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Re: Pokémon
Normal types do it better.
Ghost types do it second better.
Ghost types do it second better.
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I definitely want a Pokémon x4 weak to IceLovelyPenguin wrote:And how! I realllly didn't like the Unova starters. I mean, what were they thinking?!Ivy wrote:I was rather disappointed when I realized that Serperior wasn't Grass/Dragon. Wasted opportunity, that.
Ah, well, there's always the chance they'll do Mega Serperior, who could be Grass/Dragon.
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My top 3 favorite types are Ghost, Fairy, and Psychic, though if I had to pick one, it would probably be Ghost since it has the highest percentage of pokemon that I like.
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Re: Pokémon
Steel, Fairy and Grass would be my three.
With my favourite Pokemon being Slurpuff, Forretress, Regice and Vileplume.
With my favourite Pokemon being Slurpuff, Forretress, Regice and Vileplume.
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Top 10 favorite Pokémons:
10.Meloetta My favorite legendary since Gen 5 came out. Before that, it was Jirachi
9.Sigilyph Cosmic Power & Stored Power. 'nuff said
8.Vulpix ( & Ninetales) Blame Explorers of Sky for stabbing me right in the feels
7.Manectric It become a triangle when it Megavolves
6.Porygon-Z You spin me right round baby right round when you tri-attack baby round right round
5.Tropius Look at it and tell me it's not awesome
4.Lilligant Dance! Dance! The Petal Dance~ is gonna wreck. your. day. I also look rea~lly cool
3.Leaveanny It looks freaking rad. I also had good moments with those during my nuzlockes
2.Gardevoir Come on it's Gardevoir
1.Mienshao 2 words: Regenerator U-Turn. Also he's pretty awesome looking
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10.Meloetta My favorite legendary since Gen 5 came out. Before that, it was Jirachi
9.Sigilyph Cosmic Power & Stored Power. 'nuff said
8.Vulpix ( & Ninetales) Blame Explorers of Sky for stabbing me right in the feels
7.Manectric It become a triangle when it Megavolves
6.Porygon-Z You spin me right round baby right round when you tri-attack baby round right round
5.Tropius Look at it and tell me it's not awesome
4.Lilligant Dance! Dance! The Petal Dance~ is gonna wreck. your. day. I also look rea~lly cool
3.Leaveanny It looks freaking rad. I also had good moments with those during my nuzlockes
2.Gardevoir Come on it's Gardevoir
1.Mienshao 2 words: Regenerator U-Turn. Also he's pretty awesome looking
SS.Milotic
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There are already a ton of 'em. Garchomp, Gliscor, Dragonite, I could go on.Clemasterable wrote:I definitely want a Pokémon x4 weak to IceLovelyPenguin wrote: Ah, well, there's always the chance they'll do Mega Serperior, who could be Grass/Dragon.
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And that's why I don't want another one. Ice after all is totally not one of the primary attacking types in competitive battling.Ivy wrote:There are already a ton of 'em. Garchomp, Gliscor, Dragonite, I could go on.Clemasterable wrote:I definitely want a Pokémon x4 weak to IceLovelyPenguin wrote: Ah, well, there's always the chance they'll do Mega Serperior, who could be Grass/Dragon.
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Re: Pokémon
I like Zebstrika, because hell yeah electric zebra
Lilligant, Absol and Delphox are pretty cool too. As for favourite types, probably psychic, fire and grass.
Lilligant, Absol and Delphox are pretty cool too. As for favourite types, probably psychic, fire and grass.
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Re: Pokémon
Bug type is best type, I always make sure to use at least one in every game if I can help it.
Also Shedinja is best Bug.
Also Shedinja is best Bug.
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But not everyone does competitive battling. And people like some pokemon just for the new and interesting type combos.Clemasterable wrote: And that's why I don't want another one. Ice after all is totally not one of the primary attacking types in competitive battling.
