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Hey all :)

I am currently getting back into competitive online battling in SwSh, and I am starting with the Battle Tower (Singles). Unfourtunately, I am kinda bad at competitive, so I went to Fizz's wall, and said this:

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Hello Fizz :D Wanted to ask a question, can I ask these two questions? I wanted your opinion on these. I don't know what to name them, but they would be similar to and igtq, like what is a good in game team for sword and shield, but something like

"What is a good team for the SwSh Battle Tower Singles format" and same with doubles. The question itself is a little wordy but i can work on that. i was just thinking that the question itself might be something good to have on Pokebase maybe? i think that if i did it without saying i would get an answer like "you will be better off asking here link to smogon or something idk. if you say yes i might need a little help doing the formatting and stuff, as there have been problems in the last few days with wrong formatting for some moveset questions.

thanks again in advance for helping :3

like an ongiong thread

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I hope that explains it all :) Fizz came back to me with this reply.

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> Having that question effectively commits us to allowing a similar thread for every game (and different battle facility, etc). I'm not opposed to it, but I think you should suggest it on Meta to see if other people think it would be good as well.
> It's a balancing act of how useful the threads would be and the bother they might cause if they're bumped up as often as the moveset threads.

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So here I am! What do you think of adding threads for all of the battle towers and such, for singles and doubles? I am not sure how many there are, but I think that it could be good, maybe even add a new tag (a bit like msq/lcmsq/igtq)?

Feel free to give your opinions, thanks! (Hope you're on board with it :D)

~Polaris~

Edit: These would not be posted randomly at all, they can be asked by ONE person only to avoid confusion, maybe a mod or something; I would be happy to do it though, as they are asked ONCE and only come up again when a new generation adds a new battle facility. These would not be posted in RMT, because I guess it is not about rating teams, and doesn't really fit in. In RMT, you give a team + explanation, it gets rated. These threads are like moveset questions and they fit in Pokebase; a question is given ("What is a good team for the Battle Tree" or something like that. Title needs work), and people answer with THEIR teams, so not on the RMT.
Hope I helped!

Edit 2: I finally did it! After a couple months because (a) I'm icompetent, (b) I'm busy with school/exams/revision and all that, (c) I only have 3 brain cells, and (d) all of the above, I have added all of the bftqs up until Generation 8! It took way longer than it should have done because of being inactive, but I am super happy I got it done nonetheless. Thank you for answering the questions, I really appreciate that I was able to do this! I will update the Generation 8 question when BDSP comes out, and if Legends Arceus does have something (maybe not though), that will probably go in Generation 8; And when Generation 9 eventually comes out, I can create a new one for that too.

Thanks again!
~ Polaris :D

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If we went the direction of posting one thread per generation, we could list all the possible battle facilities in the question description and require that people nominate all the ones that apply. I think it could potentially be annoying to navigate (example: if you wanted a Battle Institute team, you'd have to scroll past Battle Maison only teams), but there would be less threads to post and keep control of.
I think we should post these threads in some form, but which way is better?
Hey all. I have though about this idea quite a bit more, and I think that in the desctription (take XY/ORAS for example), it could say something "please post battle teams for the Battle Institute or the Battle Maison"

what do you all think? (im working on the format) Im open to suggestions!
Hey again. I talked to Fizz on Discord, and we have decided I am going to ask these one by one but spread out enough so that it doesn't clog up the main section. Again, if you have anything you need to ask, post it here :D

Also, I have created a new tag: bftq, or battle facility team question. This can be removed is necessary :)
Do we really need these threads? They have been very dead and in the three months they have at maximum, like two answers.
They don't do any harm.

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