The Mind Electric
Calming if you look at it right.
Alright, now you've gone too far. Flexing on people who don't exist? Come on, dude.
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SPOILERS! Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Data Dumps
- Thread starter DHR-107
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Holy shit, I am loving all the crazy nonsense I am seeing from these gym leaders and elite 4 and bosses. This made me go from "Eh, I'm good on games until January" to "I NEED THIS INJECTED INTO MY VEINS RIGHT NOW!" Jupiter's damn Skuntank having flamethrower just to melt that gift Jirachi you got... I need it!
Red Raven
I COULD BE BANNED!
Yeah but a lot of people keep yapping it's Red. Not necessarily on smogon and it's mostly on other platforms like fb for example
ILCA how did you make a Power Whip Mr. Mime with 0 IVs in Attack to boot? I want to unsee it.
It's like some of the teams are these MLG high competitive serious teams, and then you have complete memes like this.
ILCA is either 2000 IQ or -50 IQ and I can't tell which.
The Mind Electric
Calming if you look at it right.
You're damn right it does. I'm going to greatly enjoy constructing teams to beat these hard post-game fights.Pokémon games so bad lately that a hard mode in boss fight rematches is what saves a game for some people
In both cases, you can nonetheless tell that the peeps at ILCA who designed the boss fights were clearly having the utmost fun with it.
A large portion of the work that went into this game clearly went into making the boss fights difficult, and at the very least incredibly fun with many well designed movesets, EVs, and items, as well as a few jokes and memes here and there which they clearly put in for the lulz and for some comedic value, which will also be funny in and of itself when we see them in action.
This is gonna be incredibly fun to play. This is an impressive post-game, to say the least. Some absolutely GOATed Trainer battles that are fairly repeatable, sign me up! Not to mention the expanded Underground and Super Contests being better than ever, this will be a fun time.
A large portion of the work that went into this game clearly went into making the boss fights difficult, and at the very least incredibly fun with many well designed movesets, EVs, and items, as well as a few jokes and memes here and there which they clearly put in for the lulz and for some comedic value, which will also be funny in and of itself when we see them in action.
This is gonna be incredibly fun to play. This is an impressive post-game, to say the least. Some absolutely GOATed Trainer battles that are fairly repeatable, sign me up! Not to mention the expanded Underground and Super Contests being better than ever, this will be a fun time.
I think that's just because most of the time you end up 10-20 levels below him
Red Raven
I COULD BE BANNED!
Exactly. Red was never a difficult challenge. He was just a massive pain in the ass because his mons are high level. In all honesty, he was never really difficult. Just pure and utter time consuming. All pokemon games are except maybe for bdsp if all these info are true
You will probably be over leveled by Wake or Maylene since they have lv 27 mons with 1 lv 30
Absolute worst case scenario. All I wanted from this game was to teach Carnivine Snap Trap and watch Cynthia apologists break down in tears.
0/10. The simps feel validated, and that bothers me.
You see, Red is different from most trainers in that he completely skyrockets the level curve to an unprecedented level. Combine that with the relatively meh pace of HGSS? You’re going to be there a LONG, LONG, time if you wanna catch up to him.
So that’s it, really. Red’s levels, and by default his difficulty are all results of an absolutely bonkers jump in level compared to like, Blue or somethin.
You don't need to beat everyone before the 5th, Byron is the bigger question mark. That loop between Hearthome-Veilstone-Pastoria is where things went bad on DP's curve.
Nah fam, objectively that title is hers. Cite me a better constructed NPC team than this one right here:
| Spiritomb | 84 |
| Pressure | Sitrus Berry | Shadow Ball / Dark Pulse / Will-O-Wisp / Sucker Punch | |
| Porygon-Z | 85 |
| Adaptability | Expert Belt | Hyper Beam / Shadow Ball / Ice Beam / Thunderbolt | |
| Togekiss | 86 |
| Serene Grace | Leftovers | Air Slash / Dazzling Gleam / Aura Sphere / Thunder Wave | |
| Lucario | 86 |
| Inner Focus | Focus Sash | Close Combat / Meteor Mash / Earthquake / Extreme Speed | |
| Milotic | 84 |
| Marvel Scale | Flame Orb | Recover / Mirror Coat / Ice Beam / Scald | |
| Garchomp | 88 |
| Rough Skin | Yache Berry | Dragon Claw / Earthquake / Swords Dance / Poison Jab |
Go ahead, I'll wait.
I wouldn't say it's the best, but it's definitely top percentage.
The Mind Electric
Calming if you look at it right.
My guess is via some sort of nonsense in the Grand Underground.
Nah it's the best. Nothing can stand against the might of a man with comfortable shorts and a purple rat
CTNC
Doesn't know how to attack
On one hand, -_- On the other hand, I'm not joking when I say I almost lost to Joey in Soul Silver.
I'm also not joking when I say I full heartily think some kids are going to get their souls crushed by the Final Garchomp, even with a Level 100 Team. If anyone wants to make it even better/worse, try going through the entire Elite Four without healing between battles. 30 Pokemon, Zero mercy. I know I'll try that if I get Brilliant Diamond and I hope to remember to keep a death counter.
(credits to god Hematite for this incredibly comprehensive doc)
loving the absolutely wild set of challenges these boss trainers seem to have tho, really looks like it's gonna be making up for perma exp share which would kinda screw over the level curve the original games had set. it's kinda relieving tbh haha
Yung Dramps
awesome gaming
We're all rightfully shitting ourselves at the rematch teams among others, but I just want to praise something of an "underrated gem" that's gotten buried in the crossfire: Saturn!
They took one of the lamest boss teams and managed to renovate it into a delightfully memey Rain stall battle of all things while keeping to the DP team composition.
They took one of the lamest boss teams and managed to renovate it into a delightfully memey Rain stall battle of all things while keeping to the DP team composition.
The Mind Electric
Calming if you look at it right.
You can't convince me that this game isn't an elaborate shitpost.