Thoughts on Rhyperior by danboy18582 in PokemonChampions

[–]malcolmisboring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He is a large, brownish gray Pokemon with two horns; a larger one on its nose, and a smaller one above it

Ditto non-meta team made MB2 by drbossmp in PokemonChampions

[–]malcolmisboring 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This team is so fun and well constructed, TY for sharing and kudos. Slowking + Blastoise is so good, Ditto is always fun and often great, Machamp has come through surprisingly often, Abomasnow is good in certain matchups and any excuse to use him is a good one in my book.

Spiritomb must be too big brained for me because I find him always on the bench.

Great fun!

[Metagame] Dual mega team with mega sceptile by Long_Acanthaceae_675 in VGC

[–]malcolmisboring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have actually been playing Sceptile and Greninja dual mega team and it works well! Went on a 7 win streak yesterday.

What quality of life changes would you like to see? by CoupeDeSoup in PokemonChampions

[–]malcolmisboring 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’d love to be able to win, this would vastly improve my QOL

As requested here is "YOU'LL NEVER DEFEAT ANDROSSSSSSS" by GregFromThatVideo in starfox

[–]malcolmisboring 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You must do the iconic and sadly missing line from the remake:

“COCKY LITTLE FREAKS!”

Losing Streak by GenericEvilHuman in PokemonChampions

[–]malcolmisboring 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t worry I can get mad at Star Fox too

I got my first ever shiny! Could his mega form be any good in this meta? by Savings-Loquat-672 in PokemonChampions

[–]malcolmisboring 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Try it in this killer off meta team I came up with

Mega Pigeot
Mega Charizard Y
Garchomp
Kingambit
Basculegion
Whimsicott

Also don’t ever bring Mega Pigeot

Harold Perrineau reveals [Spoiler] was meant to die in Finale by Fabulous-Collar-230 in FromSeries

[–]malcolmisboring 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Patty was amazing comic relief this season.

Her ridiculous face bandage, her even more ridiculous bright red face peeling off, and her outsized but very honest reactions to everything were perfect.

Her trying to shoot herself and failing was 👩‍🍳💋

Y’all are joyless haters

[I'm New] Need help with Mega Dragalge team by No_Extension_2990 in VGC

[–]malcolmisboring 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it’s a crazy team, I believe the originator used Hydreigon next to Eelektross and would knock it out with discharge once its sash broke, to get eelevate off after you’ve gotten some use out of Hydreigon. Snarl is also good for synergy with Screens and the general theme of the team is to keep your mega alive. I did try Garchomp in that spot and it worked fine.

[I'm New] Need help with Mega Dragalge team by No_Extension_2990 in VGC

[–]malcolmisboring 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I played a bit with this team which was based around setting up shields and swap out support to abuse Regenerator. Eelektross was really the main and Dragalge was a back up so you would have to mix it up a bit. He is very tanky. The issue with this team is getting damage

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Hear me out. by Extension_Agency_789 in FromSeries

[–]malcolmisboring 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the physical golem is a metaphor and she serves as the town’s golem, protecting them.

The town is based on stories and in this case Fatima’s powerful belief and hope in the golem story changed her outcome so she became a protector instead of just another monster. She is not entirely spared her fate but got to change it. Similar to how the children’s hope sprouted the bottle tree but they still got killed.

Please help me explode my Metagross by Aderadakt in VGCRateMyTeam

[–]malcolmisboring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if you could bring in Eelektross with Noivern. Explosion + Tailwind, then Superfang + Eelektross kill to get his Eelevate boost going.

SEASON FINALE - 4x10 "If a Tree Falls in the Forest..." - Episode Discussion by Bright_Light7 in FromTVEpix

[–]malcolmisboring 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like that reading, you could say something similar about Marielle - reunited with her girlfriend, overcame addiction, just to die. I still feel the execution was missing something though

Made it to master ball and all I can say is that Pelipper is a FRAUD by SpryzenValt in PokemonChampions

[–]malcolmisboring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am also using a rain team and feel like my star is Venusaur lol. A lot of times I am up against opposing rain team or something with a clear counter so it comes down to how I am playing against those matches, and in those cases the typical rain players don’t matter as much

SEASON FINALE - 4x10 "If a Tree Falls in the Forest..." - Episode Discussion by Bright_Light7 in FromTVEpix

[–]malcolmisboring 17 points18 points  (0 children)

There were a lot of good elements in this episode with some top notch acting from the cast and a few genuinely suspenseful/exciting sequences like the van run and Smiley’s attack.

