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Post by Darth Rabbitt » Sat May 14, 2016 3:05 pm

Now I'm going to avoid anything about the new games as much as possible because internet hype probably ruined Gen 6 for me.
Meanwhile, Nintendo has done its own "what Pokemon type are you" quiz thus invalidating any argument that we should keep personality quizzes in Mystery Dungeon.
If you're curious, I'm a Normal-type.

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Post by Koumei » Sat May 14, 2016 3:58 pm

A quicker way:
So I'm Psychic Normal. Great, I'm Giraffarig.
Alternatively, there are a couple of others with an image search, so I could be Double Fighting (so, pure Fighting), which could be good or shit, or I could be Ghost Fire. Fuck yes Chandelure!

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Post by maglag » Sat May 14, 2016 4:29 pm

I'm a dragon/ground?
So I'm Garchomp the figher jet pokemon.
Hell! Yeah!

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Post by Darth Rabbitt » Sat May 14, 2016 4:37 pm

Great, I'm Stunfisk.

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Post by Prak » Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:34 am

Welp, sounds like Pokemon Go is live in Australia.
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Post by Meikle641 » Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:05 pm

Fighting Dragon... Shame there apparently is nothing with that yet.
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Post by Shrapnel » Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:15 am

Well, Gen VII is around the corner, so who knows, it could still happen.
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Post by PhoneLobster » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:00 am

I have heard some bad rumblings about pokemon go. But I guess I'll check it out. But it should be out in the US, er, nowish according to google.
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Post by DSMatticus » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:06 am

I'm apparently Golurk, which just makes me feel like this quiz was a very convoluted way to tell me I'm out of touch with pokemon.
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Post by PhoneLobster » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:18 am

Well that was quick. Here is my report on Pokemon Go.
It is a location reliant game and there is apparently nothing to do anywhere within sight of my location if not beyond.
It is a money reliant game and prices look high and ongoing.
I THINK if I spent one of my only 2 free starting incense items wild pokemon MIGHT turn up for a whole 30 minutes per item. But I don't know exactly how that would work, suspect it isn't real battles, and it's raining outside and the game gets annoyed when my roof interferes with my GPS, and without spending those items (and I suspect going out in the rain) there is seemingly literally NO free game content for the likes of me.
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Post by Kaelik » Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:25 am

I'm apparently an Umbreon.

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Post by Whipstitch » Thu Jul 07, 2016 4:29 am

Sawsbuck. Apparently I get punched right in the dick by anything with flying, fire, fighting or ice. Good thing those are so rare!
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Post by Koumei » Fri Jul 08, 2016 4:43 am

Oh cool, there's a new pokemon unveiled, Salandit, and it's a Poison/Fire one that looks like a dark grey salamander/crocodile thing. Now certainly that sounds like "I hope my opponent has no Ground moves ever. Like Earthquake." And aside from that, weakness to Psychic, Rock and Water. So there are problems there. On the other hand it Resists Fire, Grass (x2), Ice, Bug (x2), Steel, Fairy (x2), Poison and Fighting. And yeah, STAB supereffective hits against Grass, Ice, Steel, Bug, Fairy. But more importantly, perhaps, it has an Ability that could make it really useful: Corrosion - it can even poison/badly poison Steel and Poison types. And it gets Toxic as a move, so it could be an amazing counter for certain bulky Steel and Poison types (Aggron, Skarmory... I'm sure there's a bulky Poison type) that love to stall you out.
Indeed, a lot of the new pokemon have cool designs, and they seem to have played with a lot of new Type pairings, and the new abilities shown so far are mostly interesting with the potential to be useful.

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Post by Judging__Eagle » Fri Jul 08, 2016 5:10 pm

> Darth Rabbitt wrote:
> Meanwhile, [url=http://www.pokemon20.com/en-us/fun.html]

Immadraggin:
Alternately: Dark/Psychic
Which means Inkay/Malamar (So... Illithids?), or Hoopa Unbound.
I don't know these newfangled Pocket monsters, but they seem cool.
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Post by Shrapnel » Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:34 pm

I'm fighting/bug, which means I can only be Stingmon.
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Post by Koumei » Sat Jul 09, 2016 7:15 am

JE: Malamar is a kind of gimmick pokemon. It's Dark/Psychic which is interesting (if crippled by Bug attacks like the ever-present U-Turn), and its only Ability that anyone ever takes is Contrary: it treats stat Boosts as Drops and vice versa. So what happens is it unleashes Superpower a bunch of times, hitting hard and also raising both Attack and Defence, then goes for shit like Knock-Off/Night Slash and Psycho Cut.
The problem is the base stats aren't very good so you absolutely need those Superpowers.
The other thing you could maybe do with it is using stuff like Swagger as a set up (enemy gets 2 Attack buffs and Confusion) or Flatter (enemy gets Special Attack buff and Confusion), and then following with either Foul Play (hits enemy with their own Attack power) or Topsy-Turvy (which reverses the enemy stat changes so you can change +2 Attack to -2 Attack).
The coolest thing about Malamar, aside from appearance, is that it evolves BY HOLDING THE DS UPSIDE-DOWN.

