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Houndoom "If you are burned by the flames it shoots from its mouth, the pain will never go away." Victreebel "Lures prey with the sweet aroma of honey. Swallowed whole, the prey is dissolved in a day, bones and all." Cacturne "If a traveler is going through a desert in the thick of night, Cacturne will follow in a ragtag group. The Pokémon are biding their time, waiting for the traveler to tire and become incapable of moving."
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Infinitum posted:Yamask - Each of them carries a mask that used to be its face when it was human. Sometimes they look at it and cry. http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=041811
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“Wandering souls gathered together to form this Pokémon. When trying to make friends with children, Drifloon grabs them by the hand.” Infinitum posted:"Stories go that it grabs the hands of small children and drags them away to the afterlife. It dislikes heavy children."  “no fatties plz”
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Pokedex entries are widely accepted as dubious at best. A lot of people theorise they're meant to be myths and legends, or literally written by 10 year olds.
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But some of them are still incredibly good and really add flavor
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Pokedex entries are widely accepted as dubious at best. A lot of people theorise they're meant to be myths and legends, or literally written by 10 year olds.   
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Stuff like Arcaeus's thousand arms dex entry makes you wonder if arcaeus the pokemon is merely one of the arms of god. Turn the head 180 degrees, and you get a sort of hand.
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Mar 4, 2019 10:22
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A God Hand perhaps?
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This goat told me he's the master of life, the universe, and everything, and I have no reason to doubt him.
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Mar 4, 2019 10:32
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Also he likes it when I brush his hair and feed him profiteroles.
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That’s what you get for staying a boring monotype.  Shame too because unlike the other two, Simisage actually has a fun design .
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Avalerion posted:That’s what you get for staying a boring monotype. Also just having...utterly lackluster moveset/stats. There's just so many Gen 5 pokemons I want to like but they had some critical flaw. I'm looking at you, Liepard, and your abysmal defense! You might as well have bones made of chalk. As for the Pokedex thing, I just imagine that a lot of that stuff is stories parents told their kids to scare them. "Don't go play with that Drifbloom or it will carry you away and devour your soul!"
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Mar 4, 2019 11:09
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Make Liepard's primary ability Prankster, cowards. Lemme casually Thunder Wave all my foes.
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Infinitum posted:Stephen King Maybe it’s just me, but I lol’d hard at this!
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Infinitum posted:Death is no escape. You are doomed to roam the land forever. To be fair you're not killing them, just eating their hair. (  )
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Victreebel To be fair, this one is actually pretty accurate to how pitcher plants operate in real life. Our world can be terrifying too.
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Avalerion posted:Shame too because unlike the other two, Simisage actually has a fun design . so does Simipour
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Am I the only person in the world who kind of likes poor Simisear...?
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Am I the only person in the world who kind of likes poor Simisear...? Simisear is the least popular pokemon, so possibly.
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I think the worst Pokemon is wormadam
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Worst Pokemon is Regice. He is dumb looking and I've pulled so many standard rares of him from booster packs I don't want to see him anymore.
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There's no worst pokeyman you monsters. They're all good friends. I wish IV/EVs weren't so important in tournaments, I know my favorites are bad for fighting but like... I just really believe in Electabuzz/Durant/Pinsir/Exploud/Sharpedo/Tropius and I don't want to put in the crazy amount of work to make them just slightly viable okay 
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Whalley posted:There's no worst pokeyman you monsters. They're all good friends. Jigglypuff is the best friend
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Whalley posted:There's no worst pokeyman you monsters. They're all good friends. IVs and EVs are fine as it allows for a crazy amount customization (where even 2 Pokémon of the same species, ability and set of moves can function a bit differently from one another). It's really the base stats and movepools for these Pokémon that need to be tweaked. However, balancing characters can be kind of tricky, especially when you have over 800 different characters to work with. Plus people expect newer characters to be better in order to actually be used. The remarkable thing is that older monsters get retrofitted with new stuff as well. I think in other monster-centric franchises, these older character have a chance to end up not being programmed into a sequel. Something almost unthinkable in Pokémon (well apart from the Let's Go games, but no one expects it to be the successor for competitive battling). Zuzie fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Mar 4, 2019 |
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Zuzie posted:However, balancing characters can be kind of tricky, especially when you have over 800 different characters to work with. Plus people expect newer characters to be better in order to actually be used. The remarkable thing is that older monsters get retrofitted with new stuff as well. But I don't want half my favorites to be taken down with a single charmander that knows ember okay e: I should just make an annoying as gently caress semi-FEAR team for tourneys. I do love Aron and his goofy lil head.
