Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

MSF45's D/P Wi-Fi Tourny! 1st Place Skarmbliss; 2nd Place Pablo; 3rd Place Regis Neo!

Ohh, I never knew what Sleep Clause. Some idiot told me that it meant you can't use any Sleep Inducing attacks. lol. So, I'm assuming that Freeze Clause is the same thing? If so, I won't be adding freeze clause because freeze is usually all about risk.

By the way, I'll add Sleep Clause to the rules but I won't be calling it "Sleep Clause" for specific people like me. lol.

~MSF45
 
You guy's read my post wrong. I said sleep-clause bans disabling putting a whole team to sleep, not that it disables a team of sleep inducing pokemon.
 
yeah your team can have 6 sleep inducers if you want, but you can only put ONE of your opponent's Pokemon to sleep at one time.
 
Sorry about that guys, my fault, I didn't know what the Sleep Clause was. Finally got that varified. I explained what it was in rules 11 now and put Sleep Clause in parenthesis for people that didn't know what it meant. That explains it lol. So everyone satisfied with the new rule addition?
 
Is there enough entrances or should I expan the length a little longer and have signups locked Friday night? I was a little late on the announcement on what the prize will be and I'm sure that that'll be attracting a lot more competition. Besides, I just now got the prize ideas for 2nd-3rd/4th place.
 
10 people is a nicely sized tournament, esp with d/p as new as it is. You could try letting it stay open for another day, but I don't think you'll get but maybe 2 more people.
 
One thing to remember about sleep clause; you can't intentionally put two of your opponent's pokemon to sleep. That is, you won't be disqualified if your Breloom sleeps someone, and then have them switch out only to get put to sleep the next time they attack you because of Breloom's Effect Spore ability.
 
Alright then, I'll let it open for about another day. I may even decide to join the tournament myself. I haven't quite decided on that quite yet.

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One thing to remember about sleep clause; you can't intentionally put two of your opponent's pokemon to sleep. That is, you won't be disqualified if your Breloom sleeps someone, and then have them switch out only to get put to sleep the next time they attack you because of Breloom's Effect Spore ability.
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Yeah, I thought about that before making it a rule. As long as your opponent knows the situation ahead of time. If you attack physically and your opponent somehow manages to fall asleep due to part of the effect of the attack then it should be fine since it wasn't intentional. But if you manage to put them to sleep as part of the attack and then you somehow manage to hypnosis or sleep powder or something the next Pokemon intentionally then there will probably be consequences. As long as you and your opponent are okay with this rule.
 
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I guess I'll join too.

Btw, I think it's kinda lame to make a sleep rule like that. It's not like they stay asleep for the rest of the battle. Don't they usually wake up in 2-5 turns?
 
thegimpsta said:
I guess I'll join too.

Btw, I think it's kinda lame to make a sleep rule like that. It's not like they stay asleep for the rest of the battle. Don't they usually wake up in 2-5 turns?
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Not to be rude and go against your opinion here, but, within those 2-5 turns we can retreat and do a super effective attack worth KO'ing you within 2 turns. Also keep in mind that what they were talking about is that you can only have 1 pokemon asleep at a time and isn't DQ'ing any moves. Maybe in other tournies they're banning moves/attacks but not here. Only the fact that no more than 1 Pokemon can be put to sleep at a time.

~MSF45
 
thegimpsta said:
I guess I'll join too.

Btw, I think it's kinda lame to make a sleep rule like that. It's not like they stay asleep for the rest of the battle. Don't they usually wake up in 2-5 turns?
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So it would be ok for your opponent to sleep all 6 of your pokemon? You would be alright with it if it took 5 turns for every single one of your 6 to wake up? Do you realize that's 30 turns? So, your opponent leads with a max speed and +speed natured Gengar. He/she then proceeds to sleep every single pokemon you send out, effectively leaving you without a single round to attack for the entire battle.

Let's say you happen to take down this Gengar. Oh look, your opponent just sent out a Glameow that's even faster than Gengar. It's packing hypnosis, too! Oh, you managed to beat it somehow, well now he's going to send out a Sceptile that knows Grasswhistle.

There's a reason that 99% of tournaments use the sleep clause.
 
It would be fine with me because chances are I'm not going to switch out my Pokemon. Rather then 6 die, I'd rather one die. And it's not like putting them to sleep hits 100% of the time. This is just my opinion though guys. No need to go super defensive.
 
thegimpsta said:
It would be fine with me because chances are I'm not going to switch out my Pokemon. Rather then 6 die, I'd rather one die. And it's not like putting them to sleep hits 100% of the time. This is just my opinion though guys. No need to go super defensive.
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You're right, switching your pokemon would be a bad idea at that point, but the whole point is that they're incredibly fast pokemon, and as soon as it KOs the first one, it's just going to out-speed whatever you send out next and sleep that one as well.
 
That's why you need to counteract with these things though when you think about it. I'm not taking sides here but if you had ways around these things. Such as: Insomnea (Ability-Keeps Pokemon Awake), Chesto Berry, Lum Berry, etc. You wouldn't need to worry about these problems. IMO.

~MSF45
 
Yeah, you can counter it, but the rule is there so you don't have to center your team around staying awake, lol.
 
I'm just saying some pokemon revolve around putting your opponent to sleep. Your opponent can basically mess up your strategy if they switch a sleeping pokemon out and your not allowed to put the other one to sleep. I dunno...I'm just used to the anything goes way. More strategy.

P.S. My strategy isn't even sleep btw, lol. I'm a poison lover.
 
Yes, I know this obviously. lol. I'm the one hosting this tournament afterall. But I'm just agreeing and helping the two of you with both of your points. Some Pokemon and strategies revolve around sleepness and this rule does mess those Pokemon and Strategies up. Also, you can avoid these problems and counteract with them if you're so worried about it but instead they just decide right away to give up on the whole idea of countering it and decide to ban it instead.
 
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