There has been an estimated 90-110 billion humans to have lived, so there are plenty of already dead people to become Yamask. And we can't always trust the Pokédex.
There has been an estimated 90-110 billion humans to have lived, so there are plenty of already dead people to become Yamask. And we can't always trust the Pokédex.
1. I've noticed the middle stage evolutions of the starters don't have much of a following, often they're ignored since they're probably looked upon as just a bridging form between the cute basic stage and the awesome final stage. They're like the middle child that no one really knows what to think of them aside from being a stepping stone. Sometimes it looks even the artist doesn't know what to do as they figure out how to make it look like an evolution of the basic stage, logically would evolve into the final stage, and also try to have its own uniqueness. Though I do wish some of the things the middle starter did carry over, like I would like to have a Charizard with Charmleon's colors.I love stage 1 starters more than basic or stage 2 forms (Except Croconaw and Grovyle)
The 3D models were a disaster because 2013 wasn't their time to shine. So are Mega Evolution and Froakie cabs.
HATING PIKACHU AND/OR ASH KETCHUM DOESN'T MAKE YOU COOL.
I want Jynx to have its "black skin" even though it wasn't even flesh but emptiness (it collapses when it's fainted in...Stadium iirc).
The fifth generation was the best generation.
Inanimate object pokémon are original and somewhat creative, it is true that most of them don't look as appealing as a pile ofshi-water pollution with eyes.
4. I actually think Pokemon shouldn't have cared about the whiny people who claims to be offended.1. I've noticed the middle stage evolutions of the starters don't have much of a following, often they're ignored since they're probably looked upon as just a bridging form between the cute basic stage and the awesome final stage. They're like the middle child that no one really knows what to think of them aside from being a stepping stone. Sometimes it looks even the artist doesn't know what to do as they figure out how to make it look like an evolution of the basic stage, logically would evolve into the final stage, and also try to have its own uniqueness. Though I do wish some of the things the middle starter did carry over, like I would like to have a Charizard with Charmleon's colors.
2. The 3D images do look a bit choppy but I do think they're partially saved by the anime-like stylization. My gripe is that they have boring animations. Look back at past 3D games and you'll sometimes see the Pokemon doing something while standing there or do something interesting when doing an attack. But unless it's outright stated a Pokemon acts a certain way, most of the Gen VI 3D models just stand there. I'm hoping this is only because this is the first time the handhelds jumped to 3D and now that they have them models done they'll be able to do more with them (and maybe even give trainers in-game models).
3. I don't hate Ash, just hate how he's written. And I'm not asking him to become super competent, no, I'm just asking for the very least have him act like he's gone through 5 other regions and participated in their Pokemon Leagues! He shouldn't be surprised or now know things he had encountered before, being in a new region would supply plenty of new things and situations he hadn't encountered that you shouldn't need to.
And if you're going to make Pikachu lose have it be in a logical way, it shouldn't be losing to Pokemon it has a type advantage over. Honestly the first Gym shouldn't be the one Ash is having problems with, making him lose or having a really difficult time feels very forced. Just let the battle play out naturally.
4. Yup, in the Stadium games it looks like, at least in the eyes of the Stadium modelers, that Jynx was actually just a void with a face. Of course that was back in the early days and it looks like they might have decided it was skin? Well whatever now its purple maybe for all the better, or at least to stop people saying its black face. *shrugs*
5. Wouldn't say the best but it is my favorite.
6. Like anything if done right an inanimate Pokemon can look perfectly fine, but there are just some objects which no matter what people will tilt their head at, especially when done wrong.
I like them because you never know what Pokémon you're going to get. It's a surprise, just like opening a booster pack from the TCG.- For whatever reason, I really like the rental Pokemon battles in the battle facilities, particularly the Rental Tournament in the PWT. I guess I like them because you don't have to do any of that IV breeding bullshit that really puts me off from playing competitively on a cartridge.
No I agree with that too, partly because of the EV/IV bullshit you listed but also because non-rental battle streaks boil down mostly to "have a strategy for every possible opposing set, execute said strategy (whilst not having to worry about the AI which is for the most part very predictable), and hope not to lose to hax". Rental battles actually make you think rather than merely following a recipe for success.- For whatever reason, I really like the rental Pokemon battles in the battle facilities, particularly the Rental Tournament in the PWT. I guess I like them because you don't have to do any of that IV breeding bullshit that really puts me off from playing competitively on a cartridge.
