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RockinX
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Join the Penny Arcade Pokémon League Challenge. You just need to beat 8 Gym Leaders in order to challenge the four Elite warriors!
THE LEAGUE CHAMPION: MUNKUS BEAVER
THE ELITE FOUR Currently closed
mystic_knight
Atrioc
OldSundown
AshtonDragon
THE NINE GYMS OF THE G&T REGION
Mushroom Pie, Leader of the Fire Gym!
Invisible Ink, Leader of the Ground Gym!
kabuki64, Leader of the Bug Gym!
This Gym has a gimmick: It's a double battle-only Gym.
Chen, Leader of the Water Gym!
quovadis13, Leader of the Ghost Gym!
c02y, Leader of the Poison Gym!
SirToasty, Leader of the Fighting Gym!
You must PM Toasty in order to challenge him.
Chopper, Leader of the Grass Gym!
WhipstitchZombie, Leader of the Ice Gym!
Trainer card currently unavailable
You may challenge any gym that doesn't have "Currently closed" written in italics next to it in an official League match. "Trainer card currently unavailable" means that the gym is open, but that I haven't received a trainer card featuring the gym's Pokemon yet. You may still challenge these gyms. Gym leaders are obligated to post their line-up if you request it, but if you'd prefer to go in blind you may do that also.
YOU HAVE TO PM ME IF YOU BEAT A GYM LEADER!
DEFINITION OF AN OFFICIAL LEAGUE MATCH: A match in which a Challenger is fighting either a Gym Leader, a member of the Elite 4, or the League Champion. The League official must be using the team featured in their League Trainer Card. If the challenger is fighting an Elite 4 member or the Champion, he must be using the same exact line-up that he used against all previous E4 members. Defeating a Gym Leader in this type of battle results in the acquisition of a Gym Badge. Defeating an Elite 4 member in this type of battle results in the challenger being allowed to battle the next highest-ranked Elite 4 member in an official League match. Losing to an Elite 4 member in this type of battle results in the loss of one badge of the winner's choosing. Losing to the Pokemon Champion in this type of battle results in the loss of two badges of the winner's choosing.
All standard tournament rules apply in official League matches.
CHALLENGERS
Tacofiend-
OldSundown-
SirToasty-
Atrioc-
Mushroom Pie-
Current Elite 4 Opponent: AshtonDragon
Jammers-
core tactic-
kabuki64-
RoscoetheIronclad-
Faustum-
AshtonDragon-
Ohtsam-
c02y-
MastaP-
InvisibleInk-
Sir Red of the Manti-
BlueBlue-
RockinX-
Ferratto-
GurtPerk-
RULES FOR CHALLENGERS:
-Beating a Gym Leader earns you a badge from that Leader's Gym
-Lose a gym battle and you can only rechallenge that gym the next day.
-You may only have official League matches with members of the Elite 4 after obtaining 8 badges. You must fight the Elite 4 in sequential order, from lowest to highest ranked.
-You may only have official League matches with the League Champion if you have 8 badges, and have beaten the Elite 4 without losing to any of them.
-Defeating the League Champion makes you the League Champion. The former League Champion becomes the highest ranked member of the Elite 4, and the lowest-ranked member of the Elite 4 gets his title stripped away, or, if the new League Champion is a Gym Leader, gains ownership of the now Leaderless Gym.
-Gym Leaders cannot challenge their own Gyms.
-If a member of the Elite 4 takes the Pokemon League challenge, and makes it all the way up to the point where a challenger would usually fight said Elite 4 member, he must trade his team to the standing Tower Tycoon, who will stand in as the missing member of the Elite 4. If the Tower Tycoon is not available, or if he is the same person as one of the Elite 4 fights the challenger still has coming, then any standing Gym Leader can stand in.
RULES FOR GYM LEADERS
-Your gym team, which is used for all official League matches, must contain at least 4 Pokemon of the type that you are representing. The other two should look somewhat like the type you're using, and must both have an attack of your type in their move list. The "looks like" clause is fairly lenient, but for instance a Gyarados isn't getting into the Bug Gym.
