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Why is Ash somehow even younger looking in this new season? Haven't something like 10-15 years passed in the show since it released?
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Okay driving to gamestop now to get my game so I can make best friends with a bowtie owl Getting sun because the difference in version exclusives is huge. The moon postgame legends (?) are really ugly. Fajita Queen fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Nov 18, 2016 |
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I really like a lot of things about sun and moon, especially the new mons, but do trainer battles ever get even slightly more difficult? 1-2 mons that are 5+ levels below my team when I've done no grinding, combined with the huge amount of exposition dumping, is making going through the game kinda tedious when I just want to fight dudes.
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Nov 22, 2016 20:36
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Electric Phantasm posted:Well Gale Wings sucks now so you don't have to worry about that anymore. They did WHAT now?
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Nov 23, 2016 03:31
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Raserys posted:I thought it was kind of broken for M-Mimikyu's ability to immediately send both trainers to hell and end the battle Finally, we can take Yugioh's schtick and send trainers directly to the shadow realm.
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Nov 25, 2016 03:18
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SloppyDoughnuts posted:Is there really a point to having a move deleter if there aren't any hms? You could also just override them with TMs, but why do things the easy way? 
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Nov 25, 2016 08:47
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Just take your three strongest dudes, which probably includes your starter. Early battle tree fights are not gonna be that hard.
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Nov 25, 2016 09:14
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Internet Kraken posted:Random freezing is a really great mechanic What the gently caress
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Nov 25, 2016 09:19
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Internet Kraken posted:When the game gave me a red card on the first island I assumed they had changed the way they worked and that the item was no longer consumed on use, so you could actually use them ingame rather than just online. Why the gently caress don't these items work once per battle like Mimikyu's ability instead of being consumable? 
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Nov 25, 2016 10:12
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^^^ It's laggy dogshit on the old 3DS, upgrade asap.Mierenneuker posted:So I guess if I wanted a catcher Smeargle it would have: This set has no way to kill the SOS pokemon that have the wrong ability, or the pokemon that did the calling.
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Nov 25, 2016 16:36
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Supremezero posted:Alright, Love Ball Togekiss get. It certainly wasn't me but I'd love one, Togekiss is my favorite annoying rear end in a top hat mon.
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Nov 29, 2016 14:49
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Supremezero posted:Well, technically they'll be togepi's, but I'll trade you one if you help me evolve one of my Synchronize Kadabras. Awesome, sounds great. Meliadoul, 4699-6503-7121
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Nov 29, 2016 15:07
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:I have doubts that SOS chaining works. A lot of videos I saw glorified it as "super fast you'll be done in a couple hours tops" but Err... it absolutely, 100% does work. Chained pokemon have a chance for their hidden ability, and have increasing numbers of perfect IVs (4 at 40+chain). These are easily verifiable ingame. If you're talking shinies, even at max chain it's supposedly a 1/50,000 chance, so good luck!
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Nov 29, 2016 15:17
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greatn posted:What are the rules for crossbreeding though. There is no crossbreeding. The child is the same species as the mother, or if you use a male with a ditto it's the same as the father. Certain moves and stat numbers can be inherited from either parent, that's a complicated mess though and you'll want to look at the bulbapedia guide for breeding for that.
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Nov 29, 2016 15:47
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Lube Enthusiast posted:If you breed two Alolan Marowaks that both know Flame Wheel & Shadow Bone, will they produce a baby Cubone that'll have those attacks when it hatches? I'm pretty sure level up moves can only be passed down if the hatched pokemon can learn them from leveling up, not its evolved form.
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Nov 29, 2016 15:54
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Senerio posted:I traded a Braviary for a Sharpedo in a Beast Ball, so soon I'll be able to offer up Beast Ball Carvahnas. Is Sharpedo one of the mega stones that's available? 
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You can breed it with a Speed Boost Sharpedo and the kids will have a chance of inheriting both the ball and the HA! 
