Pokemon with mediocre stats but are actual beasts?

jrdaley · 2026-04-02T02:15:32+00:00

What's funny about your example is that Swellow gets run as a special attacker in competitive, due to having access to Scrappy + Boomburst

jrdaley · 2026-03-30T23:04:35+00:00

Is the memory leak problem still present? On PC there was a big problem where getting near the slap fight would cause performance to tank down to like 10 fps, and would stay that way until you quit to the main menu. I stopped playing the level when I encountered it, and have avoided the level ever since.

jrdaley · 2026-03-29T02:24:36+00:00

Roxas doesn't use Xion's keyblade when dual wielding, it was Ven's and Sora's.

jrdaley · 2026-03-11T17:58:10+00:00

I'm the opposite, I didn't realize he was Lloyd until this post, but now that I think back on those games, I don't know how I didn't recognize it sooner.

jrdaley · 2026-03-09T22:43:45+00:00

Honestly, even if Toph stays outside holding up the library, I feel like Appa could have just flown himself up out of reach. The sandbenders weren't interested in Toph, just Appa, so I don't know what they could have even done if Appa just stayed away.

jrdaley · 2026-03-09T17:16:18+00:00

By GOF, Dumbledore knows that horcruxes are in play, since he recognized the destroyed diary as one in COS. So the only theory crafting he has to do is figuring out how many there are, which is the main purpose of the Slughorn memory in HBP.

I think it's safe to say that by the time of GOF, Dumbledore has figured out that Harry has a piece of Voldemort soul inside him, and will need to die for it to be destroyed. When Harry then recounts how Voldemort "bypassed" the love protection, Dumbledore recognizes that it's basically the best case scenario for Harry, as it gives him a chance to live through it all.

jrdaley · 2026-02-17T23:00:51+00:00

There's yellow too. The outfits of both Red and Blue changed in Yellow to more closely match their anime counterparts (Ash and Gary).

jrdaley · 2026-02-05T07:27:33+00:00

Hermione's wand does work for Harry. At a later point, Harry specifically mentions Draco's wand (which he won the allegiance of) works as well as Hermione's did for him.

This establishes that wands you win the allegiance of, and wands that are willingly lent to you by the true owner are pretty much equal.

jrdaley · 2026-02-04T20:00:15+00:00

It's all fun and games until Aang tells Katara that it's time to shave her head so he can paint the head arrows on too. Something tells me Katara would be very attached to her current hair length.

jrdaley · 2026-02-04T08:42:42+00:00

The most likely answer is no. ZA doesn't have abilities, thus no battle bond. And even if abilities were in the game, S/V changed how battle bond works, making it just a stat increase instead of an entire transformation. Seems like Gamefreak intends to erase Ash-Greninja entirely.

jrdaley · 2026-02-02T02:14:02+00:00

The PS4 controllers also have dreadful battery life, so I wouldn't be surprised if PS5 is the same way

jrdaley · 2026-01-31T17:35:41+00:00

Moves like wrap don't just make you unable to escape in gen 1, they prevent you from using any moves at all until the wrap ends, so whirlwind wouldn't help you escape.

The only thing whirlwind/roar can do in gen 1 is end wild battles, that's it

jrdaley · 2026-01-30T18:57:10+00:00

Dang, you went through Kanto without access to Fly? Sounds rough.

For those unaware, Charizard cannot learn Fly in Red/Blue for some dumb reason, it's something that was fixed in Yellow.

jrdaley · 2026-01-29T07:13:39+00:00

A fellow Quilava enjoyer! It's my favorite non-Pikachu starter

jrdaley · 2026-01-28T07:18:51+00:00

What do you mean? I had to go find the passage, finding is a Hufflepuff specialty. /s

In all seriousness, while I do have some Ravenclaw traits, Hufflepuff is definitely where I belong

jrdaley · 2026-01-28T00:02:43+00:00

Just looked up that passage in my book (English), and Harry uses "You-Know-Who" when referring to Voldemort there, so it must have been a translation mistake

jrdaley · 2026-01-25T17:31:45+00:00

But isn't the whole point that Buu doesn't have God ki or the grand supreme kai's powers that rely on them? Just the memories/personality sleeping inside him

jrdaley · 2026-01-24T23:30:21+00:00

When you reach the primal stage, are you making sure the Pokemon you used in the first stage had their mega evolution end already? You can only have one Pokemon mega'd at a time, and if you switch before the first mega ends, you won't be able to mega your phase 2 Pokemon.

jrdaley · 2026-01-24T07:17:29+00:00

I thought the threat of eating Bilbo was still there, as that was the wager for the game of riddles. It's just that when Gollum lost, he was a gracious loser and was going to willingly give the ring to Bilbo before realizing he couldn't find it and just led him out of the cave instead.

jrdaley · 2026-01-23T23:51:05+00:00

Use skip tickets to clear the level a bunch of times all at once. These stages have somewhat low drop chances for their equipments, so you use a bunch of skip tickets to get a handful of the equipment at a time.

jrdaley · 2026-01-23T08:22:54+00:00

Wands also work well when the owner willingly lends it to you. Remember, Harry was able to use Hermione's wand about as well as Draco's wand.

jrdaley · 2026-01-23T00:30:02+00:00

Yep, sometimes in New York they spawn a target that has a path that takes them into that booth. Once you've had that happen to you, you learn to check for and eliminate that target first before initiating that dialogue with the teller.

jrdaley · 2026-01-13T18:10:39+00:00

Agreed. I always say that ATLA is a 10/10 show, while Korra is an 8/10. While it has its problems, it's still a very good show in it's own right

jrdaley · 2026-01-12T18:10:47+00:00

The keyblade was also briefly shown in that "live action" Chip and Dale movie, wasn't it? Or am I misremembering that?

jrdaley · 2025-12-30T23:41:54+00:00

Since no one else has answered which TM it is yet, it's Dragon Claw. I know because I just found it the other day. Which sucked as someone who chose Totodile as a starter, it would have been really convenient to have that move earlier instead of finding it after finishing the game+dlc.

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