02-26-2014, 08:08 PM | #1326 |
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Im normally fairly passive about Smogon bans, but banning confusion is just plain silly. Although I'm just totally procrastinating for VGCs. I know I should breed a Kangaskhan, but ehhhhhh
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02-27-2014, 12:13 AM | #1328 | |
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Part II: after ginganinja deleted my post, someone else wrote up a post that was ten times more acerbic and two times more "STALL BEATS THIS GAIZ" than my post was. No one touched it. He followed it up with a second. A third. No one touched them. His posts are like the /b/ to my Betty White, and somehow I'm the one whose post gets deleted (and stays deleted! ) while this guy's posts are a-okay. Not really sure how to feel about it. On the one hand, I'm happy because it means that the message gets out there despite their attempts to silence me. On the other hand, I'm of course unhappy with this gross double standard and even grosser abuse of power by the old boys club. Not only is it not right: it's bad enough that even if I had no other community to fall back on I would not want to attempt to make my nest there.
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02-27-2014, 01:08 AM | #1329 |
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... I couldn't resist. There's been this one toady member in the thread who has been sucking the shit particles out of every staff member's ass cheeks all thread long, upvoting any post that a staff member might make which indicates a pro-ban stance and also upvoting every post that attempts to argue against mine or other moderates' posts. Well, when I noticed a post that Mr. Toad upvoted, I couldn't help but to say something. I figure, what the hell. At this point it doesn't matter if they want to delete my posts or ban me from the thread -- they're already doing that anyway!
Spoiler: show I give the post ten minutes on a good day, twenty seconds on a bad. ;p But meh: got it off my chest and called those upvoters out for the kissing-ass toads they are.
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02-27-2014, 06:25 AM | #1330 |
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Yeah, I can't defend him. Ginja was in the wrong there.
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02-28-2014, 03:23 PM | #1331 |
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03-03-2014, 02:26 AM | #1332 |
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Was just in a match where Whimsicott and Magmortar were both weak to an Own Tempo Lilligant's Hidden Power. I don't understand. How can Whimsicott (Grass/Fairy) and Magmortar (Fire) be weak to the same type? I even looked it up on Bulbapedia just to make sure I wasn't crazy: Whimsicott is only weak to Flying, Poison, Steel, Fire, and Ice. A Magmortar should be neutral to Flying and Poison and resist Steel, Fire, and Ice.
Wish I'd saved it so I could show you the replay but I closed out and it's late at night.
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03-03-2014, 04:26 AM | #1333 | |
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I've personally used all three, but I have no clue what happened in that match of yours. Maybe it was a critical that your Whimsicott was weak against? And that it was a Rock-type Hidden Power? (Welp, just checked. Lilligant shouldn't be hitting very hard against either of the two, even with SE attacks. At least, she'll get fried or blown away before she can leave a considerable dent on either of them.) Perhaps HP Fire though. Which 2HKOs Whimsy. |
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03-03-2014, 09:43 AM | #1334 |
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It said super effective. Four times. Two apiece.
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03-03-2014, 10:02 AM | #1335 |
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You must have been seeing things, because neither of them share a weakness. The only message-triggering thing they share is a resistance to Grass, which would be really sad if Lilligant was running HP Grass.
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03-03-2014, 10:09 AM | #1336 |
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Seeing things that prompted a look up. Seeing things that happened clearly four times.
Or, y'know, it could've been a glitch.
