The Imitation Gym Leader Tournament! ***Won by &Shining Yin***

Question

I'm positive everyone's schedules have settled down with school, so we can finally start a tournament again. This tournament is one of the cooler ideas I've seen, so why not try it out? I'll let the creator of the idea say the rules with edits:

Ever wanted to be a Gym Leader? Now you finally can
You must have six pokemon of the same type on a team. Your signature pokemon will be the only pokemon that can have an item and that item must be any berry. and last but not least, and this is the most hard part to implement, you must have a tm with all your pokemon.

To make things just a bit more interesting, the TM at which you choose should be one that is actually legit, not just some made up move like the creator made with HJK. TMs cannot be repeated, first come first serve. Also, this is the standard OU tiering, so no Ubers allowed. Also HMs can be used.

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If you are going to enter just to say that you have no time to play, then you cannot play in future tournaments. This has happened so much last tour that the tourhad to be discontinued. Seriously, do not enter just to drop out. I will write the names of everyone who drops out after sign ups to make myself clear. 16 people and standard info in the answers. Best of 3 as per usual. Let's get this started.

Banned TMs: Hidden Power, Protect

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Used TMs/HMs:
Toxic
Earthquake
Shadow Ball
Ice Beam
Stone Edge
Aerial Ace
Volt Switch
Psychic
Will-o-Wisp
Roost
Psyshock
Surf
Thunder Wave*
U-Turn
Substitute
Dazzling Gleam

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Let me just address some of the Qs that have been asked. I'm going to bend the original rules and make this more OU ish that Monotype ish. Berries only count for the main Pokemon on the team, not every Pokemon. Megas are not allowed, as only one pokemon can hold an item. Pokes under OU are allowed as they are allowed in OU, Uber and Megas though are not. This isn't a tour where I want it to be Monotype, as can see people will have multiples of the same type, so I think it'd be easier if we do regular OU. And Legendaries in OU can be used, just not Uber Legends. This is to reflect Gym Leader teams, nothing about facing multiple Gyms like a round robin. Unless you guys want Monotype Round Robins, that's what's not what's intended to go on.

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Round 1
NonePiece vs Hawluchinations Winner: NonePiece
CWegz vs Le Scraf Winner: CWegz
<|Skymin|> vs Sempiternus Winner: Sempiternus
Ninja vs Flafpert Winner: Flafpert
It's a secret vs &Shining Yin Winner: &Shining Yin
Sir Terlor vs MrKijani Winner: Sir Terlor
Aeternis vs Sir Dan Winner: Aeternis
The Trapinchinator vs ☆Elegantly∞Espeon☆ Winner: The Trapinchinator

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Round 2
CWegz vs &Shining Yin Winner: &Shining Yin
Sempiternus vs Aeternis Winner: Sempiternus
Flafpert vs NonePiece Winner: Flafpert
The Trapinchinator vs Sir Terlor Winner: Sir Terlor (The Trapinchinator is banned .)

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Round 3
&Shining Yin vs Sempiternus Winner: &Shining Yin
Sir Terlor vs Flafpert Winner: Flafpert

Round 4
Flafpert vs &Shining Yin Winner: &Shining Yin

Comments

What about mega Pokemon? Like mega charizard x in a flying gym

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As the only item allowed is Berries, I take it Megas are, by extension, prohibited.

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Lol what? Berries are to be used on the main Poke, not all of them. And those I'm taking into consideration

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Is this best of three?What I mean by this is 3 battles to decide who wins.

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Are OU & under Megas allowed? Considering this is OU standard...
And also, can types be repeated as long as the TMs aren't?

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Don't think Megas are allowed, as no items barr a Berry for your "main" Pokemon.
Also fondant, the thing is, it's basically monotype actually. You choose a TM, and all the Pokemon you use must be of the type of that TM, and every single Pokemon must also be utilising that TM move in their moveset.

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Going as per your rules say: If I use U-turn as my TM, is it possible for me to use a Fire-type team then? It seems to fit with the whims of the tourney ;3

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Wot ;I
"you must have a tm that all your pokemon have to learn that has to be there type"

From the original quote
I'm assuming there is actually their.
That sentence basically states that the Pokemon must match the type of the TM.
So utilising U-turn means all Pokemon must be of the bug type

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Mickey is using all poisons :]!

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Dangit one of my flying types can't learn aerial ace

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Is protean Greninja allowed because it can turn into that specific type.

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Protean Greninja can be in a Dark or Water team.

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I take it that we can not use OU legendaries? Also, do you mean we can use only OU? Or can we use all tiers under? (Besides LC)?

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Now I sit here and wait for some guy to take up Acrobatics with all the items we get here lol. :P
Gale Wings Talon + Acrobatics = seems like a plan c:

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Are we going with multiple gyms per type?

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This conflicts me due to normal monotype rules separation from OU a few months ago. Are we taking this up in Monotype or OU?

http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/monotype-xy-read-post-393-for-tiering-updates.3493087/page-16#post-5694854

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I'll edit this post to answer all the questions

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So to clarify, our team does NOT have to be the same type as the tm type we choose, which is what the original tourney post indicated?

If so then my team will be the worst...

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If that is the case having Taunt as my TM kind of feels pointless now, since the only reason I chose it was because a lot of Dark types could learn it :/ Prefer the original rules tbh.

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Yeah, and keeping Toxic / Sub in there is kind of dumb as almost everything learns it.

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People were saying that the original rules are worse as if you get a type say Water vs Fire, that's a loss you can't avoid. It wasn't really fair to those with weaker types. That's why I changed it. You can change TMs btw.

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NP and Valet had no problems beating me when they fixed their teams, I don't see what the big problem with it is.

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In concordance with the new tournament rules I have changed my TM to Stone Edge.

Thank you :]

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Alrighty x3

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Oh I love that idea. But I would probably just end up having to drop out anyway, so good luck for those participating

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Sorry, this may have been answered but I didn't catch it. Does our TM have to be the same type as our team? Or can I have like Shadow Ball as my TM on a Psychic team?

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Yes, you can. There is no Monotype in this tour. So you can use whatever type with your TM.

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Okay, thank you oh so very much. :D

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No problem c:

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Damn I'm running a mono-water! :o

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Oh, gdi I should of stuck with Taunt -.-

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Oh dear! I need to finish my team XD

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The Trapinchinator won our battle.

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Yep. GG EE

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You need to edit the battle replays into you answers i think :s

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Terlor forgot to save replays, but I played one game well and two games badly. Prof and Jojo watched our games and can confirm.

Answer 1

Pokemon Showdown name: Shining Yin, Psychic x, Hate Red

Timezone: EST

TM chosen: Toxic

Comments

The best one; and the one that is banned in the rules. Suck it.

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I was told Roost was the best one, and this is easily stopped by a cleric so... Yeah :x

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Cause I had Roost before