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But what would we do without the drama?! Even ayman has seemingly calmed down! The real drama will start when guild ladder first place gets a worthy reward :3 On a serious note though, i do agree and i think we need to put our differences aside. The number of players isnt what it used to be, we really cant afford to be fighting amongst those who are left...

Want to try hard? use main account. Want to test/have fun? use main account! Why do you guys always want an easy way out? If you want to test stuff do so at the beginning of the season. Its a well known fact that the season lasts AT LEAST 1 month. That gives you plenty of time to experiment before actually aiming for a ladder spot. Want to preserve a good win/loss ratio (which, honestly, means nothing and is simply an ego/image thing)? Test teams with friends! I'm sure your guild must have competitive players who would pose a decent challenge compared to the random unranked opponent right? Besides, no one is saying "dont test or dont use the pokemon you like (who may not be the best fit for pvp)". Do so, but with one account. As for the rule at the moment, I agree it isn't put in place in the best of ways. But then staff have acknowledged this and are working on a better way of enforcing it. Until then, we'll have to abide by the rules. Besides, if anyone does intentionally throw games like you said, and gets caught, they would have to face the consequences. I don't know who "you guys" are. I represent only myself here. And i don't know what you think i'm trying to find an easy way out of. If anything, it's you who is trying to find an easy way in winning since you want to limit some players to one account. Why should you tell me what to do? People can queue with different mentalities. Like many other games. On Pokemon Showdown it's common to make different accounts in order to play with different pokemon that are seen as less viable. I tried to say that i didn't only play different teams for doing cynical tests but it seems like no one got that point. Why should the time of the month decide when i should play what i want if i have time to play there? Why should i only be able to do what i want the first 3 weeks of the month or whatever if i wanna go for the ladder at the same time? And why should i have to contact other people personally and ask them to play with me? You don't know my relations with my guild or who i am or if i wanna use stuff and just queue in peace alone. You shouldn't decide any of this. It's clear that we got entirely different opinions on this matter so let's just agree to disagree. As for the rule, i'm just pointing out that there is a paradox where you get punished if you win and punished if you have to lose. A staff member recently told another player that he had to drop his second account off the ladder right away, so he basically told him to lose intentionally (even though that staff member didn't read the rules properly since it states "at the end of the season" but w/e). By "you guys" I am referring to everyone that wants this rule revoked. How on earth is making ladder more competitive by forcing people to use main teams making it easier for anyone to win? :| No one is telling you not to queue. I was simply giving you work arounds to the rule, not telling you "what to do". Besides, this is a "Ranked" ladder. Ranked. It's supposed to be competitive. Not only does this rule enforce that it also brings some life to unranked. I'm not sure if you were around when we had only unranked battling (I think you were, you are an experienced player here anyway, no disrespect what so ever), it actually gave battle chat life and people communicated with each other more than for just trading. I agree with the paradox and did hear of the incident... I do concede, it completely throws off any reason to have this rule. Surely you can't ask someone to lose on purpose... either enforce the rule to the point of "you were caught using two accounts on ladder, here's a temp ban" or dont enforce it at all.

Want to try hard? use main account. Want to test/have fun? use main account! Why do you guys always want an easy way out? If you want to test stuff do so at the beginning of the season. Its a well known fact that the season lasts AT LEAST 1 month. That gives you plenty of time to experiment before actually aiming for a ladder spot. Want to preserve a good win/loss ratio (which, honestly, means nothing and is simply an ego/image thing)? Test teams with friends! I'm sure your guild must have competitive players who would pose a decent challenge compared to the random unranked opponent right? Besides, no one is saying "dont test or dont use the pokemon you like (who may not be the best fit for pvp)". Do so, but with one account. As for the rule at the moment, I agree it isn't put in place in the best of ways. But then staff have acknowledged this and are working on a better way of enforcing it. Until then, we'll have to abide by the rules. Besides, if anyone does intentionally throw games like you said, and gets caught, they would have to face the consequences.

