The Fush

Just to point out, Legend of Korra is a western cartoon, but it's heavily influenced by the style of anime. I don't think it's that bad to mention it on this thread. But anyway, I finished watching Durarara and Fate/Zero a month ago, and I loved both of them. I'm now going to watch the rest of Baccano, and start on Mirai Nikki and continue watching the Pet Girl of Sakurasou aswell.

I meant to post this some time ago, but hell, I'll do it now. In the past, I've seen some arguments (and not just on Reborn) about how "this team is shit because it doesn't use X, it uses a worser thing, Y". Basically, it's like you're expected to use the same moves and pokemon every time you build a new team. If you're using something from LU or UU in the OU tier, it's like you're going through an army of flamers and biased criticizers. Well, there's a line between using something that will just not work in the higher tier, and using something from a lower tier effectively in said higher tier. I want to talk about being original when creating a team, and knowing the limits and being effective using uncommon pokemon in tiers such as OU, but still knowing when your option is silly and a bad idea. I'll be talking about how you can be unique and creative in both your pokemon you're using and their movesets. Keep in mind that I'm not a sort of professional PO player. I'm experienced at team building, but my general teams are subpar at best and I'm one of the rather mediocre trainers on the server. This are just opinions I have gathered through what I have seen since I have joined PO. However, I do not like to disregard what I say, and I still think I have a valid argument. So say you're in the teambuilder, and you want to use say, a very much liked pokemon of yours as opposed to something commonly used. For example, Gyarados could be a good Dragon Dancer for you to use on your team: Gyarados (M) @ Life Orb Trait: Moxie EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Dragon Dance - Waterfall - Earthquake - Outrage Base Stats: HP: 95 Attack: 125 Defense: 79 Special Attack: 60 Special Defense: 100 Speed: 81 Seems like it would be a good member for your team. But what if you wanted to use something different? Well, you'd unfortunately have to adjust your team, and not run something similar. Here's what I mean: Crawdaunt (M) @ Life Orb Trait: Adaptability EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Dragon Dance - Waterfall - Superpower - Night Slash Base Stats: HP: 63 Attack: 120 Defense: 85 Special Attack: 90 Special Defense: 55 Speed: 55 You can see the problems. Crawdaunt isn't as bulky, is much slower and has slightly less attack power. It is a DECENT idea and still usable in OU? Just about. But if you want to use something like that on your team, it has to be a good match for the team. In Crawdaunt's case, because of it's frailty and slow speed, you might want to use it on a trick room team instead. (Optional Choice Of No Speed IVs) Crawdaunt (M) @ Life Orb Trait: Adaptability EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Hone Claws/Swords Dance - Crabhammer/Watefall - Superpower - Night Slash This is more suitable for using in OU. Trick Room will help Crawdaunt's molasses speed and allow it to become almost as deadly as Gyarados in it's own right. It may not have the same variability, but it has a +2 attack booster or a +1 attack +1 accuracy booster to overcome it's over problems and become a nightmare. See? It's possible to use something like Crawdaunt in OU. You just need to know what you're doing, or your end will be inevitable. Team building is one of the biggest things to master in PO. If you want to use more original teams, you need to know exactly what you're trying to build and accomplish. Because of this, there are bad examples of people trying to be original. Here's one: Say you really like a pokémon like Emolga, and want to use it over Jolteon in OU as a late game sweeper. This is a bad idea. Let me explain: Jolteon (M) @ Life Orb Trait: Volt Absorb EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) - Volt Switch - Shadow Ball - Signal Beam - Hidden Power [Fire] Base Stats: HP: 65 Attack: 65 Defense: 60 Special Attack: 110 Special Defense: 95 Speed: 130 Jolteon is an excellent choice, being extremely fast and potent in special force aswell. It's a perfectly suitable option for your team, and can finish up the enemy team late game efficiently, being fast enough to hit before it's enemies. Emolga, on the other hand: Emolga (M) @ Life Orb Trait: Motor Drive EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) - Electro Ball - Signal Beam - Air Slash - Volt Switch Base Stats: HP: 55 Attack: 75 Defense: 60 Special Attack: 75 Special Defense: 60 Speed: 103 This is one of Emolga's best sets, but it is outclassed by Jolteon in almost every way; Emolga only has a slightly more varied movepool and the use of Motor Drive, and even then it is far frailer and is far more liable to die than Jolteon ever is. In overall, while it still might help you occasionally in OU, it is completely outclassed. Can it work in say, LU or UU? Yes. It can work good there. But not here. When trying to add variety or uniqueness into your team, you need to know what your doing, what your team is based on and how this member will help. Basically, what I'm trying to get at is this; extremely common pokemon are common because of how well they work in their tier, and that's why most people use them. If you want to use something different and maybe slightly weaker, go for it, BUT... know what you're doing. There are times where what you're trying to do is stupid. If you want to pull this off, you need to know how. Also, there's no need to get angry at some for say, using Crawdaunt or Lilligant in OU; they can work there, and it has been proven. No need to get all riled up just because your Gyarados or Virizion or Thundurus work better than they do. If they can pull it off, then there is essentially no need to complain about what you're doing. Since the earlier good example was of an entirely offensively based pokémon, I'l choose a bruiser category this time: Conkeldurr (M) @ Flame Orb Trait: Guts EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - Drain Punch - Earthquake - Fire Punch - Payback Base Stats: HP: 105 Attack: 140 Defense: 95 Special Attack: 55 Special Defense: 65 Speed: 45 Conkeldurr is one of the biggest powerhouses in OU. It's attack stat is enormous. Is it slow? Yes. However, there are many sets you can run with it, and it has great defenses aswell. But maybe there's a bruiser from a lower tier that you might like more. For example: Throh (M) @ Flame Orb Trait: Guts EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - Stone Edge - Superpower - ThunderPunch - Payback Base Stats HP: 120 Attack: 100 Defense: 85 Special Attack: 30 Special Defense: 85 Speed: 45 So say you like Throh, and you want to use it over Conkeldurr. Looking from this viewpoint, it seems Conkeldurr has more options and generally serves you better, which is mostly true. But that doesn't mean Throh is a bad choice: It has higher HP to compensate for lower attack, and it's defenses are more well rounded, and it even has the same speed. It also can run both similar and different sets. They can both run Guts, and while Conkeldurr has things like Iron Fist sets that are also very powerful, Throh can phaze with Circle Throw, Bulk Up like Conky, and generally has it's own ups over Conkeldurr, with a moveset almost as varied. Therefore, it's acceptable to use Throh in higher tiers, even though you might have a hard time if you don't know what you're doing, and might do the job better in lower tiers. So don't worry overly if you've decided to use something uncommon. The point of my post is to open up to a bit to the options out there, especially now that Clear Skies and Monotypes are in play, and feel free to party out. After all, you are supposed to have fun in a game, and using the same thing all the time can ruin that experience.

