Topics

A thread for those of you who smash to share replays of matches -- Online or Offline -- and to just laugh / cry / boast / ponder the meaning of life about your videos.

Guess I can begin with a recent replay of mine from a For Glory match:

Shulk vs Villager, ft. Down Air

I land a spike for my first KO, and go on to win the match.

[Mega Crawdaunt]

Because we all like to imagine what some mega evolutions would look like and the stats / abilities they would have...this thread is here.

To start:

Mega Crawdaunt
- Two claws would be slightly bigger, and would have a star on each claw.
- There would be 2 extra chevron shapes on its chest.
- There would be 2 smaller black markings similar to eyes underneath its eyes.

Stats: 63 HP / 160 Attack / 100 Defense / 100 S.Atk / 70 S.Def / 75 Speed

Go nuts?

So, we've been treated to an absolute feast in terms of the legendaries available in these games. In the Mirage Spots, we have the likes of Lugia and Ho-oh, Dialga and Palkia as well as Tornadus and Thundurus. There are plenty more too!

So, what do you all make of the Mirage Spots and the legendaries available? Do you think there could have been room for a few more that were left out? And, if you are bothered by it, are you excited that most of the legendaries (including Reshiram and Zekrom!) can be shiny?

Personally I am thrilled by the latter, but I do think there was room for a few special legendaries - possibly Shaymin and Darkrai, as a couple of ones I would like to be able to get.

In another way, I very much like the animations of the legendary intros, where the portal opens up and they drop out of it. It looks incredible, I'll be honest.

Granted, it isn't banned yet but whaaaaaa?

Okay this is getting a bit ridiculous. Aegislash just went through the roof, and BAM! Mega Mawile is being suspected.

Personally, I see absolutely no problem with Mega Mawile. It virtually cannot touch Heatran outside of Sucker Punch and the not-so-common-in-my-experience Focus Punch (and Sucker Punch is a free burn really). It's not impossible to stop even after Mega Evolution, and before it...those defensive stats are pathetic.

Though I haven't played OU in a bit but...seriously smogon? This mega, ahead of Mega-Pinsir?

As far as I understand, all you do is swap certain songs with another person. You can swap any song you like with anyone else, and same goes for them too

So it'd be something like:

Song 1 <-> Song 2
Song 3 <-> Song 4

(<-> = swap).

This is (apparently) a good way to listen to songs and music that you wouldn't normally listen to. Of course, being total opposites in music interest probably makes for strange / intriguing swaps.

Go nuts.

(if anyone wants to correct this do tell me what needs fixing)

Interested:

Spriter, GL, bread, Liam, Del, Bad Wolf and Richard and Blaziken

Recommended (recommendations in links):
Gokai Red's Recommendations
GL's Recommendations
Spriter's Recommendations
bread's Recommendations

[Water Elite Four - Spriter]

Water Elite Four - Spriter





I am but one of the Elite Four, but do not underestimate my power. Face the tides, and see your flames dowsed and your earth washed away by my might!

Rules:

-> Format: Single Battle
-> Clauses:
-> Sleep Clause: Only one Pokémon may be put to sleep on the opposing team at a time, excluding Rest.
-> Species Clause: Players cannot have two Pokémon with the same Pokédex number on their teams.
-> Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize, as well as the abilities Sand Veil and Snow Cloak, are not allowed.
-> OHKO Clause: A Pokemon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold.
-> Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any Pokémon that is capable of causing an endless battle is disallowed.

-> I can be re-battled if you fail to win, but only once a day (to clarify, you can not rebattle me on the same day after losing, you must wait until the next day to rebattle me, and from then on it is once a day).

Banlist:

-> Arceus
-> Blaziken
-> Darkrai
-> Deoxys (Attack and Normal formes)
-> Dialga
-> Genesect
-> Gengarite
-> Giratina (both formes)
-> Groudon
-> Ho-oh
-> Kangaskhanite
-> Kyogre
-> Kyurem-W
-> Lucarionite
-> Lugia
-> Moody (Ability)
-> Mewtwo
-> Palkia
-> Rayquaza
-> Reshiram
-> Shaymin (Sky forme)
-> Swagger (Move)
-> Xerneas
-> Yveltal
-> Zekrom

Information:
-> My signature Pokémon is Politoed.
-> Showdown Name: Spriter GYM2 (used to use this for the original and now-defunct gym challenge)
-> In-game availability: No
-> Availability: Usually 3PM - 10PM on weekdays, 12PM - 11PM on weekends.

