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Indigo Cephalopods posted:Dear people playing Uranium: you are perfectly within your rights to play and enjoy this game if you wish. But please also consider the following alternate activities: Can someone explain what is so bad about it?
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Calaveron posted:What new types could they even add they've used up all nature and mythology There are many potential new types. Sound/Noise would be cool; its already a pseudo-type and has a ton of moves, pokemon, and abilities themed around it. You could also do a 'Space' or 'Cosmic' type with the same justification. Or maybe a 'Digital' type, or a 'Paper' type. Honestly the typings have no thematic consistency as is (elements mixed with random creature classifications and then descriptive poo poo like 'flying') MinionOfCthulhu posted:Can someone explain what is so bad about it? your dead mom is a pokemon you can catch. Zore fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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I want a Cosmic type just so Clefairy/Clefable can change types for the third time.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Can someone explain what is so bad about it? From the post in this thread it sounds like the difficulty is busted, someone posted about a part where you have to do continuous battles without any items (don't know if that means in between battles or no items period.) It also sounds like it is optimized poorly with people posting famerate issues.
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Aug 27, 2016 22:57
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Bartie posted:I wonder if there's even the slightest chance of Gamefreak rebalancing the game for Sun & Moon. It's kind of sad that with over 700 to chose from only a handful are viable in competitive play. there are like 200 viable mons because of tiers
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Bartie posted:I wonder if there's even the slightest chance of Gamefreak rebalancing the game for Sun & Moon. It's kind of sad that with over 700 to chose from only a handful are viable in competitive play. This isn't actually the case. There are tons of viable Pokemon, its just that most of them are outclassed by a Pokemon that does their job better. You can still use them perfectly fine. There are also plenty of Pokemon that aren't outclassed at all but are just ignored because a bunch of the people that play Pokemon don't actually go through the effort to make a team. They just look up whatever dominates the current meta and clone that.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:02
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Bartie posted:I wonder if there's even the slightest chance of Gamefreak rebalancing the game for Sun & Moon. It's kind of sad that with over 700 to chose from only a handful are viable in competitive play. That's really the case with anything competitive. Every meta is going to have things on top and those categories are not always large - especially at the very, very top, you're only going to see the most niche picks.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:07
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With 700+ it's bound to have tiers and many pokemon are unevolved versions and so on, but it's not like there isn't room for improvement. League of Legends has over a hundred characters and manage just fine. I'm just saying that it's really boring watching Groudon vs Kyogre ad nauseum. 
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Bartie posted:With 700+ it's bound to have tiers and many pokemon are unevolved versions and so on, but it's not like there isn't room for improvement. League of Legends has over a hundred characters and manage just fine. I'm just saying that it's really boring watching Groudon vs Kyogre ad nauseum. When you're allowed to use almost anything in a competitive setting, it's pretty natural that a lot of people are going to be packing what are considered to be the strongest and best options.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:22
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Bartie posted:With 700+ it's bound to have tiers and many pokemon are unevolved versions and so on, but it's not like there isn't room for improvement. League of Legends has over a hundred characters and manage just fine. I'm just saying that it's really boring watching Groudon vs Kyogre ad nauseum. stop playing ubers then, that's the tier for broken poo poo
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Aug 27, 2016 23:27
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Isn't the Pokemon world championships literally just get won by like, Pikachu and Hitmontop?
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Aug 27, 2016 23:28
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Bartie posted:With 700+ it's bound to have tiers and many pokemon are unevolved versions and so on, but it's not like there isn't room for improvement. League of Legends has over a hundred characters and manage just fine. I'm just saying that it's really boring watching Groudon vs Kyogre ad nauseum. don't play vgc then
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Aug 27, 2016 23:32
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Am I going to learn that Mr. Bonding is the real villain in Y. Also I caught Yveltal and named it Flabébé
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Bartie posted:With 700+ it's bound to have tiers and many pokemon are unevolved versions and so on, but it's not like there isn't room for improvement. League of Legends has over a hundred characters and manage just fine. I'm just saying that it's really boring watching Groudon vs Kyogre ad nauseum. League of Legends is one of the worst examples you could use for this because a bunch of characters in that are completely ignored in the competitive meta. And yes when you allow legendaries poo poo gets really reptitive, but that's why you stick to the normal competitive formats where they aren't allowed. I have no idea why they thought letting them into VGC this year was a good idea. Ruggington posted:don't play vgc then Sometimes the VGC format is good though. The ruleset they used for X/Y that only allowed Kalos dex Pokemon was great.
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greatn posted:Isn't the Pokemon world championships literally just get won by like, Pikachu and Hitmontop? it was an anti meta team made to counter the most popular mons and give his ubers the advantage against their ubers
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Aug 27, 2016 23:35
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http://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/worlds/2016/teams/masters/#team-wolfe-glick-united-states-masters-division-champion Kyogre, Groudon and Rayquaza were a mistake.
