Potential Pokemon Tournament?

I'd love to participate, especially after levelling my team to 50, but I'm afraid I'd be at a huge disadvantage for not having cleared the game. Especially if even one pokemon from my team is not allowed to participate, I can't participate. I'd love doubles or 2v2, though.

If we can figure this out I might have an additional player- my brother says he's interested.

I'd like to participate, but it would be a while before I scraped together a half-decent team.

Eh... I'm kind of iffy on that. Mega Blaziken is just insane.

Smogon doesn't yet have tiers established for Gen6, though. I could see not allowing legendaries. If I recall correctly, Blaziken (before it's Mega evolution), Excadrill, and Wobbuffet were the only uber non-legendaries last Gen. The pseudo-legendary dragon types should be a bit more balanced now that Fairy counters them, too.

I'm impartial to the other questions.

Truth be told I'd have to use my main team... Which is neither EV-trained nor finely balanced. Still, even if I do get trounced in the first round it'd be fun to just give it a go... On second thought I'm in. What do I have to lose?

I still have two badges, and most of my pokemon aren't fully evolved yet. What's the worst that could happen?

But yeah, sure, why not? I'll see how far I can get before it happens. And maybe we can do more tournaments in the future?

EDIT: I wasn't very clear about it, but I'm only participating if I can get a full team together and evolve them all fully before it starts.

I'm in. I'd say allow Mega Evolutions, if everyone has one then the field is even.

I'll make sure to bring six of them, then.

But really, Mega Blaziken seems insanely better than the rest. Need I remind you that a single turn gives +2 Attack and at least +1 Speed to an already-strong pokemon? So long as it's switched in strategically, I'm not even sure a defensive Mega Blastoise would fare well against such a beast. (That's not even considering it can Baton Pass, and give these boosts so something even more deadly.)

Too bad you can only have one Mega Evolution on your team in a battle . You can have plenty with stones in hand on your team, but only one of them can use it during the battle.

As for Blaziken, he might be very good, but everyone has him. If you want to outlaw Blaziken, thats fine with me, but leave the other Mega Evolutions. Though, I really think Mega Gengar or Mega Alakazham are good counters to him.

Sadly I'm probably going to be late to the party and miss out on the guy, and that last sentence really irks me, and something I really don't understand. Yes everything shouldn't counter everything, but needing Mega to counters Mega is a huge problem, and then it limits the choice of Megas to be used to compensate from an already limited list.

From what I've been seeing/hearing of Mega Evolutions without actually getting to experience them for myself, I don't think they should be really allowed with the small exclusive nature of the Megaevo club. Creates a situation where those who do use Megas benefit majorly, and limits those who don't want to use one of the few with a mega evolutions, such as myself who would want to have the freedom to create the full team I want and not be screwed over by not choosing something from a extremely limited list of old pokemon that my opinion varies from "I liked you, but I have other pokemon I'm interested in despite your strength" (Mega Blaziken, which sours my taste a bit when it comes to playing the main story) to "why the heck did they do this for this overhyped blah" (You all know which one I'm talking about*)






*You all know who I mean, and if you don't pssst I mean mega charizard.

Well, Mega's aren't exactly ubers, and you sacrifice an item slot for boosted stats basically. There are a lot of OU pokemon that when holding something such as a Life Orb or Choice items that will out perform the Mega Evolutions, who don't get to hold an item because it's taken up by the mega stone.

Honestly, Mega Evolutions are good, and some of them WILL be Ubers, but a lot of them are in the OU range.

My main team only has one pokemon capable of mega evolving and its megastone isn't available until the postgame. Since I want to EV train my Charmander and Torchic, those presently can't mega evolve either.

So no, not everyone can use a mega evolution, and considering the enormous advantage they create I think banning them is best for now. Maybe later we can do a 1-pokemon-per-player tournament revolving around them.

I agree. Don't allow them. People with them just have too much of an advantage, and it's too limiting not allowing them.

Or alternatively we could do it on a case by case basis. See how many mega evolutions one person has on the team they'll use for battle and only allow the other person to use the amount the one with less had. Say I have 1 and I happen to go up against someone with 3. They'd only be allowed to use one of those three instead of all 3.

Mind you, I personally prefer just banning them altogether. This is just an alternative solution I'm throwing out there.

Well You're only allowed to use one Mega Evolution per battle anyways.

Oh... Well, I wish I had known that before .

In that case yeah. Just ban them all.

I hear the sounds of battle! And since I can connect to the internet now, can I join in?