I decided to do some novelty gym leader style teams, so this is more of a "top six of each type" post but I don't care. So anyways, here's the eighteen teams I put together:
Normal:
Mega Kangaskhan, Snorlax, Porygon Z, Pyroar, Heliolisk, Bouffalant
Fire:
Arcanine, Rapidash, Mega Blaziken, Emboar, Chandelure, Delphox
Fighting:
Hitmonlee, Sawk, Hawlucha, Mega Lucario, Gallade, Keldeo
Water:
Starmie, Vaporeon, Wailord, Lapras, Cloyster, Seismitoad
Flying:
Zapdos, Dragonite, Drifblim, Hawlucha, Togekiss, Braviary
Grass:
Torterra, Gogoat, Mega Abomasnow, Trevenant, Ferrothorn
Poison:
Nidoking, Tentacruel, Mega Gengar, Dragalge, Scolipede
Electric:
Raichu, Mega Ampharos, Electivire, Luxray, Wash Rotom, Stunfisk
Ground:
Rhyperior, Golurk, Stunfisk, Mega Garchomp, Torterra, Excadrill
Psychic:
Mega Alakazam, Gardevoir, Gallade, Slowking, Metagross, Starmie
Rock:
Gigalith, Kabutops, Shuckle, Carracosta, Tyrantrum, Mega Tyranitar
Ice:
Glalie, Avalugg, Cloyster, Lapras, Mega Abomasnow, Mamoswine
Bug:
Heracross, Mega Scizor, Genesect, Shuckle, Gavantula, Scoliopede
Dragon:
Hydreigon, Haxorus, Mega Garchomp, Dragonite, Salamence, Noivern
Ghost:
Mega Gengar, Spiritomb, Chandelure, Golurk, Aegislash, Trevenant
Dark:
Mega Absol, Zoroark, Hydreigon, Pangoro, Krookodile, Umbreon
Steel:
Metagross, Aegislash, Aggron, Magnezone, Genesect, Mega Lucario
Fairy:
Clefable, Togekiss, Mega Gardevoir, Granbull, Dedenne, Florges
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Pokemon Bank, more like Pokemon Jank (Author: Flash)
So I've been reading some pretty funny tweets, blogs, memes, etc about Pokemon Bank, and I'm starting to think just how funny this really is. I'm at the point now where I'm googling Pokemon Bank every thirty minutes, and generally shocked at how ridiculous this has become. Explain this to me, GameFreak, if the software was ready for release on December 27th, and was postponed because the eShop crashed, why wasn't it ready on December 29th when the eShop was repaired? It's been, what, 20 days now? Even a release date would be nice, but TBD is the only thing we hear. At least they're giving us in depth tweets about the progress.
More information on the launch of @Pokemon Bank and Poké Transporter will be announced in the future. Thanks for your patience!
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) January 10, 2014
What patience?
We will share more information about the launch of Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter as soon as possible.
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) December 29, 2013
Apparently as soon as possible is more than 17 days
This just keeps getting more insane to me. I'm literally seven pokemon away from catching em all, and it's kinda difficult to trade for event legendaries when the only legendaries you have to offer is Zapdos, Moltres, Articuno, Mewtwo, Zygarde, Yvaltel, and Xerneas. I have 65 legendaries begging me to use for trades in Black 2, but thanks to Dumbtendo it'll be a while b4 I can have them in X. Seriously, has Nintendo just decided to not care about its fans? Personally, while I am angry, not buying future Pokemon games isn't a option for me, but some people have been just that angry for me. So I hope GameFreak reads this because I now offer them three things they can do to make us happy with them again:
1. Release the Bank
I really hope the geniuses in GameFreak's fan relations department thought of this one when they were pitching ideas to make us happy. Its pretty simple, just give us the bank! I mean really, it seems to be working just fine in Japan. However, while an immediate release would be nice and calm most peoples anger, obviously any company knows that a few other things might be needed to make us completely happy with Nintendo.
2. Give Celebi some companionship
A lot of people were pretty happy to find out that using the bank comes with a free Celebi. It almost made up for the fact that the bank would be two months behind the games release date wise. But does it make up for the bank being three, maybe even four months behind? HAHAHAHAHA, no. I've heard rumors of a Giratina, which would be cool, but thanks to Game Stop and Gen IV games, most people will be transferring 1-10 Giratina to X and Y anyway (ten if that person got all three generation four games, caught one in both HeartGold and SoulSilver with the help of Arceus, caught a sixth in the DreamRadar with Platinum in their 3ds, and got the gamestop giratina on all four Gen V games) so a Giratina isn't quite what I have in mind. Why not a Deoxys, Meloetta, Victini, Keldeo, Genesect, Jirachi, Darkrai, Shaymin, Manaphy, Arceus, or Mew? There are so many event legendaries that catching them all has become a joke almost, whereas the non-event legendaries are so plentiful that we trade them for nonlegendaries (It has it become a normal thing to own twelve of each legendary bird, along with twelve ho-ohs and lugias). The bank should come with at least 1-3 extra event legendaries, because I want them!
3. Bank Notes... I mean Stones
Picture this. That level 100 Emboar whom you trained up from a level 5 Tepig and went through everything with gets put in the transfer. You decide "Yes, I'm sure I want to transfer this Pokémon", its leftovers get sent back to your bag, leaving its hands open. You withdraw it from the bank, its holding an item for some reason. You check the summary to find that BOOM! You're beloved starter is now holding the Emboarite. I think that if Pokemon had many more mega stones that magically appeared in transfered pokemon, I would truly forgive GameFreak, so yeah... Do that.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Flash's 5 favorite, and least favorite, things about Pokemon X and Y
I loved X and Y. I really did. The reviews I've read so far have either been "Best Generation Yet" Or worst generation yet. To me, it was the best set of games, so sure, Gen Six Games are my favorite (I'm going to be doing Generation awards for other categories soon). However, when I started to think about the five things I loved the most about Gen Six, I quickly realized 5 things I didn't like that just happen to relate to the my favorite things about it. So here it is: In no particular order, Flash's personal 5 favorite, and least favorite, things about Pokemon X Version and Pokemon Y Version (Don't expect Fairy Type to make the list).
