Pokémon Perfect
| Pokémon Perfect | |
|---|---|
 Site logo | |
| Language | English |
| Status | Active |
| Run | 2011 - Present |
| Date opened | c.2011 |
| Creator | Lutra |
| Forum | Pokémon Perfect |
| Mascot | Mew |
| Website | Main page |
Pokémon Perfect is a XenForo forum centred around competitive play. It was initially founded by Lutra as a Generation I-focused tiering website as an answer to Smogon and Pokémon Online's lack of support for the generation at the time. It succeeded RBY 2k10 after its activity dipped significantly. It eventually grew to accommodate tiers for generations up to VI, identifying it as an old generation-centric website, being one of few to make headway. Pokémon Perfect is notable among old-gen competitive players for its high-level tournaments, with its prestige often being held at levels akin to Smogon's.
In 2019, ownership was handed to CALLOUS, wherein the website was relaunched strictly for tournaments. The site also suspended all tiering projects due to dwindling activity and lack of invested staff, and adopting Smogon tiers instead.[1] As of 2023, it has accumulated over 3,000 members.
History
Pokémon Perfect was launched by Lutra in 2011 with a Pokémon Online server, accommodating Pokémon Stadium OverUsed, which was seen as neglected on the platform, not even banning Evasion moves at the time. It opened a tiering project for Pokémon Red and Blue, continuing such from RBY 2k10, aiming to produce a metagame that is diverse instead of centralised. This was due to Generation I's tiers on Smogon at the time being largely considered antiquated, not being updated since 2006, and RBY 2k10's re-tiering project being unfinished. In its tiering, instead of the usual Smogon nomenclature, it used its own naming conventions, those being 1U, 2U, 3U, and so on, aiming to be more neutral and straightforward. It utilised viability-based, democratic tiering, with qualified voters sending Pokemon up and down tiers after tournaments concluded until they were properly established, wherein the community would move down. While these were designed for Generation I, the system would be repeated for generations II through VI, but not to the same success.
Pokémon Perfect has run a variety of tournament series, such as seasonal tournaments with a variety of systems employed, regular seeded "Master Tournaments" that used a points system, and much more, which were categorised under a hierarchy[2]. While this has declined to regular "Open" tournaments in modern times, Pokémon Perfect's competitive tournament system fostered numerous notable Generation I players, such as marcoasd, Heroic Troller, and Peasounay, all of whom ended up becoming notable competitors on Smogon[3]. It has since become notable in competitive Generation III battling for the CALLOUS Invitational, a tournament series inviting the premier players of the advanced generation, old and new, to compete for a cash prize. This tournament has since become a qualification standard for Generation III suspect tests on Smogon.
Relationship with Smogon
Pokémon Perfect has frequently been associated with Smogon, mainly for its tournament prestige and large playerbase overlap. This first arose in a suspect test regarding Counter in Generation I OverUsed, where numerous competitors were forcibly expelled from voting due to their only qualifications being from off-site tournaments,[4] which resulted in controversy due to a lack of tournaments on Smogon to make for a suspect test in-touch with the community. Since then, however, tournament results from Pokémon Perfect have been factored into suspect tests, particularly those involving the CALLOUS Invitational[5], citing old-gen tournament support on Smogon being lacking and the disregarding of off-site competition being detrimental to tiering.
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