How do you picture Pokemon battles?

Started by YesMyGengar September 6th, 2011 7:12 PM
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When you play a game, be it Red, Silver, Ruby, Diamond or Black... How do you picture a Pokemon battle in your head?
Like, for example... I picture a Pokemon battle just like in the anime. My Milotic's tail turning light blue when using aqua tail and such. Some moves I just improvise in my head.
How about you then?
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I picture my Pokemon battles in the same way as the anime battles. For example, I picture the move Earthquake, which hasn't appeared in the anime since Advance, as the user stomping on the ground or jumping in the air and crashing down, and causing a massive quake

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The game need to be more less stiff with turn-based mechanic or even changed to real time and more complex to keep up with my imagination of picturing pokemon battles.
Sometime is just makes me wyf when I'm picturing my Salamence get intimidated by a herdier. A dog intimidate a frikkin Dragon? C'mon man, your kiddin me?


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Never really thought about it, but I guess I'd imagine battles being like the battles in the anime.

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With bloodshed; I'm not a Nuzlocker, but I don't really watch the anime so I've come to imagine rather more realistic and brutal, although nonlethal, scenes.
I don't like to think the trainers have much input during battles — they've done their part through training as their occupational name would suggest, now it's the actual combatants' turns to come into their own. One does not see humans partaking in animal fights in the real world, after all.
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I picture them like in the anime but with more strategy/subjective settings. Say I'm in the sea, surfing in my Gyarados (with my Crobat in the front of the party, flying above).
Some swimmer locks eyes with me and he has a Shellder. Naturally, Crobat is sent out and uses, say, Confuse Ray. I then switch him out for Gyarados (with him still staying around) and hit the Shellder with a Flamethrower, to which I imagine (since I always pictured my Gyarados smoking a blunt and being freaking high at all times) the fire being the ashes of blunt flying out of the tip of it, or even the flame itself. Meh, I get bored exploring the huge-ass Hoenn sea sometimes and this happens x)

Stuff like confusion I imagine them missing the attack blatantly and hitting a wall or something.