May 2025 - Nomination Stage
- 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.
- Do not nominate metagames from the blacklist (below), or those without a thread in the Gen 9 forum.
- 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:
Ladder already exists:
- Almost Any Ability
- Balanced Hackmons
- Godly Gift
- Mix and Mega
- Shared Power
- STABmons
Cooldown period
- Relay Race (ineligible until September)
- Formemons (ineligible until September)
- Frantic Fusions (ineligible until August)
- Cross Evolution (ineligible until August)
- Alphabet Cup (ineligible until July)
- 1-2 Switch (ineligible until July)
- Nature Swap (ineligible until June)
- Camomons (ineligible until June)
Other:
- Ubers/UU/LC/National Dex Versions of Existing Metagames
- Unofficial Metagames (1v1, ZU, AG, NFE, 2v2 Doubles, Ubers UU)
- Pet Mods
- Previous generation OMs
- Fusions of two or more OMs
- Free-For-All
- Almost Any Ability
- Balanced Hackmons
- Godly Gift
- Mix and Mega
- Shared Power
- STABmons
Cooldown period
- Relay Race (ineligible until September)
- Formemons (ineligible until September)
- Frantic Fusions (ineligible until August)
- Cross Evolution (ineligible until August)
- Alphabet Cup (ineligible until July)
- 1-2 Switch (ineligible until July)
- Nature Swap (ineligible until June)
- Camomons (ineligible until June)
Other:
- Ubers/UU/LC/National Dex Versions of Existing Metagames
- Unofficial Metagames (1v1, ZU, AG, NFE, 2v2 Doubles, Ubers UU)
- Pet Mods
- Previous generation OMs
- Fusions of two or more OMs
- Free-For-All
in the hills said:
Nominations will close April 27th.
