Hello, this thread exists to inform you about basics of Random Battles.
What is Random Battles?
Random Battles can be best described as a fun casual format that can also be seen as an introduction to PvP. Its casualty comes from that there is no teambuilding. When you load a battle you and your opponent are given a rental team of 6 Pokemon, first to lose all 6 loses the battle. Simple battle rules. It is fun because your team changes every battle.
Goals for the Random Battles
Random Battles will be released in a chaotic state, where every Pokemon is level 100. There obviously will some disparities between some Pokemon, since not every Pokemon is created equal. My expectancy is that Dragon Dancers like Salamence and Gyarados will be the most dominant forces.
As time passes, there will be balance patches for the format. We plan on doing this by adjusting the level like Smogon does, the reason why we dont do this from start is because our metagame is unique in a way that there are no relevant examples anywhere for us to benefit from. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly what will end up being good and what wont be barring fairly obvious ones, but ultimately with level changes our goal is to have each Pokemon within Random Battles to have near 50% winrate.
Community Involvement
We are a big fan of community involvement in metagame development and we would be thrilled if you share your input with us! Another thread will be made, in that thread you can suggest anything. A How you think a Pokemon is broken, how a certain set is underperforming, how a specific set pushes the winrate way too much, how a Pokemon can benefit better from an item, anything you can think of. Any changes done to the format and periodic winrates will be published from this thread.
Additional Information
Here are some information we're sharing with you. A very big disclaimer that team generation is at random without any fancy algorithms. You are assigned 6 Pokemon from the pool and thats it. It is Random Battles and there will be cases where you get good teams and your opponents dont, and vice versa. We dont have an agenda to give you a bad team on purpose. It is random for everyone.
- All Pokemon have 85 EV and 31 IV in every stat.
- All Pokemon come with a Neutral Nature.
- At the launch we are providing you 400 different sets.
- There will be 238 Pokemon.
- 18 Pokemon have been removed from the roster. They will be added as we proceed with Level balancing.
- There will be no Legendaries in Random Battles until further notice. They might get added later, how they might get added is in the discussions.
- The way how set generation works is that some moves are forced on Pokemon, while the rest of moves are generated at random.
- Because EV/IV and Natures are evenly split, you will see more mixed Pokemon than usual. This is not by mistake.
Random Battle Council
@Lin
@Bingjiaokong
What is Random Battles?
Random Battles can be best described as a fun casual format that can also be seen as an introduction to PvP. Its casualty comes from that there is no teambuilding. When you load a battle you and your opponent are given a rental team of 6 Pokemon, first to lose all 6 loses the battle. Simple battle rules. It is fun because your team changes every battle.
Goals for the Random Battles
Random Battles will be released in a chaotic state, where every Pokemon is level 100. There obviously will some disparities between some Pokemon, since not every Pokemon is created equal. My expectancy is that Dragon Dancers like Salamence and Gyarados will be the most dominant forces.
As time passes, there will be balance patches for the format. We plan on doing this by adjusting the level like Smogon does, the reason why we dont do this from start is because our metagame is unique in a way that there are no relevant examples anywhere for us to benefit from. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly what will end up being good and what wont be barring fairly obvious ones, but ultimately with level changes our goal is to have each Pokemon within Random Battles to have near 50% winrate.
Community Involvement
We are a big fan of community involvement in metagame development and we would be thrilled if you share your input with us! Another thread will be made, in that thread you can suggest anything. A How you think a Pokemon is broken, how a certain set is underperforming, how a specific set pushes the winrate way too much, how a Pokemon can benefit better from an item, anything you can think of. Any changes done to the format and periodic winrates will be published from this thread.
Additional Information
Here are some information we're sharing with you. A very big disclaimer that team generation is at random without any fancy algorithms. You are assigned 6 Pokemon from the pool and thats it. It is Random Battles and there will be cases where you get good teams and your opponents dont, and vice versa. We dont have an agenda to give you a bad team on purpose. It is random for everyone.
- All Pokemon have 85 EV and 31 IV in every stat.
- All Pokemon come with a Neutral Nature.
- At the launch we are providing you 400 different sets.
- There will be 238 Pokemon.
- 18 Pokemon have been removed from the roster. They will be added as we proceed with Level balancing.
- There will be no Legendaries in Random Battles until further notice. They might get added later, how they might get added is in the discussions.
- The way how set generation works is that some moves are forced on Pokemon, while the rest of moves are generated at random.
- Because EV/IV and Natures are evenly split, you will see more mixed Pokemon than usual. This is not by mistake.
Random Battle Council
@Lin
@Bingjiaokong
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