Who here got the new pokeyman? Gimme your friend codes and battle me I lust for blood.



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scan this with your 3ds camera QR code scanner and update your game. otherwise saving in lumiose city corrupts your save file

I think I just beat the first gym leader and then I got distracted trying to figure out if super training does nothing worthwhile or if my zigzagoon just sucks.

I'm assuming everybody else has beaten the game?

Zigzagoon just sucks. Supertraining OP if you're competative and like to EV. My friend code is 2466-2710-4187 but I have not gotten my second badge because i am spending too much time ev training and wonder trading. lol

it is settled. I shall carry a zigzagoon to the elite fucking four.

if they're still a thing. I'm kind of deliberately going into this blind.

Quote from: Slurpee;1962211it is settled. I shall carry a zigzagoon to the elite fucking four.

if they're still a thing. I'm kind of deliberately going into this blind.

Fuck it dood Go in blind. I fully EV trained a Dunsparse and I fully plan on keeping it on my team. ANYTHING GOES.

Dunsparce is my favorite pokemon, he was on my team for all of the original gold version all the way through the elite four, kanto and red. In lower tiers he's actually pretty damn good. Headbutt + serene grace = your opponent flinches 60% of the time.

And yes do super training. pokemon amie is useful too but only for single player stuff, it raises your exp the same way a traded pokemon does if you max out their affection and has a bunch of in battle effects that come up often enough to be useful. In link battles and the battle tower amie does nothing. Also route 10 has Eevees in case you're one of those guys who has to have an Eevee on their team. Also also having people on your friends list gives you more pokemon in the safari zone after the elite four.

Quote from: FloundermanClock;1962220Dunsparce is my favorite pokemon, he was on my team for all of the original gold version all the way through the elite four, kanto and red. In lower tiers he's actually pretty damn good. Headbutt + serene grace = your opponent flinches 60% of the time.

And yes do super training. pokemon amie is useful too but only for single player stuff, it raises your exp the same way a traded pokemon does if you max out their affection and has a bunch of in battle effects that come up often enough to be useful. In link battles and the battle tower amie does nothing. Also route 10 has Eevees in case you're one of those guys who has to have an Eevee on their team. Also also having people on your friends list gives you more pokemon in the safari zone after the elite four.

I knew me and you had a hidden bond.


My Dunsparce =

Zen Headbutt
Return
Thunder Bolt
Poison Jab

hey I have pokemon Y pm me your friendcode floundermon

I'm surprised how much The CC likes Dunsparce.

Quote from: AstronautClock;1962248hey I have pokemon Y pm me your friendcode floundermon

done

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alright I added you

Give your kadabra an everstone and trade for someone else's kadabra, stop being friends with them.

dont have pokemon yet but I might as well friend yall. I'm 5043 2582 2911 and my mii is tilda swinton

I've been playing this lately. I've already done a failed Nuzlocke challenge attempt, then I restarted, so I'm not too far.

If we're discussing favorite Pokemon than I must say my favorite is still Snorlax.

Nuzlocke challenge bugs the crap out of me, because in some ways (permadeath, no resetting, failure conditions) it's a set of parameters that increase the challenge in an internally consistent way that can increase immersion by removing some of the player's safety nets, and then in others (only catch the first pokemon you encounter in an area) it's just an arbitrary handicap that decreases immersion just by nature of its sheer artificiality.

Quote from: Slurpee;1962728Nuzlocke challenge bugs the crap out of me, because in some ways (permadeath, no resetting, failure conditions) it's a set of parameters that increase the challenge in an internally consistent way that can increase immersion by removing some of the player's safety nets, and then in others (only catch the first pokemon you encounter in an area) it's just an arbitrary handicap that decreases immersion just by nature of its sheer artificiality.

It's not really about the immersion though, it is pretty much just about the challenge. It was designed to make the games a legitimate challenge and not a grindy catch-a-thon with no real punishment for anything. I quite enjoy the games played this way. If you just want the immersion part you can always do a semi-nuzlocke and ignore the 1 capture per area thing.

This time around, I am going to just play it normally and try to assemble my favorite team. When the inevitable Pokemon Z comes out, I'll probably get it and use that cart for Nuzlocke playthroughs.

Quote from: SoBe Clock;1962729If you just want the immersion part you can always do a semi-nuzlocke and ignore the 1 capture per area thing.

Actually personally doing the challenge is less important to me than being crabby and complaining because I think the rest of the internet is doing it wrong. (I admit it!) The social proliferation of it seems undercooked, and that's what's really stuck in my craw.

I just think aspects of the challenge are clearly artistically meritorious and embrace the potential of the medium, and it bothers me that the version of this that became memetic has other aspects that are, as you say, pretty much just about the challenge.

Permadeath modifies the nature of the game by forcing players to fully consider their approach. There's potential consequence for every decision, which adds meaning to every small moment.

But, here, there's that, and then, also, you just kind of roll the dice once in a while and maybe you get an insane powerhouse, or maybe you get another rattata. I need more than that. I need subtext, damnit. Relevancy. Focusing on challenge as a single prevailing attribute robs the challenge of its meaning. It's like... if I said, "I'm going to run a marathon. I'm going to start eating healthier, go running every day, build up my stamina, and push my body to its limits, to dedicate myself to a long-term goal, to prove to myself what I'm capable of when I apply myself, and to embrace this challenge of human endurance. Also I'm going to do it in high heels whoop whooooop."
At that point, you could go run a marathon, too, but meanwhile, here I am, doing it in heels, like an asshole.



But maybe I'm just being a grump idk.

That's great.

Flounderman

I like you

I trust you

There are very few people who are still in the CC where I can say I trust their opinions on stuff

I feel disillusioned with Pokemon and feel like black and white were disappointments and x and y look uninteresting. It's not even the Pokemon designs, I think they're much better this time around than they were in B/W. Out of all the Pokemon introduced this time, the only ones I don't like are the Spritzee, Swirlix and Binacle families. I just don't feel like Pokemon X and Y, based on what I've seen (3D, fashion, mega evolutions, hordes, petting your Pokes), has anything that makes me want to play it.

But if somebody I trusted gave me some good reasons to buy the game then I would go out and buy it