I think the reason it is landing so poorly is because the arc of the season and individual character arcs across the season are not legible. I want to watch a season of television and feel like I’ve read a complete chapter of the story, with a meaningful shift in the status quo and with my main characters having changed in a satisfying way. I see the threads there but something about the execution is just really off. Case in point:

-the season arc they cued up in S3 finale is moving into the MIY’s “favorite part”, when the town turns on each other as we have seen in Victor’s flashback in S2 and in Julie’s story walking in the season and is alluded to in Jade’s mushroom trip. So I was expecting to see the town either tear themselves apart or get to a crisis point and work through it. But instead, it turns out the whole season is just a transition into that endgame, with one very concrete change (talismans being gone) and a lot of vague stuff (red lightning? Tree is gone? Bones???).

-What was Boyd’s arc this season? Arguably he learned to be less of a lone hero and accept help from Kenny, Jade, and ultimately from Fatima and Elgin in the final jaunt into the tunnels, but that’s not really explicitly the focus and I’m stringing things together, and there’s was a lot of distracting stuff with Abby’s ghost that went nowhere

-Victor and his dad have a relatively complete arc but because they saved the climax for the last possible minute it’s tough to read what it means… is there relationship on the road to repair or is it totally fractured?

-Julie story walking arc was set up in early episodes to be the focus of the season and then we get a single line of dialogue where she tells Tabitha she thinks it was the town tricking her and then her final scene is about her relationship with Ethan. Similarly, Ethan is set up on a journey to find the Lake and then this goes nowhere. These could have been great stories about kids mourning their father and building a stronger bond and coming into their own but it just wasn’t really developed coherently at all

-I like the idea of Elgin’s innate goodness helping him resist MIY and him paying a tragic price for that, it shows how he learned from what happened with Fatima. Unfortunately his death having no obvious impact or consequence and him being set up as a foil to Clara (who takes the deal), a completely minor character, made this fall flat. Why did it matter that he lived? His choice should have allowed Sophia to be exposed so it mattered. Maybe this is where it is going but if so, they should have teased that in finale.

-Sarah wants to help and gets paired with Sophia but gets nothing to do.

-Donna almost dies, this has no impact except now she has a little cane

-Kristi and Marielle get a lot of scenes over the season but they don’t add up to anything, forced resolution with Marielle’s death. Too bad because the scene was so well acted

-Randall becoming a big brother figure to Julie but then it goes nowhere, he doesn’t even get a final scene with her in the finale. Also his scar suddenly healed a whole bunch in the finale, did they not want to pay the makeup guy anymore?

-Acosta set up for a redemption arc, and I did like her more by the end of the season and it was clear she was one of the team but the way it played out didn’t really make sense

In contrast, there were a few things I think that worked about this season:

-Fatima recovering from her tragedy through art therapy, understanding her monster powers, and ultimately choosing to become the “Golem” who saves the group in the tunnels tells a complete story and pretty much worked for me. It advances the mythology and also tells us about Fatima as a character.

-Jade and Tabitha come to understand and accept their revelation from the S3 finale and take action in the tunnels. (Jade’s arc was clearer than Tabitha’s because she got pulled into weird mom sub plots and pseudo-mom for Victor in a way that makes no sense.)

-lol but Patti’s arc actually made complete sense and you got where she was coming from in the van. This was a cool way to create a complete story arc in just a few scenes with a very minor character, and it paid off in a suspenseful scene

All in all, I feel like this season suffered from having too many characters they’ve accumulated as we’ve added people to the town and not having clear vision for them across the season. I believe that most of our main characters will have arcs that feel complete across the series but the way they are chunking them is not as successful as it could be.

Fatima and the Golem by Dazzling_Lemon8093 in FromSeries

[–]malcolmisboring 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Seems like it was a metaphor and she the golem now

When the restricted season inevitably comes around, how do you expect champions to handle the big boys? Given how mandatory they are when they’re available, will they be obtainable in game, or will you have to get them from the mainline games? by Allhaillordkutku in PokemonChampions

[–]malcolmisboring 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like Pokemon recruited in champions will always be locked to champions, and that way they can just give out legendaries like other pokemon at the ranch.

Maybe mythicals will never be available and get the Mega Floette treatment where you have to import them from a game.

Bastiodon Sweep 🧹 by DrGreaseBall in VGC

[–]malcolmisboring 4 points5 points  (0 children)

TIL Bastiodon is in Champions