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slowmanrunning
Canada285 Posts
On June 23 2010 17:49 TheAntZ wrote: The pokemon analogies are awesome. I thank you for not using the latest pokemon though cuz god they confuse me so much :p What's that? I only recall there being 151 pokemon ONLY!!!! | ||
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Goatlust
Australia131 Posts
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letian
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FreezingAssassin
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Chef
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+ Show Spoiler [heh heh heh :)] + I feel like StarCraft is turning into Pokemon. Each player has 5 dumb pokemon, one for each set, and in the middle of the battle one of them has emotional issues and falls unconscious unexpectedly. You know who's starting pokemon is Charmander? It's Flash's starting pokemon, cause his build just ran around like a little retard screaming its name so that Jaedong would know to use a water type pokemon... that is, if Jaedong even knew how pokemon works! What a noob! | ||
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ondik
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Abenson
Canada4122 Posts
Is there a search function or link available? | ||
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garlicface
Canada4196 Posts
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SilverSkyLark
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StorrZerg
United States13919 Posts
 Really liked the analysis as well, great job kwark ^_^ | ||
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StorrZerg
United States13919 Posts
On June 24 2010 16:32 slowmanrunning wrote: What's that? I only recall there being 151 pokemon ONLY!!!! Well since the last time you played there have been several more versions of the game released, each one adding more pokemon lol. probably over 400 now | ||
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sc4k
United Kingdom5454 Posts
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Rkie
United States1278 Posts
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gaizka
United States991 Posts
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XtrEEmMaShEEN3k2
United States122 Posts
![[image loading]](/staff/Waxangel/parasecspritet.png){kind=icon} Hyuk is PARASECT. At face value, Parasect seems to be rather useless, having poor stats and being the very weak “bug” type. On closer examination, Parasect has a wide variety of annoying tools at his disposal, from the ability to leech his opponent’s health away, amplify his own power, or put his opponent to sleep. Used correctly, these skills can bring down even the most powerful opponent, though at times it can come down to pure luck. </div> Being a "Bug" type in and of itself is not a "weak" type. Bug is often a very helpful secondary type. Offensively, Bug has fairly decent coverage, hitting Psychics, Plants, and Darks for super effective. Heracross, for example, as a Bug/Fighting type, was one of the best physical attackers in the game in the II and III generations, and the Bug typing goes fairly well with the Fighting typing, since its Bug attacks will ward off Psychics that hurt Fighting types. Fighting also gives Bugs a way to deal with Steel and Rock types. Defensively, Bug is also okay with a few key resistances against Fighting, Ground, and, to a lesser extent, Grass (which isn't that great of an offensive type). Fortress, for example, is one of the best defensive monsters in the game, seeing play in both OU and even Ubers. Being Bug/Steel, it has a total of 9 resistances and only 1 weakness, allowing it to Tank attacks while being a good Support Pokemon. Scizor shares its typing and is used more for Tankish offense, being able to switch in and deal a lot of damage. The PROBLEM with a lot of bugs though that they often have a secondary typing that's a piece of **** with Bug. The particularly large number of Bug/Flying types is notorious for this. Both Bug and Flying are fairly good defensive types. Put together, though, they're ABSOLUTELY horrible defensively, as they don't cover their weaknesses very well because they LITERALLY resist the same types (the Flying additionally resists Bug and is IMMUNE to Ground), but a lot of different resistances among the two, so they are shared when put into 1 Pokemon. 4x weakness to Rock is particularly jarring. With Stealth Rock in play, all Bug/Flying types lose 50% every time they switch in. Why Nintendo keeps literally spamming Bug/Flying types is mind-boggling. Parsect's Bug/Plant typing isn't AS bad, as its resistances aren't as redundant. The problem is while Bug is an okay defensive type, plant is a pretty bad defensive type. Like Bug/Flying, when these types are put together, their weaknesses are particularly magnified. Six weaknesses, particularly TWO 4x weaknesses to Flying and Fire. The Fire weakness is particularly notable. One of Parasect's 2 possible abilities is Dry Skin. While Dry Skin gives it an immunity to Water (which, again, is kind of redundant with its Plant typing), it also gives Parasect the ONLY 8x weakness in the game, to Fire. As mentioned before, while Bug is an okay-good Offense type, Plant isn't particularly good. As you mentioned, Parasect's low stats don't exactly help it either. It being one of the slowest Pokemon in the game doesn't help it either. Its only saving grace is that it's only of the only 2 Pokemon in the game to learn Spore, and even then, Breloom is always going to be the better choice, unless you're going for a gimmicky Kyogre counter. Its "skills" wont help bring down anything. Its poor defenses prevent it from doing anything with "leech his opponent’s health away", and its poor speed makes it unlikely to hit anything before it dies after it "amplifies its power". It's just an overall bad Pokemon. Sorry, Pokemon nerdiness seeping into this discussion. | ||
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United Kingdom126 Posts
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United States3670 Posts
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Philippines2167 Posts
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