Ug, double weaknesses in general are a stupid concept. To have a pokemon with "one hit from even the weakest move of this type is an auto-kill" is plain stupid. It doesn't even make that much sense realistically if you think about it: so, you have a pokemon that's half bug and half steel. Since both are weak to fire, it makes sense that it's double weak to fire, right? Wrong, because just mashing both fire weaknesses together would be assuming it was both 100% bug and 100% steel, instead of half-and-half.
If they're gonna have weaknesses layer like that, they could at least make it a bit more fair, say 2.5x or at most 3x super effective, instead of the 4x overkill weakness they get.
>.>; In general, the whole element system in Pokemon is flawed, but then again, what's new?
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I'm afraid I'm going to have to teach you... *dramatic zoom-in* math. *Scare Chord*LovelyPenguin wrote:But not everyone does competitive battling. And people like some pokemon just for the new and interesting type combos.Clemasterable wrote: And that's why I don't want another one. Ice after all is totally not one of the primary attacking types in competitive battling.
Ug, double weaknesses in general are a stupid concept. To have a pokemon with "one hit from even the weakest move of this type is an auto-kill" is plain stupid. It doesn't even make that much sense realistically if you think about it: so, you have a pokemon that's half bug and half steel. Since both are weak to fire, it makes sense that it's double weak to fire, right? Wrong, because just mashing both fire weaknesses together would be assuming it was both 100% bug and 100% steel, instead of half-and-half.
If they're gonna have weaknesses layer like that, they could at least make it a bit more fair, say 2.5x or at most 3x super effective, instead of the 4x overkill weakness they get.
>.>; In general, the whole element system in Pokemon is flawed, but then again, what's new?
In all seriousness, though, Pokemon uses a lot of math.
Take a Pokemon like Garchomp, for instance. It's a Dragon-and-Ground-type, so it has a double weakness to Ice, instead of the quad weakness Mr. Chugga Arznesoth Conroy thinks it is. A weakness held by any Pokemon with only one type is always calculated as doing double damage if the attacker doesn't benefit from Same Type Attack Bonus. Therefore, if a Pokemon like Dunsparce uses an Ice-type move on Garchomp, it will be calculated as doing four times the regular damage, seeing as double of double is quadruple. However, if a Pokemon like Lapras, as in, an Ice-type, uses an Ice-type move on Garchomp, then the Garchomp will take 6x damage, on account of STAB.
Now, let's take a look at Craily. Both Rock and Grass have five weaknesses each, so Cradily would have ten weaknesses, right?
*insert memetic Lex Luthor line here*
Cradily only has four. Grass cancels out Rock's weaknesses to Water, Grass, and Ground, while Rock cancels out Grass's weaknesses to Flying, Fire, and Poison. Therefore, each of these types would only deal normal damage, as 2 x 0.5 = 1.
Now, let's look at Skarmory. As a Steel-and-Flying type, it has a double resistance to Grass. And since any Pokemon with only one type will always have its resistances calculated as doing half damage, and half of one half is one quarter, Skarmory would only take quarter damage from a Grass-type attack, unless said attack was used by a Grass-type, in which case STAB would multiply the damage output by 1.5, meaning the multiplier would then calculate the damage dealt as 3/8 the normal amount.
So as you can see, if only factoring in the type of attack and the type of target, Pokemon works entirely on powers of two.
EDIT: Immunities are the exception to the above statement, as zero is not a power of any positive integer.
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Re: Pokémon
And? Penguin was saying that instead of a 4x (non-stab) weakness multiplier, it should only be a 3x or 2.5x.HamsterZerg wrote:LovelyPenguin wrote:
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Re: Pokémon
I can't believe there are Gen 3 remakes a mere year after X/Y. It's like, woah okay
Don't plan to play it myself, but yeah.
If Scolipede isn't my FAVORITE Pokemon, he's definitely still at in the Top 10 or so. LOOK AT THIS GUY HE'S A NINE-FOOT-TALL CENTIPEDE AND DOESN'T GIVE A CRAP
If Pokemon were real I'd just ride one around everywhere aaaaaaaaaa
Don't plan to play it myself, but yeah.
