PokéJungle Tournament Discussion

Recently, the comment section has been engaging in discussion of a PJN tournament, where we go all out and fight for #1, whether it be with the best Pokémon or with your favorites. As such, the staff chat has been bustling with discussion over it, with all of us bouncing and throwing ideas out at each other. The idea of a PJN tournament is definitely not a new one, but with the advent of Super Training, and other advances in the way you raise Pokemon (special thanks to Destiny Knot!), we think that this is the perfect time for us to see who really has the best battling skills in our community

Right now, details are  still in the works but we hope to share more information with you soon. However, we would like to  share a few anticipated questions, for better discussion in the comments.

When will this be held?
We don’t have an exact date.  Expect it to be around the holiday season this year though.

Is this a Competitive-centric tournament?
Yes. With Super Training, we believe that even those who have no idea how to EV train the old-fashion way can still participate, and we see no reason as to splitting tiers and such. We understand some readers would like us to host this tournament using online Battle Simulators, at this point we will use only Pokémon X & Pokémon Y. It is possible we will allow the use of online battle simulators in future tournaments.

What are the Tournament Rules/Banned Pokemon and moves/Clauses/Tiers?
We’re still throwing ideas around at this point. Most of the staff are pushing for just the standard flat rules and clauses present in the game, with a hope of maybe doing 4 on 4 doubles and not 6 on 6/ 3 on 3 singles. Discussion would be widely appreciated regarding this.

Will there be any prizes for the winners?
Again, in the works. We  would like to hear what you guys would like for a prize 🙂

How can I help out?
Tell your friends and share your ideas or concerns in the comments!

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, it’s safe to let the comments begin. Input on anything regarding this tournament is welcome and very appreciated, we all look forward to reading them! 🙂

 

Note from moving: Some of you may have been involved in the initial discussion with me about this a few days back, that small chat was what has kickstarted this into action. The sooner more of your express your interest in participation in this tournament the sooner sign-ups will be opened and we can begin sorting battle arrangements. Ideally we would open sign-ups this coming weekend and begin formatting early next week.

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1,735 thoughts on “PokéJungle Tournament Discussion”

  1. I don’t do EV training but I do Super Training. Maybe I have a chance in this tournament. But if its in the holiday season, I may still have not finished the game. My Pokémon could be like level 50. I don’t know. Will there be another tournament in the future, after this? I’ll still go for this though, if its during my holidays and I don’t go on vacation to a place with no internet.

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      • Well, not really. Super Training is just punching a bunch of bags and getting your EV’s raised for each stat. EV training is a lot more complicated than that, right? There’s a reason why I don’t do it. I just don’t get it

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        • Not really. They both do the same basic thing. You just get experience battling and training. Super training is a more simplified form of it.

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        • You get EV point when you kill a Pokemon, you get EV point when you punch a bag. So basically they’re same, you get EV point when you beat the crap out of something.

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  2. If that’s the case I need to get moving on this breeding. Does anyone have a ditto that is superior in speed and defense I can borrow?

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  3. Well, good night, fellow Junglers. I can’t look at the computer screen anymore without my eyes burning.
    This is Commander A.Cheez, signing out. Peace!

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  4. Argh. I have little to no experience in double battles… Well, time to get a new team together! Too bad Boomburst will hurt my teammates…

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  5. Wait so singles or doubles?? That could be a good site poll question. I’m all for singles personally. And I like that there won’t be any tiers. Makes it so that we get to face tons of different Pokémon and strategies, not just OU teams.

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  6. Suddenly I wish I had my White 2 on me… I want to be able to see how my old team is looking. I do not even remember what I had… ;__;

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  7. I really like this idea. I’m all for the 6 on 6 singles or doubles. I hope you include the clauses, but I don’t think any Pokemon should be banned. Even though Speed Boost Blaziken, Mega Mewtwo, etc. can be a drag, I think people will have enough time to build a team that they feel can counter anything, even those. Let’s make it happen!

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  8. Alright! Regardless of what format the tournament will be I have decided on making a doubles team! It’s time to retire from 5 generations of single battles! I have two awesome pokemon in mind! ^_^

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  9. So, as far as tournament style, one loss and your out? Or best two out of three? If it’s one and done, we should do a large scale bracket that’s updated as the tournament goes on (similar to the Friend Safari doc). Also when we register we should register our Pokémon team we will be using. That way you stick with one team and don’t switch members throughout the tournament. It would also be cool if everyone got a battle video of each round. That way anyone can observe the tournament and the players still in the tournament can watch the battles and figure out a strategy if they are up against the winner in the next round.

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  10. The only competitive pokemon that I have ready are Dragonite, Mewtwo, Venusaur, Garchomp, Greninja, Exploud, Volcarona, Mawile, Chesnaught, Noivern, Talonflame, Kangaskhan and Clawitzer 🙁

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  11. @regi, I watched your battle! That was amazing! Getting off the Spikes in the end proved CRUCIAL to take out that Mamoswine. Otherwise it’s game over with Ice Shard. I’m also assuming your Flygon is choice scarfed?