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Nov 29, 2016 16:09
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Dizz posted:I've still got female castforms that are holding Destiny Knot. They're more for the item and dex fill, then you can breed more if you want or release it. This would be awesome, I'm getting on again now. Meliadoul, 4699-6503-7121
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Nov 29, 2016 16:32
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Emalde posted:VGC rules will be VGC rules for the entire year, the "season" simply refers to this being the first round of regionals. For the entirety of 2017 until the end of the Worlds matchups will be Alolan Dex only. This actually sounds kind of good? I'll miss a lot of things but it'll be a very, very different format at least.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:05
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Why does Smogon have such complicated ban clauses? I guess "complicated" is the wrong word, because I mean stuff like the Baton Pass clause, the OHKO ban, the evasion-raising and Moody bans, and the sleep clause. The baton pass clause is literally there because the bigshots at smogon are a bunch of whiny manbabies that can't stand things that aren't "how the game is supposed to be played". The threads for the ban discussion should be in their archives if you want to read them, that change was made shortly after X and Y launched I think. The tl;dr was that Sylveon and a couple of mechanics changes upgraded full baton pass chain teams from a terrible gimmick to an actually reasonable team comp, and rather than adapt to something new which broke the mold of generations-old archetypes, they whined and whined and whined until the rules council put it up to a vote. gently caress
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oddium posted:sleep clause and evasion clause are good. also smash is more fun without items. cheers Both of those things are fine and have been around for a long rear end time, it's some of the other things that are hugely suspect about how Smogon operates especially since gen 5. Deified Data posted:I think people get the wrong idea about Smogon from hearing other people talk about them. Oftentimes their tier list changes are talked about like they're edicts getting passed on the whole community, when it reality it's just one forum full of spergs who all have an idea of how they want to play the game competitively and want to play with people who agree with them. None of that appeals to me personally but I don't think it's their fault that their tier lists get brought up as much as they do outside of Smogon. It's a good resource for moveset ideas though. This would be fine if it were possible to play with rules that aren't either VGC or Smogon. And when VGC is hot garbage like this past year was with its primals and legendaries and whatnot, well... Fajita Queen fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Nov 29, 2016 |
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Have there been any ideas about how hidden ability distribution is going to work for starters and other non-chainable pokemon? I assume not because this is Game Freak but...
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Shiny Tapus with perfect IVs and nature, caught in Beast Balls.
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The Lord of Hats posted:Just a small point--the ban in UU wasn't statpassing, it was on Baton Pass as a whole. I'm fairly new to Smogon, and also not that good, so my opinion doesn't actually hold that much weight, but I feel like with all the times that Baton Pass had come up as a problem in the past, and how there had been multiple mons sacrificed to BL to keep Baton Pass around, even as they restricted BP further and further, they just wanted to be done with it. I think Smogon's method of tiering is great for those reasons, the problem I have with them is mostly with the people who make up the heavy hitters in OU discussion and banning. It's circle-jerky and whiny, not to mention incredibly hypocritical when it comes to things they like getting exempt from critical review when they otherwise would. It's also too monolithic. There are virtually no options for competitive singles battling other than Smogon rules, and that's kind of a problem.
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tbp posted:Any people in particular? I'm quite good friends with most of the big OUers and the council, I think for the most part they're doing a fairly good job but is be interested in outside opinion It's been long enough that I don't remember names, but the one guy who whined until Excadrill got put up for suspect testing multiple times in a row to successive overwhelming no votes until enough people were sick of it that they voted yes so he'd shut up is a good example. I also mean more the general culture than anyone in specific. Stealth Rock was overwhelmingly oppressive and dominant for most of gens 4-6 (and probably still will be) and any time it was brought up to be looked at as a problem was met with "lol stop trying to use bad pokemon like charizard" because a lot of the OU people like it, despite other things that were much less metagame-warping (Baton Pass, Shadow Tag) being banned on similar grounds. There's the idea that there's only one acceptable way for the game to be played and anything that shakes up how you need to approach teambuilding gets axed. Shadow Tag is a good example of that actually, a lot of the reasoning for its ban was along the lines of it being "not what pokemon is about" or some such other nonsense. And then banning Swagger for being "unfun" while, again, Stealth Rock is also left in and such. Fajita Queen fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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Kikas posted:Chain 82 on this Misdreavus and still no goddamn shiny. Is there a trick to getting a good chain? I don't have access to adrenaline orbs yet :c It caps at 1/50,000 from what I heard. It's still a huge fuckin shot in the dark. You get adrenaline orbs after the second (or third? I don't remember exactly) trial on the second island, you'd be a lot better off going for that.
