Recent content by Hugin

I love that, for all the hate it gets, no one is debating Hoenn. Because yeah, it's just good. The first 5 gyms are a legitimately fun pathfinding experience, and post-surf the game is all about letting you decide how much or how little you want to explore the water routes. There's issues, sure...

Have you ever been in a truly dark cave? Some people can't handle it, the silence, the utter lack of light. Their mind invents monsters to be afraid of, just so there's something to see. Me? I know what lives in the deepest reaches of the earth. My mind doesn't need to invent monsters. This...

I think this demonstrates different types of weak enemy AI problems. Larry using E!Revelation Dance despite Lightning Rod is a complex issue to solve. That specific edge case might be fixable, but there's 900+ moves, 300+ abilities, and lots of weird edge cases. Programming to avoid all of them...

Galvantula was on my team for a while, but I swapped it for the other spider(technically for Durant, but eventually for Araquanid). Also props to the one Umbreon, that's an obvious pick that everyone else including me overlooked. I was also expecting to see a few teams with Nidorina+Nidoking or...

The 3 mythicals would make sense for filling the role traditionally filled by sub-legendaries TBH. Base 600 BST isn't that far from 580, and you could do a lot with each of them. Tulip makes sense as either gym 2-3 or 8, but nowhere in between. Early is obvious. Gym 8...the way things are...

There's a few separate issues with using the official terms. Inertia. People have been using Starter Pokemon and Effort Value for so long that changing them isn't going to happen for a lot of people. Wikis are better at this than most sites, because redirects are so powerful, but you can still...

I try to avoid TOO MUCH internet drama, which means avoiding a lot of the places where it ferments. Also apparently they link your Smogon account and your Bulbapedia account if you use the same username on both forums, since it snagged my avatar for there when I created an account to complain...

They're moving to match the official terms for most things instead of the terms fans use, I assume the color changes are for the same reason. And it makes sense from the perspective of a wiki that has to track a LOT of detailed info, but also those colors suck and the official terms are ones no...

Of course not, Miss Jenny, I haven't seen my husband in over a week. Oh, I do hope nothing's happened to him. If you have any questions, I'd love to answer them. Spot of tea? This trainer is a perfectly respectable woman with a team of mons she loves very much. No, of course there's no sort of...

Run more than 6 mons. My 3-team run was great(and actually needed grinding at points), but even just running 2 teams is a big help against overleveling.

I wouldn't call this a mystery exactly, but what is UP with the SV Dex entries for the Florges line? Why did they bother with a different entry for each color? Why are the Red and White entries so consistent while the other colors seem random between evolutions? Why is there no solid format...

3 people used red(default, no surprise). One used White for a wedding-themed party. You used Blue because Poni Island. And I used Orange to color-match with Lilligant. I'm mostly annoyed no one found a reason to use Yellow and complete the set.

This week feels like the most Doubles teams since the mandatory Plusle/Minun in Kalos round. Was it just because Grass is so good at supporting other mons? My concept definitely could have been doubles, but in all honesty I was not up to that level of movesets this time around. There were a lot...

It was definitely a "we want a pure-steel with middling stats" decision. It's the counterpart to Sableye(the single type with the best defenses and the dual-type with no weaknesses, both based on monsters), so they were probably very constrained on how much they could deviate the flavor or the...

Legit my favorite challenge might have been the non-voted FRLG Dark one, where we had no Dark mons to choose from. I burned a really good team concept there and do not regret it at all.