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Post by Stahlseele » Sat Jul 09, 2016 10:17 am

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Post by Judging__Eagle » Sat Jul 09, 2016 4:20 pm

> Koumei wrote: The coolest thing about Malamar, aside from appearance, is that it evolves BY HOLDING THE DS UPSIDE-DOWN.

I'll admit, while the non-standard Pokemon evolutions were a fucking pain at times (transferring Geodude inside of a GB emulator is possible, but I saved that effort to get a Charmander and Squirtle to join my Bulbasaur save file); they also helped to give the game some really unique quirks.
But, I also haven't played Pokemon in about.... 18 or so years; and haven't once felt an interest in doing so again. The game devolves into soul-crushing work, and unless I'm able to pit my team against humans it would feel like a wasted effort to build an optimized team (the NPCs have never counted as a challenge; except the first time I used Charmander to beat Brock X_x).
The fact that Pokemon players aren't really hyper-competitive would mean that even if I could duel other players; I'd be losing friends who aren't hyper-optimizers, or else facing intentional troll-teams like All-Snorlax parties.
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Post by Koumei » Sat Jul 09, 2016 5:04 pm

> Judging__Eagle wrote:The fact that Pokemon players aren't really hyper-competitive

Hahaha, they totally are. At least, on the Internet they are. There are Internet battling communities that strip the grinding and "breed ten thousand to get the perfect nature and IVs" out of the game, but also strip the actual fun out of the game, where you can form a team in your browser, check to make sure it adheres to the unofficial rules set out by Angela Merkel, then battle people with ranked ladders. In your browser without needing a DS.
Where you will see the same few pokemon appearing in almost every single team you fight.

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Post by Prak » Sat Jul 09, 2016 7:09 pm

> Koumei wrote:check to make sure it adheres to the unofficial rules set out by Angela Merkel

Now I want a reality where world leaders are pokemon trainers and policy making and politics feature lots of broadcasted pokemon battles.
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Post by maglag » Sun Jul 10, 2016 1:21 am

> Koumei wrote:

> > Judging__Eagle wrote:The fact that Pokemon players aren't really hyper-competitive

> Hahaha, they totally are. At least, on the Internet they are. There are Internet battling communities that strip the grinding and "breed ten thousand to get the perfect nature and IVs" out of the game, but also strip the actual fun out of the game, where you can form a team in your browser, check to make sure it adheres to the unofficial rules set out by Angela Merkel, then battle people with ranked ladders. In your browser without needing a DS.
> Where you will see the same few pokemon appearing in almost every single team you fight.

That's why you have random battles where you have to make do with what the luck gods grant you.
In related news, Pokemon Go is so popular that Nintendo paused the app distribution since their servers couldn't handle it anymore.
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Post by Leress » Sun Jul 10, 2016 2:32 am

I'm Steel/Electric

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Post by Koumei » Sun Jul 10, 2016 5:31 am

Due to my phone basically being in its death throes and in need of replacement, I don't have Go. Also I'm not really the social type so I wouldn't be the one doing the awesome Team Rocket plan.
But I'm still kind of interested. Do you battle them, raise and train them and pat them and talk to them, or is it really just "See pokemon -> Touch screen to catch pokemon -> Gotta catch em all!"?

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Post by Prak » Sun Jul 10, 2016 5:53 am

More the latter. You wander around, catch pokemon by swiping on the screen to throw a ball at them (which is a bit more difficult than it sounds, the ball has to actually hit them), and then improve their Combat Points/evolve them by spending ingame currency (stardust and candies delineated by the individual pokemon, ie, charmander candies, rattata candies, etc) earned when you catch pokemon.
There are gyms where you can battle, but the battling isn't particularly similar to console game battles. Each pokemon has a basic attack it does when you tap on the opponent pokemon and a super move you can charge up by hitting the opponent with your basic and unleash by long pressing. Winning a battle increases the CP of the pokemon you used and gives you xp as a trainer.
So far as I can tell it's currently gen 1 only, but there's not a lot of "oh, you have to go find a burning building to catch a growlithe!" I've caught a growlithe at my college, and I assure you, there's no fire affinity there. Your trainer level influences what you can run into, but that's it.
It's fun, but it's not going to replace the console games. Also, there's no real need to socialize.
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Post by Koumei » Sun Jul 10, 2016 6:02 am

The socialising is specifically to steal people's pokemon.
Doesn't sound terribly interesting, though. I do like that the Westborough Baptist Church has become a Gym full of Fairy Type Pokemon and has basically been taken over, in the game at least, by gay people.

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