You're facing an opponent that could likely destroy you with a super-effective attack, but instead they use a move that you resist (like using a Dark-type attack against a Lucario), or can't hit you (like a Normal or Fighting-type attack against a Ghost-type), or do something else unproductive. How do you react?
A. Haha, you suck!
B. As questionable as it is, I won't complain!
C. I don't know if I should be glad that happened or not.
D. *shakes head in disappointment*
There's something about the AI in the games that just bug me. There are really times that they go so random because of some AI programming quirks. This was very common in the Gen 1 and 2 games where the AI is really primitive and makes questionable plays that leave itself to lose, even on circumstances that I shouldn't smack them that hard, such as the Blue's Arcanine using growl instead of just spamming its STABs or his Alakazam using Recover or Light screen instead of spamming Psychic. On the other hand, this was way less common in other games such as in Platinum where the AI actually spams whatever moves that worked and the only time the AI does fail miserably hard with its good use of moves is that those said moves have shaky accuracy, such as Cynthia's Garchomp using Dragon Rush and suddenly missing.
Some random regular trainer (read: not an important battle) comes out and sweeps at least half your team, whether it be to lots of bullshit hax or bad match-ups. How do you react?
A. That was really painful. I'm better than this…
B. Was I just not prepared for that and really caught off-guard?
C. Man, this is turning out tough.
D. I like it when my Pokémon faint. I'm a masochist. BRING IT ON!
I hate it when my team gets heavily damaged by some youngster or grunt or whatever especially when most of the KOs that happened where because of my misplays and hax. I get really pissed when the only reliable move i have for damage still has shaky accuracy and suddenly my Ace gets KO'd because its Sky Uppercut or Blaze Kick missed. However, I like it when the Ace Trainers are actually tough opponents because aren't they Ace trainers? Platinum had these Ace trainers with 1 but really strong pokemon that really caught me off-guard though.
You're nearing time to face a Gym Leader who your team is very disadvantaged against (say, you're doing a Monotype and in front of a Gym that your team is weak to). You…
A. grind the living snot out of your team so you can win.
B. look for something else you can find that might be able to help you.
C. try to evaluate and look for some interesting strategy you can use.
D. so don't care and YOLO it!
I love using strategies especially with my self established rules of no use of healing items during trainer battles clause, and Set battle mode. I love it when things become really interesting on my part and i get to discover ways to have fun with the games, not just smash whatever was in my way.
You're playing a Nuzlocke with tough extra rules (like, say, no bag items in battle with Set mode, or a Wedlocke), and are a fair bit into the game, like 4 or 5 badges or so, and have had no deaths. How do you feel?
A. Man, i'm really thankful that nothing has died! I hope it stays this way!
B. I guess things have just gone really well?
C. Well, I guess things are gonna get harder from here…
D. This is not enough! I want something to die already!
I do my best efforts to make sure i go through these tough challenges whether i'd be documenting them or just playing for practice.
Someone completes a Nuzlocke or Wedlocke that you've been following, but they finish with deaths in the double digits. You…
A. wish they had done way better than they did.
B. think they just really had a hard time, whether it be to inexperience, tough luck, or opposition they didn't have many answers to.
C. claim that things could have gone worse for them.
D. were rooting for those deaths (but don't want to admit it).
I remember ProJared's Fire Red Nuzlocke and his battle against the champion. A lot of his pokemon who were obliterated by the champ's Gyarados could have not died if he was making the right plays. I know that he himself prevented the use of healing items in battle.
You take on a Champion, or any notable fight, that most people tend to view as easy, like Alder, Challenge Mode Iris, or ORAS Steven (or even Diantha or Normal Mode Iris). It comes down to the wire and you only have one or two Pokémon left, but you manage to win. You…
A. are not satisfied and wish you had less fainted Pokémon.
B. wish that your team had more answers to their strong Pokémon.
C. find that your team generally wasn't prepared but are still happy you won.
D. feel glad that you were able to have such a close fight.
ORAS Steven was 2easy? I thought he was a big step up from RSE Steven with the huge improvements to his mons, though his post Delta lineup is kinda questionable. Also, all of those champions i took on Set battle mode because as I've said it a million to trillion times before, these people who viewed these notable trainers as "easy mode" was making it too easy on themselves by playing on Switch to have an easy counterpick and item spamming, which i highly dislike. Also Iris was a lot of fun. It was pretty challenging because of her lead, a Hax-hydreigon who wants to be like Ghetsis' but not really, and her lineup has a couple of fast heavy hitters, not to mention her Lapras has a great moveset.
This is a question that I kind of asked in that aforementioned thread I made, but i'll ask it again here: when it comes to Let's Players, YouTubers or other challengers documenting their plays, you find yourself most entertained by important battles that turn out to be…
A. won without the player losing any Pokémon.
B. successful but nearly perfect for them.
C. fights that have good amounts of success and luck on both sides.
D. very close fights that really come down to the wire.
As i said before, I hate it when these let's players item spam and say that the battle was 2easyGG. I know there are lets players who have done underleveled champion battles and won but most of them just item spammed revives and restores. Sure the champion has Full Restores but it doesn't have revives. It doesn't matter with levels. Levels are nothing if you, the player, have the super high advantage of spamming Max Revives and Regular Revives while the AI only has a limited number of FRs. Really...
The only time i did agree on an item spam on someone's lets play is a lets play on most Fan made pokemon games where the difficulty level of these games are way harder than actual games, and facing extremely unfair conditions such as in Zeta and Omicron where the player would have a final battle against the game's main antagonist, who inb4spoliers the player must face the final time with a team of MAX LEVEL LVL120 Pokemon, with a Mega Gengar on crack (remember, its at level 120), and getting to Lvl120 on Zeta and Omicron is a huge huge grindfest already, even with the access to a ton of leveling tricks.
You're battling the Champion (or Ghetsis in BW) and they're about to use their ace (Garchomp, Dragonite, Hydreigon, etc). You have a Pokémon that could easily destroy it (like a Weavile, Gyarados, or Sawk/Conkeldurr/some Fighting-type respectively), but you have some other crazy gimmick that would be capable of taking it one-on-one, even if it takes a lot of healing or such. You…
A. go right to your main answer to it!
B. try to leave your main answer out for right away, but decide you'll use it if things really don't work out.
C. go to another Pokémon you think can take it.
D. use the silliest gimmick you can just for kicks.
I don't want to be too predictable, and because i battle every champion or final boss on set, i always risk getting heavily crippled against the ace.
Are you keen on (other people) using Pokémon that tend to be unoriginal (i.e. Gyarados in basically any post-Gen III game, Gible in DPPt, Excadrill in Generation V, Lucario in B2W2/XY, the shiny Beldum in ORAS)?
A. Absolutely!
B. I'm not opposed to it, but there are better choices…
C. Maybe if it's for a challenge or something…
D. No thank you! I'm better than that!
I can't blame them. Each gen pretty much has its set of really strong in-game mons such as Gen 1's Persian or Snorlax or Starmie (hell just everyone of them, and also starting the game as Squirtle), I forgot who was strong for in-game runs in Gen 2 since G2 Johto is so laughably undereleveled until the Elite 4 that everyone just feels like a powerhouse. But yeah there are times that these powerhouses are better seen in some competitive wifi or battle simulators than some in-game runs that the player still makes it easy for him/her (lolItemSpamAllthetime)
