I grew up playing music since I was in third grade, at first it was more of "your sister is in band, you should do it too". So i know the whole "being forced to do 'x' musically". Eventually however I ended up loving playing music (instruments, singing, etc). That aside allow me to continue to my point. I knew a girl growing up that was to this day one of the most musically talented people I have ever met (hell she even sang with the band Foreigner at a gig a year or so ago). She was however one of those people who was pushed to their limits by their mom who expects almost impossible things. What's different with her is she delivered every time, and hell she even enjoyed it. The big problem though is the spotlight did a ton of damage to her, and I am not talking about any egotistical things. If she didn't perform correctly, do things perfectly, or even if someone just didn't enjoy it, then she got hell for that. From the director, her mom, etc. I do not think it is right for some show to exploit children at all, let alone when it comes to music because to many kids who actually enjoy music, it becomes their life. It consumes them and when things don't go well, dear lord it sucks. I know what it feels like to work your ass off non stop when it comes to performing/music. I played music from anywhere to 5-10 hours a day from my Junior year onward. One thing I picked up is stress management is key, and to be honest these children just aren't capable of doing that on their own. It doesn't matter if they have an amazing support system whether it be their parents, directors, friends, etc. Hell one example of how bad this can be, during "hell week" for a musical I was playing in the pit band for (hell week: the hardest and longest week of practice, pit band: the band that plays during musicals that are almost always hand picked or hired) I was so distracted by all the work that needed to be done as well as the stress that came with it, that I actually managed to get mono without knowing it. A few months later my doctor told me that I had it and for the life of me I had no idea it even happened. Not knowing you had mono takes a stupid level of distraction and that's what music can do to you when it comes to practicing for performances and performing all together. I am not saying music is bad, hell it pretty much defines a huge part of me, what I am saying is you need to practice extreme caution when it comes to taking care of your mental and physical being because if you don't it WILL bite you in the ass. Sadly back to the story about the girl I knew, the stress she was dealing (or rather wasn't properly dealing with) eventually broke her. She went from the girl I knew and was friends with, to someone with severe social issues as well as some very bad depression. It was after she threatened to kill herself several times to me that I decided I needed to get away from something like that. I know that's a bit off topic but I figured some people might be curious is to what happened. Yeah all this being said, young kids shouldn't be exposed to an extreme amount of pressure or stress. Let alone be ****ing exploited for TV views, and don't even get me started about parents who make their children do things to make themselves feel better. Fuck that.
I'm fine with this
Easier way to EV train
sand attack is the same concept as double team. Making it so you are harder to hit, or making it so the enemy is less likely to hit a skill just makes it more and more luck based. Which as I said before, makes it a battle of luck not skill.
Making it so someone could have up to +2 evasion or -2 accuracy, that just adjusts the playing field in a more "random" way. Which takes the whole "skill thing" and throws it out the window.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes. The purpose of a tournament is a "battle of skill". Making a pokemon battle even more luck based is just stupid in my opinion.
You could always not look at the thread. Also I am still against the use of double team type moves.
Minimize: The user compresses its body to make itself look smaller, which sharply raises its evasiveness. Double Team: By moving rapidly, the user makes illusory copies of itself to raise its evasiveness. You should only be able to use Minimize once considering it raises your evasiveness more than double team.
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Trust me, I know exactly what you are talking about (ex coder here bro D:). But still, some people don't like the concept which is what I've been trying to say. I am neutral on the subject however. I'd prefer the actual game.
Basically its hard to say "hey don't use hacked pokemon" because people are going to use them anyways. I know a lot of people dislike even the "legal" ones, but it is pointless to ban them because it's going to happen anyways.
I was just throwing ideas out there. *shrugs*
Then you guys are gonna ****ing hate some of my pokemon lol.
I'm perfectly fine with all of the terms above, but what are we going to say about poison. Not to bash a certain play style, you could easily just toxic - recover, etc. We should just eliminate all stalling tactics entirely.
This x1000. If the "luck-based" banned stuff is allowed, I'm out. The whole point of competitive gameplay is a measure of human skill, not a ton of luck being on your side. This is why they try to eliminate as much of that as possible. I'd rather not someone set up six double teams and me spend half an hour trying to kill them.
It's not like we are on some countdown timer and if we don't make the deadline we all die. We establish the rules, tally up who is playing and make a tournament bracket, set the dates that the battles with occur and whatnot and just treat it as any normal video game tournament.
Most of the rules listed above including the evasion, multiple sleep, and multiple of the same pokemon are fair. There is a reason these things aren't allowed, and I really don't feel like playing if this stuff slides under the radar.
Someone is salty.
You've missed out on a lot of shitty threads then lol
