Mr.Fuji

Dunno about an official defintion but...You can never counter every threat in the DPPt metagame, there are just too many of them to effectively have a solution, with just six pokemon. By trying to make the metagame balanced..you eliminate the broken aspects so that each player actually has a shot at beating the other. 'Hax' throws a wrench in this though, so things like 'hax' clause try and alleviate this a little. Of course you gotta know how to construct a well made team to TRY and counter the current metagames top threats, but by removing certain aspects of the game (ex. the tiers), and providing movesets, standard or not, it gives every player a shot at winning in a battle. Balanced might not even be the right term, maybe Orderly is more correct. ---------- Post added at 02:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:19 PM ---------- Legendaries? You mean things like heatran, azelf, celebi jirachi, etc? The ones I just mentioned are all OU. The only reason someone should complain by being beaten 'legendaries' is if they got beat by an UBER tier legendary pokemon (ex Mewtwo), while they were using a team consisting of pokemon from a lower tier...because well, it's not fair to use Uber tier pokemon against OU/UU/NU's Even then, why would anyone complain? People should know the rules laid out for a battle there about to get into.. ---------- Post added at 02:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:22 PM ---------- I'd say they do. If your talking about OU legendary pokemon (azelf, celebi etc..) There base stats, coupled with there movesets and typings obviously put them above some other pokemon, thats why most legendary pokemon are in high usage. I assume your talking about JUST OU legendaries because..to say Uber tier pokemon don't inherently carry an advantage over other pokemon is..foolish

As much as I hate to say it, no matter what we do to try and deviate away from smogon competitive battling rules, we will still be influenced by them. To come to the consensus and to get the data that's been collected, to have these rules requires people, and most importantly, peoples time, people that know what there doing. Smogon has these people (a few), if we had our own team to try and gather data, using statistics and all the other time consuming shit blah blah blah, if we wanted to have a BALANCED metagame, we'd MOST likely get the same results smogon has been pumping out for years. I know what i mean in my head.. more clearly than i can type it out here.. but I think just because smogon is the forerunner for these rules and such, we shouldn't feel bad for using them. There to help the entire Pokemon battling community, not just smogons. And for the people that dont like standard rules, things like sleep clause, tiers etc....come the fuck on seriously, if you want to play COMPETITIVE battles, you need a BALANCED metagame. Why would you ever play someone that uses random ubers with there heatrans and blisseys and puts to sleep half your team in the first few turns... come on..the rules work, there trying to balance it out so the experience is FUNNER.

Anyone here playing in Very Hard1?

Yeah, once this thing is figured out it'l be GREATLY appreciated. I've uploaded 1 or 2 battles successfully on the JAP plat ROM. And NONE so far with the ENG plat ROM. My Pokemon are all legal as well, it's quite frustrating. EDIT: Are there different error messages? The only one I've seen on the ENG ROM is "There's a problem with YOUR party Pokemon" Has anyone seen something about, your OPPONENTS party Pokemon?

I'm talking about editing the USA Platinum ROM.

Well goddam, thanks.

It was a good game, I wish it had WiFi PVP or something though, got stale for me after post-game stuff

Does anyone know if the USA platinum ROM needs sound to work on an emu? I know the JAP one did, and because of that I couldn't record battles off my SAV (no working sound card)

Honestly, I always wondered why the site WAS called pokesav.org when no one knew who COM really was or anything, and when projects around the site definitely overshadowed the pokesav program itself. All in all, smart move, and here's to the future of a great Pokemon community :cool:

ST.ANGERR ROUND MY NEEECK whatsup, welcome back

I agree on some sort of weekly get together for gladiator/smash-o-rama/waterpolo tourneys or something, this game is really fun and i already played with you once before codemonkey, we just need more pplz. Also, we should take note where people live so that we can play with the best connection possible.

Okey, cuz all I really want is my lil dude to have a black hat on

Finally registered.. I'm feelin' that platinum feva, i need to get back into battling and shiiiz WHATS GOOODY

Hi, just wondering if those old tools for editing JAP Platinum ROM's work with english ones? Tools such as the sprite editors and stuff :B