POKEYMANS thread

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:51 pm

I thought last week's was better.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:49 pm

The comments section for that comic devolved into rants about John Galt and Thomas Edison. Interesting pair-up.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 9:10 pm

I'd imagine last week's was funnier to people who've played X/Y.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 2:09 am

It's funny because everyone's dialogue is lifted wholesale from the game, and used to ironic effect.

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 2:12 am

It really wasn't funny in the least.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 2:13 am

I thought it was amusing, because the Prof.'s reaction to Lysander's "I'M TOTALLY GOING TO EVIL ON YOU, KAY?" rant was hilarious.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:01 am

Tbh, I suspect the author just wanted to keep up with the update schedule while simultaneously having fun adapting that character design. I don't really mind; they can't all be winners.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:58 pm

There's a new patch out, just so ya know.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 12:44 am

A lot of people are sad, too.
1. Data interception allowed for people to discover each other's Shiny Value, and then send eggs to each other to hatch Shinies
2. Someone then made something that works similarly so that you know what your opponent's moves are (and what they chose, if you wait for them to choose first), so now it's like you're the AI in Battle Maison Bave de Pénis.
3. Rankings disabled because that really is cheating - AI not changed in Cheese Club, of course. ONLY THE COMPUTER IS ALLOWED TO CHEAT.
4. Solution: encrypt the data, now the fun is ruined for everyone, no more Shinies.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 1:06 am

So it's about a week or two until PokeBank and PokeTransfer are out.
Getting it provides you a free Celebi, complete with its own False Swipe variant (Hold Back). This is actually pretty awesome, Celebi is adorable.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:00 am

FINALLY.

Celebi is my favorite legendary. Well, favorite event legendary. Actually, no, it is my favorite legendary. Celebi is indeed adorable.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:26 am

No word on what Celebi's Typing is - I'm really hoping for Grass/Fairy, not Grass/Psychic (is x4 weak against Poison which no-one uses (and which it can smack about with Psychic moves anyway), takes neutral hits from U-Turn rather than x4, goes from Dark-Weak to Dark-Resistant, still gets STAB from what used to be its iconic move, could pick up those Fairy moves that boost Grass Types and then benefit from them).

That's wishful thinking, but it's within the realms of possibility.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 6:26 am

That'd be a buff, overall, but the big draw back with the x4 poison weakness is that Gengar is more likely than ever to be packing Sludge Bomb these days since it does a pretty nice job of giving Xerneas, Togekiss and Azumarill the finger. It's a shame too, given that the new typing would have made it better than ever against Shadow Ball. Fucking Gengar.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:13 am

Interestingly enough, nofunallowed has only banned Gengarite and Kangaskhanite. So far those are the only megas "not allowed".

Someone found a hilarious (stupid) thing to make that has also been banned: Funbro. Slowbro with Leppa Berry (restores PP to a move when needed) and the moves Slack Off (regain HP), Heal Pulse (restore HP to the enemy), Block (prevent enemy from switching in to something that can OHKO it), Recycle (regain the berry after you've used it).

Yes, you literally just trap them in an endless battle until they ragequit. That's stupid, but pretty funny.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:38 am

A heartwarming evolution set for pigsplosion

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:16 pm

Koumei wrote:Interestingly enough, nofunallowed has only banned Gengarite and Kangaskhanite. So far those are the only megas "not allowed".

You are more than welcome to play them in ubers, where nothing is banned. Perhaps OU is not the metagame for you.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:19 am

I just think Smogon can go fuck themselves, that's all. If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to play the least fun part of pokemon, then of fucking course I'd take Mewtwo, Mega-Khan and probably a Minimise Baton Pass Drifblim. And it is unreasonable for the opponent to throw a bitchfit just because some German guy is really butthurt over Minimise existing, "because the RNG exists".

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:51 am

I'd call myself indifferent to smogon, except we've hit some weird tipping point where the average smogon hater is whiny enough that I'm vaguely pro-Smogon. I'm all for people confining themselves to a particular sandbox if that's their bag, since there really isn't anything stopping me from drinking the sweet milk of their tears if they whine about my Amoongus outside of said sandbox.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 5:33 am

I would be indifferent except that you can't even discuss your "beating the Elite 4" team online without someone saying that no, Moody Bidoof is actually banned (and when Bidoof is banned for any reason other than looking stupid, your system of evaluation has instantly failed). They have managed to infect every corner of the online pokemon community like herpes.

Something actually exists to let you enforce whatever rules you want: you can use pokebattler tools for your online battling, and then you can even create the pokemon with perfect IVs and Natures and not worry about lovingly raising them so you can just have your dogfights. Such a thing actually exists, so they should be encouraged to fuck off and use that, rather than shitting up the rest of the Internet and leading to people ragequitting spot battles because you personally think Garchomp is awesome but they didn't sign up for that tier of play.

I'm still waiting for something that gives you everything except battling, where you go and make movies and perform in contests and pat your pokemon in Amie and they follow you around and act cute. It doesn't really qualify as a game at that point, but it would make for a delightful phone app or something.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 6:21 am

I've got a conflicted relationship with rage quitting due to having a bit of a chess background--I wish netiquette in general was more friendly to the idea of people just plain conceding without everyone getting all weird about it. Of course, it doesn't help when games outright lack a resign button.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 8:16 am

So make a team of mega Gengar, Mega Kangaskhan, Moody Bidoof, and throw around Minimize and Doubleteam everywhere.

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 5:25 pm

Koumei wrote:I just think Smogon can go fuck themselves, that's all. If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to play the least fun part of pokemon, then of fucking course I'd take Mewtwo, Mega-Khan and probably a Minimise Baton Pass Drifblim. And it is unreasonable for the opponent to throw a bitchfit just because some German guy is really butthurt over Minimise existing, "because the RNG exists".

So you play the uber tier, where none of these things are banned. Seriously, I have no fucking clue what your complaint is. The Uber tier exists. People play it.

Smogon is a competitive battling website. If you're whining about people not liking your Elite 4 team that you posted there, the problem is very clearly you. This isn't serebii.net.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 6:02 pm

Y'know, Surgo, I get the strong feeling that the idea of playing any game just for fun hurts you physically.

I mean, more so than the rest of the Den.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 8:30 pm

Shrapnel wrote:Y'know, Surgo, I get the strong feeling that the idea of playing any game just for fun hurts you physically.

I mean, more so than the rest of the Den.

No, he is right. If you are posting your Elite Four team on Smogon you are basically trolling them. I have little sympathy.

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 12:46 am

Shrapnel wrote:Y'know, Surgo, I get the strong feeling that the idea of playing any game just for fun hurts you physically.

I mean, more so than the rest of the Den.

The only video game on this website I've even posted about is Pokemon, so I have no idea what you're reading.