Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

[Wingnut]

You're telling me. I personally like to run quick claw ditto and cucking my opponent's team with their own pokemon. After all, Imitation is the greatest form of destruction.

Cloud Nine Golduck was so fun to screw around with back in those days, getting a bunch of free turns against sun teams because they didn't know It negated Instant Cast Solar beam was always hilarious.

Shame the thing crumpled like a tissue against anything else.

The fragile or outright underpowered Pokemon are by far the most fun to build around and make teams with, you can get really creative in the ways you use them.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

The fragile or outright underpowered Pokemon are by far the most fun to build around and make teams with, you can get really creative in the ways you use them.

Oh if Golduck had remotely decent stats he would have been super good back in Weather Days, he just explodes if he gets hit.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Alakazam has an IQ of 1,200.

What does that kind of IQ mean?

Is IQ logarithmic?

creative

I saw a video of someone in Japan who used a Pachirisu in Battle Revolution with attract, sweet kiss, thunder wave, and thunder (IIRC). And speaking of Battle Revolution, I also had my clock cleaned by a Japanese player who used an all-Bug team.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

What does that kind of IQ mean?

He can probably solve a Rubix cube in 3 seconds flat.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

What does that kind of IQ mean?

I have no fucking clue, I just remember It always being brought up on the list of absurd Pokedex entries.

 

[Wingnut]

What does that kind of IQ mean?

This but with spoons:

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I suddenly remembered today about the Pokémon Deluxe Collector's Edition handbook I had as a kid where the Tangela entry mentioned you could find rare Tangela south of Pallet Town. Tangela was like my white whale in the original games, I never could catch it because the Safari Zone was just ridiculous, and it wasn't until Silver when I could catch it (but it was still fucking hard because they liked to flee). But I remember spending hours in Yellow trying to find one on Route 21 like the handbook stated but then got so frustrated that I gave up thinking the book lied.

The book wasn't misinformed, of course, it was in Red and Blue (then later GSC) that it could be found down there. But I didn't know that for many years especially since my brothers never came across a wild one, either. Man, lil' me was pretty stupid when it came to Pokémon.

 

[starborn427614]

I have a theory that the reason why older, mostly millennial fans love Blue and Silver so much is because they can project their childhood bullies on the two characters for their self insert to beat up as wish fulfillment.

I think it's more that they're entertaining characters more than anything else. Dobson might think that, though who gives a fuck what that guy thinks about anything.

 

[Vapewizard]

Just watched Arlo's impression on the dlc. It's pretty unfortunate how there some legitimately fun things in there being dragged down by elements that dragged down the main game too like laziness with visuals.

 

[starborn427614]

Just watched Arlo's impression on the dlc. It's pretty unfortunate how there some legitimately fun things in there being dragged down by elements that dragged down the main game too like laziness with visuals.

Been meaning to check this out. The DLC does try to wring out as much potential as it possibly can, but in the end is still held back by Gen 8 being undercooked. Hopefully Gen 9 is better.

 

[UntimelyDhelmise]

Never played much on Showdown, but I was big into competitive battling back in the heyday of Gen 4, and I've played with stuff and made some "competitive" specced mons in Shield to fuck around in the Battle Tower and online tournaments. I've never gotten too far along the ladder though as I like to experiment and don't just run the stock standard Smogon sets on mons like everyone seems to do these days.

Shit like Choice Band Golurk is too fun to surprise people with.

Edit: I just looked it up and since they added new moves Choice Band Golurk is now a Smogon set too, shit...

Golurk in particular has been blessed so much. A fantastic new physical STAB with Poltergeist and Trick has allowed it to become a versatile powerhouse. One funny thing is that some had started to stop putting items on their Ghost-weak mons (meaning Poltergeist won't work), but Golurk can answer back by Tricking its own item onto them.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

Golurk in particular has been blessed so much. A fantastic new physical STAB with Poltergeist and Trick has allowed it to become a versatile powerhouse. One funny thing is that some had started to stop putting items on their Ghost-weak mons (meaning Poltergeist won't work), but Golurk can answer back by Tricking its own item onto them.

