The Pokemon Thread

[Alexxx-Returns]

That's why we have fairy types.

Yeah, though in Black it took a lot of the fun out of it.

I want to make a team because I like the mons I'm using, and not make a team specifically tailored to survive against about 5 specific OU mons "/

 

[Stratelier]

I watched a video yesterday and the dude was all like "this shiny Dragonair isn't useless, just use the ability capsule to give it the hidden ability! " and I was all like BITCH WAT I NEED THAT THANG!!
But then I read the comments and people were calling him out for being full of shit... Much sad was had >__>

He should have seen that coming, because the Ability Capsule specifically notes it only works on Pokemon with "two abilities".

Looker mission 4 got dangerous, the opponent's Volcarona got off three Quiver Dances. Never actually got a chance to use it though (phew!) because Talonflame OHKO it with Fly. If it did, though, that would have been UGLY.

 

[DarrylWolf]

Oh jeez, Darryl, I'd forgotten about the casino games.

Kalos has no gambling. ;-;

Which is stupid because Kalos is essentially France, and real-life France has casinos.

Or what about a game where you ARE a Pokemon, living an autonomous, human-free life and you have basically human-like intelligence, almost like the Pokemon world version of Furry fiction.

For example, a story about J.R. Pikachu lives in a postapocaylptic world with no humans and must fight off the wild anthropomorphic Houndours and Murkrows that have terrorized the Poke-populace for years and raided food stores after the Plague that removed humanity from the world. Can he and his wife Brianna Pikachu and their friends, David Abra, Tawana Jynx, and Ryan Diglett survive in a world without humans?

I know that just sounds stupid but after watching that episode where the Pokemon and their owners get separated, I always wondered what they might do if the annoying humans were nowhere to be found?

 

[BRN]

Oh, you'll want to try out the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series if you're interested in the lives of sapient wild Pokemon. Although it's a youth-friendly series, reading any deeper into the plots reveals some seriously dark shit.

 

[Alexxx-Returns]

Oh, you'll want to try out the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series if you're interested in the lives of sapient wild Pokemon. Although it's a youth-friendly series, reading any deeper into the plots reveals some seriously dark shit.

Also, be prepared to cry.

 

[Schwimmwagen]

Oh, you'll want to try out the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series if you're interested in the lives of sapient wild Pokemon. Although it's a youth-friendly series, reading any deeper into the plots reveals some seriously dark shit.

Sounds like my kinda thing.

I actually played (part) of one of the first MD games.

Red Rescue Team, I think?

 

[DarrylWolf]

Also, be prepared to cry.

I read some bad reviews of the game and that's what kept me away. Supposedly, it's tough-as-nails because you have to make it through a dungeon or you'll lose every item you held and the Pokemon and there are few designated save points in the game.

Anyhow, here's my Dream Team that I WISH I had for battles.

A Gengar with Hypnosis, Mean Look, and Perish Song, because there's no better way to win at Pokemon than sleep, followed by not being able to leave, followed by ensured death.

A Venusaur with Sleep Powder because Sleep is just a shorthand way of knocking out a Pokemon. Nintendo simply cannot do anything as unscrupulous players make the game un-fun by sleeper-holding opponents.

Blaziken- It just keeps appearing, like an annoying Internet meme. That Speed Boost it receives makes it a gamebreaker.

Any Pokemon with MInd Reader/ Lock On and a one-hit kill move. I need that.

Any Pokemon with game-extending Evasion moves. Because nothing's more annoying than having to play a waiting game with your friends,

I find it interesting that of the 650 Pokemon, a few very powerful ones are almost exclusively overused and have become cliches in the Pokemon world. Pokemon tournaments must be pretty blase because of the extreme homogenity of each team (Blazikens and Garchomps everywhere) and the shared tactics they have (I'll anesthetize your entire team, unless you do it first). Considering that sleep is so powerful as to KO a Pokemon- I know this from experience- watching a tournament battle would be like watching a wrestling match where sleeper holds are the only things anyone ever uses, and it's over in a few minutes. It's boring because you know EXACTLY what each person will do beforehand and no one ever changes tactics because they are literally too effective. Who needs originality when the cookie cutter is sharp enough to cut through anything?

