Recent content by deluge

Thanks for the input! Yeah, it'd definitely function more as a kind of late-game sweeper (similar to sub+pinch-berry ones) as you only get one shot. I was intrigued by the idea but I also wondered whether it'd be worth passing up Zapdos's excellent role as a non-passive bulky Pokemon. Anyway...

Hi all. I'm not new to the forum but I'm not an active player. However, I watched a video recently that had me thinking about Pokemon again, after which I theorymoned a set for one of my faves that seemed a bit interesting. So I'm looking for opinions from people who are actually playing. The...

Here's another possibly* unpopular opinion. (*Disclaimer: I have not statistically verified that this opinion is actually unpopular, I just suspect that some people may disagree) Opinion: In terms of design, Gen V was the last time we got a reasonably well-rounded and "good" trio of starters...

I was being sarcastic (hence the :P) How am I supposed to know what other people like? I guess I could do a poll first to find out if the opinion is genuinely unpopular? Then if it proves to be unpopular enough I can go ahead and post? But I didn't think we were being that persnickety here...

Not an unpopular opinion :P but: The Sinnoh games are the best; Gen 4 is the best Gen. It's the generation I remember most fondly and I probably sank more hours in to my copy of Pearl than any other Pokemon game. It could be "tinted lens" but I recall Sinnoh being both large and dense, and...

There's a fascinating gimmick that I saw mentioned elsewhere and I wonder if it could work. My guess is it could be somewhat unreliable but surprising when it goes according to plan. (I don't play much anymore so I'm not in a great position to judge myself.) So Dracozolt has Bolt Beak; a...

This one has always kind of bugged me both for flavor and competitive reasons. First, a sampling of some Druddigon's Pokedex entries: Clearly that's the description of a dragon that may want to "rush" into its foes. Yet it doesn't get the move Dragon Rush. Dragon Rush is a weirdly situated...

I like to contrast them with Sakurai who knows (or has learnt) what excites fans of his game. There have been very few sweeping mechanical changes between Smash4 and Ultimate yet hardly any Smash player cares. However, Ultimate has an unprecedented number of fighters and they keep adding more ...

When Pokemon Go has Megaevolution and the latest core games don't, having removed them for something arguably more powerful and less fun... I don't want to go off topic but I stumbled upon VGC videos on twitch the other day and double battles with Dyna- and Gigantamax worked out exactly how I'd...

I wasn't really following this announcement so the disappointment and dislike ratio on the youtube video surprised me. I think that's more a function of "hype" that was manufactured rather than the existence of the spinoff itself. Expectations were raised to a level that the product couldn't...

Wow. Reading the updates on Home in this thread I have to say that Gamefreak really justified my decision to jump off the Pokemon treadmill this generation. The reality (price, features) is worse than the most pathological predictions I would have come up with. It's strange enough that GTS...

I think the context explains why many people have been taking the Pokemon situation quite hard. Really, Nintendo has been knocking out the park on the Switch when it comes to most franchises. Splatoon, a new franchise, got a full-fledged sequel early in the life cycle of the Switch. Zelda got a...

I had to take a look at one of my favorite Pokemon designs: Hydreigon. It's a shame that it lost Roost but the new setup moves in Dragon Dance (and Nasty Plot) are interesting. It's base speed has always been a little unfortunate (98) but it really hates fairies and it's fast enough to get the...

I do think there is a certain irony that this is happening when Pokemon will be more expensive to play than ever before. Being on a "home console" (*wink*) these new games will be $60 as opposed to the $40 we used to pay for handheld Pokemon titles. Also, since XBox and Playstation owners have...