Greetings all!
After a long, long debate, lots of late nights, and thousands of test-battles, our gym leaders have come up with our Rules update for East 2014! Check out the Rules page for the full rules, but here’s a short rundown of what has changed:
- We’ll be using Pokémon X/Y this year.
- IR Battle is now called “Battle with Someone Nearby (Infared).” It’s still the mode we’re using though.
- There’s now an exception to the species clause. Leaders may allow exceptions for quirky “All one Species” teams.
- Weather teams are now allowed, due to weather being limited.
- Wonder Launcher is no longer an option, so that rule has been removed.
- Blazikens with Speed Boost are not allowed.
- Xerneas and Yveltal have been added to the banned list.
- Zygarde has been added to the limited list.
- We’ve added a clause that bans endless battle (because it’s annoying and nobody’s got time for that nonsense).
- Kangaskhanite, Gengarite, Mewtwonite X, Mewtwonite Y, and Blazikenite, have been banned. More on this later.
We know this may be a bit controversial, but we’ve done our best to adjust the rules to keep things fun.
~Propriety
I’m glad I made the switch to infernape over blaziken
Does that mean no other Mega Stones, or just the ones listed?
Only the ones listed are banned! All the others are free for you to use!
Curious about “Team Preview will be turned off.” because it… well, can’t be turned off. Unless you somehow force people to cover their screen or something.
You seem to be right! Whoops! That was left in our rules changes draft before X and Y actually came out, when people were speculating that you’d be able to turn it off. I’ve pulled it.
Bummer. I ran Speed Boost Blaziken on my fun, casual team for the last two years, so I hate to replace him :/ guess I might run a new team.
Sorry. 🙁 We hate making rules like this because we know a lot of people love Blaziken and use them on their teams and they would probably be no problem… but properly trained they can be virtually unstoppable, and we don’t want people finding no challenge in the League by using one overpowered Pokemon. So to be fair we had to ban Blaziken across the board.
I’m sure whatever team you come up with instead will be great!