1. Mega Evolutions
This Generation did a beautiful thing: it added a new strategy mechanism to battling. Honestly, since Gen III's addition of Abilities, nothing new has been added to the strategy of battling. Now, on top of picking Pokemon, evs, abilities, moves, and items, you have to decide which, if any, of your Pokermans gets to explode into an awesome new forme with +100 coolness and +100 base stats. Obviously, Mega Gengar is a favorite for me, but Charizard X, Garchomp, Mewtwo Y, Ampharos, and Scizor are all pretty awesome after this process takes place. Mega evolution was AWESOME and I can only hope Gen VII follows suit in changing the metagame. I can only pray that DLC, events, or Z version are going to give us Mega Stone after Mega Stone after Mega Stone.
-1. No Evos or Prevos
Gen II and Gen IV were each big evolution generations as they took big leaps to introduce 30-40 evolutions and pre-evolutions of pokemon we love, along with two new eeveelutions. I heavily hoped and expected Kalos to follow this pattern, but alas, it did not. Sure we got ONE sweet new eeveelution to advertise fairy type, but other than that, nothing. Perhaps one of the things Z or events or DLC brings us is new additions to the evolutionary families of popular pokemon that need stat boosts (Sableye evolution, like please), as well as a 9th Eeveelution (Caspeon the ghost type PLEASE).
2. The Humongous Pokedex
The Kalos region is HUGE, and the pokedex is no different. In fact, the Kalos Regional Pokedex had 453 POKEMON, a ginormous increase from the 300 in the New Unova Dex, which was previously the largest. There is a large range of pokemon to catch and train up, and as if that wasn't enough, these games brought with them the fun idea of a segmented pokedex with three different layers. I love the idea of having many pokemon available, and honestly, I'm for Z having a New Kalos Pokedex with every pokemon from Generation I-VI. Honestly, why is it such a taboo idea to be able to catch them all? That is the point, isn't it?
-2. The small number of new pokemon
Generation I showed us 151 amazing creatures. Generation II brought us 100 more we had never seen. Generation III kicked it up a notch by giving us 135 more. Generation IV kept things interesting with 107 new pokemon. Generation V made the games fresh with 156 new Pokemon. Generation VI brought us a whopping total of... 69 pokemon. Seriously, what the heck GameFreak? I know about the event legendary trio people online are discussing, but that brings the number to 72. There are two excuses I've read online as to why this may be, and I have to say, they're both pretty lame. The first one is that the "idea well is drying up" and Nintendo could only think of 69 solid pokemon. Well this is complete bullroar to me because I can crank out 50 ideas for fakemon that are completely original in an hour, and so I doubt the people PAID to do this are less capable than I. Not to mention Gen VII is already being worked on (Apparently being coded as plus and minus versions), so there is no way they're out of ideas. The other theory I've heard is that in GameFreak's collective mind, Mega Evolutions count as new pokemon. Well, like I said about evolutions, that simply isn't the same as so little pokemon can mega evolve and the process isn't permanent. So Pokemon better have something big up their sleeve in the way of new pokemon, because I only got a tasty appetizer and I'm drooling for the main course.
3. Easy EV training and IV breeding
Making good pokemon is so easy in X and Y that the competitive gaming side will flood with new challengers. I say, bring on the noobs! With help from perfect IVs in the safari, the destiny knot that allows the inheritance of five IV's from parents, easy to decode IV trainers, and a born-to-be-a-midwife Talonflame that has flame body and Fly learnability, hatching a pokemon with 5 IV's is extremely easy now. Also, super training actually tells you what EV's you are earning and have earned, not to mention gives out 12 at a time opposed to 2 or 3 and is much easier. It used to take about a week to breed and train a pokemon to have perfect IV's and EV's; but now the whole process takes about three hours. It's AWESOME.
-3. No move tutors
In Generation 4 and 5, in addition to the nine free moves that are important to the game, three or four move tutors placed throughout Unova and Sinnoh taught your pokemon 60 different moves that they do not normally learn through leveling up or TM. These 60 move tutor moves disappeared in Kalos, leaving many a learnset less universal, and leaving very helpful strategies hanging. Liked having iron head or tail on pokemon? Too Bad. Wanted the amazing dragon type move on practically 200 different fully evolved pokemon? Sucks to suck. Liked having aqua tail, drill run, seed bomb, dual chop, low kick, gunk shot, fire punch, thunderpunch, ice punch, aqua tail, zen headbutt, foul play, bind, knock off, sky attack, drain punch, or endeavor or your physical sweeper to make them slightly more versatile? Well you can't anymore. Did uproar, signal beam, hyper voice, electroweb, ice wind, earth power, dragon pulse, snore, heat wave, or giga drain make your special sweeper super effective against a few more types? Well no more of that. And worst of all, stealth rock, the lead move above all others, has been changed from having 139 learners, to 26, 8 of which require being bred onto it from a pokemon brought from B2W2 that learned it from a tutor. The lack of move tutors truly wrecked the role of some pokemon in the metagame, and Keckleon would do fantastic with the new HA Protean, but without move tutors, Protean truly does nothing for him.
