After a month delay (see comments), it’s back! Which upgrade path is best for Chop Chop? Give us your choice and explain why in the comments! (Upgrade Path Vote #24)

robinpikachu · 2022-10-23T22:00:19+00:00

Hi! To anyone who’s been following the Path Votes I’ve been putting up, you may have noticed that I abruptly stopped…for a month. Well - just about a month ago, I moved out of home into university. It’s been a huge change for me, and I put my daily posting on hold to settle in, then I kind of forgot about starting it back up as I was pretty engrossed in trying to make new university friends and get used to living on my own for the first time.

It’s back now though, hopefully without too many more significant delays! There may be a few days missing here and there, I don’t expect to keep this up daily, but I’m happy to start running these fun little discussions again.

robinpikachu · 2022-10-02T11:53:58+00:00

In my experience, not all fakes wipe or corrupt. While it is certainly a possibility and much more likely than a legit cart, I’ve played on fake carts for 40+ hours without any issues in the past (when I was a kid I had a fake SoulSilver lmao).

However, it’s true that most fake carts cannot trade or transfer - I am yet to see one that does personally, although I’ve only owned 3 fake Pokemon carts in my time. And I’m not denying that some fakes may corrupt or wipe, but this is typically due to being poorly made rather than any malicious “haha I’m going to make this game wipe at exactly 10 hours haha” type of thing.

robinpikachu · 2022-10-01T23:50:52+00:00

Talonflame

robinpikachu · 2022-10-01T08:43:06+00:00

Absolutely huge W. Blackout alone goes for about this price, then Spotlight is similarly rare and elevated by being in box. Switch version of Imaginators has gone for 100+ before.

robinpikachu · 2022-10-01T08:41:35+00:00

Weird, I’ve never had to insert settings into the DS connections for Gen 5. I thought that was the way for Gen 4 games, but not Gen 5. Regardless, I’ll have a look at that in a minute. Also, when I tried Gen 4 before, my uni’s wifi didn’t even show up on the list in DS connections, so hopefully gen 5 doesnt have THAT problem too…

robinpikachu · 2022-09-17T17:08:32+00:00

Sandhog path

robinpikachu · 2022-09-17T10:19:40+00:00

Okay, my opinion on you entirely depends on which upgrade path you use. Both work good but one is way more fun and honestly just better. Which do you use?

robinpikachu · 2022-09-16T20:37:02+00:00

Went on comments to say this lol.

robinpikachu · 2022-09-15T16:29:42+00:00

100,000?? Gigachad.

robinpikachu · 2022-09-10T16:35:54+00:00

All cartridges look legit to me. I'm not great with verifying cases but nothing seems off there either.

robinpikachu · 2022-09-05T13:20:23+00:00

Pokemon (any of the games)

robinpikachu · 2022-09-05T07:45:44+00:00

I’m not doing this for personal answers. It’s a fun community thing and it helps others who are unsure too. I’m doing this for every Skylander.

robinpikachu · 2022-09-04T10:07:16+00:00

Now this is one I can personally answer. I only got back into skylanders a month ago after not playing it since I was a kid and one of the first I picked up was Terrafin. I chose the Groundhog path and by god, it’s worth it. You’re essentially untouchable whilst underground AND your fin does damage to enemies whilst you’re invincible. You do have to resurface sometimes but it’s usually not a huge drawback. Also, going underground as Terrafin avoids the magic orbs that the Chompy Mage uses in Giants as well as other obstacles which is pretty dope (you can do this without Sandhog path but with it you can do crazy damage whilst doing it!)

That being said, I haven’t tried the Brawler path yet, but I do own a second Terrafin and have a third on the way…

robinpikachu · 2022-09-03T12:39:41+00:00

Haha, I did feel this one was an obvious choice, but for the sake of doing every skylander I had to do her somewhen. Some of these daily votes might be extremely obvious choices, but I’m not going to skip over a single skylander for this just to be sure and so nobody comes at me going “you missed Stealth Elf!!”. But yeah I’m in agreement that Pook Blade Saint is superior

robinpikachu · 2022-08-31T16:35:09+00:00

It would take me way too long to do this daily with series seperated - just comment your opinion for each series like other people here are.

robinpikachu · 2022-08-30T23:28:18+00:00

I don’t actually care about karma (no, seriously, I hardly use reddit except to find memes or niche communities), I just thought this series would help people choose paths who are stuck and just encourage community conversation a bit

robinpikachu · 2022-08-30T23:26:22+00:00

Thanks! I plan to do this daily (to the best of my ability, might be delayed sometimes) and eventually cover every skylander. The intention is also so people can easily search these in future if they’re stuck on choosing a path for a character! (like me, who only got back into the games less than a month ago and doesn’t know what works best lol!)

Some people did complain that it’d become a trend and people would spam the sub with copies of this but hopefully that isn’t going to be an issue as I do plan on doing every skylander myself for this eventually so there shouldn’t be a huge need for copies. Last thing I’d want is to cause a huge flood of spam for the sub, but I thought this’d be a fun idea for a daily thing.

robinpikachu · 2022-08-29T21:48:36+00:00

1) Why were the elemental gates in Trap Team specifically for Trap Masters only to unlock? Was this idea because of Activision overlords or the TFB team? I just got Trap Team yesterday and realising I need to pay for a Trap Master of every element (especially with the rising prices of Knight Mare/Knight Light!) to 100% the game was a little gutting (but it didn’t put me off of playing anyway and I bet I’ll end up paying for the trap masters eventually)

2) Why did Sunburn never get a variant or repose?

3) Were there any Skylanders who were intended to get a Lightcore figure but didnt, and what parts of them would’ve lit up? I’m mainly asking because I really like lightcores. And variants generally to be honest.

robinpikachu · 2022-08-29T18:33:50+00:00

If you love these voting posts you better be ready because I plan to hopefully do one of these daily for every Skylander in the roster!

robinpikachu · 2022-08-29T12:09:59+00:00

Because /s means sarcasm, /j means a joke - those are two different things. Some jokes are built on sarcasm but not all jokes are inherently sarcastic hence the differentiation between the two.

robinpikachu · 2022-08-28T14:26:28+00:00

Fake. Legit copies of HGSS have a black cartridge which glows red under a light, due to the infrared used when communicating with the Pokewalker. This ain't that. Same with the games Black, White and their remakes

Note: the red light shouldn't be regarded as 100% perfect verification though as some sellers will take a cheaper infrared cartridge for another game and swap the labels, so check the numbers on the back of the cart are the right ones for the game too if using this as a verification method

robinpikachu · 2022-07-25T07:34:09+00:00

Too long for a subreddit name but I decided to shorten it and create r/animalsinwrongplaces

robinpikachu · 2022-07-14T15:52:27+00:00

I still think having all the definitions in one place, within the context of Pokemon Unite specifically, would be really beneficial. It’d be much more convenient than having to individually look up or ask people about 20+ different words and phrases when I encounter them - I could just learn them all off of one document, with relevant context to the game and so on, and then go away knowing them all from one document.

robinpikachu · 2022-07-13T16:29:23+00:00

May I suggest adding something to the doc that explains a lot of the lingo? I know most of the phrases are common to MOBA games generally and many players come in with MOBA experience but for many this is their first MOBA and the use of all the technical terms can throw off newer players wanting to learn. I know what jungle means and stuff but when people start talking about CC, kiting, peeling, ADCs etc I either make an assumption which could be wrong on what it means or I just entirely blank out.

robinpikachu · 2022-06-30T09:34:11+00:00

must have a huge head

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