Kotone: WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?! Gary: *sighing* Yes, exactly who the hell DO you think you are?

Banned for saying that while having a green espeon with a gemstone on it's forehead!

ah, that's the Mage Battle drawing that was uploaded on DA! I really liked the way the artist blended the colours in; also, the orangeblue contrast is legendary.

Just a quick note to Kamina, I'm pretty sure that Fire Punch is there specifically because of the OU threat posed by it opposed to the likes of Tyranitar; does it just as well anyway, being a suicide lead. Though superpower wouldn't be bad either, because Genesect could actually switch into Tyranitar with U-Turn and then screw over Deoxys-S with sand stream, to which a good prediction could lead to a dead enemy Tyranitar. I'd also agree to shed shelling Amoonguss; it's much better for acting against Chandelure that way. Aside from that, this seems like an incredibly well built team. I'm not that professional of a rater myself, but you seem to have noted down many things that threatened your team and built your team up to size to generally resist them all well. Just watch out for other Excadrills in OU, because they threaten the majority of your team aswell; Jellicent is vital for taking enemy Excadrills down. This is because most of your team is outspeeded by it, and your Excadrill can only speed tie it. If Jellicent doesn't Will-O-Wisp or Taunt to stop Swords Dances, you could be in trouble. Also, just a note, we have Clear Skies Tiers in Reborn now, so if you wanna try battling without any weather to worry about, that's your place.

