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This Tournament will be featuring The Haunted Guessing Game by popular vote. Created by the great mind of….. me.
Explanation
This here is a guessing game. You and your opponent can both Shadow Ball. 50/50 chance for OHKO for either side. You could Sucker Punch and your opponent Shadow Ball. 100% OHKO for you. You could use Shadow Ball and your opponent could use Sucker Punch. You dead. You could both Sucker Punch and 50/50 speed tie at +1. Perish Song is so opponents won’t spam Sucker Punch. How will you play with the Perish Song if you instantly perish to Shadow Ball by switching out? Of course your opponent could use Sucker Punch and give you a window to switch. Or maybe not. Or maybe…. MIND GAMES!
Rules
Both teams have 6 Haunters. All Haunters must have this moveset:
Haunter @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
Tera Type: Banned
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
IVs: 0 Def
Hasty Nature
- Shadow Ball
- Sucker Punch
- Perish Song
- This will be played in Gen 9 Hackmons(to avoid species clause) on the usual Showdown Server.
- Save Your Replays! Post them on this thread here.
- Don’t cheat by adjusting the set. It will be easy to tell if you give Haunter extra bulk to survive a Sucker Punch. Violating this once will make you replay the battle if you win. Twice, and you will automatically be disqualified.
- Conduct your battle and post the replay by the deadline. If not, a random player will be chosen to win( there will be flexibility in this depending on the situation).
A Couple Things to Vote on
There is a little problem, not a big one, but it may seem unfair. If you’re down to your last Haunter and your opponent has at least two, your opponent can set up Perish Song and then spam Sucker Punch till you lose. The only way to beat it is if you win the speed tie with Shadow Ball before the opposing Haunter can set up Perish Song. Depending on how many Haunters your opponent has left, you’d have to win the speed tie multiple times. And of course, your opponent could simply spam Sucker Punch and PP stall you. I have two reasonable ways to resolve this:
1: You guessed wrong sucker
Meaning Single Elimination and no changes. I mean, if you only had an Iron Moth locked in Flamethrower against Heatran, you gonna lose.
2: Double Elimination
If you lose at this point you’re just bad.
So basically I’m asking, would you rather have Single or Double Elimination.
Other Thing:
If it’s convenient for most people, I could start the first round on Saturday, although Sign-ups would last for less time. Mainly suggested for School People to fully take advantage of Winter Break.
Sign-ups
Please read sumwun's guidelines for tournament participation before signing up.
For those interested in signing up, please post an answer below. Your answer should include your Pokemon Showdown username, your time zone, and what hours and days you will be available to battle normally. As an example of how to sign up:
Showdown Username: Pig-3.0
Time Zone: GMT -5 (Eastern Standard Time)
Availability: Generally on Thursdays and Fridays 5-9 P.M. or all Saturday
Sign-ups will close on Tuesday, December 26th(unless voted against) around 7-9 A.M. and first round match-ups will be posted within 24 hours of closing.
Use a time zone converter to help you decide battle times.
Good luck to all participants and I can’t wait to see who has the biggest brain of all!