4. Online play/Community
With the brand new player search system, X and Y is the most social Pokemon game to date. You always can see hundreds of other players at your disposal to battle, trade with, or even chat with. You can easily interact with friends, and rematch that random passerby with the help of the "acquaintances" bar. I love being able to interact with all the different trainers, if you ask me, that's the best new feature of the series and best use of the touchscreen/spot pass systems. I love the wonder trade, which at first I thought would be spammed with level one magikarps named "pooploser", but the players have seemed to adapted a rule of thumb that if you put good things into the wonder trade, then you get good things out. The GTS is fun and easy to use, but some of the offers on there are ridiculous, and the battle spot is good for testing your skills against real players instead of mindless NPC's. But to me, the fact that I can battle or trade with anyone from anywhere in a matter of seconds is the thing that makes X and Y the best pokemon games yet.
-4. Trainer PR videos
Like- What? I don't understand. Somehow GameFreak thought the worst video creating software in history was a good addition to this game. Seriously, these videos are supposed to "show off your style" or something like that, but they just don't. This feature of online play was pretty quickly cast aside, however some people have made it sort of worthwhile with stupid videos like the one above.
5. Kiloude City
Kiloude City is a paradise for competitive players. The friend safari offers about 50 pokemon not normally catchable, the vs recorder you receive there lets you rewatch good, and bad, battles to see what you could have done differently or need to repeat, the IV checker helps a brother out with breeding that perfect bidoof, daily rival battles get you into the rhythm of your team, and the battle maison offers a chance to test your new team, as well as gives helpful tms and items to plop on your 'mon. This town might seem like not that much to casual players, but for metagame regulars like me, Kiloude City is heaven on Kalos.
-5. Route 14 Scary house
When I saw this house, I screamed with joy. Aww yeah, bring on the ghost types!!!!!!!!!!! I went inside to catch my babies, and what did I fine? A twenty step by twenty step room with an old man that charges kids for scary stories. Old haunted houses have brought us a Rotom, the Lunar Wing, music that makes us commit suicide, and ghost types by the team full, and this scary house let me down. The girl in the hotel who says "NO. You are not the one..." and then vanishes was scarier to me, but people are starting to say she does something different if you bring a giratina or darkrai or something. But all in all, the only scary thing about this house is that GameFreak thought it was scary.
So there you have it, my personal five favorite and least favorite things about X and Y. I look forward to reading your opinions too, so comment below!
1. Mega Evolutions
This Generation did a beautiful thing: it added a new strategy mechanism to battling. Honestly, since Gen III's addition of Abilities, nothing new has been added to the strategy of battling. Now, on top of picking Pokemon, evs, abilities, moves, and items, you have to decide which, if any, of your Pokermans gets to explode into an awesome new forme with +100 coolness and +100 base stats. Obviously, Mega Gengar is a favorite for me, but Charizard X, Garchomp, Mewtwo Y, Ampharos, and Scizor are all pretty awesome after this process takes place. Mega evolution was AWESOME and I can only hope Gen VII follows suit in changing the metagame. I can only pray that DLC, events, or Z version are going to give us Mega Stone after Mega Stone after Mega Stone.
-1. No Evos or Prevos
Gen II and Gen IV were each big evolution generations as they took big leaps to introduce 30-40 evolutions and pre-evolutions of pokemon we love, along with two new eeveelutions. I heavily hoped and expected Kalos to follow this pattern, but alas, it did not. Sure we got ONE sweet new eeveelution to advertise fairy type, but other than that, nothing. Perhaps one of the things Z or events or DLC brings us is new additions to the evolutionary families of popular pokemon that need stat boosts (Sableye evolution, like please), as well as a 9th Eeveelution (Caspeon the ghost type PLEASE).
2. The Humongous Pokedex
The Kalos region is HUGE, and the pokedex is no different. In fact, the Kalos Regional Pokedex had 453 POKEMON, a ginormous increase from the 300 in the New Unova Dex, which was previously the largest. There is a large range of pokemon to catch and train up, and as if that wasn't enough, these games brought with them the fun idea of a segmented pokedex with three different layers. I love the idea of having many pokemon available, and honestly, I'm for Z having a New Kalos Pokedex with every pokemon from Generation I-VI. Honestly, why is it such a taboo idea to be able to catch them all? That is the point, isn't it?
-2. The small number of new pokemon
Generation I showed us 151 amazing creatures. Generation II brought us 100 more we had never seen. Generation III kicked it up a notch by giving us 135 more. Generation IV kept things interesting with 107 new pokemon. Generation V made the games fresh with 156 new Pokemon. Generation VI brought us a whopping total of... 69 pokemon. Seriously, what the heck GameFreak? I know about the event legendary trio people online are discussing, but that brings the number to 72. There are two excuses I've read online as to why this may be, and I have to say, they're both pretty lame. The first one is that the "idea well is drying up" and Nintendo could only think of 69 solid pokemon. Well this is complete bullroar to me because I can crank out 50 ideas for fakemon that are completely original in an hour, and so I doubt the people PAID to do this are less capable than I. Not to mention Gen VII is already being worked on (Apparently being coded as plus and minus versions), so there is no way they're out of ideas. The other theory I've heard is that in GameFreak's collective mind, Mega Evolutions count as new pokemon. Well, like I said about evolutions, that simply isn't the same as so little pokemon can mega evolve and the process isn't permanent. So Pokemon better have something big up their sleeve in the way of new pokemon, because I only got a tasty appetizer and I'm drooling for the main course.
3. Easy EV training and IV breeding
Making good pokemon is so easy in X and Y that the competitive gaming side will flood with new challengers. I say, bring on the noobs! With help from perfect IVs in the safari, the destiny knot that allows the inheritance of five IV's from parents, easy to decode IV trainers, and a born-to-be-a-midwife Talonflame that has flame body and Fly learnability, hatching a pokemon with 5 IV's is extremely easy now. Also, super training actually tells you what EV's you are earning and have earned, not to mention gives out 12 at a time opposed to 2 or 3 and is much easier. It used to take about a week to breed and train a pokemon to have perfect IV's and EV's; but now the whole process takes about three hours. It's AWESOME.
