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Name: Redwolf on here, Ack or LedgenDairy on showdown
Tiers Played/Interested In: BW, CAP Monotype, ORAS (Cautiously)
Non-player roles: I can photoshop fun little team posters!
Any foreseeable inactivity: Don't think so :0
Smogon Username: Redwolf
PS Username: Ack
Preferred Playstyle: I can have fun with any playstyle and am frankly not experienced enough to pick a favorite
Experience: Frequent failed attempts at laddering
Timezone (GMT): -4 (EST)
Perhaps it's best to look not at what makes an opponent want to avoid fainting a pokemon, and more closely examine what makes an opponent want to faint a pokemon. If a pokemon puts on high offensive pressure, stat boosts, or sets up hazards, your opponent will want to faint it as soon as...
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Umbreonage
noobiess
DougJustDoug
V4LOVER
Quanyails
frenzyplant
Yess heal! I told you it was great :D
noobies has lots of individual flare, and I love where umbreonage went with it.
Quanny's and frenzy's were just a tiny bit too softcore for my taste, but literally everyone had great...
The definition of a check is you can't switch in, isn't that kind of implied o.o? Also, you were talking about my argument in it, so I assumed you were addressing me. A much more reasonable assumption then that you would use spore over rock tomb on a sash breloom or run a sash Terrakion :P...
Sash terrakion im laughing so hard do you even
Scarf Terrakion
Aka the fire/flying killer that nearly every fighting team packs
It checks talonflame omfg. Do you know what a check is, or do I have to explain that to you too?
Dude. You're only acknowledging shit solutions.
As if cobalion is all...
Okay so here's my update: I slightly improved quality by a decent amount. (Oxymorons yay!)
Non outlined blue
outlined blue
My question is more or less, is it a bad artistic decision, a badly done artistic decision, or both?
I wasn't really sure if I was gonna do this, but then I did so yeah.
So I was looking through these sprites, and I realized that I really wanted to make my submission just scream fire. Like. Right up in your face. In your ear. Shouting the word fire over and over.
And here we are.
I took...
The arguments here are getting ridiculous... Stuff like this isn't even a metagame balancing problem, it's a ban of anything that threatens types too much for those who favor those types... Type advantages are always a thing.
This is the problem people seem to have with talonflame: 3 types out of 18 have no solid counter, despite having multiple respective checks. What we need to address here is this:
Are we okay with 16% of teams having no end all counter to a specific pokemon, or is that a natural part of the game...
Gonna have to disagree with the implications treecko made with his calcs earlier. One bravebird is all terrakion needs to take to destroy talonflame.
Likewise:
4 Atk Cradily Rock Slide vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Talonflame: 364-432 (122.1 - 144.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Technician Breloom Rock Tomb...
Going with a short and sweet Knocktopus
nice lil name :P I'll edit with more ideas later if I come across any.
also antiochtopus and antiocto for the lulss
@TeamNormalizer
Your design is going to be at the top of my list when voting comes around. The design is amazingly balanced and clean, very reminiscent of first generation pokemon. Simplistic, and gives alot to look at without feeling cluttered. And it gets the water/fire balance just right! I...
It is fun! Usually.
Now let's talk about Lickilicky.
Platinum: The long tongue is always soggy with slobber. The saliva contains a solvent that causes numbness.
Wrap, Lick, and Power Whip all get a 40% chance to paralyze? (Lick already has a 30%, and I doubt it would be broken considering it's...