Shamitako

Meep. I never forget to read and reply to my own threads Strawberry, that sounds absolutely miserable and I'm thankful the worst I've had to deal with is League I suppose part of this could be that I'm the oldest child in my family. I've been told that eldest children are expected to perform the best at like everything. I do get quite upset when people tell me to work harder/do better/etc when I'm already doing my best

...Okay, so you just took a turn from being just another random depressed girl on the internet (no offense, I'm just not the type to be randomly outgoing) to something I can very closely relate to So hi, I'm Alexus. I'm also trans. I very much understand the feeling of being "fake." There's a lot of people, especially my immediate family, who I have to pretend to be just a normal guy around, and it's terrible. I have the advantage of my school friends knowing who I am, but all but one treat me like I'm just a gay cross-dresser (NVM that I'm exclusively into girls/largely asexual, lol) I'm also not old enough to start physically transitioning without my parents being in on it and, as mentioned, I have to pretend to be as guy around them. So that's no fun Still, I very well relate to hating my body, and the inability to change it oft makes me feel completely miserable. To the extent where I've gone for entire weeks without showering just to avoid thinking about it (...of course lack of personal hygiene is a "male" trait so that usually backfires) I also generally feel like a bother to people around me because of my own anxiety issues, so I sorta relate to that (though I, luckily, have a lot of people who enjoy my company, at least for short periods of time) [insert generic well-wish that would probably sound very hollow here] With Hope, Lexi~

Eh... ATM I consider her one of the best toplaners in the meta, at least for yoloQ. She's not that easy to "keep at a distance" and basically completely counters any tank you could throw at her- Was writing this last night, but then my net dieded. Anyways... ^^^These I think nerfing her E duration is definitely important. Probably also lower her tank stats a little so she's easier to kill early

In all seriousness, she does need it right now

As I always say: Knock Off OP, better nerf Irelia owo

While there's no way you're going to please everyone, that sounds like a fairly safe step towards doing your best I really do think the best solution is not to remove the need for grinding alltogether, but to make grinding easier/more interesting *Points back to where she recommended making grinding faster when you do it strategically*

That's pretty similar to my standard build, albeit swapping Righteous Glory for Mikeal's (Also I usually finish Mikeal's before I finish Talisman)

...That wasn't a pure AP build at all I generally build Sightstone/Mobility Boots/Mikeal's/Twin Shadows/Talisman with a Locket, Rylai's, or Abyssal Scepter depending on the situation In this case I built a Zhonya's because I kept dying when I initiated with Tibbarz, and I didn't want all the fights to turn into 5 vs. 4s. I also got Twin Shadows over Mikeal's first because... Actually I forget why so that was probably a bad choice. I also focused on mobility fairly early because my lane was going terribly and I was hoping I could be of more use roaming IIRC I went: Sightstone>Boots>Talisman>Twins Shadows>Zhonya's. Was gonna finish out with Mikeal's

It's like that with any support really. Seeing a full AP Leona "support" is just as bad, if not worse, than an Annie

I did kind of need to be a tank support, but I don't own any. Still she didn't have to be like that >_>

To reiterate, the thing with over-the-cap mons is that you can always just common candy them back down to useable levels (unless maybe you couldn't common candy them somehow until after you'd made them listen to you? That would probs be tough to program tho) Outside that, I love the idea (I also think maybe that should be its own thread... It fits here, but not a ton)

Ah yes... On my first save it took me like three months to beat Rini. This time I won my first try with RAINBOWZ

This is actually a really neat idea. Also I would probably use these since it literally requires "bonding time" before they'll listen to you. Of course most people would probs just box them/common candy them until they could use them, so that might not work out very well

You literally just sat there toplane and did the Nasus thing. It was great Of course Trist was kind of a bitch to me for not picking a "real support." We stopped losing lane once I stopped playing to keep her alive and played to destroy the world (It helped that the fed AF Darius built AP) As for Darius getting fed in the first place, Morg is already bad lane for Annie, and I had no way to deal with the Darius too (he's P much the same as an AD Darius at early levels) Honestly we woulda lost if he'd built AD...