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Internet Kraken posted:That's pretty much the core hypocrisy of Smogon. Stealth rock is on literally every singles team. They've banned tons of stuff for being too prevalent or centralizing, but not that. That's the thing, a lot of singles players don't love entry hazards, but they aren't part of the smogon clique and are thus ignored and there's nowhere else to go. Not enough organization to set up an alternative for people who want something different, I guess. If SR had much lower distribution, or didn't do massive damage to things with a 4x rock weakness, it would probably be fine like Spikes and Toxic Spikes are. Alas. DACK FAYDEN posted:Right, but... why not just ban Klefki there? Like, sure, people can find a use for it, but you could say the same about Swagger, it's just less likely. I don't get why you wouldn't just use the existing tiers-of-Pokemon system. Even better, they could just ban Swagger on Klefki if it's such a problem. Much like they could ban Speed Boost on Blaziken so he could still be used in UU or whatever, but they don't because ??? I'm fairly sure their reasoning against that is they want their bans to be simple, but the whole Baton Pass debacle spits in the face of that.
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Flopsy posted:It's almost as if pikaclones suck or something. Mimikyu excluded because it rules. Pachirisu won a VGC worlds though!!!
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Even in Smogon Doubles (which has generally been a better format than VGC doubles) hazards are a lot less prevalent apart from Sticky Web and Toxic Spikes, which is nice. I tend to like doubles more than singles in general, and that's one of the major reasons. Hazards and spins and spinblockers and anti-spinblockers is just a big pile of busywork when there could be more interesting decisions to make. E: ^ one berry pile on route 10 apparently has them.
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qnqnx posted:VGC is a poo poo format for retards that prefer gimmicks over strategy 2016 sure, but 2017 VGC looks like it might actually be good.
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Waffles Inc. posted:Why the Air Balloon? I would assume so that it doesn't get splatted by incidental earthquake damage, also so it's safe to switch in against said earthquakes. Captain Oblivious posted:I've never done legit PvP before but I'm interested in VGC. The Doubles format seems easy to get into. Instead of running your own Tapu, beat them with a Poison Memory Silvally. 
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cheetah7071 posted:Embrace it and make a 6-water team This is actually a Very Good Idea because of Pelipper getting Drizzle this gen. Lots of dudes with Swift Swim or another rain-boosted ability, in addition to the boost to water moves. Fajita Queen fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:For Alola raichu besides Nasty Plot from Pichu are there any pre-evo moves I want or is it all TMs after Nasty Plot? Volt Tackle can be taught to Pikachu only by a girl in Konikoni city, it can be a decent option against specially bulky pokemon. Electro Ball is better than thunder/bolt against slow targets, especially in electric terrain. Nuzzle is almost strictly better than t-wave now.
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Yeah S&M are probably the third hardest games to Nuzlocke, right behind HGSS because of its length and difficulty spikes and of course B&W hard mode. It's a fun challenge so far. E: Lusamine is giving off some batshit crazy vibes and I'm gonna have to guess that they end up being one of the last bosses in the story.
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Internet Kraken posted:*vaporized by choice scarf Tapu Lele* Fair, but he can outspeed all non-scarfed Tapus with a max speed investment and then OHKO them. Palladium posted:Thank you so much for the Knot, you are my Pokegod. Nope, but a 6 IV is 1/1024 and a 5 IV is only 1/16 after a 40 chain so it aint that bad. The real hard stuff is trying to get a 0 speed or attack IV with 31 in the rest. Fajita Queen fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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Even with species clause like half of my mons are gen 1 dudes. I'm fine with that though, because alola forms are neat, Machoke is a loving boss as always, and Z-Splash Gyarados is hilarious.
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Countblanc posted:more trick room replays, hot off the presses alolan shellder 
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cheetah7071 posted:The Elite 4. It sucks though, welcome to hell It's still waaaaaaay easier than it was pre-gen6. Exp share isn't a hold item so you can slap a lucky egg on the thing you're raising.
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