 

[Alexxx-Returns]

I read some bad reviews of the game and that's what kept me away. Supposedly, it's tough-as-nails because you have to make it through a dungeon or you'll lose every item you held and the Pokemon and there are few designated save points in the game.


I find it interesting that of the 650 Pokemon, a few very powerful ones are almost exclusively overused and have become cliches in the Pokemon world. Pokemon tournaments must be pretty blase because of the extreme homogenity of each team (Blazikens and Garchomps everywhere) and the shared tactics they have (I'll anesthetize your entire team, unless you do it first).

It can be a frustrating game if you don't have a lot of patience. It feels sometimes like you're trying to get through a dungeon with a freakin' iron ball around your Pokrmon's ankle because of how badly you get held up.
The difficulty in some dungeons probably comes from that you have your level reset to 1, making you complete it from scratch. Not easy. Saying that, I never completed the post-game quests.


You said it right there. Some Pokemons are horribly overused.

Like you said before, it's an arms race. People want to win, and the only way to do that is to use the same OU Pokemons. We're probably all guilty of that to a certain extent - it's the only reason I have a Tyranitar.

 

[BRN]

Finally broke 6,000 points in the Battle Institute. Wahey.

 

[CaptainCool]

Finally broke 6,000 points in the Battle Institute. Wahey.

I had to give up on one fight once, it was freaking emberassing... I was fighting a Cradily, I didn't have a Mon with a type advantage and I swear that thing was freaking invincible. It got Stock Pile all the way up, had leftovers and Ingrain. So it's defense was incredible, it just kept healing itself and used Protect. No matter how much damage I caused, it healed itself right back up. It was awful.

 

[Stratelier]

Also, be prepared to cry.

Explorers of Sky ending. Bring tissues.

I read some bad reviews of the game and that's what kept me away. Supposedly, it's tough-as-nails because you have to make it through a dungeon or you'll lose every item you held and the Pokemon and there are few designated save points in the game.

It's a "roguelike": The dungeons are randomly generated, and yes, you do lose a randomly-chosen half your inventory if you're wiped out and half/all of your money on hand (money/items in storage are safe).

It's easier than standard roguelikes (no permadeath, for one), but yes, when Mystery Dungeon decides to hate you, it HATES you.

 

[Distorted]

I just finished breeding my first batch of special Riolu. It's the first time I bred across different pokemon to get specific moves. I would describe them as.....rather fiery and explosive. heheheheh....

 

[DarrylWolf]

It can be a frustrating game if you don't have a lot of patience. It feels sometimes like you're trying to get through a dungeon with a freakin' iron ball around your Pokrmon's ankle because of how badly you get held up.
The difficulty in some dungeons probably comes from that you have your level reset to 1, making you complete it from scratch. Not easy. Saying that, I never completed the post-game quests.


You said it right there. Some Pokemons are horribly overused.

Like you said before, it's an arms race. People want to win, and the only way to do that is to use the same OU Pokemons. We're probably all guilty of that to a certain extent - it's the only reason I have a Tyranitar.

Nah, I haven't seen the end credits yet so I really shouldn't be expecting to win much against those who have. I haven't gone to Battle Maison yet and I've only hatched 3 eggs. I do wish the GL would be smart enough to let trainers be tried by people with the same number of Gym Badges, from the same region so we don't have to read kanji or hangul and make sure that no one would be cheapening victory by using one of those annoying "memes" like Sleep or Blaziken or Evasion moves. But that would be asking too much. I tried to be original, 8 wins in 38 battles later- I think it's time to put my non-OU team to rest and become like everyone else. Going the Overused route is pretty much the only way to win, demoralizing as that may be for people who would like to think they could beat the game with their own ideas. You can beat the ingame CPU trainers with determination, grinding, and above all else, originality, but the battles require being the fastest clone of other successful Pokemon trainers with unethical movesets.

