AZKnight

[quote name='Stars' post='2386' date='Aug 4 2010, 06:11 PM']Whoa, too many new posts to catch up on. o.O Oh, hi, by the way.[/quote] Just ignore the League Highlights topic, trust me. When there are updates, it's normally just how many battles there were and how many badges awarded, not really any highlights from them. But 99% of the topic is just N8, Mashew, Bullet, and Will posting back and forth single sentences. There is really nothing to read there anymore, so don't let the 16 pages fool you. Did you bring back candy?

I can't really put my finger on a single favorite Pokemon, simply because my mind drifts between several all the time. Scizor is clearly one of my favorites since it even shares my nickname of Knight. There is also Marowak for its awesome skull and bone club. But I am going to go with my FIRST and ORIGINAL favorite Pokemon, even if I haven't used it in ages. Nidoqueen Do not ask me why, ever since I played Yellow it has been my favorite and for a while that stuck.

And when I saw the title of this tournament, I thought you had done it because I had lobbied for the same set up for another tournament. That along with stuff like Bad Items, No STAB, No Stealth Rocks, and Forced Tiers. It will be like using in-game teams which is awesome.

[quote name='Stars' post='2397' date='Aug 4 2010, 06:56 PM']Wha-? There has finally been a match that ended with a draw? I demand to know how this happened.[/quote] Explosion by Metronome counts as a tie, even by the programming of the game.

