Y'know, despite facepalming at a few of the developments w/ Gen 5, I've been continually impressed with the new battle mechanics as they get revealed; they've now added combination attacks akin to those seen in other RPGs, where two (or three, also, I'm sure) Pokemon combine their attacks in a certain order to create a new attack.

Honestly, GF has gone out of its way to ensure that the days of singles battles reigning supreme are dead.

At 8/31/10 08:15 PM, Swackman wrote: Honestly, GF has gone out of its way to ensure that the days of singles battles reigning supreme are dead.

That will never happen. Besides, all I mostly see is abuse of Serene Grace Flinching, while in Ubers 3vs3, Ho-oh guaranteeing a burn on everything it hits and Skymin flinching everything with Air Slash.

So excited for Pokemon Black and White the game and ROTFLMAO at Ash's new personality. That's some sick brown big eyes he got.

At 9/1/10 02:34 PM, TheYoungblood wrote: So excited for Pokemon Black and White the game and ROTFLMAO at Ash's new personality. That's some sick brown big eyes he got.

Is there any word on what villains you'll fight? I hope it's some kind of super badass scary organization or something.

At 9/1/10 05:03 PM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote: Is there any word on what villains you'll fight? I hope it's some kind of super badass scary organization or something.

Yes. This time it is Team Plasma. They look like templars.

At 9/1/10 05:57 PM, verycoolguy wrote:

At 9/1/10 05:03 PM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote: Is there any word on what villains you'll fight? I hope it's some kind of super badass scary organization or something.

Yes. This time it is Team Plasma. They look like templars.

the costumes just get crazier and crazier.... god i miss team rocket.... they never really wanted to do anything bad in the games except make money off of pokemon, thats what trainers do though, they get reward money for winning...

At 9/1/10 06:03 PM, deathofghosts wrote: the costumes just get crazier and crazier.... god i miss team rocket.... they never really wanted to do anything bad in the games except make money off of pokemon, thats what trainers do though, they get reward money for winning...

I miss them too, and Govani, I mean he had a solid plan. Capture the worlds most powerful Pokemon, clone it, enhance it with machines and blow the shit out of Garys team. Now its "Im gonna make a new world with pokemanz!!!" and "Oh shit guyz, i just haded the idea! we spped up global warming!!!!1!!! then all the water dries up and there will be more sand at the beach!!!! stupid kids hoging ma sand....." And stuff.

I bet you all that this "Team" (Even though they always battle solo) Plasma will try to abuse the Ying Yang pokemon, Or whoever the cover pokemons are.

At 8/31/10 08:36 PM, verycoolguy wrote:

At 8/31/10 08:15 PM, Swackman wrote: Honestly, GF has gone out of its way to ensure that the days of singles battles reigning supreme are dead.

That will never happen. Besides, all I mostly see is abuse of Serene Grace Flinching, while in Ubers 3vs3, Ho-oh guaranteeing a burn on everything it hits and Skymin flinching everything with Air Slash.

That's with Gen 4, though.

At 9/1/10 02:34 PM, TheYoungblood wrote: So excited for Pokemon Black and White the game and ROTFLMAO at Ash's new personality. That's some sick brown big eyes he got.

I was going to mention that, but I thought I'd wait & see if anyone else noticed that first (you can't tell in that pic, but the one I saw on serebii.net is scary). Now Ash looks like he's been downing psychedelics or something.......... @_@

At 9/1/10 11:01 PM, Swackman wrote:

At 8/31/10 08:36 PM, verycoolguy wrote:

At 8/31/10 08:15 PM, Swackman wrote: Honestly, GF has gone out of its way to ensure that the days of singles battles reigning supreme are dead.

That will never happen. Besides, all I mostly see is abuse of Serene Grace Flinching, while in Ubers 3vs3, Ho-oh guaranteeing a burn on everything it hits and Skymin flinching everything with Air Slash.

That's with Gen 4, though.