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    • Yeah…I knew from the very beginning of the match that Flygon was my trump card because it’s immune to spikes toxic spikes and takes nothing from stealth rock and I had no spinner! 😀 Also I did luck out a bit on M. Charizard Y, but I took advantage of that opportunity 😀

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          • Not many xD But I did outpredict you at one point. It was when you had Flygon out, and used Earthquake, but he switched out to Hydreigon. I was predicting that and would’ve used Dragon Claw. I felt so special xD

          • Or was it Hydreigon? Or did he switch to Klefki? I think that was another instance, and the switch to Klefki forced you to switch Flygon out.

          • Yeah That was a flop on my part xD. The first time I just wanted to use earthquake to see what he would switch to. The 2nd time I thought that my opponent would out smart me by thinking I would use u-turn and would keep ninetales in….so I went for EQ a 2nd time….but he did the same thing again so that caught me off guard! xD

          • I’m at school and just got my Gible!!! Why do I keep breeding the perfect ones on the way to school/at school :S
            I have a question, what item do you think his Hydreigon was holding?

          • I believe choice specs or scarf. Anything with u-turn typically has choice items…you can see why as you will always be in a situation where you can switch to something that threatens your opponent!

          • Yeah doesn’t matter if the opponent switches as you will always have the “momentum” (i.e have a pokemon that threaten’s your opponent). It’s a great scouting technique to see what your opponent has with no risk!

  12. I constantly wonder if Megas will be banned. Most of them, like Ampharos, Blaziken, Garchomp, and Mewtwo, I see getting banned because of their incredibly high stats. But not others like Mawile and Absol because they definitely needed them.

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  13. Regarding singles/doubles(or triples/rotation for that matter), we’ll have a poll up later today so we can see exactly what everyone wants.

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  14. I’d suggest using the ban list from the ranked battles. I don’t want to be facing a million Mega Mewtwos, thank you very much.

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  15. In 8 months, we’re going to get “leakers” who will “leak” information about the next games. Don’t believe him or her! He or she will be lying, unless it’s WPM.

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  16. Single battle 6vs6. Also it would be cool if we were put into pools and had a round robin. Then the top people(s) form each pool advanced into single knockout bracket, then from top four and up the people had best two of three.

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  17. ok, its time for “Let your mind Exel!” here’s today’s question: Do you have a favorite gym leader? why are they your favorite? let us know below!

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  18. Okay, off topic, but has anyone else seen the latest Nintendo Direct? So awesome!
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    Back to topic land. I think this is a wonderful idea.. Although everyone here will wipe the floor with me XD. Cannot wait to see what happens! ^_^

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  19. Alright
    My Rhyperior has donned the Assault Vest and now will be a force to be reckoned with
    Assault Vest + Solid Rock + Sp def EV training + Sandstorm boost equals TROUBLE!

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  20. So guys about my youtube channel ideas, I have come to a crossroads in my name. Should I use (The) Mega Evolution Sucessor, or Proffeser Spruce? (or any other cool tree name I can find)

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  21. I think Mega Evolutions should be banned in the tournament because of how easily a person can be beaten by a Mega Pokemon like Mega Charizard(X/Y). It would make things a lot fair in my opinion.

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  22. I have one question, how will you connect with the other tournament player if you have maxed out your friend list and they aren’t on it?

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  23. This sounds nice, now if only i had more time to super train. Also, I was thinking about HA Gogoat. Grass pelt raises Def in Grassy Terrain, which restores the HP of grass Pokes, and the fact that Gogoat gets leech seed, can hold leftovers, and gets Horn Leech. Might not be too good, as it requires Grassy Terrain support, but I think it could work. Issue is, with all of these Noiverns running around with Flamethrower, i was thinking about using quick claw over leftovers. What do you think?

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  24. Also, has anyone obtained all three birds yet? I know it’s a big stretch, but has anyone tried taking all three birds to sea spirit’s den to see if lugia’s there. I doubt it, but it would be cool if it was.

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  25. I would definitely participate, sounds fun! I would like it if you all did singles rather than doubles though, but if the battle style is chosen ahead of time, I guess I could adjust my team for doubles

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  26. If I had 1 pokédollar for every off topic comment we’ve made ever, I’d be able to buy multiple bikes from the Kanto bike store.

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    • Unless the topic is interesting that we would be able to talk about it for so long. I doubt we could be able to stay on topic for so long. It’s impossible unless you want like 60 comments and no discussion which is one of the main points of this website/Disqus.

