John vs Ttc

The "winner" round, which is to say neither of us had to buy the beer at this point. Note this is the first week, so there is some rust and testing to shake off.

Strong Pokemon. Weak Pokemon.

Is it merely the selfish perception of trainers? Most people think not.

As such, here is a list of initial bans we have placed within standard play:

Pokemon
Mewtwo
Lugia
Kyogre
Groudon
Rayquaza
Deoxys (all forms)
Dialga
Palkia
Giratina (all forms)
Darkrai
Arceus
Reshiram
Zekrom
Kyurem

Moves
Evasion-buffing moves


Abilities

Shadow Tag 
Inconsistent

Items
Evasion-buffing items
Critical strike-buffing items (exception: Stick)
Quick Claw
Focus Band
Soul Dew

Rules of Play
To ban something which is presently not banned, or take something off the ban list, we must merely reach the conclusion that it is "breaking" standard play. "Breaking" is to be defined as any pokemon, move, item, or ability which is so powerful that is necessitates either a full team to defeat, extraordinary means or luck to defeat, or can only be defeated by itself.

Furthermore, we also decided some ground rules coming into this new generation. Pokemon cannot be transferred through generations for at least three weeks, and also require four level 100s already present on the game, which have the player as the OT. For the first four weeks, however, all pokemon used in battles must be exclusively from the fifth generation.

Any questions/corrections?

~John

A Short About

Greetings!

We are a group of four guys intent on showing the competitive nature of the pokemon games, especially through the fifth generation (Pokemon Black and White). We played during the end of generation four every weekend for three months, using a round robin-style tournament to decide the champion and loser. The loser had to buy the beer for the following week, and this format will continue into this generation.

However, this generation we will also be contributing to this blog, offering movesets, team advice, and hopefully commentating on our (and other's) games, which will be uploaded to Youtube.

We have not yet established our complete ruleset for this generation (last generation we played in Smogon's OU tier with standard rules, but we may vary now), but we do have some. To start, we will be playing with undoubtedly legendary (those at the top of the uber tier) pokemon barred from regular competitive play (though we will have weeks with special rules, soemtimes allowing them). These should be listed in a future post. Our other rule is you may not transfer pokemon from generation four to generation five until you have at least four level 100 pokemon in Black or White. This prevents us from blitzing through the elite four and transferring, only to play a few weeks with what are essentially fourth gen sets and teams.

Hopefully, readers, you will enjoy our insights, though probably not always perfect, but certainly better than nothing.

~John