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On January 26 2014 08:17 ticklishmusic wrote:So, laptop crashed twice in the last couple days. I'm fairly sure its something to do with the hard drive, so I'm going to go ahead and upgrade to a SSD-- looking for 256gigs and under $200, anyone have any suggestions? This is my laptop: https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/U46E/I upgraded RAM to 12gigs, but that's the only modification. I do a lot of internet browsing, play some games on low settings (not picky about graphics), lots of reading and homework things. Move around a lot cuz college.
12gb ram is pretty excessive for that use.
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Czech Republic11293 Posts
On January 26 2014 07:36 Frudgey wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2014 06:03 Tooplark wrote:
Well, Articuno has the 4x weakness to rock. In fact, Articuno's typing is almost strictly worse than Moltres's. The only thing Articuno has over Moltres is a neutrality to Water attacks instead of a weakness.
Articuno's still the best tho. So pretty. You crushed my logic in no time flat. I'm impressed. Is this the part where I pledge eternal servitude to Tooplark? You've clearly shown that you are indeed my superior.
Ice can be a better STAB than Fire. Not strictly better.
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On January 26 2014 09:08 Scip wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2014 07:36 Frudgey wrote:On January 26 2014 06:03 Tooplark wrote:
Well, Articuno has the 4x weakness to rock. In fact, Articuno's typing is almost strictly worse than Moltres's. The only thing Articuno has over Moltres is a neutrality to Water attacks instead of a weakness.
Articuno's still the best tho. So pretty. You crushed my logic in no time flat. I'm impressed. Is this the part where I pledge eternal servitude to Tooplark? You've clearly shown that you are indeed my superior. Ice can be a better STAB than Fire. Not strictly better.
I guess I should have specified defensive typing. My bad.
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Yeah, Ice is single-handedly the worst defensive typing in the game. Weakness to fire and fighting, 2 of the most common attack types, weakness to SR and to add an insult to injury you get wrecked by bulletpunch too
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Are fighting types actually that common? I was under the impression that not many people used fighting types. And at least in my experience I don't run into fighting types all that often.
Keep in mind that I have no competitive pokemon experience so I could be spewing madness.
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Isn't Moltres inferior to Charizard, at least in the early generations, because his moveset isn't as good though? Iirc it's the most terrible of all 3 by the first generation (while Zapdos is best by far just because he's got a decent Flying attack from the start).
^ he's talking about weaknesses, so Fighting-type moves, not fighting-type Pokemons. Iirc Fighting as a good coverage in terms of what it's good against, and it's got a bunch of good moves easy to learn by a wide array of Pokemons.
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I understand that he meant fighting type moves, but I'm still wondering how often they show up in competitive play. I can easily imagine teaching most psychic Focus Blast (assuming I'm not getting the name of the move messed up) but I can't think of a lot of other fighting moves that are incredibly useful.
I haven't played Pokemon since Black and White, so I'm sure I have a lot of blind spots in my knowledge.
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Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On January 26 2014 09:16 Frudgey wrote:
Are fighting types actually that common? I was under the impression that not many people used fighting types. And at least in my experience I don't run into fighting types all that often.
Keep in mind that I have no competitive pokemon experience so I could be spewing madness.
Fighting types run rampant in the UU and lower tiers, which is also where many Ice types are since they're also not good enough for OU. But the Fighting Type Pokemon in OU aren't any slouch either (Lucario, Toxicroak, etc.) and will mess you up hard.
In terms of Fighting moves, there's a lot of them around especially since a lot of Pokemon will pick up TM moves like FOcus Blast for extra type coverage.
On January 26 2014 09:17 Alaric wrote:
Isn't Moltres inferior to Charizard, at least in the early generations, because his moveset isn't as good though? Iirc it's the most terrible of all 3 by the first generation (while Zapdos is best by far just because he's got a decent Flying attack from the start).
^ he's talking about weaknesses, so Fighting-type moves, not fighting-type Pokemons. Iirc Fighting as a good coverage in terms of what it's good against, and it's got a bunch of good moves easy to learn by a wide array of Pokemons.
