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The season has ended and we have our top 10!
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As per usual, it is time for the fun facts!
We finally break our "everyone in the community fails to predict the number 1 Pokemon" curse as 6/18 people successfully predicted Flutter Mane to be first. The mon took the first position for 5 seasons...
NOTE ON USAGE STATS AND ALTERNATE FORMS
All Pokemon alternate forms are counted separately in usage stats EXCEPT OGERPON, ZACIAN, AND ZAMAZENTA, where all masks are counted as Ogerpon and crowned dogs are counted as their non-crowned counterpart.
Ex: Urshifu-S and Urshifu-R have separate...
BSS REGULATION G USAGE STATS PREDICTION CONTEST
The powerhouses return to BSS with regulation G unbanning one box legendary per team! How will the metagame shift and how good are you at predicting it? Find out here in the prediction contest!
How to play:
Post down below your predictions of...
The season has ended and we have our top 10!
Once again, let's have a look at some interesting facts before we get into the results:
First of all, we repeat our community streak of NOBODY PREDICTING THE FIRST PLACE POKEMON CORRECTLY. 13/14 predictions put Dragonite in first place, and Aldrich...
There was discussion on discord about the possibility of having custom avatar as a prize for world cup.
I am just going to say, this is a terrible idea. World Cup should not have a custom avatar prize.
Each section on smogon are allowed to have 2 CA rewarding tournaments, and the status quo...
BSS REGULATION F USAGE STATS PREDICTION CONTEST
With the addition of 180 new Pokemon in the Indigo Disk DLC, the BSS metagame will enter a new ruleset with Regulation F! How good are you at predicting metagame trends? Find out here in the second Usage Stats Prediction Contest!
How to play...
I put it in the OP that the forms count towards the same mon, but I guess I'll be more clear next time and put an addendum post afterwards to make sure everyone is on the same page.
The season ends and the results are in!
Before I get into announcing the winners, let's have a look at some of the interesting facts from our predictions:
First and foremost, NOBODY PREDICTED OGERPON AS THE FIRST PLACE POKEMON
We all thought this mon was a fraud, and brushed off the first...
The hypothetical turn limit I am trying to introduce can never be as accurate as implementing the animation duration timer countdown system, which like you said is a ridiculously difficult research project, but I believe having at least something to simulate a tiebreak when the game drags on is...
So the main cartridge formats, VGC and BSS, has a 20 minute game timer that is currently not implemented on PS.
The primary reason for the lack of timer was that it's currently impossible to accurately implement it as everything (turn ending operations, animations, a ton of stuff) have...