-3. No move tutors
In Generation 4 and 5, in addition to the nine free moves that are important to the game, three or four move tutors placed throughout Unova and Sinnoh taught your pokemon 60 different moves that they do not normally learn through leveling up or TM. These 60 move tutor moves disappeared in Kalos, leaving many a learnset less universal, and leaving very helpful strategies hanging. Liked having iron head or tail on pokemon? Too Bad. Wanted the amazing dragon type move on practically 200 different fully evolved pokemon? Sucks to suck. Liked having aqua tail, drill run, seed bomb, dual chop, low kick, gunk shot, fire punch, thunderpunch, ice punch, aqua tail, zen headbutt, foul play, bind, knock off, sky attack, drain punch, or endeavor or your physical sweeper to make them slightly more versatile? Well you can't anymore. Did uproar, signal beam, hyper voice, electroweb, ice wind, earth power, dragon pulse, snore, heat wave, or giga drain make your special sweeper super effective against a few more types? Well no more of that. And worst of all, stealth rock, the lead move above all others, has been changed from having 139 learners, to 26, 8 of which require being bred onto it from a pokemon brought from B2W2 that learned it from a tutor. The lack of move tutors truly wrecked the role of some pokemon in the metagame, and Keckleon would do fantastic with the new HA Protean, but without move tutors, Protean truly does nothing for him.
4. Online play/Community
With the brand new player search system, X and Y is the most social Pokemon game to date. You always can see hundreds of other players at your disposal to battle, trade with, or even chat with. You can easily interact with friends, and rematch that random passerby with the help of the "acquaintances" bar. I love being able to interact with all the different trainers, if you ask me, that's the best new feature of the series and best use of the touchscreen/spot pass systems. I love the wonder trade, which at first I thought would be spammed with level one magikarps named "pooploser", but the players have seemed to adapted a rule of thumb that if you put good things into the wonder trade, then you get good things out. The GTS is fun and easy to use, but some of the offers on there are ridiculous, and the battle spot is good for testing your skills against real players instead of mindless NPC's. But to me, the fact that I can battle or trade with anyone from anywhere in a matter of seconds is the thing that makes X and Y the best pokemon games yet.
-4. Trainer PR videos
Like- What? I don't understand. Somehow GameFreak thought the worst video creating software in history was a good addition to this game. Seriously, these videos are supposed to "show off your style" or something like that, but they just don't. This feature of online play was pretty quickly cast aside, however some people have made it sort of worthwhile with stupid videos like the one above.
5. Kiloude City
Kiloude City is a paradise for competitive players. The friend safari offers about 50 pokemon not normally catchable, the vs recorder you receive there lets you rewatch good, and bad, battles to see what you could have done differently or need to repeat, the IV checker helps a brother out with breeding that perfect bidoof, daily rival battles get you into the rhythm of your team, and the battle maison offers a chance to test your new team, as well as gives helpful tms and items to plop on your 'mon. This town might seem like not that much to casual players, but for metagame regulars like me, Kiloude City is heaven on Kalos.
-5. Route 14 Scary house
When I saw this house, I screamed with joy. Aww yeah, bring on the ghost types!!!!!!!!!!! I went inside to catch my babies, and what did I fine? A twenty step by twenty step room with an old man that charges kids for scary stories. Old haunted houses have brought us a Rotom, the Lunar Wing, music that makes us commit suicide, and ghost types by the team full, and this scary house let me down. The girl in the hotel who says "NO. You are not the one..." and then vanishes was scarier to me, but people are starting to say she does something different if you bring a giratina or darkrai or something. But all in all, the only scary thing about this house is that GameFreak thought it was scary.
So there you have it, my personal five favorite and least favorite things about X and Y. I look forward to reading your opinions too, so comment below!
Monday, January 6, 2014
Flash ranks the types
Okay, lets set some rules in stone. Number one, just Base Stat Totals, or
BSTs cannot order the types, or else the list would be obvious and therefore
uninteresting. So, these lists are
composed with pokemon, moves, weaknesses/strengths, and specific stat
advantages/disadvantages, and a few of the types are just where they are
because I randomly like them.
After all, everyone tends to attach themselves at random to one or two
types. So, here we go…
18. Poison
I know, I know… “IT’S NOT BUG!!!!!!!! EVERYTHING IS BETTER
THAN BUG!!!!” Close, almost everything is better than bug. But not poison. Sure, BST wise, bug type is the very
worst. However, Poison is just…
Pointless. The purpose of most
poison moves are to poison, duh.
But, you don’t need a poison type to do so. EVERY POKEMON THAT CAN LEARN TMS CAN LEARN TOXIC… WHICH
POISONS. Also, the pokemon are
very dumb (cough cough muk cough cough garbordor cough cough zubat skuntank
skorupi foongus weedle venonat croagunk cough cough cough cough) and the only
good ones have 2nd types that I enjoy.
17. Normal
Normal has a few nice things about it, but for the most
part, it’s vanilla… it’s boring… It’s normal! Normal is just boring, and a lot
of the good normal types are normal/Flying. The normal type is represented at face value by the derps
(rattata, sentret, zigzagoon, bidoof, patrat, bunnelby) and normal type tends
to not even be represented in the meta.
However, it does have its gems… Kangaskhan is an important member of my
team as he has a killer movepool, and good ‘ol dunsparce makes for a fun
unforeseen special sweeper. Not to
mention Arceus is the bomb.com but show me a tournament that allows him. Point is normal, not fun.
