Flopsy posted:

Alrighty I'm going get online now just send me a message.

Infinitum posted:

chaosapiant posted:

I guess I’m on the home stretch of Ultra Moon. I just clowned on blondy bighair’s team with my level 62 Decidueye. Never even had to heal or swap out.

Speaking of being an amazing human both in real life and in Pokémon games, who should I use the master ball on in Ultra Moon? I think Necrozma is my next big fight, should I use it then? Or hold out for bigger prey? I bought like 48 ultra balls, maybe they’ll work instead?

Zuzie posted:

Game Freak's solution to the Stealth Rock problem was not to nerf it directly but to create absurdly powerful monsters that could really only be stopped by Stealth Rocks (Volcarona and Talonflame in particular).

RatHat posted:

They look pretty legit.

Flopsy posted:

I just remember the bit where an Arbok got messily beheaded. Also I'm not surprised.

Crosspeice posted:

We've been through the Lusamine and Ultra Necrozma arc, so it looks like he'll be participating in the Alola League, or sabotaging it, since he's furious Kukui has set it up.

Flopsy posted:

WHAT HAS ARECUS WROUGHT?

Flopsy posted:

....wait what happened?

Nasgate posted:

I hope they keep the let's go style of play for the mainline games instead of making it a side series.false swipe and spore can go right to hell.

Gripweed posted:

Will I not be able to transfer my Cosplay Pikachu from Alpha Sapphire to X or Moon?

indigi posted:

I didn't realize you could get all the Pokemon episodes for free by downloading an app, my nephew is very happy about that

e: lol what is this goofy new theme song. I kinda like it

SirSamVimes posted:

RR episode spoilers:

me: Okay I'm on my last legs due to mixing a type matchup but if I remember my gen 3, that camerupt was maxie's ace and it's all downhill from there
maxie: my man have you heard of this boy named groudon
me: oh right this is maxie from an alternate universe where he won, of course he has groudon

Farecoal posted:

Aren't Ultra Sun / Moon just enhanced editions? Did they actually change the story?

RatHat posted:

Hidden Pokémon in OR/AS is a really great mechanic but I wish you were immune to wild battles while sneaking so you didn’t have to use repels.

Super Training is also really cool but seems like it’d still be faster to just grind on wild Pokémon.

Takoluka posted:

The anime does this as well. Almost every Pokémon has a "current moveset" that has 4 moves, and Bulbapedia shows the move history of many of them.

Zuzie posted:

He's correct though. Ash is the main character and Lillie does get ample character development during that arc without having to take care of Nebby herself.

ArmyOfMidgets posted:

Shut the gently caress up Gary didn't fight Ash until over two years in?! Tracey came in and left the show before they ever fought, drat

Silver2195 posted:

Just watched the first episode of the PUSA dub ("Fear Factor Phony"). The new VAs are...not great, especially Team Rocket's. Meowth is the one that seems to have gotten the worst reception at the time, but James is the one that really annoys me. His voice is just too deep, but he's still trying to sound "gay" or maybe "posh," and just ends up sounding stupid. Ash is also rather deep and oddly scratchy at times, higher-pitched at other times; I guess that makes sense if we assume he's starting puberty (yes, I know that Best Wishes will retcon him back to being 10), but it still annoys me a bit. Jessie now has some kind of accent I can't quite place, which doesn't fit the character at all. Max now sounds younger and more vulnerable (at least intermittently), which I guess theoretically makes more sense for the ~8-year-old he's supposed to be, but feels wrong for a cocky nerd like him in practice. But maybe he just sounds like that because he's supposed to be a bit scared for much of the episode. Brock is fine, I guess; somewhat different from his 4Kids voice, but different isn't necessarily bad. May is hard to evaluate because she spends so much of the episode terrified, but she also seems fine.

Hopefully the new VAs will improve, or at least I'll get used to them. Meowth and Ash sound intermittently OK; maybe they'll do their better line deliveries consistently eventually. James is probably a hopeless case, and unfortunately the next episode is a James-centric one.

The actual episode was decent. I like that they actually gave a backstory for why the Psychic-types and Ghost-types didn't get along, as opposed to episodes like "Whichever Way the Wind Blows" where particular species of Pokemon just hate each other for no real reason. I also like that the Ralts line being in the Amorphous Egg Group was plot-important (or maybe the Wobuffet-Kirlia romance was just a coincidence, since the Pokemon crushes in "Once in a Mawile" ignored Egg Groups).

Edit: The new theme song is crap, by the way. I wasn't a big fan of "Unbeatable" (the tune was too similar to the past OPs, and the overconfident lyrics annoyed me a little), but it was better than this.

