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ArmyOfMidgets posted:I think Kid Is Too Shy To Adventure Needs Ash To Teach Him How To Be Brave is somewhat common? Oh yeah, that one. I just remembered a couple others too:
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Silver2195 posted:Oh yeah, that one. I just remembered a couple others too: Shut the gently caress up Gary didn't fight Ash until over two years in?! Tracey came in and left the show before they ever fought, drat
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May 15, 2019 03:15
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Shut the gently caress up Gary didn't fight Ash until over two years in?! Tracey came in and left the show before they ever fought, drat Yep: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP116#Trivia
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May 15, 2019 03:25
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indigi posted:this is wild to me, I thought AS was one of the worst pokemon games. it was so plodding and uninteresting until the postgame. plus I've never really been a fan of gen 2 or 3 pokemon so doing the thing where you only have new mons on your team kinda dampened my enthusiasm I'm a sucker for gen 3 because it's the first generation I really remember (though I did beat blue/silver) But also DexNav and Soar are just huge improvements that make playing Pokemon better in general. USUM improved on the latter but lost the former. As for the story, I usually glaze my eyes over in every game anyway. But I think it's nice since it never takes you out of the way of the path to being the champion. And most importantly, there's no long rear end headquarters dungeon like Rocket and Flare have. Plus, you have a 1 in 3 chance of picking a starter that absolutely trashes the team of your game, which means your other 4 slots can be whatever you want.
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May 15, 2019 03:37
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Silver2195 posted:I should make a list of the anime's stock plots. There's a lot of them, and sometimes they're used in combination with each other (and of course with the basic character-of-the-day stock plot). Ash has to crossdress for *insert reason here* is a once a series plot (minus Johto).
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Shut the gently caress up Gary didn't fight Ash until over two years in?! Tracey came in and left the show before they ever fought, drat And after that, I don't think they fought again until the Johto League, after which Gary retired as a trainer to go into research like Grandpa. On the plus side, that second battle was a doozy.
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May 15, 2019 04:11
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hopeandjoy posted:Ash has to crossdress for *insert reason here* is a once a series plot (minus Johto).
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hopeandjoy posted:Ash has to crossdress for *insert reason here* is a once a series plot (minus Johto). James crossdressing was a theme too.
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Silver2195 posted:I should make a list of the anime's stock plots. There's a lot of them, and sometimes they're used in combination with each other (and of course with the basic character-of-the-day stock plot).
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Silver2195 posted:[*]A "rival" character like Gary or Drew shows up and acts smug but leaves without really doing anything. (Fun fact: Gary never actually fights Ash until the 116th episode, and even then it's just a quick skirmish between Pikachu and Eevee.) ArmyOfMidgets posted:Shut the gently caress up Gary didn't fight Ash until over two years in?! Tracey came in and left the show before they ever fought, drat Gary was a lovely as gently caress 'rival' until the Johto season. He and Ash's league battle was really fuckin' good though. Ash making Pikachu sit it out because Gary knew all of Pikachu's tricks was a stroke of genius.
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May 15, 2019 07:41
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The "Pep Quiz" got a genuine laugh out of me, thanks Pokemon
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May 15, 2019 16:06
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oddium posted:transparency legs So that explains why floating pokemon are weak to earthquake... https://twitter.com/ramie967/status/1128609471112966144
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Vinylshadow posted:So that explains why floating pokemon are weak to earthquake... I choose to believe this is canon now.
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May 15, 2019 17:48
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Pokemon Rumble is available as a mobile app in  . It seems to have been created around the time Sun and Moon were announced with the SM characters mostly being absent and the few that are there having internal assets with their Pokedex number instead of name.
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Nth Doctor posted:Platinum is the best of Gen IV, which is a low bar to clear. If you like fire types, you're gonna be disappointed. Don't forget that tomorrow is the opening of team registrations. See details in the link above.
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Nasgate posted:I'm a sucker for gen 3 because it's the first generation I really remember (though I did beat blue/silver) Mesprit, Uxie, and Azelf as these entities that created the human mind and can revoke those portions at will was so cool. I loved my cute kitty luxray and the supersonic landshark garchomp.
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The Gen IV Pokemythology was a mistake, IMO. They went too big. The physical/special split was a great idea, though; it makes a lot more sense than making it type-based, and it has some interesting effects on tactics too.
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It felt to me like the Physical/Special split was intended from the beginning, they just weren't able to do it before Gen 4 because of limited room on the cart. Why else would there be Pokemon like Sneasel who is Dark/Ice(both special) but has high attack and garbage special attack?