There was a rental tournament???Here are some of my unpopular opinions:
- The Bulbasaur line is my favourite of the original starter trio, and the Squirtle line is probably my least favourite if I had to pick, even though I like all of them.
- I don't really mind the designs of the Vanillite line, and the Litwick line looks really cool and unique. I don't understand why people complain about Gen 5's designs when we got cool stuff like an electric tarantula and a dragon with giant axe fangs.
- I liked the cross-gen evolutions in DPP. In my opinion, Magmortar, Rhyperior and Yanmega look great, and the evolutions helped make previously forgettable Pokemon more relevant.
- I don't understand the hate for X and Y. Yes, it had some flaws, but it was also a big step forward for the series. A brand new type was introduced to help make Dragon types more balanced and Steel and Poison types less underwhelming offensively, Mega Evolutions gave a big boost to irrelavent Pokemon, and we finally got a 3D game and trainer customisation which fans have wanted for a long time. But the best part is being able to run immediately :)
- Speaking of X and Y, I quite like the designs of the 3 starters, although I initially wasn't keen on them.
- In my opinion, Clair is a more difficult Gym Leader than Whitney.
- I despise the Game Corner, not because of the minigames you have to play, but because of the absurd prices for the better prices. Want Thunderbolt for your Ampharos? Too bad, you'll have to get 10,000 coins in fucking Voltorb flip first.
- I really like Mega Beedrill and Pidgeot because they have cool designs AND make previously trash Pokemon useable. I particularly like Mega Pidgeot for the fact that you will never miss a move that normally misses constantly.
- HGSS had the best menu interfaces and overworld. Everything just looks so polished and lovely.
- For whatever reason, I really like the rental Pokemon battles in the battle facilities, particularly the Rental Tournament in the PWT. I guess I like them because you don't have to do any of that IV breeding bullshit that really puts me off from playing competitively on a cartridge.
Actually no Pokemon fan was offended. Changing Jynx to purple was honestly more of a "political" move more than GF admitting/fixing a mistake. I think the only person who was offended was Carole Boston Weatherford, who also pointed out Mr. Popo from Dragon Ball (though it did give us a funny joke in Dragon Ball Abridged). Now it was just her opinion and I don't think many people cared, but with Pokemon being a popular franchise and the News being opportunist hounds they jumped on the story and made it bigger than it really was. With this controversy possibly might convincing African decent families away from buying stuff for the franchise they changed Jynx to purple... further proving that Jynx isn't a racial stereotype since its color could be easily changed affecting nothing about it. *sigh*4. I actually think Pokemon shouldn't have cared about the whiny people who claims to be offended.
They could have just explained it, much like the Dutch Zwarte Piete remains to be black.
Pokemon should have evaluated how much percentage of the Pokemon fans population are offended, and whether the number is significant.
One of the Battle Tents in RSE had you use rentals; can't think of anything more recent, but yeah, that was a thing. (There was a rental tournament???
Think he was surprised PWT had rentals. Actually two, but one is just an extension upon the Driftveil Tournament.One of the Battle Tents in RSE had you use rentals; can't think of anything more recent, but yeah, that was a thing. (And Stadium.)
At least the official excuse was "we want to make everyone happy", said Ishihara to the Pokebeach interview, addressing Jynx's color change.Actually no Pokemon fan was offended. Changing Jynx to purple was honestly more of a "political" move more than GF admitting/fixing a mistake. I think the only person who was offended was Carole Boston Weatherford, who also pointed out Mr. Popo from Dragon Ball (though it did give us a funny joke in Dragon Ball Abridged). Now it was just her opinion and I don't think many people cared, but with Pokemon being a popular franchise and the News being opportunist hounds they jumped on the story and made it bigger than it really was. With this controversy possibly might convincing African decent families away from buying stuff for the franchise they changed Jynx to purple... further proving that Jynx isn't a racial stereotype since its color could be easily changed affecting nothing about it. *sigh*
I don't really get what you are saying here. You like the pentagon to avoid old tutor moves to be allowed in basically VGC only, because they were too OP. Mega Rayquaza with V-Create is a threat, but Rayquaza itself can't be used in any formats that require the pentagon, any "official meta", so you can't really say that you like the pentagon because it avoided Mega Rayquaza with V-Create to be running around in "official metagames", because it is not allowed in those anyways, pentagon or not. The only place you can use Mega Rayquaza is in Online Competitions that allow legendaries of any kind, and those anyways ignore the pentagon. I can't see any tutor moves that are really scary from old gens that would destroy the official formats. Wish Chansey, Follow Me Magmar and Electivire, and so on, would not completely alter the VGC metagame. Battle Spot went over well in XY without the pentagon rule, so that can't be used as an argument either. You say that they want to avoid those event only moves that flawless Pokemon with those moves almost have to be hacked, well, look at Halloween Gengar. Pentagon, with an ecxlusive event move (Sludge Wave), and you have to hack it to make it flawless. Extreme Speed Jumpfesta Linoone? Same thing. If they want to avoid that people "have use hacks in official formats" to use flawless Pokemon with these event moves, then they should not have given out Halloween Gengar or Jumpfesta Linoone. Also, they never nerfed Kangaskhan, I don't see where you get that from, Nintendo will never do anything like that, ever. Another thing, how does the pentagon prevent power creep? I thought power creep meant that there are stronger and stronger Pokemon and whatnot (read: Mega Ray, Primals, Mega Evolutions), how does the pentagon avoid that?Alright, I'm going to drop my unpopular opinion here: I like the pentagon. You know, the one that means only pokemon bred/caught/received in an event in Gen VI can be used in WiFi (I think)/official Nintendo battle events/whatever?