I'm talking about the combination of Fire Oath and Water Oath, that makes some Rainbow effect that causes a boost in the likelihood of secondary effects, like Serene Grace. So people will abuse this in triples battles, by two Pokemon causing the Rainbow effect, and a Serene Grace Pokemon using attacks having effects that have an almost 100% chance of happening. Since Rock Slide hits all Pokemon on the other side, something like Choice Scarf Dunsparce can be used to flinch the opponents while the other two just attack them to death

At 9/1/10 11:01 PM, Swackman wrote:

I was going to mention that, but I thought I'd wait & see if anyone else noticed that first (you can't tell in that pic, but the one I saw on serebii.net is scary). Now Ash looks like he's been downing psychedelics or something.......... @_@

How old is Ash now? A few years have to have passed by now. He's got to be around 13 or 14. But the show sucks anyway so why should I care?

But they said that the new antagonist you play is supposed to be a little bit older than in previous games. Probably due to the fact that they finally realized their audience was beginning to mature.

Hey Guys well you know how In ALL pokemon games you and evryone else starts out weak and eventualy everyone has Lv50s? Well I thought of an idea for nintendo to make this actually work.

It starts out with Some pepole Discovering a new region, along with new pokemons. After expolration, they decide to colonise it. Your around 17, and have moved to this new region to get away from everyone (Or you could eb younger with your parents, But that wouldn't work as well) . Everyone here is from different regions. Your choice of regions will choose your starter. Johto will be grass, (As its mostly feilds and stuff) Hoenn would be fire (As it has that huge Volcanno) and the other would be Water (I haven't decided which yet) These options will be explained in game, probally by a train ticket check who would say somthing...

"Are you from Hoenn, the land of FIRE..." Stuff like that.

After you get to your new home town, You will be told that as pepole are new to this region, and most of the wild pokemon are dangerous, everyone must have a pokemon for protection. After reciving yours, you are told to go bond with it or something. You get to the next town, the pokemon centers are all mobile vechicles and stuff, and the pokemarts are all small-time traders.

After some more stuff happens, you get your pokeballs and go off catching pokemon. You have no pokedex, that comes later. Instead you write down and draw all the pokemon you encounter. This is automatic of course, that'd take to long. After defeating the Third makeshift Gym, you think your unstoppable. Then Team __________ Come, (Probaly Rocket) and start Destroying the town. You try to stand up against them, but their leader comes up. You challenge him to a battle, but he declines simplybgetting his pokemon to throw you aside.

Some more stuff happens, and you wake up in a Pokemon center/hospital. Its been 2 months and you were in a coma or somthing. Now everything is advanced-ish. The pokemon centers are normal, as are the opkemarts. There are actual houses, and the gyms are propaly set up.

Then more stuff happens, with you ending up destroying team rocket, catching the legendary and defeating the league. The time of the coma would differ though, probaly after the 5th badge or somthing so your pokemons are at least in their 30s, and when you wake up most trainers would be in their 40s. Although I'd have to have a better think about this, Good idea or not?

At 9/3/10 09:06 AM, chubzilla100 wrote: "Are you from Hoenn, the land of FIRE..." Stuff like that.

Hoenn is clearly the most watery region. It's one of the reasons I hated it. All those tentacool, man.

At 9/3/10 09:21 AM, TheMaster wrote:

At 9/3/10 09:06 AM, chubzilla100 wrote: "Are you from Hoenn, the land of FIRE..." Stuff like that.

Hoenn is clearly the most watery region. It's one of the reasons I hated it. All those tentacool, man.

Okay then, your from Hoenn But your starter depend on which town your from. Laveridge frie, paciflog/spotopiles water and petelburg for grass.

At 9/1/10 05:03 PM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote: Is there any word on what villains you'll fight? I hope it's some kind of super badass scary organization or something.

Yeah, Team Plasma like one person said although it is my first time to see their costumes. Well, the region's name is Isshu and yeah, this is Generation V already. Isshu is very far away, a very urban-ish island unlike the four previous regions where they were joined together.

I must say, the starters are lame, I meant of Tsutarja (Grass), Pokabu (Fire), and Mijumaru (Water, and does look like Piplup, but a Sea Otter one). Professor Araragi is the professor in this region.

