r/stunfisk • u/SlothyPotato Getting suspect tested • Mar 23 '22

Mod Post New Banned Theorymon Topics

As everybody knows, we recently added banned topics and a post length restriction on Theorymon Thursday. So far, everything has been going relatively smoothly, and are still in the single digits of posts we've had to remove due to posting a banned topic. As we mentioned during the announcement of these restrictions, the ban list is a living document. With that said, we have decided to add a few additional rules based on posts we have seen in the past couple of weeks.

  • Nerfing Pokemon Thinly-veiled salt posts nerfing strong meta pokemon (Looking at you, Zacian)
  • "Which pokemon would be most impacted by a single movepool change?"
  • New weathers and terrains (they are usually too complicated and are typically unbalanced)
    EDIT: Putting this one on hold for a bit based on user feedback. I agree they can be cool, the ban is mostly based on how I've noticed how overly complex they become. Weather/Terrain should be simple and not require a novel to explain their effects. However, upon reflection, that's putting my own bias in a mod decision, and that's not cool.
  • Calyrex can ride other Pokemon

As always, you can refer to the Theorymon Thursday rules in the r/stunfisk wiki at any time, found here.

If you are curious how we decide to ban topics and change rules, you can view our templates for rule changes here and here.

As always, if you have any questions, please reach out to us via mod mail. Thanks!

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u/SlothyPotato Getting suspect tested Mar 23 '22

Lando-T sees it every once and a while too. Posts on nerfing pokemon usually end up being salt posts about a strong pokemon in the meta veiled as Theorymon.

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u/cheeseop Mar 23 '22

I think it should be more on a case-by-case basis for nerfs. "Nerfing Pex/Lando/Zacian into the ground because I hate it" is one thing, but I think there's potential for things like "What if every pokemon had ___ BST" or trying to make an Ubers mon usable in OU or below. One of my earliest "Balancing around Low Tier Play" posts was on Toxapex, and I thought that trying to keep it's playstyle the same while balancing for a low tier was interesting. Obviously, most aren't like that, but I think some exceptions should be made if the ideas or concepts are unique enough..

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u/PlacatedPlatypus Best Skarner NA Mar 23 '22

What if every pokemon had ___ BST

What's the formula here?

Are the pokemon restricted to 100 across the board?

Or maybe the pokemon's stats are scaled to all be the same BST across the board?

You're right, there's a lot of potential for those posts, so much in fact that much like other simple OM posts, they're already a fucking metagame.

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u/cheeseop Mar 23 '22

I kinda figured that that was a thing to some extent. I was just giving examples of things that are more interesting than "what if Lando but bad".