Pokémon General Thread

That'd be awful. It'd be impossible to do any sort of challenge run that requires you to abandon your starter, or even just- heaven forbid -not use a starter Pokemon as a core team member. I enjoyed White 2 a lot because I ditched my starter and made my whole team out of stuff I actually caught.

I really think the idea of battling being cruelty to pokemon is pretty against the evidence. Leveling increases friendship and affection helps in battle. The pokemon (after a while) are clearly happy with the arrangement, although I do think the story should reflect that more. But there is evidence of sort - look at AZ's Floette, who was entirely aware of its owners mistakes but eventually forgave him, or Lati@s coming to Brendan/May for help and wanting to go with them.

I think the pokemon should be more clearly emotional though. Have them come out in cutscenes and help the player more obviously. Have something like a darker villain aiming a weapon or attack at the player and one of their pokemon bursting out to block it, or a sleep cute with their pokemon sleeping next to them after beating the elite four or something. It could be put into the mechanics too - have a critical capture say "the pokemon wanted to come with you" or similar.

So basically this is a matter of gameplay and story integration.

The problem with that is that including Pokémon in cutscenes has the problem of it needing to be a Pokémon you have in your party. It would take forever to do an animation for each Pokémon in every cutscene they are in. It's just not practical when we're working with 3D models.

Which is why is said you would have to force a Pokemon like your starter into your party until the post-game. People would complain about it, but it's something I could see Gamefreak doing.

I particularly wouldn't mind it since I can't bring myself to ditch my starter anyway, but yeah, people would probably complain about it.

It might help if there were a wider selection of starters, as there are in the MD games.

I don't usually switch my starter out, since I like having it around, but I could see people getting kinda up in arms about this, and for solid reasons.

In other news, this was fairly good match I played just now.

Man, the Showdown sprite for Mega Steelix looks really jumpy.

It's always fun looking back on the old Red/Green sprites to see how badly they can be misinterpreted.◊

O.0

Wow, that is rich.

When is that Pikachu detective game being released?

We haven't heard about it since it was first talked about, so we don't even really know if it's being released.

If it doesn't get mentioned this year, I will kill myself.

but machops don't learn any suicide moves

Turtle dad.

Weezing can't learn Gunk Shot? This is worse than the Flareblitzeon catastrophe!

is weezing even a physical mon? only time i seen it, its used flamethrower n stuff

Weezing's physical attack is barely higher than its special attack (90 compared to 85), but its special movepool is much better than its physical movepool. As such, it generally goes special.

Though Weezing is hardly ever used as an offensive Pokemon to begin with; it's mostly used as a physical wall thanks to its high base defense, good defensive typing, and good support movepool (which includes Will-O-Wisp and Toxic Spikes).

edited 2nd Mar '15 8:05:16 AM by Yomegami

Yup. I think I'm gonna run it Will O' Wisp/Protect/Pain Split/Sludge Bomb or something, but then I'll have only two physical attackers on my team. And that's really annoying.

The rest of the team is...a Poison monotype team. :D So you can see why Weezing (and Drapion) is kind of a necessity. I'll probably use them mostly in Battle Spot, but I'll also play whenever I can have a 6x6 battle.

Even though I can use a Tafe password to bypass TV Tropes as a blocked site (Don't know what a Tafe password is? Well, you need to be Australian. Just sayin), I can't see your tumblr/imgur posts. :C

edited 2nd Mar '15 12:51:55 PM by machop

x4

Scolipede's pretty good.

edited 2nd Mar '15 2:40:50 PM by MetalMichelangelo