-Your default badge is the one next to your name in this post. Once every weekend, you may post an image, perhaps self-made, to replace the icon currently on your badge. Atrioc will make the change when it's convenient for him. The badges must stick to the above "black button" format; your only say in the matter is what the badge's icon looks like.
-You must accept any and all challenges, though not necessarily immediately. Your position as Gym Leader will be terminated in the event of prolonged inactivity, however.
-You may forfeit your position as Gym Leader or E4 member at any time, though you could at least do the courtesy of finding a successor. You may also trade Pokemon types with E4 members and other Gym Leaders, so long as they're willing. Until both participants in a trade have their new teams complete, they both must keep their gym open under their former type.
-With each member of the Elite 4 using two types, that leaves 9 gyms without a leader. Therefore, everyone other than the lowest ranked player in this tournament (and Munkus, since he's League Champion) will be given a gym, so long as they want it.
-Types are given away on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Elite 4 gets to pick out their types before anyone else. Fighting, Poison, and Bug are all already spoken for, unless Toasty, Kabuki, or Avicus would like to switch their type. Feel free to trade types with someone at any time.
-Gym Leaders and E4 members will need to PM me a trainer card featuring their gym team, once your gym is open for challenges. You are only allowed to change your line-up once every three days. If you trade types with someone, you have to keep your gym open under the current type until you have your new team trained.
-If a Gym Leader does not want to forfeit or trade away his Gym, challengers and Gym Leaders alike may challenge them for their Gym Leader position. The challenging player must adhere to the rules of the gym. That is, the challenging team must have at least four members belonging to the defending Gym Leader's type, and no more than two Pokemon that do not belong to the defending Gym Leader's type, but have a move of that type. The defending Gym Leader must use their Gym team. If a challenging Gym Leader wins the battle, a forced trade commences between the two. During the interval where the losing Gym Leader must train a new team, the former Gym of the winner will be closed, and the losing Gym Leader will have a 12 day grace period to build the gym's new team, after which they voluntarily forfeit their position as Gym Leader (if you don't plan on completing your team in time, please don't waste our time; just forfeit your position). If a non-Gym Leader challenger wins, they become the new Gym Leader, and the old one gets demoted to nothing. If the defending Gym Leader wins, the status quo remains the same.
-No one can challenge a specific Gym Leader for their position more than once every three days.
-A member of the Elite 4 cannot be challenge or be challenged for a type. They may hold onto their types for as long as they wish.
-A member of the Elite 4 cannot be a Gym Leader.
-When a new League Champion is crowned, the previous Champion is demoted to the highest-ranking Elite 4 member. The Elite 4 will not close at this point, even though the new 4th of the Elite 4 does not have his types in order. He will be given a 12 day grace period to build a team based on the types of the now-demoted lowest-ranking member of the Elite 4. It is strongly recommended that the League Champion keep such a team in reserve, so that there's less slowdown.
-If a Gym Leader becomes the new League Champion, the lowest ranking Gym Leader will be assigned to the Champion's old Gym. He has 12 days to make a team for the gym, after which he will forfeit his Gym Leader position.
-12 days should normally be long enough for replacement gym leaders to build a new team. Sometimes it won't be. In these cases, the courteous thing to do is to lend your replacement some of your old gym Pokemon for him to use until he gets his own Gym team completed.
-You MUST PM me a Trainer Card featuring your Gym team. You may change your Gym team once every 3 days, and must inform me of your change by PMing me an updated version of your trainer card.
-Giving your gym a crazy gimmick, like making double-battles only, is okay by us. Run gimmicks must pass through RockinX first, though. But no two people can do the same gimmick, so keep that in mind before thinking about having double battles as your gimmick, since Kabuki already has it.
GENERAL BATTLING RULES
-Sleep Clause: you may not put more than one of your opponent's Pokemon to sleep at a time.
-Species Clause: your team must be comprised of six different species of Pokemon.
-Item Clause: No two Pokemon on your team may be holding the same item.
-Suicide Clause: If both players are down to their last Pokemon, the player with the first Pokemon to hit 0 HP is the loser. In other words, using moves like Self Destruct and Explosion cause you to lose, even if it kills your opponent. However, using a move with a recoil that kill both you and your opponent is a win for you.
-No Legendary Pokemon whatsoever.
