Recent content by Neil Arthur Hotep

  1. Single-player versus multiplayer

    I am aware of the games, and was even briefly thinking about them as I was writing. I actually owned Colloseum at the time it was released, but never finished it. I remember not liking it much at the time, which is why I did not mention it at first, but suspect that I would like it now. On the...

  2. Single-player versus multiplayer

    I always found it difficult to pinpint what exactly I enjoy about the single player experience of Pokemon games. It certainly is not the story, which was barely there in the first two generations, and (at least for me) got too full of cliché anime power of friendship in the later games to enjoy...

  3. Challenge One of the hardest Pokemon questions of all time

    That depends on your reading of the puzzle. I agree that it would be a natural assumption, but the conditions might just be assumed to be in effect when the 1v1 begins. It is not specified that there can be no additional conditions present, only that the battle should be 1v1, and that we are not...

  4. Challenge One of the hardest Pokemon questions of all time

    Regarding Skill Swap Colour Change, unless I have made a mistake concerning game mechanics, I believe the analysis I did actually proves that it cannot work as a solution. You can see it here. It is of course possible that there is no solution to the puzzle, but there is not yet proof that...

  5. Challenge One of the hardest Pokemon questions of all time

    You are mistaken here, Entrainment is reflected by Magic Bounce. If Octillery uses Entrainment on Espeon or any other Magic Bounce 'mon, Magic Bounce will trigger, make Espeon perform Entrainment, and give Octillery Magic Bounce. This happens with all moves that can be used to remove an...

  6. Challenge One of the hardest Pokemon questions of all time

    Every Soak user (so, also Octillery) is blocked by Magic Bounce, unless they have Mold Breaker (or Skill Swap). However, it is correct that Soak is blocked by Multitype as well; I did not previously take this into account. So now a set to solve this puzzle that uses Soak also needs to have a...

  7. Challenge One of the hardest Pokemon questions of all time

    I signed up just to post this. I have been thinking about this puzzle a lot, and have taken a bunch of notes on it. I want to share them with others to see if I overlooked anything, and just to provide a nice overview of possible solutions to the puzzle, why they don't work, and what it would...
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