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spuds4ever · Mar 3rd, 2012, 6:14:42 AM

I think I must be looking at LC the wrong way, or it just changed so suddenly that I'm trying to hold on to the old LC, which I very much enjoyed.

I see now that gligar/misdreavus/murkrow aren't over-centralizing or over-powered (well, maybe a little bit :P ). My favourite aspect of LC before was just imagination and that you were able to use different and unusual pokemon effectively if you learnt how to play them. I just feel that the three severly hamper that. Anyway, as it seems there aren't going to be any rebans any time soon, I should probably just shut up and learn to play a different metagame :P

Sentimentality aside though, I think my main complaint is the importance of speed ties in a very offensively built meta-game. Usually at least 1/3 of a standard offensive team will hit the 19 speed mark meaning that luck has a larger say than usual in games. I appreciate Iss' point that eviolite creates pokemon capable of taking hits, but it just can really ruin offense's day. Just my 2 cents though.

Mar 3rd, 2012, 6:14:42 AM	#15
spuds4ever Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 665 UK	I think I must be looking at LC the wrong way, or it just changed so suddenly that I'm trying to hold on to the old LC, which I very much enjoyed. I see now that gligar/misdreavus/murkrow aren't over-centralizing or over-powered (well, maybe a little bit :P ). My favourite aspect of LC before was just imagination and that you were able to use different and unusual pokemon effectively if you learnt how to play them. I just feel that the three severly hamper that. Anyway, as it seems there aren't going to be any rebans any time soon, I should probably just shut up and learn to play a different metagame :P Sentimentality aside though, I think my main complaint is the importance of speed ties in a very offensively built meta-game. Usually at least 1/3 of a standard offensive team will hit the 19 speed mark meaning that luck has a larger say than usual in games. I appreciate Iss' point that eviolite creates pokemon capable of taking hits, but it just can really ruin offense's day. Just my 2 cents though.