-No Wobbuffet. You may ask "Wynaut?", but you should already know.
Pokémon Recources:
PokéMart: All Pokemon trading can be done here: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=25308. READ THE RULES
Pokédexes
Psypokes - Really nicely set up, my favorite
Serebii's Pokédex - Can load pretty slow at times
Marriland's Pokedex
Veekun -Narian
PokeGoons -Angrylinuxgeek
IV Calculators
Metal Kid's IV Calculator
Serebii's IV Calculator
Psypokes' IV Calculator
Team Builder
Marriland's Pokemon Team Builder - Figure out your team's strengths and weaknesses!
EV Training
Keith's EV Training Guide
Ashton's Funtastic Guide
Psypokés' Guide
Art Resources
Sprites from every game
Ken Suigmori art of every Pokémon
Community
PA Pokémon Treehouse, courtesy of Keith
Platformers host their own events
Smogon is big on competitive battling - Main site is down at the moment, but forums are a good source of information
We now have an IRC Channel at #paforums_pokemon. Server is slashnet. Not sure how many people actively use it anymore
Serebii forums will melt your soul. Beware.
Wi-Fi Help
FAQ on trading and GTS
Serebii has one for battling
Everything
Bulbapedia... everything about Pokémon. Has high traffic, so load times will be long-ish
And now, some useless knowledge!
- Pokémon is a made-up composite word.
- None of the Pokémons' names change in Spanish translations from either continent, yet, they change in France, Italy and some others. Oh yeah, Latin America hasn't got the Spain Spanish translation since the RBY days, by the way.
- Ledian is based on Pulseman, which is a character from another game made by Game Freak, but it was released on the Genesis/Mega Drive.
- Pulseman's nemesis was the Galaxy Gang. Sound familiar?
- Garchomp is one tough motherfucker. Don't be an ass by mixing it with Tyranitar.
- If you evolve a Pokémon with a Japanese name on an American GBA cart, and that name was the default one, it will keep its name. But if you do that on DP, its name will be the evolution's. It won't change if it's an actual nickname, though.
- Infernape is based on Sun Wukong, a character from a very old Chinese Book called Journey to the West. Sun Wukong is pronounced Son Goku in Japanese, and he bore a staff while flying on a cloud.
- You can get new wallpapers for your boxes in Jubilife City's TV station. Details here.
- Pokémon Battle Revolution sucks, but its announcer sucks even more. Bring back the Stadium announcer!
- Pokémon battles through Wi-fi automatically level your Pokémon to either levels 50 or 100. So you don't have to train them to level 100 yourself, saving a lot of time.
THE LEAGUE CHAMPION: MUNKUS BEAVER
THE ELITE FOUR Currently closed
mystic_knight
Atrioc
OldSundown
AshtonDragon
THE NINE GYMS OF THE G&T REGION
Mushroom Pie, Leader of the Fire Gym!
Invisible Ink, Leader of the Ground Gym!
kabuki64, Leader of the Bug Gym!
This Gym has a gimmick: It's a double battle-only Gym.
Chen, Leader of the Water Gym!
quovadis13, Leader of the Ghost Gym!
c02y, Leader of the Poison Gym!
SirToasty, Leader of the Fighting Gym!
You must PM Toasty in order to challenge him.
Chopper, Leader of the Grass Gym!
WhipstitchZombie, Leader of the Ice Gym!
Trainer card currently unavailable
You may challenge any gym that doesn't have "Currently closed" written in italics next to it in an official League match. "Trainer card currently unavailable" means that the gym is open, but that I haven't received a trainer card featuring the gym's Pokemon yet. You may still challenge these gyms. Gym leaders are obligated to post their line-up if you request it, but if you'd prefer to go in blind you may do that also.
YOU HAVE TO PM ME IF YOU BEAT A GYM LEADER!
DEFINITION OF AN OFFICIAL LEAGUE MATCH: A match in which a Challenger is fighting either a Gym Leader, a member of the Elite 4, or the League Champion. The League official must be using the team featured in their League Trainer Card. If the challenger is fighting an Elite 4 member or the Champion, he must be using the same exact line-up that he used against all previous E4 members. Defeating a Gym Leader in this type of battle results in the acquisition of a Gym Badge. Defeating an Elite 4 member in this type of battle results in the challenger being allowed to battle the next highest-ranked Elite 4 member in an official League match. Losing to an Elite 4 member in this type of battle results in the loss of one badge of the winner's choosing. Losing to the Pokemon Champion in this type of battle results in the loss of two badges of the winner's choosing.
