The CMC Pokèmon League

(12-08-2009 10:43 AM)Whomper Wrote:  

(12-08-2009 07:42 AM)NOLDER Wrote:  all shoddy does is give everyone a playset of everything (in cmc terms)

Precisely. That would be like moving CMC to the dev server and letting everyone play with every card. Sure it sounds cool, but it gets boring and repetitive REALLY fast. Which is why...

not REALLY
the metagame of pokemon is just like that of CMC
people constantly thinking up new ways to counter the current one
which can lead to circle metagaming from time to time (pack counter spells, people stop using spells, you stop using counters, they start using spells again, ect, ect, ect)
and if the shifting of the metagame isn't enough on it's own the pokemon company shifts things around too with new movesets with new games (and eventually new pokemon though this can't always be counted on)

yeah it can get boring in that you'll see a lot of the same pokemon doing the same thing often
but that's just because it's top tier and it's glaringly obvious to even those people who don't follow the metagame at all

(12-08-2009 10:43 AM)Whomper Wrote:  

(12-08-2009 07:42 AM)NOLDER Wrote:  if you just want to battle (which is, I'm assuming, what this thread is all about) it's an ideal time saver

...this assumption is incorrect. This league is not about playing the player with the best skills and "saving time"; it is about rewarding people who wanted to put forth the most effort. As such, I am here to state that this league will be a DS-only league. Any shmuck on the internet can google up a good pokemon team on a whim and win with it; that's not what this is about.

If you wish to run a Shoddy-based version of this, please feel free to copy/paste the rules into a new thread and go from there.

I see
that was my mistake I suppose
I have some pokemon I've been meaning to train anyway so I could probably rustle up a team...

and yeah I might but I'll wait to see how this goes first