Jumpman16
np: Michael Jackson - "Mon in the Mirror" (DW mix)
The fun starts here, ladies and gentlemen. Hope you're ready for a good time, cause you've never seen or heard anything as hot and fresh as this in your life.
Stage 3. Much referenced, much talked about, and much depended upon (and hyped up) by yours truly for almost a year now. With the help of other Tiering Contributors, I've had a vision about how this entire Suspect Test Process will commence as far as pokemon Suspects are concerned for a long time, and it will finally get to play out now on the Suspect Ladder.
A refresher:
Stage 3: Analysis of all the Suspects in the standard metagame with the knowledge of which are considered Uber and OU in a Suspect-free metagame.
We know now which are considered uber and which are considered ou—this is their "Stage 2 tag" I've been referring to from the beginning. What I am asking of you is simply to play on the ladder when Doug gets it up. Try and genuinely break any of the Suspects. Don't have any mercy on your opponents or other pokemon. Remember, Suspects are Suspects because they may not be uber in the "true" metagame. We all need to know to what extent any of the six Suspects we're testing really are uber, and we can only know that for sure by playing with them all together as if they're supposed to be together.
The six Suspects are:
Shaymin-S
Garchomp
Latios
Manaphy
Latias
Deoxys-S
Aeolus and I have decided that this is the actual importance of the Suspects in this order, given their Stage 2 voting percentages and public experience with them. I'm stating this because this is the only "requirement" thus far that you all have to be aware of. We all really, really need to get Skymin's tiering right, where DXS is less important because it's "probably uber". That's not to say that you shouldn't use DXS or that doing so will not impact your Suspect EXP—it will just do so to a lesser degree than will experience with Skymin, for obvious reasons.
Doug will open up this thread when he's ready with the ladder. This test will be for at least seven weeks (probably 8+), at which point we will decide who gets voting rights. Rating and Deviation are still important, but there are no requirements for these with regard to Stage 3. Just know that the better the...better.
Again, the only requirement is to go and play the Suspect Ladder. Doug, Aeolus and I will take care of the hard part. You just go mix it up.
edit: here is the formula we used to weight for final Stage 3 SEXP
(Rating * (4SkyminSEXP + 3.5GarchompSEXP + 3LatiosSEXP + 1.5ManaphySEXP + LatiasSEXP))
We decide to ignore Deviation here, as per X-Act's input
Stage 3. Much referenced, much talked about, and much depended upon (and hyped up) by yours truly for almost a year now. With the help of other Tiering Contributors, I've had a vision about how this entire Suspect Test Process will commence as far as pokemon Suspects are concerned for a long time, and it will finally get to play out now on the Suspect Ladder.
A refresher:
Stage 3: Analysis of all the Suspects in the standard metagame with the knowledge of which are considered Uber and OU in a Suspect-free metagame.
We know now which are considered uber and which are considered ou—this is their "Stage 2 tag" I've been referring to from the beginning. What I am asking of you is simply to play on the ladder when Doug gets it up. Try and genuinely break any of the Suspects. Don't have any mercy on your opponents or other pokemon. Remember, Suspects are Suspects because they may not be uber in the "true" metagame. We all need to know to what extent any of the six Suspects we're testing really are uber, and we can only know that for sure by playing with them all together as if they're supposed to be together.
The six Suspects are:
Shaymin-S
Garchomp
Latios
Manaphy
Latias
Deoxys-S
Aeolus and I have decided that this is the actual importance of the Suspects in this order, given their Stage 2 voting percentages and public experience with them. I'm stating this because this is the only "requirement" thus far that you all have to be aware of. We all really, really need to get Skymin's tiering right, where DXS is less important because it's "probably uber". That's not to say that you shouldn't use DXS or that doing so will not impact your Suspect EXP—it will just do so to a lesser degree than will experience with Skymin, for obvious reasons.
Doug will open up this thread when he's ready with the ladder. This test will be for at least seven weeks (probably 8+), at which point we will decide who gets voting rights. Rating and Deviation are still important, but there are no requirements for these with regard to Stage 3. Just know that the better the...better.
Again, the only requirement is to go and play the Suspect Ladder. Doug, Aeolus and I will take care of the hard part. You just go mix it up.
edit: here is the formula we used to weight for final Stage 3 SEXP
(Rating * (4SkyminSEXP + 3.5GarchompSEXP + 3LatiosSEXP + 1.5ManaphySEXP + LatiasSEXP))
We decide to ignore Deviation here, as per X-Act's input