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Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Hopefully I am here before someone talks poo poo about my Cool and Good friend Sylveon.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2016 20:16

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 17:31

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Hadaka Apron posted:

Has there been any incarnation of Seaking that wasn't terrible?

Seaking is good and cool.

Also gen 1 gimmick sets were great. Seaking and Destroy was pretty devastating (and also I invented it. I'm not being facetious I legitimately coined the name and set)

I think it was Blizzard, Horn Drill, Agility, Hydro Pump.

Agility jacks up your speed (and thus crit rate and Horn Drill accuracy), which means Blizzard and Hydro Pump ALSO miss less.

This ONLY works in gen 1, of course!

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 03:07

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Crosspeice posted:

Noooo, that's not how that works. Crits work on your base speed. Raising speed in battle doesn't increase that, or your accuracy. Blizzard had 90% accuracy so it was pretty good and Hydro Pump has 85%. Horn Drill misses every time if you're a lower level than the target anyway, and 30% otherwise.

To make it so things never miss, use one X Accuracy to skip the accuracy check. This applies to all moves.

But Horn Drill works off Speed straight up?

I know the accuracy was just really high for those two moves which was the BIG reason to use them.

Either way it was literally the only viable Seaking set when Seaking actually had a shot of being anything remotely usable :v:

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 04:01

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

I mean, this was like 17 years ago when we didn't know gently caress-all for the mechanics just yet so don't blame me!

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 04:07

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

ArmyOfMidgets posted:

ahh, so it's pretty much just a 50% increase per stage? therefore the power-up punch mega khangaskan does doubles its attack. holy poo poo.

Luckily it caps off at "just" x4 because it's additive.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2016 21:27

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

RealFoxy posted:

Sometimes it's fun using a pokemon you never would have thought to use before. Sometimes you're an idiot like I am and don't play with a dupes clause and get to the fourth gym with 5 of the same pokemon on your team.

It's about the unexpected emotional bonds you form with that dumb ratatta you wanted to die so you could use something else, but it turns out to be your team's ace throughout most of the game.

I caught a Dwebble in Y and I was destined to let it die as some sort of lovely fodder mon while I healed something I liked.

Little bastard found a place in my heart and he became one of my team staples and I took him through to the end!

# ¿ Aug 25, 2016 01:56

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Geostomp posted:

All the Eevee forms are vaguely canid creatures with traits of other animals. Being difficult to link to any one animal in particular is likely deliberate.

They fit firmly into the canidae family. Espeon is not a cat he's a Fennec fox.

People are just dumb and like being wrong because they are stupid :colbert:

# ¿ Aug 25, 2016 17:15

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Gammatron 64 posted:

I know, right? Nintendo is really, really bad at making actual competitive games. There's another Nintendo game series out there that people like to pretend is a serious competitive game, but I dare not mention its name because it's huge a can of worms. You all know what I am referring to, though.

Hey gently caress you, Competitive Super Metroid is incredible.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2016 23:55

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

CanUSayGym posted:

Let's just say that I am coming back to Pokemon from I don't know, Red and Blue, dabbled in Silver. Is there a non-encyclopedia form of information from all the new stuff or do I just need to scour Serebii and bulbapedia? Like holy poo poo there's like 40 different balls, so many new pokemon, items to be held, certain pokemon only evolve holding certain things at certain times; all of which throw me cause I enjoyed trying to fill the pokedex on the old games but theres 600+ more of them to catch. I'm looking for a laymans guide to all the new balls, items, and evolutions. I have read that an easy way to catch a lot of pokemon are either quick balls right away or a pokemon with False Swipe. I picked up X a while back but real life took over so I'm finally trying to out and quickly overloaded with all the new info.

Honestly, Serebii and Bulbapedia are the best options outside of just playing the games.

I know it sounds super condescending to just say "Just PLAY the GAME" but like...it's a pretty good teacher, all things considered! It does a good job of holding your hand for all the basic stuff they added. As for the new stuff, Dusk Balls and only playing after 6PM is one of the best ways. Quick Balls at the start are alright but with actual damage and status effects, you get ONE maybe TWO throws most of the time.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2016 00:04

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Vullaby and Mandibuzz own because they literally poo poo in your loved ones mouth.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2016 03:36

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Decus posted:

The employees that implemented them were obviously terminated and in honor of their termination so went everything they had ever worked on. The guy who decided that having two bikes with separate mechanics was terminated before gen 4 only to be re-hired for gen 6, obviously. He's also the guy who came up with sky battles.