Good luck, challengers!

Win : Loss Ratio: 4 : 1

This is my trade shop, basically. I have mainly Egg Move Pokémon for now, but that may well change in future. I know the IVs aren't great right now, but the Egg Moves are the main thing

I will also have a friend from elsewhere help me out with the shop.

Anyways, onto the shop.

I have just a few right now, but here:


Skrelp
Nature: Calm
Ability: Poison Point
IVs: range from x/x/31/x/x/x to x/x/x/31/31/31
Egg Moves: Toxic Spikes (will add Toxic Spikes and Play Rough soon)


Swirlix
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Sweet Veil / Unburden
IVs: either 31/x/x/x/x/31 or x/x/x/31/x/31
Egg Moves: Belly Drum + Copycat


Spiritomb
Nature: Careful / Quiet / Brave / Lonely (will breed more Careful)
Ability: Pressure / Infiltrator
IVs: will specify later
Egg Moves: Pain Split + Destiny Bond


Pichu
Nature: Any
Ability: Static
IVs: will specify later
Egg Moves: Volt Tackle
UNAVAILABLE

There will certainly be more little blighters on their way, but this is it for now. Enjoy?

do not message me about details of Pokemon when they are IN THE SHOP, please.

[Single battle]

"Over the years, steel can rust, similar to how my skills have become rusty. However, don't let that fool you! My defenses are solid, my attacks are razor-sharp and my will is unbreakable! If you're interested, I can teach you a lesson about what perseverance really means!"

- Rules -

Battle type: Single battle
Number of Pokemon: 6
Mega Evolutions: Allowed
Clauses: Sleep Clause, OHKO Clause, Species Clause, Evasion Clause, Moody Clause, Infinite Battle Clause
Medium: Pokemon Showdown
Times Available: These will fluctuate frequently:
Mon-Fri: 7PM-10PM
Sat-Sun: 2PM-10PM

- Banned List -

Arceus, Darkrai, Deoxys (bar Defense and Speed formes), Dialga, Giratina (both Altered and Origin), Groudon, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Kyurem (White), Lugia, Mewtwo, Palkia, Rayquaza, Reshiram, Shaymin (Sky Form), Thundurus (Genie form), Xerneas, Yveltal, Zekrom
Gale Wings
Speed Boost
Kangaskhanite
Gengarite
Blazikenite (Gains Speed Boost upon Mega Evolving)
Weather of all forms is also banned

Important note: Challengers are NOT being accepted at this point in time. I will edit this post when I am ready.

"Anyone who dares to melt my defenses shall be rewarded with the Sturdy Badge!"

I cannot provide an image of a badge, but it shouldn't matter too much.

W / L Record: 3 / 4

Challengers who have succeeded:
Sappy
Richard & Blaziken
ShinyBlaziken2000
JSM

Basically, are there any parts of any song that you absolutely love hearing? A lovely guitar solo? A nice bit of singing?

For me, there's several songs with some parts in that are just...brilliant.

Muse - Knights of Cydonia
When the solo kicks in...dubstep eat your heart out, it is just brilliant.

Metallica - All Nightmare Long
The entire solo plus the bits in between are amazing.

DragonForce - Last Journey Home
About 4:20 into the full version, it changes tone and it sounds amazing. Then at 5:08...just brilliant.

(it's in this sub-forum because it makes sense )

For those who do not know what NaNoWriMo is:

NaNoWriMo is a shortened version of National Novel Writing Month. Every November, novel writers/authors/whathaveyou aim to write 50,000 words in 30 days in any genre.

That's the general gist of it anyways.

So, has anyone started planning or is anyone doing it?

A lot of people have been raving about things like Friend Safari, Horde Encounters, Pokemon Amie, PSS and even the Exp Share mechanic changes, along with other little mechanics.

But what has impressed you in X and Y?

For me, it has to be the Exp share and the Mega Evos. The change to the Exp Share is a game-changer, as once you get, keeping it turned on is a guarantee that you'll never be underlevelled at any point.

Mega Evos wise...Lucario pretty much soloed two gyms despite being underlevelled, thanks to Power-Up Punch + Mega Evolution in the same turn. Mega Charizard X makes me feel like I'm 10, because it's so badass and powerful.

Because it's Friday the 13th, I think it'd be appropriate for this.

Do you have any superstitions? Routine or just things you do anyways?

