The purpose of monotype is to make the gyms on here proportionally difficult to how they're supposed to be in the regions. Ash might have trouble against brawly, but anyone playing the games can just wreck him with swellow. Now if brawly has a manectric, that restores the challenge and shakes things up. Basically youre still a specialist but more oc a "competitive specialist" to keep things interesting.
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Also, to the people who put "Im confused" in the poll, maybe ask your questions in the thread and someone could help answer them.
Btw can I grab the steel gym?
Oh hang on, whoa whoa whoa xD When you said 3:3 regular to wild card - I thought you meant 3 pokemon that matched your gyms type that are locked into your gym's roster permanently, and 3 STILL of your gyms type, that you can swap out at any time - I didn't know you meant like, completely out of the gym's element. :x This is something that should get some group input though; because I don't wanna be a dick and mandate the way I think is best.
I had originally intended, for the challengers being locked into 6 pokemon, for 8 different typed gyms, to balance with the fact that the Leader's teams, would in fact all be monotype. If the leaders all had half their teams as various types, they could effectively (and logically) choose 3 hard counters to things that normally best their standard type. And what's to keep the leader from using or primarily banking on their 3 wild cards if the challengers team is a bit advantageous compared to the Leader's team? Personally, in the interest of sheerly being more possible for challengers, I'd *like* to see the Gyms maintain monotype teams. If that position is outnumbered on that point though, I'll for sure roll with the flex / wild card idea too. But maybe keep it to 1 or 2 instead of half the team at least? :x
BUT I CALLED IT FIRST!!! Just kidding. I'm sure we can work out some sort of agreement there. Possibly hold the tournament on showdown (I don't have a ready team and I think a lot of others don't, either). As you are the creator and head of this project, I think it should follow your schedule, but still to the convenience of others. Possibly Monday through Wednesday or Wednesday through Friday?
Forget my schedule, I"m only one guy in this haha. Let's aim for the time the MOST people will be available, potentially over the span of a few days I suppose, so we can get the most matches in for applicants.
Similar to Zekrom though, I work full time and Monday through Friday, I'm only available from 5pm Central US time until around midnight Central US time on account of work from 7-5 :L But hey, I can try and stretch that a bit. I've also got Wednesday off since I start my vacation Thursday.
How can we get things started? I would like to help the most i can so we can at least have some work towards this even the slightest :) btw how would i subscribe to the thread? Been looking for a while now, forgot how :/
Lets start by taking names for who wants in. I'll get into that more below. And as for subscribing - at the top of the thread, on the right side below your controls and such, look for a "Thread Tools" option to click. It should give you a drop-down list, that says "Subscribe to thread" as one option. That'll keep you updated. ^^
Haha I think we should get a list of people participating (who are actually going to be the leaders) and then pick, as opposed to now.
@Antebellum: Yeah, that shakes it up, but it doesn't really make sense. Can you really imagine Brawly with a Manectric? Also, the hard part about Gym Leaders is that if your one or two Pokemon that match up well against them faint, the rest of the battle may be very difficult. With the type variety that most types have (Steel, Water, for example), it shouldn't be that hard
Right. A list is something we need. Goddangit I wish I was first post... I can't edit the poll or the OP. I'll compile a list where I can though, third down's not so bad.
On the wild card pokemon, I really don't think we need them on account of how many type matchups there are as of sixth gen. We've got a combo of just about every type that resists its common weaknesses. Flying gym for example, we've got Flying Ground, which takes off the rock and electric weaknesses, and Flying Water, which takes off the Ice, and flying electric again to take off electric, flying fighting for rock again... it goes on. I think the dual typings are enough to support a viable monotype gym. Plus again - authenticity :P
A sidenote though -guys we really need to decide who even places as a leader before we start calling types xD It's a battle tournament not a race haha. Starting a list on the first page now.
SO PLEASE -
if you'd like to participate in the tournaments for placing as a leader, Elite, or Champion of the league - post in the thread saying so, with your PC username, wether you'll be competing on X/Y or on Showdown, and when you are available to do so! Let's make it happen! ^^
