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Old 06-28-2013, 08:35 AM   #1
Talon87
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Japanese fans using English sites

On a whim, I thought it'd be fun to see what people were tweeting about Smogon. It didn't take long for me to discover that Japanese players don't just play on sites like Pokémon Showdown and Pokémon-Online: they use resource websites like Bulbapedia and Smogon too. :o This genuinely surprises me since I'd figured that they would prefer to use their own Japanese sites to ours. But apparently some bilingual fans make good use of our sites. Here are some samples:

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海外のポケモンwiki、bulbapediaの記述だとミラクルスキンの効果は命中を50%軽減すると書 いてあるから真偽は分かんねえなこりゃ
Talking about Bulbapedia's article for Wonder Skin.

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@hibiki_mikage ここ参照(海外のサイト http://t.co/fByqigG9Ms
Linking to Smogon for the source of a contested claim he made.

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でもNeoseekerやBulbaよりSmogonの方がこれは信用出来るよなぁ
Talking about how when it comes down to it, he feels like he can trust Smogon more than either Neoseeker or Bulbapedia.

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Nuzlockeってポケモンの縛りプレイのことか! たまに見かける単語だから気になってた。結構細かい ルールあるのね。
http://t.co/Rv0VPps6Ij
Talking about having come across the term "Nuzlocke" every now and then and so decided to look it up. "There are some pretty fine [i.e. nitpicky] rules, aren't there?"


I didn't see any Japanese tweets mentioning Veekun, sorry. ^^; ()

That last tweet makes me wonder if there's something similar to the Nuzlocke that is native to Japan.
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Old 06-28-2013, 05:25 PM   #2
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> I didn't see any Japanese tweets mentioning Veekun, sorry. ^^;

I'm not surprised; Veekun isn't terribly well known and the only reason people around here know it is because I was the one who pushed for it to be used as the ASB standard.
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Old 06-29-2013, 12:01 AM   #3
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Hey. Jeri. That's not cool. I used it all the time back when I was in FB right after Meowth346 (was that the name?) shut down.

But yeah, Veekun is considerably less well known despite how plentiful his information is and how concise the information is displayed. I think the issue is that it's focus is purely on displaying the data of the game and not the other aspects of Pokemon. i.e. the anime/manga. At the same time, he doesn't discuss strategy or metagaming like Smog On. This kind of leaves Veekun as just another online Pokedex. Not an Encylopedia or a Battle Hub.
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