Recent content by Hugin

First off, I agree, keep it to top 5. I'm also in the boat of "vote yourself", since there's no mechanism in place to stop it, and unilateral disarmament is usually not a good plan. Besides, I like my teams and think they should win. :) I was surprised not to see more people doing what I did...

One of the things about Pokemon that's odd is that losing isn't either free or a game over. In some RPGs, if you lose, you just die. And the game is built with that expectation in mind, you're expected to save often in multiple slots and the game rarely if ever keeps you from leaving an area to...

SwSh leaders are plenty hard if the player bans Dynamax. Otherwise, yeah, paper-thin. My thing with leaders is that...hard isn't what I'd want from them. I want leaders that force the player to learn something about the game. Type matchups are something, but not just that. Give one leader a...

I'm shocked we never got a generic "STAB Beam" of some sort that just matches your primary type and has ~80 BP. We went like 3 gens where Hidden Power was the best STAB some types got and there's still occasional weird mons that are desperate for at least one of their two STABs(not to mention...

Rob, Oppress, Chase, Kill, Extort, Terrify! I mean, it's still bad and cringe, but at least it makes some sense. And since it's just a list of crimes/bad actions, you could do something like this in every language and get roughly the same result, even if individual crimes vary wildly. There's no...

I'm sure, like a lot of things, it was just the designers trying things to see what works. Specifically, though, what it let them do gameplay-wise is give the player a choice that opens certain areas and closes others, each with unique rewards. Given how much Hoenn leaned into backtracking...

I'm pretty sure that route specifically is why my "Rebalance all HMs to be interesting in-and-out-of-battle" fix would be to turn Rock Climb into "Go up ledges" instead of "climb specific walls". Jagged Pass (Hoenn, below Mt Chimney) is an example of how this works in practice, where it's...

I call this team "Volkner needed to commit to the bit." 5 electric types, led by a mon that gets an electric-type alternate form(I refuse to try to make Pichu work ESPECIALLY in a gen without Eviolite). Standard lead Golem, physical priority Raichu, the standard annoying Pachirisu, Luxio to set...

No problem, as I said, I know there's a LOT of things to handle with this sort of thread. It feels like Dark is the type with the clearest "off-type" associations. The numbers don't necessarily reflect that, but the designated "evil types" being Dark/Poison/Ghost, the number of mons that got a...

The interesting thing isn't the look or a specific puzzle, the interesting thing is that every time you come back to it, your abilities mean the layout is different and there's more to explore. It goes from a tiny tunnel with a couple of minor off-shoots to a massive cave system that connects...

I'm not listed in the poll. Error on your part or did I screw up Pokemon eligibility? (If it is an error, it happens. There's a lot of moving parts in this thing and errors get made. I get if you don't have time to remake the poll with having plans tonight etc.)

I love that, for all the hate it gets, no one is debating Hoenn. Because yeah, it's just good. The first 5 gyms are a legitimately fun pathfinding experience, and post-surf the game is all about letting you decide how much or how little you want to explore the water routes. There's issues, sure...

Have you ever been in a truly dark cave? Some people can't handle it, the silence, the utter lack of light. Their mind invents monsters to be afraid of, just so there's something to see. Me? I know what lives in the deepest reaches of the earth. My mind doesn't need to invent monsters. This...

I think this demonstrates different types of weak enemy AI problems. Larry using E!Revelation Dance despite Lightning Rod is a complex issue to solve. That specific edge case might be fixable, but there's 900+ moves, 300+ abilities, and lots of weird edge cases. Programming to avoid all of them...

Galvantula was on my team for a while, but I swapped it for the other spider(technically for Durant, but eventually for Araquanid). Also props to the one Umbreon, that's an obvious pick that everyone else including me overlooked. I was also expecting to see a few teams with Nidorina+Nidoking or...