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This might be the only gen where I don't use a starter because I don't care much for the final form of Rowlet and my brother has dibs on Poppilo's. Its not even that I think its bad, there are just so many new designs I like more than it.Aristide posted:A japanese gaming mag (and in turn, serebii.net) has confirmed that hyper training maxes out the IV in whatever stat you pick. No word yet on how rare the bottlecaps used to access hyper training are going to be though, or what tiers they come in if any (although the item being called "silver" bottlecap does give the impression of at least a gold bottlecap existing). A cool feature I will barely ever use since breeding a 5Iv pokemon is actually really easy when you have a 6 IV ditto. Raising them to level 100 would take more effort. But now my shiny Pinsir can be perfect instead of near perfect so that's cool.
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Yeah while raising IVs is all well and good, nature is even more important for competitive play. The wrong nature can completely break a pokemon.
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Aug 19, 2016 21:37
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Watchog looks cool but he's total garbage in terms of stats so 
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Aug 19, 2016 22:17
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Ruggington posted:here's mine What's with the Liligant
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Aug 19, 2016 23:21
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cheetah7071 posted:According to this site my team of all-time favorites would be: Get rid of the Garchomp and they are fine.
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Aug 19, 2016 23:45
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Countblanc posted:The Sandcastle's ability sucks, I can't believe it doesn't get Arena Trap or Sand Stream. I'll shout this from the rooftops until the day I die. Yeah it seems really bad. Raising your defense when you get hit by a super effective move is already not that great since you're already heavily wounded. But its raising defense against water attacks, which are almost always special. So what, it can get hit by surf one turn and then die to it the next? Great. Hopefully it will have a hidden ability that's actually good. EDIT: Oh I guess since we're all doing this 
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Aug 20, 2016 02:18
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qnqnx posted:The genies did nothing wrong. Their therian forms did EVERYTHING wrong. Ban all legendaries from all online formats forever.
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Aug 20, 2016 04:35
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PSWII60 posted:I'm really feeling Punchycrab and Snow Snowslash is explicitly stated to be slower than regular Sandslash. Its supposed to be more defensive, which is why they gave it a god awful type for defense!  Pureauthor posted:What will everyones reactions be when Sun/Moon comes out and is revelaed to be completely terrible? I'm not even sure what they could do at this point to make the game awful.
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Aug 20, 2016 06:52
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Super No Vacancy posted:togetic is cute but togekiss is fail, there's an opinion for ya This is a correct opinion. Togekiss is hideous.
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Aug 21, 2016 01:00
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FishBulb posted:Your feelings and opinions are hideous Fortunately I am not a Pokemon.
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Aug 21, 2016 01:05
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ORAS was disappointing to me because the Battle Resort was just copy-pasted from X/Y for the most part. The Battle Frontier was probably the 3rd gens coolest feature and they just didn't include it. The Delta Episode was also insanely mediocre so that didn't make up for the lack of it at all.
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Aug 21, 2016 04:05
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Team Flare's goal makes sense if you view them as ultra selfish assholes that read too much Atlas Shrugged. Wipe out most of the world's population so that only the best and brightest will be left, preventing its natural beauty from being tarnished by over-consumption. But they tried to paint Lysandre as not being a total rear end in a top hat so it doesn't work. Raserys posted:i miss admins Team Flare had admins. EDIT: Galactic is the only team I remember barely anything about so they're probably the worst, which would make sense given they are in the worst gen. VVV Yes, everyone in Team Flare is a rich idiot that got roped in by Lysandre. By paying 5 mil pokebucks you get a slick suit and the privilege of living in Lysdanre's Gulch once he builds it. I'm not sure how many of them knew he was gonna kill 99% of the world in the process. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Aug 21, 2016 07:32
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Plasma is my favorite team because I never get tired of the grunts screaming PLAAAAASMAAAAAAA everytime you kick their rear end. Its also fun to laugh at N because he's a tremendous loser. Johnny Joestar posted:with the way they're being presented, as kind of a misfit gang of people who couldn't cut it, i really get the feeling that they're going to come off as entirely bad at first but over time you all actively work together to save the islands. because, you know, without the islands team skull doesn't exactly have a home and it's more important to preserve that than to just gently caress around and block off roads or whatever hoodlum poo poo they're going to be doing. Alternatively Guzma will try to nuke all the islands. Could go either way.
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Aug 21, 2016 18:56
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My first shiny was a Roselia I caught in the original Ruby. I lost it somewhere between the generations. If transferring from old games wasn't such a pain in the rear end I might go looking for it. Not because I actually care about it but rather because I'd also find the two mews I used to have. Trying to get event mons sucks. The first (and only) shiny I got that I actually care about is my Pinsir, which I spent a good chunk of time breeding for.
