Pokémon Corner: Crystal Version

[Dragon12]

does the crystal engine has ripped resource?

 

[hyde9318]

Smogon really is ridiculous with their banning. For instance, how many Megas are NOT banned now? See, they started banning megas that countered other megas, so then the ones not banned became insanely difficult to beat, and then they get banned too instead of just bringing back their counter. And why Aegislash got banned is WAY beyond me, he is so laughably easy to deal with, I almost am relieved to see him in someone's team now.


See, people vote to ban these things cause they dont research how to counter them. Instead, they probably got beaten once or twice by it, got their egos hurt and started holding a grudge, calling the pokemon that beat them overpowered and unfair, when in all actuality they just made bad decisions themselves. Like when Mega-Kangaskhan got banned... she literally can't do crap to Assault Vest Conkeldur, not a thing. His defenses are massive, and his attack is even better. He laughs when Khan hits him, then one shots the poor mega. Want a mega to counter Khan? Try the hardly used Mega-Bannette. Khan's best moves wont touch bannette, and then you have the fact that bannette literally runs almost the same moveset that got mega-gengar banned (but somehow is okay on other pokemon... how does that make sense?). The problem though is that people started getting beaten by Khan, and instead of changing their team up a bit to counter it, they just voted to have her banned. People who rely on smogon to ban everything that they personally dont care for are seriously turning in to the biggest whiners on the planet. "Oh noes! Speed Deoxys beat my all fighting type team again, he must be too overpowered and should be banned!!1! There is no way a psychic type should be beating my machamp so easily!".


Rant aside, Smogon ticks me off.


On the mega topic though, I see it differently kind of. I like the fact that we are getting more megas. See, once megas were introduced, they changed the entire game, you can't go back now. The way it goes now, you pretty much need a mega to beat megas, just as you used to need a legendary to beat a legendary. But the problem with x and y was that there were so few megas, and even fewer strategies dealing with those megas. I think though that now we are getting more with different uses, the megas are going to start balancing themselves. As we get more, we have more counters to existing ones and the relatively unused ones from before (Im looking at you Medicham and Banette) will now counter the new ones, evening things out a bit. For instance, Mega Abomasnow was alright, but he was easily one shotted first turn by M-Garchomp. Garchomp will be no match for M-Salamence, but Salamence will be no match for M-Abomasnow. Now, the one I am terrified of though is Metagross. His only setback before was his Speed... now that is on par with his other stats and his other stats even get a boost as well... I am going to predict that Arceus may lose his title of Pokemon God soon... Lol.

 

[Tai_MT]

I dunno what Smogon is...  But it certainly does validate my opinion on "competitive battling" quite a bit.  As in...  Massive waste of time and filled with jerks.  I'll stick to my PVE.  Ain't nothin' banned in my PVE game.

In other news... I finally beat the 7th Gym on Saturday...  So...  I guess there's that.

Am I the only one bored with the new Pokémon games?  Feels like I've been trying to beat X for a year...  I clear a route or a Gym and I just put the game down and go, "well, that was boring" and find something else to play.

 

[Kaiser]

Smogon is the cancer of pokemon. It is the competitive pokemon battling community. Just let that sink in a bit. Now I could go in and attack them constantly, but I'm not I already deal with them on an almost daily basis, but you're better off staying away from them. The cancer that they produce is astronomically high.

I got bored of X and Y and I wanted to get in competitively again, but after seeing how horrible it is, I'm just gonna play the game casually again. Once OR/AS comes out I'll get back into it again.

 

[Korimax]

Yeah Smogon... is not something I exactly agree with.

Currently I already beat X and am of course bored of the lack of a post-game. So now I have to start breeding those 6 IV pokemon (I want to get back into competitive play before OR/AS comes out.) The only problem is, I lack the friend safaris (and I don't seem to have a 6 IV ditto, which seems impossible to have anyway.), so I am trying my hardest to even get 3 IVs on the Pokemon I'm after.

Other than that I'm replaying Emerald, I still gotta catch em' all. (I have most of the event pokemon, I just don't have anything from Johto, except Celebi, and random ones like Sentret.) 

EDIT: ALSO I am majorly excited for Mega Metagross, I mean before he was really slow (Which I suppose could be good if you used Gyro Ball). But now he is gonna be faster and stronger overall. (Plus he is my favorite pseudo, so I can't not love his mega.)

I just figure that its likely at this rate that we will be getting Megas for all the Pseudo-legendary Pokemon, and I figure the most likely one to come out is probably Mega Dragonite. (That or Mega Hydregion, NOW WITH 4 HEADS!!!) 

