Pokemon Showdown Random Battle Tourney Shenanigans

Greetings, I am the Scumlord Pokemon Trainer AnriKurokaze and I welcome you to this group. What we will be doing for the most part is Tournaments for Pokemon Showdown in the Random Battle class. However, we will also be experimenting with a different tier weekly!

All players are welcome to join as the Random Battle system does give a level playing field. While knowledge of competitive battling does help in most situations, the only real knowledge required is knowing type matchups most of the time

A note that I will be recording matches, or rather, the replays and giving commentary over them for fun.

Tourneys will either be set up by myself or TryHard Penguin. As for conveying links to battles to spectate, we will use the group chat

We are aiming to set these up as either a weekly thing or every two week type deal, since we all can typically be quite busy. The days we are shooting to have tournies on fall on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Time zones will also be taken into consideration.

Info on each planned tourney type
Randoms - Random Pokemon with Random movesets. Many of us got into PS because of random battles, especially back in the day when Austin/Last_Grey_Wolf had tournies in his streams. Much craziness will ensue as one doesn't know what they'll have until the match starts. This is the easiest to set up.

Balanced Hackmons - Wanna teach your favorite pokemon illegal stuffs? This mode allows for such. Gonna stick with the balanced class as the more experienced players could make some OP teams if not in Balanced Hackmons

Doubles - Ever felt like having your team fight with two pokemon at a time? This type will allow for such.

Monotype Battles - Duke it out with an entire team based on a single type! While you may start with a disadvantage, it'll be all the more satisfying if you manage to win!

Ubers/OU/UU/RU/NU - The standard competitive Smogon tiers based on Pokemon usage. We might dabble into these tiers here and there as the Gen 6 metagame evolves, but they usually require too much game knowledge and metagame experience that may not be fun for all.

Little Cup - Wreck havoc with your favorite baby Pokemon, all at level 5!

Challenge Cup/Challenge Cup 1v1 - With random Pokemon, movesets, EVs and IVs, this mode is even more ridiculous than randoms! 1v1 is the same, except with 6 Pokemon you can choose from to use as your combatant.


Helpful resources to check out!

Type effectiveness chart:
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Type_chart

Types Pokemon are Weak to, for the lazy:
http://pokeweak.sosguy.net/

Tier info:
http://wiki.pokemon-online.eu/wiki/6th_Gen_Tier_List

Pokemonshowdown main link:
http://pokemonshowdown.com/

Gen 5 Smogon Tier List/Stratgies for some viable movesets/ideas:
http://www.smogon.com/bw/tiers/

Playlist of past tournies commentated by the scumlord himself.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQ8dY7uFR0UABfm-O2RsBHU7YOLgZKSI