Pokémon General Thread

Yeah. The rest of the world will probably get it this month or next month.

Ouch

To me, Zoroark seems to work best as an Assist Trophy. It can clone you and go on its own attacking other targets and would be Friendly Fireproof.

On the other hand... that might be more harm than good, at least when the Player uses it. When the Computer uses one...

For those of you with Shiny Wishmaker Jirachis, they can now be transferred through Poke Transporter. Probably because of the Tanabata Jirachi event.

Cool.

This feels cruel, somehow

I don't see it.

Why was the link changed?

Well, that was amusing. So much for all those setup sweepers, huh?

It's been a while since I've played random battles, but I remember winding up with a Ledian once and having it be surprisingly useful (meanwhile, my opponent in that match had a Deoxys-D and I believe a cover legendary or two. What gives?).

In other news, Aegislash has been officially banished to Ubers on Smogon. D=

I'm starting to write his Game Breaker entry now.

Can't say I'm surprised. Now imagine if Steel didn't have its Generation VI defensive nerf. Actually, I'm not sure if the difference would be huge, nearly non-existent, or in-between.

I bet Steel was nerfed largely because of Aegislash. If you couldn't hit it hard with Shadow Ball or Knock Off, then the viable ways to beat it would be even smaller. I'll miss it on Showdown, as I enjoyed the Sub Toxic set greatly. Oh well. I've still got two kickass Aegislash I've raised on my cartridge.

That's not fair.

This is why I'm glad I don't play using Smogon rules.

I don't even know what the Smogon rules are. I just do stuff

Funnily enough, Steel's nerf makes Aegislash's own Shadow Balls really painful against Skarm and other Steel-types.

(Man, I feel like saying that Steel is an OP type. 3/8 bans from OU are Steel, that's almost half. And next up is Mega Mawile, so that's 4/9)

edited 2nd Aug '14 1:43:19 PM by ironcommando

That's why I made it a point to find some pokemon with good Fire attacks to counter the OP Steels.

RIP Smogonsword.

I find it amusing that they're going to try banning Mawile.

Honestly, I love Mawile, but it's crippled by anything that can burn it.

I ignore smogon anyway, because I play on the cartridge and play doubles anyway. And I think they're all a bunch of egotistical jerks, but I think that way about most people who are in charge of metagames.

To be fair, they never say that they're the only way the metagame can be played.

Honestly thinking of Smogon as egotistical jerks makes no sense, it's not like they ban everything that causes even a little trouble for them, they do a lot of tests to see if whatever the Pokémon needs to be banned or not, it's not just something that happens immediatelly. Just because they have an influence on meta doesn't mean they're just going to change things to whatever they see fit, especially since it's a pretty large community.

Smoogen in three words:

• Stop
• Having
• Fun

I am really sick of seeing people call Smogon that whenever it's mentioned. Like I said, it doesn't force its rules down everyone's throats. And it doesn't belittle people for not using their rules.

Plus, Smogon also does more than just metagame stuff, like RNG abuse, Instacheck(not the program that let you see everything about your opponent's team. That was someone on a different site.), and worked on Pokecheck some, IIRC.

I have absolutely no idea what Smoogen is.

Anyway, part of the reason Smogon bans things is to keep things fun, at least in accordance to what their userbase wants. People found Swagger unfun because it turned matches into dice rolls. M-Mom was banned because she steamrolled most of the meta by herself, and it wouldn't be fun if every team needed Sableye, Cofagrigus, or Ferrothorn.

I didn't check the exact reason, but I think Aegislash was banned because it was incredibly centralizing, insanely strong, and hard to kill. I don't know if I agree myself, but I haven't been playing Showdown much, so there's not much I can argue about.