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Aug 22, 2016 06:49
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Why would you ever use Basculin though
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Aug 22, 2016 20:36
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Hearing someone say Pyukumuku over and over makes me giggle.
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Aug 22, 2016 21:24
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Alabaster White posted:Magcargo is cool but loving blows tremendous donkey rear end Sad but true. He was one of my favorite pokemon as a kid but he's just unbearably awful now. Zoness posted:magcargo was my preferred egg hatching guy until they made talonflame who can both speed up eggs hatching and fly in one slot At least if they keep soar then having fly won't really be necessary.
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Aug 22, 2016 23:12
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Super No Vacancy posted:what the heck is carbink Extremely cute
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Aug 22, 2016 23:57
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Geostomp posted:This "minigame" is about as underwhelming as a real sea cucumber, but 20000 Poke-bucks ain't bad. It'd be better with an animation of you punting the Pyukus into the sea.
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Aug 23, 2016 01:19
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Remember when everyone thought there must be M-Farchet'd because a guy at the start of the game will trade you one, and why else would they draw attention to it?
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Aug 23, 2016 06:54
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QuasiQuack posted:Wanting to use cool mons is making me really bad at team building Winning with your favorite Pokemon is the best feeling though, even if they are suboptimal.
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Aug 24, 2016 07:26
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Zore posted:I really, really hate those two assholes with the Furfrou double battle on the way back from Poke-Versailles. Those Furfrou ate my Skitty 
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Aug 24, 2016 19:06
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Enjoy your Furret.
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Aug 24, 2016 20:06
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Imagine if they gave genesect a primal evolution so it doesn't look dumb as hell.
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Aug 25, 2016 04:06
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Bongo Bill posted:I want Primal Relicanth. People keep saying this but wouldn't a primal Relicanth just be exactly the same
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mandatory lesbian posted:am i supposed to think thats a bad thing  You're gonna get a beating Zodack posted:You mean Kabutops? Kabutops isn't a bug type  HoneyBoy posted:drat I think I actually remember that comic Yeah and that's where the name Nuzlocke comes from. I have no idea why people went with that though.
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I still don't get why they didn't make Mismagius ghost/fairy. It needed some kind of boost. He's trying so hard.
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Awhile ago I thought dual types weren't added until Gen 2 for some reason. I'm not sure why.
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Ruggington posted:i spent 4 generations thinking rock was weak to ice Of course it isn't, didn't they watch the anime and see Pikachu beat Onix???
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Ghost/Rock would actually be a pretty good offensive type for a fast pokemon so I'm sad there isn't one of those yet.
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mabels big day posted:its less that dragon is overpowered as a type, and more that they made very powerful pokemon Dragon type Yeah dragon itself isn't that amazing of a type. There are plenty of mediocre dragon types now. In the old generations, dragon was reserved for grossly overpowered legendaries or the 600 stat pseudo-legendaries. Nobody is trembling in fear at Druddigon.
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Fairy being added to the game was good overall but ice has never been more horrible than it is now. With fairy types being immune to dragons AND hitting them super effectively, ice types lost their position as dragon slayers. The only thing it has going for it is that it hits a lot of dragon types for 4x damage due to them being dragon/flying or dragon/ground. That just means you carry ice moves on other pokemon though. Russad posted:How do people handle gifted pokes in a Nuzlocke? I'm thinking specifically of the gen I starter you get in X/Y. I just ignore them usually. For me the fun of Nuzlocke is using pokemon you didn't expect to use, which means ignoring ones that are always handed to you aside from the starter.
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Abomasnow has the niche of canceling your opponents weather with hail. Hail is so lovely you never have to worry about the enemy benefiting from it! mandatory lesbian posted:the first dragon legend wasn't until gen 3, which is really weird but gamefreak gonna gamefreak i guess I was counting up to gen 4 as old gens in that post. I was thinking they didn't start adding mediocre dragons until gen 4 but I completely forgot that Altaria exists and is inexplicably a dragon. So I guess it has the dubious honor of being the first crummy dragon. Gen 2 didn't even add a dragon type. EDIT: Wait no it added Kingdra, forgot him too. Kingdra is good though, despite not being a stat freak. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Zore posted:I refuse to believe anyone has ever used Beat Up. Its a gimmick strategy. I saw people use a Whimsicott to Beat UP a Terrakoin on their team in doubles. They got a huge attack boost, and then the Terrakoin died before doing anything because I'm not an idiot and just killed it.
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Milotic is a hag fish.
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Whiscash owns. He might be overshadowed by Gastrodon but I still used him with good success on my teams. He has pretty good coverage with hydro pump, earth power, and ice beam.
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Serena is a major chump but she has a nice hat.
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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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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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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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