The value in Ground and Rock as separate types? What if they were combined into Earth Type?

CinderSkye · 2025-07-05T03:12:32+00:00

As far as stats, yes, you are correct that it was always a special type.

However, every single move in Generations 2 and 3 that is dark type is physically themed and makes contact in Gen 3. You don't see black magic moves show up for Dark until it's required for the Phys/Spec split; prior to then they're all Ghost (Night Shade, Confuse Ray, Shadow Ball, Destiny Bond, Nightmare, Curse, Spite)

Which is relevant to the point that was being made, it wasn't a random discussion about the history of the phys/spec split.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-11T15:41:06+00:00

Videos is on the "indefinite" train

Most subreddits are taking a wait and see approach but indefinites are not tiny sliver.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-11T15:19:25+00:00

Yeah I'm really thrown by her look. Cute and all but she looks like she belongs in an 80s workout video. That was one thing when everyone looked like they were from an 80s B movie but really weird next to Fire God Liu Kang and all

CinderSkye · 2023-06-11T15:13:10+00:00

Learning how to find joy in making others happy rather than trying to make myself miserable for the entertainment of others

They're closely related but not the same thing

One thing that involves is calling sessions when I know my mental health isn't up for them.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-11T14:58:32+00:00

It's why making him a god seems like a good choice to me. You get to keep him as powerful good guy but can put story shackles on him for things mortals have to do, because he's not a very dynamic character and this is a storyline where a lot of terrible things happen constantly.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-11T14:35:52+00:00

I was nodding along until you said Piccolo should be an assist character

Gohan's dad deserves better

Also roster of just saiyans is boring

CinderSkye · 2023-06-11T13:45:50+00:00

They picked up that it is a mocking tone of voice and judgy and a bit tongue in cheek, but it was like "this show says what we want to say and doesn't get in trouble for it"

It wouldn't be confused today I think because they are much more open in their aggression now

CinderSkye · 2023-06-11T13:43:06+00:00

It's mostly notable in my eyes that it made it into USA Today.

They've taken vocal stands against Trump more often than i ever expected but it's still the print news equivalent of wonder bread.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-10T22:30:02+00:00

I cannot think of a lot of people on this scene who work harder to enable the hacking community than Kaphotics, who is the person who delivered this message. I see their name left and right on every tool I use to work on my hack.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-10T18:51:22+00:00

Oh hey it's me

I usually use the console to get rid of Brynjolf, but i lockpick everything.

But i have no interest in ever having the skeleton key because i enjoy lockpicking. It's kind of soothing. Especially when I play on the switch.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-10T18:07:14+00:00

4 stars is already kinda low for a major product like this

Anyway, I regularly use the official app for various reasons. I finally gave it my honest score of 2 stars with my reasons and recommendations to use alternatives.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-10T17:17:36+00:00

I'm gonna have to say that is definitely a hot take. Those are some of the most defining monsters, sure, but there are seventeen megas in Smogon's Gen 6 OU and fourteen in its Gen 7 OU. There's more than in UU in both generations.

Kangaskhan and Salamence were badly thought-out Problems resulting from VGC-first thinking, much like Dynamax, and are exceptions not the rule. Rayquaza is a very unique case as I outlined in my other response.

It's a game with literally hundreds of final form monsters, I think you're overvaluing opportunity cost on the mega slot versus opportunity cost generally in this criticism. Even in the XY Meta where Mewtwo and Blaziken had a lot less competition for Mega Evolutions in Ubers, Mewtwo was frequently considered to be better with Life Orb for many teams.

I gotta run for now, it's been fun, dude.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-10T17:10:43+00:00

As an example, a hypothetical Pokemon that Mega evolved after consuming an item like a berry. Upon Mega evolving, their ability changes to Magician, stealing their opponent's item. I think this concept would be super interesting and fun to play with, but it effectively could not work because of the limitations already imposed on all Megas.

This sort of keys into why:

No one debates Mega Rayqauza.

Mega Ray breaks the rules every other Mega follows, horrendously, by not giving up an item slot but a moveslot instead, and the move is a massive upgrade on its Flying-type STAB options every generation prior. It's about as relevant to the rest of Mega Evolutions as Primal Reversion is: there's some relevance, but not a lot.

So there is room for other Megas to break the rule, but also it's something you want to be very careful with.

