Spitting an Idea (Not a suggestion)

[Duboris]

This is a post mostly to get people's opinions on a Challenge Guild that I want to make for the exclusive purpose of having fun with a weird meta that doesn't need much work to get involved in.

 

The Guild
Requirements: Interest in having a Dual Type team. To put it simply, as a member of the guild, you have 2 types to use during challenges. You can use any pokemon on PokeMMO but you have to pick 2 types, and all of your pokemon must have one of those 2 types. Example: You pick Electric/Steel, you can run Eelektross, Magnezone, Skarmory, and Galvantula. They don't have to be exclusively these types, but all of them must have at least 1 of the 2 you choose. You are, of course, allowed to change your types on a whim, but the Challengers are to be notified accordingly.

 

The Challenger
Challengers are not limited to types, but are limited in excessive firepower. What I mean by this is that they are limited to 3 (or 2, we're still thinking here.) OU pokemon in any given group and can have as many as they want from any other tier. This specific clause for the challenger is there because let's be honest, any dualtype team vs 6 OU pokemon, if both trainers are equal in hoodspah, will result in the dual-type getting absolutely destroyed if the first thing goes wrong. 

 

The Challenge

- You have to beat 4 members of the guild, mostly for fun and a decent reward for your efforts and troubles. To submit a challenge, you declare the members you want to fight and in which order via the discord that'll no doubt exist to discuss the challenger meta that would no doubt form from these shenanigans. The only applicable subjects would be the ones that are online and available in the "Waiting for Challenge" section or some other place where they're clearly active.

- Each member has 9 pre-selected pokemon, but the first 6 on their list are the pokemon they always start with. The other 3 are their switch-ins. They are allowed to switch a pokemon out for every member that got beaten before them. On member number 4? He can switch out 3 pokemon in his original team with his 3 reserves to prevent outright diabolical scheming ahead of time. The challenger can switch out the same way, but only 1 pokemon at a time per member beaten. (He is permitted 10 total pokemon, but he cannot have more than 2-3 OU in his team at any given time.) You can check current team lists on the discord. (Discord does not exist yet.)

- The Challenger would submit all 9 of his pokemon with his original 6 being the first 6. A proctor is present to spectate official challenges. If a pokemon is switched out at any point, the Proctor is told of the switch, both Challenger and Member lock in their decisions, and then the Proctor informs both of the changes. You then choose who you lead with, but you don't have to tell anyone that.

- The Reward for successful challenges is up for debate, but it's probably a minimum of 50,000$ for beating all 4, 20,000 for beating 3, 10,000 for 2, and 5,000 for 1.

 

Important Questions
The only questions I really have for you guys are:
- Do you think this would be fun?

- Do you think this should be set to where pokemon are auto 100 or 50? (I'm not even sure if this is possible on this, honestly.)
- Do you think the OU limit for the Challenger should be 2 or 3? (Definitely not 4 or more.)

(Total sidenote, for the record, I wasn't at all sure where to put this. It's not recruitment, and it's not a suggestion, and it's not really an event, so... I guess just yeet it wherever is most appropriate. Sorry for the inconvenience.)

Edited September 5, 2019 by Duboris

[XelaKebert]

While you are free to manage this unofficially, this is way too much to host in any official capacity not to mention the unnecessary restrictions being put on challengers.

[Duboris]

Well it was never meant to be an official meta in the first place, so, there's that. As for "Unnecessary Restrictions" the Challenger has a wider team selection (Though we've talked about just limiting everyone to their original six) and their free access to OU pokemon is something that can and will trounce dual-type teams.Though we are leaning to 3 OU. He isn't limited to just 3 total pokemon, just 3 OU.

[XelaKebert]

On 9/6/2019 at 3:10 AM, Duboris said:

Well it was never meant to be an official meta in the first place, so, there's that. As for "Unnecessary Restrictions" the Challenger has a wider team selection (Though we've talked about just limiting everyone to their original six) and their free access to OU pokemon is something that can and will trounce dual-type teams.Though we are leaning to 3 OU. He isn't limited to just 3 total pokemon, just 3 OU.

Competition Alley would suit this more, though this type of idea has been tried unofficially many times before and gone over horribly. As for OU teams being free to simply trounce Dual Type teams, a knowledgeable comp player would be able to construct a dual type team to your specs and keep up with a standard OU team with no specific typing. What you are doing with that restriction is assuming your members have no knowledge of team synergy and how to make things work. In that regard, it is an unnecessary restriction and one that is going to be extremely difficult for you to properly enforce, even with official tier lists at your disposal.