If Scolipede isn't my FAVORITE Pokemon, he's definitely still at in the Top 10 or so. LOOK AT THIS GUY HE'S A NINE-FOOT-TALL CENTIPEDE AND DOESN'T GIVE A CRAP
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swirlybomb wrote:I can't believe there are Gen 3 remakes a mere year after X/Y. It's like, woah okay
Don't plan to play it myself, but yeah.
If Scolipede isn't my FAVORITE Pokemon, he's definitely still at in the Top 10 or so. LOOK AT THIS GUY HE'S A NINE-FOOT-TALL CENTIPEDE AND DOESN'T GIVE A CRAP
If Pokemon were real I'd just ride one around everywhere aaaaaaaaaa
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Erm... That's machinedramon, not dialga.HamsterZerg wrote:swirlybomb wrote:I can't believe there are Gen 3 remakes a mere year after X/Y. It's like, woah okay
Don't plan to play it myself, but yeah.
If Scolipede isn't my FAVORITE Pokemon, he's definitely still at in the Top 10 or so. LOOK AT THIS GUY HE'S A NINE-FOOT-TALL CENTIPEDE AND DOESN'T GIVE A CRAP
If Pokemon were real I'd just ride one around everywhere aaaaaaaaaa
Dialga says hi.
Well, I suppose machinedramon IS a metal dragon but details.
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[yt_time time=11]JySVy8AkmAY[/yt_time]Bryux wrote:Erm... That's machinedramon, not dialga.
Well, I suppose machinedramon IS a metal dragon but details.
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Re: Pokémon
X and Y were only about a year after B2W2, too (seriously, the release dates were off by like 5 days in the US.) The gaps between releases are getting shorter, it seems. I'm not personally too happy with this, as it leaves little incentive to actually play a given game for long. What's the point of training stuff in X and Y when ORAS will be out within the year? Not that there was much to replay in XY regardless.swirlybomb wrote:I can't believe there are Gen 3 remakes a mere year after X/Y. It's like, woah okay
Now, maybe we as a thread can move on to the actually important Pokemon news. They're selling toys at McDonalds, and I went today just to get some. Got me a Pancham and a Fletchling card. It's just about worth the price of slowly killing yourself with chicken nuggets. =D
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Re: Pokémon
My favorite types:
Steel (I did a mono-steel run of Black 2. It was good.)
Ghost
Ice
Water
Fairy
...but my favorite pokemon is none of those types.
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Steel (I did a mono-steel run of Black 2. It was good.)
Ghost
Ice
Water
Fairy
...but my favorite pokemon is none of those types.
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My fave type is
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Who here has any shiny pokemon? I kinda have an obsession with shinies. >.<; I dunno, they're just so cool and rare. Kinda like swag for your pokemon. XD
Re: Pokémon
I have a shiny poliwag which I randomly found in the wild and a shiny eevee which I somehow got from wonder trades, oh yeah and that shiny gyarados.LovelyPenguin wrote:Who here has any shiny pokemon? I kinda have an obsession with shinies. >.<; I dunno, they're just so cool and rare. Kinda like swag for your pokemon. XD
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Re: Pokémon
Currently a shiny Gothorita (now Gothitelle), Electrode, and Gyarados, although for me a shiny Gyarados isn't something to really gloat about since there's always one to catch in HGSS, even though mine one was from a Friend Safari. Still, a shiny mega pokemon is certainly something.LovelyPenguin wrote:Who here has any shiny pokemon? I kinda have an obsession with shinies. >.<; I dunno, they're just so cool and rare. Kinda like swag for your pokemon. XD
This is far less than how many my younger brother has.
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Currently in X I have two shinies.LovelyPenguin wrote:Who here has any shiny pokemon? I kinda have an obsession with shinies. >.<; I dunno, they're just so cool and rare. Kinda like swag for your pokemon. XD
This pretty guy I found in a friend safari and posted about it previously in this thread. I use it sometimes on battlespot with a quick claw because he has a quiet nature (but 31 speed IV :/).
And a shiny Durant I found in horde battle, but it has pretty bad nature/stats so it stays in my box.
I also have shinies I got from wondertrad/trading but they are probably cloned, plus they don't have my trainer ID so I don't care about them.
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