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Pokémon VG Megathread
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--- Quote from: Truce on August 17, 2013, 06:58:00 PM ---Assume Dragonite, Salamence, and Garchomp. Conveniently, all are 4x weak to ice, and Ice Shard was in Gen 4. Garchomp is surprisingly physically bulky so if you're going to use a move with as low base power as Ice Shard, make sure you put it on a powerful physical attacker with an ice typing to get the same-type bonus. It would be much more reliable than
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That seems like a very good assumption. I'll definitely be doing some research on ice-types!
--- Quote from: Regulith on August 17, 2013, 07:06:57 PM ---OHKO moves are never a good idea
Neither is Shedinja with all the potential damaging moves and entry hazards
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You two have taught me something: don't gamble on chances. Moves like that are unreliable and it's a valuable move that I could be wasting. Even if I did use sing in advance it might not be worth it. Come to think of it Perish Song is useless too. Even if I put the opponent Pokémon to sleep as it can just be swapped out. My bad. :p
--- Quote from: kevin 51l on August 17, 2013, 07:24:32 PM ---aren't OHKO 40%?
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I'm pretty sure it's 30%.
Thanks guys! I really appreciate it. :) I'm already feeling more confident. :iceCream:
kevin 51l:
most dragon type non-legendaries should take 4x damage from ice, if i were you i'd make a list
also look for other ice types rather than lapras, if he takes garchomp w/ earthquake and has a higher speed than you lapras could be 1-shot, probably not since lapras is super beefy but garchomp has really high attack.
Truce:
--- Quote from: End on August 17, 2013, 07:42:51 PM ---You two have taught me something: don't gamble on chances. Moves like that are unreliable and it's a valuable move that I could be wasting.
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As long as you don't rely on them, chances can be very useful. See turns 12 through 18 of:
http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/battletower-ou-120584
Source: BKC "for anne" (USA East) vs Yusuke "MayGodHelpMe" (Asia) in the WCoP final round.
Regulith:
The American set of shiny Generation 4 Legendary Pokemon is now starting its distribution wirelessly at GameStop stores. Dialga is first in line, running until September 8th.
Europe and Australia's distributions will start on August 30th.
Also, a little note about X&Y, Pikachu will apparently have its anime cry (that is, saying its name) instead of the standard one. There are several audio samples of the demos that were playable at the Pokemon Game Show in this post on Pokebeach, which were taken by plugging audio cables into the systems to get crystal clear recordings. Crobat and Mewtwo have updated cries as well.
BlockoCrafter:
--- Quote from: End on August 17, 2013, 05:49:23 PM ---But really, the hype it's getting is proof that the anime still has potential. As much as I love Ash, they should have just let him go and replaced him with a new protagonist/s after season 1 or 2. Protagonists that haven't been 10 for over 10 years (to be fair, he was 11 once but now he's 10 again). Interesting protagonists that develop.
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I actually want the anime to cover previous games with their respective protagonists, then when entering the next region, the previous gen. protagonists join with them, and with the next one, the protagonists from the last generation, etc.
Also that realistic Pokémon screeny makes me think there will be a Wii-U Coliseum-style game coming soon.