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Mega evos, Z-moves, dynamax and the like all suck. If you want to refresh or buff a pokemon line, just give them an evolution (Pinsir, Heracross). gently caress yes what a good snype
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humpthewind posted:Mega evos, Z-moves, dynamax and the like all suck. If you want to refresh or buff a pokemon line, just give them an evolution (Pinsir, Heracross). It is the truth add a 4th stage and make the mega evos permanent
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Nov 2, 2021 15:07
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Mega is cool not just because it buffs some fan favorites, but also because it's actually am interesting decision for team building since it occupies your item slot and the one-per-team limit
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Nov 2, 2021 15:09
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of the three mega-evolutions are definitely the best. z-moves the worst maybe
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Nov 2, 2021 15:24
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Z-Moves may be the worst animated things in the franchise, and that's saying something.
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Nov 2, 2021 15:37
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The Bee posted:Z-Moves may be the worst animated things in the cranchise, and that's saying something. You mean the generic ones, right?
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Nov 2, 2021 15:40
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Last Celebration posted:You mean the generic ones, right? Oh, without a doubt. The individual ones tended to be really cool and flavorful, but the generic ones were literally models being dragged across the screen. And unlike stuff like Scorbunny's double kick that got mocked to hell and back, the Z-Moves get put front and center with big, dramatic framing. The Flying and Fairy type ones are legitimately embarrassing coming from the world's biggest franchise.
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Nov 2, 2021 15:45
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Excuse you Toucannon angrily slamming itself into opponents without a twitch is hysterical and good
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Nov 2, 2021 15:49
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Toucannon sustaining flight and gaining altitude by ANGER alone is a thing of beauty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryf9VAwTMG8
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Nov 2, 2021 16:08
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The main thing I don't like about mega evolution is that there is a special item for each pokemon. The general items pocket already has hundreds of things in it, oh well let's add a few dozen more. Let us make our own bag pockets GF, not just "favourites" or whatever
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Nov 2, 2021 16:14
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HootTheOwl posted:I think SwSh could have been so much better if they leaned in to the league as a sport thing and instead of just 8 gyms fight the champ they did more tournaments like the ending. Get endorsements, play in some minor tournaments, have a few gimmick cups. I think that plot would have been more interesting than watching the adults take care of things (and also they're dumb for its own dumb sake). This would be great. Make Rose (or whoever the main antagonist is) be the coach of an opposing team, Hop is your rival for star of your team. No crime, no world-destroying gods monsters, just a searing sports rivalry from tip to tail. This would also feel like a natural extension of the whole Team Skull thing, where it turns out they're less "bad guys" and more "the most marginalized people in society." I'm in favor of any step away from the same old story of "organized crime boss seeks to use god pokemon to DESTROY THE WORLD!"
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Nov 2, 2021 16:21
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Hammerite posted:The main thing I don't like about mega evolution is that there is a special item for each pokemon. The general items pocket already has hundreds of things in it, oh well let's add a few dozen more. Let us make our own bag pockets GF, not just "favourites" or whatever I feel Mega Stones could easily be condensed into a single Mega Stone item, let the player get multiple if they want to run a bunch of Megas, and let them choose which Charizard/Mewtwo they'd get upon Mega Evolving as in Let's Go. It's a bit broken for those two specific cases, but other than that it'd just simplify the item bloat. Though well, they did that by just removing the entire mechanic I guess.
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Nov 2, 2021 16:34
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Saoshyant posted:Toucannon sustaining flight and gaining altitude by ANGER alone is a thing of beauty Toucannon in general is the best, I wish his stats were closer to Pikipek than the weird “guess we gotta make him slow now!” thing super ubiquitous to Gen 7, but he’s just a virtually normal toucan that’s super pissed, and that’s okay. …that is, normal until it revs up Beak Blast and it’s beak goes through a whole charge cycle.
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Nov 2, 2021 16:48
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I just caught wind of a romhack that upgrades the resolution of RGBY's dopey backsprites in battle and I adore what I'm seeing. (Won't link because I'm not sure if rom patches are  or not) but: if I had to compile a list of things I like about pokemon, "doofy gen 1 sprites" is probably in my top 5.
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Nov 2, 2021 16:53
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Patches are fine, it’s linking to a rom of any kind that’s off-limits.
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Nov 2, 2021 16:58
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Last Celebration posted:Patches are fine, it’s linking to a rom of any kind that’s off-limits. Yeah, see also how sites like LTTP Randomizer can operate freely but they have to tell you to go find your own ROM. Looks pretty decent, did they have to do anything clever to fit all the extra graphics data into the space available? Or are they using a larger ROM file than the original (I don't know how it works on the Game Boy) Bring back Gen 1 Haunter
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Nov 2, 2021 17:01
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The Bee posted:Z-Moves may be the worst animated things in the franchise, and that's saying something. They didn’t really have much of a choice since they would’ve had to customize animations for 807 Pokémon, most of which can learn at least half a dozen Z-moves This kind of thing is why Dexit happened RatHat fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Nov 2, 2021 17:47
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RatHat posted:They didn’t really have much of a choice since they would’ve had to customize animations for 807 Pokémon, most of which can learn at least half a dozen Z-moves Which feels funny because what we got instead of Z moves was "but what if pokemon but bigger?" and it was almost more low effort.
