Sunday, March 15, 2015

The PotW writers must be doing it on purpose.

Regular Camerupt can be a decent tank with 75/70/70 defenses (which are actually 70/70/75, they can't even get the stats right!)? Are you shitting me? No one can be this dumb, please tell me that's impossible. Oh wait, they actually reiterate and emphasize that bit in the positives/negatives section. And the bit according to which standard Camerupt isn't useless? Bitch pls. Mega Camerupt is useless, and it still sweeps circles around its regular form (both in terms of attack power and because it looks like a Roomba). Gotta love how they legitimately hype up Heat Wave as a legitimate option in singles, too. If you learn either Flamethrower or Fire Blast, Heat Wave is automatically useless. Then Eruption is suggested for Mega Camerupt as a move to use in Trick Room. Seriously? It gets an ability that powers up Flamethrower and Fire Blast but not Eruption, and you still want us to use the latter? How about no? Rock Polish is also listed as an option to give both Camerupt and Mega Camerupt "respectable" (their word, not mine) speed. I don't know about you, but when I use Agility, Rock Polish, and to a lesser extent Dragon Dance, I expect to be able to outspeed virtually everything after one boost. Regular Camerupt is a good bit faster than the mega form, and after a Rock Polish your standard set is going to have 232 speed. That's not even enough to outspeed an Adamant base 70 Pokémon with max speed. Mega Camerupt, which is far better, has it even worse.

You know where that damn column belongs? Right here.

11 comments:

  1. Seeing lorddirtybrit's question as the top post as of my comment I'm starting to wonder how many people are legitimately asking him for advice or if they all know he's a troll and are curious to see what kind of stupid answer he'll pop out of his ass.

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    1. Look at the questions. It's clear no one takes him seriously.

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    2. Yeah, I'm really hoping that's the case.
      My favorite will always be "how do i defeat the final boss of pokemon showdown".

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  2. I scratched my head at how Camerupt's defenses were considered 'decent'. How is normal Camerupt 'not useless' anyway? I actually hope they keep up with this terrible quality. It always gives me something to look forward to on a Sunday.

    Next up is Bisharp. I can't wait for them to claim that Night Slash is Bisharp's best Dark move.

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    1. No way, get with the times. Dark Pulse is a great choice running off an acceptable 60 special attack, allowing it to hit physically defensive Pokémon like Mega Slowbro. Snarl also helps patch up the lower of its two defenses, too.

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    2. Should the trait be Pressure? Pressure helps reduce the PP of annoying Fighting moves such as Gengar's Focus Blast and Gallade's Close Combat.

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    3. Dark Pulse is good on Bisharp because it can work on that workable but awful Special Attack stat in contrast to Bisharp's surprisingly good special movepool.

      Strong Fairy attacks will be super effective on Bisharp.

      Don't forget some unfunny chess jokes.

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  3. I was the one who asked about Porygon-Z, if anyone remembers that? Hey, can't a guy have some fun? Though I was surprised they didn't try to sell Adaptability Hyper Beam as the ultimate nuke...

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    1. "Adaptability allows Porygon-Z to adapt to new situations well."
      Yeah, they probably made it way too obvious that they are trolling with an explanation like that.
      It's not like it can be a somewhat sensible interpretation of the in-game description. (Even if "Powers up moves of the same type." is still fairly vague if you have no idea of what STAB is.)

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  4. SPEAKING OF THAT SITE.

    http://procompetitivepokemontips.tumblr.com/post/113463913034/my-friends-blastoise-keeps-beating-my-charizard

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  5. I don't know much about competitive play but that thread is pure gold. "Pikachu with hidden power can be tricky, but Zekrom is a good counter."

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