Gets all the dex entries - Meh, I only do that Pokedex in the post-game Rewards hard work - You're right that it's tedious. But that's not because the Pokemon are at a low level, it's because Reborn (and most main series Pokemon games) are terrible for grinding. I don't enjoy it in the least in a game like Reborn. Though it's always been very enjoyable for me in games with a Vs. Seeker. I love running around looking for people to battle again and trying to figure out the fastest way to beat a certain trainer or the way to trigger the most different re-battle-able trainers in one usage. But in most games grinding is just "go into grass, attack, get a tiny amount of exp." If grinding were faster for those who planned and strategized, it would still be hard work but less tedious (similar to how beating gym leaders is easier when you've got a strategy but becomes a nigh insurmountable challenge when you don't) Feeling of raising a 'baby' - <3 Gets moves without heart scales - Eh, Heart Scales are a renewable resource which I am not against abusing EV Training along the way - Much helpful here. IN my case, I'm not actually doing real EV training, just letting them pick up EVs as the battles go along. To give me a higher level Pokemon means I either have to stop my story and go catch it up to my team on EVs, or toss it in the box Adds gameplay time - Good for people who have time to play, bad for people who Worth it if the player likes the Pokemon - Eh, I'm not really grinding per se, so it doesn't matter that much whether I like something or not Creates a bond - And here we go. See, I've had both types of bonding happen previously, but never with a Pokemon I just picked up for a battle. Though I've only done that like twice (if I'm gonna make a swap to defeat a specific opponent, I plan it in advance). Once in Reborn I got a Pidove for Florinia, and I don't even remember if I kept it as an HM slave or shoved it my box when I found Emolga... And in XY I caught a Zweilos to fill the last slot in my team before the E4 and replace whatever HM slave I had at the time. Post E4 I tossed it in the box, I don't think it's even level 100 yet... Even my HM slave/egg hatching Volcarona and my Thief Noivern are level 100 at this point (And I love the both of them, Volcarona almost never leaves my party anymore, even when I'm not using it) Anyways, both ways. Back in Gen IV I was facing off against the E4 Fire guy. And the only thing I had left alive was my level 30 Tropius who literally only knew Fly (I had deleted all his other HM moves in hopes of getting some actually useful stuff as he leveled a bit) And managed to revive one of my aces and take down four (probably less, I feel like the number gets bigger every time I tell this story) of his Pokemon before being taken down. And I still love Tropius, purely because of that. I'd also had it with me for most of the story, thus why I'd removed its HMs in hopes of it becoming useful But I've also got things like the aforementioned Volcarona who I love purely because I've had her with me for so long (I've got like 500 hours on Y, and she's been with me for at least 300) and she has yet to fail me. Even when she was just a Larvesta there to help me hatch eggs she did her duty well and slowly crept into my heart It's not even grinding that creates a bond, it's the need to keep them with you for a while. If I could take a level 15 Pokemon and within five minutes make it match my team's level through "grinding," that'd be no different than just giving it to me at my level. It's the fact that I have to spend time with it that brings me to bond with it. Personally, I don't grind very much. I get a new Pokemon that looks cute or fun to use (EX: Inkay in Y) and it might be a ways behind my team (about ten levels at that point) but I'll toss it in the front of my party and switch-train it as a progress through the story (or just Exp. Share it if I have that) It might need a little grinding to be up to par by the time I reach the next big battle, but most likely it won't need very much. But since I had it with me and got to watch it grow anyways, and maybe it even did some Growl shenanigans to save my team from getting crushed by that one trainer and his over-leveled Whirlipede, I've grown attached to it and am excited to use it in the next fight There's also breeding being mentioned. I love breeding as a post-game thing to do things like create competitive Pokemon and shinies, but I don't enjoy stopping my story progression for it. It's a neat mechanic, but not one that's enjoyable in the middle of the story (especially since you have to go all the way back to wherever the breeder person is to do it, instead of just throwing yourself at the next wild battle) I'm sure there's fifty new posts since I started writing this, so Ima just post it now EDIT: Oh, and also, I don't think they need to be at level 5 when everything is level 50. Somewhere around half the level of wild Pokemon/trainers (not sure how big the disparity between those two is) at the time would be comfortable. There's also things that don't evolve that could more comfortably be found at slightly higher levels than those that do

Thus the poll owo

"Top or feed" TFW when you go top anyways

I love how everyone is focusing on this when I'm P sure I'm the only one that mentioned it Anyways, it's illogical from a game PoV, but it is how I feel. Same reason I almost exclusively use female Pokemon. So, again, I'm not really a good standard. I was just voicing my personal opinion and feelings And no, I wouldn't go and artificially lower their level. The whole point is that I don't want a fake partner. If I get them already at a fairly pre-trained level, then they're not really mine. And on top of that it's being suggested I should go and take away those levels so I can fake growing with them. I get that an emotional stance is a silly one in a video game, but trying to fight something based purely in emotion with arguments made of logic isn't exactly going to work either Assuming it's one of my favorites and I'm desperate to use it, I'll do this. Otherwise I'll just stick with my current team My opinion doesn't make a very solid argument, but it's not really intended to be one...

#noneoftheabove?

Mostly she just outranged me completely and could zone me easily early. She was bad at CSing tho Oh, also, I helped with half the kills ^w^

I love Weavile, but if you're handing it to me at level 50 I'm just not gonna bother. At best I'll breed it for a brand new Sneasel to raise up on my own, but even then I would just be power leveling and not really training it and getting attached to it. I'm much more likely to hang onto the Mightyena I caught back at level 4 I don't really treat my Pokemon like pawns to help me win the game. They're my partners and I'm not going to just junk one of them in favor of a random Pokemon I just got handed to me and won't get the chance to watch grow, even if it is my favorite But again, I'm probably a bit weird with that so I wouldn't take me as a standard Also I abhor grinding, I'm the type of person who just throws herself at a gym leader repeatedly until she wins, rather than run in circles for hours on end one-shotting Electrike Stupid Watson, why you gotta be so stronk?