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Nov 2, 2021 18:10
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Oxyclean posted:Which feels funny because what we got instead of Z moves was "but what if pokemon but bigger?" and it was almost more low effort. And yet despite seeming lower effort, they still made and saved a new model for every Dynamax instead of just scaling models up. I also completely agree that there should've been a Dexit way, way sooner. I disagree, however, that they had no choice with the Z moves. They could've made moves that account for their limitations instead of whatever the hell was going on with Twinkle Tackle.
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Nov 2, 2021 18:21
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The Bee posted:And yet despite seeming lower effort, they still made and saved a new model for every Dynamax instead of just scaling models up. Yeah that’s fair. Maybe the people that designed the Z moves didn’t really think of the logistics of it
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Nov 2, 2021 18:24
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Last Celebration posted:Toucannon in general is the best, I wish his stats were closer to Pikipek than the weird “guess we gotta make him slow now!” thing super ubiquitous to Gen 7, but he’s just a virtually normal toucan that’s super pissed, and that’s okay. Toucannon rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzkeQWAgCg
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Nov 2, 2021 18:40
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The Bee posted:And yet despite seeming lower effort, they still made and saved a new model for every Dynamax instead of just scaling models up. What's going on with Twinkle Tackle is that it owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hekerFgs9GI
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Nov 2, 2021 18:56
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Blaze Dragon posted:I feel Mega Stones could easily be condensed into a single Mega Stone item, let the player get multiple if they want to run a bunch of Megas, and let them choose which Charizard/Mewtwo they'd get upon Mega Evolving as in Let's Go. It's a bit broken for those two specific cases, but other than that it'd just simplify the item bloat. Agreed. Why bother having so many for each specific Pokemon when you can only use one at any given time? All it did was fill up your bag and arbitrarily limit when you could use the brand new feature that they were so proud of. Especially since the stones don't do anything besides fill up an item slot if you don't decide to mega-evolve that particular mon. Shiroc posted:What's going on with Twinkle Tackle is that it owns This is the one case where the nonexistent animation almost works.
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Geostomp posted:Agreed. Why bother having so many for each specific Pokemon when you can only use one at any given time? Because you can fake opponents out by having two pokemon with mega stones and letting them guess which one you're going to evolve, or even just have two in the back pocket and choose to evolve one over the other depending on the situation. Though as someone else said, the real solution to that is just to give you four to six generic Mega Stone items that will just mega evolve any Pokemon you give it to. Make an exception for Mewtwo/Charizard though I guess and just let them have the two separate kinds specific to them, it'd still cut down on the item bag bloat to just let them be special.
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Nov 2, 2021 22:07
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Or improve the item bag UI to be less of a junk drawer.
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Nov 2, 2021 22:11
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The real reason there were so many different megastones was that they were rewards for exploration is XY and ORAS. Poking around in the depths of a cave and you stumble on the Alakazamite or whatever. SuMo kept megas but just threw all the stones into a BP vendor at the Battle Tree, so it lost a lot of oomph and just look like clutter. They totally could have given a megastone only pocket though.
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Nov 2, 2021 22:50
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:It is the truth Megas with items lmao okay.
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Nov 3, 2021 00:41
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Geostomp posted:This is the one case where the nonexistent animation almost works. It has this energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc which is far more memorable than a mediocre 'good' animation.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:04
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Electric Phantasm posted:Toucannon rules Japanese pokemon cries are just one guy saying the pokemon's name huh?
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Nov 3, 2021 01:06
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Megas with items lmao okay. I think you'll find it would actually be incredibly good and cool to let Mega Garchomp have a Choice Scarf.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:11
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it's kind of a shame there's no real distinction between "mega which makes a previously terrible mon usable and good" (ie: beedrill, mawile, banette, lopunny, etc) and "mega on something which absolutely did not need an extra 100 points in their BST holy poo poo are you kidding me" (garchomp, metagross, etc), because some of the former absolutely deserved to be permanent buffs
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Nov 3, 2021 01:30
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And they could have been if Gamefreak didn't decide to remove all megas forever.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:31
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Maybe megas would be cool and worth keeping if more than two didn’t look like garbage, and the actual stated purpose of “giving bad moms a buff” wasn’t better served by just giving them a buff or evolution.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:32
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where did they state that
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Nov 3, 2021 01:33
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I don’t think they ever said that. The very first Mega that was revealed was Mewtwo lol.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:35
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Blaziken386 posted:it's kind of a shame there's no real distinction between "mega which makes a previously terrible mon usable and good" (ie: beedrill, mawile, banette, lopunny, etc) and "mega on something which absolutely did not need an extra 100 points in their BST holy poo poo are you kidding me" (garchomp, metagross, etc), because some of the former absolutely deserved to be permanent buffs Wasn't Megachomp kind of a sidegrade anyway? Obviously that changes if you give it an item slot but I wouldn't put it in the same category as Megagross.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:36
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People looking at mons getting new forms solely as like 'buffs' or whatever is dumb as hell.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:38
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I would like Houndoom to evolve into his Mega evolution and become Houndevil. It’s the only Mega form I really like. The rest are just okay to terrible.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:42
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Good megas that should just be regular evos; Beedrill Mawile Sableye Alteria Lopunny Charizard- Y Ampharos Abomasnow Pidgeot Steelix The rest are whatever and can be ditched
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you are all psychos
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