Banned for having a high quality anime-esque avatar like 90% of the new avatars around here! ... I need to change mine before I die.

Banned because... wait, I've only been reading your post for 5 hours! I need another 10 hours to read the full ban post of yours!

BANNED BECAUSE THERE ARE ALREADY TRAILERS FOR DESPICABLE ME 2

Banned for your trainer card being too bright and white! ...wait.

Point taken, Ikaru. Anyway... I really like the Smart Ping that's been talked about, and now is going to be introduced in the next patch. Provided that we don't get stuck with teammates who have the brain capacity of a Terry Pratchet troll taking a lava bath, the team will now be able to communicate easier and provide MIAs/SSes with less effort and still be able to send the message across to your teammates. That, and there won't be that one Morgana in mid lane who ignores you being chased now. As for the other changes, Nidalee and the item changes seemed alright, but I feel that Kayle's Q was a bit overnerfed. It feels like you're being forced to level it earlier just so you can slow the enemy enough so that they won't be walking faster than a snail, which discourages you from eyeing your W in the support lane or your E as a mid-laner. Xin Zhao's changes seemed alright too, but I've only played him once, so I can't really tell. Oh, and I can tell AP Taric is going to be pretty smashing because of the new Gemcraft; Archangel's, Rod of Ages and Lich Bane are going to cause him to murder everything now... with sparkles.

The reason why it's slow (and it's not THAT slow anyway) is because it's made to purely start the frostbite combo in safer conditions. The damage for it never really mattered for me; I maxed my wall after Frostbite instead of my Q for the mid-game teamfight control. You have the wall and minor slow from the ult to help you; landing the Q is difficult, but it can be pulled off once you're more skilled at Articuno! says this while only being mediocre at Anivia while Ikaru has been playing her for what now

Banned for being unable to be not angry for more than a few minutes. I can't help that though

Banned because what you just said made me laugh so damn hard that I swear the block across me could've heard it.

If frogs weren't cool then why would I play one

Banned for no longer being Noel!

BANNED FOR STATING AN OBVIOUS FACT IN WHAT WAY AM I GRACEFUL :I

Banned because... graceful? Me? I feel like I'm being mocked...

I enjoy it, to a certain degree. It suffers from Aeria's typical problem of making MMOs with the complete same questing mechanics, but the class changing, heroic trial dungeons and crafting systems keep it fresh enough for me to like it. On a side note, I enjoyed Engineer, Thief and Magician classes the most. I mainly play on Sapphire right now, with my frog SuperYakkie; I'm aiming to become a Templar with im, because Templar Frogs look hilarious. I had joined this game since it's open beta, but I left after getting my human Engineer to lv51, and I ended up, for some stupid reason, deleting him and starting from fresh with a frog. A frog.

Similar to how a topic was made for DMO, I've made a topic for anyone who plays Eden Eternal. Feel free to list your characters names and what server they're on (I figured that one post from Mash wasn't enough). Aaaaaaaaand then when hilarity ensues, this can just turn into a general EE thread. Anyway, on the Diamond Server, I go under the name of Velke, and on the Sapphire Server I'm known as SuperYakkie.

Oof, sorting out a confirmation of the match events might be- oh wait, print screen. Anyway, my TCGO name is Wurmples. Good luck, everyone! Also, when will the matches actually start, or will you decide that once the sign-ups are done?

Banned because that's what I'd say for your avatar!

Banned for being a girl in your trainer card!

BANNED BECAUSE THAT'S NOT A WHIP, IT'S TWO GUNS ATTACHED TOGETHER BY A BADASS LOOKING ROPE