Over 70,000 people are playing the same game of Pokemon on Twitch.

I've only checked in occasionally, but I've been watching them fight the L. 100 Elite Four for hours today, and seeing the chat go nuts and hundreds of people ragequit in real time after realizing they have to fight Oak immediately with no heal in-between was incredible.

And with that, they were able to defeat the E4 once again, and bid their farewells to the hack as they proceed onwards to PB-

Oh, nevermind. Oak. Have fun, 80 hp Cloyster.

edited 23rd Mar '15 9:13:33 PM by Demonfly

I decided to come back due to hearing about the Oak thing here. Oh wow, that looks hard. Apparently they're stuck with a level 60 pokemon and no way to train it.

Shame it's impossible to get Mewtwo out of the PC. Gen 1 Mewtwo is the most overpowered pokemon of any generation by a large margin.

Well, it was, but now mega-rayquaza has become the second pokemon so broken it created its own tier.

Interesting. I hadn't heard about that.

Edit: WTF? They got rid of the requirement that mega evolved pokemon burn their item slot? No wonder they're too OP for Ubers now. I guess Power Creep had to come back eventually.

P.S. I see references to Geomancy, Shadow Tag, and Mega Gengar being considered for bans previously. What was so bad about them?

edited 24th Mar '15 12:11:02 AM by storyyeller

Yeah, many people wondered what they were smoking when they created mega-rayquaza. It has extremely high stats, a good typing, an excellent ability, exclusive access to the most powerful flying move in the game and it doesn't even need to give up its item slot.

Shadow Tag was considered for banning because it traps your opponents pokemon which makes it much easier to set up.

Mega-gengar because it's the best shadow tagger

Geomancy is an extremely powerful boost, from what I understand.

The free item slot is exclusively for Mega Ray, and even then, it still requires Dragon Ascent (which is a stupidly powerful move for it to have anyway, hence AG).

Relatedly, MeGengar had already gotten the boot, and was actually among the very first of several Megas to do so. In fact, between Shadow Tag (the very thing that put Wynaut on the banlist prior to Gen VI's indirect nerf on it), Gengar's already OU-standard potent movepool, and its stat upgrades that were just asking to sweep everything, it even ended up on the chopping-block from Ubers itself long before it was known that Stress would be getting a Mega.

Quick question: Why were the gen 6 runs so short?

Gen VI EXP. Share.

And, at least in X's case, far less of an actual challenge on the game's part.

Since I'm here, obligatory AnniversaRed done yay PBR yay Vietnamese Crystal too yay

edited 24th Mar '15 8:54:02 PM by Demonfly

Viet Crystal? Seriously? YESSSSS!

Oddly, they've set it up so we only get one input to Viet Crystal after each PBR battle. I guess it helps fuel the memes, but it's pretty tedious. ~3 days later and we're just now getting to the first town.

Maybe later we can try Bing Crystal. That thing takes Translation Train Wreck to a whole new level. "Getting ready? Finally begins reflections you! filled waiting you! adventure! world to! Let's go! After expedition also!" is one of the most comprehensible lines. "The water is calm. Want to surf?" became "Clever quiet yawing encore?"... I don't even know what most of the stuff in my bag is.

edited 27th Mar '15 12:40:28 PM by Kotomikun

Welp, the simultaneous Touhoumon and Moemon run has commenced. (Viet Crystal caught Sudowoodo and met Bill a.k.a. ZHENFEN, who apparently◊ has a time machine, just before the end.) Both went with female trainers, and they picked "Chibi Sanae" (the Nintendo Hard choice, she's weak to tackle) and Charmander (uh oh).

They're both making decent progress despite fighting over the same stream of inputs; both have caught 3... er... cute girls, already. But my internet has decided to revert to dial-up speeds, so I guess I'll have to check back later.

edited 10th May '15 6:40:04 PM by Kotomikun

They just foiled the Select Sect's aspirations of Teachy domination as well.

Rather disappointed in the layout, though.

It's been pretty interesting dealing with two games at once so far.

It looks like the decision is that the Charmander is an albino.

Also, the hosts are being nicknamed Athena and Amber. (Athena seems to be more competent)

Nothing says "Champion Battle" quite like a Rain Dance Hydro Pump against a Vaporeon

Predictably, Moemon was first to take home the glory. Whether Fire Red postgame is going to be a thing this time or focus will finally go entirely to Touhou remains to be seen.

Must... resist... PBR gambling! >_< I do such shoddy work at PBR inputs, I once had the chat thinking I was a troll. Looks like BABA came back from her vacation. I think most of her team are just HM slaves.

Apparently you can now do slot-machine gambling with tokens. Which... is essentially gambling with real money, unless you only use tokens from Crystal inputs. Hm.

On a less questionable-legality note, you can change the music with tokens, too.

edited 28th May '15 4:17:34 PM by Kotomikun

So, Randomised Alpha Sapphire has started and is hilarious as randomised's tend to be, with a Judgement , Victory Star Torchic that evolved into Lampent, a Multitype Rufflet, Lotad that evolve into Squirtle and then Kingler, Primordial Sea Wobbuffet and Bug Gym Leader Roxanne, this promises to be entertaining.

A Lampent with Defeatist... and they need a stone to evolve it again. They also managed to lose most of its good moves (it can only do damage with Shadow Punch, unless something spontaneously falls asleep so it can use Dream Eater).

The rest of the team has more useful nonsensical movesets, though; Glameow has Lick, Land's Wrath, Fissure, and Sky Drop. And Roxane had a Fire/Bug type with a rain-inducing ability...

Super Smash betting is going on at the same time, though as you might imagine, "crapshoot" doesn't even begin to describe it.

edited 13th Jul '15 8:16:57 AM by Kotomikun

Well, you can't deny that having a defeatest starter is entertaining. It follows in the tradition of Hijinks.

AND it's a fire type! Is he already branded as a total Prophet Of Doom (it's own)?

edited 13th Jul '15 8:25:50 AM by Adannor

It's a shame they got rid of Lazychop back during Fire Red.

At least he wasn't released. I mean, yeah, he coudl have done with more screentime, but I really liked the Commeownist Party in general and am glad we got them all.

Aaaand the lamp just failed to learn Hyper Beam... I guess he's gone straight from Olympus Mons to Joke Character. Although, if they manage to find a dusk stone, it could switch right back...

edited 13th Jul '15 10:10:51 AM by Kotomikun

They had that happen back in Fire Red too, with that Surskrit which originally knew Hyper Beam, Megahorn, and Hydro Cannon and then forgot all of them.

It's a combination of Reversion To Mean, plus having good moves to start with means the later moves are more likely to be crap.

edited 13th Jul '15 7:50:53 PM by storyyeller