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Espeon has less physical bulk than Gallade and yet it's still played as a physical wall. Gallade's physicial bulk is really not that bad. I'm not saying 1.5 Sharpness is broken or isn't. I just disagree with the argument that Gallade can be powerful because on the other hand it's paper. Gallade is not paper, it's more bulky than what people claim. edit: I used to play Medicham as a physical wall in OU because Psychic / Fighting is an amazing defensive typing. Medicham has 60 base stat HP and 75 base stat Def where as Gallade has 68 base stat HP and 65 base stat Def. These two are really not that far apart.

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It's not really interesting to see the same sets being played over and over, especially since those do not get updated. Auto generating the mons based on all the data guathered in the OU/UU/NU ladders would be ideal imo. It's an enormous amount of work to constantly update manually the database of these sets. There is so many things to improve in PokeMMO. Updating Randoms manually when it could be done automatically seems like a colossal waste of time. Edit: There was 150 000 Garchomps sets that won games in OU in October 2023. The data is getting collected already. When you receive a Garchomp on your team for Randoms, it should be one of the 150 000 Garchomp sets that were played and tested already. This would keep random interesting. There is no reason to limit each mons to a few bland sets when there is litteraly a gold mine of data that could be used to spice things up. On top of that, if the Randoms ladder was using true competitive sets that are relevant in the OU/UU/NU ladder, it would make it easier for new players to be introduced to the PokeMMO metas. The Randoms ladder is right now completly disconnected for the competitive scene and there is big missed opportunity there.

@pokemmostaff All World Cup 6 Threads can be closed, but please leave this one open until next year.

I was very afraid at first that the legendary trio would get the serperior treatment and cost 3-4 mil, but I have to give devs props because suicune, raikou and entei are actually affordable.

Grinding can be fun if the grinding doesn't involve massive amount of RNG, draining resources constantly and the rewards down the line are worth something. If devs choose to scale up difficulty based on RNG, players should not have to spend resources to attempt the boss then. If devs choose to scale up difficulty based on skill, then the boss needs a timer, players need to scout which version of the boss they are facing during the encounter, etc. Also, every single event in the past 3 years has been either nerfed or buffed at the half way point. What's the purpose of this aside from fucking people over? When the event is nerfed, players who bothered to put in the work to grind the event get completly screwed because all they have farmed is now worthless. When the event gets buffed, the players who bothered to put in the work to grind the event get completly screwed over because they can't farm anymore. Nerfing or buffing any event is very disrespectful to the playerbase. These events used to be accessible to everyone. You could enter the xmas event with nothing and you could still have a spot on the leaderboard if you played your cards correctly. You could beat up kids during the Halloween event and still make more money than regular gym runs. When it comes to gameplay, economy and balancing, these events are just poorly designed.

The XMAS event was always pretty good. However, last year's event was awful. We had to breed 16 mons, lvl them up and ev train them just to end up having to use Struggle to clear waves for 24 hours. The XMAS event used to be fun and accessible to everyone. There was none of that last year. I don't mind grinding, but last year was just so dumb. The Lunar New Year event was pretty good last year. I hope it stays the same and more importantly I hope it doesn't get completly changed in the middle of the event. That was a huge hype killer considering all the time and effort players wasted into developping strategies.

I'm creating this thread to discuss the different features exclusive to the Halloween event and how these features interact with each other. So far in PokeMMO history, we had 8 iterations of the Halloween event. At first, the event was simple with few features and now much more developped with a lot to do: Beating Up Children for Goodie Bags Catching Halloween Exclusive Swarms Pokemon for: Particles Cookies Doing the Wisp & Cat quests for: High Ivs Pokemon with Hidden Ability Alpha Halloween Exclusive Pokemon Beating Up Pumpking Minibosses for: Special Candy Beating Up the Pumpking Boss Easy Mode for: 5 Goodie Bags Beating Up the Pumpking Boss Hard Mode for: 5 Pumpking Goodie Bags Boss Particles Shiny Boss Particles I personally think staff has done a good job adding on more features to this event each year. There is a lot to do and that's good. However, I think there are some important flaws when some of the added features completly invalidate previous features. I'm obviously talking about Beating Up Children for Goodie Bags. This was the first feature ever added to the event and goes back to the first Halloween event in 2015. Sadly, in the past 2 years, Beating Up Children for Goodie Bags has become completly pointless. It takes significantly more time and effort to farm 5 Goodie Bags by Beating Up Children than simply beating up the Boss in Easy Mode. Even players not interrested in the Boss fight will earn more by Beating Up Minibosses and selling the Special Candies on the GTL. No one calls out kids locations in the Global Chat anymore because the only thing players want to farm is the Minibosses. Beating Up Children was the core of our previous Halloween Event and it's a shame this feature is now completly irrelevant. Imo, the reward structure of each feature should be changed. If it were up to me, the Pumpking Boss Easy Mode should not reward players with Goodie Bags, but instead with a large portion of different Cookies and consumable necessary to beat the Pumpking Boss in Hard Mode. Goodie Bags should remain a Beating Up Children Exclusive Reward. So I'm proposing the following reward structure: Beating Up Children for Goodie Bags Catching Halloween Exclusive Swarms Pokemon for: Particles Cookies Doing the Wisp & Cat quests for: High Ivs Pokemon with Hidden Ability Alpha Halloween Exclusive Pokemon Cookies Beating Up Pumpking Minibosses for: Special Candy Beating Up the Pumpking Boss Easy Mode for: 5 Goodie Bags Cookies Consumables (X+ items, Potions, Full Heals, etc.) Beating Up the Pumpking Boss Hard Mode for: 5 Pumpking Goodie Bags Boss Particles Shiny Boss Particles Anyhow, this is what I think of the Halloween event. What do you guys think could be improved or changed?

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California time zone will change from PDT (UTC-7) to PST (UTC-8) on November 5th. I assume this means the tournament will be held at 6 AM UTC-8 in that case.

A lot of people changed timezone recently or will do so this weekend. Is it possible to confirm the tournament time in UTC/GMT?

P2 was banned for fitting Defensive and Offensive Uber Characteristics. I told you how stupid it was at the time to ban it as an offensive uber. You made fun of me. Munya censored my posts where I pointed out it was a bad precedent to ban P2 as an Offensive Uber. I got a warning point for arguing against this bad decision. Now you are acting like it never happened and it was banned as unhealthy all along. Look at the facts before making shit up please: When P2 was retested, you opened a P2 discussion thread where you acknowledged again that P2 was banned partly as an Offensive Uber: P2 was not banned as unhealthy. You know it was not banned as unhealthy. I'm not a big fan of Caoix, but you can't blame the guy for his confusion over the awful precedent you set for the community by banning p2 for the wrong reason and then ignoring the mistake pointed out to you. I have no idea why P2 is being mentionned at all, but I had to say something after seeing that blatant revisionist lie for which you got me in trouble.

Is Pokemon Species clause different in PVE compared to PVP? I'm asking because Jolteon and Vaporeon would be allowed in the same team in PVP.

@Cosmooth Ttar shiny tournament at the same time as the largest unofficial tournament ever hosted in this game? The multiverse tournament was announced 6 months ago. Cmon... Doubles players don't deserve more than a shiny ratatta for this tournament xD

Volt Tackle is the last move.

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I saw Ice Punch on TTar, Ice Punch on Feraligatr, U-Turn on Gliscor and Leech Seed on Meganium.

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@Huargensy has been removed permanently from the Betting Club.

I apologize. I missed the duels you recorded in week 3. The amount has been updated.

@Huargensy & @skyluxNG, is the situation resolved?