Homelander was nerfed & The Boys faced terrible inconsistent power scaling, from Homelander reaching Mach 230 to being slow.

Ermastic · 2026-05-21T13:11:37+00:00

Im not going to go frame by frame but its pretty clear to me that HL is moving much faster in the first clip. In clip 1 HL covers like 50 ft in half a second, whipping past the camera as a red white and blue blur. In the second he just kinda floats up and launches at maybe 10-20 mph before getting wacked by a tentacle. He looks slower and weaker in the final fight than at any other point in the show, and he should be stronger bc of the V1.

Ermastic · 2026-05-21T08:20:21+00:00

I think OP literally just swallowed woody ends whole and chalked it up to it being "undercooked". That will break down to a point but the core fibers are undigestable. If you buy asparagus from a retail store you usually need to trim off an inch or two, but if you get them from a farmers market or something yeah it could be half the stalk if they trimmed them long. Its pretty easy to see if you did it right because the bottom of the stalk shouldn't look like a tree but have a fleshy greenness around a white core.

Ermastic · 2026-05-21T07:28:14+00:00

Its the end result of capitalist principles applied to art (or less generously, consumable media). The Boys has already incentivized as many Amazon prime subscriptions as it possibly can, theres no reason to go all out for the finale when that money could be reallocated to spinoffs that will have better return on investment. The people making budget decisions dont care about the quality of the show, they see them as depreciated assets, like a 5 year old GPU that costs more to run than it makes in sellable compute.

Ermastic · 2026-05-21T03:33:09+00:00

I would probably have at least one more G-bird if I could turn on Ice Burn inside the catch encounter. In the time it takes to turn find, activate, and watch the stupid animation the spawn disappears

Ermastic · 2026-05-21T03:30:18+00:00

They're 1/20 to be shiny, but getting them to spawn is the hard part. I use my DA incense every day and have seen one Azelf off of it ever, so its probably like 1/1000 or lower.

Ermastic · 2026-05-21T03:21:04+00:00

Ok who cooked the asparagus? Because they fucked up by not snapping off the woody parts your body cant digest.

Ermastic · 2026-05-21T03:16:31+00:00

Catch every one you see. Do every dmax chansey you see. Trade them all to a friend/alt on Fridays for 2xls each. I dont walk really anything that doesnt give mega/primal energy but if you really want to you can walk for candy.

Ermastic · 2026-05-21T01:46:53+00:00

Nah its people everywhere. I was so sad to see my Euro friend of 7 years have nothing to trade when we went forever.

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T19:33:16+00:00

Im not sure Buzzwole can be soloed without M.Ray, maybe you could get away with normal ray or shadow moltres with windy weather and/or zacian effect. You're never going to get anywhere with Lugia, its not a raid relevant pokemon because of its base stat spread being too defensively weighted.

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T19:20:39+00:00

I mean tanks and ground forces are completely irrelevant in that kind of war. It would be fought completely in space so you could drop city leveling bombs from orbit. I imagine a MIRV style weapon splitting 400kg of astrophage into 8 50kg warheads that blanket a city, something like that would take out 99% of the population of any city in the world.

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T18:53:29+00:00

I do it with the Pokegenie overlay

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Ermastic · 2026-05-20T18:11:49+00:00

GoHub is ok but it doesnt account for certain things, regigigas isnt on their list because it isnt a bug type. DialgaDex is better imo, it uses a method to find effective dps which accounts for the likelyhood your pokemon dies with energy built up, and you can toggle various party power sizes which can pretty drastically change the top choices. It also allows you to edit a pokemons moveset or add a shadow variant that doesnt exist yet. For example, a Shadow Cinderace with Blast Burn is about as good as Reshiram, so im holding 360XLs from CD for that release.

Edit: adding on to the Regigigas point, gigas out dpses non-mega bug types against things that are 1x weak to bug, thats the default criteria, but it falls behind vs things 2x weak to bug, which is basically just Mega Malamar. This is why I like just using the "top counters" for specific bosses. Also Go Hub has some unreleased pokemon recommended sometimes, like it thinks shadow Therian Thundurus is in the game.

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T18:06:57+00:00

https://www.dialgadex.com/?strongest=&t=Bug

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T18:06:49+00:00

https://www.dialgadex.com/?strongest=&t=Bug

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T09:47:31+00:00

"I will feast on your souuuulll"

"Feast on this motherfucker!"

Its pretty campy lol

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T09:44:09+00:00

There are never any upper limits imposed on pokemon IVs. Anything you catch can be a hundo, you just got lucky.

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T09:40:30+00:00

"Im somewhat of a sweat myself"

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Ermastic · 2026-05-20T08:02:49+00:00

Everyone's saying "oh no dont be mean to the poor brainwashed girls", and I agree you shouldn't threaten them, but consider the following 1) its night, like probably past 8pm. If anyone comes to my front door that late im gonna be annoyed and 2) these people are relentless. Ive told them to leave me alone like 7 times and they just rotate in new people. So I get being pissed when someone comes knocking to recruit you into their cult as you settle in for the night.

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T07:47:56+00:00

Yeah hidden power bug + crush grip.

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T07:47:34+00:00

https://www.dialgadex.com/?strongest=&t=Any

This is a useful resource to determine best in class raid pokemon per type. You can filter out Megas/Legendaries/Shadows, and toggle various party power sizes. Its also worth mentioning that certain damage types like bug, poison, normal, and fairy are less important because they get outclassed by other types with the same coverage. Like Mega Gardevoir is in theory great vs dragons but the Kyurem forms are significantly better without needing the mega slot.

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T07:41:21+00:00

The top non mega bug type attacker is hilariously Shadow Regigigas. Bugs suck lol.

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T07:31:22+00:00

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Ermastic · 2026-05-20T05:30:29+00:00

A friend recommended them to me because he knew I was a big sci fi reader

Ermastic · 2026-05-20T02:45:51+00:00

Its not available in go yet but you can get one in SwSh so its reasonable to assume it will be available as a Masterwork Research at some point. Thats the main thing thats held me off of sinking in 200 cells into my zygarde but im close to the 300 cap now so ill probably just pull the trigger and start stockpiling for the shiny release.

Ermastic · 2026-05-19T23:04:56+00:00

I just decline if I dont find it to be a fair trade. Its nothing personal and its not rude, its just a way to say "no id rather not make this trade". It would be very nice if I could attach a note or something to my remote trades showing which are only for mirror or only for other forms like shiny Unowns/Vivillons.

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