All standard tournament rules apply in official League matches.
CHALLENGERS
Tacofiend-
OldSundown-
SirToasty-
Atrioc-
Mushroom Pie-
Current Elite 4 Opponent: AshtonDragon
Jammers-
core tactic-
kabuki64-
RoscoetheIronclad-
Faustum-
AshtonDragon-
Ohtsam-
c02y-
MastaP-
InvisibleInk-
Sir Red of the Manti-
BlueBlue-
RockinX-
Ferratto-
GurtPerk-
RULES FOR CHALLENGERS:
-Beating a Gym Leader earns you a badge from that Leader's Gym
-Lose a gym battle and you can only rechallenge that gym the next day.
-You may only have official League matches with members of the Elite 4 after obtaining 8 badges. You must fight the Elite 4 in sequential order, from lowest to highest ranked.
-You may only have official League matches with the League Champion if you have 8 badges, and have beaten the Elite 4 without losing to any of them.
-Defeating the League Champion makes you the League Champion. The former League Champion becomes the highest ranked member of the Elite 4, and the lowest-ranked member of the Elite 4 gets his title stripped away, or, if the new League Champion is a Gym Leader, gains ownership of the now Leaderless Gym.
-Gym Leaders cannot challenge their own Gyms.
-If a member of the Elite 4 takes the Pokemon League challenge, and makes it all the way up to the point where a challenger would usually fight said Elite 4 member, he must trade his team to the standing Tower Tycoon, who will stand in as the missing member of the Elite 4. If the Tower Tycoon is not available, or if he is the same person as one of the Elite 4 fights the challenger still has coming, then any standing Gym Leader can stand in.
RULES FOR GYM LEADERS
-Your gym team, which is used for all official League matches, must contain at least 4 Pokemon of the type that you are representing. The other two should look somewhat like the type you're using, and must both have an attack of your type in their move list. The "looks like" clause is fairly lenient, but for instance a Gyarados isn't getting into the Bug Gym.
-Your default badge is the one next to your name in this post. Once every weekend, you may post an image, perhaps self-made, to replace the icon currently on your badge. Atrioc will make the change when it's convenient for him. The badges must stick to the above "black button" format; your only say in the matter is what the badge's icon looks like.
-You must accept any and all challenges, though not necessarily immediately. Your position as Gym Leader will be terminated in the event of prolonged inactivity, however.
-You may forfeit your position as Gym Leader or E4 member at any time, though you could at least do the courtesy of finding a successor. You may also trade Pokemon types with E4 members and other Gym Leaders, so long as they're willing. Until both participants in a trade have their new teams complete, they both must keep their gym open under their former type.
-With each member of the Elite 4 using two types, that leaves 9 gyms without a leader. Therefore, everyone other than the lowest ranked player in this tournament (and Munkus, since he's League Champion) will be given a gym, so long as they want it.
-Types are given away on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Elite 4 gets to pick out their types before anyone else. Fighting, Poison, and Bug are all already spoken for, unless Toasty, Kabuki, or Avicus would like to switch their type. Feel free to trade types with someone at any time.
-Gym Leaders and E4 members will need to PM me a trainer card featuring their gym team, once your gym is open for challenges. You are only allowed to change your line-up once every three days. If you trade types with someone, you have to keep your gym open under the current type until you have your new team trained.
-If a Gym Leader does not want to forfeit or trade away his Gym, challengers and Gym Leaders alike may challenge them for their Gym Leader position. The challenging player must adhere to the rules of the gym. That is, the challenging team must have at least four members belonging to the defending Gym Leader's type, and no more than two Pokemon that do not belong to the defending Gym Leader's type, but have a move of that type. The defending Gym Leader must use their Gym team. If a challenging Gym Leader wins the battle, a forced trade commences between the two. During the interval where the losing Gym Leader must train a new team, the former Gym of the winner will be closed, and the losing Gym Leader will have a 12 day grace period to build the gym's new team, after which they voluntarily forfeit their position as Gym Leader (if you don't plan on completing your team in time, please don't waste our time; just forfeit your position). If a non-Gym Leader challenger wins, they become the new Gym Leader, and the old one gets demoted to nothing. If the defending Gym Leader wins, the status quo remains the same.