...I don't have any, so i can't start the topic xD

Because no-one has brought this up yet...probably because it may be a downer of a thread

Do you want to get married? Do you love the idea of wedding? Do you loathe the idea and want to hide away from such a thing?

Personally...

No. I wouldn't just "get married". I'd want to find that perfect person first, but I am not interested until I'm actually financially able to support myself, and then some. It's possibly going to change if I met that person beforehand, so...it's up in the air.

[Stem]

Hey, it's Spriter. I'll be hopefully kicking butt in a Platinum Nuzlocke. I shall provide updates when possible, but in a more playthrough sort of style instead of a story.

You all know the rules. Ok, fine, rules:
- When one pokemon faints, it shall be boxed forever
- I can only catch the first encountered pokemon on any given route. Gift pokemon count for cities and such.
- Shinies are exempt from all rules, so I can catch it if I've caught something already. It will be boxed should it faint though, of course.

Now:

- Started with a character called Quiet (does anyone get the reference?).
- Barry was an idiot and forgot stuff and fined me for no reason.
- Obtained a lovely Turtwig who I forgot to nickname...
- Docile natured, but I shall call him Stem!
- Beat Barry. He's a bit naive and easy to beat I guess.
- Now, the adventure begins! Well, when he stops following me like a puppy. Oh, wierd guy in Lake Verity...but I know who he is, he's Cyrus because I can see the future!


Stem
Lv6 - Docile

[The Overview:]

I would like to present to you all a team I threw together for the Pokemon Online equivalent to Smogon's RU tier, LU. I studied which sets, which pokemon and what teams were used in the LU metagame before I delved into making my team.

The Overview:



The Team:

@
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Leaf Storm
- Thunderbolt
- Trick

Rotom-C is my scarfer. Why? It offers great coverage between just two moves, decimating Kabutops, Lanturn, Moltres, Omastar, Krookodile and Scyther. Volt Switch is a great momentum builder, as it allows me to constantly switch between Scyther and Rotom-C to wear down the oppsoing team, which opens up Entei to sweep with Extremespeed. Leaf Storm is ridiculously powerful, and is a decent "QUICK, DESTROY IT!" move. Thunderbolt offers good power when I am sure Thunderbolt can finish the opponent off in a few turns. Trick gives problems to Lanturn, Sandslash and generally any other spinner or wall, stopping them from doing their job well. EV Spread is standard, max speed for speed and max S.Attack for power.

@
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SDef
Nature: Calm
- Stealth Rock
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Ice Beam

Claydol is vital, as it offers the best indirect support for Scyther: removing Stealth Rock. Rapid Spin gives Scyther a chance to take neutral hits in order to 2HKO things. It also rids my team of Spikes damage, and can prevent Ferroseed's Leech Seed from sapping my health. SR is SR, allowing me to do 50% to Moltres before even touching it and is good to help Scyther get KOs. Earthquake is STAB, to harm things like Lanturn, Entei or anything not immune or resistant to it. Ice Beam is useful in order to hit Tangrowth for 40-47% damage, and to hit stray Flying-types. EVs are there to allow it to sponge various special attacks.

@
Trait: Volt Absorb
Nature: Calm
EVs: 40 HP / 252 Def / 216 SDef
- Scald
- Ice Beam
- Volt Switch
- Heal Bell

Lanturn is amazing. It serves as a rather bulky cleric that can dish out damage on almost everything. Scald is a great STAB attack, giving it the 30% chance to inflict a burn and thus chip damage on things like Slowking, Ferroseed, Lilligant, Manectric, Scyther and more. Camerupt and Entei don't like the move much either. Ice Beam hits Tangrowth and Druddigon for plenty of damage. Volt Switch is fantastic Electric STAB, giving me more momentum, whilst letting me switch into something to check or counter the current pokemon. The EVs are used to give Lanturn great special bulk and decent physical bulk.

@
Trait: Iron Barbs
Nature: Relaxed
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef
- Spikes
- Stealth Rock
- Leech Seed
- Gyro Ball

Ferroseed is very useful, as it has so much use in checking most physical sweepers lacking a fire move for coverage and for certain special attackers. Spikes is very good for damaging Slowking, Tangrowth, Spinners and more for decent damage. Combine this with Stealth Rock, which is great for hurting Moltres and Scyther significantly. Leech Seed is my only way to recover health, and is good to harm Fire-types. Gyro Ball is my way around Sap Sipper pokemon like Bouffalant. It is a good tool against fast pokemon with boosts, like Weak Armor Kabutops. EVs and nature are standard fare, giving it a huge defense stat after the Eviolite boost.

