Recent content by Cobalt Empoleon

Something that irks me a little about Megas and Z-moves (and Eternamax Eternatus specifically) is how they affect stat and move trivia. It's annoying that almost every list of the strongest moves by type needs a little "*excluding Z-moves" disclaimer, and while there's nothing strictly wrong...

Not available in Johto without trading, unfortunately! I think I'll just end up doing Jumpluff SubSeed shenanigans (which is a little boring but w/e)

Recently nabbed a copy of SoulSilver for barely more than retail price (yay) after lending my original copy to a friend in high school a decade ago and never getting it back (boo). To celebrate, I immediately started up a mono-Grass run with all my usual challenge run restrictions (no items in...

I've seen Gardenia activate Flower Gift in her initial Platinum battle (she has Cherrim instead of Cherubi and leads with a Sunny Day Turtwig) but yeah it's not a common occurrence.

Yeah La Primera is fine. 'First', along with related words like 'premier' and 'prime', has long held implications of supremacy as well as ordinality. We talk about 'first place' in competitions even when they aren't time-based and 'first class' even when the other classes aren't sequenced behind...

:rs/magcargo: :rs/sneasel: :rs/murkrow: :rs/crobat: :rs/tyranitar: I'm making use of the winner's advantage to get in quickly Who's more comfortable descending into darkness than a spelunker? This trainer's first partner was a Larvitar, which hollowed out new caves for them to explore by...

In what way does the RBY AI cheat?

The AI doesn't cheat in Stadium. I just asked Werster on his livestream (where he's speedrunning Stadium lol) and he confirmed it doesn't. It has the usual Pokemon AI trait where it knows your Pokemon's stats and therefore how much damage all its moves will deal, but I assume we're not counting...

Clearly it depends on the specialist type and whatever specific Pokemon is chosen to counter that type (hence, not "inherently" easier). If you're imagining a scenario where the specialist type has too many weaknesses to cover with secondary types and the player's offensively-inclined Pokemon...

I don't think monotype trainers are inherently easier than trainers without a type specialisation in casual play. If you play on Switch mode (or, in SV, if you don't actively rebel against it being forced on you) then trainers with a diverse roster are at least as easy as type specialists...

As the resident chess team aficionado I think I'd go with: -Corviknight as the rook for the same reason I made Honchkrow my rook (corvid pun) -Rapidash as the knight, because horsey :) (maybe Kantonian to cover Steel-types and the Ice weakness shared by our Poison mons) -the pawn is tricky; from...

It's a massive problem with how they've handled most of the super mechanics (a discussion that I'm sure everyone's sick of haha). In attempting to force a climactic moment against the opponent's Mega/Tera/Dynamax, the devs have achieved the opposite, giving the player both a supermon of their...

When are we told that? I've never heard this before, so I'm curious to know which character says this.

I don't have any interesting questions or insights, but I wanted to say that this is such an excellent write-up! It made me so much more interested in the Palace as a facility. The targeting oversight really spices things up by adding that little bit of extra player control.

Lots of weird last minute fake-outs from online partners before I got a good attempt. Had a nice team lined up with my Armarouge alongside three Skeledirge, then one of them switched to a Lunala after I'd locked in and another switched to a Zacian? One person in another lobby switched their...