16. Bug
Here it is!!! Bug is weak, if you didn’t know, and a lot of
them are very lame, so it’s an obvious choice for this far down the list. Because of the obvious placement, I
want to say some of the good things about it. SHUCKLE. He has
the highest Base defense and special defense stats. Some might say “his attack is insufferable!” however, if you
use power split, he has the same attack stat as his opponent, which, when
plopped next to its defense, makes it perfect. Other than that, some other bug types are buckets of
fun. Scizor and Galvantula are metagame
staples, and Heracross is great.
Plus, move wise…. DAT MEGAHORN DOH!!!!!!!
15. Psychic
Even if it has a good average bst, Psychic is just… no
fun. It has no HP stat to it, so
its easy to kill. They only have
two good moves, zen headbutt if you’re a physical kinda guy, and psychic if
you’re a special attack ‘mon, which isn’t even a creative name. Most of the
cool psychic types are legendaries, and the other cool ones have second types. Metagross
and Gardevoir at one point made psychic the bomb, but since then Metagross has
been made useless, and Gardevoir is now fairy type, essentially only adding
weaknesses. So what makes Psychic
better than the types I ranked below it? Special attack. It makes for a great
sweeper if you train it right, but that kinda means nothing to me, because when
I think psychic… I think swoobat.
14. Fairy
When fairy type was announced, people went crazy. DRAGON KILLERS. HORRAY HORRAY!!!!!!!!! Yeah, well, I
don’t like it very much. Sure Xerneas is super awesome, and Sylveon is a fun eeveelution,
but all fairy type did was make a personal favorite and essential team member
of mine, Hydreigon, four times weak to Marill. Thanks for that fairy type. But, fairy type has its upsides. Dazzling Gleam is a very useful TM, and moonblast is great. The only problem is, many fairy types
that will be used in the metagame are going to be the ones who can only be
caught in the friend safari, like togekiss and Clefable. Yeah, well these guys can’t moonblast
for some reason. And, going back
to my personal vendetta against them, they only have two weaknesses so I can’t
take them out very easily and old Mortos lives in constant fear.
13. Fighting
Fighting is a nice move type. Superpower USED to be a good move, but now we have no tudor
or tm so nobody can have it.
Hammer arm is used in a lot of my move pools, but the speed lower
setback is not my friend. I love
focus blast to death. Fighting
type is also cool on my starters considering I always pick Torchic and Tepig
and in my X run through I chose Chespin, although I feel Fenniken is traveling
through Kalos with me in Z. Lucario rocks my world, and Hawlucha is captain
Cool guy. But the thing that puts
fighting so low is the lack of cool pokemon. Sure, Machamp is nice, but is
Conkelldur, or Hariyama, or Throh, or Meinshao, or Scrafty, or Toxicroak? No,
no, no, no, no, no. The end.
12. Grass
Grass is the bottom tier of the starters. Only a cult group of Venanites picks
Bulbasaur, grass “boasts” Chikorita, Treeko, and Snivy, and all though I love
Turtwig, I can’t pick him when I have Piplup as an option. Chespin, as I already said, was the one
I thought I loved, but I’m think Fenniken next time around as Chesnaught ended
up in the PC barely past level 50.
Grass has a few nice pokermans about it, Trevenant is cool, and
something about that Mexican dancing duck Ludicolo just rattles the bones. And
grass is my main type in the TCG.
However, video game competitively, grass is only gonna be represented as
a “what the heck” factor with SolarBeam on my Fire Starters.
11. Dark
My feelings for dark type is very complicated. The pokemon are cool, but the stats are just... awkward. All dark types are wedged in between decent attack and special attack, subpar defense, and either phenomenal or horrible speed and HP. Absol has a cult following, and Hydreigon is the bomb, Zoroark and Sableye kill all, and Im a big fan of Krookodile. But one little thing makes dark types as low on my list as they are. The two types dark type are super effective against, Ghost and Psychic, are also the two types Ghost is super effective against. And design and stat wise, Ghost is, simply put, better dark type.
10. Steel
This is where I start being a big fan of all the types left, just some more than others. Steel is great because its highly defensive, and all the pokemon have some crazy cool type combinations (steel/electric, steel/psychic,steel/fairy,steel/ghost are my favorites). I love Aegislash, Metagross was cool at one point, and Scizor, Genesect, Lucario, and Empoleon are some of my all time favorite pokemon. Flash cannon is a great move, iron head is a nice phys move, and if your slow enough gyro ball wrecks everyones day (Gyro Shuckle with power split FTW). So what puts steel this low? The only types its high defense is checked by are Fighting, Fire, and Ground, which just happen to be the three most common offensive types in the Metagame. Yeah, ouch.
9. Rock
Rock is a fun type that stands very much alone. The high defense + decent HP + widespread learning of explosion, stealth rock, spikes, and a few other key moves makes Rock types very excellent leads. Rock types also commonly have the ability Sturdy, which is great ability for any lead to have. Besides the value they have leading, rock types are just cool pokemon. You have Gigalith, Golem, Kabutops, Aerodactyl, Tyranitar, Tryantrum, Shuckle, Aggron, Carracosta, you name it. However, the reason Rock is where it is is that outside of stone edge and power gem, the rock type offers nothing move wise. Fix that rock type, fix that.
8. Ice
Ice is the original Fairy type. The big reason for having an ice type is for dragon slaying, plus the bonus coverage of Flying, grass, and ground types. Ice Beam (or Blizzard if you can handle the accuracy buff) is a great offensive move, and even Icicle crash can help. The pokemon rule, boasting Glalie, Glaceon, Beartic, Cryogonal, Avalugg, Frosslass, Mamoswine, Cloyster, Lapras, Weavile, and
Abomosnow. Ice is a great offensive type thanks to the many double weaknesses other pokemon have, it pairs well with earthquake and thunderbolt, and plenty of water types can learn ice beam or blizzard. So what's the buff on Ice type? The three moves I mentioned are it, and THERE'S ALMOST NO ICE TYPES. Seriously, at 37 pokemon its the 3rd rarest type (Fairy being the rarest (understandably since its brand new) and Ghost is 2nd rarest (ghost can handle that though since its that the one thing that keeps it checked)). Ice just needs more pokemon to be ranked higher.
