Pokemon 5e - Pokémon Contest

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Pokémon contests
Pokémon contest is a competition for pokémon Coordinators to show off their

pokémons moves and looks. Judges score the pokémon based on how impressive the
performance is.
The competition is two rounds, Visual round and Contest Battle. The Head Judge and
two other judges score the pokémon, and the winner is determined as the best of its
category. Every contest has one of the five categories and one of the four contest ranks.
The category will affect what sort of movesets and accessories the Judges may give
more points for.
Contest categories: Cool, Beauty, Cute, Smart and Tough.
Contest ranks in order: Normal, Great, Ultra and Master.
Pokémon contests are held in Contest halls, which can be found across the region.
Typically each contest has 4 participants and they must use the same pokémon for both
rounds, but there are different contest formats: Team battles, Dance competition, Talent
round and various others. There are contests for more than 4 Coordinators, too.
Any pokémon may enter the Normal rank of any category. If the pokémon won the
Normal rank, the Coordinator may advance to the next rank of the same category.
The winner of a contest is awarded a ribbon corresponding the category and rank it
won. This ribbon is presented at the Contest halls to give permission to participate in
higher rank contests.
Once a pokémon has won the Master rank and the Coordinator has collected a total of
five ribbons, they may participate in the Grand Festival.
Credit to u/LyrWar for their ideas on scoring and a special thanks to u/jearOmee, u/Dr3amy_ and u/LyrWar
for giving feedback and general help.
Optional rule: Once a coordinator has acquired the Master rank ribbon, they may
participate in the Grand Festival.
The Grand Festival is the pinnacle of Pokémon Coordinators, as the title of Top
Coordinator is bestowed to the winner. It is held once a year and Coordinators from
across the region gather there. The winner is awarded a Ribbon Cup, which is made of
pure gold and embellished with a gem. The design varies between regions.
Unlike in the contests of Master rank and below, the Grand Festival requires the
Coordinator to use two pokémon, and there are 5 judges instead of 3.
The festival has 3 rounds: Visual round, which is done in two parts, and Double Battle.
The rounds may change from year to year.
The Grand Festival attracts a lot of contestants, up to 150 Coordinators participate with
their pokémon.
Visual Round:

One at a time, the Coordinators show off their pokémon in one turn. The pokémon
performs 2 moves simultaneously or separately, and the judges score it.
Layout of the turn:

1. Describe how your pokémon performs their move(s).
2. Pokémon rolls one Performance check against Charisma rolls done by all the
judges.
3. Compare the Performance check with all the rolls and score as follows for
each roll:
a. On a win, the judge gives points equal to their roll and modifiers
applied (more under Judges).
b. On a fail, you get half of their roll value.
c. On a 1, you get 0. Optional ruling?
d. On a Nat 20, you get double their roll value.
Contest Battle Round:
Once Visual Round is finished, the coordinators and their pokémon move onto Contest
Battle. The battle round has 5 turns and a set amount of Style points to begin with.
Battle works the same way as usual, but there’s a new mechanic added called Jamming.
Jam is points subtracted from your opponent’s Style points. Once either contestants
Style points reach zero, their pokémon goes unconscious or the 5 turns are finished, the
round ends. The contestant with more Style points at the end wins the round.
Style point values:
Normal rank=100, Great rank=120, Ultra rank=160, Master rank=200, Grand
Festival=400.
Layout of each turn:

1. Pokémon try to impress the judges by using one move.
2. Determine if the move hits the opponent and the possible damage/effects it
does to them.
3. Pokémon rolls a Performance check (CHA) against the Head Judges Charisma
roll. (Called Contest in 5e rules). Score as follows:
a. On a win, the amount they rolled is Jammed from their opponent’s
Style points.
b. On a tie, treat it as pokémon winning.
c. On a fail, half the Jam.
d. On a Nat 1, no Jamming to opponent, but half of Judges roll taken away
from the players Style points.
e. On a Nat 20, whether the Judge rolled higher or not, Jam the opponent.
4. End of turn.
To determine the winner of the contest, the pokémons Visual round and Battle round
points are added up and the highest scoring participant wins and receives their ribbon.
Visual rounds of the Grand Festival:
Visual round works as a knock-out where 32 highest scoring of the first round proceed
to the second one. The 8 best Coordinators of the second Visual round proceed to
Double Battle. Besides the Coordinator using both their pokémon, Visual rounds work
the same as in Pokémon contests.
Double Battle:
The Coordinators use both their pokémons and coordinate their moves together for an
impressive show and battle. Normal initiative rules apply. The Style point system
applies here too (check the value above).
There are 3 rounds of battles and the Coordinators are allowed to heal and take care of
their pokémon between the battles, but all of them are held during the same day.
However the Style points carry over from battle to battle, adding pressure to the
contestants.
Judges: All the contests have 3 judges: the Head Judge, who is usually part of the
organizing committee, Nurse Joy from the local Pokémon center and either a member of
a pokémon fan club, a Top Coordinator or someone else. All the judges have their own
preferences on pokémon typing, move typing, accessories and so on forth. This gives
their scoring an optional modifier which is applied to the Pokémons performance roll.
The Grand Festival has 5 judges, three of which are the same as contests and 2
additional ones. They’re usually previous Top Coordinators or Master rank
coordinators.
Judge examples in Normal rank contest
Mr. Contesta
16 CHA (+3)
Dislikes: repeated moves (-2 to points)
Likes: same type move as pokémons (+2 to points, increases by +2 every rank above)
moves that fit the contest category (Tough=Fighting type moves, for example) (+2 to
points, increases by +2 every rank above)
Nurse Joy
14 CHA (+2)
Dislikes: Dark and Ghost type moves (-1 to points)
Likes: all types of pokémon (+1 to points, increases by +1 every rank above)

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Pokémon contest is a competition for pokémon Coordinators to show off their

Contest categories: Cool, Beauty, Cute, Smart and Tough.

Contest ranks in order: Normal, Great, Ultra and Master.

Layout of the turn:

Contest Battle Round:

Layout of each turn:

Visual rounds of the Grand Festival:

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Pokémon contest is a competition for pokémon Coordinators to show off their

Contest categories:​ Cool, Beauty, Cute, Smart and Tough.

Contest ranks in order​: Normal, Great, Ultra and Master.

Layout of the turn:

Contest Battle Round:

Layout of each turn:

Visual rounds of the Grand Festival:

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Contest categories: Cool, Beauty, Cute, Smart and Tough.

Contest ranks in order: Normal, Great, Ultra and Master.