora Beam. Corrected it later in the fight by dropping an Aurora Beam for Sleep Talk (when awake). Resulted in the same overall damage. Would not have fainted Umbreon either way. Saw no reason to refight it.
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 28
Remaining health: 0
Criticals: 0
Bad luck from start to finish, pretty much. Probably would have gotten off a Thunderbolt (turn 3), if not for the Feint Attack critical. (Swears on this Murkrow getting a lot of criticals. Checked. No critical-boosting item.) Smacked themselves a lot too.
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 23
Remaining health: 133
Criticals: 1
Gave you pretty good luck after the first few turns. Landed all three DynamicPunches (one critical), which were a huge swing against Umbreon. Stopped one of Umbreon's Moonlights with paralysis.
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 24
Remaining health: 0
Criticals: 0
Did not know Mirror Coat would fail against Dark types. (Never really used it, to be fair.) Rolled a lot of bad confusion luck to boot. Describes Magby hitting itself to end the match as kind of good, in terms of scoring. Stopped Umbreon from healing to full with Moonlight (which it was doing that turn).
Achievement stats for this battle:
Total turns: 27
Remaining health: 0
Criticals: 1
Get that Skarmory some glasses. Missed way too many times.
Thought Nidoqueen would beat Umbreon between paralysis and Mud-Slaps. Lucked out on those Psychics going through.
Brings up one note. Discovered an annoying issue with Showdown. Mouses over the Pokemon after the battle to see the remaining hitpoints. Tells you a precise number (like 179/198) in the actual match. Used that for remaining health calculations. Apparently does not factor in the final turn of damage when doing that, however. (Or maybe only in certain circumstances?) Could figure that out by reading the battle's text log. Means reviewing every single battle so far.
Decided not to readjust any numbers in this round or previous rounds. Affected everyone equally, for better or for worse. Will keep an eye on that during the Lance round, however.
Current scores
apro: 2086 (693 + 597 + 796)
kpac_xjinx: 1778 (666 + 525 + 587)
Dr. Yellow: 1621 (710 + 657 + 254)
Jbsundown: 1477 (636 + 229 + 612)
Aquacorde: 1466 (590 + 664 + 212)
wolf: 1318 (620 + 698 + 0)
Arcaneum: 1199 (630 + 267 + 302)
5qwerty: 1150 (657 + 493 + 0)
Kitty: 1140 (491 + 0 + 649)
StarstruckFlora: 907 (0 + 626 + 281)
Current achievement leaders
Dealt the most criticals in a battle: 5 (Aquacorde, Round 2)
Least amount of health remaining in a win: 40 (Aquacorde, Round 1)
Quickest battle: 4 turns (kpac_xjinx, Round 1)
Arrived at the final match of the event: Lance. Faces either the ace Dragonite or the ace Tyranitar, but not both. Boasts almost all offensive moves, unlike the previous matches. Deals with none of that Confuse Ray + Moonlight nonsense here. Prepare yourselves for a slugfest.
Spoiler: Lance's Team
Aces: Dragonite and Tyranitar
Charizard @ Mint Berry
Level: 50
IVs: 30 HP
- Hyper Beam
- Fly
- Dig
- Flamethrower
woah that crit really helped me out there! makes up for all the bad luck in the previous matches! Surprisingly my worst matchup brought the most points so far!
