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Gen 5 Scizor and Heracross crying hallelujah at not having to carry the type on their back any more.
Speaking of which, I actually kind of like how Golisopod is designed with high stats but balanced by a gimmick because the gimmick isn't completely debilitating to it (deliberately at least), so Spin-offs like Pokemon Go don't absolutely knee-cap it in absence of the gimmick (Slaking, Regigigas, Archeops) and give it a really good place to play around.
yeah but it evolves into evil scientist ufo beetle so I will simply overlook this
The one thing I don't like about its gimmick is that Emergency Exit is literally Wimp Out.
If it could cancel the switch, I'd think it's great.
I still think a funny way to play would be a "Hit and Run" style where it turns every Golisopod move into U-Turn once it's below 50%
In Pokerogue it took quite a lot of time to implement Emergency Exit, so Golisopod just hanged around with no ability. Plus, given how battles work here, it can fire off First Impression at the start of every battle WHILE CARRYING STAT CHANGES FOR THE PREVIOUS BATTLES, including Swords Dance boosts! That was a pretty overpowered Pokemon to say the least, and they even gave it Anticipation as a HA to avoid having to deal with EE entirely.
Yeah not a fan when there's abilities that do the exact same thing with a different name, hi Shell Armor and Battle Armor.
im the opposite, if emergency exit was different from wimp out it'd be a much less interesting concept. the whole point is that golisopod is still the same wimp its always been, but its now backed up by an imposing aspect that it doesnt want to break, so it "emergency exits" instead of "wimping out"
To be clear I am the world's biggest Dottler stan, it's amazing how valuable early screens are in-game if you're doing a challenge run. Dottler has carried me before and I want him to come back to the series.
The 335 BST from levels 10-29 is just hilarious to me, because what, was Dustox too effective as a defensive bug type and you needed a worse spread than that?
(And then 335 is good enough ANYWAY)
can you imagine if they had some testers go "hey i was able to solo with this 360 bst middle stage bug" and the devs had to nerf it. dottler was simply too powerful
I agree with Bakugames, the joke of emergency exit just being wimp out is what makes it great. I remember during the marketing period, before Golisopod's ability was revealed, someone here commented how funny it would be if Wimpod evolved into such a cool looking mon like Magikarp into Gyarados, but was still a wimp and kept the same ability. I hope they were proud of themselves for basically calling it.
Really the only problem is that they called it "emergency exit" instead of "tactical retreat."* (Presumably a character limit issue, but still!)
*"Irish goodbye" would have also worked :P
This is really petty and I don't know if it's even an opinion but seeing TCG Pocket get so much more popular than the main TCG bothers me a lot, especially as the main TCG's landscape, for unrelated reasons, becomes more and more dominated by collectors - and more importantly, investors - rather than players. I have nothing against Pocket or its users and I'm sure I'm just being jealous or elitist or something but I can't help but be annoyed.
I wouldn't say it's unrelated, the paper TCG being in a poor state could easily lead to more people going to an alternate version. I know I'd rather draw a proxy for every card in my deck by hand than spend any amount of what's supposed to be hobby time interacting with speculation markets.
Dying to know which pokemon that first person is talking about
...is that a serious question? Truly one can never tell on the internet.
Stunfisk, obviously
I don't like Pokemon for being good competitively per se, but when I use Pokemon competitively (because they're good) I usually start liking them more and more. I never would've called Slowking-Galar one of my favorites, but from playing it in Gen 8 OU, I've become very fond of it. Dragapult's a beast in OU and the TCG, and every game I play with it, I like the Pokemon more. Hell, much of my love for Necrozma stems from playing NDM in Ubers and AG.
Def chose the right thread to post this in, didn't I...
No but fr it's actually unexpectedly interesting to me to see what specific things people hold up as a reason you should like a Pokemon or not. I had someone once (IRL) react to me saying that I liked a particular Pokemon by saying "ew, it has a 4x weakness!" which to me was the weirdest reaction ever. Like ...don't a lot of dual-type Pokemon have a 4x weakness? Is that really reason enough to go "it's bad"? Does that make everything else about it irrelevant...? But then I'm far from a competitive player, my actual introduction to Smogon the website was me looking up my chosen team of six from Pokemon Pearl and going "oh, these are all considered UU? I guess all my favourites are pretty crap"
Really this exchange just made me laugh because it highlights that there are largely two camps I think most Pokemon appreciators fall into: "it's cute" and "it's strong". Or alternately "idk I just like it" and "I like it because [function]".
This dichotomy even comes up in Pokemon Go of all places: my two closest friends who play the game are a world-class PVP champion and a complete casual who barely knows the names of anything post-Kanto but will happily do any raid or quest because "the new thing is cute".
No but fr it's actually unexpectedly interesting to me to see what specific things people hold up as a reason you should like a Pokemon or not. I had someone once (IRL) react to me saying that I liked a particular Pokemon by saying "ew, it has a 4x weakness!" which to me was the weirdest reaction ever. Like ...don't a lot of dual-type Pokemon have a 4x weakness? Is that really reason enough to go "it's bad"? Does that make everything else about it irrelevant...? But then I'm far from a competitive player, my actual introduction to Smogon the website was me looking up my chosen team of six from Pokemon Pearl and going "oh, these are all considered UU? I guess all my favourites are pretty crap"
Really this exchange just made me laugh because it highlights that there are largely two camps I think most Pokemon appreciators fall into: "it's cute" and "it's strong". Or alternately "idk I just like it" and "I like it because [function]".
This dichotomy even comes up in Pokemon Go of all places: my two closest friends who play the game are a world-class PVP champion and a complete casual who barely knows the names of anything post-Kanto but will happily do any raid or quest because "the new thing is cute".
This is especially interesting because it's judging Pokemon for their competitive merit but from the perspective of someone who evidently does not actually play competitive. It's someone who in most regards likely falls into the "it's cute(/cool/etc.)" camp arguing from the "it's strong" viewpoint.
Tangentially, what is with the idea of UU indicating low strength? This could be me mostly being a Monotype player, where normally-Untiered stuff has a tendency to be vitally important, but UU is still above a lot of other mons. It's effectively B tier. Shouldn't the perception of "bad" be lower down?
There were only four tiers in DPP: Ubers, OU, UU, and NU. UU feels stronger nowadays since there are two more tiers below it.