The standard version of Monotype, is OU Monotype, following the same rules and clauses of the standard OU metagame, but with the mono in type.
Due to the apparent popularity of the Monotype Tier in not only it's nomination for the "Other Metagame of the Month" for July, but also a large amount of Players, as of August, Showdown! has officially integrated our beloved Tier into the permanent "Other Metagames" Section!
Now that the first and major step in establishing the Monotype Tier has been taken, I encourage fellow Monotypist to help in the improvement of this already great Tier.
And the next step that I think must be taken is the organization of the Community; we need a place where we can have discussions with other Monotypist; a place we can call home. That being said, I would be more than pleased to revamp this Thread in an effort to establish a Community that can help improve this Tier.
So if you enjoy playing the Monotype Tier, or hell, even OU for that matter, here is your place. Please help me to improve Monotype from good to an enjoyably balanced Tier!
That being said, allow me to bring some topics to the table:
- Which Type is the best in the Tier? Why?
- Which Type is the most dominant? How?
- Should Weather be allowed? Why or why not?
- Mono-Dragon: OP or not?
I think that's an amazing idea. Would love to try and test my mettle and be the Ghost leader, but as great of a player I find myself, I'm sadly nowhere near as competent as I'd need to be to construct a team that can stand up in OU, yet, let alone a mono-Ghost team.I have an idea...many people play monotype and here in smogon we have bagdes for people who help the community.
Why not make Gym leaders in monotype? ^^
Think about it...we could make a 2 month ladder in monotype, and the best team of each type in the ladder would become "gym leader" and be able to give badges(as long as the supposed player takes the compromise to be avaliable once a week at least to battle online with challengers)
Its easy, the gym leader(monotype) just need to recod the battle with the challenger(OU team) and send to a moderator who then will give the challenger his respective type badge(this way the gym leader don't need to be a moderator from smogon)
This way we can have OU tournaments with people with 8 badges, but a normal OU tournament, not monotype..like a pokemon league
What do you guys think about it?
We've done leagues before, and they didn't exactly work. If you have your own server which supports this tier, go ahead, by all means, create it. I'm not sure that Smogon will make a league though.Why not make Gym leaders in monotype? ^^
Think about it...we could make a 2 month ladder in monotype, and the best team of each type in the ladder would become "gym leader" and be able to give badges(as long as the supposed player takes the compromise to be avaliable once a week at least to battle online with challengers)
Its easy, the gym leader(monotype) just need to recod the battle with the challenger(OU team) and send to a moderator who then will give the challenger his respective type badge(this way the gym leader don't need to be a moderator from smogon)
This way we can have OU tournaments with people with 8 badges, but a normal OU tournament, not monotype..like a pokemon league
What do you guys think about it?
On Showdown's Monotype Chat Room, we have established a League already. Be sure to check it out and ask for a Link, as I do not have one atm. When i do I'll Edit it into the Post.We've done leagues before, and they didn't exactly work. If you have your own server which supports this tier, go ahead, by all means, create it. I'm not sure that Smogon will make a league though.
But it was this kind of league? I'm talking about something that will make more ppl play mono-type because they WANT to be gym leader, and more ppl playing OU because they want badges(this site has badges for ppl who contribute, so, why not gym badges too?) and someday the "champion" status. And more ppl playing means the community is growing, participating more. I think it's good for everyone, the worst it could happen is for some ppl to play the way they play now, just casually. I don't know how to talk to the smogon guys about this, if anyone know, tell me! ^^We've done leagues before, and they didn't exactly work. If you have your own server which supports this tier, go ahead, by all means, create it. I'm not sure that Smogon will make a league though.
That seems flawed seeing as they can just make the most anti-whateveryourgymis team using all the mighty OU has at its disposal.But it was this kind of league? I'm talking about something that will make more ppl play mono-type because they WANT to be gym leader, and more ppl playing OU because they want badges(this site has badges for ppl who contribute, so, why not gym badges too?) and someday the "champion" status. And more ppl playing means the community is growing, participating more. I think it's good for everyone, the worst it could happen is for some ppl to play the way they play now, just casually. I don't know how to talk to the smogon guys about this, if anyone know, tell me! ^^
Not if he has to register e team for all the battles(let's say 1 team per season)..he have to make a team to beat at least 8 gyms of his choice(kinda easy) and use the same team on the tournment later....it takes a little more skill to build a team like this.That seems flawed seeing as they can just make the most anti-whateveryourgymis team using all the mighty OU has at its disposal.
That would work. The main issue I was seeing was making a different anti-Gym team for each different Gym. An anti-metagame team isn't as bad because it has to succeed more than once without changing the team to progress to the next level and get to change their team again.Not if he has to register e team for all the battles(let's say 1 team per season)..he have to make a team to beat at least 8 gyms of his choice(kinda easy) and use the same team on the tournment later....it takes a little more skill to build a team like this.
Let's say someone build a team just to defeat 8 gym leaders he chooses(bug, grass, dragon, flying, rock, steel, dark, normal)...and decides to use a team with some pokemons with good ice attacks(for the first 4 gyms) and good fighting attacks(for the last 4 gyms)..and tries to balance a good team but focusing in using 2 or 3 mons who beat all theses gyms...this same guy will be easily defeated in the tournment, because he is not prepared to fight the good trainers that also beat 8 gyms. I could say the same about ppl who make anti-metagame teams to beat tournments, for them it won't be easy to beat 8 gyms just because they're monotype.
Actually half of the servers already do this!Frost Server kinda already does this. You try to get into a league as a gym leader with a monotype team, and then work your way up to E4 or Champ. Alternatively, you could challenge the league, and just try to bear the whole thing. On Frost, there's a ton of leagues, so people should give it a try. And Normal is the best type. We have Smeargle. And Ditto. And Porygon2. Take a step back, Dragons.