Since I never really have expressed my opinion on most of the released Pokemon, I felt I should go through them if only so I have a record of my thoughts for a later date. In addition to that is the fact that a lot of people have been complaining that this generation has very unimaginative and ugly Pokemon and I'd like to disagree. I still don't remember if I followed any of the pre-release stuff for Diamond and Pearl nor do I remember how many Pokemon were revealed beforehand. I feel some people might be jumping the gun and having their views on previous generations clouded by nostalgia. You think the new Gear looking Pokemon is uninspiring? Then what do you call Diglett, as it's just a bump with a pink nose and eyes. Oh, and it's evolution Dugtrio is just....3 Diglett. Real inspiring there, but despite that I like Dugtrio and don't view it as lame. I guarantee that several of the Pokemon that are being bashed now might become favorites after you play the game. And to have my own defenses solidified, I'm going to go over all the current Pokemon released thus far so I can go, "Ha!" In addition I will be going through this in the same order as they are listed on Serebii, so if you want to follow along do so. [img]http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/e/e2/494.png[/img] [b]Tsutaja [/b]- This is without a doubt my favorite among the three new starters. The tail has that leaf design on it to solidify that it is in fact a Grass type, while at the same time it looks different enough from Treeko that it's not a clone. I do find it odd that is the "Grass Snake" Pokemon since...it's not a snake. I suppose if you removed the limbs the body looks very serpentine which isn't true for lizards. Other reptiles do not have the same look and feel as a snake so being able to see the serpentine form in there is cool The coloring is also very nice with the green and yellow accents and it just makes me think of grass and a garden snake. Now what I do not like about it is the eyes, they just seem too big to me. It just takes up so much of the side of its head and I think maybe if they made them smaller or they removed the white portion to just show the brown iris. Plus, that would give it a better snake look as you can't see the white portion of eyes on most animals. I also don't like the feet because they look lacking. There is just no detail in the form of toes or a foot or claws. It's the small things that bring it out like that, instead of just a generic shape. Overall I am pleased with Tsutaja and I just hope that a beta sketch that was released is in fact NOT its evolution because that design I don't like. [img]http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/9/99/497.png[/img] [b]Pokabu[/b] - Again, I like the design of this starter and don't think it is a bad Pokemon. The colors are again very nice with the orange body with the yellow on the forehead representing flame and the brown thrown in there to give it a splash of design and possible meaning mud since its a pig. The only thing I don't like about the color placement is that the brown on its rear makes it look like its wearing a diaper to me. Less noticeable in the game sprite and it's something that I can easily look past. There's also the subtle difference of it having brown tips on its front legs but not its back ones, which I like, too. It breaks the design up so it's not a mirror image all around. The ear placement is whimsical and as much as I want to say they look like rabbit ears instead of pig ears, I can't. They don't look like pig ears, but for some reason they don't scream out rabbit like they do for some people. The ball on its tail I thought had been used before for Spoink and Grumpig, but I was wrong. Neither have their pearls on their tails so that's a new aspect for pig Pokemon. Now I know in Generation I it was Mankey/Primeape, Gen. II Swinub/Piloswine, Gen. III Spoink/Grumpig, and I don't think there was a new pig Pokemon for Gen. IV beside Mamoswine which became more woolly mammoth, so somehow we've managed to keep adding pigs to Pokemon. Again, I don't like being able to see the whites of its eyes, but at least this time I don't think the eyes are too big themselves. Then despite the color scheme I just don't feel the Fire type vibe very strong and it reminds me of Torchic. It didn't feel like a Fire type until it evolved for me. [img]http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/b/be/500.png[/img] [b]Mijumaru[/b] - Ah yes, the one that everyone hates, myself included. First off, bad color scheme in my opinion. Having it's entire head be white just looks bad, especially since it's just a simple round and bald shape. There is nothing to break the white up besides its two ears. Then despite going for this soft tones of white and blue, it randomly has an orange version of a Diglett nose. Just like the diaper on Pokabu, its nose is far less noticeable in the game sprite and looks like a more natural otter nose. After all, most of us care more how Pokemon look in the game than in their artwork anyway. Saying that I think the sprite is much better in making its design blend more, with the exception that its white, round head still looks wrong. If I had to compare this thing to something I'd have to say Piplup. It, too, is this weird light blue puffball that I honestly have no love for. But I do have love for Empoleon which looks badass and expect Mijumaru to follow that path. Call it a gut instinct. The sad thing is that with its white head, I see more Ice than I do Water for it. Maybe this means it will evolve into a Water/Ice Pokemon which was something I thought would be bad and was overused earlier on. Now I look at it thinking that wouldn't be bad since there are only 4 other Water/Ice types, 3 of which are from the first generation. I hope it goes a different route just for the sake of having new type combination. The starters usually go that way with Charizard being the only non-legendary Fire/Flying, Torterra the only Grass/Ground, Empoleon the only Water/Steel, and Blaziken/Infernape the only Fire/Fighting. And yet, that leaves so many other starters that aren't unique. Blastoise and Feraligatr are pure Water which hugely common, Typlosion is pure Fire, Meganium and Sceptile pure Grass, Venusaur the oh so common Grass/Poison from Gen. I, and Swampert is the 2nd of 4 Water/Ground types. So if Mijumaru becomes the 5th Water/Ice type, it will be par the course. I will continue to go through the rest of the Pokemon, but for now I'm going to take a break. Don't know if I'll edit the post or make a new one considering how much I wrote for each Pokemon. This is Blaine's lab assistant signing off.

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Then after that we're going to skip to RTS. "Move the Gyarados squadron around the back of the map to surprise his Golem defenses." "It's too late! They've already launched their Fearow flyers! "Egads! Ready the Onix and Rhyperior! We mustn't let them steal our Masterball!" Upgrading classes would be evolution.

[url="http://www.dragonflycave.com/newpay.aspx"][img]http://www.dragonflycave.com/wpay/slowking.gif[/img][/url] Well I do like messing with people's heads...

Maybe Amethyst is really Gardevoir and it's all be an elaborate ruse.

Lady Gaga

I was talking more about people just posting in the topic. Now that I'm thinking about it, don't know what I wanted people to talk about though. Just....something. People commenting on what they like or don't like or making suggestions or reminiscing or something. Looking back now I don't think I really commented on anyone elses exploits, then again there wasn't a lot of activity before.

Meh. No one else has been posting here so I don't think anyone is really taking an interest in the Mono-Type challenge. So keeping it short. Bugsy vs. Lt. Surge Ace beats Voltorb and takes no damage. Ace beats Pikachu and takes no damage. Plus, his Pikachu was weaker than the 3 other Pikachus in the Gym which is sad. Ace beats Raichu and takes minimum damage. Bugsy wins. Yay...

Happy Birthday, Cy! Happy Birthday, Bear! Happy Birthday, Amethyst! ....they're all different people, right?

