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Seyser Koze posted:...So that didn't go too well. Kaz just appeared out of nowhere without warning and his dudes were both higher level than me. This has become his most infamous trait and it fills me with joy to see a blind reaction to it.  WampaPartyEX posted:Ah, Starmie. The first real hurdle of the remakes for everyone who didn't take Bulbasaur. It was pretty nasty in the original too, though at least Bubblebeam didn't confuse you. Blueberry Pancakes fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Sep 3, 2018 |
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Water Pulse, assuming you survive it, has a 20% chance of inflicting confusion.
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Cockmaster posted:I had always assumed it was because the writers didn't want Ash's team getting too powerful, lest he end up steamrolling everything he comes across. Ash's Pikachu has beaten Legendaries and Pseudo-Legendaries. 
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That's why they should've switched to someone new after the Orange Islands.
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The Scizor "Finish it off with False Swipe" guy? I think I remember that.
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Seyser Koze posted:Honestly if you guys can refrain from spending pages "ironically" sharing your esoteric knowledge of weird internet porn in an effort to prove that you're totally more normal than people who look at weird internet porn, we should be fine. Well then what am I supposed to discuss?! 
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Trying to catch Abra is a pain in the butt, for sure.
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I'm glad later games made certain Pokemon lose their annoying gimmicks so they weren't gimped playability-wise for X levels. Like, Feebas is a rare equivalent of Magikarp and does the same Splash nonsense, but at least you can teach it moves like Ice Beam. It's not going to hit hard, but it's still something more than flopping around uselessly for several levels!
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Don't worry! Even though Bill wasn't wearing a fursuit, I'm sure the game will try its best to find more ways to scar your trainer for life. 
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Basically, while some Pokemon can learn moves on level-up, others might not have access to it normally and could benefit from it, whether for bolstering their own movepools or chain breeding a skill to another Pokemon.  You're right that Dig is not that great, though, beyond its overworld effect. And Swift is one of those attacks with speed modifiers, so unless you're using something like Quick Attack with a faster Pokemon, Swift will pretty much always go first. I believe it never misses, either.
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Sep 29, 2018 10:34
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Oh yeah, Swift is just 100% accuracy. My bad!
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Sep 29, 2018 11:07
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Trainers are better sources of EXP than wild Pokemon, as a note. And yeah, Defense Curl is pretty lame. Its only real value is if your Pokemon is low-level but also happens to know Rollout. Then you can do a combo of Defense Curl + Rollout which boosts the latter's damage.
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Raticate is so angry in the main games. But it's pretty cute in the manga.
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Personally I would've replaced Poison Powder with Sleep Powder, but to each their own!Chaosfeather posted:Trust me, you didn’t want to see where that ship was going anyway. Chronische posted:A successful terrorist attack by Team Rocket, at that - one that leaves the characters trapped in the nightmare of being stuck in the wreckage of a ship at the bottom of the ocean. Only in the anime continuity!
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And it increases a wild Pokemon's catch rate! The computer does have an annoying tendency to just ignore confusion or paralysis, though.
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Jun 18, 2019 19:07
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It's me. I'm Lt. Surge.
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Jun 20, 2019 13:12
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A Pokemon war sounds pretty hectic. What happens if you bring a Pokemon that won't obey you to the battlefield? 
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That is correct.
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I kinda disliked how the original season of the anime typically distilled the Gym Leaders down to using only one Pokemon. Brock doesn't even use Geodude the first time he battles Ash and it's basically brushed off in the second match anyway. Ironically, the opposite is true for Misty's Starmie, which is a wimp compared to her Staryu. The battle with Surge was pretty great, though. And apparently he has a foul mouth in Japanese, shouting out things like "Goddamn!" when he's losing. In the Pokemon Adventures manga, he's even more over the top and has a bazooka that launches Voltorbs, if I remember correctly. He's certainly one of the more entertaining Gym Leaders, that's for sure. And he uses Raichu, so I can appreciate his good taste.
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Carbon dioxide posted:I never got why Misty had both a Staryu and a Starmie. Lt. Surge has Pikachu and Raichu. Later games heavily imply that Gym Leaders have alternate Pokemon to attune to their challengers based on the number of badges.
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Scary Face lowers the Speed of whomever you use it against. It's a pretty lame move.Truthkeeper posted:But it makes a great deal more sense if you know that the badges were originally just named after their colors. The starting town's name makes more sense now. Blueberry Pancakes fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Jul 4, 2019 |
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Jul 4, 2019 14:00
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It seems like the original badge names were used for the locations? Unless the town names were similar in Japanese.
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Jul 4, 2019 14:40
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The anime is weird because Ash challenges Sabrina before Erika, let alone Koga.
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Seyser Koze posted:Doing that emergency-threadbump thing again. Congratulations. 
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Bloodly posted:Did you notice your rival's missing a Pokemon? His Raticate isn't dead. That's just a silly fan theory. His pre-battle dialogue isn't even hostile or emotional in any way. 
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Facade Raticate is fun, for sure.
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It's definitely in the box. He mentions that he just caught a Cubone and he doesn't have it here either. Not only that, his team already has a Normal/Flying type, so Raticate is redundant.Seyser Koze posted:
Personally, I would've put that on Primeape! Seyser Koze posted:
Yeah, it's just a funny joke. Nothing to be alarmed about. 
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That white hand on your shoulder... I'm just imagining it.
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I like the notion that the Pokedex is a combination of fact and folklore, with new data able to be input at any time while old data is subject to revisions and further study by the regional professor. After all, I doubt catching a Pokemon immediately gives you literally every bit of information about it, otherwise things like the Steel type only being discovered in Gen II or the Fairy type in Gen VI make no sense.
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What does that say about the main character of Gen VII, then, considering what's written for the Mega Evolution forms?
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There's four Pokemon in Gen I that evolve via trading like that. The other two are Graveler and Machoke.
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Jan 31, 2020 19:35
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I have no idea why the Celadon Gym is so opposed to guys, but there you go!
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FoolyCharged posted:You might be the first person to ever get a legit porygon in gen 1. But this is Gen 3.  That said, that's pretty impressive all the same.
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Pikachu did everything wrong.
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Isn't Porygon made in Saffron? Kind of weird it's not obtainable there.
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Seyser Koze posted:I still don't have any water moves besides splash Splash is actually a Normal-type move. Because in Japanese, the name is more accurately translated to "Hop". It was just called Splash in Gen 1 because the only Pokemon that learned it was a fish. Edit: Wait, someone said that already.
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Snorlax doesn't give a gently caress that it's already asleep. It'll go to sleep again.
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I think Thick Fat is a bit nicer than Immunity, but Immunity isn't bad to have.
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Dragon-type was also pretty bad in Gen I, as I recall. Isn't the only actual Dragon move Dragon Rage? Which is just a flat 40 damage?
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I remember getting a Rattata and putting Bubblebeam and Thunderbolt on it. Not the best use of those TMs.
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