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gucci

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United Kingdom
Seen September 26th, 2021
Posted August 7th, 2019
21,056 posts
15.4 Years
I say defeated, it's not quite kill and not quite K.O.

Mr Cat Dog

Frasier says it best

Age 32
Male
London, UK
Seen September 29th, 2017
Posted July 12th, 2017
11,344 posts
19.1 Years
I use kill and faint interchangeably when describing a successful Pokemon battle. I know they don't actually die when their HP goes to 0, but saying 'kill' has a much more final ring to it... as if you're never going to be bothered by this critter again. Obviously that's not true, but it's part of my weird-ass thought process.

The 100 Mega Shock

Male
Seen March 10th, 2013
Posted March 23rd, 2012
1,234 posts
12.7 Years
I'd just use kill/die as common colloquialisms for losing a player in most games. Probably because games quickly adopted the concept of characters having "lives".

For what it's worth, the internal filename for the fainting sound is named POKE_DEAD.

Legendary Silke

You like dragons?

Seen December 23rd, 2021
Posted April 22nd, 2020
5,925 posts
12.5 Years
KO is what's intended. Fainting is what's intended. It's been like that since the beginning. Using "kill" doesn't make sense when it's an entirely separate concept. So I always avoid using "kill" when it isn't what's happening.

miltankRancher

Mega Ampharos is the one.

Age 28
Male
Philippines
Seen June 11th, 2014
Posted September 7th, 2013
3,947 posts
13 Years
Kill is to violent a word. I always use "defeated". Well, since I am a Filipino, I use my mother tongue's version which is "natalo." Trashed is also a good word.

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Age 97
Shimoda City
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Posted January 25th, 2022
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15.5 Years
"Kill," "Annihilate," "Dismember," "Destroy,"...
Yeah, I can get pretty brutal with that sort of thing :P

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Age 25
Female
In the united states
Seen September 8th, 2012
Posted December 1st, 2011
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13.9 Years
KO I really despise the Idea of killing something.
Age 30
Female
United States (EST)
Seen May 14th, 2018
Posted June 21st, 2016
153 posts
12 Years
I always said "kill" as I was growing up, probably because all the games I played always used that term. However, since I want to get into competitive battling I think I should start using KO. Besides to be it sounds cooler :P

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