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Ok, first off, was I the only one in Red and Blue that actually would buy the magikarp from the salesman before going into mount moon just so I could get a gyrados faster? haha
Secondly, this is my new wallpaper as well atm, I even nerded it up more and made all my folder icons pokeballs!
Thirdly, this just is an awesome combination of a favorite bug type and one of my top 5 best animes ever! *R.I.P. Kamina*
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And lastly, I'm playing Soulsilver atm (and whoever said silver and gold were the best I completely agree) and this about sums up how I feel against Red again, was he always this hard?
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On April 07 2010 16:20 Mystlord wrote:Show nested quote +On April 07 2010 14:23 semantics wrote:On April 07 2010 04:33 Mystlord wrote:I never really make it a point to save any Pokemon pic that I come across... That said I do save epic potential desktop wallpapers, so here's the paltry collection that I have  + Show Spoiler + you obv didn't see the desktop thread i saw a pic in here and made it to my wall paper becuase it fits so well source I don't like boring images for wallpapers :3 White for 95% of the image? No thx.
lol I don't like wallpapers because they make it hard to see shit. my current wallpaper is all black with a tiny blastoise sprite in the center
Found some disturbing pika pics:
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On April 07 2010 16:19 Pyrrhuloxia wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2010 08:51 KinosJourney2 wrote:On April 03 2010 03:35 synapse wrote:On April 03 2010 03:22 KinosJourney2 wrote:Btw, digimon > pokemon in terms of games and tv-series  Not a chance. TV-series is arguable both ways, but the pokemon games can be very competitive. The pokemon games was competative, yes. But so are the digimon games, and they have more diverse gameplay. You should try out Digimon World 3, amazing RPG game (not the only good one though!). Man, I bought the Digimon card game... its not even a game. So shitty.
I know, i didn't say the cards was good but the videogames
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On April 07 2010 15:48 PanoRaMa wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2010 22:26 ibanez wrote:On January 23 2010 06:51 illu wrote:
You are kidding. Its base stats are extremely poor, has very bad type combation, and has no real good moves. I beg to differ. Scyther has a high attack and speed stat, making it an awesome physical sweeper. True, its typing could be better but who complains when a Jolly-Life Orb-Technician +1 Swords Danced Quick Attack destroys most of the UU tier? study some pokemans dude Yeah seriously I can't believe that guy, clearly he never played the TCG. Fossil Scyther is a base pokemon with 70hp and free retreat, with 2nd-turn 30dmg capabilities off of any energy type. Holy jesus.
In regards to ibanez's post, UU tier stands for under-used tier. So you can't conclude that illu needs to study more "pokemans" simply from his post. Scyther is in UU 'cause he is not good enough to be in OU tier (Over Used tier).
And in regards to PanoRaMa's post:
The Scyther you are referring to is not in the Fossil set, but in the Jungle set. If you played competitive Pokemon TCG, you would know they use Modified rules which bans those sets and older sets. And you would also know that if an exception was made for Jungle Scyther, that card is still not very good in competitive play.
No need for you two to put strawman arguments up to jump on illu (saying Scyther is good in Under Used (UU) tier doesn't negate the opinion that Scyther sucks and saying Scyther from an old and outdated set is good, which he isn't in today's competitive metagame, does not negate the opinion that Scyther sucks in game.)
But Scyther does indeed look at a badass.
Edit: I just realized that Jungle Scyther was reprinted in Platinum set (thus making it legal in Modified.) But he still isn't that great in current competitive TCG metagame.
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On April 07 2010 17:06 KinosJourney2 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 07 2010 16:19 Pyrrhuloxia wrote:On April 03 2010 08:51 KinosJourney2 wrote:On April 03 2010 03:35 synapse wrote:On April 03 2010 03:22 KinosJourney2 wrote:Btw, digimon > pokemon in terms of games and tv-series Not a chance. TV-series is arguable both ways, but the pokemon games can be very competitive. The pokemon games was competative, yes. But so are the digimon games, and they have more diverse gameplay. You should try out Digimon World 3, amazing RPG game (not the only good one though!). Man, I bought the Digimon card game... its not even a game. So shitty. I know, i didn't say the cards was good but the videogames
Mm. Have you played the new mmo? I dunno that I've played any of the games. I remember seeing the first one for PS1 but I didn't have a PS1 and the reviews looked bad.
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Scyther is in UU tier because his evolved form, Scizor, is just much better and he's on OU. When you take into account the fact that it boasts a whopping 10 resistances with only 1 weakness, it's easy to see why Scizor has jumped to the top of the usage stats as the number 1 tank in the metagame. It is capable of revenge killing, scouting, or even sweeping teams after a Swords Dance boost, and its utility makes it easy to drop into pretty much any team.