-No one can challenge a specific Gym Leader for their position more than once every three days.
-A member of the Elite 4 cannot be challenge or be challenged for a type. They may hold onto their types for as long as they wish.
-A member of the Elite 4 cannot be a Gym Leader.
-When a new League Champion is crowned, the previous Champion is demoted to the highest-ranking Elite 4 member. The Elite 4 will not close at this point, even though the new 4th of the Elite 4 does not have his types in order. He will be given a 12 day grace period to build a team based on the types of the now-demoted lowest-ranking member of the Elite 4. It is strongly recommended that the League Champion keep such a team in reserve, so that there's less slowdown.
-If a Gym Leader becomes the new League Champion, the lowest ranking Gym Leader will be assigned to the Champion's old Gym. He has 12 days to make a team for the gym, after which he will forfeit his Gym Leader position.
-12 days should normally be long enough for replacement gym leaders to build a new team. Sometimes it won't be. In these cases, the courteous thing to do is to lend your replacement some of your old gym Pokemon for him to use until he gets his own Gym team completed.
-You MUST PM me a Trainer Card featuring your Gym team. You may change your Gym team once every 3 days, and must inform me of your change by PMing me an updated version of your trainer card.
-Giving your gym a crazy gimmick, like making double-battles only, is okay by us. Run gimmicks must pass through RockinX first, though. But no two people can do the same gimmick, so keep that in mind before thinking about having double battles as your gimmick, since Kabuki already has it.
GENERAL BATTLING RULES
-Sleep Clause: you may not put more than one of your opponent's Pokemon to sleep at a time.
-Species Clause: your team must be comprised of six different species of Pokemon.
-Item Clause: No two Pokemon on your team may be holding the same item.
-Suicide Clause: If both players are down to their last Pokemon, the player with the first Pokemon to hit 0 HP is the loser. In other words, using moves like Self Destruct and Explosion cause you to lose, even if it kills your opponent. However, using a move with a recoil that kill both you and your opponent is a win for you.
-No Legendary Pokemon whatsoever.
-No Wobbuffet. You may ask "Wynaut?", but you should already know.
Pokémon Recources:
PokéMart: All Pokemon trading can be done here: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=25308. READ THE RULES
Pokédexes
Psypokes - Really nicely set up, my favorite
Serebii's Pokédex - Can load pretty slow at times
Marriland's Pokedex
Veekun -Narian
PokeGoons -Angrylinuxgeek
IV Calculators
Metal Kid's IV Calculator
Serebii's IV Calculator
Psypokes' IV Calculator
Team Builder
Marriland's Pokemon Team Builder - Figure out your team's strengths and weaknesses!
EV Training
Keith's EV Training Guide
Ashton's Funtastic Guide
Psypokés' Guide
Art Resources
Sprites from every game
Ken Suigmori art of every Pokémon
Community
PA Pokémon Treehouse, courtesy of Keith
Platformers host their own events
Smogon is big on competitive battling - Main site is down at the moment, but forums are a good source of information
We now have an IRC Channel at #paforums_pokemon. Server is slashnet. Not sure how many people actively use it anymore
Serebii forums will melt your soul. Beware.
Wi-Fi Help
FAQ on trading and GTS
Serebii has one for battling
Everything
Bulbapedia... everything about Pokémon. Has high traffic, so load times will be long-ish
And now, some useless knowledge!
- Pokémon is a made-up composite word.
- None of the Pokémons' names change in Spanish translations from either continent, yet, they change in France, Italy and some others. Oh yeah, Latin America hasn't got the Spain Spanish translation since the RBY days, by the way.
- Ledian is based on Pulseman, which is a character from another game made by Game Freak, but it was released on the Genesis/Mega Drive.
- Pulseman's nemesis was the Galaxy Gang. Sound familiar?