Of course, this is Nintendo's property after all. The same people who put MetaKnight in Smash Bros. and made Mario Kart the race to the bottom to get the best power-ups is behind the manufacture of Pokemon so I'm not at all surprised. I think a re-release of PPC, though it's Tetris Attack with Pokemon in it would be a welcome change, because if you lose, it's your fault for not being fast enough, not your opponent's fault for being cheap or unethical.

The same is also true for the now-discontinued Pageants that required timing to win, not just the most impressive moves or even the most overpowered Pokemon.

 

[Jags]

Oh, you'll want to try out the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series if you're interested in the lives of sapient wild Pokemon. Although it's a youth-friendly series, reading any deeper into the plots reveals some seriously dark shit.

'I still feel like I'm walking on air!'

Best video game moment.

 

[DrDingo]

Explorers of Sky ending. Bring tissues.

Y'know, that's the only one I haven't played. I suppose at the time I just considered it to be a clone of Time and Darkness with extra features. I guess I might've been wrong now.

 

[DarrylWolf]

I just finished breeding my first batch of special Riolu. It's the first time I bred across different pokemon to get specific moves. I would describe them as.....rather fiery and explosive. heheheheh....

Sometimes I wish the Pokemon breeding created entirely new Pokemon between two pre-existing types. A Starmie and Delphox would make quite an interesting pairing, wouldn't they? But "they can't let you do that, Starphox."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WmNh25xKfk

On a related note, Konami owns the Yugioh franchise and actually created a Vampire Hunter who bears more than a passing resemblance to Simon Belmont. If Nintendo owns Pokemon, then there should be no problem with them plagiarizing their own works. I, for one, would love to capture Chattur'gha, Xellotath, and Ulyaoth as renamed Pokemon. A pink, ball-shaped Pokemon that sucks other Pokemon up and copies their powers named Ybrik would be totally legal.

 

[Icky]

Meh, I'll just advertise here as well.

If anyone else would like to enter the Single Type FAF Tournament, there's still time to get in. Just head on over and pick your type, we've got Dragon, Fairy, Bug, Grass, and Poison types still available.

 

[Alexxx-Returns]

Meh, I'll just advertise here as well.

If anyone else would like to enter the Single Type FAF Tournament, there's still time to get in. Just head on over and pick your type, we've got Dragon, Fairy, Bug, Grass, and Poison types still available.

Thinking about how life is getting in the way of me joining up, makes me sad.

 

[Teal]

Or what about a game where you ARE a Pokemon, living an autonomous, human-free life and you have basically human-like intelligence, almost like the Pokemon world version of Furry fiction.

The mystery dungeon games?

For example, a story about J.R. Pikachu lives in a postapocaylptic world with no humans and must fight off the wild anthropomorphic Houndours and Murkrows that have terrorized the Poke-populace for years and raided food stores after the Plague that removed humanity from the world. Can he and his wife Brianna Pikachu and their friends, David Abra, Tawana Jynx, and Ryan Diglett survive in a world without humans?

Sounds like fanfiction that'll be poorly written.

I know that just sounds stupid but after watching that episode where the Pokemon and their owners get separated, I always wondered what they might do if the annoying humans were nowhere to be found?

They go feral or die.

I read some bad reviews of the game and that's what kept me away. Supposedly, it's tough-as-nails because you have to make it through a dungeon or you'll lose every item you held and the Pokemon and there are few designated save points in the game.

It's an easy game.

Anyhow, here's my Dream Team that I WISH I had for battles.

Then why don't you try to get said team?

A Gengar with Hypnosis, Mean Look, and Perish Song, because there's no better way to win at Pokemon than sleep, followed by not being able to leave, followed by ensured death.