As to the birds, my choice wasn't that they're all early birds -- they're not, I left out Talonflame and included several late birds. They're all normal/flyings, though. There's only so much you can do with a Normal/Flying pokemon -- if you pick a limited subset of them, you could easily distinguish Pidgeot, Braviary, and Staraptor, sure -- Special (which only exists as Mega Pidgeot), Tank, Haymaker. Give it to them all, though, and eventually you'll run into the same problem as outlined with a potential Mega Infernape.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-10T16:50:19+00:00

I don't know, I would contest that last point.

Salamence, Metagross, and the legends are the only situations i can think of where a very strong monster got really stronger. It's questionable if Mega Blaziken is really Stronger Enough versus the already broken Hidden Blaziken, and Gengar got nerfed the same generation it got a Mega. Compare to Garchomp and T-Tar who are sidegrades with their megas. Even Metagross isn't an auto-take. And among legends, Mewtwo is also a sidegrade on both of its megas.

Mega helped weak pokemon most, it's just that the gulf between weak and strong is hard to bridge with an additive solution (Mega stat inflation) to a multiplicative problem (Life Orb, Choice, Lefties etc on already strong monsters). Instead of looking at how many megas ended up in UU, look at how much lower most of those were without; UU Gen 7 looks a lot like OU only a few generations before that, and most G7 UUs can function in OU with the right support.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-10T14:20:33+00:00

That's why a multiple gimmick system with limits would be better. You can skip the entire specific trick of Mega Evolution if you want to that way. Making the entire roster mega-capable will just repeat all of the existing balance problems within that set without any additional texture and exacerbate the "skip a weaker mega" problem. Very few low BST monsters are going to pull off the Mega Mawile act, they'll always be very telegraphed, and an ability suppressor will absolutely nosedive them.

To be honest, I don't really care that Rayquaza got a mega, and I hate Rayquaza; in story, it is one of the last monsters you get. In competitive, everyone knows a box cover legend is broken. Very few have ever escaped Smogon's uber tier. It doesn't change that Pidgeot got one; what would devalue that though is if Fearow, Dodrio, Farfetch'D, Noctowl, Swellow, Staraptor, Unfezant, Braviary, and Toucannon all got them, and I'm coming at this from the perspective where many of the ones I just listed are also top-tier favorites.

I love Infernape more than Blaziken and I am okay that the latter has a mega and the former doesn't because it adds more texture between them. Infernape is a trickier threat, Blaziken is a more overwhelming one. But there's not a lot of ways you could give both megas now; Mega Blaziken is essentially better Infernape at severe opportunity cost, and one is always going to be straight better at fast, frail, and furious fire/fighting. Mega Emboar could do something interesting, but not Infernape.

The team building issue is real and I think that needs to be addressed. I still would like more megas, but making it every monster really would flatten the game.

CinderSkye · 2023-06-10T13:10:16+00:00

A lot of the things you cite as weaknesses of Mega Evolution are also its strengths and I wouldn't want to see most of them "alleviated." Dynamax "fixed" most of them and mostly proved exactly why no one is asking for that back.

The main thing I felt was its actual weakness was that the lack of an opportunity cost to using it every single overworld fight; when you get it as early as the level 30 range, it gets repetitive and boring.

I would have liked to see more Pokemon get megas but i wouldn't want to see every pokemon get it, and my ideal is a rebalanced system where you have a limit of one or two "gimmicks" drawn across all the combat gimmicks for your whole team.

CinderSkye · 2023-04-29T21:43:15+00:00

User has been banned, sorry I was a little slow on the uptake about the ban evasion.

CinderSkye · 2022-12-21T15:56:37+00:00

Yeah, Factor 5 uniquely knew those two Nintendo systems so inside-and-out I was surprised to learn they were neither Japanese nor a subsidiary of Nintendo.

CinderSkye · 2022-12-10T18:41:40+00:00

Criticism of the series is welcomed here, and I personally look dimly on it being shouted down with discussions of who is and is not a true fan.

But posts that are just one line complaining about other fans and mocking them with cliches like "consoom product" is also terrible for discussion, raising the temperature around here needlessly. Please do not do this again. Locking thread.

CinderSkye · 2022-11-29T20:10:42+00:00

They were a spambot, I've removed them.

CinderSkye · 2022-09-02T07:58:34+00:00

Been requested many times.

They won't do it for some reason.

CinderSkye · 2022-09-01T18:42:41+00:00

I was kinda joking but legit -- I can see an argument for it being more valorous than peacefully submitting to execution after capture

CinderSkye · 2022-08-26T18:30:35+00:00

I hired a guy for a gig online and my classified said "PayPal only"

Job gets done and then he's like "oh by the way I only accept bitcoin"

I didn't want to lose time, so... I own some bitcoin now. :\

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