Anyway, just 2 weeks away from the release of Pokemon Black and White the game. Kind of liking Reshiram and Zekrom as legendaries, kind of a Ying/Yang sort of. Victini is like the Jirachi, Shaymin, Celebi, Mew-type of Pokemon though.

I guess that's some information for the new region.

At 9/1/10 02:34 PM, TheYoungblood wrote: So excited for Pokemon Black and White the game and ROTFLMAO at Ash's new personality. That's some sick brown big eyes he got.

The problem with this show is that the writers kept on insisting having the characters lose the big game almost every single season.

Everytime they did that there's this stupid "Winning isn't everything" card that would be pulled out. They have to realize the viewers are here to see them win it all, not choke at the last stage. Not to mention there's a term "You play to win", "winning isn't everything" crap have been played out for I don't know how long and it's one of the worse excuse of an aesop ever used!

I was surprised Dawn didn't became slightly more suicidal as usual when she lost the finals to her girlfriend. But then again being that the opponent is her girlfriend, I can guess why she can take that one if you know what I mean.

Still it's getting ridiculous and soon they'll lower Ash's IQ slightly lower than usual so his Pikachu will get beaten by a Magikarp...wait...

At 9/3/10 05:46 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote: The problem with this show is that the writers kept on insisting having the characters lose the big game almost every single season.

Everytime they did that there's this stupid "Winning isn't everything" card that would be pulled out. They have to realize the viewers are here to see them win it all, not choke at the last stage. Not to mention there's a term "You play to win", "winning isn't everything" crap have been played out for I don't know how long and it's one of the worse excuse of an aesop ever used!

I was surprised Dawn didn't became slightly more suicidal as usual when she lost the finals to her girlfriend. But then again being that the opponent is her girlfriend, I can guess why she can take that one if you know what I mean.

Still it's getting ridiculous and soon they'll lower Ash's IQ slightly lower than usual so his Pikachu will get beaten by a Magikarp...wait...

Concurred everything. I mean, the pattern of storyline goes on and on. Characters of the day, and stuff and when I was going to the highlight of one Pokemon series for example, Pokemon League or Grand Festival, Ash and his female comrades always ended up losing big time and always into Top 4 or Top 8 or whatever, just so close of winning it all which frustrates me. When Ash was in the Hoenn Pokemon League, he lost on a Meowth with a hat. In Johto, he lost to a Blaziken, and now, he lost big time to a Latios which is a truly big mismatch.

Probably, Pokemon anime episodes always go that way and yes, probably, Ash will have a downgraded memory and horrendously lost to a Magikarp which only knew Splash and Tackle.

At 9/3/10 06:55 PM, TheYoungblood wrote:
Probably, Pokemon anime episodes always go that way and yes, probably, Ash will have a downgraded memory and horrendously lost to a Magikarp which only knew Splash and Tackle.

I still remember when he somehow managed to forget about Psyduck's headache. Just about a season before he was somewhat more competent when he had Bulbasaur lick Psyduck in the head.

In this one episode however, he told Kingler to hit Psyduck in the head! WTF?

Some of those stuff made it to tvtropes and not the good part, especially "Idiot Ball". Can't the writers let them win the big one more than just once? Yes he won the Orange League but how long ago was that? Back when the Mets were a competent baseball team and it's that bad.

Oh yeah Dawn lost by a narrow margin just to let you know.

Oh look it's a Seadra, despite seeing it in the Indigo League I'll ask the pokedex again because I forgot...

Then there's some of the way he lost that just doesn't make any sense at all. First of all how did Ash at one point lost to an expy of some rival from G/S version when...

After Ash managed to beat Brandon who sometimes before raped Paul. When that happens Ash should have been able to beat Paul at that time.

Also the guy with a Darkrai and Latios, where the hell did he came from? You have got to be kidding me!

Make me want to bang my head against the wall until one of them breaks.

The writers of the show seem to be very confused with what they want to do with Ash's character. Is he mature? Is he a kid?

Like early on when his hat gets stolen by a Mankey he chases after it through the forest. Later when Aipom steals his hat he just ignores it. But then when Aipom steals his hat again he chases after it.

Honestly the pokemon series is just a giant cocktease for anyone hoping for any interesting story.

