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cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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I count like 8 different pokemon I have to use just out of the things that have already been revealed

Meanwhile in my replay of Y I 'm restricting myself to not using any pokemon I've ever used before and apparently I've used like 70% of the cool things because I'm 4 badges in and only have a team of 5.

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cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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If they give you a way to change the nature and ability of a pokemon and teach it egg moves somehow then there will be literally no reason to not battle with the friends you made during your journey (assuming of course you have the good taste to make friends with strong species)

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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What the gently caress is wrong with you

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Dumb names go back to the beginning. Don't forget the seal pokemon named Seel

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Zore posted:

Its especially dumb because Fletchling is legit a fantastic pokemon name, and Fletchinder is passable as mid-evo name.

Talonflame is just the epitome of :effort:

Like I can imagine the scene with the translators

"gently caress, we already used up the good fire/bird puns we've thought up and this needs to be finalized tomorrow. Barry hit me with something!"

"Talon...flame??"

"...gently caress it, I don't care anymore, its going in."

"We need the name for the final evolution of a fire lizard"
"Char...izard??"

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Talonflame is a cool name for a cool Pokemon

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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I have no idea how to narrow this down to 6 and we aren't even done with spoilers yet. There'd be two more in the list too if you could get all the starters solo.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Internet Kraken posted:

What's with the Liligant

Lilligant is somewhere around the 4th coolest plant, in the world

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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According to this site my team of all-time favorites would be:



Are my tastes good, or poo poo?

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Zoness posted:

technician breloom or poison heal breloom though

That's a harder decision than narrowing my favorites down to 6

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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ORAS is good because it's pokemon and bad because it's RSE

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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One time in gold version I saw a shiny graveler
I didn't realize it was shiny and also it self destructed

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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I was gonna use a Shedinja in ORAS but the basic pokeball thing ruined it

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Super No Vacancy posted:

yeah that worked. I'm surprised they didn't add any sort of cutscene for shedinja in ORAS, or even let you name it

That would involve adding a feature to ORAS that doesn't exist in RS though

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Now that I'm using it, I have to bump Farfetch'd out of my top six favorites. I'm not sure what replaces it but nothing this weak can have such a central place in my heart

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Super No Vacancy posted:

wow i hope you never have kids!!!!!

When I have children I will present them with a garchomp toy and a pikachu toy. Those that make the wrong choice will be dead to me

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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lezard_valeth posted:

What will you do with the child that picks the Pikachu toy, and tosses a blanket over it so now you have a Mimikyu toy?

Depends on Mimikyu's base stat total

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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I still really like Farfetch'd's design but it's literally dying in one hit to normal-effectiveness moves from almost everything

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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sharrrk posted:

so then dont get hit

I did this against Lysandre's Mienshao and it killed itself with Hi Jump Kick

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Legendaries aren't really pokemon and if you use one and aren't a literal child you should take a long hard look at your life

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Leech Life is so lovely that you're better off just using another move even if it isn't super effective

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Steelion posted:

This is why it always kind of confused me when people I know said that they thought there weren't any dual types in gen 1. They were kind of all over the loving place.

The display messages for SE/NVE were hosed up and only reported the move's effectiveness against the opponent's first type. The damage calculations in the background were fine but you'd get stuff like ice beam saying it isn't very effective against charizard. I could see that leading to some misunderstanding.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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A lot of the gen I dual types are really unexpected from their designs honestly. Like why is bulbasaur part poison? Why is onix part ground? Why is every bird flying/normal? Fish are "normal" and they get pure water instead of water/normal.

Don't even get me started on why Golduck isn't part psychic.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Dexie posted:

Ground types live in the ground, Rock types are made out of rock. That's the difference.

Why are Flygon and Garchomp part ground

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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greatn posted:

Garchomp is a land shark

Rattatta is a land rat, why is it not normal/ground???

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Pure dragon is a pretty good defensive typing, and before fairies dragon was a good but not insane offensive type (rarely SE, but also rarely NVE). Defensively though all the good dragons get saddled with poo poo like flying or ground

Where's my non-mega non-legendary fire/dragon who doesn't look like the world's spikiest turtle?

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Calaveron posted:

Somebody still has yet to explain to me Dragon Rage

it does 40 damage

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Well megas and legendaries don't count and the upcoming fire/dragon looks dumb so I thought it was the exact right amount of specific personally

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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There is not a single cool fish pokemon

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Super No Vacancy posted:

milotic is a fish

Is it, really?

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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HoneyBoy posted:

Yes fucker

Well if Milotic is a fish then there's one cool fish pokemon

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Super No Vacancy posted:

what that look like to you???



an uncool pokemon

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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sharrrk posted:

gyarados

Magikarp is a fish but Gyarados isn't

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Whales have fins and aren't fish

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Manatee Cannon posted:

I thought milotic was an eel or something

It is

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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You all have terrible opinions

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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sharrrk posted:

its a drat fish

No it isn't

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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hopeandjoy posted:

Gyarados is a carp streamer, and thus a fish.

Carp steamers are steamers, not fish

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Super No Vacancy posted:

your avi is a rodent

No she's a fox

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cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

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Breloom is the only good fish

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