With the arrival of gen 8, competitive Pokemon received a huge overhaul with the introduction of Heavy-Duty Boots, negating all damage from entry hazards. This drastically changed the typical methods of forcing progress from being mostly based around the hazards war to a newer emphasis on momentum, using both fast and slow pivots to aid polarizing breakers with safe switch-ins. The presence of Heavy-Duty Boots has been a controversial topic throughout the generation, whether utilized on wallbreakers and sweepers like Volcarona and Tornadus-T or immortal pivots like Cinderace, Zeraora, the Slowtwins, and (dlc1) Dragapult... But we haven't actually seen what an SS meta without Heavy-Duty Boots would look like. A tour like this could help us understand what a Heavy-Duty Boots ban could potentially do to the metagame! In addition to letting people have fun building and playing in a new metagame, this tour can give some insight on the effect of Heavy-Duty Boots on the metagame and hopefully give some needed contrast with current SS OU.
Rules:
Heavy-Duty Boots are banned. Please challenge someone with the command below to ensure integrity:
/challenge [username], gen8ou @@@ -heavy-duty boots
- This is a standard SS OU tournament.
- The tournament will be single elimination.
- Players will play a best of one series of games each round
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!. If you can't agree on which server to play on, the Smogtours server is the default option.
- General Tournament Rules
- Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokémon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokémon.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same Pokémon on their team. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.
- Evasion Clause: A player cannot use the moves Double Team or Minimize in their Pokémon's movesets.
- OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
- Team Preview: Players must turn on the Team Preview feature where players can view the opposing team's Pokémon and choose their lead Pokémon.
- Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, he/she loses.
- Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any Pokémon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more information.
- Baton Pass Clause: The move Baton Pass is banned outright.
- Uber Clause: Players may not use any items, moves, abilities, or Pokemon that appear on Smogon's OU Ban List. If the tiers change or new items, abilities, moves, or Pokemon become available in the middle of a round, the changes will take effect in the following round. There will be an announcement in the relevant round if this occurs.
- Dynamax Clause: You cannot dynamax.
In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
In case of disconnections, if you played in the SmogTours server, call a Tournament Director as soon as possible and we'll see about the possibility of having a rematch.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
In case of disconnections, if you played in the SmogTours server, call a Tournament Director as soon as possible and we'll see about the possibility of having a rematch.
Pairings:
Bye14 vs Queenzz
GotCookies vs CinnaToast
Gomi vs DraKeyTT
Tinii vs zeno420
Fc vs D2TheW
Windingsss vs TailGlowVM
Hax Believer vs Ox the Fox
Hypertonix vs omicorio - extended
tenzhii vs TeamCharm
emillight vs Saurav the great
Ewin vs ZNK2
Quantum Tesseract vs AA
HSA vs TotomonGang
Nezloe vs Potatochan
MalMoonsault vs Jefflol
Mr.Bossaru vs ale el dark link
Greentea570 vs ariesbk
Darkortex vs Ogubal
Shogeki vs Nowh
Roginald vs aqh
Stecolomaxx vs apologies
mixwell vs Kibo
Elian-san vs Gochan
yourpzza vs Pabloxty
Beraldinhoo vs Finchinator
G-O-D BASTI vs Sky of Doom
Skypenguin vs Jomatoes
SpectralThief vs spatulakun
ViZar vs crying
Tobirama vs Baloor
simp vs SwordStrike
Clone vs Agentkeval
bulufan14 vs MetaMnce
Harshal_08 vs lolebruh - extended
susciety vs Bye 13
CheckTheLadder vs Sificon
MendeeZ vs 64 Squares
Shakur vs Platum
Manan999 vs H momento
lockjaw vs Zneon - extended
Oqo vs ACR1
Ainzcrad vs Monsareeasy
Chiles Habaneros vs queso - extended
Kenix vs AquaVanilla
cuzzie vs alfaplays
Ghostricker0197 vs weird mon
The Dovahneer vs Gray
Mok3s vs Stareal
entrocefalo vs yovan33321
Gareeb vs HTCL
adsam vs Landon - extended
utofa vs zioziotrip
Maxouille vs Bye 1
Sabella vs Bye 2
TDNT vs Bye 3
Vaboh vs Bye 4
AnnaMyers vs lions3674 - extended
airfare vs Bye 6
eu vs Bye 7
avg vs Bye 8
Ophion vs Fakee
velvet vs Bye 10
Mimikyu Stardust vs Xurkiyee
Chazm vs Bye 12
Bye14 vs Queenzz
GotCookies vs CinnaToast
Gomi vs DraKeyTT
Tinii vs zeno420
Fc vs D2TheW
Windingsss vs TailGlowVM
Hax Believer vs Ox the Fox
Hypertonix vs omicorio - extended
tenzhii vs TeamCharm
emillight vs Saurav the great
Ewin vs ZNK2
Quantum Tesseract vs AA
HSA vs TotomonGang
Nezloe vs Potatochan
MalMoonsault vs Jefflol
Mr.Bossaru vs ale el dark link
Greentea570 vs ariesbk
Darkortex vs Ogubal
Shogeki vs Nowh
Roginald vs aqh
Stecolomaxx vs apologies
mixwell vs Kibo
Elian-san vs Gochan
yourpzza vs Pabloxty
Beraldinhoo vs Finchinator
G-O-D BASTI vs Sky of Doom
Skypenguin vs Jomatoes
SpectralThief vs spatulakun
ViZar vs crying
Tobirama vs Baloor
simp vs SwordStrike
Clone vs Agentkeval
bulufan14 vs MetaMnce
Harshal_08 vs lolebruh - extended
susciety vs Bye 13
CheckTheLadder vs Sificon
MendeeZ vs 64 Squares
Shakur vs Platum
Manan999 vs H momento
lockjaw vs Zneon - extended
Oqo vs ACR1
Ainzcrad vs Monsareeasy
Chiles Habaneros vs queso - extended
Kenix vs AquaVanilla
cuzzie vs alfaplays
Ghostricker0197 vs weird mon
The Dovahneer vs Gray
Mok3s vs Stareal
entrocefalo vs yovan33321
Gareeb vs HTCL
adsam vs Landon - extended
utofa vs zioziotrip
Maxouille vs Bye 1
Sabella vs Bye 2
TDNT vs Bye 3
Vaboh vs Bye 4
AnnaMyers vs lions3674 - extended
airfare vs Bye 6
eu vs Bye 7
avg vs Bye 8
Ophion vs Fakee
velvet vs Bye 10
Mimikyu Stardust vs Xurkiyee
Chazm vs Bye 12
Additionally, the winner will receive a prize of $30 from airfare, preferably by Venmo.
Replays are required.
Reminder this Tournament is a Bo1. Anyone caught using Heavy-Duty Boots will be disqualified.
If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to airfare or Aurodian.
Deadline will be Sunday 15th of August at 11:59pm GMT-3. LMK if you need an extension.
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