Correct, Moltress is inferior to Charizard. Even though it picked up Hurricane in Gen V, it's still a shallow pool of moves. Gen VI isn't that much kinder since Charizard can now mega-evolve (and has two mega-evolutions) which makes it much more attractive.
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On January 26 2014 08:47 Gahlo wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2014 08:17 ticklishmusic wrote:So, laptop crashed twice in the last couple days. I'm fairly sure its something to do with the hard drive, so I'm going to go ahead and upgrade to a SSD-- looking for 256gigs and under $200, anyone have any suggestions? This is my laptop: https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/U46E/I upgraded RAM to 12gigs, but that's the only modification. I do a lot of internet browsing, play some games on low settings (not picky about graphics), lots of reading and homework things. Move around a lot cuz college. 12gb ram is pretty excessive for that use.
Eh
I run a lot of stuff in the background too, plus I used to do a lot of stuff with video editing w/ vegas
Trying to put together a backup right now though, hopefully it turns out ok 
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It is weird to hear that Charizard outclasses Moltres :D I played gen4 for the grand majority of my pokemon career and that is the one gen where Moltres was way better than Charizard
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Charizard outclasses everything be real please
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On January 26 2014 10:14 remedium wrote:
Charizard outclasses everything be real please
Fire/Dragon stronk as fuck.
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Blissey is the Teemo of Pokemon
Use Toxic, then evasion and defense buffs, let other guy to poison. Use your heal when he actually hits you. So broken.
Does that still work in the new generations?
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On January 26 2014 10:15 Gahlo wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2014 10:14 remedium wrote:
Charizard outclasses everything be real please Fire/Dragon stronk as fuck.
Technically he's Flying/Fire unless you count one of the Mega Evolutions from X or Y, in which case one of them is Fire/Dragon.
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On January 26 2014 10:28 ticklishmusic wrote:
Blissey is the Teemo of Pokemon
Use Toxic, then evasion and defense buffs, let other guy to poison. Use your heal when he actually hits you. So broken.
Does that still work in the new generations?
Well, most competitive battlers agree not to use evasion boosting moves, and defense boosting moves are rarely seen because crits ignore all the defense boosts. But yes, that still does work.
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Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On January 26 2014 10:28 ticklishmusic wrote:
Blissey is the Teemo of Pokemon
Use Toxic, then evasion and defense buffs, let other guy to poison. Use your heal when he actually hits you. So broken.
Does that still work in the new generations?
Blissey is still good and maintains the privileged positions of being one of the few OU Pokemone that is viable in Ubers. However the changes from Gen IV changed a lot of things. The two main changes that hurt her were the change in physical/special damage no long being type dependant (so SpA attackers can now blast at her with Fighting type moves and a lot of Pokemon suddenly became good) and the increase in +2 stat moves which allowed for stat-up-and-sweep Pokemon that didn't need to use BP chains to get to the same level of power quickly. For stall-based teams in Gen V onwards, there's also been a greater move towards type resistance rather than pure defensive stats since the threat of entry hazards setting up a sudden sweep makes pure sponges not that great. Blissey also has competition from Evoilite Chansey too.
EDIT: And as Tooplark stated, Evasion clause means no one should be using Evasion boosting moves...
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What do entry hazards have to do with it? Because they deal fixed damage regardless of stats so stat-oriented sponges get wrecked in the long term if the meta favors switching Pokemons a lot?
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On January 26 2014 10:58 Alaric wrote:
What do entry hazards have to do with it? Because they deal fixed damage regardless of stats so stat-oriented sponges get wrecked in the long term if the meta favors switching Pokemons a lot?
Here's what happens:
No hazards, switch in sponge. Enemy hits sponge for 50%, leftovers heals sponge to 56%. Next turn enemy hits sponge for 50%, sponge uses a healing move, recovers to 56%, leftovers heals sponge to 63%.
With hazards, switch in sponge. Stealth rock takes off 12%, enemy hits sponge for 50%, leftovers heals sponge to 48%. Next turn enemy hits sponge for 50% and KOs.
That's obviously oversimplified, but it makes a difference a surprising amount of the time.
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nerds
digimon was the shit
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digimon are the champions.
saw an episode of yugioh this morning. I'll play this card face down. Aha! you forget about my swords of revealing light!
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EPT
