Ironbound

[REDACTED] How do you plan to spend a vacation if you should be able to have one now?

Excellent. It can be based on the Indian Swamp Deer, as well. As the name implies, it's a kind of deer that has great affinity for water. Make a better Normal/Water type than Bibarel, just to taunt Bibs :]

No Aika? Now I'm at least 63.752% less likely than my original estimation to attend this.

There is no hill. Wake up.

Togekiss

Azelf.

'morning. Weenie? 'bye.

Law of inverse relevance: more you talk, less you do. So I'm refraining from talking about my dreams and ambitions, because I don't want to run the risk of diluting their potency. Also good morning. How was your day/night?

I don't go to these lengths because they're necessary to play the game. I'm a perfectionist for perfection's own sake: a collector of perfection, so to speak. I did it for the trophy value. My way of enjoying a game more.

And I sit here with 223 Magnemites, Magnetons and one Magnezone, in the quest to get 30/12/31/30/31/30 HP Fire IVs (which that Magnezone has.) Genderless HP Fire breeding with only one Ditto is a hellish nightmare. I needed a life back then. At least getting perfect or near-perfect IVs on Metagross was easier because no hidden power was specifically required. I had settled for 29/31/30/31/28/26; the speed was iffy but it was running Agility anyway, with the aforementioned EVs to maximise bulk and power.

BLURZURKURN!

Who are you? Explain thyself!

Go 248 HP and max attack, rest in Spdef. Run agility to compensate for speed. Mash/Zenbutt/HamnerArm. Profit. Also breeding for IVs with a genderless Mon is painful. If you are not a painful perfectionist like me, don't bother.

Magnezone is the one true Lord and Saviour! Spine?

TFW your dog hides its toys and forgets where they were.

Hello and welcome to Reborn, Raphael. I'm sure you'll enjoy your stay here. Do be sure to check the Rules on the left, and drop in the Showdown Server for a chat.

If I were to write a fan fiction, as Unlikely with a capital U as that may be, it'd probably involve the heroic battle between the Audit Report and the evil Tax Infringement over the fair Profit Statement and the quest to protect its beautiful Reserves and Surpluses from misrepresentation!

It looks like the movement of an extremely busy and yet smoothly operating clock with a large number of cogs and elements. I'm a creature of habit. What do you think is better: charcoal grey or iron grey?

That's true of everyone. What does count is the desire never-ending to learn more. When one stops wanting to know, one limits oneself. OK, enough sounding like I'm Methuselah. Weenie? What say?

No, it was just total royal pique. Apparently the populace of Delhi didn't like the fact that they weren't to be the capital anymore, and this annoyed him, so he ordered them to abandon the city they valued more than his command, and forced everyone, even the elderly and the infirm, to pack up and move or be killed. A strange fellow, indeed.

Oh yeah,I have an idea for a termite Pokémon. Bug/Ground, and like Vespiquen only the females can evolve into the higher form. But unlike Combee, the base form isn't utterly useless. I'll call 'em Termine and Terregent. I'll get around to drawing them soon. Also, Zim, Toxicity =/= viral and bacterial disease of the horrific kind we see irl. Muk and Weezing are pollution, yes, but not disease. And of course, we'll never see a Steel/Poison radiation Pokémon. Also, all of them, including Raticate, were Gen1. Gen1 was rather more inclusive of the unsavoury parts of life; subsequent generations of Pokémon are much tamer and more dumbed-down. We will not see mosquitoes and flies and roaches in the coming generations, I think. Especially when you consider that after Raticate, not a single rodent introduced is actually a rat. They're all cutesie things like squirrels and dormice and lagomorphs, or things like beavers and stuff. Definitely nothing that makes one think of rabies and pestilence. Personally, I'd rather it stayed that way. Much as I like the idea of Bug/Poison Mosquitox and Tsefly, I would rather they didn't exist.

Not yet. And I was too busy typing out a large reply to the history thread. You should read it, it's grimly hilarious. Zephy?