7. Flying
I love flying type pokemon. I don't know why, but a lot of flying type pokemon just look cool to me. Noivern, Charizard, Pidgeot, Dodrio, Scyther, Gyarados, Dragonite, Tropius, Salamence, Togekiss, Unfezant, Sigilyph, Emolga, Braviary, Talonflame, and HAWLUCHA. So whats the check here? Well, though most of these pokemon rule in my heart, only three of them (Dragonite, Charizard, and Hawlucha) have ever found themselves on a competitive team of mine just because they arent phenomal. Flying types are the types included to give you pokemon at the beginning of the game, they all have a second type that helps them to be cool, and Fly is the only move. So flying really should be lower, but, hey, its my personal opinion and I like flying types. Sue me.
6. Water
Water Type is hard for me to love because its one of my brothers favorites, which in my house makes it one of my least favorites. But water type really isnt anything to sneeze at. Offensively, they make decent tanks. With an average HP stat of 84, plus a tie of 86 in attack and Special Attack, plus the fact that every water type (minus magikarp and wash rotom) can learn ice beam and blizzard to counter them pesky grass types and dragon types, they make great pokemon. Hydro pump is amazing, and surf is one of the only two decent HMs along with Fly. Blastoise is the swaggiest pokemon on the planet, and Vaporeon, Wailord, Milotic, Poliwrath, Slowbro, Cloyster, Gyrados, Lapras, Quagsire, Kingdra, Marshtomp, Ludicolo, Sharpedo, Empoleon, Seismatoad, Kabutops and (I hate to mention legendaries but this guy deserves it) Keldeo are all solid Pokemon. Plus water type is very widespread, more Water types exist than any other. So what's the setback? Two main things. The first is the issue with it being my brothers fave (and I hate to spoil the ending but my fave deep fries his) and when I think "Water Type" I think "The Starters I almost picked but then I went with Fire." Seriously. "Oh cool I want squirtle, no wait Charmander. Oh cool I want totodile, no wait Cyndaquil. Oh cool I want Mudkip, no wait Torchic. Oh cool I want Oshawott, no wait Tepig." Now there is one exception. Piplup. Gotta love that penguin. So, water type really deserves to be higher, but I don't personally like it as much as some other the other types. Sorry about that water.
5. Ground
Ground has high attack, high HP, EARTHQUAKE AND EARTH POWER, and sweet pokemon (Flygon, Excadrill, Krookadile, Stunfisk, Golurk, Golem, Steelix, Marshtomp, Camerupt, Whiscash, Torterra, Garchomp, Mamoswine, Seismitoad, Diggersby). Also, my second favorite gym leader ever, Giovanni, is ground type. Honestly, ground has zero setback in my eyes, although a few new cool pokemon would be nice. I just connect with the four above it more.
4. Dragon
Dragon is the best type, and I love it sooooooooo much. But, its really not cool to put them any higher, and three above it are more special in my heart anyway. Dragon is the definition of Overpowered. A base stat total of 580 or more is generally concidered either legendary or psuedo legendary, and Dragon has a BST average of 610. 116 in attack; 110 in special attack is ridiculous, dragon pulse, draco meteor, outrage, and dragon rush are all great moves, and I mean, what other type has Haxorus and Dragonite and Garchomp and Flygon and Hydreigon and Tyrantum and Noivern and (again, hate to use legendaries but i must make an exception) Giratina? Dragon type has 5 out of the 7 psuedo legendaries, and, besides Altaria, Druddigon, and Goodra who can all die off, all dragon types are awesome. So yeah, Dragon type rocks, but can't be any higher on my list.
3. Fire
I love fire types. 5 of the Starters I pick are Fire types, although chimchar is my very least favorite starter ever, and its not one of my competitive teams unless a fire type or at least Flamethrower is involved. Special attack average 106 is very nice, and the pokemon (Ninetails, Arcanine, Rapidash, Flareon, Typhlosion, Magmortar, Charizard, Blaziken, Emboar, Delphox, Houndoom, Chandelure, pyroar, Talonflame)? Theyre awesome. Flamethrower is an amazing move, super effective of steel is awesome, and two of the four types that resist fire types have such low special defense that it barely matters. And the fact that they can learn grass moves make them nice to have. The truth is, you bond very well with your starters, and when five of them have a type in common, its difficult to not bond with that type as well.
1 (tied with electric). Ghost
I once thought that ghost type was pointless. But then I realized, my Favorite pokemon is ghost, and my main team has 3 GHOST TYPES ON IT. I love ghost type so so so so so much. Honestly, one of the reasons I like the ghost type so much is that the limited amount of them makes them a rare treat that most people overlook, and you're not going to meet many other fans of the type. But let me show you why they deserve your respect. Gengar, Dusknoir, Spiritomb, Chandelure, Trevenant, Gorgeist, Sableye, Rotom, Golurk, Aegislash, and Giratina. Shadow ball and claw are beautiful, phantom force as well, Ghosts can also escape everything, ensue special conditions easily, Ghost gets no damage from fighting type or normal type moves, and a ghost move + a fighting or fairy type move has no pokemon that resists it. Gengar is where the ghost type starts and ends for me, but I'll explain why in my next post. But I just connect well with ghost types, and I have never one a tournament with less than one of them.