 

[hyde9318]

Hydreigon = Hydra. Give his mega seven heads and then do a new pokemon movie where a Machoke named Hercules has to do seven tasks (fight mega-Hydreigon, Mega Houndoom, Pyroar, etc), and have a Darkrai named Hades (obviously voiced by james woods) trying to stop him every chance he gets, with two Patrat minions named Pain and Panic... i would worship that movie, let me tell you. Lol. Yes, I want disney movies remade with pokemon. Lion king would be great...
 

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[Ratty524]

I'm not against smogon at all, actually. While their actions may seem questionable, the follow the central goal of making a fun, balanced competitive Pokemon experience. The problem, and this is why I'm no longer a huge fan of competitve Pokemon in general, is that Pokemon isn't inherently a competitively-oriented game. It tries to balance an actual RPG with difficulty pacing, combined with collect-a-thon elements, AND PVP viability into one package, and in the competitive side it doesn't really succeed on its own. This makes things difficult as now you want to try to make the game appropriate for an even-level, competitive experience when it's built to be the exact opposite, so I commend them for what they've done so far.

Also, not all smogon users are dumbasses. In their community, the voices of those who actually know what they're talking about when it comes to competitive play still hold the higher voice over the scrubs who cry "OP!!!1" to everything they don't know how to beat. Those higher voices are the ones who decide what's banned and what isn't, and their reasons are actually pretty once you look into them.

As for mega evolutions, the problem is that the stat bonus they give is so darn powerful, and it's currently distributed to only a select few pokemon, that unless you build a team that specifically counters them or run a mega yourself, there is no way your team will win against a majority of them (assuming your opponent is competent). This creates pigeon-holing, and it makes the metagame become stale pretty fast when you need to close off so many options for the sake of dealing with one threat, which is why pokemon bans exist to begin with. While it does breed a bunch of elitist pricks, Smogon isn't inherently toxic for the franchise, but rather gives it a new and arguably deeper purpose.

Am I the only one bored with the new Pokémon games?  Feels like I've been trying to beat X for a year...  I clear a route or a Gym and I just put the game down and go, "well, that was boring" and find something else to play.

X & Y are one of the worst games released for this franchise so far, so I'm not surprised.

 

[Kaiser]

Sigh Smogon why. I don't wanna rant about it I already did everywhere else, this safe haven doesn't need that kind of cancer any longer, anyways Mega Audino, and Mega Slowbro?

 

[Tai_MT]

Eh... don't care about either of those.  Call me when we've got Mega Butterfree.

 

[Chaos Avian]

Of all Pokemon to get a Mega, why Audino?? Seriously! What a waste. Mega Muk/ Weezing would be better. Poison types need more love.

 

[Seacliff]

Of all Pokemon to get a Mega, why Audino?? Seriously! What a waste. Mega Muk/ Weezing would be better. Poison types need more love.

Well, I do want a 5th gen mega. But, yeah, there are a lot better 5th gen pokemon to pick from then Audino.

 

[Kaiser]

I wanted Mega Lilligant before Mega Audino. But alas it works out though.  Game Freak already confirmed Mega Sharpedo and Mega Camerupt, now hurry up and give us some dang pictures already!

 

[Tai_MT]

Why not Mega Articuno, Mega Zapdos, and Mega Moltres?  I miss my Gen 1 Legendary birds...  They don't get any love anymore!

 

[hyde9318]

Why audino? Like, she doesn't has a single thing to do with third gen. And little to no people really cared for that Pokemon at all, I personally found her to be my least favorite fifth gen. I agree, weezing and muk deserved one WAY before her. Or since alakazam and gengar got one, how about machamp and golem?

 

[Luminous Warrior]

While I think that both of them are sensible choices to give Megas to, Mega Audino is a bit of a weird choice to add in a Gen 3 remake and Mega Slowbro looks ridiculous. It looks like the Shellder is trying to eat him.

 

[Seacliff]

Wait, why a mega Slowbro? Shouldn't it be Mega Slowking?

 

[Tai_MT]

Audino served exactly one purpose in the games...

Easy kill mon that gave triple the experience of any other mon you could fight in the area you found it in.  It was created as a way to balance XP gain and typical player grind because of how they stupidly changed XP gain in those games.

Audino served zero other purpose than that.

 

[Luminous Warrior]

Exactly. Now Audino may actually have a chance to be used.

 

[Tai_MT]

Adding a Mega to Audino does not change its terrible movesets and near worthlessness... Especially when there are so many better megas out there...

 

[NPC]

What about mega Stunfisk?