(Yes, writing up the response to this on the first day and delaying posting it was totally reasonable. Nothing more logical than that.)
Okay so I'll just. Forget about replying to this paragraph by paragraph and put it into a few main things as a whole. This is really short as well but I'm not that great with going on long tirades about things.
This was meant as a simulation at first? I... was always under the impression that Asber was supposed to be a real region. But, yes, I'm completely 0kay with Dragons' Den existing because they're styled as completely fake--and it sounds all nice and good with your league as well. And now that they're in the battle for Asber with 1000 points and +2 stats all around, how exactly is getting them to play nice at 100% going to make sense? Especially when they're being depicted as ruthless and out for the blood of everyone in Asber (particularly Negrek's) and flinging around draco meteors without a care. Flavor is just flavor, but considering the pure insanity of what could happen if Mew was obtainable I'm not reluctant to say that legendaries are a bad idea even without considering the logistics. Going back to the fake things, going somewhere along the lines of a "false Groudon" like in the anime would be a lot less ridiculous; as long as they're not actually the real ones it's fine (and so would Superbird instead giving his ditto the ability to transorm into Darkrai as long as Meta's not /actually/ Darkrai, in my opinion). Now that I think of it Dragons' Den opening up for some other sort of thing would be a nice compromise to this; Blazhy and Dragon keeping their profits by instead renting out the simulations for everyone, no one keeps the legends and everything is nice and contained. Maybe if you all lose in the BfA; it seems that would make the business a lot more profitable as well and then everyone wins.
I'm not sure which I prefer, personally--just improvising in any way is fun. Although I've yet to find a real way to actually toy with an arena... maybe I should start plotting some arena things up. Anything that really looks like it subverts plans and seems entertaining enough is usually something I'd go along with. Ahaha, that sounds hilarious. Probably not so for Kusari if that strategy had came into play, but still. I'd probably allow that if there was a damage cap; severe confusion, maybe, with a drop in special defense. I suppose I could live with being a terrible person in that regard--after all, my reaction when I saw that you were crippling Kaleidoscope was just "WHAT" for the first minute. Then I burst out in laughter, and started thinking up a new way to get rid of Yakuza. I assumed that Kaleidoscope was going to chill rather than waste copious amounts of energy on an ineffective attack, but hey. It was workable, and Kaleidoscope's movepool is amazing; couldn't let on that I had a backup plan though. :D
You, too; I knew substitute was going to be encored from the moment I posted commands, but it's certainly going to cause problems if I ever want to rotate him in. And the crippling thing was really effective, haha. Attacking health would've been useless at that point; I was just eyeing giga drain since the first moment I scanned her movepool.
Because! Did you see how long your message was compared to mine! And you have a huge squad filled with fully evolved pokemon, and you browse on invisible mode (which has nothing to do with this), and you're both a long-time member and a mod... I think I've slowly been sucked into ASB as well. The question is whether I'll ever get out.
