ryo yamada2001
ryo yamada2001
approved by Arcticblast, kamikaze, KyleCole, and Stratos
Hey guys! This is an attempt to revive the thread Electrolyte used to host. Doubles has settled as a balanced tier that is growing every day. To complement this growing userbase, I thought it would be a good idea to revive Live Teambuilding sessions in the Doubles room on Pokemon Showdown. Newer players can learn how to build teams and improve with the help of more experienced users, which is great to exchange strategies and to improve the playerbase as a whole. It will also be a great opportunity for new players to integrate better in Doubles and break out of their shell! :)
Here is how it is going to work:
1. At the beginning of the week, a time and host will be decided to lead teambuilding.
Most usually this will be me, but if I require a filler host I will try to notify everyone.
The time will usually be during the weekend, when as many people possible can join. I'll try to do them on saturdays, but fridays and sundays are fine as well. For any other host; you will be allowed to pick a different time.
2. Up until the building time, people will be allowed to nominate Pokemon or cores to build around.
I have been struggling with this so far because I don't exactly know which route to go with this.
There have been suggestions to pair this up with the Teambuilding Competition that Memoric is currently hosting, but I'm not entirely sure about that as it is 40 weeks ahead of us, and we will lose out on possible Pokemon and cores that way. It would still be fun to build as a group and deliver this as a group. Also, in case someone's idea didn't get into the final team, they could build around it on their own and deliver it in the thread.
My personal idea was that people will be allowed to nominate Pokemon or cores on their own, and not run together with Memoric's Teambuilding Competition. In case we're doing this, please DO NOT SEND IN UNVIABLE CORES AND POKEMON. I'm sure we will all build a little bit jivy and possibly innovate, but I would prefer building competitive and usable teams, rather than just meme teams.
3. The host will look around in which Pokemon/core the community is most interested in.
That will be the building point in this case. If you would like your suggestion to be built around, I would advise putting a good reasoning with your post! Keep your starting points simple and short please. Don't suggest a 3 mon core, don't suggest a very specific team archetype (Sand TR, Double Weather), but keep your cores simple, and your reasonings short and clean.
4. We will teambuild afterwards!
We'll just start teambuilding. I want to make it very clear how we are going to teambuild:
People will give suggestions what to put on the team and give a small reasoning, eventually the host will make the final decision.
We do this so we can avoid the session derailing and everyone making poor suggestions. Again, I want to make it so we have usable teams at the end which could be possibly used in a more competitive setting.
That being said, I will be extremely loose on stuff like this. You can suggest off-meta stuff and stuff that isn't used much (tier 4 Pokemon such as Milotic, Gastrodon) but please do not suggest stuff like Shedinja or Follow Me Lucario.
We'll try to put in the rest of the sets and EV spreads at the end of the session, when we have got the Pokemon all done so we can decide with moves to put on the Pokemon more easily.
IMPORTANT: Don't forget to name the team, and especially don't forget nicknames. If kamikaze17 is around he'll be curating the nicknames :^D
4b. Look around if we can change around stuff or improve the team.
I'm sure that there will be ways to improve teams and we'll take one last look if we could change this around quickly. These teams will be built in ~1 hour so ofcourse the teams will not be perfect. We'll try to make it as good as possible though!
5. Possibly test out the team afterwards on the ladder or between each other.
This is optional, but if there's time left or if there are people interested in watching and doing this, I would happily do this. Testing teams on the ladder or between other players is the best way to spot weaknesses in the team and to see how to improve it.
5b. For the hosts: if we're done building the team, please add in minisprites, put the team between hidetags, and give a small description.
Again, this is just for the hosts. I will try to make an example of this after the first session. Try to put in a small description in on why we added certain Pokemon and sets!
5c. For the hosts: everyone who has participated significantly earn 1 point, and these get added in the Hall of Fame.
People who have added very little or made bad suggestions do not deserve Hall of Fame points. I don't want people to get rewarded for trying to ruin the experience
Reminder: this project is intended for new and intermediate players, however, high level players are encouraged to participate! In the end, we're all looking to improve and just get better at teambuilding as a whole!
