Hello, fellow RUers. Texas has asked me to take over Research Week so I'm doing a mini-overhaul. For one, since these things never last a week, I'm renaming it Research Group. I've also made the default OP less tl;dr for your reading pleasure :)
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Keep the following things in mind during every Research Group:
How useful are these Pokemon in RU? What sets can they run effectively? What gives them trouble? What advantages do they have over other Pokemon? How well do they work in the metagame? If you have anything to say about any of these Pokemon, please post about them! It doesn't matter if you've used them or have just faced them in battle, anything is fine (but please, do try them). Just be sure to back up your posts with good competitive reasoning. Remember, discussion is not limited to this topic, you are encouraged to talk about these Pokemon in #rarelyused and #pokemon as well!
The Research Group Challenge:
In order to participate you must do the following:
The first stage of the challenge will be very relaxed so theorymon will be allowed as long as its backed up by good reasoning. During the later stage, discussion will be expected to be backed up by hard evidence, such as teams, actual sets, and logs. The winner of the challenge will be the person who is at the highest rating on the alt they registered at the time the challenge ends. If you win, you will receive temporary hops on #rarelyused, but you may only claim your prize if you actually participated in the discussion!
Current Participants:
Forum Name - Ladder Alt
Omicron - -wildthings
TrollFreak - TrollFreak
Zebraiken - -Zebraiken
lars - Under the WilloWisps
spuds4ever - Chips and Milk
#1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5
Keep the following things in mind during every Research Group:
- Be open-minded, don't just say something is terrible and walk away; look at its stats, movepool, and typing and think something up!
- Feel free to theorymon early in the research period, but make it clear you're doing so. Later in the period though, you will be expected to back up your posts with hard evidence like logs, actual sets, perhaps even teams.
- Just because an analysis has been done for a Pokemon doesn't mean there isn't more to explore; it's very likely that something has gone unnoticed.
- Do not post in this thread complaining about the Pokemon I choose and/or suggesting ones we should do for future weeks. Like I said before, feel free to VM / PM me these suggestions, but don't expect me to always listen to you.
Research Group #4
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Miltank | Torterra | Entei
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Miltank | Torterra | Entei
How useful are these Pokemon in RU? What sets can they run effectively? What gives them trouble? What advantages do they have over other Pokemon? How well do they work in the metagame? If you have anything to say about any of these Pokemon, please post about them! It doesn't matter if you've used them or have just faced them in battle, anything is fine (but please, do try them). Just be sure to back up your posts with good competitive reasoning. Remember, discussion is not limited to this topic, you are encouraged to talk about these Pokemon in #rarelyused and #pokemon as well!
The Research Group Challenge:
In order to participate you must do the following:
- Send me a PM / post here or on IRC with a fresh alt and the name(s) of the Pokemon you will be using.
- Use at least one of the Pokemon being researched.
- Post your experiences with the Pokemon you're using, participate in the discussion!
The first stage of the challenge will be very relaxed so theorymon will be allowed as long as its backed up by good reasoning. During the later stage, discussion will be expected to be backed up by hard evidence, such as teams, actual sets, and logs. The winner of the challenge will be the person who is at the highest rating on the alt they registered at the time the challenge ends. If you win, you will receive temporary hops on #rarelyused, but you may only claim your prize if you actually participated in the discussion!
Current Participants:
Forum Name - Ladder Alt
Omicron - -wildthings
TrollFreak - TrollFreak
Zebraiken - -Zebraiken
lars - Under the WilloWisps
spuds4ever - Chips and Milk