Not any pokemon. They can use certain legendaries or shiny variants of non-legends (only one of either) in ranked as well. There is a list of pokemon that cannot be used that the staff have to adhere to as well. To answer your question, Deidara7 is the player account of Kagawa.

done, lemme know which videos are still blocked please

Ah I was hoping that wouldn't happen. Will have to remove the Audio from those ones then :/

Hey everyone! Finally got around uploading my videos from the not so recently concluded Official PRO tourney. I really don't want to come off as showing off (I didn't win soooo) or dissing any of the people I defeated along the way to the Finals. I'm sure there will be players interested from a neutral stand point and I hope everyone can watch these battles with a similar frame of mind. Also please excuse the weird changes in music genre on some of the videos, I really wasn't playing attention after the battle started :| Additionally, some the music have copyright claims with them, so you might have to view some adds (too much trouble to change the music, and no, I don't get any money from these adds as the copyright claimant does instead). I had to scrap the audio on some of them entirely as well I'm afraid :/ First and foremost, here's the tournament draw and the imgur album of my 14 pokemon Draw - https://challonge.com/drfp5rdg Team - https://imgur.com/a/e9jFY I know, the IVs on some of these pokemon make me shiver too... [glow=red]Round 2 - Opponent Fish[/glow] Battle 1 Battle 2 [glow=red]Round 3 - Opponent Barney[/glow] Battle 1 Battle 2 [glow=red]Round 4 - Opponent Tro11z[/glow] Battle 1 Battle 2 [glow=red]Quarter Finals - Opponent Mathers88[/glow] Battle 1 Battle 2 Battle 3 [glow=red]Semi Finals - Opponent Prophet[/glow] Battle 1 Battle 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiM7XkDy-m4 [glow=red]Finals - Opponent Gedaaron14[/glow] Battle 1 (Brace yourself, this one's long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61QPOTvErto&feature=youtu.be Battle 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCs5za1ciao&feature=youtu.be Battle 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6gSEwjDVQ&feature=youtu.be Unfortunately I lost power half way through the last battle, and Gedaaron14 did not want to rebattle thus giving him the victory. While this was a sad way to end such a long tournament, kudos to Daeon and all the other staff members (at the time) who organized and managed this tournament across all three servers. Until next time :)

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I see, thanks. Does this mean it will be the same cloak that will be eventually available to other players as well? Wont be so unique if so...

Hey, just a quick question. Sine Daeon isn't around anymore I don't know whom to ask this from so to General forum it goes. The first and second placed contestants from the recently (actually, its been a while now) concluded official tournament were promised a unique cloak/cosmetic item as one of the rewards. When, if ever, are we getting these?

I will be uploading all of my videos soon... First battle of final was 47 minutes....

Gents (and those who aren't) we got more rewards :devil:

Be the first to wish him and win shinies! I won this! Wishing isn't enough though :Shocked: The top three people to trash talk somes will win Shiny Venusaur, Shiny Blastoise and Shiny Slaking, all sponsored by somerita itself (PRO server only) ! :Cool: (in case you are new and don't know, somes is the biggest nab. You must be very new... :Cry: ) Always remember though, even Aymanex is cooler than somes (beat that nabs )

https://prntscr.com/e1w8el i lost 133 :/

6/10 i dont like munchlax ":|

Damn always sad when an old player quits, and here its 2 at once! :Frown: Wish both of you the best of luck! hopefully we'll see both of you again at some point in pro... Take care!

Re: The Gathering Tournement <t>thanks mehmet! i will join too :D</t>

5 life orbs =/= automatic win (infact its so imbalanced that it almost equates to an automatic loss). When will people stop asking for bans of everything they cant think for more than 5 seconds on how to counter. IF you arent capable of that much, im afraid pvp isnt for you, stick to NPCs please.

really dont see what the big deal is here. The move has 100% accuracy when it shouldnt, a clearly broken move. You complain about goth, sand veil chomp and sableye. All of those were and still are working as they should (nothing is broken). The only exception would be confuse ray (which isnt limited to sableye) but that was fixed as soon as it was discovered that it wasnt working as intended (again, fixing something that was clearly broken). For all the complaining that people did about goth and sable, neither were optimum pokemon for securing a ladder spot... Without any pvp updates for a long time, people found ways to counter goth and it became an even worse pick. What were you complaining about? As for leech seed, ok, so you registered certain pokemon for the tournament where you must have planned to use leech seed. This is a move that is quite easily substituted. Who are the main users of this move (that are actually viable pvp pokemon)? off the top of my head, ferro, breloom, venu and rose. Every single one of them have wide enough move pools to not just survive in the meta but excel in it (a meta without life orb) without using leech seed. leech seed itself is too passive now to work in normal ranked now with all the offensive teams people are running. Why dont you stop crying and think of all the possible moves you could run instead?

