Volkner's Apprentice

Sure...i'll see ya on wifi ok?

At first, I meant to play my hardest. But then my mind got wrapped on something else, so I just decided to end it fast then draw it out with an wasy loss :P

I'm sorry, Ryan, I'm not really into this match right now, so I'll just end it quickly. I'm a tad busy on something else.

moms being a you know what so ill cya friday sorry

last 6 and ill grab some pokes k.

crud let me finish with cema and trading to pearl to platinum k

im needimg to test some pokes are you up for a battul?

lol im trying but the wind in ohio right now is really stong and im having powersurges

Yeah, good idea. ^_^

And yes, I'll be on 6 days out of every month or so, and on some months, more, perhaps...

Hi!

Yes, I am pretty popular... more popular than Ryan (not you, Beachboy lol) with amount of friends, but he has more page views and VM's than me.

Yes, I am. Or actually, I'll just be very inactive. Go to the leave/absence thread for more details.

Hey if my opponent does not respond to my pm's or does not get on for a week I get to move on in the tournament right

ok...thanks for the heads up =]...I've sent him a pm about the battle yesterday letting him know to send me a PM whenever he's available to battle me

Yeah, I know that he can only battle during the weekends which is why I've tried to be online as much as possible yesterday and today, but I've yet to see him online.

I'm aware that most of the pokemon universe uses legendaries and some pokemon that really should be legendary (Metagross, Dragonite). On the other side of that coin the majority of the pokemon universe is terrible at competitive games. These people want to play with pokemon rocking top end unbalanced stats and at the same time outlaw moves that aren't so tailored to click-and-smash. Why aren't evasion moves and multi sleep teams generally accepted? Because using a status effect to step around a smash smash smash mindset falls outside of that school of thought. I've been fed the "because we don't want thing that just have a chance of happening" cookie a few times. If that's the case moves that have a 10% chance to burn or freeze shouldn't be allowed, nor moves with a 95% chance to hit, or anything with a chance. In other words, that's a load of crap.

Allowing the use of unbalanced pokemon discourages diversity and encourages very boring vanilla teams stocked with high stats and brings the amount of strategy really down to the floor. How does the average mindless pokemon player think when they build their team? Very shallowly: 'what can I use that has really high attack and speed?' These aren't players I can possibly take seriously. I wish there were more people with a better idea of how to actually build something unique and make quality decisions with those tools, but it just doesn't happen a lot and encouraging them not to change their ways is just going to make it worse.

That said I'd love to compete in an event, but playing against single minded players all day is going to fall short of competing. Thanks for the invite, but I think I have to pass. :-(

Honestly, yes, I am. Still, I rarely ran into Chomp to begin with, and hewas never really in the hads ofa good player.

Ironically, my team loses to teams with Chomp, even if he didn't do anything

awesome...thanks a bunch =]

I'd love to be a part of the tournament if there are still spots left =]... Please let me know if i have the opportunity to be a participant ok?

Ryan,
I love your enthusiasm. I did read about your new innovation on the extreme speed gym, but I have to admit I was turned away by the rules. Your extreme speed gym allows the use of legendary pokemon! I really would love to play in a tournament with dedication organization like yours but I just can't swallow the idea of having one pokemon on every team that's vastly outside the realm of balance. It doesn't make sense to me.

Those things said, I will consider training a new team with a legendary for your gym. I began tossing around some ideas soon after you posted the thread about it. So I'll think about it, just because you're such a nice guy.

Sure, I'd love to join that, hopelully we get more copettition.

Hey I got your message. I'll definately check it out! You guys always come up with the best ideas for tournaments.