At 9/3/10 09:52 AM, TheYoungblood wrote: I must say, the starters are lame, I meant of Tsutarja (Grass), Pokabu (Fire), and Mijumaru (Water, and does look like Piplup, but a Sea Otter one). Professor Araragi is the professor in this region.

I like the starters. I'm definitely going with Tsutarja. He looks so badass.

It's really hard to find a battle on different websites where people don't PokeSav the shit out of their Pokemon. I don't know how many times I've ran into a Shiny Alakazam and Charizard. Their Pokemon have the exact Hidden Power of choice with a full base power of 70. Perfect IVs everywhere, shinies everywhere, and some punks are even putting Aura Sphere on their Raikous, even though that event isn't out, so it's illegal. They also forgot to put the Raikou as Shiny, because that's part of the event. This is so unfair. :(

I spent so much time breeding and EV training my team.

At 9/3/10 11:04 PM, slingshot14 wrote: The writers of the show seem to be very confused with what they want to do with Ash's character. Is he mature? Is he a kid?

Like early on when his hat gets stolen by a Mankey he chases after it through the forest. Later when Aipom steals his hat he just ignores it. But then when Aipom steals his hat again he chases after it.

Honestly the pokemon series is just a giant cocktease for anyone hoping for any interesting story.

I'll be surprised if he ever turns 11 year old and wins something other than the Orange League. They have been doing the same thing all over again.

I'm willing to bet that in the next season he'll go as far as the quarter-final before getting knocked out by some guy we never heard about but somehow caught 'M'.

Oh god, I'm sorry I ever doubted you, Wotter.

Definitely picking him now, but Smugleaf's final form is cool too. Gutted they ruined Pignite, I love his first form.

wotter's 2nd is the most badass thing since wartortle

At 9/4/10 11:02 AM, TheMaster wrote: Oh god, I'm sorry I ever doubted you, Wotter.

Definitely picking him now, but Smugleaf's final form is cool too. Gutted they ruined Pignite, I love his first form.

I'm still not sure what I'm going to pick.
I don't even know what the gym leader lineup is like.

i was always gonna chose the grass type, mainly because i never usually get it, but now looking at the emperor like final evo, it just makes me want to get it more... the fire type sorta looks like a sumo wrestler and the water type is interesting, but for once, grass wins coolest final evo in my book

What are we thinking type-wise?

Fire/Fighting or Fire/Dark.
Water/Rock maybe.
Grass/Electric?

Smugleaf's final evolution looks awesome. It's looks like a Milotic. It really makes sense that it would be a Grass Dragon.

Wotter's final evolution? It looks amazing! It looks like Dialga, but I don't see much of a connection to Wotter or its first evolution, other than tricked out wiskers and shells on the legs. It seems to much to be real. There's a chance these are fake, unfortunately.

Pignite's final evolution looks so much like Rhyperior and Magmortar fused together. I don't really like it. The first evolution looks cool though.

At 9/4/10 04:07 PM, verycoolguy wrote: Smugleaf's final evolution looks awesome. It's looks like a Milotic. It really makes sense that it would be a Grass Dragon.

I'm totally naming mine Grassilisk

There's a chance these are fake, unfortunately.

Serebii said their source has been reliable so far.

At 9/4/10 04:58 PM, TheMaster wrote:

At 9/4/10 04:07 PM, verycoolguy wrote: Smugleaf's final evolution looks awesome. It's looks like a Milotic. It really makes sense that it would be a Grass Dragon.

I'm totally naming mine Grassilisk

nice name, i was thinking of nameing it after seiing its final evo, so like if it is dragon grass i can make something related to that

There's a chance these are fake, unfortunately.

Serebii said their source has been reliable so far.

a very very slim chance, but still no need to doubt

At 9/4/10 04:07 PM, verycoolguy wrote: Smugleaf's final evolution looks awesome. It's looks like a Milotic. It really makes sense that it would be a Grass Dragon.

If it actually is Grass/Dragon, then I'm definitely picking it. I doubt it though... perhaps Water/Grass?

Wotter's final form looks so badass, I definitely underestimated the critter. Shame about Pignite.
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