Yes, don't remind me of what those bastards did to us. You can understand the rare depth of my emotion if I, of all people, employ a pejorative, and a curse at that. Anyways, to take my mind off that, I'm getting back to the topic of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, also known as the Wisest Fool. Muhammad bin Tughlaq, the eldest son of Ghiyasudden Tughlaq of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanates, ruled most of what is now North and Central India, Bangladesh and Pakistan from 1324 until his death in 1351. Of all the Tughlaqs, his was the most distinguished figure. He was the most eloquent and accomplished prince of his age. His letters, both in Arabic and Persian, were admired for their elegance long after he had ceased to reign. Besides a thorough knowledge of logic and the philosophy of the Greeks, he was much attached to mathematics and to physical science and himself used to attend sick persons for the purpose of watching the symptoms of any extraordinary disease. He was regular in his devotions and conformed in his private life to all the moral precepts of his religion. Nor was he a weakling; in war he was distinguished for his gallantry and personal activity, so that his contemporaries were justified in esteeming him as one of the wonders of the age. Yet all these talents and accomplishments were in vain, for they were accompanied by a perversion of judgement, which, even after every allowance for the intoxication of absolute power, left no doubt about some kind of insanity. A remarkable aspect about him was his almost stupid oversight of practical constraint when formulating plans. He is credited with many farsighted plans which were sound and aimed at welfare, but was almost blind to the fact of their impracticability. This made him a tragicomic figure, and devastating as a ruler. One infamous example of his good-sauce-for-bad-fish decisions was his great Shift of Capital. In 1327, Tughluq passed an order to shift the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad (present day Maharashtra) in the Deccan region of south India. He had sound reasons for this. Tughluq said that it would help him to establish control over the fertile land of the Deccan plateau. He also felt that it would make him safe from the Mongol invasions which were mainly done on Delhi and regions around in north India. (No thanks to Timur Lang) Also, it was felt that it not always possible to operate a large army from Delhi for the occupation of the Southern states. Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq himself had spent a number of years as prince to occupy and guard these states during the time of his father. Daulatabad, he reasoned, was also situated at a central place so the administration of the north and the south could be possible. All good, of course. So what should have been done was to merely shift the official capital to Daulatabad, and himself move there, right? WRONG! Tughlaq ordered all people of Delhi to proceed to Daulatabad as well, complete with all their belongings! Ibn Batuta, the Moroccan traveler who had resided in his court at the time, cites that the force was without any leniency. To quote his translation: "Without consultation or weighing of the pros and cons, he brought run on Delhi which for 170 to 180 years had grown in prosperity and rivaled Baghdad and Cairo. The city with its Sarais and suburbs and villages spread over four or five leagues, all was destroyed (i.e., deserted). Not a cat or a dog was left." This is where the bizarre tragicomedy begins. To facilitate this terrible decision, Tughlaq was benevolent almost to the point of altruism. A broad road was constructed for convenience. Shady trees were planted on both sides of the road; he set up halting stations at an interval of two miles. Provisions for food and water were also made available at the stations. Tughluq established a 'khanqah' at each of the station where at least one sufi saint was stationed. Even a regular postal service was established between Delhi and Daulatabad! And yet, the forced migration was merciless. In the process, many died in the road due to hunger and exhaustion. It gets worse, believe it or not. In 1334 there was a rebellion in Mabar. While on his way to suppress the rebellion, there was an outbreak of bubonic plague due to which Tughluq himself became ill, and many of his soldiers died. While he retreated back to Daulatabad, Mabar and Dwarsamudra broke away from Tughluq control. This was followed a revolt in Bengal. Fearing that the sultanate's northern borders were exposed to attacks, in 1335, he decided to shift the capital back to Delhi, and ordered all the populace to turn back! Needless to say, Delhi suffered greatly in size and stature, and Tughlaq's Treasury was severely compromised. What's worse, this was not his only misadventure. The fool, ambitous of annexing kingdoms, invited nobles and leaders from those regions and gave them grants from his already burdened Treasury. Partly with their help and partly from his own kingdom, Tughluq raised an army of 37 hundred thousand soldiers in 1329. Barani has written that Tughluq took no step to check the ability of the soldiers or the brand of horses. They were paid in one year advance, and after being kept idle for one year, Tughluq found it difficult to continue paying for them. Therefore, he decided to disperse and dissolve the soldiers in 1329! What a waste! Many of these soldiers also perished in ill-planned mountain conquests. The fool was pained by his monetary losses, so he had another horrible experiment to cap his litany of failures; token currency of brass and copper coins, that were equal in value to gold and silver. These coins further lacked any artistic finish, with the effect that every Smith and goldsmith was able to turn his house into a mint of worthless coins that threatened to collapse the economy and destroy Indian trade! It was a mercy for the country when he died. His ideas behind the steps he took were great. But his impatience failed him to imply them properly. As a result his policies became a reason behind the huge decline of his kingdom. While he was tolerant of all faiths, open minded and impartial, he also lacked all sense of proportion as a statesman, which proved fatal to his dynasty.

We have two families of Pokémon: Quagsire and Swampert, that are already based on the Axolotl. Though Mudkip is meant to be a mudskipper, they don't look anything like the fish, and ate clearly Amphibians of the newt variety. The gills that Swampert retains point to Axolotl origin, though Quagsire is the more obvious derivative due to its access to Recover. How about a sea snake? Water/Poison is awesome, and having a fast, offensive one as opposed to fat things like Quilfish and Tentacruel would be a change. EDIT: Ninjask'd again. Also, Empoleon is the best and most honourable bird! And hell no, no mosquitoes or flies or massively deadly disease carrying vectors, thanks very much. I think that's the deliberate rwason why GF has never made such pestilential Pokémon.