1 (tied with Ghost). Electric
Electric has always been my favorite. Theyre is always one type that you just love, and for me, its Electric. Electric type pokemon are just freakin awesome (Raichu, Ampharos, Manetric, Luxray, Electivire, Zebstrika, Magnezone, Rotom, Galvantula, Stunfisk (yes I like stunfisk)) and dont you dare say squat diddly about my boy Pikachu. With high speed and Special Attack stats, electric types hit em and run. Thunderbolt (or dundabolt if your my favorite gym leader, lt. Surge) is my favorite move, and with only one weakness and super effectiveness against two uber common metagame types, Electric types are just fantastic. Every game has an electric type gym (that is if you count the kanto gym thats in GSC/hGsS). Electric type has my second favorite pokemon, Luxray, and one of my three favorite legendaries, Zapdos. My 2014 VGC team is the first team I have ever had without an electric type, and I literally cried about it. I love electric types, and nothing will ever change that.
My feelings for dark type is very complicated. The pokemon are cool, but the stats are just... awkward. All dark types are wedged in between decent attack and special attack, subpar defense, and either phenomenal or horrible speed and HP. Absol has a cult following, and Hydreigon is the bomb, Zoroark and Sableye kill all, and Im a big fan of Krookodile. But one little thing makes dark types as low on my list as they are. The two types dark type are super effective against, Ghost and Psychic, are also the two types Ghost is super effective against. And design and stat wise, Ghost is, simply put, better dark type.
10. Steel
This is where I start being a big fan of all the types left, just some more than others. Steel is great because its highly defensive, and all the pokemon have some crazy cool type combinations (steel/electric, steel/psychic,steel/fairy,steel/ghost are my favorites). I love Aegislash, Metagross was cool at one point, and Scizor, Genesect, Lucario, and Empoleon are some of my all time favorite pokemon. Flash cannon is a great move, iron head is a nice phys move, and if your slow enough gyro ball wrecks everyones day (Gyro Shuckle with power split FTW). So what puts steel this low? The only types its high defense is checked by are Fighting, Fire, and Ground, which just happen to be the three most common offensive types in the Metagame. Yeah, ouch.
9. Rock
Rock is a fun type that stands very much alone. The high defense + decent HP + widespread learning of explosion, stealth rock, spikes, and a few other key moves makes Rock types very excellent leads. Rock types also commonly have the ability Sturdy, which is great ability for any lead to have. Besides the value they have leading, rock types are just cool pokemon. You have Gigalith, Golem, Kabutops, Aerodactyl, Tyranitar, Tryantrum, Shuckle, Aggron, Carracosta, you name it. However, the reason Rock is where it is is that outside of stone edge and power gem, the rock type offers nothing move wise. Fix that rock type, fix that.
8. Ice
Ice is the original Fairy type. The big reason for having an ice type is for dragon slaying, plus the bonus coverage of Flying, grass, and ground types. Ice Beam (or Blizzard if you can handle the accuracy buff) is a great offensive move, and even Icicle crash can help. The pokemon rule, boasting Glalie, Glaceon, Beartic, Cryogonal, Avalugg, Frosslass, Mamoswine, Cloyster, Lapras, Weavile, and
Abomosnow. Ice is a great offensive type thanks to the many double weaknesses other pokemon have, it pairs well with earthquake and thunderbolt, and plenty of water types can learn ice beam or blizzard. So what's the buff on Ice type? The three moves I mentioned are it, and THERE'S ALMOST NO ICE TYPES. Seriously, at 37 pokemon its the 3rd rarest type (Fairy being the rarest (understandably since its brand new) and Ghost is 2nd rarest (ghost can handle that though since its that the one thing that keeps it checked)). Ice just needs more pokemon to be ranked higher.
7. Flying
I love flying type pokemon. I don't know why, but a lot of flying type pokemon just look cool to me. Noivern, Charizard, Pidgeot, Dodrio, Scyther, Gyarados, Dragonite, Tropius, Salamence, Togekiss, Unfezant, Sigilyph, Emolga, Braviary, Talonflame, and HAWLUCHA. So whats the check here? Well, though most of these pokemon rule in my heart, only three of them (Dragonite, Charizard, and Hawlucha) have ever found themselves on a competitive team of mine just because they arent phenomal. Flying types are the types included to give you pokemon at the beginning of the game, they all have a second type that helps them to be cool, and Fly is the only move. So flying really should be lower, but, hey, its my personal opinion and I like flying types. Sue me.
6. Water
Water Type is hard for me to love because its one of my brothers favorites, which in my house makes it one of my least favorites. But water type really isnt anything to sneeze at. Offensively, they make decent tanks. With an average HP stat of 84, plus a tie of 86 in attack and Special Attack, plus the fact that every water type (minus magikarp and wash rotom) can learn ice beam and blizzard to counter them pesky grass types and dragon types, they make great pokemon. Hydro pump is amazing, and surf is one of the only two decent HMs along with Fly. Blastoise is the swaggiest pokemon on the planet, and Vaporeon, Wailord, Milotic, Poliwrath, Slowbro, Cloyster, Gyrados, Lapras, Quagsire, Kingdra, Marshtomp, Ludicolo, Sharpedo, Empoleon, Seismatoad, Kabutops and (I hate to mention legendaries but this guy deserves it) Keldeo are all solid Pokemon. Plus water type is very widespread, more Water types exist than any other. So what's the setback? Two main things. The first is the issue with it being my brothers fave (and I hate to spoil the ending but my fave deep fries his) and when I think "Water Type" I think "The Starters I almost picked but then I went with Fire." Seriously. "Oh cool I want squirtle, no wait Charmander. Oh cool I want totodile, no wait Cyndaquil. Oh cool I want Mudkip, no wait Torchic. Oh cool I want Oshawott, no wait Tepig." Now there is one exception. Piplup. Gotta love that penguin. So, water type really deserves to be higher, but I don't personally like it as much as some other the other types. Sorry about that water.