A Venusaur with Sleep Powder because Sleep is just a shorthand way of knocking out a Pokemon. Nintendo simply cannot do anything as unscrupulous players make the game un-fun by sleeper-holding opponents

Magic Bounce. Insomnia, Vital Spirit, Shed Skin, Soundproof. Even Early Bird.
Sleep powder doesn't effect grass types.

Blaziken- It just keeps appearing, like an annoying Internet meme. That Speed Boost it receives makes it a gamebreaker.

He's not that unbeatable. Plus that makes three that are weak to psychic and two to flying.

Any Pokemon with MInd Reader/ Lock On and a one-hit kill move. I need that.

Sturdy, Protect. Switching to a ghost type for Horn Drill or Guillotine. Switch to a flying type for Fissure.

Any Pokemon with game-extending Evasion moves. Because nothing's more annoying than having to play a waiting game with your friends,

Moves that hit regardless of evasion boosts (magical leaf, shock wave, etc.) or the Keen Eye ability.

I find it interesting that of the 650 Pokemon, a few very powerful ones are almost exclusively overused and have become cliches in the Pokemon world. Pokemon tournaments must be pretty blase because of the extreme homogenity of each team (Blazikens and Garchomps everywhere)

They're powerful of course they're overused.

Considering that sleep is so powerful as to KO a Pokemon- I know this from experience- watching a tournament battle would be like watching a wrestling match where sleeper holds are the only things anyone ever uses, and it's over in a few minutes. It's boring because you know EXACTLY what each person will do beforehand and no one ever changes tactics because they are literally too effective. Who needs originality when the cookie cutter is sharp enough to cut through anything?

Sleep is not a guaranteed win. And it's annoying to use so I don't do it.

make sure that no one would be cheapening victory by using one of those annoying "memes" like Sleep or Blaziken or Evasion moves. But that would be asking too much.

What?

I tried to be original, 8 wins in 38 battles later- I think it's time to put my non-OU team to rest and become like everyone else

Ever think that maybe you're just not good at the game?

Going the Overused route is pretty much the only way to win, demoralizing as that may be for people who would like to think they could beat the game with their own ideas. You can beat the ingame CPU trainers with determination, grinding, and above all else, originality, but the battles require being the fastest clone of other successful Pokemon trainers with unethical movesets.

I think you just don't know how to play.

Of course, this is Nintendo's property after all. The same people who put MetaKnight in Smash Bros. and made Mario Kart the race to the bottom to get the best power-ups is behind the manufacture of Pokemon so I'm not at all surprised.

Baaaaww this character is slightly over powered. Baaaaww Nintendo is evil. (Game Freak makes the pokemon games -_-)

I think a re-release of PPC, though it's Tetris Attack with Pokemon in it would be a welcome change, because if you lose, it's your fault for not being fast enough, not your opponent's fault for being cheap or unethical.

Because that's the only way people win.

 

[Teal]

Sometimes I wish the Pokemon breeding created entirely new Pokemon between two pre-existing types. A Starmie and Delphox would make quite an interesting pairing, wouldn't they? But "they can't let you do that, Starphox."

Because a game with 700+ monsters needs something like that added in. -_-

On a related note, Konami owns the Yugioh franchise and actually created a Vampire Hunter who bears more than a passing resemblance to Simon Belmont. If Nintendo owns Pokemon, then there should be no problem with them plagiarizing their own works. I, for one, would love to capture Chattur'gha, Xellotath, and Ulyaoth as renamed Pokemon. A pink, ball-shaped Pokemon that sucks other Pokemon up and copies their powers named Ybrik would be totally legal.

GAME FREAK MAKES THE GAMES.

 

[Alexxx-Returns]

Deep breaths, Teal

 

[Teal]

Deep breaths, Teal

Never.

 

[CaptainCool]

Never.

How about intense breathing instead?

 

[BRN]

Rough panting?

 

[Teal]

How about intense breathing instead?

Rough panting?

Yes.