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In my current nuzlocke play through of ORAS the 1st poke I caught was a zigzagoon with Charm instead of Tackle as a 1st move. She has 0 damaging abilities and my cute floppy pacifist pokemon is my best friend.
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My first Poochyena in ORAS had Fire Fang. She's incredibly useful and a good dog.
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Oct 2, 2016 13:55
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HopperUK posted:My first Poochyena in ORAS had Fire Fang. She's incredibly useful and a good dog. Now if only her entire extended family didn't insist on following you forever. That first Zigzagoon that knows only charm and growl is more honest about how useful it's kin will be.
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This isn't specific to any one game but I swear to god wild Weedles specifically have a 90% chance to poison you with Poison Sting. e: this could be a post from 1998 but gently caress it, it's still true Slate Action fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Oct 2, 2016 |
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Oct 2, 2016 16:52
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Slate Action posted:This isn't specific to any one game but I swear to god wild Weedles specifically have a 90% chance to poison you with Poison Sting. to be fair i'm pretty sure the 30% chance it has is bigger then most poison moves, except toxic of course semi-edit: i checked and 30 percent is average for damage dealing moves, which seems absurd
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Oct 2, 2016 17:04
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mandatory lesbian posted:to be fair i'm pretty sure the 30% chance it has is bigger then most poison moves, except toxic of course Yeah. loving Scald 
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Oct 2, 2016 17:06
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30% is not average
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Oct 2, 2016 17:06
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Ruggington posted:30% is not average for poison, the most damage dealing moves have 30%
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Oct 2, 2016 17:09
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it's bad and i hate it
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Oct 2, 2016 17:14
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mandatory lesbian posted:to be fair i'm pretty sure the 30% chance it has is bigger then most poison moves, except toxic of course It's to balance out poison being a really bad type most of the time (When attacking at least)
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Oct 2, 2016 17:18
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I think they should change the type chart and make steel weak to poison. There's a ton of acids and sludge that can eat through steel  . Maybe keep the inability to poison/toxic them but make them weak to the moves themselves.That would be a cool interaction.
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Oct 2, 2016 18:24
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salandit is here to break down barriers
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Oct 2, 2016 18:25
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Avynte posted:Yeah, I'm happy I played through XY because it was good, but ORAS was definitely the higher quality experience. ORAS doesn't have the roller skates, 0/10 unplayable.
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Oct 2, 2016 18:28
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Ruggington posted:salandit is here to break down barriers i like him
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Oct 2, 2016 18:31
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I think fighting should be strong against Fairy because the Jocks kept beating up my friend in High School 
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Oct 2, 2016 20:09
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Countblanc posted:People quit on low ladder showdown a lot for a bunch of reasons Calaveron posted:Forever will I ponder if they made it intentional so that Clefairy and Gengar have pretty much the exact same silhouette  
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Oct 2, 2016 20:47
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:Number 2 right there is why doubles is the official VGC format and why I like doubles better than singles. I mean singles are still fun but the format suffers from "the Monopoly problem" of going on too long after the match is more or less decided. secretly ghastly comes from cloysters when they die or something. Lots of death in Gen 1. You could say that it was... ghastly. Eh Eh?
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Oct 2, 2016 20:49
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They've really made an effort to make each Pokémon from later generations distinct enough from one another to avoid the "sameness" Gen 1 monsters had.
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Oct 2, 2016 20:52
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Zuzie posted:They've really made an effort to make each Pokémon from later generations distinct enough from one another to avoid the "sameness" Gen 1 monsters had. in most cases yeah, but they get lazy every now and then like with plusle and minun
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Oct 2, 2016 21:39
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mandatory lesbian posted:in most cases yeah, but they get lazy every now and then like with plusle and minun That was just part of their weird obsession with putting in pairs in Gen III for the double battles. Except all of them are terrible combos. Volbeat/Illumise, Plusle/Minun, Solrock/Lunatone... They did something similar with the Monkeys in Gen V for triples.
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mandatory lesbian posted:in most cases yeah, but they get lazy every now and then like with plusle and minun I love every member of the extended pikachu family except pichu and those two. Zore posted:They did something similar with the Monkeys in Gen V for triples. At least they're different types 
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quote:I love every member of the extended Pikachu family except Pikachu.
