re Fort:
The versatility Frosty is referring to has nothing to do with the versatility that I proposed. The versatility in the base crystals is the ability to link any move as a z-move
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Re SR Expansion:
While I really, really like the idea of expanding the constraints of SRs and expediting battle speed, I'm highly against the proposal for what surprisingly amounts to mostly a flavor perspective and then a little bit of logic. A referee in all applications of the term outside of ASB refers to a third party charged with officiating a process and overseeing it to maintain fairness, and I'd prefer not to remove that aspect from ASB.
From a more practical standpoint: Serious matches, from my perspective, need to maintain that 3rd party overseer simply because its very easy to manipulate rolling, even if they are supposed to be done publicly. Not to mention, you'd be adding additional work to the council/mods/whatever committee because they'd have to actually deal with the complaints. Plus we'd have to actually set in place rules on how people are to ref for this to work, which is just so unnecessary.
Self-reffing belongs in places where refs don't have anything to lose, which is why it currently exists in RPs and flash matches that don't award KOC.
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Re Gluttony + Signature Items:
You know, I've never actually noticed that. I, however, am leaning towards the fact that they shouldn't be on them. Firstly, the stones don't really have much to do with Gluttony. Secondly, there's no good reason to keep adding effects to already good signature items, and it hasn't been shown that those Pokemon are underperforming without it. Sure, you can point to the fact that no one is using them, but there are plenty of things, both items and pokemon, that aren't being used.
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Re Malamar:
While I agree that Swagger utterly screws Malamar, I also think that just outright giving Malamar to keep positive boosts positive is just overdoing its item. I wouldn't be opposed to a discussion of changing one of its effects out for this protection, but I very much feel that just adding that to the things it has is overkill for no real reason.