???lol good joke
If you've read the past issues, you'll see the contributor pages give credit where it is due. Unfortunately the page was not, for some reason, done in time, but if they did not intend to do it they would have scrapped it. People are credited in the articles they write / create art for, and are eventually, if merited, recognised with the Smog Contributor badge. The contributor pages are a small part of acknowledging that, but they also acknowledge those who do editorial work.I also understand it takes time and effort to make the many components that are part of a webzine, but for a prospective contributor, it is extreme discouraging to see that proper acknowledgment of work is viewed as of a joke.
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The Smog Contributors - Issue #16
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<p>This page is dedicated to all of the people who worked extremely hard to make this issue of The Smog.</p>
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Fair enough on this one, especially because of Iron Fist boosting the damage by 20%. That said, Golurk's typing is rather unfortunate defensively because while it could hit targets like Ferrothorn effectively with Fire Punch and bulky waters with Thunderpunch, it doesn't offer that much more power than STAB Earthquake. Golurk is also slower than even slow threats like Jellicent and it doesn't handle Power Whip that well.Golurk should really have been listed as one of the new Pokemon that would benefit from the elemental punches, imo.
Yeah, but the mons that do get punches they're weak to tend to be Ground types, plus Golurk already gets Ice Beam and Thunderbolt (though Marowak does the same and didn't get IP but did get FP and TP). If anything, it'd fail to get Fire Punch (in which case you'd just use Hammer Arm if you wanted to hit Ferrothorn, though Thunderpunch would be the default against Skarm). You also missed Dragonite, who got Ice Punch as a tutor last Gen, heh.It probably wouldn't get Ice Punch. With the exception of Jirachi (Fire Punch), Nidoking/Queen/Rhyperior (Ice Punch), and Ledian (Thunderpunch), no Pokemon gets an elemental punch they're weak to.
Sweet, do you want to write the next one?If I may offer a suggestion, I think the BotW article should be more carefully written. Looking at the DPPt UU battle (which is the metagame I'm most familiar with), Bluewind took a big advantage because he caught Eo's spinblocker with Payback. Dusclops has no reliable recovery, so this is a big play. The article makes no mention of this however. Neither does it mention that Eo was using gimmicks - Dusclops and Cacturne are both solidly NU, and Steelix isn't exactly a common Pokemon either. Bluewind recognized this, which I'm quite confident is why he wrote "can you use a less trollish team". The article also failed to mention how Jibaku's Palkia just failed to KO trickroom's Ground Arceus (it went to 1%), which was when Jibaku lost the match. Therefore I think the article could be better written.
Don't let this criticism detract from what is otherwise an excellent issue, though. Keep up the good work!
Sure, I can do it. Just let me know.Sweet, do you want to write the next one?