Would you take part in a "raise and fight" Pokemon Tournament?

[Denmark]

I know that Denmark is interested

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[Skyblade]

So that's 66 Pokémon to breed up now.

Hmm, I wonder what the prize for the winner will be...

[Endless]

So that's 66 Pokémon to breed up now.

Hmm, I wonder what the prize for the winner will be...

Make that 72.
Given the remark about Eevee, I assume evolving what Pokemon I get is allowed?

[Jinx]

So that's 66 Pokémon to breed up now.

Hmm, I wonder what the prize for the winner will be...

Make that 72.
Given the remark about Eevee, I assume evolving what Pokemon I get is allowed?

I thought that was implied.

I had another consideration. Perhaps just having Pokemon with 3 evolutions?

[Skyblade]

So that's 66 Pokémon to breed up now.

Hmm, I wonder what the prize for the winner will be...

Make that 72.
Given the remark about Eevee, I assume evolving what Pokemon I get is allowed?

I thought that was implied.

I had another consideration. Perhaps just having Pokemon with 3 evolutions?

If you guys want, we can try that, but it would be really restrictive. There are only 86 evolution lines with 3 stages. Several of those are already invalid: Magmortar, Electivire, Conkeldurr, Gigalith, Gengar, Alakazam, Machamp, Golem, Rhyperior, Kingdra, Porygon Z, Dusknoir, which all require evolution by trade.

This leaves us with only 74 left, and we already need 72 for the event. Plus, some of those are only three stage evolutions if we count their baby form. Since baby Pokémon all evolve via friendship (which takes extra training time), offer nothing really competitively, and require me to change up the breeding items to even get them, I am quite hesitant to breed for them.


Plus, that would invalidate all the breeding work I've already done on the 58 eggs that I've already prepared.

[Jinx]

In that case, forget about it, I say. It was just something I thought worth considering.

[Skyblade]

All done. I barely had enough viable (able to breed, and discounting trade evolution) Pokémon in my battle set to breed up the 72 we needed. It took all of my viable Pokémon with only like three exceptions, and Eevee. I wasn't sure how many Eevee to breed, so I was delaying it until the end, and I just barely squeaked by without needing to breed them.

If we get another player, I'll breed up the last few Pokémon and a couple of Eevee to fill up the total. If not, I'll probably offer an Eevee to the winner, bred for competitive IVs, Nature, and Ability to match the Eeveelution of the winner's choice.

EDIT: I do have a few more viable Pokémon than I originally thought. I SHOULD be able to cover one more newcomer. So Eevee will remain the prize Pokémon at this point.

[Night Fury]

I said no, but I could be interested. I just don't know that my internet router offers me the right connection to be able to do these battles. So really I'm a tentative yes.

[Fynn]

If Pike and Mister Adequate do indeed decide to take part, that's 84 eggs already.

I'm surprised you did it so fast, Sky! That tempo gives us enough legroom to take on whatever amount of potential participants. I'll still open the official sign ups soon, so that we get the final list of contestants ahead of time. Transferring all those eggs to me will take some time too. I'll start catching those junk Pokemon today, and maybe we can have a couple eggs in place already.

BTW, it'd be hilarious if one person got all the Eevees

Regarding what Pumpkin said - that's what I expect we're gonna do. In the raising stage thread, we could all post what Pokemon we hatched (so as to prevent cheating, like secret trading and stuff) and then post as much of our progress as we see fit. It'd also be nice if we could share training tips, but Skyblade is already a walking Pokemon encyclopedia if I've ever seen one, so the chances of someone providing tips Skyblade doesn't have to give are pretty slim

EDIT: with Night Fury in, that's a potential 90.

[Skyblade]

90 is definitely going to break my prebuilt parent bank. It will take me a couple of days to prepare the others. I already had two more that I was going to work on training up next anyway, so I'll use this as an excuse to build them up. But I'll have to do a bit of thinking about who I should grab for the others...

I'll also have to think of a new reward, since I'll be using the Eevee in the tournament. I want something unique and special...

[Fynn]

Take your time, there's still plenty. Why not try a random number generator, like Jinx said?

Here's a Pokemon generator specifically: http://randompokemon.com

You could treat those random Pokemon as suggestions for you to consider and then pick the ones you consider the best suited for the tournament.

[Bubba]

Thinking about it, you may as well lump MissH and I as one player. We only have the one 3DS so wouldn't be able to battle each other.

That will free up another space for anyone else who might want to join.

[Fynn]

Thinking about it, you may as well lump MissH and I as one player. We only have the one 3DS so wouldn't be able to battle each other.

That will free up another space for anyone else who might want to join.

There's no "spaces" per se, though. We have enough time for Skyblade to breed enough Pokemon, so that shouldn't really be an issue.

If you're worried about that, I still don't know what kind of tournament rules we'll be using. If it turns out there's a huge amount of people, we probably won't have everyone fight everybody.

EDIT: Sky - how many Eevees are there gonna be?

[Skyblade]

Thinking about it, you may as well lump MissH and I as one player. We only have the one 3DS so wouldn't be able to battle each other.

That will free up another space for anyone else who might want to join.

There's no "spaces" per se, though. We have enough time for Skyblade to breed enough Pokemon, so that shouldn't really be an issue.

If you're worried about that, I still don't know what kind of tournament rules we'll be using. If it turns out there's a huge amount of people, we probably won't have everyone fight everybody.

EDIT: Sky - how many Eevees are there gonna be?

I have no idea. I mean, I could breed one for every Eeveelution, but unless people coordinated, we'd probably get duplicates. There are three main archetypes for the Eeveelutions: Special Sweeper (Espeon, Jolteon, Glaceon), Physical Sweeper (Leafeon and Flareon), and Defensive Wall (Umbreon, Sylveon, and Vaporeon). I could breed one for each archetype, maybe?

[Fynn]

Yeah, three Eevees seems reasonable to me. Let's see how the others feel about that.