ORAS 2016 VG Format Announced, More Legendary-Friendly

[Water Pokémon Master]

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• 2016 VG Format Announced, More Legendary-Friendly

Posts you make after this point will immediately appear on the front page and vice versa. Discuss!

 

[sonicjms]

Hear that, that's the sound of a ton of pokemon players starting new files on ORAS

 

[Kenneth Ecker]

Oh jeez, here comes Mega Rayquaza to destroy the format.

 

[thegrovylekid]

Can't say I like this. Legendaries are pretty bleh.

 

[SaiScott95]

So now every team can have a primal AND a mega... Cue people running to smogon.

Also, as much as I hate using primals for this, welcome back weather teams.

 

[DevinTheWelf]

Haven't played VGC for a solid year, but letting Mega Ray AND a Primal be on anyone's team seems like a bad idea. (although considering every team in top 8 VGC at worlds used Mega Kanga, I guess there will be a little variation now).

 

[The_Samurott_Guy]

I don't think that legendaries are as good as they pretend to be

 

[Rendevoir]

m-mewtwo y anyone?

 

[Mitja]

holy freakin KEK, are they serious?

some guy at Pokémon company to other guy: "oh yeah, and post that we are banning legendaries"
--40min later
"uhm... what did he say again...something legendaries?...fans want legendaries i guess" /posts announcement that vgc2016 allows legendaries.

I mean, cmon... people were complaining about legendaries, and holding "REMOVE GENIES" signs. I guess they took it as sarcasm?

lol.

I wanted my excitement for VGC to be increased to 120% with ANY KIND OF CHANGE in the rules.
Instead, it fell from 10% to a complete 0.

 

[RiverShock]

I'm interested to see how the top VGC players will adapt to handle these.


But allowing Mega Rayquaza, Mega Mewtwo and Primal Groudon/Kyogre is dumb. Aside from that, it could have been a kinda cool format. I guess it's nice to see them trying something new.

 

[Shishigami]

Also, as much as I hate using primals for this, welcome back weather teams.

All of these Ray's below would kindly like to meet your weather team and its raunchy ideas...

 

[Shishigami]

Initially, I did presume that it was some sort of 20th Anniversary gimmick.....

*Mouthpalms

 

[Pokemon Trainer]

This is actually interesting. For almost 6 years we haven't seen powerful legendaries in the actual format. But overall it's gonna get even more annoying. Especially with bulky Lugias, and the Weather Trio

 

[King Xerneas]

VGC 2016, also known as "The Mega Rayquaza-pocalypse"

 

[arulz]

I know there's going to be a lot of hate, but this is going to be fun

 

[Shishigami]

I wonder if Soul Dew is now legal??

 

[arulz]

I wonder if Soul Dew is now legal??

It says explicitly that it's not

 

[Shishigami]

It says explicitly that it's not

 

[crystal_pidgeot]

Here I was thinking genies would be removed, some megas patched and or removed... Anything really. Guess its a good thing I haven't and don't catch legendary so I can just go and get them though a restart for a latias is needed.

 

[Pinecone]

With no new game, they must have felt they had to do something different.