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Friend A: Smogon+Showdownfag. Spent 3 days breeding protean Froakies and dragonpulse Squirtles. Have never seen him use Megablastoise though, presumably because he realized what he was doing. Has a Sylveon named FleshRibbons.
Friend B: Level 75 18 hours after release. Has since swapped over to his mainstay Monster Hunter again.
Friend C: KHfag. Hasn't played since early gen2. Only catches things he thinks "look cool." Subsequently whines and bitches when he loses to in-game trainers because he's using horrible pokemon for things they aren't good at. Only uses attack moves. Consequently swaps out his entire team for every in-game trainer, just in order to get by. Once spent 3 hours raging at an NPC because its Sawk kept oneshotting everything he had. After much restarting, finally killed the Sawk, only to be taken down by the npc's second mon. Was incredibly pissed when he found out you had to face the Elite 4 all in one go (apparently forgot about this from his gen2 days). I spent 3 days trying to explain the typechart to him, and why he should stop using a talonflame against rhyhorns, etc. Thought Ice was a recently added type, and that they added types every gen.
Friend D: Thought an All Legendary Moves Smeargle is both A. completely unheard of, and B. the rapetrain personified. Made his girlfriend buy the other version so he could steal her megastones. I think she's at the 3rd or so gym, with a party of cutemons. Obligatory pikachu.
Friend E: Does not play pokemon, is fairly butthurt that so many of the people he knows are playing something he has no experience with. Repeatedly joins pokemon conversations intentionally "mistakenly" talking about some other monster-based game e.g. "Oh, well if you need a dragon, you should try Greymon." "Did you remember to set a trapcard first?" "My favorite psychic type is Suezo"
Talks a lot about "ludonarrative dissonance."
