Recent content by Wukong

Bronzong is kinda what Probopass wishes it was in Platinum. Clear defensive identity across typing, ability and movepool. Even if about even statistically. Thunder Wave utility and that Fantina matchup are great. But it falls off a cliff after that. Not that Bronzong is winning many awards...

Idk if this is a hot take. But I think Gecqua is a top 3 first stage starter design. I love everything about it. The contrast of the beautiful colored eyes with the rest of its body. The water droplet motif embedded throughout. The smirk on its face. Just drips personality. Very hopeful for...

True, I forgot about that. As part of the rabbit hole I came across a better screenshot: My (I guess) unpopular opinion is this is why Red and Blue will never lose their appeal. This level of goofiness is too damn charming. Kingler with two massive claws depicted as a Kirby with fins...

This took me down a rabbit hole. No pun intended given male Nidoran are somewhat based on rabbits. I think that icon in the screenshot representing the Nidorans is most visually reminiscent of Nidoking and Rhydon. Probably Rhydon. It always felt more linked to Nidoking for me though. You can...

Yeah, I always thought this was a dumb argument against Platinum especially. There's a huge difference between saying team composition is bog standard due to high quality early game options versus dearth of overall options. Platinum absolutely "suffers" from the former not the latter. You...

Resurrecting this thread to make a point about Platinum's regional dex. Platinum's dex is good overall but I don't think it's better than B2W2's as I wrote about here. This is mainly due to Pokemon distribution. But more specifically, I want to bring up Ice types. It's been written about...

I hardly think I have to explain this. But anyway. Its bulk is the most underrated thing about it. Can usually tank at least one neutral hit then proceed to confuse, poison with Poison Fang, etc. Not to mention its decent speed to abuse flinch hax in quite a few matchups. An infamously...

Shinx's ability is an all or nothing proposition. Either it's Intimidate, one of the best abilities in the game. Or Rivalry, which as a female nerfs a litany of matchups. And as a male, screws up one of its biggest potential matchups versus Cynthia's Milotic.

In transitioning from GSC to HGSS they also added two levels to everything on Lance's team other than his level 50 Dragonite...while they kept the levels static for every other Johto Elite Four member. It's just amazing to me that they looked at that fight and thought to themselves that was a...

This is the only one that's a little surprising from your post. I would've thought B tier. By running Gliscor you're already planning to invest the Earthquake TM, and it might be the best candidate for it in the game aside from Garchomp. Plus Faint Attack right before Fantina, Razor Fang &...

We can agree to disagree on the OoT vs. Platinum thing because it's just circling the drain at this point. But this point I actually agree with and is supported well by your subsequent post (assuming the 80% is an exaggeration obviously). I made a similar point years ago that Gen 5 seemed to...

The DP point is a bit of a red herring for reasons I've already covered, so refocusing on Platinum - There's obviously a difference between "comparing" and analogizing as I was in this post. Zelda as a video game franchise is in a different class compared to Pokemon. The former has produced...

Yeah, credit where credit is due. Even Ruby & Sapphire were quite fluid for being on a new hardware. I thought those were remarkably well made games for their time actually and set a good foundation for Emerald to build upon. Unlike Diamond & Pearl, which is the first time I thought the series...

This is why I like this forum. Because it challenges and lends perspective to my pre-conceived notions. I wrote here about my criteria for judging Pokemon games. But I forgot about one - technical prowess. And this is unfortunately where Platinum falters. As a Zelda fan too, the OoT analogies...

As a Platinum fan, this is an excellent post. It almost makes Platinum's case as much as it detracts from it (the map design is explained brilliantly well). Not much else to say other than I appreciate this balanced, comprehensive critique of my favorite game in the series.