snake
CAP Co-Leader
Idea / OP taken from SM OU Weekly Research
In this thread, every week, two Pokemon will get the spotlight in a laddering competition! Get the highest among the participants of the thread to see how well these two "test subjects" function in the SM CAP metagame! While laddering, participants will post their experiences with these two test subjects, such as which teams they work on best, what the best sets are, etc. The winner of the laddering competition amongst WR competitors will receive LBC points equivalent to those in this thread.
Procedure/Rules:
Week 1: Arghonaut and Mollux
Arghonaut was a huge winner of updates; whereas Mollux is a huge winner from the Dugtrio ban. How well do they play in the current metagame? Try the old sets, but experiment with non-standard sets! Make sure you've read the rules about alt names and posting rules/requirements! The alt with the highest ELO will win LBC points. This round will end on Saturday, October 28th.
In this thread, every week, two Pokemon will get the spotlight in a laddering competition! Get the highest among the participants of the thread to see how well these two "test subjects" function in the SM CAP metagame! While laddering, participants will post their experiences with these two test subjects, such as which teams they work on best, what the best sets are, etc. The winner of the laddering competition amongst WR competitors will receive LBC points equivalent to those in this thread.
Procedure/Rules:
- Each week, 2 Pokemon will be chosen as our "test subjects".
- In order to participate in the research:
- You can go on Pokemon Showdown and create a brand new WR# alt and proceed to try and top the ladder. You do not have to reach #1 on the ladder; you will only be competing against everyone else who has signed up with a WR alt for that week.
- WR Alt Example: WR(Week#) (Name) - WR1 snake for Week 1, for example.
- You can go on Pokemon Showdown and create a brand new WR# alt and proceed to try and top the ladder. You do not have to reach #1 on the ladder; you will only be competing against everyone else who has signed up with a WR alt for that week.
- You will post in this thread with your alt name as well as the Pokemon(s) that you will be using for the week. If you want to make a new alt, edit your post in the thread saying that you made a new alt. If you fail to post in the thread with your corresponding alt, you will be disqualified from winning for the week.
- From there, start laddering! Get a team with any of the test subjects and go try and reach the highest on the ladder competing with the other WR competitors. Tournament battles are also great, but get on the ladder too!
- The laddering phase and discussion phase begin immediately at the start of the week; you may post at any time during the week for the discussion phase.
- During the week, you must post in this thread about your experiences with any of the test subjects that you played with. Note: You don't need to post any more than once during the round. Your post doesn't have to be insanely detailed, although the more detailed your post, the better of a chance of you winning the discussion phase of each round.
- When posting, you can include (but are not limited to):
- Strategies used
- Sets used
- How you went about building with the Pokemon
- General strengths / weaknesses you noticed about the Pokemon
- If the meta is in favor of the Pokemon or not
- How the Pokemon fares in high level / tournament play (examples are nice here)
- There will be one Hall Of Fame for the posting phase which users will compete to have their name in.
- There will be two winners of the posting phase, one for each test subject; the winners of the posting phase will be the users who make the best post about their test subjects in all of the different categories listed above; the winners of the posting phase will be decided by myself and any co-hosts that might be interested
- Also recommended is that you please save your replays while laddering. Replays are always nice to see directly how the Pokemon perform in battle, so please save replays often to show how the test subjects do in normal matches.
- Your posts for the posting phase don't need to be super lengthy & detailed, but they shouldn't be super short and simple. I'm not gonna put some arbitrary regulation on how many sentences you should have, but you should have at least a small paragraph.
Week 1: Arghonaut and Mollux
Arghonaut was a huge winner of updates; whereas Mollux is a huge winner from the Dugtrio ban. How well do they play in the current metagame? Try the old sets, but experiment with non-standard sets! Make sure you've read the rules about alt names and posting rules/requirements! The alt with the highest ELO will win LBC points. This round will end on Saturday, October 28th.