Cerberus87

Haha im guessing you love fire types then? :3

We just keep getting into these little spats, don't we? ;)


Interesting idea. I do agree that many fans look down upon contests simply because the games, themselves, de-prioritize them. It was mostly the anime that gave them more importance by treating May and Dawn's goals as equivalent to Ash's.


HMs are the devil, no question. Surf, Waterfall (Gen 4-onwards), and to a lesser extent, Fly, aren't bad moves, but the rest are just worthless. Shouldn't a Lapras automatically know how to swim, or a Pidgeot know how to fly, anyways?

LOL on the XY badges. I especially love how the badge for the first Fairy gym ever is... Fairy Badge. Like, was "Pixie Badge" too original and unexpected? :rolleyes2:

I'd like to see a game where you play as a Gym Leader or E4 member, something more story-based.

Haha np my supportmanship was gifted to me by a member so im happy to have it but you did use a bunch of the customizations though and the coloring looks good haha and it works with your avatar :D

I'm sorry if it seems like I'm excessively negative, but you know how I can be. ;)

Let's turn it around. What are some things YOU would change about the franchise? Be honest, and it can be related to any aspect of Pokémon, gameplay-wise or storywise.

Happy Anniversary!
Nice Profile colors btw :)

But, they're Poison types, not Ghost types. Agatha is supposed to be a Ghost specialist.


Gen 1's non-fossil rocks, anyone? So what, they live in caves, doesn't the Rock typing already cover that? And, STAB on Earthquake isn't really worth getting one-shotted by Absorb and Water Gun.


If that was what the Ground type was supposed to be, then it would've been the Earth type.


Then why is it a separate type, as it is in MOST RPGS?


Which, in turn, made the type completely boring and utilitarian and predictable. So much for Dragons being "mythical" and "fantastic." :rolleyes2:


B-I-N-G-Fucking-O. Staraptor is just another early Normal bird, like Pidgeot and Fearow. Luxray is just another Electric mammal, like Raichu and Manectric. Flygon is just another offense-oriented non-elemental Dragon, like Salamence and Garchomp.

Don't you get it? People are fucking TIRED of seeing the same typings and concepts being repeated OVER AND OVER again. Do you know how many people jumped for joy over Talonflame being Fire/Flying? FINALLY, an early Bird that wasn't some generic Normal type!

Anyone who didn't use Psychic and Ice moves in RBY deserved to be crushed by shit like Arbok and Dragonair. :rolleyes2:

All, I can say is that I am SO glad you're not making the games. Based on that standard, a team of 6 dupes would be considered "awesome." Oh, yeah, I know, "they all have different moves," uh-huh. :rolleyes2:


Uh, yeah, no. You're reading WAY too much into the two types.

Ground = dirt. It's a type you slap onto Pokémon who dig holes/live in caves and don't have another type that fits them better. And, Flying = wings. It's a type you slap onto winged Pokémon who, again, have no other type that fits them better (like Beedrill and Venomoth).

Now, Water, Fire, Electric, Ice, etc... THOSE are elements. And, Dragon is sorely lacking in those outside of Legendaries.


Because, GAWD forbid people want to see their favorite Pokémon be special and unique and not just generic monotypes. :rolleyes2:


Well, apparently, I have to with someone who seems to love the Status Quo so much.

Not really. All but Gyarados are weak to Ice Beam. One Pokémon, big whoop.


Just about anything with Psychic or even Earthquake could solo Agatha. How is that NOT awful?

And, to think that she actually MOCKED Prof. Oak for being a "failed" trainer, when last I checked, he wasn't the one using dupe Gengars and a bunch of shitty Poison types! What kind of E4 member uses worthless Rocket Grunt Pokémon (Golbat and Arbok) and can even expect to be taken seriously? :rolleyes2:


And, what is an antilion? A BUG!

Without the Bug typing, Flygon is nothing more than a land-dwelling dragon. Again, Ground is a generic filler type for the most part, not unlike Flying.


Because people want to see some more type diversity and want these Pokémon to be more special than they are? Without the Bug type, Flygon is just another generic land dragon. Without the Fighting type, Staraptor is just another generic Normal bird. Without the Dark type, Luxray is just another generic Electric mammal.

No a doesn't, but a game has serious issues if the NPC teams aren't up to snuff. When Elite Four members have to use Dupes and NFEs to fill space, that's a pretty big problem. People (rightfully) bash Glacia for having an awful team, but Lance and Agatha aren't any better. If anything, they're even worse, since even Glacia, at least, still had the "correct" monotype. She wasn't a "Dragon" Master with a mono-Flying team or a "Ghost" Master with a mono-Poison team.


Yes, you could argue that Dragon/Ground has better competitive value, but storywise, it's far worse. Ground is just a generic filler type, akin to Flying, while Bug would make it something other than "just a dragon." Too many (non-Legendary) dragons in Pokémon are just plain old dragons without any other special characteristics.

Mewtwo is an awesome Pokémon, but a team of 6 Mewtwos doesn't make you a Psychic Master.