I hope he's half-fired.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2016 22:46

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Super No Vacancy posted:

most digimon look better than barbaracle

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

No.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2016 20:02

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Faticate is good and cool and my new best friend.

Dr. Fetus posted:

Z-moves are gonna have to be really good to justify giving up one moveslot and an item on a Pokemon.

Also Aether is totally evil. I mean they even have artwork of their grunts!

Last I saw, there's a fifth slot for moves, I think?

Alternatively it's great for coverage. Give something like Flareon Solar Be-oh.

Give something like Breloom Rock Tomb and when he needs to destroy a Fire type he's got the Rock Z move on deck.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2016 16:56

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Improbable Lobster posted:

The Aether Foundation are actually owned by a mysterious company involved with the Ultra Beasts.

UB-Soft

Ultra Beast is the new Mega Evolution, and there are 39 more to look forward to.

The last one is the same color as red, red wine

# ¿ Sep 7, 2016 18:10

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

SyntheticPolygon posted:

Giovanni is still alive.

That might also be true, but I swear the immortality beam was like an ancient weapon of some kind. Though i'm probably misremembering.

I think he used the life of thousands of humans and pokemon to power it and give him and his Floette eternal life. Floette was not too happy with this, and left him.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 04:29

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Sebadoh Gigante posted:

Pokemen Megathread 7.0: Hatless Shrugged

loving incredible

# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 02:32

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Fritzler posted:

I feel bad for Graveler. What happens to his two little arms when he evolves?

It kinda goes back and forth between arms and "just kinda looks like arms".

# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 16:35

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

alcharagia posted:

But Heatran is my favorite legendary.

B A D T A S T E P A R A D O X

# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 20:10

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Die Laughing posted:

Anyone planning on getting both versions? The time difference between versions, and the wealth of awesome Pokemon, might have me do it for the first time. Maybe I'll switch on alternating days, and keep both paced fairly evenly.

I'll probably do what I always do; physical version for actual training, battling, etc. and go through having fun, then get the other version to Nuzlocke with the other PC options from time to time.

I might actually have to get both day one though this game looks so beefy :ohdear:

# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 15:06

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Chill Penguin posted:

So who does Muscquito fuse with/transform into/stand for?

That furisode girl whose body is "a tapestry of muscle" from the battle ch�teau.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2016 13:55

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

lezard_valeth posted:

I'm glad that they made Darkwolf's design bad in order to simplify the decision of which Rockruff evo to use.

Although honestly, the right decision is to stick an eviolite and just use Rockruff.

Same applies for Stufful, Mudbray and Rowlett if Archer Edge Owl turns out to be true.

I'm gonna start farming Eviolites now.

Excuse you but Bewear is incredible.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2016 14:16

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Alfalfa The Roach posted:

Nightwolf is strong and my friend

Is the source that UB-02 Expansion is Sun-exclusive from Corocoro too? I may have to reconsider which version I get in that case...

Yeah same here. I want Muscquito but I play mostly at night and I can't risk getting Bad dog.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2016 14:26

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Tired Moritz posted:

I hope nightdog is better in battle, you bullies.

Enjoy all the weird porn of your new best friend.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2016 14:43

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

mandatory lesbian posted:

i bet if you type the name of any pokemon into google you'd get porn of it

It doesn't count if they're drawn as anime girls.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2016 15:02

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Reinanigans posted:

If you play Pok�mon Sun, you are locked into Daywolf, Solgaleo is your legendary, Team Skull is the villain team, Aether foundation is good, you're locked into Litten as your starter, and you can only play as the male PC.

Miyamoto told me.

Man that's an awful lot of terrible but I will do anything for my cool and good friend Daywolf.

Internet Kraken posted:

Wicked + d = Wicked

AETHER IS EVIL!!!

Guzma = Gooz-ma = Good + ma. Ma as in Mother. Mothers are good.