Are you implying mestre sucks ? well known fact tho , and it's not coming from my mouth ;someone else dared to say it on forum :y: or the sentence was for someone like me ? Would you bring Entei in ranked excepting showing off ,with a set off Sfire, bite,toxic,facade ? While you can have a different speech based where you are speaking is quite hypocritical , one of the reasons i leaved Blaze , being doggys to the staff , and bashing them on discord all day longs , and you were wearing aswell a kind of "elitist" coat , w'r god ,the rest is trash , but yeah in the first place most of you weren't that near being just good imo. (ain't a generalized opinion , some people were actually good, honest and respectfull ) that wasnt targeted at anyone in particular :| as for bashing staff on discord, i think ppl who have known me on this game for some time would know i openly criticize staff on forums quite often. But when we are being listened to and changes are being made you have to give them their props. And yes id run entei (not with that moveset though o.O). Arca has always been a favorite of mine and with defiant being fixed and all this is almost perfect for me :D As for you leaving blaze, this is completely off topic, but i what you're saying isnt fair. We arent "doggys" to the staff. The founders of this game, and most of the initial staff have been blaze members since before even the conception of pro. if anything, we get a lot of flak from staff, or at least we used to (several blaze membrs who were staff were removed all at the same time for shady reasons...). Anyway, thats a thing of the past. The point im trying to make is that, while our relationship with staff is closer than most, its doesnt mean that we such upto them and talk behind their backs. As i said, im very open about my opinion (on this thread alone i was very vocal before they amended the ot rule). As for an elitist opinion. Here i have to concede, guilty as charged. But none of us are of the opinion that we are the best pvper or hunter or collector in game (even if as a guild we do have a high opinion of ourselves as one of the top guilds in game). In fact you know we have always had a very high opinion of you as a battler.... we arent going to get any further changes... all that left is to battle now :|

Re: Official Legendary Tournament Round Two: Registration. <r>I would like to register!<br/> Server: Red<br/> Timezone: GMT +5:30<br/> Trainer Card: <br/> <IMG src="https://i.imgur.com/AtCo9hV.png"><s></e></IMG></r>

omg the amount of rage.... guys can we just appreciate the work they are putting into this? not just the game itself, but going out of their way to organize a tournament of this scale, and that too across 3 servers... We complained about OT rule, they compromised, and made it fair for both parties. I for one was completely against OT only rule (i never hunt :|), but they changed that to accommodate those of us who prefer not to, or simply dont have the time to hunt Tier 9 epic pokemon. There are so many top tier pokemon that are easy to obtain with which 50% of a strong team can be made (arca, weavile, champ, donphan to name a few). We got the change we wanted, you should have stopped crying here and gone about actually making your team... As for the rewards, they are balanced, unique and brag worthy. what more do you want? IF the winner (who would have to be the best, or at least one of the best battlers in pro) were to receive an over powered pokemon as a reward, it would only make that player even stronger, further increasing the gap between aspiring pvp players and seasoned pros (while also increasing his/her chances of winning the next tournament). the way it is now, the winner will receive a very usable pokemon that doesnt give him/her an unfair edge while still being unique and rare. what more do you want?

850k for spider

um... this is not how it works in the main series Pokemon games at least. Honestly this system is kinda dumb if only for making certain Pokemon ridiculously easy to train while [Censored] over others... by main series games you mean the hand helds right? higher evos have always required more exp than their respective lower evos since yellow version... its just part of the game and makes perfect sense. Stronger pokemon? harder to gain exp.

fine they way it is. Been like this in every pokemon game, been like this in pro since for ever. part of the story is making that decision of either evolving your poke for immediate strength or paying the price and lvling slow from that point on.