Saturday, April 12, 2014

Another middle finger from an event Pokémon

CoroCoro has revealed the details on the Diancie that's going to be distributed with the movie. No special moves it can't learn otherwise, as expected, however it's the item it holds that's... insulting, to say the least. It's a Normal Gem. It makes sense that it'd be a gem, considering that's Diancie's entire gimmick and all, but... a NORMAL Gem? The only one that's already available? Why not, say, the Flying one, which several Pokémon would have a use for? We already know Diancie's going to be totally worthless, so at least they could've sweetened the deal a little bit, but no, of course we can't have that.

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  1. Keep in mind that it's entirely possible that it's a Normal Gem because the other ones aren't programmed into the game. They could easily have removed them completely.

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    1. Apparently there's art for all the gems on the Global Link somehow, including a Fairy Gem. So I highly doubt they're completely gone.

      Besides, gems were nerfed a bit this generation, and I doubt they would've done that if only the Normal one was programmed.

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  2. Quite frankly, at this point, me and my friends consider Gamefreak the official troll of video game companies (Well,Capcom too,but that's another story).Nothing they do nowadays really surprises me.When they do something that isn't redundant or counterproductive, now that'll phase me.

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  3. At least we have our Adaptability Porygon-Z Normal Gem Hyper Beam in doubles, for those who are interested.

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  4. My giga impact sand rush stoutland will be ready. Yes, I put giga impact on something. Bite me.

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  5. Hold on.
    Gonad: For my next trick, I will distribute an Extreme Speed Aron. With its Dream World Ability!

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  6. And while Game Freak are trolling us with a bad event legendary, Smogon are beginning to take a look at Baton Pass.

    http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/baton-pass-its-role-in-the-metagame-and-possible-solutions-to-nerf-full-baton-pass-chains.3504331/

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    1. Well at least it seems like a straight ban is completely out of the question this time around, and the most likely scenarios are either limiting the amount of BPers you're allowed, or combo-banning it with Magic Bounce or something.

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    2. My view on the best solution is to limit the number of pokemon who know Baton Pass to a max of 3 per team, maybe suspect test it first to see if that is too much still.

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    3. Yeah. Every single typical component, whether it's BP itself, Espeon, Scolipede or whatever else, has legitimate uses that have nothing to do with what they're trying to prevent, so that may be the best solution.

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    4. I have seen people throwing around the option of banning Speed Boost, which I think is going too far.

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    5. Indeed. It's when you Baton Pass those Speed Boosts that things can get out of hand, and Ninjask doesn't even do so terribly well.

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