Team Skull are the good guys it checks out.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 23:14

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

El Burbo posted:

Sun because good dog and macho mosquito

I mean I want to. But I also want Faticate.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2016 19:28

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Reinanigans posted:

It'll probably have lovely early rodent stats despite looking cool/funny. Its abilities are decidedly "meh".

Megas were a cheap tactic to make "weak" Pok�mon strong, but obviously not everyone got them.

Maybe Z-Moves will be a good remedy.

Also I thought Faticate was version exclusive but whoop whoop looks like me and Good Dog are going on adventures.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2016 19:52

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Any starter that is not the Chikorita line, or specifically Samurott is cool and good and my friend.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2016 00:20

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Football Monkey better evolve or something because I want to use him so bad but eh.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 18:33

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Ka0 posted:

Look at all of these fantastic and exciting new additions that smogon is immediately going to ban because THE METAGAME!

Considering it can't use a Focus Sash, Eevee is basically hoping you do something that gives it two whole turns to live. Technically MAYBE 1, since 458 speed is hard to outspeed without a Sash, but its' defenses are kind of hot garbage, meaning it's gonna get KO'd pretty easily and all it takes is some priority or power.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 18:57

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

cancerianmoth posted:

I know baton pass isn't used in doubles often if ever, but couldn't it work with eevee? Have the other pokemon use follow me. If the pokemon survives bring in a boosted rugby lemur, steal the ability, bring in the last partner and sweep? I don't get to play doubles so I don't know.

I'm pretty set on moon? I like rugby lemur but I can always trade for it. I usually don't end up using version exclusives anyway, so I just like moon stuff. It would also make sense to have version exclusive final evolutions. I mean, GF should do it to just change it up. Next gen they'll do stone evos for the final forms. haha

It could work, but Doubles is very fast paced and as soon as that became a staple there'd be a counterplay of Taunt. Either Taunt the Follow Me pokemon (Who now can't use Follow Me again) or taunt the Eevee (who is no longer protected by Follow Me after that turn, and now can't use Baton Pass).

It's novel and it's neat and it'll probably rip like RU tiers apart, and it's definitely cute and good and fun, but competitive wise it won't be that bad.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 01:13

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Improbable Lobster posted:

It's not like Haze or Topsy Turvy or other moves that gently caress with stat boosts don't exist

Well, in the current meta the issue is that Speed Boost Ninjask or Blaziken can Swords Dance, Protect, and Baton Pass +2 Speed, +2 Attack to Dragonite or Garchomp and rip your team in half by virtue of Focus Sash guaranteeing that no amount of Flamethrower/Earthquake can stop them.

Eevee has the flaw of not being able to wear a Focus Sash (it's going to have a Z Crystal), and being pretty frail in the first place. A strong attack and a priority attack (if even two) will probably take it out fast.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 03:36

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Ruggington posted:

neither of those pokemon are existent in the meta

I think you're missing my overall point that "Eevee isn't about to get banned"

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 04:35

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

cheetah7071 posted:

I hope they retcon mega garchomp to have the same speed as regular garchomp (take the points out of SpA to keep the same BST)

Nah, M-Garchomp being slow is what kept him from being a pain in the rear end to deal with. He's already an rear end in a top hat for being 102 speed in the 100 speed tier.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 23:45

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Calaveron posted:

When are we getting more pokeinformation

October 4th

# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 22:49

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Honore_De_Balzac posted:

Agreed, Trump does have a rat face.

Make Unova OU again

# ¿ Sep 23, 2016 22:44

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

HopperUK posted:

What's the nickname you guys are most proud of? I end up naming mine after characters in TV shows I'm watching most of the time but some people are a lot more clever than that.

Two of my favorites are Cybelle for lady Grass-types (Cybele being a nature goddess + belle for beauty)

And Swirly Joe my Poliwhirl.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2016 05:08

Classtoise: Feb 11, 2008; THINKS CON-AIR WAS A GOOD MOVIE

Oh, and in White2, I caught a Dwebble in a Nuzlocke who I named General. He didn't do much of anything. I caught a new Dwebble in a Y nuzlocke, and she impressed me enough for a name change to Captain. Then, in my latest Nuzlocke, I got lucky enough to find ANOTHER Dwebble who was now one of my sleeper favorites and power houses, and I named her Admiral.

She is my star.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2016 16:47