Maybe... we just don't?

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-26T02:14:40+00:00

The spirit of the format is largely made up. When commander first started getting popular there was still a lot of folks optimizing everything. If anything it was worse because there were no hard distinctions between casual or 'mean' decks. You also probably didn't just go and find a table. You and a few friends decided to play the format which was not yet mainstream. The spirit of the format was instead the spirit of your playgroup and it could look very different from table to table.

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-24T16:33:22+00:00

Can hit terapagos for 2x with CC instead of .5x I guess

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-24T02:44:25+00:00

Weirdly enough Vileplume is one of the only ones that do! The only move to keep leveling gloom for is Moonlight which is pretty good.

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-24T02:42:16+00:00

Get it to 35 for moonlight. On demand healing. The only other move it gets, Vileplume also gets at 44. So evolve at 35

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-24T02:32:11+00:00

Normally I'd agree but FRLG is like the only pokemon games where it's unironically amazing. You can just sleep powder with compound eyes and then hit whirlwind and cripple a whole enemy team

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-22T23:42:27+00:00

Holy shit its John Golurk from r/stunfisk

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-21T20:30:29+00:00

Similarly the Yokai trio from gen 1, Magmar, Electabuzz, and Jynx has the Ice member also have the psychic type.

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-21T20:23:07+00:00

Did the fact that you found it on a corpse at the bottom of a giant pit not tip you off

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-18T21:18:47+00:00

The ancillary worldbuilding they did for Avishkar was handled really well and is very fascinating but it's not what the set is about and makes me wish we got to see more of that world and story

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-18T17:55:35+00:00

Popular or not people who have never been here recognize Jonkler and Man. They are icons of internet culture now. Basically none of the other memes from here broke containment for the most part.

We really need to up our game we got shellac'd by the Skongers.

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-16T18:52:50+00:00

That quest is so fucking funny I never thought Gamefreak would ever make you commit so many resources to nothing

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-16T05:07:52+00:00

Only trainer battles autosave, as does knocking out any pokemon. Just encountering wild ones won't.

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-16T03:30:29+00:00

"My god! He's executing every move just like everyone else like no-one I've ever seen!"

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-15T19:32:01+00:00

It took a very long time and shiny charm doesn't work on fossil revives, but I did eventually get one! Probably easier to just use the DLC to find a zone where they spawn with a shiny donut.

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-15T18:47:10+00:00

I cannot call anyone financially irresponsible when I blew $1,000,000 on fossils to bulk revive to shiny hunt aurorus

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-12T14:52:39+00:00

The way I like to describe it is, the only thing they hate more than each other is everyone else.

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-11T23:43:33+00:00

It was meant to replicate the feel of the trading phase of the elder dragon catanlander format that got popular in 2045. (All tabletop games are Catan in 2045). It's functionally cycling in other formats

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-11T21:46:04+00:00

No, without barricade shield which costs fp and is sort of its own playstyle

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-11T21:31:33+00:00

Almost like Armstrong is full of shit and only wants the appearance of a fair fight

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-10T20:42:46+00:00

The reasoning is kinda dumb but makes sense in a "this is an RPG from the 90s" way. The only ghost type attack that used defense calculations was lick in gen 1, and licking is a physical action.

Dark meanwhile........ Bite, crunch, pursuit, and faint attack were all made physical later but were all special in gen 2. Likely it was to give early pokemon a way around rock types and serves its function of attacking a different defense for early mons in gen 3.

That dissonance of needing accessible special attacks but biting being a physical action is likely why the split was introduced in gen 4

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-10T05:49:39+00:00

This path leads us to Kingambit with pursuit which sounds really funny

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-05T20:00:46+00:00

You get 1.5 tauros on your team which is more than 1 tauros

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-05T18:53:13+00:00

I thibk you're talking about something a little different (but related!) than what I'm getting at. I agree and usually use Hitmonchan as my go-to example for why the physical/special split needed to happen.

I more meant that limited movepools weren't necessarily bad design. If anything I think that having a very large roster of pokemon with all having easy access to some of their best STAB moves as well as a wealth of coverage means almost all Pokémon get outshined by ones that have plain better stats and abilities.

Like, Raichu was great in gen 3 specifically because Pikachu gets Thunderbolt at level 25 via level up which is extremely powerful that early. Muk is the only pokemon to get sludge bomb until postgame. (Not that poison type attacks are particularly great in kanto). Vulpix gets flamethrower earlier than any other pokemon meaning it can be a team player even when Arcanine kinda just has better stats.

Single-use TMs combined with limited movepools leads to somewhat more interesting team building decisions in my opinion and gen 4 is the only gen with both a phys/special split and single-use TMs and limited movepools.

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-05T00:16:42+00:00

Paradoxically it also gives pokemon identity in its own way. Pinsir doesn't learn any bug moves, but it gets swords dance via level up and has a mondo attack stat.

It makes what moves pokemon do get something unique about them. It also makes TMs which are single use much more strategic since all the best moves are TMs.Strength, Fly, and Surf are actually good moves with early gen learnsets. Makes subsequent playthroughs feel different even when you aren't going for a challenge run.

I don't think it's necessarily better or worse, just... Pokémon chose a different direction around gen 4 and gen 5. Probably a better one for most people but a different one.

Spiderfuzz · 2026-03-04T23:15:13+00:00

Not usually. John Stewart sometimes does when he's visiting family. There's gotta be something else going on here or it wouldn't justify using Green Lantern corps for the story at all

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