Is she right?
>>337640445
Lol, no. No wonder she's not the champion.
>>337640445
Yeah.
>>337640445
>Have shitmons as my favorite pokemon
>Go into the competitive circle
>Get trashed
Stupid advice for people who want to excel in the competitive area
>>337640445
No. NFE Pokemon going up against fully evolved ones typically lose badly.
I like to cockblock magikarp's evolution and just roll to the goal with my seizure king
>>337641252
>>337641470
>One pokemon with eviolite proves my point.
>>337640445
She might be. Don't care. I'm always using this motherfucker, and no one can stop me.
>>337640445
In the game: Yeah!
In competitive: lol no
>>337640445
first half is wrong, second half is right
It sounds good on paper.
Until a pseudo-legendary is pushing your pikachu's shit in so hard that it chokes on its own shit.
Of course if were only talking about completing the story in the games, then yes, you can generally get away with using whatever you want because the cpu ai is shit in 99.9% of fights.
>>337640445
But what if my favorites are strong Pokemon?
>>337640445
http://imgur.com/a/yBTER
Nah, this fucking OG from the Battle Resort has the right idea
I like to roleplay as a bug catcher
unprotected sex and beedrills all night long
>>337643091
I wish the eviolite was stronger. Would have been cool to use an unevolved Eevee.
>>337643703
You do realize almost every character in the Battle Resort is actually GF poking fun at people who take pokemon seriously enough to play competitive, right? Notice how many super nerds are there.
The answer is to make your team always a pokewaifu team.
>>337640445
No, but he is.
>>337640445
No not really sometimes your favorites are not enough to truly beat the best. She is pretty hot tho
Is he right?
>>337640445
But my favorites are the strong ones.
In Singleplayer? Yes. In Multiplayer? Only if your favorite mon is vaguely viable.
>>337640991
/thread
>>337644138
I always felt like the youngsters were unnecessarily sexually aggressive
>>337643992
Yeah, that sounds about right
Still, I'm no competitive player but I'm smart enough to recognize that some Pokemon are simply too shit to bother using. I guess I'm lucky in that most of my favorites are Pokemon like Shuckle, Snorlax and the like - Pokemon that have pretty clear uses and not-completely-shit stats, but also look and act based as fuck. I can only imagine how it'd feel to be, say, an Unown/Sunflora/Dedenne fanboy
>>337644504
Wait, what?
Why on earth would you think something like that?
>>337644138
No. Tracksuit pants are the easiest and comfiest clothes to wear.
>>337644138
absolutely
>>337640445
I became Champion with a fucking Pikachu, Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur.
Yes she's right.
>>337645161
How does that make him wrong?
>>337640445
Damn right, who gives a shit about competitionunless money is involved?
>>337643570
>Until a pseudo-legendary is pushing your pikachu's shit in so hard that it chokes on its own shit.
You need to unleash your Pikachu's true power
>>337644138
No. Pants for life, nigga. Seriously though, I can't be comfortable unless I'm rocking pants. No idea why.
>play online with a team made of your favorites
>couple good ones, couple shit ones
>opponent is a kid with 6 legendaries
>get wrecked by a 12 year old
It was true for gen 2.
>>337640445
doesn't matter, she's biased as hell. She probably tells that to all the dipshits she battles so they don't git gud and better pokes
She's wrong but she's still better than a smogonshitter.
You can beat the story mode with literally anything that isn't Caterpie, Weedle, Magikarp or their derivatives.
>>337643693
The point is to play with pokemons you like rather the min maxing in a game that is already piss easy.
>>337641252
>What is Scyther
What kind of meat do people mainly eat in the Pokemon world?
>>337644138
It's true
>>337640445
Karen's my favorite of the Gen 2 Elite Four, but she's fucking wrong.
I know she's trying to deliver a message against what Silver was spouting the whole game, but it's not a good message how it's done here.
Really, you should really enjoy your favorites and not feel bad that they're not the greatest, but if you want to win, you'll need Pokemon that can win.
As an example, I fucking love Pidgeot, but I'd never put it on my team to actually battle people with, that'd be retarded.
>>337651586
My Hall of Fame team that consists of a bunch of unevolved shitters says you're wrong.
And at the end of the day, what's more important? Becoming Champion or beating a bunch of nobodies on wi-fi?
>>337651586
My Pidgeot can fuck up Lucario and Fighting types easily. Grass types and Bug types don't stand a chance.
>>337643925
If you made eviolite stronger, it would absolutely break Pokemon like Porygon 2 and Scyther.
>>337651000
I love when they do shit like this. Makes their world more believable when they show that Pokemon can die and be eaten.
>>337640445
>win with their favorites
And my favorites happen to be the strongest Pokemon.Just kidding this guy is my favorite Pokemon.
From a singleplayer perspective, definitely. The game is made where you can basically just win using only your starter if you want. I've never forced myself to use a pokemon I didn't like, and it's always more fun that way to beat the game.
Fighting other, real people though? Nah, people have that shit down to a science. Using your favorites won't get you anywhere.
>>337640445
mfw favorite pokemon is Quagsire
>>337651835
>believable
You mean aside from how utterly nonsense the world is overall? Because very few shit in Pokemon actually make any real sense.
