Recent content by CynicalGiant

whoever guessed it would release in mid-October because that's when XY released in 2013, they were right lmao 12 years and 4 days after XY was released in 2013, crazy, I was in college when that released...

yeah but it evolves into evil scientist ufo beetle so I will simply overlook this

I just want to say that it has annoyed me for quite a while that Ledian and Ariados have BSTs on par with Butterfree and Beedrill as if they evolve at level 10 when they evolve at EIGHTEEN and TWENTY-TWO respectively it makes me so mad man why did they do this lol

you want the first gym leader to have an ace with 100 HP and 96 Special Defense?

I wasn't saying that it was, just that it was what made the controversy louder than it would've otherwise been. Lots of games release with scummy practices or horrendously bad graphics and have discourses that do not leave their communities whatsoever.

I really have a hard time believing the people who had Tyranitar in their playthru for Gen 2. Did people treat the survey like it's their dream team of Gen 2 mons and not what they actually used?

I think a lot of people's concerns they expressed at Sword/Shield are valid but I feel like the big reason the reaction was more intense in general was we went from 40 dollar games to 60 dollar games, and iirc the increase from 3DS to Switch was a lot more intense in other currencies. I'm not...

tryhard in this instance is more that there's a certain type of vocal pokemon fan that thinks if you like ugly or goofy pokemon that you are only using them for their stats or you are being a contrarian if you say you like them. Both of these pokemon are also used on Elite Four teams for the...

I used Crabominable in my first playthru of Gen 7 and Barbaracle in my first playthru of Gen 6... and yeah people do call you a quirky tryhard if you like them lol

I always get into the inspirations for pokemon and ever since I learned about this Ultraman inspired intro made for Staryu and Starmie it made me like both a lot more. I didn't used to care much because I thought "oh its just the funny starfish that goes HYAH" only learn to it goes HYAH because...

I'm still convinced the people who decide the stats and the people who decide the learnsets and movepool are often different people. Game Freak continues to give mons interesting or diverse TM selections for a stat that is not even remotely suited for it. I'm also so glad the series has...

I wanted to use Natu/Xatu in a playthru of Soulsilver but good god what were they cooking with this, I caught it because I love its design and never used it in Johto before but immediately boxed it after seeing its movepool pokemon with 65/70/70 defenses and 75/95/95 offenses, let's give them...

I think even the worst level curve and grinding 'requirement' in GSC is not as bad as Colosseum's.

if it ends up being actually a different AZ than the one from XY we should call this one AZed

this makes sense with the added context of the team that made Colosseum were all Dragon Quest people with limited familiarity in Pokemon. Dragon Quest loves forcing you to grind and subjecting you to random level spikes and encounters that are just designed to troll you. I think XD is clearly a...