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  1. Hogg

    Just what makes a ban complex, anyhow?

    As was discussed in another recent thread, we don’t currently have a public definition of what constitutes a “complex” ban. To paraphrase the immortal words of Justice Potter Stewart, no one wants to put a hard definition on it, but just about everyone seems to think they’ll know it when they...
  2. Hogg

    Let's ban BP in ADV UU

    Hey, since everyone is posting their past gen lower tier changes, it’s about time I get to post one too, right? I’ve been a vocal opponent of BP in ADV UU for years. (Or, well, BP everywhere, but especially ADV UU.) I implemented what I’m pretty sure was the first unofficial BP ban in ADV UU...
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    Guide How to Request Posting Access

    Policy Review is a restricted-access forum. Only badged users and users who have requested permission to post may create or respond to threads. If you do not currently have posting access, you may request it by using the following form...
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    Voting Threshold for Past Gen Votes

    We have been seeing a significant uptick in past gen votes lately. As most of you who have been following this forum know, we recently unlocked past gen lower tiers. However, when we did so, we never established a voting threshold for such votes. As a result, the required threshold for votes has...
  5. Hogg

    Ruins of Alph Reorganization

    You may have noticed that Ruins of Alph has moved. As part of a major reorganization project, the Ruins of Alph forums have moved out of Smogon Metagames and become their own top-level forum. This is just the beginning, though - expect to see more changes soonTM, including individual forums for...
  6. Hogg

    Tiers in SCL

    As this is the time when everyone johns until week three WCOP slows down a bit, I thought this would be a good time to discuss the next big SCL topic: tiers! We’ve already had a decent bit of discussion on this topic in the St. Patrick’s thread, so I don’t want to spend too much time...
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    OGC Leaders

    With seven active Old Generation Councils (OGCs), we have decided to develop a new community leader role: the OGC Leader. The OGC Leaders will be responsible for nominating new council members to the OGCs, monitoring and discussing tiering issues in Policy Review and elsewhere, coordinating...
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    Announcement Smogon Champions League - Team Name Voting

    CLICK HERE TO VOTE! Hey, all. Thanks to everyone who provided input. We ended up with well over a hundred suggestions, many of which were fantastic (and I highly recommend anyone looking for a team name down the road for a forum PL to use the recent thread as a resource, because there were a...
  9. Hogg

    Smogon Champions League - Team Name Suggestions

    I wanted to split this off into its own thread. We’ve gotten enough positive feedback on the two sample team logos created for Smogon Champions League that I think we can move forward with the general naming metric. The idea was to keep it very loose, so we don’t run into the problem of super...
  10. Hogg

    Announcement UUTL goes BRRRR

    After roughly four years and two generations of leading UU, I've decided it's time to move on and get some new blood in charge. I am officially retiring as UUTL. Lilburr will be taking my place alongside TDK as the new UUTL, so congrats!
  11. Hogg

    Proposal: MVPs in Team Tournaments

    I know, I’ve been making a lot of these threads. This is a fun one, though! What would people think about adding a tour MVP to team tournaments? This wouldn’t be an additional trophy role or anything, just a fun way to recognize the really gamechanging or breakout players in a team tour. We...
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    Official SS UU Suspect Process - Stage 8.1 (Blaziken)

    :ss/blaziken: Voting on Blaziken List of qualified voters (57): LNumbers ShinyAzelf TotomonGang Maki DNNP Skip The Drip Giannis Antetokommo-o CBU Laevin SilvioGuacamole KJ Corp Gondra solonor24 JustFranco Wigglytuff Aquarius Ghost ❤ Eel99 Pheo' Ramolost Moutemoute Fusion Flare iNoLife Chuerk...
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     SS UU Stage 8.1 Voting Identification Thread

    :sm/blaziken: Post in this thread if you meet the requirements needed to vote on Blaziken. The requirements are as follows: All games must be played on the Pokemon Showdown! UU ladder on a fresh alt with the following format: "UU8B (Nick)." You must meet the listed format in order to qualify...
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     np: SS UU Stage 8.1 - This Heart's On Fire

    DLC2 brought with it a huge number of radical changes, and UU as we know it is no more. What has emerged in its place is a new beast: stronger, faster, perhaps just a little bit scarier. The previously imprisoned UUBLs were freed, and most found themselves right at home in this new world. The...
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    Proposal Use forms for tournament signups

    Something I've been thinking about for a long time: the forums have an integrated forms feature. We use it for things like the end-of-year awards (EDIT: apparently the end-of-year awards forms are a nightmare so let's not use that as an example) and it requires a valid login to participate in...
  16. Hogg

    Rejected - Inactive Allow for drag-and-drop reordering of moves

    I can get kind of particular about move order, and I also share teams a lot. This means I spend a lot of time re-ordering movesets, because certain move orders feel really wrong to play and will result in actual misclicks if I'm not paying a ton of attention. Unfortunately, changing the move...
  17. Hogg

    St. Patrick and the Casting Out of Snakes

    Alright, spent a few minutes last night having Feelings about UU not being in SPL despite having been pushing for a dual-SPL structure for the past couple of years, because the reality of seeing the tier you've worked hard on to build for half a decade leaving your favorite tour is hard even...
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     np: SS UU Stage 7 - Hungry Like the Wolf (DLC2 plans - see post #42)

    Jirachi is a fading memory, and this post-OLT shift also saw some other big shake-ups, including our favorite big metal bird flying off to the greener pastures of OU. As the meta has settled over the past couple of weeks, one threat in particular has been cementing itself as particularly...
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     np: SS UU Stage 6: Lucky Star (Jirachi BANNED & Chansey UNBANNED)

    The post-DLC months have been a whirlwind, between the myriad of new threats and the re-testing of UUBL, but now it's time to settle back in with another suspect test. And this time it's everyone's favorite shining star on the chopping block: Jirachi! Jirachi has proved to be a controversial...
  20. Hogg

    SS UU New Boot Goofin'

    (required viewing) :mienshao: :slowking: :blissey: :skarmory: :palossand: :rotom-mow: (click for import) Introduction Since Boots are the Controversial Topic du jour but most of the conversation has been hovering around its impact on OU tiers, I thought I'd share the Boots team I've been most...
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