Pokémon

I hope they are because I'd like to have a nice wi-fi team, and I can't use the synchronize trick in ADV gen games to get good legends since their natures are set at game-start, so if I don't like the legend's nature I have to restart my whole game.

Although getting a good Kyogre would be cool... I've been messing around in non-standard tiers using... well, completely non-standard teams (my never-used team uses hippopotas to start a sandstorm which blocks rain strategies well, then kills people with Cradily or Cacturne, who are just amazing even in standard play, while my under-used team finishes up with a charge-beam life orb-holding Clefable, since magic guard is so awesome) I really want to try using a rain team in ubers that focuses more on ludicolo and parasect than ubers standards like Palkia and Kingdra. Having a good Kyogre would really help with that.

you lost me after you started talking about kyogre. also wtf ludicolo?

Wait...is Parasect really a viable Pokemon for competitive play in some strategies?

It has spore, one of the strongest moves in the game.

So does Breloom.


Breloom's hardcore.

i'm so fucking mad at myself right now. i had a chain of 38 ditto and entered battle with the 39th when i zoned out and ran away instead of killing it.

I've found falling asleep to be a problem when chaining before >_>

if i get too tired (and realize this before actually falling asleep) i plug in the DS and close it so i can continue tomorrow

(06-15-2009 03:10 AM)Bubbleman Wrote:  Wait...is Parasect really a viable Pokemon for competitive play in some strategies?

The dry skin ability lets it recover an additional 6% HP per turn in rain. With lefties, that's 12% HP recovery per turn. In ubers (the only tier where Kyogre is legal), Kyogre's drizzle ability summons perma-rain, which means that it rains until someone replaces it with new weather. This essentially means that unless Groudon (drought) or Rayquaza switches in, Parasect recovers 12% HP per turn, making him difficult to kill.

In addition to that, seed bomb kills Kyogre before it can manage to kill Parasect, and he can put it to sleep with spore, meaning it kills any non sleeptalk or lum berry holding Kyogre basically automatically with full HP afterwards. Common switch-ins to it are Groudon to remove rain and make it take damage from dry skin with sun, and he gets killed in three hits of seed bomb. Lati@s can't switch into him because they both take significant damage from X-Scissor and lack a strong enough fire move to really hit him through the rain. Lugia hates getting X-Scissored as well, and can only whirlwind him away. Mewtwo and Darkrai... X-Scissor, again. His only major predators in Ubers are Ho-Oh and RayQuaza, with Groudon at least being able to force him to switch out a few times and making the player reset rain again before they let Parasect wreak more havoc. I'm overstating my case a bit, but the point is... Parasect is capable of taking down some of the strongest pokémon in the game in the rain, and in a tier where those are basically the only pokémon anyone uses, he's a beast.

Also, as Noodle says, Breloom is a beast. Not much can handle that guy, although in Ubers he still gets beat by a lot.

Plus, parasect looks awesome.

i caught a shiny primeape in leafgreen today. that was cool.

i think my favorite character from the anime is dawns piplup

My favourite character is Brock, but only in the series where he's allowed to hit on all the girls. When the accompanying girl stops him it's bad (did Dawn or May do this? I might be imagining things). When Croagunk stops him it's worse. When Max stops him though, it's terrible. It doesn't even make sense! The kid's annoying enough as it is, but with added cockblocking, I'd kill him in his sleep (and sleep with his sister lols).

I read that as sister lolis. >_>

But yeah, Brock was awesome.

Brock was canonically considered the equal of the other seven gym leaders when he only had two pokemon, and the stronger of those was an Onix that was under level 20. There has to be something making up the difference there.
Also, Lance can untrain Dragonites. But that's neither here nor there.

(07-01-2009 07:26 PM)masamunemaniac Wrote:  My favourite character is Brock, but only in the series where he's allowed to hit on all the girls. When the accompanying girl stops him it's bad (did Dawn or May do this? I might be imagining things). When Croagunk stops him it's worse. When Max stops him though, it's terrible. It doesn't even make sense! The kid's annoying enough as it is, but with added cockblocking, I'd kill him in his sleep (and sleep with his sister lols).

Everyone did this, Misty included.

(07-01-2009 07:30 PM)Jessica Stryker Wrote:  I read that as sister lolis. >_>

Me too...

Also, Jynx is my favorite character.

I forgot a character. Jigglypuff. It's impossible to say you didn't like jigglypuff.

She's loli enough I suppose.

And Misty didn't do it anywhere near as often or as annoyingly as the others did.

EDIT: Jigglypuff was also awesome, yes.

brocks ok
as for human characters.....i dunno
they're all about equal for me
i do enjoy watching jessie compete in contests though so maybe her