Same goes for Dusknoir. Finally! the bulky powerhouses got some love!

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

Magcargo is hotter than the Sun..and Alakazam has an IQ of 1,200.

There is at least one non-legendary Pokedex entry in every game that is absurd.

It's actually 5,000 but yeah. Pokédex entries have always been a little ridiculous, but the fun thing about it is the fact that the flavor text gives the Pokémon more personality.
Though, I feel Pokémon Adventures manga did a better job at giving Pokémon their own personalities, as well as being much more "mature" with their themes.

An example is that one super huge Haunter that literally eats people's souls.

 

[starborn427614]

This supposed beta version of the Gym Leader theme for SwSh is pretty good

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I watch a Youtube channel about the meta of Pokemon games from time to time (since the only exposure to it was when I played it in elementary school), and it seems to me like it is one of the worst balanced "popular" games. Like, every competition is dominated by the same 4+ Pokemon with the rest slightly alternating. You have literally hundreds of different Pokemon yet the amount of the ones used are barely at 20.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

I watch a Youtube channel about the meta of Pokemon games from time to time (since the only exposure to it was when I played it in elementary school), and it seems to me like it is one of the worst balanced "popular" games. Like, every competition is dominated by the same 4+ Pokemon with the rest slightly alternating. You have literally hundreds of different Pokemon yet the amount of the ones used are barely at 20.

That's the competitive scene for you; "Don't experiment with the new or weaker mons (or at least not the ones 'Competitively Viable') just stick with what works!"

 

[Dunsparce]

It's actually 5,000 but yeah. Pokédex entries have always been a little ridiculous, but the fun thing about it is the fact that the flavor text gives the Pokémon more personality.
Though, I feel Pokémon Adventures manga did a better job at giving Pokémon their own personalities, as well as being much more "mature" with their themes.

An example is that one super huge Haunter that literally eats people's souls.

The Haunter thing was from a completely different Pokemon Manga than Adventures, that one used bizzaro versions the anime characters.

Pokemon had had a lot of manga series over the years, and Special/Adventures will probably be the longest one now that the very first Pokemon manga, which was simply called Pocket Monsters(it was the one with the weird Clefairy that got directly referenced in the anime in Gen III) is ending.

 

[Creep3r]

The Haunter thing was from a completely different Pokemon Manga than Adventures, that one used bizzaro versions the anime characters.

Pokemon had had a lot of manga series over the years, and Special/Adventures will probably be the longest one now that the very first Pokemon manga, which was simply called Pocket Monsters(it was the one with the weird Clefairy that got directly referenced in the anime in Gen III) is ending.

If I remember right, the badass Haunter was from Electric Tale of Pikachu where Sabrina was overly nice and had a thing with Brock, and where Ash's Charizard actually fought in the Indigo League and almost killed that other kid (Richard or some shit) and his pokemon.

 

[Vapewizard]

I watch a Youtube channel about the meta of Pokemon games from time to time (since the only exposure to it was when I played it in elementary school), and it seems to me like it is one of the worst balanced "popular" games. Like, every competition is dominated by the same 4+ Pokemon with the rest slightly alternating. You have literally hundreds of different Pokemon yet the amount of the ones used are barely at 20.

It's been a while since I was into the competitive scene myself but I figured that at the very least in the smogon sense that is why they had those tiers, so that if you wanted to play with more varied teams you could still go to a different tier than OU so you wouldn't immediately get swept by an overtuned murderdragon.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's been a while since I was into the competitive scene myself but I figured that at the very least in the smogon sense that is why they had those tiers, so that if you wanted to play with more varied teams you could still go to a different tier than OU so you wouldn't immediately get swept by an overtuned murderdragon.

If anything the tier system is a complete shit since it devolved into last gen's OU