  @
Trait: Pressure
Nature: Adamant
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
- Flare Blitz
- Stone Edge
- Extremespeed
- Sleep Talk

Entei...thrust into the throes of obscurity by its' brethren...Suicune, Raikou, Zapdos...but in LU, it takes on the tier with a powerful STAB fire attack from an event that forces it into being shiny with an Adamant nature. Flare Blitz is strong STAB that dents everything bar bulky waters and some Fire-types. Stone Edge is strong, doing 65-70% to Kabutops on the switchin. Extremespeed is great, bypassing Sucker Punch from Hitmonlee/chan and is powerful enough to sweep teams when they have been sufficiently weakened. Sleep Talk is to go up against Lilligant's Sleep Powder, whilst still being useful and being able to KO it. EVs? No explanation needed.

Lastly:

@ 
Trait: Technician
Nature: Jolly
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
- U-turn
- Aerial Ace
- Brick Break
- Quick Attack

Scyther is a beast. It sweeps teams with Quick Attack, ravages Steel-types with Brick Break, hits hard with Aerial Ace and smashes things with U-turn.
U-turn is the finishing touch to the VoltTurn strategy my team employs to great effect. It smashes Tangrowth, Slowking, Kabutops, Rotom-C and many other things for large damage, and synergises with Lanturn and Mowtom. Aerial Ace is very powerful, knocking powerful attackers and walls out of the skies (teehee), and hits 90 BP before STAB thanks to Technician. Brick Break hits Aggron for large damage, but it is rarely used. Quick Attack is powerful, and gives me sweeping power and revenge killing power. EVs? Bogstandard.

Thanks for reading, i'll mention threats to my team soon as it's late now.

My team has peaked at #62 on the PO LU ladder, which is a huge achievement for me. I am really proud of it, but if I need improvements, please suggest them for me!

Simple. Just make your own pokemon, including level up moves and typing, as well as a description of what it looks like. You could even make a new dex entry for it, or go much further and make a sprite for it!

As a thing to avoid problems, try not to post new moves for your Fakémon, because that sorta thing's for the move thread. If it's exclusive to your new Fakémon, go ahead =)

Otherwise, go nuts!

I may have borrowed the idea from elsewhere, but do to the popularity of the Headdesk thread thing, this could be a hit. Hopefully.

The Rules are very simple, and abiding by them is the wisest thing to do.

1. Type a word or phrase.

2. The person who posts next must type the same word, but with their elbow.

3. If you post it and it is perfect, you may be thought of as typing it with your fingers. Don't. But if you can post with clear words by typing with your elbow, it's fine.

4. After you have typed with your elbow, post a word for another person.

And no backspacing

And so on and so on.

I'll start:

Quadrilateral

[Name:]

Name: Ryan Rosstone

Age: 14 (Birthdate: 7/11/1997)

Gender: Male

Starting Region: Unova

Description:

He is 5' 7 in height. He weighs around 65kg, but thinks that he is somewhat fat due to his large appetite. He has dark brown, small-spiked hair that somehow improves his morale when he admires it in the mirror, giving him a good reason to hate hair-cuts. His face consists of medium-toned peachy skin, deep and piercing green eyes, a thin but short nose after a fall pushed his once long nose upwards. His lips are thin and lightly-coloured, which conceal almost whitened teeth, healthy ones at that.

He loves to wear his grey-black shirt that has a picture of Alder and his Bouffalant with the phrase "Unovan Glory" underneath it. His body is very healthy with toned peachy skin. He has comparably thinner arm muscles due to being born with a non-threatening type of muscle dystrophy, but has very healthy leg muscles. His legs are, as stated just, healthy and his feet are also quite fine.

Personality: He is very determined to win the Unovan conference to make him feel true and living. He has been known to be very helpful and intelligent, which causes him to try and take control of any situation he can, but usually messes up quite epically. He does, however, keep full composure under pressure. That has helped him escape tense situations in the past, and continues to do so now. When around a pretty girl, he still keeps perfect composure around her, but can slip up at the wrong times, i.e acting snobby which he normally doesn't. Through his current travels, he has developed a sense of slight rush and impatience.

