Recent content by sockopath

Heracross is a Hercules Beetle, not a scarab.

I think of the tier system as it is as more of a guide to what's most useful and what you're most likely going to have to have answers to than a list of pokes that you absolutely need to use. The OU tier isn't a list of the ONLY pokemon that can compete at that level, it's a list of the ones...

Maybe that's why there are so many Bug Catchers in the games... to me that's just gross, I can't stand bugs. Apart from Heracross, he's fierce enough for me to ignore that he's a disgusting insect.

Direct quote from the Emerald pokedex entry: "It mimics a tree to avoid being attacked by enemies. But since its forelegs remain green throughout the year, it is easily identified as a fake in the winter." And from Fire Red's pokedex entry: "It disguises itself as a tree to avoid attack. It...

Do y'all ever read the pokedex entries or anything? He's a rock that's pretending to be a tree to outsmart his natural enemies, like Water pokemon and Ground pokemon, who would leave a Grass pokemon alone. Which is also why Bonsly evolves after learning Mimic, so he can Mimic a plant better...

I like that Dodrio has Steel Wing. Invisible Wings of Steel! And yeah, Mamoswine can Peck whatever it wants, I'm not gonna stop him =P

It would probably make Ice a little more broken, but I always thought it ought to be SE against water. I mean, water gets ice beamed, gets frozen. It really doesn't make sense to me that water RESISTS ice. I think that's just silly. What gets frozen more often than water?

Wow, yeah, I second Close Combat, it makes me inordinately happy when I use it, it's like crack, I just can't stop abusing Scarfcross CC....

That just got me thinking, do we know how Zoom Lens works on the switch? Does it go off of the speed of the poke that switched out, the poke that switched in, does it always work because switching always goes first, or does it not work at all? Cuz a lot of the time when someone sees a Tangrowth...

I don't think TTar's improvement is really that significant when you consider that he was at such a high level last gen. It's like going from an A to an A+, whereas as Breloom and Gyarados went from C's to A's. It's all pretty relative, cuz virtually everything benefitted a lot from the...

I've heard that excuse a fair few times, but it occurs to me that if you had a life, you wouldn't bother spending time/energy/money on an AR and hacking a pokemon in the first place, especially taking care to make sure it's within the limits of the game. In fact, that speaks more to people...

@Zero.EXE: I've been using a sweeper Togekiss in the Battle Tower very successfully recently. I was using the original flinch-hax set (Air Slash, Aura Sphere, Nasty Plot, Thunder Wave) with Timid and 252 Sp.Att/252 Spd, but I actually never use T-Wave, so I just switched to Flamethrower to...

Haha, i got almost that same Suicune. Bold, 31/0/0/1/0/0

I've been using Starmie in all my teams since R/B/Y, and Heracross since R/S/E (didn't play G/S/C). Also Togekiss has become one of my most important team-members, especially in the Battle Tower, where it manages to sweep 80% of the trainers I've battled, tho my record is still only 68 wins =/

Ok, I want to breed a Cubone with Fire Punch. I have access to all the games except Sapphire and Diamond, but only one GBA and one DS (and a Gamecube), so I was planning on transferring Marowak from XD to Emerald, then teaching it Fire Punch, then transferring it to Pearl and breeding it with my...