Breaking Blathering 6

[Kaitscralt]

yes I got m happy

[iamabadman]

You are the leak

[Kaitscralt]

I leak any and all information

[iamabadman]

So hows your team madding. What do you have as your currant six

[Kaitscralt]

Right now my team is half finished and half random mon with HM's, but I want this playthrough to have Greninja, Charizard, Heliolisk, Aegislash, Skarmory and one other, maybe Avalugg or another Dragon.

[Kaitscralt]

I also like Magnezone but adding an electric steel to my team full of electric and steel is a bit redundant, although I am not opposed to acting like a wandering gym leader via a type theme

[iamabadman]

Has heliolisk been good for you? He wasnt really for me.

[Kaitscralt]

I like his speed.

[Kaitscralt]

I haven't played in so long that I'm just going for things I like visually

[Kaitscralt]

Has heliolisk been good for you? He wasnt really for me.

If he doesn't pan out I will try unidentified flying object Magnezone instead, but so far I like Heliolisk for a preemptive strike

[Kaitscralt]

But I seriously need to play more, this week has been hectic for me

[iamabadman]

Magnezone was bro in w2 for me. He is solid

[Kaitscralt]

Word. Just need to get to those mountain pokedex areas

[Thrillho]

after 3 or so hours of breeding last night, the last batch of eggs on the train this morning harbored 3 perfect speed boost venipede welcome to hell population your ass with an aggressive horny bug charging at you at increasingly fast speeds.

[Thrillho]

i can't tell whether i want my next mon to be rotom, protean frog, or infiltrator zubat.

the zubat involves breeding with swanna so i mean

[Thrillho]

oh man or gengar

[Thrillho]

megagengar

[Thrillho]

a giant face with arms you can never run from

[Thrillho]

also super training isn't half as bad as most people make it out to be if you take it slow.

[Thrillho]

madding beat the game and allow me to find out if your last safari mon is ditto because if it isn't i can move on with my life

[Thrillho]

and if it is i'm going to spend roughly 10 years catching ditto.

[Kaitscralt]

I like super training, I just wish I investigated it when I started as now I want reset bags and can't get any

[Thrillho]

if you're playing storyline without putting together a real team for fighting Professionals, there's literally 0 reason to EV train.

[Thrillho]

the game is 100% brute force the whole way through with only short moments of thinking dedicated to type matchup consideration and/or what attack will not kill the pokemon you're fighting if you want to catch it.

[Thrillho]

false swipe is one of the first tms you get, though, so even that's not even remotely an issue.

[Thrillho]

trying to explain pokemon to a guy who hasn't played the game with any of the new mechanics or who knows what words mean is a very difficult and frustrating conversation.

[Kaitscralt]

Yes but I still enjoy figuring out a games system, grinding, min/maxing, etc, regardless of how much overkill it is for a story playthrough.

[Kaitscralt]

trying to explain pokemon to a guy who hasn't played the game with any of the new mechanics or who knows what words mean is a very difficult and frustrating conversation.

yes. yes it is.

[Kaitscralt]

I'm not used to being a noob

[Thrillho]

Yes but I still enjoy figuring out a games system, grinding, min/maxing, etc, regardless of how much overkill it is for a story playthrough.

my pokemon were consistently 10-20 levels higher than everything i encountered over the course of the game given that most of the new pokemon don't have EVs listed to them yet.

[Thrillho]

trying to explain pokemon to a guy who hasn't played the game with any of the new mechanics or who knows what words mean is a very difficult and frustrating conversation.

yes. yes it is.

the person in question didn't understand what "stats" were or how a form of a thing that changes forms would differ in regards to its ability to attack/defend.

describing aegislash to this person in question was a 10 minute conversation loaded with interruption and explanations when i kept saying "it attacks good in one form and takes damage good in another and can change
forms in the middle of combat"

[Thrillho]

the person in question loves final fantasy and fighting games so why the dialog was so hard when such mechanics are in both styles of game was very confusing.

[Kaitscralt]

Oh I thought you were talking about me

[Thrillho]

meanwhile i explained the breeding mechanics in X and Y to a bartender at buffalo wild wings in under 5 minutes and the guy was pretty on the ball, but i also think he was a fan of pokemon and had a relative who was very into the games or at least video gaming.

[Kaitscralt]

Aegislash isn't a hard concept for me though

[Thrillho]

Oh I thought you were talking about me

i don't think i would need to explain that different forms does not mean that aegislash stabs or cuts vertically or cuts horizontally and that's what i mean by different forms.

[iamabadman]

i got a graveler from wondertrade named lemmy.

it then evolved

[Thrillho]

or that when you use a special attack the damage you deal is partially determined by the special defense, not the defense or "what your attack is with the fireball"

[Thrillho]

i got a graveler from wondertrade named lemmy.

it then evolved

i've yet to meet any cool people doing wondertrade. i keep sending out dittos and getting like... quagsire.

[Thrillho]

don't get me wrong i'm a man who loves quagsire, but these are your run of the mill swamplands quagsire and not even the cool friend safari variety with hidden abilities or perfect IVs