All that shows is evasion moves are rightly banned in competitive play.
been poking around Bulbapedia looking at the mons released so far, and my friends, there are some good-ass pokemon this generation
Like this literal Ass Pokemon
theres a Puff the Magic Dragon homage that is a dragon which is a sweet ol grampa and its called DRAMPA
there is a pokemon thats straight up a lei how can you not eat this shit up
there is a KOALA how is this the FIRST KOALA POKEMON??
The cute toothy mongoose evolves into fucking Inspector Zenigata why is no one talking about this
not pictured: the adorable rock-type dog, the darling bandit crocodile, the sweet little woodpecker, the dancing bird that changes to different forms/types based on styles of dance by sipping flower nectar, the stuffed bear that gives deadly hugs, Litten Again, the surprisingly not-awful legendaries.
srsly these games lost their way for awhile re: PKMN designs but i really think they started picking up steam again in gen 5 and theyve only gotten better and better. last gen had a sentient ring of keys and a wonderful slug-dragon and a jack-o-lantern ghost! How does anyone srsly say gen 1 was best i mean really that is OBJECTIVELY false.
Unrelated: Looking at the first-post-poll, i am pleasantly unsurprised to see how many moonies there are on SB
I want all three of these perfect children on my team
whoever is in charge of the mon design this generation is doing god’s work. there’s so many weird ideas that I find myself questioning if I’m looking at the right franchise
Really hyped for Sun and Moon to come out. All these new and improved features, the more proportioned models and perspective, the Hawaii-inspired region will probably make it the best Pokemon game to date. Heck hoping they’ll put some post-game content but I’m not that picky over it unlike most of the fanbase when it came to X/Y and OR/AS.
ive been reading the Bogleech Pokemon reviews and he’s really making me look at the series in a new light. There’s a lot of weird designs and ideas in Pokemon that get glossed over (probably because they still have to be marketable and appealing in some way).
i actually think the last few generations of 'mons have been among the best in the whole series! Gen 6 is almost uniformly excellent. Has the bestest starters since the 3 elemental dinos too.
Yeah I’m also reading the reviews and like fuck I’m so frustrated with all the nostalgia that goes into Gen 1/2 when they’re at their creative peak currently. The general fandom seems to be more into cutesy or cool fuzzy animals when pokemon does everything but that it does it amazing (and for the record I do find some of them personal favorites like Arcanine for example).
I’m a big fan of bogleech’s mon reviews! Haven’t looked into it in a while, though. Early 2nd gen, maybe? I’ll have to give it another look now.
But yeah, I’m cool 99.9% of pokemon. It’s only the occasional mon that confuses the hell out of me (what kind of name is cofagrigus how did they think pronouncing that felt natural). Different generations have noticeably different aesthetics, no problem there.
I got a Smeargle through a random trade recently, which I had never heard of before and it’s like some kind of Beagle who paints onto trees with pheromones secreted through its tail… How that one never got into the fan favourites I will never be able to guess.
He also came infested with the Pokerus, which I had also never heard of, so he had a double shot of gross goodness about him
Got yourself a real METAGAME pokemon right there.
Probably, but he’s just chillin away in the PC until I can work out what I am supposed to do with him, besides sharing his sweet sweet diseases
One for the “Cool and Weird things that most people will probably never see”-GO thread I’ve been meaning to make.
WAIT HOLY SHIT WHAT
— ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) | ﾊﾞｽ ﾄ (@Sir5000) October 18, 2016
W H A T pic.twitter.com/fuR63otaKb
every time I try to save forty bucks…they pull me back in…
So those crazy kids have cracked the demo, and it seems like the whole pokedex has been scraped:
Nope!
They’re banned in Pokemon Showdown (the unnoficial ruleset that fans play with online), but in official online battles and the official pokemon tournaments (VGC), moves generally aren’t banned–just legendary pokemon.
Usually, they allow the legendaries of the current generation and then whatever handful of legendaries from past generations they’ve determined to not be too overpowered.
However, you’re fine to up your evasion as high as you want or put your opponent’s entire team to sleep. It’s down to your opponent to not allow you to even get to that position. Also, there’s a time limit to battles, so really boring and slow strategies aren’t incentivized.
In the video I guess the player is fighting the computer? It looks like a fun self-challenge, more than anything. They figured out something that would almost always work against the computer and they executed it. At first I was annoyed, because they start with the FEAR strategy, which is just so overrated. It’s a fun idea, but it’s so easy to work around; and every 12-year-old thinks it’s unbeatable.
But yeah: actually, it’s not just FEAR. The player knows that the AI will do a full heal after endure, which creates the opportunity to raise their evasion. After that, the whole swagger gambit is technically somewhat risky, because confusion self-harm is only 50% per turn, and no matter how many times you raise your evasion, you’re never untouchable. So their plan isn’t 100%, but it’s a fun idea. It wouldn’t really work in competitive play, but I don’t think that’s the point of the video.
Consider me corrected.
