Recent content by HighRollah

Wouldn't it be more entertaining to have more control over you ability to win a match? I mean, the match I posted is very telling. Had I been able to choose my lead pokemon it wouldn't have ended so quickly.

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/randombattle-90082677 Simply put, add team preview and allow players to chose which pokemon will lead. Its that simple. Not knowing which pokemon to save for counters or having a bad lead can literally mean the difference between winning or losing, no matter...

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/randombattle-81820923 Another unwinable battle. But one persons anguish at an unfair loss is meaningless in the grand scheme of randbats, right?

Thats why they have tie breakers. That hasn't proven anything. I know I lose some battles and it isn't luck. I never said every battle I lose was due to bad luck. I said there are many battles where its impossible to win due to luck, and those 3 battles I posted were all perfect examples...

Thats not true. If it was chess and checkers would end in a tie. But it doesn't. Obviously a lot of importance is placed on ranbats tiers as many people have been given voice rank from being high on the ladder. Something which I never received even though I fit the requirements multiple times...

I hope you looked through the battle logs I posted. I just added a new one a few seconds ago. Also, I know its random, and I know its luck. What rubs me the wrong way is people are treating it like its not just luck, or mostly luck, or even 1/3rd luck. It is AT LEAST 1/3rd luck, and having a...

In order for a game to be considered "competitive" in a sports sense by most of the worlds standards (which is why pokemon still isn't an e-sport while games like dota, starcraft, CS, sports games, and street fighter are all recognized e-sports) the outcome of the match needs to be based on...

I know it has been improved. I appreciate that very much, but it still doesn't change the fact there is a lot of luck involved, far more than the other tiers, and its ladder is not the most accurate representation of skill compared to the other tiers. Can you really not see this? The reason...

Is chess boring? I mean, we are scoring on a system used to score games where there is almost 0 luck involved. Should we randomly assign more or less points at the end of a battle as well? Also I'm not saying to get rid of randbats, but maybe put in a new game mode. Something people can play...

How about both teams are exactly the same, and you can choose which pokemon will be the lead? This was prediction will be the most important factor in winning, and while the common crits and hax and misses can still present themselves, there will be an equal opportunity for both sides to...

Its seems that for the most part the ladder rankings for everybody (aside from 1-3 people at very top) have been declining across the board. It use to be the ladder would be much closer for all competitors, but now the difference between the top 1-3 and the rest is at least 30 points (and 20-35...

Alright, maybe this is a scoring bug. My rank was 1799 points on random ladder, then the VERY NEXT BATTLE NOT 10 MINUTES AFTER I had lost a battle (which didn't bother me much) and it said my score was 1791, and then I lost 4 points (thats fine) so its 1787. Where did those 8 points go? My...

They detect smoke because of carbon. Carbon is in all smoke as thats what is left after an object burns (among other things) Since hookas don't "burn" the vaporized juices they don't produce carbon, and therefore its not unhealthy like smoking is (let me reiterate, hookas don't produce smoke...

Not quite sure how vaping tobacco works out, considering the higher temerature levels required to burn the tobacco leaf oils compared to marijuana oils... Also the juice for e-cigs is EXTREMELY cheap, and they sell concentrations up to 36mg per part, which is like taking three puffs of...

Nicotine is nice, but I recommend NOT going neat cigarettes to anybody interested. Same with chew. That still leaves pipes, cigars, hookahs, and my personal fave; e-cigs. For one reason or another these are generally safe alternatives to cigarettes as you never INHALE any of the smoke (I would...