>tfw favorite pokemon is strong as fuck
it's a good feel lads
>>337651835
if you want to indulge in pokermon fantasies, try pokemon tabletop united, guys from /tg/ made it and it's pretty fun if you're into tabletop shit, can do a lot of fun stuff with the world
>>337652270
But it does make sense that certain Pokemon would prey on others.
this is breaking the fourth wall, just trying to make the player feel bad for leaving his useless pokemen at home
>>337652360
2X by Flying.
My favorites are Flying Which is Aerodactyl
Feels good bruh
>>337652521
They do, yes.
In the show, though, all Pokemon apparently eat primarily berries. Even the carnivores. Even the ones who live in places where berries couldn't possibly grow.
>>337644138
no
all I wear is jeans, unless I'm doing something fancy/important
all of the shorts I own are from when I was still in middle school, and none of them fit me anymore
>>337644665
being a shotacon is a terrible diseaseand that picture is making my disease flare up :^)
admittedly, I also don't see it either, there isn't anything sexual about the youngsters, even the fucking "I like shorts!" kid
>>337652673
They also eat "Pokemon food" which is some sort of kibble or dog food, made out of... something, I guess?
This franchise has a lot of potential and always has, but it's so badly wasted in Nintendo's hands. Give it to a company that can make it into an actual RPG for once.
Yeah. I always put my nigga Farfetch'd on my team and beat the Elite Four with him in my party.
>>337652608
>Flying
>>337652890
It's a children's franchise. It doesn't need to be any more than that.
Besides, it has more in-depth gameplay than even some more "mature" RPGs, like SMT. Also, "real RPGs" tend to have almost no applicability for PvP.
>>337653073
I'm still bothered that there's no other PvP focused turn based RPGs than Pokemon.
>>337640445
she's right to an extent.
>>337653073
>It's a children's franchise.
This isn't an excuse! Plenty of kids enjoyed Chrono Trigger and it was a great RPG. Plenty of kids enjoyed FF7 and FF10 as kids and they're good RPGs. Saying something is a "children's game" isn't an excuse!
>Also, "real RPGs" tend to have almost no applicability for PvP.
You don't need to get rid of the idea of collecting all the monsters in the game so you can trade them and battle with them. You just need to make a better game.
>>337640445
She is partially right, in that you can get by pretty well with most Pokemon. However, if you want to really excel in the game, like World Championship crap, then no. You ill have to have a basic cookie-cutter team with maybe one or two unique ones that have a specific purpose.
Anyone have that image of the World Championship team winners by year?
>>337653190
Probably because Pokemon's the only one that's actually capable of it.
There are several ingredients for decent-to-good PvP:
1. Trial and error. Most PvP games go through multiple version updates, just look at any fighting game. RPGs, however, aren't very conducive to that sort of thing, and few companies are willing to refine their RPG over several iterations. Look at any RPG series and you'll find that the developers would prefer to do something drastically different or otherwise utterly game-changing for subsequent sequels. Pokemon, however, has remains steadfast in being the same thing only more refined with each generation. Some players see this is bland, and often clamor for something very different, but that would mean starting over from scratch and going through a decades-long refinement process all over again.
2. Variable strategies. Look at most RPGs and you'll often find more often than not that there are only a few viable strategies for most battles. Even games that feature mons like SMT or Digimon Story are the same. This is because Pokemon has a unique system where every element has a different attribute with over six hundred mons offering an insane amount of variety to choose from. This allows for countless adoptable strategies. Even if certain strategies are better than others, as Smogonfags will no doubt rub in your face, the fact is, even within that smaller pool, there are still more variable strategies than any other RPG.
>>337653653
So you want them to ditch everything they've done until now and create a new game from scratch that will almost certainly be shit because it's gone through no significant playtesting or refinement? Again, look at any other PvP game. All of them went through years and years of refinement to get to where they are. The first Street Fighter? Shit. The first Guilty Gear? Worthless. The first Pokemon? Where's that image that details all of its major design flaws?
>>337640445
"But mega rayquaza is my favourite"
>>337640445
>competitive Pokemon
Why?
>>337646118
>You need to unleash your Pikachu's true power
You mean getting a lightining rod pikachu with encore and agility (or nasty plot of you're feeling particularly nasty), and baiting an obvious electric with him and then boosing the fuck out of him and demolishing the whole team with a rodent?
>>337654739
Because there's no better game on the same genre.
>>337640445
Ahh the Miror B way of battling. Good taste.
>>337654739
not even memeing, competitive pokemon battles on showdown are actually legit. think of it like a weird card game.
>>337655062
I know it was unintentional, but
>card game
It's just funny to me because the actual Pokémon TCG is fucking hilariously bad, the only competitive scene for it is for turbo spergs. No sense of balance at all, it's just balls-to-the-wall power creep, except the creep is more like a breakneck sprint
>>337655814
Just play with your favourite cards, bro, that's how I do it
>>337655814
the scene for battles is actually pretty crazy. they separate pokemon into different brackets and tiers, they ban moves and abilities and shit. there are even some cash tourneys you can qualify for and participate in online on showdown.
>>337656041
I dunno man, I think I'll stick to being my own type of fag, that is, collecting 1st and 2nd gen cards
>>337640991
Thanks for the giggle.
>>337652360
I know that feel bro.