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  27. Prizes: I may be able to donate shinies to the winner(s) if moving and NLque and whoever else are fine with that. Although they may be near and dear to my heart, so is my PJN family, even more near and dear.
    When should it be held: In my honest opinion, before 2014. I’d like it to be more towards this month, but it’s all up to what the majority wants. If they say otherwise, my voice will not be heard, anyways.
    Rules: I don’t know who will agree, but I’m leaning towards no Legendaries and maybe even no Megas, JUST MAYBE. I want to lean more towards single battles due to the easier format, but again, it’s also up to the majority. I’d like a game where we can use any Pokemon, but for people to spam the use of Xerneas/Yveltal, Zoroark, Zygarde and any other stuff they find can get annoying.
    Note from Dicie: I will be attending a program at my school for about an hour and I am currently in progress with homework. This may be my last post for the Dae, but I will be back tomorrow afternoon with full-on conversation. 😀

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  28. Am I the only person who is kind of excited for the “simplistic ” pokemon of the 7th gen? Becuase I’M betting that the animal-like standalones (like girafarig) might get new evolutions!

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  29. My wish list for the XY anime:
    Ash gets Greninja
    Ash Mega Evolves Charizard(Y)
    May makes an appearance, Mega Evolving Blaziken
    Ash uses his proper Pokemon in the league
    Tobias makes an appearance :O
    Ash evolves at least one of his older Pokemon(Hoping Gible)

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  30. Still think the tournament should be held in the summer… if you mean winter break and that stuff then I won’t be able to participate and I’m sure others won’t….

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  31. If I ever do intend to participate in this tourney, I do hope its the standard rules, unlike smogon’s uppity bullcrap about every little thing in competitive play

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  32. I remember in the old days when the anime used to say “Bulbasaur use Tackle attack” Seriously what’s the point of saying attack?

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  33. Can anyone explain to me how the friend code database is suppose to function, beyond just being a list? After you put your code in, how do you know if someone has inserted your FC into their 3DS?

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  34. I’m really interested, so I’m working on a team for this. Super Training a Gyarados right now to broaden my options, and then doing a Pyroar so that I can easily take care of Megawile and Aegislash. Also, will the tour have normal rules, which pre sets all pokes to 50, or will it be no restrictions, where we’ll have to level grind our teams to 100?

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  35. I think ahead way too much, I want to make a team for Mega Pinsir and I haven’t even started ev training the team I’m currently working on XD

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    • I think up a team, breed all the members that I don’t have yet, give them all appropriate EVs, then give them all experience, then get them the right moves.

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      • I do like me some future gen speculation, I usually have ideas of cool fakemon (and now megas) but I can’t draw them in real life correctly XD

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  36. I personally think doing it VGC style doubles would be really cool, especially if you’re going to do it swiss. I would add sleep clause though since sleep is broken otherwise. I personally think singles would be boring and it’s sort of overdone with these kind of things. Or we could really make things spicy and make it triples or rotation!

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  37. Does anyone want some Litleo? 95% are perfect in Ivs for SP. ATTACK, SP. DEFENSE, and HP, or a combination of two or three. They all have Timid natures except one and it’s docile.

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  38. so uh..
    any advice on what nature this Y Mewtwo should have? owo
    and what i should focus on in super training it annddd maybe moves ? XD
    i heard people dont use mewtwo right so i was wondering what exactly is the right way? or…a right way XD

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  39. My parents don’t like me playing pokemon. My dad thought it was just jumping over barrels or something, so I tried to briefly explain the intricacies of the metagame and demonstrate the complexities of strategic competitive play. It did not work.

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  40. Alright I put up a Clefairy on GTS with a message for Mold Breaker Exacadrill…..lets see how generous and truthful the world really is….

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    • I saw your headline said “Togepi” so I thought you needed one, so I was gonna send one your way, but I see you already have one haha

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      • No. Sorry. I put that before. I have one and the reason I have been asking for a fairy safari is just to have it. It ended up the togepi someone traded me had good iv. So I tried breeding with a good ditto. Thank you anyway

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  41. @regi, After using the calculator, my Shiny (Jolly) Flygon has the following IVs:

    30 HP
    28 Attack
    31 Defense
    30 Special Attack
    3 Special Defense
    1 Speed.

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  42. I’m sorry if I lack my spelling I’m sleepy had a rough day at school and lost my Patience on that four or up good ivs I just got 3 🙁 but again I feel really really sleepy. I was about to run away from that chansey until my brother stopped me.

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  43. I kinda want an article in the magazine talking about how PJ got started and why the staff are all over the world. How did they meet? How do they keep this place going so well? Have they ever even met each other in person?

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  44. I don’t believe it! After my shiny Inkay I finally caught my shiny Noibat in Friend Safari after 30 minutes! I was searching for this pokemon for days!!!!!!!! So happy! 🙂

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  45. After seeing the “Simplicity” news, i am rather disappointed. I liked where they were going with Pokemon XY, and i don’t think it needed to get simpler, or more complex. I liked the games just the way they were.

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  46. Excellent Idea 🙂

    My input:
    -wait until after the Pokébank is released so all our old ‘mons will be available for use
    -definitely singles preferably 6v6 but understand 3v3 if time is an issue

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  47. I’m making up Goomy Style with my friends. this is how it goes so far:
    *music starts*
    Goomy Style,
    Goomy style!
    I am a slug, who for some reason is a dragon,
    But anyone who has me will most certainly be braggin’
    I’m purple, cute, and squishy, and a Pseudo Legend too,

    I need help with the next verse.

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