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SargeantMajorKururu June 10th, 2010 6:18 PM

Am I the only one who thinks Darkrai is cheap?
 
My brother got him through Hax, and he says he isn;t cheap. Sure, my Spongicolo (Ludicolo with Rain Dance, Mega Drain, Leech Seed and Leftovers) is cheap in his eyes, but the pokemon who locks you in sleep and does most of his damage while the opponent can do nothing is okay? That makes no sense to me...

MrsNorrington June 10th, 2010 6:23 PM

I dunno. Yesterday I finally battled the Member card event Darkrai in Platinum. He couldn't do very much at all to my Noctowl. My Noctowl has insomnia.

Aggressor June 10th, 2010 6:30 PM

It's boring. I got it, but it meant almost nothing to me. I normally dismiss Darkrai :\

SargeantMajorKururu June 10th, 2010 7:01 PM

Yeah, but...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by MrsNorrington (Post 5870562)
I dunno. Yesterday I finally battled the Member card event Darkrai in Platinum. He couldn't do very much at all to my Noctowl. My Noctowl has insomnia.

My brother taught his Darkrai Thunder to stop bird pokemon who usually have insomnia...

shookie June 10th, 2010 7:03 PM

That's why you get a Sleep Talker or a useless Pokémon to take the sleep :P it's outsped by a few Pokémon but NP+Dark Pulse owns a lot of Psychic types.

BlazingShadow June 10th, 2010 7:17 PM

But the event Alamos Darkrai is awesome !

enderalex June 10th, 2010 7:34 PM

idc if its cheap or not i want one :(

Eurydice June 10th, 2010 7:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SargeantMajorKururu (Post 5870549)
My brother got him through Hax, and he says he isn;t cheap. Sure, my Spongicolo (Ludicolo with Rain Dance, Mega Drain, Leech Seed and Leftovers) is cheap in his eyes, but the pokemon who locks you in sleep and does most of his damage while the opponent can do nothing is okay? That makes no sense to me...

well if you are going to complain about pokemon that put pokemon to sleep to do damage you shouldnt just single darkrai out. gengar and other ghosts use hyponsis and dream eater as well.
and if you want to get out of the sleep attacks wake your pokemon up and use an attack disable so they cant use it anymore.

darkrai is amazing.

Niprop June 10th, 2010 9:07 PM

I remember one of my old strategies involved Porygon-Z using Magic Coat on Darkrai, rendering it a dead weight, and if (90% of the time) the opponent is foolish enough to try and switch Darkrai out with their all mighty uber in order to attempt a sweep anyways, Porygon-Z's Hyper Beam spells "KO", taking out a third of their team. Of course, if the person is smart, they might instead blast Z with a painful Focus Punch...I have yet to face such a foe.

Trainer Galza June 11th, 2010 2:12 AM

I think ALL Legendaries are cheap.. *clings tightly to Ratticate

dead-man-walking June 11th, 2010 4:28 AM

Darkrai IS cheap....

....Unless you got an Insomniac Pokemon, Sleep Talker, or Snore.

Ninja Caterpie June 11th, 2010 4:43 AM

Darkrai is cheap; full stop. It's easily countered, but that doesn't change the fact that it is still cheap. :D

Hax in general is cheap; flinch, recovery, parafusion, sleep, etc, etc. It's all built to stop the opponent attacking and give an advantage to you. Very annoying, but generally very weak if you can break their hax. Inner Focus, Poison, Electric types, Insomnia say sup respectively.

AeonWolf June 11th, 2010 5:24 AM

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Originally Posted by enderalex (Post 5870699)
idc if its cheap or not i want one :(

seconded.

and Darkrai isn't cheap. anything can beat anything, it's just a matter of chance and skill.

SargeantMajorKururu June 11th, 2010 11:37 AM

...Sorry but I just can't agree.
 
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Originally Posted by AeonWolf (Post 5871597)
seconded.

and Darkrai isn't cheap. anything can beat anything, it's just a matter of chance and skill.

Sure all pokemon can be very strong, but he used a hack to get it at level 2 and raise it, making it much much stronger than the event Darkrai. It's much faster, stronger, and basically overkill in my eyes. He wants me to fight him when he has that? No way...

Amore June 11th, 2010 11:51 AM

So just tell him he's a stupid little fa**** and refuse to battle him!

Darkrai isn't cheap. Sleep isn't it's only use.

Also, he has crappy defenses. Any priority move off a choiced pokemon can take him out.

For example, he's an Uber right? Infernape, which is OU, could take him out with a Specs Vacuum Wave, or stick a Scarf on and use Close Combat.

Do you call Breloom cheap? It's main tactic is SporePunching.

Spore: 100% accuracy.
Dark Void: 95% accuracy.


Therefore, by your reasoning about sleep, Breloom is cheaper than Darkrai.

XxRogueTrainerxX June 11th, 2010 12:36 PM

Darkrai is a legendary. I think all legendaries are cheap and useless. By default, he's useless.

Amore June 13th, 2010 12:40 PM

He's not though.

If it doesn't put you to sleep, you send out something that doesn't resist it against Dark Pulse and see it survive. Only Blissey can do that.

He has a plethora of options outside of sleep. It just so happens that nintendo made a backstory to him, so he's good at putting you to sleep and hurting you for it.

Tanaki June 14th, 2010 7:56 AM

I normally denounce the use of most legendaries in the first place, aside from some of the less powerful ones, but Darkrai can be kinda cheap. I personally relish fights with little kids spammin with hax amounts of darkrais because when it backfires the amount of lol becomes exponentially positive. Infernape doesn't enjoy being woken up.

NickofTime June 14th, 2010 8:17 AM

So what if darkrai is powerful, ALL UBERS ARE POWERFUL, its why they are called ubers

Darkrai isn't powerful enough to break sleep clause. You cant pack your team with darkrai's because of species clause. If you don't like sleep then switch out the pokemon. Remember its ubers and choice scarf palkia can still OHKO darkrai with draco meteor.

Watch this vid, using legends isn't better than having actual skill in battling

Trainer Galza June 17th, 2010 2:13 AM

I always like watching vids like that.

Hybrid Trainer June 17th, 2010 2:46 AM

I just think darkria's cheap full stop. haunter is the only sleep disruptor in my eyes :P

Trap-Eds June 17th, 2010 7:43 PM

Aww, that video was fun. Porygon2's animation was cuuute. :3

(3:07) Darkrai cried when it was defeated. Poor thing.

I don't find Darkrai cheap. Whether it is or not depends on how its Trainer uses it.

Le Creep! June 18th, 2010 3:46 AM

I don't like Darkrai, even though I don't have it.

It's ugly, hate its cry, and it's moveset... *shudder*

You're not the only one.

Insane85 June 18th, 2010 3:54 AM

Nothing is "cheap", Darkrai has been acknowledged as too powerful and is uber, that's all there is to it.

Rengoku June 18th, 2010 4:30 AM

I didn't know you can pay for a Darkrai, how cheap is he xD

Hmm... I dislike'd Darkrai too, inducing sleeps then start attacking.
I personally dislike using him, 'nough said.


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