Originally Posted by
Phoenixsong
If there's a tournament in my region, I'll probably go. I had a blast at JAA, and now that I actually know what the hell I'm doing I might stand a chance of doing at least a little better than I did last time. Don't know that I have enough confidence in my abilities to say I'd actually be able to win, but I'd probably be able to avoid making retarded mistakes in the first round of the finals again (kill the thing with Imprison first next time, idiot).
I envy you, as I could not get to compete in JAA
The one thing that really annoys me is the stupid level restriction. They aren't using auto-level, presumably because they don't want to have to worry about hassling with friend codes, which I guess I can understand, but... why not just be like JAA and let the levels go up to 100?
Because some lazy competitive trainers (me) don't like raising Pokemon to lvl 100. Its annoying-and time consuming. But yeah, they also don't want someone having all sorts of overpowered moves killing players off.
The level 50 thing means that you can't use Dragonite unless you got one at the event (lucky I got two of them then, huh) and can't use Tyranitar at all (that may not actually be a problem, because I'm pretty sure I remember seeing what's intended to be the official rules/banlist somewhere and Tyranitar isn't allowed according to that, iirc). And it also means that certain moves are unobtainable, like Close Combat on Gallade, Extremespeed on Lucario or Leaf Blade on Leafeon... ugh.
That does suck. I thought I was going to be screwed with Metagross til I realized I could keep it as Metang and learn Meteor Mash at lvl 50.
A lot of my competitive Pokémon are just over level 50, too, so I'd have to train brand new ones that stay under the level requirement. Admittedly I'm a rather lazy competitive trainer and I usually settle for decent eggs/catches rather than "spend days breeding the perfect Lucario", as classy put it, but that doesn't make having to start over any less irritating.
{Yeah, especailly when we just going to make the same Pokemon essentialy. Sometimes its better I'm hoping to get a better IV for Attack in a few choices of mine, sick of getting 2..
I mean, I guess it's something I can get over and deal with, but it just seems unnecessary, restrictive and annoying. :/
I also wonder if Platinum is compatible with PBR (if it isn't, I guess they'll release a patch for it the way they did with Ranch? but then they probably would've done that in Japan by now, and I haven't heard anything about it, so it's either compatible or they aren't planning on any compatibility at all), because battling on big-screen TVs in 3D at JAA was awesome. And I might be remembering this wrong because it's been a while since I've ventured into that area of PBR, but doesn't the DS-to-DS battle have autolevel? It must not, otherwise they'd probably just let us use that instead of imposing the silly restriction.
No. It does have autolevel. I'm pretty sure it does. Lemme go check...
I'm pretty sure it auto levels to lvl 50....
I actually tried writing the Pokémon.com mailbag a few times, asking whether or not there was a reason for the restriction, but they never answered the question. Maybe if I try again now that a tournament has actually been announced, I can get an explanation. If they've got a good reason for it then fine, I'll stop whining, but I want to know what that reason is.
On the bright side, no autolevel means that you could actually use FEAR Pokémon and guarantee that they're at the lowest level possible for maximum evil. Granted, something tells me that FEAR doesn't work as well in doubles as it would in singles, but I may actually just give it a try to be irritating. ;P
o.O I do not know this term FEAR. Explain plzkthx?