5. Ground
Ground has high attack, high HP, EARTHQUAKE AND EARTH POWER, and sweet pokemon (Flygon, Excadrill, Krookadile, Stunfisk, Golurk, Golem, Steelix, Marshtomp, Camerupt, Whiscash, Torterra, Garchomp, Mamoswine, Seismitoad, Diggersby). Also, my second favorite gym leader ever, Giovanni, is ground type. Honestly, ground has zero setback in my eyes, although a few new cool pokemon would be nice. I just connect with the four above it more.
4. Dragon
Dragon is the best type, and I love it sooooooooo much. But, its really not cool to put them any higher, and three above it are more special in my heart anyway. Dragon is the definition of Overpowered. A base stat total of 580 or more is generally concidered either legendary or psuedo legendary, and Dragon has a BST average of 610. 116 in attack; 110 in special attack is ridiculous, dragon pulse, draco meteor, outrage, and dragon rush are all great moves, and I mean, what other type has Haxorus and Dragonite and Garchomp and Flygon and Hydreigon and Tyrantum and Noivern and (again, hate to use legendaries but i must make an exception) Giratina? Dragon type has 5 out of the 7 psuedo legendaries, and, besides Altaria, Druddigon, and Goodra who can all die off, all dragon types are awesome. So yeah, Dragon type rocks, but can't be any higher on my list.
3. Fire
I love fire types. 5 of the Starters I pick are Fire types, although chimchar is my very least favorite starter ever, and its not one of my competitive teams unless a fire type or at least Flamethrower is involved. Special attack average 106 is very nice, and the pokemon (Ninetails, Arcanine, Rapidash, Flareon, Typhlosion, Magmortar, Charizard, Blaziken, Emboar, Delphox, Houndoom, Chandelure, pyroar, Talonflame)? Theyre awesome. Flamethrower is an amazing move, super effective of steel is awesome, and two of the four types that resist fire types have such low special defense that it barely matters. And the fact that they can learn grass moves make them nice to have. The truth is, you bond very well with your starters, and when five of them have a type in common, its difficult to not bond with that type as well.
1 (tied with electric). Ghost
I once thought that ghost type was pointless. But then I realized, my Favorite pokemon is ghost, and my main team has 3 GHOST TYPES ON IT. I love ghost type so so so so so much. Honestly, one of the reasons I like the ghost type so much is that the limited amount of them makes them a rare treat that most people overlook, and you're not going to meet many other fans of the type. But let me show you why they deserve your respect. Gengar, Dusknoir, Spiritomb, Chandelure, Trevenant, Gorgeist, Sableye, Rotom, Golurk, Aegislash, and Giratina. Shadow ball and claw are beautiful, phantom force as well, Ghosts can also escape everything, ensue special conditions easily, Ghost gets no damage from fighting type or normal type moves, and a ghost move + a fighting or fairy type move has no pokemon that resists it. Gengar is where the ghost type starts and ends for me, but I'll explain why in my next post. But I just connect well with ghost types, and I have never one a tournament with less than one of them.
1 (tied with Ghost). Electric
Electric has always been my favorite. Theyre is always one type that you just love, and for me, its Electric. Electric type pokemon are just freakin awesome (Raichu, Ampharos, Manetric, Luxray, Electivire, Zebstrika, Magnezone, Rotom, Galvantula, Stunfisk (yes I like stunfisk)) and dont you dare say squat diddly about my boy Pikachu. With high speed and Special Attack stats, electric types hit em and run. Thunderbolt (or dundabolt if your my favorite gym leader, lt. Surge) is my favorite move, and with only one weakness and super effectiveness against two uber common metagame types, Electric types are just fantastic. Every game has an electric type gym (that is if you count the kanto gym thats in GSC/hGsS). Electric type has my second favorite pokemon, Luxray, and one of my three favorite legendaries, Zapdos. My 2014 VGC team is the first team I have ever had without an electric type, and I literally cried about it. I love electric types, and nothing will ever change that.
Who is Kai?
Who Is Blu?
Hi everyone,
My name is Blu. Im Flash's brother and I guess you could call Kai and I–what's the word–"acquaintances"? Well, lets just say we know each other. I'm a fan of Pokémon and The Legend Of Zelda games, but my all time favorite game is Donkey Kong 64 because that's the first game that I've ever played. I enjoy the Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube, and Gameboy. If you have any questions make sure to ask. I will do the best I can to answer them.
~Blu
My name is Blu. Im Flash's brother and I guess you could call Kai and I–what's the word–"acquaintances"? Well, lets just say we know each other. I'm a fan of Pokémon and The Legend Of Zelda games, but my all time favorite game is Donkey Kong 64 because that's the first game that I've ever played. I enjoy the Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube, and Gameboy. If you have any questions make sure to ask. I will do the best I can to answer them.
~Blu
Who is Flash?
Hi, My name is Flash! I founded this blog because I love pokemon! Kai and I are real life bestfriends and rivals, and Blu is my real life brother. I have been an avid fan since red and blue, and I am an official Champion of all six regions. I have competed in 76 in person and online tournaments, and have ranked above a total of 452,534 people within those tourneys. My PVP record is 341-2, and I have memorized the Base Stats of every fully evolved pokemon. I have 675 of the pokemon in my pc so im close to catching em all, and my shiny count is 26. My favorite types are Electric and Ghost, my favorite pokemon are Gengar and Luxray. I am currently Playing X version, but in past I have played Red, Yellow, Gold, Crystal, Sapphire, LeafGreen, Diamond, HeartGold, Black, and Black 2. My other main fandoms include My Little Pony, Doctor Who, Attack on Titan, Avatar: TLA, and The Legend of Zelda.
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