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May 16, 2019 00:07
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RatHat posted:It felt to me like the Physical/Special split was intended from the beginning, they just weren't able to do it before Gen 4 because of limited room on the cart. Why else would there be Pokemon like Sneasel who is Dark/Ice(both special) but has high attack and garbage special attack? because early pokémon is a trainwreck
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May 16, 2019 00:10
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RatHat posted:It felt to me like the Physical/Special split was intended from the beginning, they just weren't able to do it before Gen 4 because of limited room on the cart. Why else would there be Pokemon like Sneasel who is Dark/Ice(both special) but has high attack and garbage special attack? Gen III had the "contact" property; they could have just made moves physical vs. special and had effects that care about contact care about physical moves instead.
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The only problem with the phys/special split is that it ruins my favorite Kaiju movesets. Rip Nidoking shooting lightning out of his mouth.
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May 16, 2019 01:22
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Nidoking still is really good as a special attacker with Sheer Force though.
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I never had to grind in Alpha Sapphire, but in X I'm getting my rear end kicked by random trainers
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Say you have a Pokemon you'd actually want to EV for defensive strength. Is it ever a good idea to EV for HP instead of going for the Defense statistics?
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Defense EVs would scale better with buffs I think. But if you're not using any then HP is better.
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SuperKlaus posted:Say you have a Pokemon you'd actually want to EV for defensive strength. Is it ever a good idea to EV for HP instead of going for the Defense statistics? This is incredibly dependent on the mon in question. Most of the time you want defenses though. It can also be important to hit certain HP breakpoints or to more cheaply invest in for a mixed defender if you want speed or some kind of offensive presence.
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Gripweed posted:I never had to grind in Alpha Sapphire, but in X I'm getting my rear end kicked by random trainers The Gen 6 level curve is incredibly stupid. XY expects you to either rotate a crapton of mons with Exp Share on, or to constantly switch it on and off depending on how far your team is. Going with it on at all times will give you a game that makes other Pokemon games look hard in comparison, not turning it on means you're constantly underlevelled (which makes for a fun, if clearly unintentional, challenge run). Gen 7 greatly fixed it by using the perfect Gen 5 level curve + the Gen 6 Exp Share, but it's impressive just how badly Gen 6 handled it.
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Moriatti posted:Nidoking still is really good as a special attacker with Sheer Force though. Yeah Nidoking's physical moveset is really limited, its special moveset is enormous cause it's from gen 1, and its attack stats are about equal.
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Dabir posted:Yeah Nidoking's physical moveset is really limited, its special moveset is enormous cause it's from gen 1, and its attack stats are about equal. Plus its special attacks can all be boosted by Sheer Force while almost none of its physical ones can. And almost all the physical attacks are weaker to begin with.
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oddium posted:elemental punches alakazam........ Is there a bigger loser when it comes to the physical/special split?
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Vandar posted:Is there a bigger loser when it comes to the physical/special split? Sceptile was hit pretty hard right afterwards, their signature move switched to physical.
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RatHat posted:Sceptile was hit pretty hard right afterwards, their signature move switched to physical. But it got Energy Ball that same generation to make up for it.
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Typhlosian lost Thunderpunch which was its only real coverage move of note.
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The Saffron City Contest was cool. Jessie, May, and Harley all performed genuinely impressively for the appeals stage, and all made questionable but in-character decisions during the fights. My only complaints are that Harley was annoying in the previous episode, and that they didn't work in any Saffron City-specific elements; Sabrina not entering her Haunter to have it do a comedy routine was a missed opportunity. (Though it's possible the writers tend to deliberately avoid that sort of thing because they don't want a kids' show to get overly bogged down with continuity.) The character-of-the-day episodes between the Battle Factory and Saffron City were a mixed bag, and partly inspired my post about stock plots. Hopefully there's enough major plot elements for the rest of Battle Frontier that they can afford to use only their best filler ideas in between; there's only 48 episodes left to cover 6 Frontier Brains, 4 Ribbons (plus most likely a couple of Contest losses), and the Kanto Grand Festival. The anime's treatment of Kanto's geography remains as vague as ever. Judging by the brief glimpse we get of the Battle Frontier map, the Battle Factory is near the Power Plant, and the others are located around the Pokemon League Reception Gate, Vermilion City, Fuchsia City, the docks south of Lavender Town, and the Seafoam Islands. I guess Onix's kingdom was supposed to be right on top of Rock Tunnel, and the forest with the mad scientist's lab was on Route 8? In general, the distances involved seem to be smaller than they were back in the Indigo League arc, and our protagonists have avoided revisiting past places and people aside from Viridian City and Mount Moon.
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Zore posted:Typhlosian lost Thunderpunch which was its only real coverage move of note. Its still a special attacker though. It wouldn't really hit that hard.
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