- Garchomp is one tough motherfucker. Don't be an ass by mixing it with Tyranitar.
- If you evolve a Pokémon with a Japanese name on an American GBA cart, and that name was the default one, it will keep its name. But if you do that on DP, its name will be the evolution's. It won't change if it's an actual nickname, though.
- Infernape is based on Sun Wukong, a character from a very old Chinese Book called Journey to the West. Sun Wukong is pronounced Son Goku in Japanese, and he bore a staff while flying on a cloud.
- You can get new wallpapers for your boxes in Jubilife City's TV station. Details here.
- Pokémon Battle Revolution sucks, but its announcer sucks even more. Bring back the Stadium announcer!
- Pokémon battles through Wi-fi automatically level your Pokémon to either levels 50 or 100. So you don't have to train them to level 100 yourself, saving a lot of time.
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Sandstorm's actually pretty great. Gives you a little extra damage per turn, and gives Rock pokemon an extra 50% to SP DEF (which makes a defensive Tyranitar an absolute beast to take down). When added with other DOTs like burn status and leech seed, you can make a team of Rock pokemon really, really hard to take down.
And then there's Sand Veil on guys like Garchomp, which apparently RockinX does not like much at all
Also, don't forget Hippowdon has Sand Stream as its trait, and other Pokemon (Gliscor, Cacturne which despite being grass/dark doesn't take sandstream damage due to this) also have sand veil. So I guess Hippowdon/Garchomp would still be allowed? Or Tyranitar/Cacturne/Cradily (which I think was part of Faustum's old Grass gym too)? Just curious really.
Newer to the game is Hail teams, which aren't as popular as sand storm teams yet. Probably because a-the only Pokemon that auto summons a hailstorm is Abomasnow, which is nowhere near as powerful as a Tyranitar, and b-only ice pokemon don't take damage from the hail, unlike sandstorm where rock, ground, and steel types all can ignore it. Still, I'm halfway done breeding up a hail team just to try it out, because hey, why not.
I do note that unlike Tyranitar, Hippowdon has a decent recovery move (Slack Off). Which almost makes up for it being so prone to dying to a nice Surf. Almost.
In a legendary tournament no less.
Rayquaza+Outrage is pretty bad (even moreso thanks to it being able to Dragon Dance, which despite being a dragon Garchomp can't do), but at least that's resisted in the legendary tier by Registeel (though of course Rayquaza isn't in this tournament. Just using it as an example).
Anyone have one they can give me?
NNID-InvisibleInk
But NO! I will complete this "water gym" team first. Then when it loses to Chen's OU death machine, I can maybe start developing on this idea. Maybe
Also: oh god i need to stop freakin chaining for shinies why did i start doing this again i have essays to write and finals to study for
^The list is there.
They're both allowed, just not on the same team. You can have Salamence + Dragonite + Tyranitar, but don't even think of adding Garchomp if you don't take Tyranitar out.
Also: me too
I mean, Electrivire. He's right there. Just a Rain Dance and he's good to go. But I want to keep the whole "gym spirit" thing and have guys that actually look the theme.
But dammit, Motor Drive would be so very nice for my poor electric-weak water guys.
*thinks twice about getting a water badge*
Possibly, yep. I'm reluctant to carry the toxic spikes though, as I can see that backfiring should my opponent bring out a Guts Heracross or Hariyama or the like. At least normal spikes and stealth rock just rack up the damage, though it could mean even more messing about with move sets. Also I don't want to rely only on Abomasnow to keep the hail up, given how many weaknesses the yeti's got. So yeah, a hail team has a lot of moves to think about.
Though Tentacruel does have access to about four different ice moves if I go crazy and decide to turn a hail team into an ice team. Or a nice team (ah haha, get it- 'an ice team... a nice team..' ...yeah, I'll go now. )
Dude, december 7 is in about two weeks.
Aggril, if you think about it, having either Rapid Spin or Knock off is a good thing. You'd be left with only two moves that hit hard and two that do minimal damage that you'd only use on certain situations. Believe me, since I removed Stealth Rock out of my shiny Donphan, it's been getting a lot of use.
Edit: Oh well. I have a headache anyway. I'm going to sleep now.
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