Break a Pokemon: OU Edition [Round 2]

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  1. inigomontoya

    inigomontoya Slightly Less Well-Known Member

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    Balanced Hackmons has long been a tier of Ubers, Shedinjas, and Chanseys slapping each other around. The OU meta sucks atm (no offense M-Gross). So I got to thinking. What would happen if we could use OUs, and hack PART of the Pokemon?

    Welcome to Break a Pokemon: OU edition. In this tour, we shake up the OU metagame by allowing Pokemon to use a tool not usually in their kit.

    RULES:
    1. Battles will be played in the Balanced Hackmons tier so the rest of the rules can apply. There may be some situations where the battle must instead be played in Hackmons (i.e. Shedinja with no hack). If that is the case, do so.
    2. Each Pokemon used MUST be allowed in the ORAS OU tier. This includes not having any banned moves, items, or abilities.
    3. Each Pokemon can have 1 hacked change. These include the following:
    • Using 1 move not normally learned by the Pokemon
    • Using an ability that the Pokemon cannot have naturally.
    • Starting in their Mega forme, allowing you to hold an item while Mega Evolved
    4. If a Pokemon begins in it's Mega Evolved form, it counts as your 1 Mega. No other Pokemon can be in their Mega Evolved form. All Pokemon that begin as a Mega are to be classified, for the purposes of this tour, as the higher of their base form or Mega Stone. M-Gengar will not be allowed, as it's Mega Stone is Uber.
    5. Any hacks must be legal with no restrictions in both OU and BH. This means the following (and maybe more, I might have forgotten something) are off limits.
    • Gaining any ability that ends in -ate, Moody, Imposter, Wonder Guard, Huge/Pure Power, Shadow Tag, Arena Trap, Magnet Pull, or Parental Bond.
    • Gaining an unreleased attack (Steam Eruption, Thousand Arrows, or Thousand Waves)
    • Giving Sturdy to a Pokemon with less than 25 HP (Shedinja, lv1 Pokemon, ect.)
    • Getting the moves Assist, Baton Pass, Chatter, Dragon Ascent, or any move that boosts Evasion
    NOTE: If the Pokemon naturally has any of the banned moves or abilities that are not banned in OU, it can still use them. Imposter Ditto is legal, just not Imposter Chansey.

    6. The hacked change cannot be identical to any other hacked change on your team. To clarify, I can change 2 different Pokemon's abilities, as long as they do not change to the same ability. Applies to moves as well. Also worth noting that you can have a Pokemon with a hacked ability and a Pokemon with the same ability (i.e. Contrary Serp and Contrary Altaria), as long as it obtains it through normal gameplay.
    7. Importables of each team must be sent to the host via PM each round. If you don't send me a team for a round after the first, I'll assume your team isn't changing. If your team isn't sent during the first round, I will assume you are using Magikarp/Sunkern/Happiny/Unown-X/Mime Jr./Budew.
    8. The most commonly used Hack in each round will be banned. If everyone changes someone to Contrary in R1, No one can add Contrary the rest of the tournament.
    9. Tour will be Bo1 because no one wants to build 3 teams each round. Finals Bo3 tho.
    10. Standard OU clauses apply. Thats Sleep, Species, Self-KO, Inverted, and Wifi (Team Preview).

    By Rule 8, Hacking Adaptability or Contrary onto a Pokemon is banned for the remainder of the tour, with 5 uses each after Mr. Perry's team was semi-randomized (see my last post in the R1 thread). Total usage stats are as follows (if moved up a use by the randomization, will be in italics):
    5 uses (banned): Adaptability, Contrary
    4 uses: Prankster
    3 uses: Fur Coat, Gale Wings, Geomancy, Poison Heal
    2 uses: Draco Meteor, Flash Fire, Ice Beam, Illusion, Regenerator, Simple, Sucker Punch, Unaware
    1 use: Chlorophyll, Close Combat, Desolate Land, Diamond Storm, Drizzle, Drought, Dry Skin, Intimidate, Levitate, Start as Mega, Milk Drink, Psystrike, Quiver Dance, Rapid Spin, Serene Grace, Shift Gear, Speed Boost, Spore, Swift Swim, Swords Dance, Tinted Lens, Volt Absorb

    Matchups:
    La.meh
    vs user meh (@La.Melle2402 vs @ASH_CHAMPION)
    RNGesus vs TraceofHax (@Oh So Penspin vs @TraceofLife)
    That one guy vs That other guy (@viamage vs @Casparov)

    Round 1 ends when I remember to end it. Hopefully this means Saturday 16 January, 2016
     
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    viamage That one guy

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    Wait, I though levitate and indimidate were off limits because they ended in -ate, anyways contacting will build legal team this time. I promise
     
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    La.Melle2402 I'm the bone of my sword

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    Will there be a semifinal next round and someone gets a bye or a final with 3 players?
     
  4. TraceofLife

    TraceofLife Lucky Strike

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    final with 3 players also submitted my team
     
  5. inigomontoya

    inigomontoya Slightly Less Well-Known Member

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    Uhhhhh... forgot about those... I meant the ones commonly known as the -ate abilities, i.e. the ones that change the types of normal moves. oops. still not updating the OP

    5 teams to go!
     
  6. Oh So Penspin

    Oh So Penspin Hail RNGesus, our Lord and Saviour!

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    Contacted @TraceofLife, but it's going to be hard to have the match this week ;s
     
  7. La.Melle2402

    La.Melle2402 I'm the bone of my sword

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    Contacted, no answer yet
     
  8. Casparov

    Casparov This is supposed to be a Medal!

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    Lost in a close game gg
     
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    viamage That one guy

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    Won gg
    He definitely played better, I think I just had the match up
     
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    La.Melle2402 I'm the bone of my sword

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    Won vs Meh, gg
     
  11. Oh So Penspin

    Oh So Penspin Hail RNGesus, our Lord and Saviour!

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    Contacted @TraceofLife again last Thursday, but no response ;v
     
  12. inigomontoya

    inigomontoya Slightly Less Well-Known Member

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    By what means? You have not posted, as far as I can see, on Trace's profile.

    DECISIONS:
    @Oh So Penspin vs @TraceofLife: No obvious contact was made by either party, despite both being active. Claims of contact were made by Oh So Penspin, but no evidence has been provided. Because I am nice and really ****ing tired, I'm giving you two until I compile all the stats sometime tomorrow evening. I will be forced to flip a coin then.
     
  13. TraceofLife

    TraceofLife Lucky Strike

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    He's literally active when I'm not and vice versa, I asked to play on weekend twice but he's not being friendly for scheduling :s
     
  14. Oh So Penspin

    Oh So Penspin Hail RNGesus, our Lord and Saviour!

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    Err, conversation? -.- I can send you the logs if you want. But yeah, I'm not claiming an activity win over Trace, because we've been both active, just at different times. And sorry @TraceofLife, I'm usually with my gf in the weekends =(
     
  15. inigomontoya

    inigomontoya Slightly Less Well-Known Member

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    Conversations, AKA PMs, are not advised for tournament scheduling because the host cannot see them.

    So, what we have here is called a mess. It seems like a flip is needed...
    1-3 is Pensp, 4-6 Trace, rolled a 6

    user @TraceofLife advances, New thread will be up... eventually.

    In other news, User @ASH_CHAMPION used an illegal team, as a pokemon had a hacked Adaptability.
    Result: No change due to loss. A random hacked move/ability would have been chosen to replace it in the data, but it doesn't matter.
     
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