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Post by AndreiChekov » Wed Apr 15, 2015 3:56 am

Wally is a joke. I remember him being dangerous and stuff when I played Emerald.
This time around I wiped his team with an altaria. cotton guard and his shit couldn't do anything.
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Post by Shrapnel » Thu Apr 16, 2015 2:34 pm

Well, keep in mind that in Gen III, the mechanics generally worked against the player, so that made battling very difficult unless you metagamed the fuck out of your stats.
Since Gen IV, you could go through the entire game with bad to mediocre stats and still beat the game.
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Post by AndreiChekov » Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:08 pm

> Shrapnel wrote:Well, keep in mind that in Gen III, the mechanics generally worked against the player, so that made battling very difficult unless you metagamed the fuck out of your stats.
> Since Gen IV, you could go through the entire game with bad to mediocre stats and still beat the game.

3rd gen also had giant level jumps between areas, and annoying as hell grinding that took forever.
That being said, I've still had an easier time with fire red nuzlockes than any other game. I still haven't beaten Y yet. I entered that game blind, purposefully avoided all spoilers and knew nothing about the pokemon until I played it.
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Post by Shrapnel » Fri Apr 17, 2015 12:37 am

I'm also not a Nuzlocker (where'd that term even come from?), so I don't have as much difficulty with the game.
But yeah, Gen III was really grindy. And it didn't help that it was slow as balls to gain EXP.
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Post by AndreiChekov » Fri Apr 17, 2015 3:26 am

http://www.nuzlocke.com/pokemonhardmode.php?p=1
It comes from that comic. It is funny, you would probably enjoy it.
Nuzleaf looked like a character from Lost. So, that is where the name comes from.
I just lost all of my pokemon to the elite 4. That walrein used sheer cold on my Gyarados. I was trying to dragon dance into the infinate realms of kill all things one hit.
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Post by Shrapnel » Fri Apr 17, 2015 4:35 pm

You were right, that shit's hilarious. I especially love the faces.
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Post by AndreiChekov » Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:24 pm

> Shrapnel wrote:You were right, that shit's hilarious. I especially love the faces.

If you don't have allergies to Deviantart.com you can find nuzlockes on there. A lot of them are shit though, and taking the time to find good ones is a pain.
However, I have found 2 others that a really good.
A Petty Nuzlocke, is an emotionally driven story with plenty of comedy.
In Black and White (this is usually abbreviated) is a grimdark horror story where pokemons are monsters and people are evil and shit. In fact, it doesn't have very much to do with pokemon at all, but it is a gripping story and the art style manages to make the electric gym leader and bianca look pretty.
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Post by Darth Rabbitt » Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:56 am

Ville's Emerald Nuzlocke is pretty good, although it is unfinished.

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Post by Shrapnel » Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:52 pm

Shrapnel sad that Ruby: Hard Mode not update in three years. Much sad.
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Post by Shrapnel » Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:45 pm

They're making a new Mystery Dungeon!
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Post by OgreBattle » Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:05 am

I made a team of every pokemon I hate facing in Pokemon Showdown, after a day of playing I'm 200pts higher on the ladder than I am with the team of Pokemon I like using.
-Heatran
-Azumarill
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Post by Koumei » Tue Jun 02, 2015 9:34 am

They're generally considered good pokemon, aren't they? It's been a while but a few of those I recall seeing on guides as "Take this move just to deal with Heatran" and so on.
The playable starter list for the new MD seems pretty good. It's basically what you'd want for that kind of thing (plus maybe Eevee?) Shame that Axeface didn't make the cut this time, but I'd be quite okay just with those twenty. If I still had my 3DS, that is.

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Post by Whipstitch » Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:24 am

I nominate Rotom-W for that last spot. That little asshole's typing is pretty annoying when tag teaming with lando and heatran. I'm sure there's better choices strategically, but when I think of pokemon who exist mostly to piss in my cheerios he's one that comes up.
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Post by Koumei » Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:59 am

When I think of pokemon I hate to face, I think of the single player game, so naturally I think of:
6x Zubat (okay, go Crobat), all with a Focus Sash. Moves can be Confuse Ray and any three other things.
I ran that as a joke, and got utterly wiped out except for a couple of lucky KOs (thanks to Confusion), but it was funny. In reality you want Rotom-W as Whipstitch nominated. Or maybe just a suicide-bomber Talonflame or something, they can be frustrating if they get a good streak going, and are considered pretty good. Other candidates for "People hate this" include Aegislash and Prankster Klefki, but you're already running two partial Steel types there.

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Post by Maxus » Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:10 am

Confuse Ray and that old favorite, Toxic.
And something to paralyze pokemon.
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Post by Koumei » Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:00 am

Pretty sure Paralysis and Poison don't stack, but Confusion stacks with both, and Flinch moves work well with either, so Confuse Ray, Toxic, Bite, Whatever-Drain could be acceptable for maximum annoyance.

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Post by Prak » Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:04 am

You could throw in Venoshock too. Toxic, Confuse Ray, Venoshock, Gigadrain could work out.
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Post by Koumei » Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:34 am

70 SpAtt isn't too good, but I suppose it could work, and that makes Giga Drain actually useful and not "the fourth move". On the off chance enemies can't just wipe it out. You could even make half of them SpAtt based (Toxic, Venoshock, Confuse Ray, Gigadrain), the other half Att based (Poison Fang, Confuse Ray, Venom Drench, Pursuit/Bite/U-Turn/Zen Headbutt). If the RNG favours you, it's hilarious (if frustrating for your opponent). Otherwise they sweep you 6-0 and it's still pretty funny.

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Post by Maxus » Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:37 am

You need Mean Look so they can't switch out to remove the confusion.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
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Post by Koumei » Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:31 am

Honestly, if they spend all their time switching, that's opening them up to Pursuits, and that's time they're spending not attacking you. Indeed, if something decides to Sword Dance a bit, then it's going to either punch its own head off or switch out and lose the buffs.
But you could also trap it into a poisoned, confused, flinching mess that can't switch out.

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Post by Wiseman » Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:32 pm

> Shrapnel wrote:They're making a new Mystery Dungeon!

Sweet! More material!
Keys to the Contract: A crossover between Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Kingdom Hearts.

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Post by AndreiChekov » Sat Jun 06, 2015 4:44 am

Back when 5th gen started, I used to use an eviolite nasty plot golbat in UU
Gigadrain, Roost, Nasty plot, and some other shit
It was my cleanup sweeper
This team also had a butterfree lead. Quiver dance twice and you can get a little over 400 spd. ~520 s.atk.
And people always expect it to have a choice scarf.
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Post by Shrapnel » Tue Jun 09, 2015 2:36 pm

So, a new trailer has been released for the upcoming Mystery Dungeon game (it's in Japanese).
Apparently they've brought back that fucking retarded personality quiz that determines what Pokémon you start out as, because everyone just LOVES randomly guessing answers in a futile attempt to get the character you want. Jesus mothershitting fucking Christ weeping in a fucking handbasket.
I really want to hit something right now.
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Post by Koumei » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:03 am

It's stupid, and people can just take a "What Pokemon Are You?" test online (seriously, there are probably more such tests than there are pokemon), but all you need to do is wait for someone else to play it and map out the "correct" answers. And unless you have a Japanese 3DS and order the Japanese version and all that, Serebii or something will do that before you can play it.

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Post by Shrapnel » Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:21 pm

What really gets me though is that the previous game DIDN'T have the stupid ass quiz, and let you pick what Pokemon you wanted. And now they've reverted back to this draconian bullshit.
I mean, what the hell?
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