Alright, before I'm burned at the stake, let me explain my reasoning for this: Power Creep.
Yes, Power Creep. Even with Megas and Primals introduced this gen, I'm citing Power Creep as my reason for liking the Penta. Of course, I have to explain my reasoning for this too, and it actually has to do with Trading Card Games. From what I can tell, it is standard practice to only allow cards from the past couple of sets for official tournaments to prevent stupid OP combinations of cards from taking over the metagame. This also encourages diversity in the decks that occur, and effectively prevents power creep by making sure the power of old cards does not affect the power of new cards, and so new cards can compete without having to be ridiculously OP.
Of course, Pokemon is a completely different game than TCGs, but I think the same principle still applies. Yes, power creep came in the form of the pokemon themselves, but I think that's fixable. Nintendo has shown themselves not to be too averse to having balance patches (Smash Bros has been patched multiple times according to how the community meta has developed, preventing things from being overly centralizing), and has even done so with pokemon by buffing some weaker mons BSTs in Gen VI (and didn't they nerf Mega Kanga?...or was that just talk or was I completely insane and made that up in my head...?). BSTs and abilities can be changed between generations or even in the middle of one, but they can't do much with some other things. Now, I'm guessing the main reason for the whole penta thing was to prevent hacks as much as possible (the 3DS was unhackable when the penta was introduced, right?), but it also has another effect: it prevents pokemon with (old) event moves/old moves removed from a learnset from competing. This means that certain OP pokemon/move combinations are not legal in the "official" meta. Think of the absolute havoc some of these event moves would create with megas and whatnot - V-create M-Rayquaza? Terrifying. Certain other things became standard that were not necessarily intended - Wish Chansey comes to mind.
TL;DR - pokemon BSTs and abilities can always be changed to effectively scrub that power creep from the game. Pokemon moves that were introduced in some obscure event, and would have had to have been RNG'd or soft resetted to even have a hope of being on a competitive mon could suddenly have been made accessible to everyone on a perfect mon via hacking. The only way to prevent this would have been to introduce a similar system to the ones in the TCGs, meaning that some old mons would have had to been made illegal. It's not like they're preventing you from using those pokemon to breed or complete the pokedex or whatever you want with them, it's only in "competitive" or "official" play they're illegal.
So, in the interest of preventing power creep, I'm hoping for a similar mechanic in the next generation, a hexagon, or even a heptagon (because Gen VII, right :P), restricting pokemon to only those obtained in the current generation.
