Other Metagame of the Month Archive

[Chloe]

our april nominees are:

1) 350 Cup (23)
2) Sketchmons (18)
3) Linked (17)
4) Scalemons (15)
5) Godly Gift (14)
6) Chimera 1v1 (13)
7) Inverse (11)
8) Tier Shift (9)
9) Gods and Followers (8)
10) Follow The Leader (7)

thanks call of winter for helping & reminding me that i forgot about this
voting up soon

 

[Chloe]

April 2018 - Voting Stage​

Rules:
- Vote for a metagame by liking the post (in this thread) that has its name on it.
- You may vote for as many metagames as you want.
- In order for your vote to count you must have at least five forum posts.
- If your account is less than one week old, your vote will not be counted.
- Do not try to influence other voters and do not bash any metagame. Asking people to vote for a metagame in the OM room may lead to moderation actions being taken from roomauth.
- The metagame with the most votes will receive a ladder on the main server of Pokemon Showdown for the month.*

(If you're unsure about any of these rules, post your issue in Simple Questions, Simple Answers)

Voting will close on March 31st.
*in the event that a meta is unable to be coded and/or implemented onto the PS! main server, the metagame with the second most votes will get a ladder instead.

 

[Other Metagames]

350 Cup

All Pokemon with a base stat total less than or equal to 350 have every base stat doubled. Ubers-based.​

 

[Other Metagames]

Chimera 1v1

A 1v1-based metagame where a single Pokemon inherits specific traits from your entire 6-mon team, based on their order.​

 

[Other Metagames]

Follow the Leader

Every Pokemon on a team has access to all of the moves and abilities of the first Pokemon on the team, but none of their own. ​

 

[Other Metagames]

Godly Gift

Teams are allowed one Ubers tier "God" Pokemon. The teammates receive the base stat of the "God" Pokemon corresponding to their position on the team.​

 

[Other Metagames]

Gods and Followers

Each team has a "God" and five "Followers". The "God" is the Pokemon in the first slot; it can be any Pokemon including Ubers. The "Followers" must follow the OU banlist and must share a type with the God. If the God faints, a constant Embargo effect is applied to the player's team.​

 

[Other Metagames]

Inverse

The effectiveness of each attack is inverted.​

 

[Other Metagames]

Linked

A Pokemon's first and second move can be used together in the same turn.​

 

[Other Metagames]

Scalemons

Every Pokemon's stats, barring HP, are scaled to give them a BST as close to 600 as possible.​

 

[Other Metagames]

Sketchmons

Pokémon can each learn one extra move of your choosing.​

 

[Other Metagames]

Tier Shift

Pokemon get a +10 boost to each stat per tier below OU they are in.​

 

[Chloe]

chlosing this in an hour, finalise your votes!

 

[Chloe]

Linked wins OMotM April with 112-14=98 legal votes!!!!

Congratulations to that ivy guy and thank you to everyone for voting!!

 

[Chloe]

May 2018 - Nomination Stage
​

Rules:
- Nominate a metagame by including its full name in your post.
- You may nominate up to five metagames.
- You may nominate the same metagame as someone else.
- The ten metagames with the most nominations will enter the voting stage.
- Doubles versions of metagames are permitted; however, if a Singles and Doubles format for an OM are within the top ten most nominated metagames, then only the one with the most votes will proceed.

- Do not nominate metagames from the blacklist (below), or those without a thread in the Gen 7 forum.
- If a metagame is blacklisted, its Singles/Doubles variant is too. There are no exceptions to this rule bar for ladders that already exist. 1v1 Doubles is also ineligible for obvious reasons.
- You may only post once. If you post more than once, none of your votes will be counted.
- Do not try to influence other voters and do not bash any metagame.
- You are not allowed to make any posts except to nominate.
- You must have at least five forum posts before your post.
- Your account must be at least one week old by the time of your post.
- If another user breaks these rules, let us take care of it.

If any of the above rules are broken, your post will be deleted. Continued rule breaking will result in an infraction.

A list of all eligible metagames can be found in the index.

Blacklisted OMs:

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Ladder already exists:
- Anything Goes
- Mix and Mega
- Balanced Hackmons
- 1v1
- Almost Any Ability
- Camomons
- STABmons

Cooldown period:
- Inheritance (ineligible until June)
- Alphabet Cup (ineligible until June)
- Shared Power (ineligible until July)
- Middle Cup (ineligible until July)
- 2v2 Doubles (ineligible until August)
- Nature Swap (ineligible until August)
- Linked (ineligible until September)
- 350 Cup (ineligible until September)

Other:
- Closed/Retired OMs
- Any OM that uses nicknames or Import/Export
- Ubers/UU/LC Versions of Existing Other Metagames
- Pet Mods
- Previous generation OMs
- Fusions of two or more OMs

Sample Post:

Averagemons, Gods and Followers, Mergemons

Nominations will close in 48 hours.

 

[Chloe]

Follow the Leader, Gods and Followers, Partners in Crime, ZU

 

[anaconja]

first

Chimera 1v1, Scalemons, Partners in Crime, Follow the Leader

 

[Quantum Tesseract]

Follow the Leader, Gods and Followers, ZU

 

[dom]

Chimera 1v1, Scalemons, ZU and MONOGEN

chloedit: hi

 

[HeatEdgeSword]

Partners in Crime

 

[Haaku.]

ZU, Scalemons, Tier Shift, Godly Gift

 

[lydian]

Dancerability Doubles, Partners in Crime, ZU.

 

[The Immortal]

pic
zu
dual wielding
ultimate z
aaa doubles

 

[Aaronboyer]

ZU

 

[Ransei]

Gods and Followers