EDIT: forgot my source www.smogon.com
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konadora
Singapore66365 Posts
urgh, now i feel like getting a DS and playing soul silver/heart gold
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On April 07 2010 18:22 lolaloc wrote:
Scyther is in UU tier because his evolved form, Scizor, is just much better and he's on OU. When you take into account the fact that it boasts a whopping 10 resistances with only 1 weakness, it's easy to see why Scizor has jumped to the top of the usage stats as the number 1 tank in the metagame. It is capable of revenge killing, scouting, or even sweeping teams after a Swords Dance boost, and its utility makes it easy to drop into pretty much any team.
lol did you just copy this straight from smogon
http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/scizor
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my sister got pokemon heart gold on her ds and as i am a big nerd (had yellow and red back in the day but never played gold before) i took over and finished it... a lot of new pokemon (since the original 151 i knew of ) but still like the old schools better.... currently running arcanine/starmie/ dragonite and then mixing up the others... anyone got any good ideas for other 3? :D
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Never played Pokemon,
*shrugs*
Enjoyed TV series though.
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On April 07 2010 18:22 lolaloc wrote:
Scyther is in UU tier because his evolved form, Scizor, is just much better and he's on OU. When you take into account the fact that it boasts a whopping 10 resistances with only 1 weakness, it's easy to see why Scizor has jumped to the top of the usage stats as the number 1 tank in the metagame. It is capable of revenge killing, scouting, or even sweeping teams after a Swords Dance boost, and its utility makes it easy to drop into pretty much any team.
Scyther is not in UU because his evolved form is in OU. I'm guessing you're implying that Scyther would be in OU if Scizor didn't exist but since Scizor does, it doesn't make sense to put Scyther in OU since Scizor would be better in every way. (Either that you're implying that or you're just posting about Scizor is good out of nowhere). Unlike most other Pokemon and their evolved forms, Scyther and Scizor actually have the same base total of 500.
Scyther is in UU because he is outclassed by other physical sweepers in OU (not because of Scizor) such as Weavile (and because he loses 50% of his max HP everytime he switches into Stealth Rock).
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On April 07 2010 18:32 Atrioc wrote:Show nested quote +On April 07 2010 18:22 lolaloc wrote:
Scyther is in UU tier because his evolved form, Scizor, is just much better and he's on OU. When you take into account the fact that it boasts a whopping 10 resistances with only 1 weakness, it's easy to see why Scizor has jumped to the top of the usage stats as the number 1 tank in the metagame. It is capable of revenge killing, scouting, or even sweeping teams after a Swords Dance boost, and its utility makes it easy to drop into pretty much any team. lol did you just copy this straight from smogon http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/scizor
Yes. Edited my post to include my source
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THANK YOU TL, I now have lots of new pictures to save to my pictures folder <3
Now, let's see, I started liking pokémon again this january actually (after not liking it for about 8 years?). I had a lot of catching up to do, still haven't played through any of the second gen games (will pick up soulsilver soonish I guess, lul)
Anyway, here are a bunch of non-nsfw pics, none of which are my work. =P
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What's with all this UU/OU stuff exactly? Do people play games where only certain pokemon are allowed on teams or something?
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On April 07 2010 19:35 Ftrunkz wrote:
What's with all this UU/OU stuff exactly? Do people play games where only certain pokemon are allowed on teams or something?
Pokemon is not a good game for competitive play without rules not inherent in the game as the highest level of play will always have only a few viable Pokemon and moves that make luck too strong a factor.
So competitive players agreed on a system of "tiers" with smogon.com defining the basic tier (and adjusting them as the metagame changes) and being the central community that influences other competitive Pokemon communities. All Pokemon are split into tiers: NFE (not fully evolved), NU (never used), UU (under used), BL (borderline: too good for UU but too outclassed for OU), OU (over used), and Uber. OU is the standard tier for competitive play, but competitive players play other tiers, too, or unlimited.
If you are playing in say OU, you can use Pokemon in tiers in OU or lower (but not higher). A Pokemon is put in a tier based on the idea that it can be compete in that tier but if it were placed in a lower tier, it would ruin that tier by being too good and everyone playing that lower tier would have to use that Pokemon to compete.
The idea of player made rules may sound dumb. But there are enough competitive players for them to agree on competitive rules to make competitive play less boring (i.e. more variation in viable Pokemon and more variation in viable moves).
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edit: Poster above answered much better than I, just read that instead ^^
(Post more pics please! xD)
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konadora
Singapore66365 Posts
On April 07 2010 18:36 Jakalo wrote:
Never played Pokemon
something is terribly wrong here
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On April 07 2010 21:22 konadora wrote:something is terribly wrong here
I don't eve....wha....no...jus.....what..ga...fuck.
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On April 07 2010 21:22 konadora wrote:something is terribly wrong here
I can understand actually, I never owned a gameboy as a kid when pokémon was hugely popular, so had some cards & stuff but never actually played the games up until a few months ago when I nabbed a GBA emulator.
Now I am of course hooked. And I wouldn't have it any other way =P
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