Recent content by Cobalt Empoleon

Yeah La Primera is fine. 'First', along with related words like 'premier' and 'prime', has long held implications of supremacy as well as ordinality. We talk about 'first place' in competitions even when they aren't time-based and 'first class' even when the other classes aren't sequenced behind...

:rs/magcargo: :rs/sneasel: :rs/murkrow: :rs/crobat: :rs/tyranitar: I'm making use of the winner's advantage to get in quickly Who's more comfortable descending into darkness than a spelunker? This trainer's first partner was a Larvitar, which hollowed out new caves for them to explore by...

In what way does the RBY AI cheat?

The AI doesn't cheat in Stadium. I just asked Werster on his livestream (where he's speedrunning Stadium lol) and he confirmed it doesn't. It has the usual Pokemon AI trait where it knows your Pokemon's stats and therefore how much damage all its moves will deal, but I assume we're not counting...

Clearly it depends on the specialist type and whatever specific Pokemon is chosen to counter that type (hence, not "inherently" easier). If you're imagining a scenario where the specialist type has too many weaknesses to cover with secondary types and the player's offensively-inclined Pokemon...

I don't think monotype trainers are inherently easier than trainers without a type specialisation in casual play. If you play on Switch mode (or, in SV, if you don't actively rebel against it being forced on you) then trainers with a diverse roster are at least as easy as type specialists...

As the resident chess team aficionado I think I'd go with: -Corviknight as the rook for the same reason I made Honchkrow my rook (corvid pun) -Rapidash as the knight, because horsey :) (maybe Kantonian to cover Steel-types and the Ice weakness shared by our Poison mons) -the pawn is tricky; from...

It's a massive problem with how they've handled most of the super mechanics (a discussion that I'm sure everyone's sick of haha). In attempting to force a climactic moment against the opponent's Mega/Tera/Dynamax, the devs have achieved the opposite, giving the player both a supermon of their...

When are we told that? I've never heard this before, so I'm curious to know which character says this.

I don't have any interesting questions or insights, but I wanted to say that this is such an excellent write-up! It made me so much more interested in the Palace as a facility. The targeting oversight really spices things up by adding that little bit of extra player control.

Lots of weird last minute fake-outs from online partners before I got a good attempt. Had a nice team lined up with my Armarouge alongside three Skeledirge, then one of them switched to a Lunala after I'd locked in and another switched to a Zacian? One person in another lobby switched their...

:ss/accelgor: :ss/ferrothorn: :ss/greedent: :ss/obstagoon: :ss/nidoking: :ss/nidoqueen: There's more than one way to poison an ecosystem! My team's all about invasive and noxious species, and since we're in Galar, there's a focus on the United Kingdom. :accelgor: @ Focus Sash Ability: Unburden...

Idk I kinda like the melodrama of the Elite Four being this weird sequestered group of the most powerful trainers who just sit around in separate rooms waiting for challengers, like there's something fun and nonsensical about the theatre of it all. In early gens, they might as well be gods the...

I had a similar thought with the 7 evolutionary families found on Exeggutor Island in USUM (I initially miscounted and thought there were 6), but this is much neater! Lots of strong submissions this round. Based on other posts, it seems like people wanted to see strong Grass associations with...

Yeah I think you can achieve the purpose of Nuzlocke rules (creating a fail state, streamlining the gameplay by preventing you from optimising for nature/IVs) without implementing them exactly. I tend to get demotivated when I lose a battle in a challenge run anyway, so making it an automatic...