Still the same boring typings repeated over and over. Why couldn't Flygon have been Dragon/Bug? And, Altaria should've just been retconned to Dragon/Fairy. :rolleyes2:

Says the guy who thinks that Gen 1 has an amazing Pokédex and that Lance and Agatha have the best, most exciting E4 teams ever. :rolleyes2:

Well, it stands upright and has no wool, so it clearly isn't 100% sheep. Also, its body shape has always reminded me a little of Dragonite's, but with the wings lopped off.

Besides, it's not like there isn't any (non-Legendary) Electric/Dragon types, anyways. In fact, if you take out the Legendaries and Megas, there are exactly FOUR fully-evolved Dragons with unique typings--Kingdra, Hydreigon, Dragalge, and Tyrantrum (who's only part-Rock because its a fossil). That's just awful! Why are Pokémon dragons so boring?

Translation, it's not "badass" enough for him. He should only use Big Strong MANLY Pokémon, dammit... Like, Dragonite, for example. :rolleyes2:


And, why do you think that is?

Lapras isn't bad, but it is sort of redundant with Kingdra and Gyarados. Ditto for Arcanine in regards to Charizard.

As for Ampharos, it doesn't share a weakness with anything else he has, and it's SE against the Water types people usually use against Lance. Yeah, Earthquake takes it out quickly, but not any quicker than Thunderbolt takes out Gyarados or Ice Beam takes out Dragonite.

At the very least, what he needs to do is ditch the dupe Dragonites. That's just boring and unimpressive by any standard, especially for a Champion. (In fact, I think Lance is the only Champion to date who uses dupes.)

Why can't he have a Kingdra, for example? Not only is it a Dragon type, but it's also not part-Flying and from Gen 1-2. That should be an obvious choice for his team.

Or, what about Ampharos? Its Japanese name means "electric dragon," and it received a Dragon type Mega, so it's probably meant to be a "dragon" in the same way as Charizard and friends.

And, if Gen 3+ Pokémon are allowed, why not Sceptile, Flygon, Serperior, or Dragalge? They're all either Dragon type or dragon-like Pokémon, and again, none of them are Flying. Lance doesn't need cheap ass Pokémon like Salamence and Garchomp; Dragonite is the only Pseudo he needs.

Yeah, and what do people do? Bash him for it. They claim that he isn't a "real" Dragon Master like Drake or Drayden because his team isn't mono-Dragon (completely forgetting that he had a far smaller pool of Dragons to select from than Drake and Drayden). Of course, these same people will often then turn around and praise Steven for not having a mono-Steel team for the exact same reason. :rolleyes2:


When it comes to levels, I usually apply Gameplay and Story Segregation and others should, too. Lance's GSC team was clearly meant to be a progression from his RBY team (as you said), and the only reason it was lower-leveled was because of GSC having a fucked-up level curve, NOT because of Lance being an evil, horrible cheater or anything like that. Levels are a strictly gameplay feature and shouldn't be relevant at all to the story.

It annoys me how so many fans will praise and whitewash outright villains like Giovanni and Lysandre, yet demonize kind, heroic characters like Lance. No, you're not being "cool" or "edgy" by putting the Bad Boy in Leather Pants and painting the Hero as a Death Eater. :rolleyes2:

Biased or not, it pisses me the hell off when I see images like this floating around.

Yes, because the poor level design and sloppy programming of GF is actually the fault of a fictional character. :rolleyes2:

Want to blame someone for Lance having three underleveled Dragonites? Blame GF for making GSC's level curve so hideously low to begin with. His ace should've never been only L50 to begin with. His Dragonite wouldn't have been underleveled had the levels been just 5-10 higher.

And, also, blame GF for not putting enough Dragon types or even Dragon-like Pokémon in the game, forcing Lance to pad out his team with dupes. What else could he do, save for pulling a Flint and using completely random Pokémon? (Which he would probably also be bashed for doing.)

As for the Aerodactyl with Rock Slide, that's just sloppy programming on GF's part. They probably either forgot that Rock Slide wasn't a TM anymore or that Aerodactyl couldn't learn Rock Slide in Gen 1. It's NOT Lance having a Gameshark and deliberately hacking it onto his Aerodactyl, because again, he's a fictional character.

I guess some people will just find any excuse to trash on a character, no matter what. :rolleyes2:

Yeah, I assume it has to be. I haven't noticed any similar issues in Red++ yet thankfully. The one in Christmas doesn't seem to be dangerous, it just looks scary. Sometimes when playing on VBA-M, the screen will go glitchy when a textbox pops up, but then fix itself. No idea why, since it works fine everywhere else and there shouldn't be anything wrong with that routine (it should still be vanilla) so I just chalk it up to VBA-M.

Based on what you've said in the past, it seems like Gen 6 has been a disappointment compared to Gen 5. Do you feel like you're losing interest in the franchise?

So with Christmas I specifically warn people not to use VBA M, and if they do, be warned lol.