So much confuse
I have no clue what the meta is. Apparently double battles are a thing now? I’m so confused either way. No more competitive Pokemon :c Turns out school projects make everything less fun.
Bye Bye GG anyways. Been a fun run.
X and Y
What battling is like and why it’s going to hard to not make it boring
i’m going to be honest: battling is boring when you’re watching someone play. It’s only fun to people who are playing. How am I ever going to get people to enjoy it if the school keep blocking the servers. I’m trying to come up with something more creative but ’tis quite impossible. Oh well. I guess power-points are fun.
The Importance of Using Items and (Not) Being Earnest.
Items are some of the most important factors to a set. Not just moves : THE ITEMS. If you don’t use the right item, you end up wasting a pokemon. For example if you have a Phyiscally Offensive unit that dies easily due to low hp or defense as a tradeoff for speed and attack, don’t give it leftovers, an item that recovers HP, it’ll just get fat and die anyways. So yeah Items are important.
No one likes someone who is indecisive. Same thing doesn’t go for Pokemon. “Should I switch out? Should I Stay in?” It’s actually quite good to switch out constantly as long as you clear the entry hazards. This is because your Pokemon set might be specific to countering one Pokemon or another as such, stay frosty and stay awake: Switch out if you see the cost advantage.
Because you should NEVER battle with a Magikarp. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Srsly.
Battling is hard.
Yes, Yes it is. After playing a few games, I realized just how out of practice I was. Doing this project, I thought I could actually get better. I realize now that when one does anything for a school project, it takes some of the joy out of the thing itself. Still I tried battling some one the best on Pokemon Showdown and Pokemon Online. Devastation defeats all round for me…
The Smog
There’s a web magazine for Pokemon out there, its called The Smog. Its on the Smogon site. This thing is chalked full of competitive battling goodness as well as other less serious business articles. Go check it out.
Why is a new generation important?
A new generation is important simply because it changes the whole metagame by introducing new pokemon, moves, mechanics, and many other nuances to the previous metagame. An example was the recent release of Pokemon Black 2 and White 2, which added new moves to existing Pokemon as well as introduced restricted Pokemon such as Genesect and Kyurem’s two forms. The new, old, Pokemon added a whole new dimension to the current metagame. Both Genesect and Kyurem-B were set in the OU tier, putting Genesect as the most used Pokemon in OU, and dethroning Scizor for the first time in years.
I’m actually pretty excited for a new metagame, the current BW2 metagame is so weather focused that the variety of teams has diminished as people attempt to make the cosmos work in their favor. Every Pokemon battle is filled with blistering heat, floods, sandstorms, and hail.
Pokemon X and Y : Pokemon Generation 6
This morning, a new version of Pokemon was announced. The new game comes out in October 2013, it will be called Pokemon X and Y. Check out the trailer:
This is relevant because it will bring in new Pokemon to the metagame. Seeing as Pokmon Gen5 changed smashed the metagame and drowned it in rain, I’d love to see how Gen6 will change the face of Competitive Pokemon.
Weirdly enough, this game is much ahead of schedule. Usually a new Generation comes out 3 or so years after its previous generation, but Gen6 is coming a mere year after Gen5. Strange…
On a side note doesn’t that deer X legendary look like the forest god from Princess Mononoke?
UPDATE:
They came out with names for the legendaries as well as new pictures.
Xerneas
Yveltal
And the names of the new starter Pokemon have been released for quite some time. Here they are:
They are called Chespin, Fennekin, and Froakie respectively.
Also they stopped using sprites in game, which means it’s going to be harder to create sprite based emulators 😦 aww.
Battles.
I was going to save the logs, but it was bugged and none of the logs saved. My team was really outdated. A few of my better opponents laughed at my team. Seems like there’s a lot more work to do. Had to use my old computer. The new computer didn’t have any of my teams. My old computer overheated.
Also Kyurem-B: so bad.
This is just a short post for a check up of the actual battling I’m doing.
Smogon University
With that basic information, you can probably now graduate from little kiddy battling and enroll in Smogon University. Smogon is the home of incredible game analysis. With their help, and through reading their forums, you can learn from many of the best competitive Pokemon gamers. This website also holds the Pokemon StrategyDex, which is a large collection of well crafted sets for competitive play, an example of such a page would be like the one from my first post. hark back to: Hello World which has an analysis of Abomasnow that I cited off Smogon’s StrategyDex. You can see how useful it is. Smogon’s community head has also been the ones who determine the tier for competitive battling, making them the go to place for information on new Pokemon, or new content, such as BW2‘s changed movepools and new Pokemon. Definitely check out Smogon; you will learn competitive much faster that way. Visit the Simulator, or the StrategyDex, read the Smog, the web magazine for competitive battling.
Flyin’ Free
Terms and Stuff
Basically I’m going to define some of the terms that I didn’t define. So here goes:
Tiers:
- OU – Over Used: this tier is the main tier that people battle in.
- UU – Under Used: This tier is one level under the OU Tier.
- RU – Rarely Used: This tier is under the UU tier.
- NU – Never Used: This tier is under the NU tier.
- LC – Little Cup: This tier is about having not evolved tiny Pokemon at level 5 or 100 and battling with them
- Ubers – This is the big league where all the pokemon banned in OU are used
- BL – Border Line: Not really a tier… I don’t even.
Others:
- STAB: Same-Type Attack Bonus — Adds 50% base attack to moves of the same typing as your Pokemon, e.g. Fire type moves to fire type Pokemon.
- Set Up: Usually referring to using Stat boosting moves, or any moves that don’t do damage but gets you ready for a strategy or attack. example: “Set up ‘swords dance’ on Lucario” This refers to using the attack boosting move “swords dance” to increase the attack stat.
- Entry Hazards: Deals damage based on % hp when Pokemon are sent out. These are induced by moves: Spikes [3 layers (stacks 3 times) : layer 1: 1/8th hp; layer 2: 3/16th hp; layer 3: 1/4th hp. (only effects grounded {not flying type or levitating} Pokemon], Stealth Rock [Rock Affinity(deals damage as a rock attack upon entry): 1/8th hp, x2/x4 for super effective x1/2 \ x1/4 for not effective ], Toxic Spikes [poisoned, Two layers: layer 1: normal poison; layer 2: Badly Poisoned]
- Stat Boosting Move: Moves that increase Stats including evasion and accuracy. You can have 6 deviations of the stat adding 50% to the stat or decreasing the stat by an awkward number (-1 = 2/3 of the stat remains -2 = 2/4 ; -3 = 2/5 etc)
- Weather Teams: Teams that depend on induced weather conditions.
- Examples:
- Hail Team (Abomasnow in OU as the hail inducer with the Snow Warning Ability; loses 6.25% hp each turn not ice)
- Sandstorm Team ( Tyranitar, Hippowdon in OU as Inducers with Sand Stream; Lose 1/16th (8.25%) hp each turn not rock, ground, steel. 50% special defense for rock types)
- Rain Team ( Politoed as Ou as inducer with drizzle, Kyogre in Ubers as inducer; boosts water moves by 50%)
- Sunny Day team ( Groudon in Ubers, Ninetales and Vulpix in OU; boosts by 50% fire type moves)
Obviously these aren’t the only terms that could be unknown to people who don’t play. However, at the moment I can’t think of them so you’ll just have to stick whatever.
“Oh, Ash! You haven’t done a thing all day!” – Misty
“I’m too weak to work, Misty. I haven’t eaten since breakfast.” -Ash Ketchum
(Unfinished Post)
The Competitive Pokemon ISP 