Team archive:
Minisprites
Team name / original core / session / host
Hall of Fame:
1. some pleb kid - 0 points
2. some pleb kid - 0 points
3. some pleb kid - 0 points
4. some pleb kid - 0 points
5. some pleb kid - 0 points
If you have any questions about the project, feel free to PM/VM or post in this thread.
For guest hosts, if you have questions you can ask as well, I will try to help as much as possible!
Here is how it is going to work:
1. At the beginning of the week, a time and host will be decided to lead teambuilding.
Most usually this will be me, but if I require a filler host I will try to notify everyone.
The time will usually be during the weekend, when as many people possible can join. I'll try to do them on saturdays, but fridays and sundays are fine as well. For any other host; you will be allowed to pick a different time.
2. Up until the building time, people will be allowed to nominate Pokemon or cores to build around.
I have been struggling with this so far because I don't exactly know which route to go with this.
There have been suggestions to pair this up with the Teambuilding Competition that Memoric is currently hosting, but I'm not entirely sure about that as it is 40 weeks ahead of us, and we will lose out on possible Pokemon and cores that way. It would still be fun to build as a group and deliver this as a group. Also, in case someone's idea didn't get into the final team, they could build around it on their own and deliver it in the thread.
My personal idea was that people will be allowed to nominate Pokemon or cores on their own, and not run together with Memoric's Teambuilding Competition. In case we're doing this, please DO NOT SEND IN UNVIABLE CORES AND POKEMON. I'm sure we will all build a little bit jivy and possibly innovate, but I would prefer building competitive and usable teams, rather than just meme teams.
3. The host will look around in which Pokemon/core the community is most interested in.
That will be the building point in this case. If you would like your suggestion to be built around, I would advise putting a good reasoning with your post! Keep your starting points simple and short please. Don't suggest a 3 mon core, don't suggest a very specific team archetype (Sand TR, Double Weather), but keep your cores simple, and your reasonings short and clean.
4. We will teambuild afterwards!
We'll just start teambuilding. I want to make it very clear how we are going to teambuild:
People will give suggestions what to put on the team and give a small reasoning, eventually the host will make the final decision.
We do this so we can avoid the session derailing and everyone making poor suggestions. Again, I want to make it so we have usable teams at the end which could be possibly used in a more competitive setting.
That being said, I will be extremely loose on stuff like this. You can suggest off-meta stuff and stuff that isn't used much (tier 4 Pokemon such as Milotic, Gastrodon) but please do not suggest stuff like Shedinja or Follow Me Lucario.
We'll try to put in the rest of the sets and EV spreads at the end of the session, when we have got the Pokemon all done so we can decide with moves to put on the Pokemon more easily.
IMPORTANT: Don't forget to name the team, and especially don't forget nicknames. If kamikaze17 is around he'll be curating the nicknames :^D
4b. Look around if we can change around stuff or improve the team.
I'm sure that there will be ways to improve teams and we'll take one last look if we could change this around quickly. These teams will be built in ~1 hour so ofcourse the teams will not be perfect. We'll try to make it as good as possible though!
5. Possibly test out the team afterwards on the ladder or between each other.
This is optional, but if there's time left or if there are people interested in watching and doing this, I would happily do this. Testing teams on the ladder or between other players is the best way to spot weaknesses in the team and to see how to improve it.
5b. For the hosts: if we're done building the team, please add in minisprites, put the team between hidetags, and give a small description.
Again, this is just for the hosts. I will try to make an example of this after the first session. Try to put in a small description in on why we added certain Pokemon and sets!
5c. For the hosts: everyone who has participated significantly earn 1 point, and these get added in the Hall of Fame.
People who have added very little or made bad suggestions do not deserve Hall of Fame points. I don't want people to get rewarded for trying to ruin the experience
Reminder: this project is intended for new and intermediate players, however, high level players are encouraged to participate! In the end, we're all looking to improve and just get better at teambuilding as a whole!
Team archive:
Minisprites
Team name / original core / session / host
none yet
Hall of Fame:
1. some pleb kid - 0 points
2. some pleb kid - 0 points
3. some pleb kid - 0 points
4. some pleb kid - 0 points
5. some pleb kid - 0 points
If you have any questions about the project, feel free to PM/VM or post in this thread.
For guest hosts, if you have questions you can ask as well, I will try to help as much as possible!
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