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Detective Pikachu was cool. Ditto and Mewtwo were terrifying for different reasons. I really wish there were more battles.

I dug the art style for the most part. The Licktung was cool, still not sure about furry Charizard. He needed more scales imo.

Nasgate posted:

They really should've let Ash win and become a champion of some region. It'd mean he gets to come back every now and then. And kids prefer new starters to Pikachu anyway ime with literal 10 year old relatives.

Farecoal posted:

lmao if you use attacks that hurt your own Pokemon or cause a negative stat change

RatHat posted:

I guess I did too many Roto Lottos because now my Rotom Dex won’t stop repeating the same few “tips” to me and I can barely ever see my map. Is there anything I can do about this?

Silver2195 posted:

And Ash finally beats that Battle Frontier, thanks to Pikachu...defeating a full-health Regice with a single Volt Tackle. Sure. The rest of the Brandon fight was really good, though.

Two more episodes left before Diamond and Pearl. Apparently DP is widely considered the peak of the anime, although I'm a bit skeptical as it's 191 episodes; can the anime writers really fill that many episodes for one region without resorting to Johto levels of formulaic character-of-the-day material?

Vandar posted:

I was watching that episode live via a stream when it first aired, and let me tell you. I have never seen as many angry nerds in one place as I did when Darkrai got defeated only for a goddamn Latios to appear and stomp the rest of Ash's party.

I'm pretty sure that's still the biggest bullshit moment in the entire anime.

Geostomp posted:

Isn’t the way he lost to an kid even dumber than him who didn’t even have a complete team in the next series almost as bad? Of course, BW as a whole is bad even by the low standards of this anime.

Blaze from 2011 posted:

When I was growing up, I stopped watching Pokemon mid-way through Johto. Well, earlier this year, I went back and watched the series up to the first few episodes of Black & White, and today's gripe comes just a smidgeon earlier than that.

The Sinnoh League competition. I have one name for you, folks: TOBIAS. Anyone who has actually seen those episodes will hopefully remember that name. And if you don't, Darkrai. You remember now. I hate Tobias with a passion, for a very simple reason. In effect, he is a giant walking middle finger to a fair number of viewers. Those of course being the people who would like to see Ash actually win a competition for once - or at least make it to the last round. Every other League competition, there has been someone who knocked him out before the finals. He made it farther and farther, even making it to the semi-finals in the Sinnoh League.

But then came along Tobias. He had some setup thanks to the Super Nerd whose name I forget, but it all essentially boiled down to "There's a guy in this tournament who's completely invincible". Tobias was given no character, no personality, no history, no explanation, and at least two Legendaries. We never saw the remaining four. If we had, given what we had seen of the character thus far, I was half expecting to see freakin' Mewtwo pop out of one of those balls. It would make about as much sense as any other aspect of the character.

We're never told who this guy is, where he's from, what he's like, or how he acquired his legendary team. All we ever got was some "this guy is good" setup, and then Ash was out of the tournament. Again. But this time the writers didn't even give him the dignity of a semi-even fight. They just threw him into a roflstomp against a throwaway battling god that they never bothered to explain, and frankly, as much as I want some answers about this guy, we're probably never going to see or even hear about him again except maybe in flashbacks where they won't even acknowledge any of this, they'll just remember that one guy who beat Ash. Because that's all there was to him.

As far as I'm concerned, Ash deserved to win the Sinnoh tournament. Tobias should never have existed, because the only reason he DID was as a walking "Keep Ash out of the Finals" wall, and we've had those characters before... but they provided somewhat even fights, and were characterized beforehand. Furthermore, Ash was the only trainer in the entire REGION to knock out even ONE of Tobias' Pokemon - the Darkrai that singlehandedly swept every other trainer in the region. And once he went down, Tobias threw a Latios at Ash, and even then, Ash managed to take it out with his final move, though because Ash also lost with that last exchange, Tobias was never forced to reveal a third Pokemon.

We all know why Tobias really existed. Ash isn't allowed to win a real League (the Orange Islands don't friggin' count, there was no tournament), because the creators want to keep the series going forever and for Ash to win a tournament would mean that he was running out of growth potential, I guess. I don't friggin' care. He leaves his team behind every new region anyway. Everyone who watches the show knows the kid is experienced and knows how to raise Pokemon (despite his apparent IQ reset that seems to have started coming with leaving the team behind). Let him win a drat tournament for once, or at the very least make it to the drat finals. Tobias was just insulting, to Ash and to us.