Pokemon X/Y

[Ganondorf]

Fair enough... I've really only played three of the gens so far, r/b/y, g/s, and d/p. I was pretty boss with my team back in the Red and Blue days. Charizard, Blastoise, Kabutops, Machamp, Mewtwo, and Dragonite.


I was pretty good at beating folks with my awesome team... I miss those simpler days.

[Omni]

It's not even about the new stuff. I was involved in that scene back in the days of Silver, mostly, and Charizard was regarded as bad then. God knows what kind of insane strategies the kids these days are cooking up with the number of Pokemon there are now.

[Ganondorf]

It's funny... He was always pretty awesome for me. Especially since half the dual-typed Pokémon have a quad weakness somewhere.

[Omni]

Well, it's not that he's BAD, particularly. He's just mediocre, and in the metagame that's essentially the same as bad. That kind of thing doesn't matter when you're just playing for fun, though.

[Ganondorf]

His stats are decent, aside from legendaries, of course. If you wanted to really be a bad ass, you just have a team of 6 Arceus which different plates and moves on each of them.

[Nanoha Takamachi]

Rock is a rarely used move, to be honest, so I don't mind it. The other fire starters get matches with fighting, however, and have a weakness to Psychic... which EVERYBODY uses. I'd rather be weak to Geodude than Mewtwo.

Rock is a rarely used move? Dude it's a more commonly used move typing to counter fire than water is and there is this thing called stealth rock I'd like you to meet.

Stealth Rock is widely accepted to be THE reason Charizard has never been able to be competitive. It shuts all his builds down that hard.

[Ganondorf]

I'm not a big new gen person, so Stealth Rock isn't really something I know. I went ahead and looked it up. Yeah 50% of max health on switching in rough, unless you already have Charizard out when someone uses that move. Then you just keep him out there.

[Ganondorf]

Once again, like I said before, if you really wanted a competitive team, you'd just EV Train everything and your fight team would all be Arceus with different moves and plates on.

[Nanoha Takamachi]

It is still, I think, the single worst addition they have made to the game. For a good while the entire meta game was based around getting out or removing stealth rock.

The fact that a single move can move Charizard from Overused to Neverused in smogon's tiers is pretty ridiculous.

[Ganondorf]

That said, I'm not big into the competitive side of things. I'll take a team of all the same type into a fight because I feel like that's more realistic than someone's super buff Clefairy.

[Nanoha Takamachi]

Arceus is banned in 99% of leagues out there, fyi. Most ban a considerable portion of legendaries, too.

[Ganondorf]

I'll ban you!

[Nanoha Takamachi]

Abuse of powers!

[Ganondorf]

Now that I've banned Omni, enjoy the new dark age of the Ganonverse.

[Nyx]

OMFG YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I NEED POKEMON X IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW

ever since I found out about the thing that lets you interact with your Pokémon like a virtual pet simulator I've been chomping at the fucking bit seriously

just EVERY TIME I've read something new about X/Y I've been like "HNNNNNGH Y U NO OCTOBER 12TH" and then I die a little inside

will be opting for Fennekin & Squirtle or Bulbasaur as my starters C:

getting a free Torchic won't sway me into picking a grass/water type for my current gen starter because OMG FENNEKIN HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE HER

ahhhhhhhhh dies

[Illidan Stormrage]

I've never ever been a person who's considered the fire type starter better than the other two, except in gen 3, incidentally. And I'll admit to Ganon, Turtwig is an incredibly close second to Bulbasaur. Torterra being grass/ground type is so good.

[Ganondorf]

I wasn't big on Bulbasaur. His Poison type's weakness to psychic and ground really put me off.

[Blackfire]

I've chosen a water type in every generation. That will never change.

[Ganondorf]

Every Gen I've just chosen the one I liked most. Turtwig is a prime example. I like turtles.

[Ganondorf]

My favorite Pokémon is probably Slaking. Hugely powerful, but can only attack every other turn? I can relate.