He loves Grass and Flying Pokémon which explains why he likes walking through forests. He likes music with some form of guitar / country music playing, and also plays the acoustic guitar on his trips through forests. He attracts Pokémon when he plays, and has a close bond with these Pokémon. He also has a unique ability to tame Pokémon with his music. He hates certain spiders(e.g. Black and Red patterned Tarantulas), but loves colourful ones(e.g. Blue, Yellow, Green, Orange or Silver patterned Tarantulas) which explains why he likes Joltik and Galvantula.

History:

He lives with his mom, Elena and used to live with his dad, Joey, who died soon after arriving in Unova due to a heart attack. He grew up happy, enjoying all the trips he was taken on, including most notably, Zoo visits. His fondness for colourful spiders was dangerous at times, as he was bitten by at least four, fortunately, non-poisonous exotic spiders. He also came close to being bitten by a black widow, but he killed it before it did. When he was 12, he went out with a girl called Zepha, who moved away from him to Hoenn when he was in Sinnoh.He has experienced many forms of bullying in the past, which have caused his anger to explode in powerful bursts, but has learned to control it when he started to learn about Pokémon at Professor Rowan's Universal Pokémon School. He became inspired to become a Pokémon trainer when Alder visited the school. He was denied the chance to start off in Sinnoh on more than 3 occasions, before Alder visited his school. Then his family moved to Unova, where his Father died. Professor Juniper has since said that she will let him go on a journey through Unova when the time is right...

In the past 3 months, he found two Pokémon eggs in the forest he occasionally visited. He had no idea who-or what-had left the eggs there. After 5 short weeks, a week before he would go to the lab, they hatched into an Eevee and a Tangela, who have used their moves to help around his home, i.e. Vine Whip to move things, Iron Tail to cut things, which cemented their position as family helpers. He will, however, be taking them both with him. He plans to evolve them both into a Leafeon and Tangrowth respectively.

Friends and Enemies:

Friends:
Adam Winters
Joshua Rose
Michael Edwards
Thomas Tramp

Enemies:

Pokémon:

@ Chesto Berry
Gender: Male
Nature: Quiet
Moves: Tail Whip / Tackle / Iron Tail / Shadow Ball / Leaf Blade
Description: It willingly helps out around Ryan's home, cutting things and cleaning things up, but is very quiet, usually snuggling up in Ryan's bed. It loves to eat when it can, but otherwise, doesn't mind anything else. Apart from water, which it drinks, but hates to be around. In fact, if it spys a puddle, it immediately ducks behind a tree or bush. This is because it almost drowned in it's younger years, and still remembers the incident. It evolved into Leafeon during a battle against Virizion, learning Leaf Blade and eventually defeating Virizion.

@ Yache Berry
Nature: Bashful
Gender: Female
Moves: Vine Whip / Tackle / Leech Seed / Sleep Powder
Description: It usually shys away from most people, and if it doesn't, it gets all embarrased and shy, and makes a fool of it's self. It loves helping when it can, and also likes water, which scares Eevee when it messes around with it, which rarely happens due to it being bashful.


Nature: Careful
Gender: Male
Moves: Tackle / Pound / Growl / Tail Slap
Description: It enjoys cleaning up anything that is dirty, but takes a lot more care than usual when standing up in battle, which can slow it down. It is young and needs a good trainer to raise it. It enjoys being cleaned as do many Minccino, but also likes to be dirty so it can clean itself more. It was defeated in it's first battle against Josh and Oshawott.


Nature: Rash
Gender: Female
Moves: Snarl / Growl / Scratch / Assist
Description: It is a rather Rash pokemon, and is quite devious. It's physical strength is quite bad, but it's excellent ability to use Snarl makes up for it, just about.


Nature: Adamant
Gender: Male
Moves: Ancientpower / Wide Guard / Aqua Jet / Crunch
Description: It is rather new to the team, but isn't yet comfortable with Ryan. It does have some very powerful moves to use, like Crunch and Aqua Jet. It has managed to use its' Ancientpower attack to great effect on many occasions.


Nature: Gentle
Gender: Female
Known Moves: Shadow Sneak / Psychic
Description: Ryan caught this Pokemon when a group of Ghost Pokemon, a Volcarona and a Terrakion attacked Ryan and his friends. It attempted to attack him, but later decided to accept Ryan as a friend. Not much as known about her.


Key Items:
Journal - To record what he has done every day of his usual life.

Bag - Provided to carry whatever he wishes, bought for him a week before his starter choosing at the lab.

Pokédex - To view data on any Pokémon inside of Unova.

Badges:


The Trio Badge

The Basic Badge