What I'm saying is more about meta diversity than anything. If you have one pokemon who's only job is to pass wishes to other mons, you have no reason to use anything other than wish Chansey, as if you just want a wish passer the higher the BP the better (of course, a dedicated wish passer is probably not optimal but w/e) (and V-create Rayquaza was just a stupid powerful mon with a stupid powerful event move I thought of off the top of my heads. Yes, it can't be used in VGC :P). This way, Nintendo doesn't have to look at X new pokemon they're introducing and say "we want X to do this, but Y pokemon does it better because of Z event move, so unless we give X something powerful to use over Y, no one will ever use it". It's easy to change the learnset of a pokemon, but hard to remove existing moves made illegal by said changes.Snip
I'm afraid that this last statement was already addressed in my previous post. As I said, it is easy and has had precedent to change what abilities or moves do, what pokemon have what BSTs, or what pokemon's movepools are between generations. It is not easy to get rid of all the old moves already taught to pokemon. The only feasible way to do so is to prevent all old mons from competing in the "official" meta, phasing out those old events, old movepools, etc. The "big" power creep can be easily patched out. The other kind of power creep - movepool power creep, is hard to remove. The penta is the only way I see to get rid of it and keep the moves on the pokemon, thus retaining those events for private use. Perhaps a better system would be to put in a ban on each pokemon forcing them to only use moves obtainable that generation, but that system seems extremely complicated and easily prone to mistakes. It would also take a ton of time and be annoying to code, so I can understand if GF doesn't want to do that...Aaanyway, I'm rambling, so ima end this post before it becomes too bad a wordwall.Another thing, how does the pentagon prevent power creep? I thought power creep meant that there are stronger and stronger Pokemon and whatnot (read: Mega Ray, Primals, Mega Evolutions), how does the pentagon avoid that?
The only particular moves anything got locked out of were Gen 4 Tutor moves, which affects very few mons (mainly Defog users), since every Gen 5 Tutor move is back in the Gen 6 Pentagon games anyway. Virtually every Pokemon legal in the Pentagon-only competitions is obtainable with a Pentagon via breeding, and in fact most people would rebreed anyway because of new combos that became possible with the breeding mechanics such as Belly-Jet Azumarill.I'm afraid that this last statement was already addressed in my previous post. As I said, it is easy and has had precedent to change what abilities or moves do, what pokemon have what BSTs, or what pokemon's movepools are between generations. It is not easy to get rid of all the old moves already taught to pokemon. The only feasible way to do so is to prevent all old mons from competing in the "official" meta, phasing out those old events, old movepools, etc. The "big" power creep can be easily patched out. The other kind of power creep - movepool power creep, is hard to remove. The penta is the only way I see to get rid of it and keep the moves on the pokemon, thus retaining those events for private use. Perhaps a better system would be to put in a ban on each pokemon forcing them to only use moves obtainable that generation, but that system seems extremely complicated and easily prone to mistakes. It would also take a ton of time and be annoying to code, so I can understand if GF doesn't want to do that...Aaanyway, I'm rambling, so ima end this post before it becomes too bad a wordwall.
Considering both its Attack and Special Attack are equal, maybe they thought it was going to be a mixed attacker (maybe with a lean to physical because, well, sword) so surprised to see it being used purely as a Special attacker?Special attack Aegislash facts never get old, let's be honest. Half of the moves a Pokemon gets are for role playing reasons, the rest are the intended use GF had for it. They apparently thought Aegislash was going to be a bulky swords dancer and only mimic the base stats with a ghost and steel move pool with some mineral egg moves attached and the odd but welcomed headsmash.
They really have no idea of what they are doing outside of the intended self balance inception for doubles.
In the interview they specifically mentioned they were surprised to see it use special attacks. Funnily enough they particularly point out Flash Cannon; which is pretty baffling as 1. It's a STAB move, 2. You literally just introduced Fairy-types, come onConsidering both its Attack and Special Attack are equal, maybe they thought it was going to be a mixed attacker (maybe with a lean to physical because, well, sword) so surprised to see it being used purely as a Special attacker?
Looking through Aegislash's movepool I can maybe see where they're coming from. For one thing it doesn't naturally learn any Special moves while even by TM or Tutor the only useful Special Moves it gets are Shadow Ball and Flash Cannon. But what they probably didn't realize is that's what it only needed. Shadow Ball is its strongest Ghost-type attack and its strongest Steel-type attack is tied with Flash Cannon and Iron Head (which is maybe why they're surprised by Flash Cannon, Iron Head is just as strong). Of course what probably gives Flash Cannon more of a push is that its secondary effect can happen any time while Iron Head needs to move first and with a Speed of 60 it's not going to (heck, I think 60 is considered too high for a Trick Room team). Also considering that King Shield lowers the opponent's Attack and there's Abilities like Intimidate it might be a better idea to use its Special Attack so that the opponent's can't mess with your strategy by doing some trickery with the Attack stat.In the interview they specifically mentioned they were surprised to see it use special attacks. Funnily enough they particularly point out Flash Cannon; which is pretty baffling as 1. It's a STAB move, 2. You literally just introduced Fairy-types, come on