07-01-2014, 06:30 PM | #2652 |
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LC = Berry Juice City Bitch
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07-01-2014, 07:16 PM | #2653 |
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Yeah Berry Juice basically makes or breaks the game in LC. It was banned in previous gens but now that Eviolite is a thing it's sorta-kinda balanced in a weird way.
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07-02-2014, 12:07 AM | #2654 |
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07-02-2014, 04:07 AM | #2655 |
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Rotom is good
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07-02-2014, 11:27 AM | #2656 |
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Lady luck is on my side \o/
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07-02-2014, 11:41 AM | #2657 |
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What happened to Volt Absorb?
Not the most impressive match, I did little but bring in powerhouses like Volcarona and Kyurem-B to smash through his team. But then turn 21 happens. Shouldn't his Thundurus-T have absorbed my Fusion Bolt? I don't think it made much of an impact on the match, but it's an issue that might need addressed for the future.
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07-02-2014, 11:41 AM | #2658 |
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07-02-2014, 11:50 AM | #2659 |
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>Haymez
Kyurem-B shares Terravolt with Zekrom. Along with Reshiram/Kyruem-W's Turboblaze, this is basically a Mould Breaker clone, so opposing Abilities that affect incoming attacks are negated. |
07-02-2014, 12:01 PM | #2660 |
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Ahhhh, that makes sense. Thanks!
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07-02-2014, 01:29 PM | #2661 |
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Smogon seems to have received a slight design change. Was looking up certain moves (just to read about viability) and it looked much different.
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07-02-2014, 01:42 PM | #2662 |
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That probably explains why it was down earlier today. I kinda like the new design tbh. Plus we finally have Gen 6 stuff now!
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07-02-2014, 02:01 PM | #2663 |
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Ugh. Overdesigned in respects where the old simpler design looked better AND underdesigned in others where the old, more elegant design looked better. DOUBLE LOSE. I went to the Gen V listings to see if I could still see the old site. Nein. Very disappointed.
As is evidenced by all of the "NO OLD BROWSERS PLOX KTHXBYE! " disclaimers everywhere, this redesign was no doubt the baby of someone who is a web design nut looking for excuses to strut his stuff and show the team what he can do. The thing is, sometimes "less is more" and a streamlined, pure-text dex looks a lot nicer than this Java/Flash/whateverthefuckitis display. Too much monitor space is now wasted by spacious visuals. Before, I could expect to see the creature's base stats, abilities, and #1 moveset all on my screen at once. Now, all I can see is this: Such wasted space. Ironically, it actually looks uglier and less professional like this! It reminds me of early webpages in the mid-to-late 1990s. Or like my own amateur webpage that I had back in college. Such pages tended to look like this, with so much visual real estate wasted. When I land on the page for a given Pokémon, I want to be able to see its base stats, its abilities, and its #1 moveset all on my screen at once. I should not have to scroll down an enitre monitor's worth of space just to see Moveset #1 -- and even then not be able to see all of it at once. The other thing I've noticed -- but this one i'm neutral on; I like it as much as I dislike it -- is that they've done away with separate pages for separate tiers. Now we appear to have all of a creature's movesets on one page. It falls to you as a reader to not be blind and to notice that the tag say "Doubles" or "OU" in the upper right-hand corner of the moveset. If the new way ensures that players won't mistake RU movesets for OU ones, then I like it. If instead it has the opposite effect, then I dislike it. But I suspect that this problem will vary from person to person, so there's probably not a "right" or a "wrong" answer here. The only reason to have multiple separate pages is when combining them all into one page would make the page insanely long. But I imagine that Smogon's staff wants to behead this particular adder: they're probably trying to trim down on the "moveset cancer" from previous generations, where a creature might have eight different articles for OU and then functional copies of six of those articles for UU, etc, and just say, "Y'know what? Eight is enough. In fact, eight is still too many. Let's identify the four best, different movesets and talk about those. Other movesets which are just minor variants of these four can be discussed in the four's discussion text."
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07-02-2014, 02:41 PM | #2664 |
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07-02-2014, 02:56 PM | #2665 |
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07-02-2014, 03:06 PM | #2667 |
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Though this should also support your understanding of where I as a person come from when I say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Wait, really? :o Pictures? (Though I can just as easily Google, I guess ...)
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07-02-2014, 03:34 PM | #2669 |
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If what you're referring to is the fact that you can see your wallpaper through your browser, etc, then I think a lot of that is user choice that I could implement if I wanted to but have chosen not to because ... well, starting off with the wallpaper, I don't even have one. Solid black screen with fewer than twenty desktop icons in total.
Anyway ... this was an amusing off-topic discussion but it is pretty off topic. I'll be happy to continue it elsewhere if we decide we want to further explore the limitations of Talon's Firefox experience.
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07-02-2014, 03:38 PM | #2670 |
Sarasaland represent!
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07-02-2014, 04:51 PM | #2671 |
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Ow... I had one of the most painful games hax wise in my life. It was also a rather important battle to decide the members of our league's Elite 4. My steels vs his electrics. I forgot to save a replay, but here's a rough summary:
Toxic Miss Lava Plume failing to burn 5 times in a row. Thunderpunch paralyzing my final pokemon on the first shot and then being locked up 3 turns in a row costing me the win. Other important paralyse lock-ups. Gahhh my luck has always been poor, but that was painful.
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07-02-2014, 09:31 PM | #2674 |
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I like how the stats' color bars are all missing except for HP in your very sample meant to get me off of their web designer's back.
And my point still stands: mega or no mega, it's foolish to waste so much space like they have done. In answer to your own point about "Well you can still see the first set for non-Megas ", yes: and they can reproduce that for the megas by making it where the mega form is shown when you hover over the base form. (Something I would normally not like but since they're wanting to do newfangled HTML 5 shenanigans anyway then they may as well go the full mile and make the page actually look competently designed.)
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07-02-2014, 09:39 PM | #2675 |
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Yeah, I had to update Chrome and now it displays fine. Oh well, agree to disagree, I guess. I like the new look~ Although I wish they had VGC instead of just Smogon Doubles as a search option.
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