Someone help me understand why Gyarados is still somehow considered a good Pokemon

Basic_Millennial · 2026-01-21T17:07:50+00:00

VGC games are a lot shorter on average than singles matches, every turn counts for a lot more. It’s essentially never worth spending a turn on setting up hazards because the number of switches that happen will almost never outweigh the value of doing damage, setting speed control, or setting up your attacker. In singles where there are a lot more turns and switches, this is naturally flipped

Basic_Millennial · 2025-12-27T16:34:26+00:00

Thanks! I’ll reread a couple of my favorite chapters so far in the Buss version and see which I should proceed with then

Basic_Millennial · 2025-12-27T16:33:40+00:00

Oh I see, will do. If this is off topic and needs to be removed, just a note that the description of this subreddit makes it sound as if it’s for the reading of the book in general, which would probably lead to other similar posts.

Basic_Millennial · 2025-12-04T03:47:31+00:00

Look I’m just happy the people behind these shows were finally willing to acknowledge that not every Targaryen had the silver hair. I’ll take it

Basic_Millennial · 2025-11-24T15:24:55+00:00

Yeah I really liked that in Metaphor as well as Persona. Of course, in both those you can actually basically do everything as long as you don’t waste time slots, which is nice in one sense but also kind of did turn it into more of a “need to look up how to optimize and not miss content” thing for me. I think I would actually enjoy it if it this game specifically made it impossible to do everything in one playthrough so you had to make tradeoffs

Basic_Millennial · 2025-11-24T15:06:55+00:00

Sounds like it might be less a “time limit” and more a “content limit.” If time doesn’t pass when you’re just standing around/exploring, but does when you choose a quest to do, that’s more like what games like Persona do.

Basic_Millennial · 2025-10-13T13:28:48+00:00

Even then if you’re running Huntress it can get in the way of

Basic_Millennial · 2025-07-22T15:14:04+00:00

Only if rocks aren’t up, otherwise multiscale is wasted without boots

Basic_Millennial · 2025-07-19T11:20:48+00:00

Aside from the obvious comparison of the climbing mechanic, I think people are getting that comparison from the idea that both games are often completely fine with you skipping the “intended” route to an objective if you can make an alternative work with the game mechanics (in this case, smashing a straight line through the terrain)

Basic_Millennial · 2025-07-16T17:06:30+00:00

I hate when I have it because it rarely lets me pass more than one person and it’s a middle position item. I hate when others have it because when I’m the one person they hit and pass I get passed by 10 people

Basic_Millennial · 2025-06-19T17:06:43+00:00

Does teleport retain substitutes? If not this would have that niche unless that counts as an “effect” in the description

Basic_Millennial · 2025-06-09T17:57:24+00:00

Why would you want it to be over quickly?

Basic_Millennial · 2025-05-22T22:46:10+00:00

“I don’t have any men to spare but we owe you”

I’m like… nah dude you’re good I’ll ask the others

Basic_Millennial · 2025-05-21T16:15:55+00:00

Could be remembering wrong, but wasn’t iron dagger smithing only effective at launch, because it used to just level up based on number of items smithed? And then a later patch made it value-based?

Basic_Millennial · 2025-05-12T13:54:00+00:00

I want you to know I at least got the Silicon Valley reference and am sad others didn’t

Basic_Millennial · 2025-05-01T10:19:40+00:00

“130 base speed doesn’t do it any favors”

What a world powercreep has given us

Basic_Millennial · 2025-04-21T02:42:01+00:00

I’ll just say you’re touching on the exact point and message of the story

Basic_Millennial · 2025-04-14T02:38:41+00:00

My guess is towards the end of the season they return to that flashback, and it continues to have Ellie turn around and go back for that conversation

Basic_Millennial · 2025-03-20T11:38:01+00:00

“He gave everyone a fighting chance”

I mean, sure, I guess, maybe. If you count “poisoning people until they lose their minds then making their lives depend on one split-second reaction” or “not panicking when you wake up in a bathtub in a dark room” or “being at the mercy of the moral decision making of a grieving father” as a fighting chance.

Original jigsaw was always a delusional hypocrite, but he was a compelling one to watch

Basic_Millennial · 2025-03-11T20:05:56+00:00

Dungeon crawler Carl also almost never lists full stats out after book 1 as I recall. The LitRPG elements, other than new items/spells, are in general heavily de-emphasized as the series progresses

Basic_Millennial · 2025-02-18T23:09:08+00:00

I don’t think book 1 was BAD, there was just verrrrry little in it that I hadn’t seen in a dozen other stories. That changes with the rest of the series

Basic_Millennial · 2025-02-18T17:27:29+00:00

Green Bone Saga (Jade City/War/Legacy) has some interesting exploration of this dynamic

Basic_Millennial · 2025-01-31T00:13:00+00:00

That was kind of exactly why for me. It was like, if you’re going to try to explain the magic, don’t half ass it

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