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New ORAS Mega Evolution stats revealed

Hello Hat Lovers!

The Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire demo has been distributed around the world, and hackers have found some data regarding the new Mega Evolutions stat distribution (as well as OR/AS’s level up moves, egg moves, and tutor compatibility). For those of you that don’t want any spoilers for the new Mega Pokemon or their stats, I recommend you not to read any farther. For those who are always itching to learn more about the new games as their release date approaches, read on! I’ve given my thoughts on the new Megas and how I think they’ll fair next season.

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On Developing Speed Tiers Throughout a Metagame

Hey there Hat Lovers!

Today, I’m going to discuss a topic I’ve been thinking a fair bit about lately. One of the most common frustrations I see from people trying to learn the game is understanding how people come up with complicated EV spreads. It really isn’t obvious where the EV spread  92 HP / 4 Def / 252 Atk / 4 SpDef / 156 Spe for Adamant Mega Charizard X comes from. I’ve contemplated writing an article about coming up with complicated EV spreads, but realized many of them are generated first by speed requirements. In order for someone to understand where those requirements come from, we need to use a metagame approach.

For a really helpful article on the many speeds Pokemon can reach, see Scott’s Speed Tier article on Nuggetbridge.com!

Outline

  1. Don’t think in EVs, think in stats

  2. Base Speed vs. Max Speed Stat

  3. Centralizing Pokemon or Speed Stats

  4. Example: Adamant Mega Charizard X

  5. The Evolving Metagame

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Premier Challenges and Local Metagaming

Hey there Hat Lovers,

Today I’m gonna chat a bit on the new Premier Challenge series. If you’re looking for a travel stipend and/or invite to Worlds, these are going to be very important. First, what are they?

The Premier Challenge series are local tournaments. They have a first place payout of 40 CP (that’s like adding a Top 16 at Regionals to your CP) and a best finish limit of 5, meaning you can get an additional 200 CP from these local events. For more details on how this will work, check out the Nuggetbridge article on the VGC 2015 Championship Structure.

As this is the first attempt to expand the VGC tournament series to a lower-than-Regionals level of play (outside of online competitions), there’s a lot to be excited about! There are also going to be hiccoughs along the way, and today I’m planning to outline what this tournament series is going to add to our season, what you can do to help it grow, and how you can approach it from event to event.

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VGC With Hats moves to WordPress

Hello Hat Lovers!

As you may have noticed, we’ve moved from Blogger to WordPress. We’ve kept the same domain name so all of your bookmarks to our blog should still work. We’ll also be leaving the blogger version up, but we won’t be posting any new content there.

In addition to changing the blog’s site, we’re also planning for the new season. We’re going to have a new PC system for the 2015 season and we’ll be adding Pokemon as we use them. When tournament reports start coming in we’ll put the spreads from these tournaments on the PC as well. We’re also going to do tutorials that we can point people to when they don’t know what they’re doing. With ORAS on the horizon there’ll be a lot of in-game mini guides.

Welcome to the new site!

Max and Mark