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Zore posted:That was just part of their weird obsession with putting in pairs in Gen III for the double battles. Except all of them are terrible combos. u misunderstand me, i'm fine with volbeat and illumise cause fireflies had not been done before, but minun/plusle look like pichu with color
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Oct 2, 2016 22:15
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pichu is a mouse, plusle and minun are rabbits, totally different
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Oct 2, 2016 22:21
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I have a shiny Minun named Be Happy that I send clones of to random people. They're so cheerful, I can't help but love them.
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Oct 2, 2016 23:34
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Kelp Plankton posted:pichu is a mouse, plusle and minun are rabbits, totally different the nidoran line is the only rabbit i care for
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also, i think you're lying to me!!!
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Oct 2, 2016 23:40
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of course they're lying. Pikachu is also a rabbit 
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Oct 2, 2016 23:43
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I find it a bit weird that Plusle and Minun are only in the Fairy egg group. You'd think that they would also be in Field egg group alongside the other electric rodents.
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Zuzie posted:I find it a bit weird that Plusle and Minun are only in the Fairy egg group. You'd think that they would also be in Field egg group alongside the other electric rodents. They aren't even typed as fairy, which is also weird.
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I finished my first Nuzlocke! By finish I, of course, mean that I got wiped out to Dianthe's Mega Gardevoir. Then i gave up and just did it again with revives (all i had to do was loving set up Stealth Rock on the first turn and use Golem to beat up Hawlucha, then Durant would be able to sweep the rest no problem) Boy is a nuzlocke a different experience, I don't really have the patience to do it again. Anyway, general thoughts on XY are the same I had a while after playing them the first time, the story is trash, every character is lame, Malva is so entirely out of nowhere and does nothing with her reveal, the cut content is fairly easy to deduce, mega evolution is not implemented well into the main game and there's several points where they just inject way more battles than necessary, including the same rival rematch three or four times in a row. The level curve is incredible, pure stellar, the pokemon selection is great and gives you some great freedom in battles which makes them feel even better, battling just feels good, when it's not a friend battle or against grunts then you've got some very neat fights going on constantly. The rather few new pokemon does hurt the region's personality, you can go ages without seeing a trainer use a new pokemon and most riding pokemon aren't even of the region, I hope regional variants fixes that with SM. The gym system is a zombie at this point, it's just there so you kinda have an idea of why you're following the straight line forward most of the time. All in all, the SM stuff we've seen really seems to fix everything from XY, like XY is the transitional gen between 5 and 7 with a lack of innovation and ideas that are executed worse than in those two gens. I really, really hope they have a level curve that's this good for SM.
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Kelp Plankton posted:pichu is a mouse, plusle and minun are rabbits, totally different it never occurred to me that they are rabbits. whoa
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from what i understand plusle is the on reading for the rabbit kanji, and minun is the kun reading
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:I finished my first Nuzlocke! By finish I, of course, mean that I got wiped out to Dianthe's Mega Gardevoir. I didn't know there was a Malva reveal until this thread started talking about it a few months ago 
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Wow smug dragonite loving owns
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Solumin posted:I didn't know there was a Malva reveal until this thread started talking about it a few months ago If you didn't have to go out of your way to see her say she's evil then maybe we would've found out when intended, still, boy does she hate you and she is evil http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Malva#Pok.C3.A9mon_X_and_Y_2 Marlva Before A Rematch posted:Oh, I can't tell you how happy I am to meet you again... I feel like my heart might just burst into flames. I'm burning up with my hatred for you, runt! Malva After Beating You in the Chateau posted:I am delighted! Yes, delighted that I could squash you beneath my heel. She just happens to be very evil and hate you very, very much but at no point does she Do anything negative against you. With the holocaster only using blue textures and the "full" character model I didn't even realize she was the same person!
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Malva makes a lot of sense once you connect the dots. The first dot being 'she wears all red' in a game where wearing all red makes you a bad guy. The second dot is she's the holocaster lady (It did however also take me a bit to realize she was the holocaster lady) The third being that she was being pretty drat patronizing towards you when she explained the Elite 4 layout. (I'm sure this will be no problem for the boy who defeated big bad Team Flare) But yeah, beyond that you don't really get a lot of what Malva's deal is. You just know she was in Team Flare and is extremely salty about you stopping them. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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I'd like Malva to crush me beneath her heel.
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