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03-03-2014, 03:39 PM | #1338 |
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Its Hidden Power Shadow
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03-03-2014, 05:57 PM | #1339 |
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In which both of us forget (or at least I did!) about Mega Gyarados's ability xd;
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Turns 18 and 19 I'd say they misplayed. It was clear you were being stubborn for some reason about leaving Meganium out there even though she couldn't possibly hope to 2HKO Emolga. He should have taken that opportunity to set up on you with Charge Beam. Sure, it wouldn't have done much damage, but it wouldn't have needed to either. You were choice locked into Giga Drain and he knew that that wasn't going to be scary even with an occasional crit here or there. Roost off the damage and keep on pumping with Charge Beam until you switch out Meganium or until the SpAtk modifier is 2.5x. Then just go to town with Air Slash. Turn 27's ... yeah. ^^; Clearly what you're referring to in the title. That was unfortunate for him. I keep forgetting myself. I don't see Mega Gyarados that often and the association with some megas getting their normal form's Hidden Ability (e.g. Blaziken) is just too strong. I don't know why that's the case for him (Mega Gyarados) since I'm perfectly fine remembering that Mega Pinsir has Aerilate, Mega Heracross has Skill Link, etc. I think it's just because I don't see him that often.
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03-06-2014, 09:45 AM | #1341 |
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03-06-2014, 06:47 PM | #1342 |
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How to let your opponent self-destruct. (Random Battle; 12 turns)
I share this one not to brag nor to put down my opponent. I share it to help you recognize when you are being my opponent. Because we each have battles like this one, battles where nothing seems to go right for us and everything seems to go right for the other guy. It can be very easy to lose the motivation to keep playing in such circumstances, especially when (as in this battle here) the other party remains silent and does not offer you emotional support. Try not to get too distracted by a string of unlucky outcomes early on: it's a long battle, potentially, and anything can still happen. In my case, my team consisted of Moltres, Jumpluff, Avalugg, Bastiodon, Persian, and Golduck. Definitely workable with ... but by no means "awesome." Moltres could've been, but my Moltres was a particularly crappy utility Moltres with U-Turn, Roost, Hurricane and Will-o-Wisp that made it a very poor match for my opponent's team. My opponent should have recalled Raichu the moment it first hit itself in the face. Once he saw that I was trying to wear it down through attrition rather than a) set up or b) switch out to someone who could safely set up, he should have realized that I was making a judgment call: "Better to let Moltres die than switch it out for someone else and risk Raichu killing it." Meaning I had no good Raichu counters. And indeed I did not. Focus Blast nails Persian, Avalugg, and Bastiodon, Hidden Power: Ice nails Jumpluff, and Thunderbolt/Thunder nails Golduck and Moltres. Shake off the confusion and come back later when you can do so more safely.
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03-06-2014, 09:25 PM | #1343 |
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I hate it when I have a match against somebody and I end up getting all the hax in my favor, saving me from what should have been a loss. I hate it even more when hax sways towards my opponent and they don't even bother to apologize
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>I hate it even more when hax sways towards my opponent and they don't even bother to apologize
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No one owes you any apology for good luck.
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03-07-2014, 06:45 AM | #1346 |
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>Why should people apologize
I mean, one or two crit is fine, but when my opponent scores like 5 crits and I miss attacks that would've been important KOs. Do people feel bad when that happens to their opponent?
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03-07-2014, 06:52 AM | #1347 |
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They might feel bad, but they also recognize such things do happen in this game. They don't have to apologize for something that was completely out of their control.
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03-07-2014, 07:36 AM | #1348 |
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I once had Air Slash miss 3 times in a row, and the opponent never locked up with Paralysis in an OU match. I barely won, but aside from that it's just part of the game. I mean, I play paraflinch with Togekiss, so all of the RNG and luck things don't bother me as much.
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Question for phoopes (or anyone else who can answer it):
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So I signed in to Suisho, played two games, and my score is now 44 W 9 L 0 T. My Elo score? 1689. So tell me: how come my Elo score today is roughly one hundred points lower than what it was in January despite the fact that the server appears to still be registering my past wins and losses and I now have two more wins than I did before and zero new losses? I know that on P-O your games no longer count towards your score once they're older than 30 days, i.e. it's always your latest 30 days' worth of performance that factors into your score, but PS has never seemed to do that. Has that changed with the Elo scoring? Does the Elo score care about how well you've fared over the past n days? And if so, what exactly is that value for n?
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