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Aug 27, 2016 23:43
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Lotsa legendaries, I thought legendaries were banned and stuff And man is that bell pokemon super popular. What's his deal
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Aug 27, 2016 23:57
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greatn posted:Isn't the Pokemon world championships literally just get won by like, Pikachu and Hitmontop? at the very top there's this weird tier of attempting to counterplay the metagame and a lot of weird picks emerge due to that. but thats like your top 0.01% of players playing against eachother. anything below that generally revolves around the same set of like maybe 20 pokemon that are just superior to everything else that's how this kind of thing is just going to work though. the game is designed first and foremost as a singleplayer rpg, the competitive stuff always takes a backseat. it gets attention but it's never the main focus at least IVs are going to be more accessible now
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Bartie posted:With 700+ it's bound to have tiers and many pokemon are unevolved versions and so on, but it's not like there isn't room for improvement. League of Legends has over a hundred characters and manage just fine. I'm just saying that it's really boring watching Groudon vs Kyogre ad nauseum. League of Legends is garbage so your opinion is invalidated gg no re
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Aug 27, 2016 23:59
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They allowed Legendaries because this is the last time Gen VI is going to be in the VGC. Next year it'll be Gen VII and there'll be a new meta with normal rules.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:http://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/worlds/2016/teams/masters/#team-wolfe-glick-united-states-masters-division-champion The number of dark void Smeargles listed there is upsetting me. Calaveron posted:Lotsa legendaries, I thought legendaries were banned and stuff They normally are. For some stupid reason they were allowed this year. Bronzong is a really tanky steel/psychic type. He fell out of favor after steel lost its dark and ghost resistance, but he was good against a lot of popular picks in that tournament's meta.
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Aug 28, 2016 00:01
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Calaveron posted:Lotsa legendaries, I thought legendaries were banned and stuff he can either take neutral fire or is immune to ground, has good defenses, can set trick room, has stab gyro ball, can set gravity i think
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Calaveron posted:Lotsa legendaries, I thought legendaries were banned and stuff each team gets two banned pokemon in vgc2016 bronzong doesn't get wrecked by ground moves or xerneas and can mess with trick room, gravity, skill swap etc
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Aug 28, 2016 00:02
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overall i think it was fun watching all the different sets and ev spreads develop throughout the year and the matches at regionals were ace. vgc16, i didn't hate it
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Aug 28, 2016 00:09
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Even when you have the most powerful broken poo poo in the game, you still need a ridiculous amount of strategy and luck to actually get close to a good player. Usually you have the optimal strategies at the start of the season and then people develop counter strategies to the usual stuff, changing EV spreads, using certain Pokemon that counter the big threats pretty well and then you start developing the counter-counter strategies, using even more weird EV spreads and using certain Pokemon that countered the certain Pokemon that countered the big stuff, so then they become more usable, resulting in even more strategies. Competitive is fun, not well balanced and is mind games upon mind games upon freeze hax. So it's good, please enjoy the meta of your choice.
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The meta in a game that is a very complex game of rock paper scissors, where you are just putting effects or damage on each other, is of course going to have less diversity than a game like DOTA or League. Like people have said, competitive Pokemon is mostly mindgames and counter-strategies to the meta, like Wolfe had this year.
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Aug 28, 2016 00:22
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Are there translations for those bios? Wanna know what my boy Lapras is doing in Alola.
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Aug 28, 2016 00:27
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Competitive Pokemon: I lost because I predicted my opponent doing the smart move and instead they did something that makes no goddamn sense
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Didn't a Pachirisu do amazing things at a Japanese tournament because no one expected loving Pachirisu?
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Internet Kraken posted:Competitive Pokemon: I lost because I predicted my opponent doing the smart move and instead they did something that makes no goddamn sense They just next leveled you
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Funky Valentine posted:Didn't a Pachirisu do amazing things at a Japanese tournament because no one expected loving Pachirisu? Yeah. It was an absurdly specific anti-meta set though.
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Aug 28, 2016 01:06
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Pokemon Origins sure looks pretty but I wish amazon video had more episodes available
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Aug 28, 2016 01:23
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Calaveron posted:Pokemon Origins sure looks pretty but I wish amazon video had more episodes available It's only a four episode special though? Unless they don't have all of them up.
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Aug 28, 2016 01:28
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Just checked, it has them all.
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Aug 28, 2016 01:33
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Oh I thought it had more episodes. Does it really go through all 8 badges and all 150 pokemon in 90 something minutes?
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Aug 28, 2016 01:34
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I appreciate that a good 70% of the dialogue is taken from the game but I'm sad we don't hear a youngster expose about the benefits of shorts
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Calaveron posted:Oh I thought it had more episodes. Does it really go through all 8 badges and all 150 pokemon in 90 something minutes? Yeah, it does. It's got some weird...I don't want to say pacing issues, but it picks odd things to focus on in the limited time it has. I hate that Red's Jolteon gets OHKO'd by Giovanni's Rhyhorn's Thunderbolt. What the hell? I don't like that the whole thing ends up being an ad for XY with the reveal of Mega Charizard X at the end either. Vandar fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Aug 28, 2016 |
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So like what's the metaphysical difference between a ghost-type pokemon and an actual ghost
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