balanced hackmons

    Following in the tradition of the original Balanced Hackmons, BHXY is an experiment in the reduction of teambuilding restrictions. You can use any pokemon with any move with any item with 252 ev's in every stat.

    The current banlist is as follows:
    - OHKO moves
    - Wonder Guard
    - Huge Power
    - Pure Power
    - Shadow Tag
    - Arena Trap
    - Parental Bond


    Where?



    Balanced Hackmons XY is still in development and will be hosted on Zarel's online competitive pokemon simulator Pokemon Showdown when completed.


    Metagame Analysis

    As hackmons has less determining factors (only base stats and typing are relevent) than any other metagame, the few determining factors mean that it is much easier to determine which pokemon is "best" in its particular field and as a result, very few pokemon are truly usable in Hackmons (think ubers insofar as # of viable pokemon is concerned). Because of this, the variety in Hackmons comes less from what pokemon you use and more from what abilities and items you use on them. Because of the ability to run 252 ev's in every stat, many pokemon become much bulkier than they used to be in their older games and thus the metagame is heavily focused on bulky offense.



    Conclusion

    Feel free to treat this like the last thread, as a base for chronicling the changes in the metagame and as a source of new ideas. I am incredibly proud to have been a part of Balanced Hackmons last gen and I hope that we can all work together to make BHXY just as, if not more fun.

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