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Question: I heard Stellar Tera Type doesn't change your defensive interaction. It doesn't give you resistances and weaknesses. But in this live stream in a boss battle against Terapagoz who is a Normal Type Thunder from Dragonite does Super Effective Damage. Can someone explain this...
I don't know how that happens but I ev trained my mudkip in Platinum and several times when I train a pokemon, some EVs seem to be missing or stored somewhere else? I don't know how to describe it but I wanted to train it on 252 atk, 240 HP and 16 in Speed. I was certain I gave all the vitamins...
Another Diamond run, another victim. I used Adamant Absol and leveled it up from lv1 to around 30 with experience share. It did wonders mid game thanks to Bite and Aerial Ace taking even care of pesky Fighting Types. But soon the game caught up with it. Absol was practically useless in the...
Pokemon DP having so many fisherman with a Gyarados.
Aside of Gyarados being a terrifying beast which even indirectly implied that People don't have one because it is hard to tame and a hassle to evolve Magikarp, Gyarados is also making the game experience even worse since all Gen 4 Gyarados...
I finally used Torkoal in my Diamond playthrough and... it was awful. I even gave it Fire Blast, Strenght and Rock Smash. It managed to break through some Pokemon early on thanks to its high base power moves but because it is slow it performed as pitifully as Torterra. I thought when it learned...
To finish the game in a quicker way, I traded some Pokemon from SS to Diamond. One of them was Cacnea from Pokemon Emerald lv5 Timid Nature with Cut. Eventually I realized that Cacnea still hits hard despite the -atk nature. It came with its 60 base power grass signature move which was...
Playing Pokemon Diamond again to get more TMs because they aren't permanent this gen, I decided to use 1 of billions of lv5 Natu I transferred from Gen 3 which had Timid Nature and 31 SpA iv at minimum. I intended to use it as Synchronize mon for some legends and Fly slave (Natu can't learn...
The latest episode was fine but in certain ways I felt it didn't execute scenes that well. I like that they actually went and tried to bother to address what Pokemon Master suppose to mean. I like Ash talking to Tracy and the anime not ignoring him as an actual character regardless of popularity...
I have to say, I loved the latest Episode of Pokemon. Pokemon Heroes may not be my favorite movie, but I kinda like that Latios and Latias went to the town where we first saw them animated it and even seeing the girl from the movie implying these Latias and Latios are the successors of the movie...
PP stalling the opponent? I mean you can defensive play with pretty much all Pokemon and just go for Toxic + recovery item in Gen 1. Admittedly I don't play nuzlocke, so I can't talk much regarding it. Articuno can still beat the Elite 4 and despite the nerf is powerful enough. But relative to...
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Transition from Gen 2 to Gen 4 is really rough for Mareep. Sure, it still has good coverage and got Static, but for an ingame run it won't help much. Stat experience system is not kind to it. There aren't many ways to raise its special attack ingame. But most importantly, Thunderpunch and...
It was a decent episode. Breakdancing Amoongus is always nice and we did see some old Pokemon at least being acknowledged that didn't make in the episode. But it is still not like seeing them reunite with Arbok and Weezing.
It also doesn't look like any of the Pokemon got any new moves but I...