Pokémon

(05-11-2009 02:01 AM)Kennisiou Wrote:  See, personally, my idea of fun is that kind of thing (one guy running every single player into the ground) not happening. And the rules I'm suggesting? Notice how I'm pointing out abuses for people not following them, and how un-fun people who don't follow the rules are? They're there to make the game harder to abuse. Because I hate staring down the one dick who realized there's no sleep clause and uses a choice-scarfed breloom to put everything on my team to sleep. I hate playing the one guy who decided to abuse the "no switching" rule by using loads of taunting set-up sweepers. I hate playing the guy who decided to abuse ban-list rules by using the few pokémon that are unhandleable because people used an expirimental and bad banned list. I'm suggesting rules that make shit fun. I'm not "trying to ban the green hippo because he's too good," I'm trying to ban someone from bringing a vacuum painted like a hippo and playing with that (okay, so that would, in fact, actually be very fun to play and is a bad example, but you get my point).

And don't act like there won't be at least one guy doing this, because there will. We've got at least one guy hacking, so he can do whatever he wants, and people here are smart. They see "unmissable sleep" they see "any number of guys asleep" and they see "choice scarf, increases speed but locks into one move" and put one and one and one together to make a fucking annoying match that's just no fun.

The tier rules preserve competition and keep things fair. Unbalanced games aren't fun, as exemplified by such staples of fun games such as "poker where that one guy always is given a royal flush."

This is about levelling the playing field and preventing un-fun abuse, not about "hey guise let me rape you my favorite way." My wi-fi team sucks and that's no lie. I'm going to probably be playing with my terrible wi-fi team, maybe some changes to make it slightly less terrible, but it's still got imperfect IV's, bad natures and spreads, and all of that other shit that makes me cringe.

Edit: this is in response to Mage, not Nacho.

I suppose I misunderstood as to what you were arguing then (I don't speak competitive Pokemon, and I still think this entire argument is ridiculous and people taking the game way too seriously).

Banning switching, if that's as simple as swapping Pokemon in and out mid fight and not some crazy term, does seem a bit excessive, but one way or another, its his tournament, and he can run it how he wants. You don't want to play, then don't, let him have his fun. Run your own tournament with your own rules if you want, god knows there are enough Pokemon and Pokemon players to go around.

Banning Pokemon also seems a bit off though, at least to me if you're all going to be level 100 or whatever anyway.

One way or another, it seems to come down to the people you're playing with. If the people you're playing with are exploiting pricks, don't play with them.

Again, I'm going to step out of this thread now, since I lack the comprehensive pokemon knowledge of every intricacies of move lists and stats and crap. This is your guys turf, I just felt the need to step in because it seemed like people were starting to foam at the mouth over pixels on a DS.

One of these days, though, I'm totally going to run a tournament that's nothing but first-evolution Bird pokemon and nothing else. No item holding, no item use, nothing other than bird on bird bloodletting action. Just to be a dick.