Recent content by Just A Seaking

I think any discussion of Geeta needs to consider that she's not actually the final boss of Victory Road. Beating her is the stated objective of the story, sure, but the actual climax of the route's story is Nemona, not her. Nemona is Paldea's top trainer, and functionally the 'real' Champion...

I think it’s important to keep in mind that Poison is essentially the designated “bad guy” type of the game before Dark largely co-opted that role in Gens 2, and especially 3, after that. This is obvious with the Zubat line and the mono-Poison mons, who were enemy filler first and catchable...

I mostly agree, but only one gen 8 Mega is a pretty strange note to end on, similar to how Audino being the only gen 5 Mega or Diancie being the only one from gen 6 was pretty weird. Granted, Falinks seems to be a much better-received choice than Audino was, and a lot of gen 8 'mons have...

My ranking: 1. Chimecho 2. Baxcalibur 3. Lucario Z 4. Raichu X 5. Raichu Y 6. Zeraora I’ll be honest, outside of Chimecho (who’s great and I adore it) this has been a batch of Megas that is bafflingly bad. I have to assume that it’s because they’re focusing on safe marketable picks for the DLC...

I think PLZA turned my apathy for Pyroar into outright dislike? Like before PLZA, these two were just really unremarkable. Besides the gender dimorphism, these two are just nothing 'mons, with a bland color palette, mediocre stats, bad abilities, and a profound midgame energy...

You'll only be in sync with your Zeraora every other turn. Get ready to play around Truant, buddy. In all seriousness, I do think this is more likely to be flavor than something that actually affects gameplay. If it does manifest as an ability, maybe it'll be something like Moxie where you...

Even if Ansha absolutely needed an explanation... Diantha's a celebrity, I think it stands to reason that she wouldn't want to have her daughter in the spotlight. I think that would be sufficient justification for why we haven't known about Ansha up until now. The only thing we really know...

I was admittedly concerned about the Pokédex size before the game came out, but in practice I think it works out just fine - I never felt the game being constrained by a lack of variety in any category. Maybe one more line of each type could have padded out things a bit, but I don’t think that’s...

I've never really thought much of Starmie at all before Legends Z-A, but if you had asked me to describe Starmie in a word beforehand, I probably would have used the word elegant? Like Esserise pointed out, it has visual imagery associated with grace - geometric shapes, the gem, ocean and stars...

Waiter, waiter! More tierlists please! It's a bit of a top-heavy list, but honestly I'm just really happy with how this batch of Megas turned out overall; the only real misses for me so far are the Raichus, who both kinda underwhelm me and I feel should have been condensed into a single...

I was digging through the script and found something interesting about Mewtwo:

I posted that before we got to see the TM learnsets; it gets Dazzling Gleam by TM, so the STAB situation's been fixed. Hopefully it gets Moonblast going into Champions, it's odd that it's positioned as a Special tank but doesn't get the best Fairy move for both offense and defense.

Appreciate the correction, didn't realize that's what it referred to! I'll remain optimistic that Meganium gets what it deserves then

My main takeaways from the level-up learnsets are: Meganium just doesn't get Fairy STAB other than Disarming Voice; Moonblast is a tutor move, but it's got no access to it. If it doesn't get Dazzling Gleam TM compatibility, then it's just completely cooked. Light That Returns to Nothing is...

I need to see it in motion but this is an instant add to my team, holy shit. I demand an apology for the last decade of Barbaracle slander I have seen. We haven't seen them all in motion or color yet, but overall I'm extremely happy with this batch of new Megas - the only big miss for me is...