Recent content by Cobalt Empoleon

Yeah I think it'd be easier to guarantee Electric attack spam by Skill Swapping Motor Drive onto an Electric-weak mon in a double battle, like the Ace Trainer double on the fog route. Gym trainers are an option too, provided their AI is good enough and their mons only have weak non-Electric...

Ah thank you haha, but I didn't mean that as a request; don't change your team planning on my account! If I really want to know I'll just go find my Platinum cartridge.

As far as I've been able to tell, the Gen 4 AI has a problem with Dry Skin specifically (I think I've mentioned it in another thread way back). Most immunity abilities only seem to bait them once, but they just keep trying with Dry Skin if a Water attack is their strongest attack and/or their...

Johto has several locations where you have to traverse the same area multiple times in order to fully clear them, not for a fun reason (e.g. secret side areas you can't access the first time round; they gain story significance later on in the game; etc.) but just because of ledges and holes...

Yeah Brine is fine as a level-up move for Prinplup alongside Surf (it's fun to occasionally nuke something that would've otherwise gone into heal range) but you won't often get a chance to use it properly in a casual setting, so as a TM it's likely to collect dust. I really like the concept though.

DP and BDSP are always tricky! :swsh/kricketune: :swsh/luxray: :swsh/chimecho: :swsh/raichu: :swsh/chatot: :swsh/pachirisu: This trainer is the big boss of all Guitarists, pulling off an absolute face-melter with their sound-focused team. It's your classic super fragile pairwise doubles...

It's true that the player is given more visual representations of Mt Lanakila's stature then Mt Coronet's, but to me it feels like less of a mountain when you actually climb it because most of the vertical movement is done via elevator screen transition. Mt Coronet's HM requirements have been...

Something that irks me a little about Megas and Z-moves (and Eternamax Eternatus specifically) is how they affect stat and move trivia. It's annoying that almost every list of the strongest moves by type needs a little "*excluding Z-moves" disclaimer, and while there's nothing strictly wrong...

Not available in Johto without trading, unfortunately! I think I'll just end up doing Jumpluff SubSeed shenanigans (which is a little boring but w/e)

Recently nabbed a copy of SoulSilver for barely more than retail price (yay) after lending my original copy to a friend in high school a decade ago and never getting it back (boo). To celebrate, I immediately started up a mono-Grass run with all my usual challenge run restrictions (no items in...

I've seen Gardenia activate Flower Gift in her initial Platinum battle (she has Cherrim instead of Cherubi and leads with a Sunny Day Turtwig) but yeah it's not a common occurrence.

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...