Blue Whale's Tongue

Bullet Point thought process as I watched the new trailer: [list] [*]Me might get partial 3D graphics of Pokemon, at least in cut scenes. Cool! [*]I am debating whether of not Team Plasmas outfits are worse than Team Galactic. Why people join these organizations at all because of the dress code is beyond me. [*]Octagons....yay? [*]I have no idea what new game mode those kids are playing. Four of them got together, looked at a map, then one of them won. Whaaaat? [*]So we get to go between dimensions/worlds/whatever again. At least it looks like it has an effect on you character this time. [*]It looked like the character transformed into a mail carrier, which isn't interesting. But then it looked like the transformed male character interacted with the female character. Perhaps you can actually play together in the game now, which would be SWEET! [*]Oh nooooooooo, they brought back Contests and made them into musicals. Ugh... [*]More octagons, Asian children, and pretty colors. I don't know what's going on again. [*]Triple Battle. [*]Triple Battle! [*]TRIPLE BATTLE!!! [*]A lot of stuff going on in the triple battle like being able to rotate your Pokemon and how attack spread out. I wonder if Double Battles will still exist. [*]Gasp! There's a WHITE kid in one of those octagons! [*]I guess we can send Pokemon onto our computers to...harvest berries. Please just let us be able to upload battle videos to the computer, too. [*]Oh sweet relief. It looks like we can transfer Pokemon from Generation IV games without needing two DS. Except...we have to shoot a bow and arrow to do it....gah! [*]New Pokemon. *yawn* Oddly, the one I don't like the most is the tiny dinosaur that has something in its mouth. [*]New Trainer classes! Wait, was that an American Football player? Wha-wha-why? It will only make sense to Americans... [*]Did they just fire the character out of a CANON?! O_O [*]The Legendary Pokemon's butts glow.......*snrk* [*]Interesting stuff, though sadly I'm just most impressed by the new graphics rather than any game mechanics or story. [/list]

I'm in. Always wanted to do this and I managed to with Stars once. Or was it Ame? Or both. *shrugs* Does PO allow for any Pokemon to learn Metronome like you were hacking, or are we restricted to Pokemon who can learn it in the 3rd and 4th Generations?

The winner is N8! Because I really don't care if he's eating or not. And Norway is awesome

I remember seeing the first two movies in theaters and that I have always been a little jaded with them even at a young age. Early on I was ready for them push forward with the series and movies to make them more serious. I also think I'd already come to be disgruntled with Ash since he never does anything too smart or special. In the first movie when Ash was turned to stone I was....happy. Finally, Ash had been done away with and in a heroic manner. We can move on! Create a better character, better story, better-....oh, he's not dead. Damn. And that was when I was 9 I have seen a lot of the movies just through happening across them on CartoonNetwork, but I only remember the early ones well because I watched them deliberately. My favorite is probably 2000 for...just being well rounded. There was a great, eccentric villain, a real world wide threat, epic battles, everything was really great. The only thing I didn't like was the ancient myth of "The world will turn to Ash." God forbid if he had been named Larry. The new movie has me psyched a bit because it looks like it might be dark. That or I just really like the music from this videothat features a snippet from it. Probably the narrator/music.

Maybe it will be a Fighting type, since we haven't had that nor Poison or Bug for a Legendary. Even though it isn't bulky like a Machoke, I could see the little guy throwing some punches. Plus, it's name Victini and its "V for Victory" pose suggest that it might be Fighting. It would be an interesting combination with the two version mascots: Fire, Electric, and Fighting.

I know how to play to people so neh! IRRELEVANT ~ Pointless ~ Trivial ~ Garbage

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Clearly

Point goes to NoGoodBoyo. They're Pinky and The Brain. Yes, Pinky and The Brain. One is a genius. The other's insane... P.S.: [b]WE MUSTN'T LET N8 BREED![/b]

We're doing this by conservative polls. If we did things the logical way, then when it came to the presidential election we'd have 20% Democrat, 20% Republican, and 60% I Don't Give a Shit. Or you can go the lame way and not vote at all.

Where's Scizor?