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Zuzie posted:IVs and EVs are fine as it allows for a crazy amount customization (where even 2 Pokémon of the same species, ability and set of moves can function a bit differently from one another). It's really the base stats and movepools for these Pokémon that need to be tweaked. EVs are fine, but I think IVs are bad because you generally just want everything maxed out except maybe the stats you want to be low for some gimmick reason. Unlike IVs, you don't have to make any kind of trade-off: some mons are just strictly better than others. I don't think they add enough to the game to be worth the huge pain in the rear end.
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Treebeh posted:Worst Pokemon is Regice. He is dumb looking and I've pulled so many standard rares of him from booster packs I don't want to see him anymore. What the gently caress. Regice is the GOAT of pokemon cries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSMQYDYBALY
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No, Gogoat is the goat
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Clarste posted:EVs are fine, but I think IVs are bad because you generally just want everything maxed out except maybe the stats you want to be low for some gimmick reason. Unlike IVs, you don't have to make any kind of trade-off: some mons are just strictly better than others. I don't think they add enough to the game to be worth the huge pain in the rear end. Natures are basically what IVs should be.
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Clarste posted:EVs are fine, but I think IVs are bad because you generally just want everything maxed out except maybe the stats you want to be low for some gimmick reason. Unlike IVs, you don't have to make any kind of trade-off: some mons are just strictly better than others. I don't think they add enough to the game to be worth the huge pain in the rear end. The imbalance between stats is largely meant to be a feature and not a bug in Pokemon since its heritage partially comes from RPGs. So of course, the early pokemon are meant to be trash mobs just like in a regular RPG, but because of Pokemon's gimmick in capturing the monsters you fight, you can add the trash mobs to your team. Unfortunately, a trash mob is a trash mob and just like late game in an RPG where the mobs get tougher, the late game pokemon tend to outshine the early game ones, at least in terms of stats. It's definitely possible to fix this via evolution stat boosts and varying level scaling, but 
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Sorry all but Simisear is literaly the worst: https://www.gamnesia.com/news/simisear-placed-dead-last-in-japans-most-popular-pokemon-poll-so-theyre-dis
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https://twitter.com/Robin_Banks14/status/1101340166134874113
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I was recently wondering which Pokemon were the rarest non-legendary types. Google indicates that Glameow/Purrugly, is probably the "rarest" as it only shows up in Pearl and OR/AS. ANy other good suggestions?
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My favourite Pokemon is Slaking because he's the gooniest
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Clarste posted:EVs are fine, but I think IVs are bad because you generally just want everything maxed out except maybe the stats you want to be low for some gimmick reason. Unlike IVs, you don't have to make any kind of trade-off: some mons are just strictly better than others. I don't think they add enough to the game to be worth the huge pain in the rear end. Luckily the main campaigns are easy enough that a Pokémon unlucky enough to be generated with bad IVs are still usable. In my Ultra Moon playthrough, my starter Litten ended up with a Bold Nature and an IV attack of zero (I only kept it at first because it was a female on the first try). She ended up being a valued member of the team despite having started with the minimal possible attack for an Incineroar (gaining attack EVs helped). Competitive breeding should really be kept for PvP fights and ideally you need to beat the main campaign and some postgame in order to access all the tools needed to even think about competitive. Later games have even made breeding for competitive even easier and even introduced things like Hyper Training so IVs aren't as a huge issue any longer. At this point the only factors needed to have a competitive monster are the correct nature, egg moves and whether the Pokémon has or needs its Hidden ability or not.
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How can a man like me tell if his little Pocket Monsters have bad EVs?
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To this day I don't know what IV/EV/natures do, nor do I care enough about them for them to affect my playthroughs I just like catchin mons and killin mons.
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I've been playing on and off since Red/Blue and I still have no idea what IV's and EV's actually are or how you look them up I am a simple trainer: I like a pokemon, I use it
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