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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:12:29 No.22179396 View View Reply Original Report

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Why is /vp/ so bad at competitive? I never see a ranked match with a score over 1500 in replay threads, I always see terrible set suggestions in those threads, and as far as I know, we're not exactly swarming en masse to VGC nationals. Why are we so shit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:13:31 No.22179402 Report

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well yeah, that's the point. I always see "lol I'm 1800 at showdown but I can't prove it"

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:13:54 No.22179407 Report

Quoted By: >>22179410 >>22179432

Silly anon, no one here actually plays Pokemon. We just shitpost and fap to 12 year olds.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:14:47 No.22179410 Report

Quoted By: >>22179448

>>22179407
pokemon*

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:15:39 No.22179417 Report

Quoted By: >>22180877

I guess they just don't care enough, and that's not to say I do. That's why I'm ranked so low. I literally don't care. If I don't think I'll be able to win a game, I just forfeit. If I see a team I don't wanna play? I just forfeit. If my super gimmicky secret strat gets ruined? I just forfeit. I don't care about where I stand on the ladder as long as I can play.

I'm sure people will just say "Lol you're making excuses!" and yeah, that is true to an extent, but in the end I feel that's why I'm always so low.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:16:21 No.22179428 Report

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Because I don't give enough shits to ladder in OU. I want to have fun by going to AG and using a team of 6 Whimsicott

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:16:26 No.22179429 Report

Quoted By: >>22179631

>>22179396
I'm pretty sure most come to /vp/ for the giveaways and general autism.

To be honest I have no idea why I'm here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:16:55 No.22179432 Report

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>>22179407
/thread

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:18:07 No.22179448 Report

Quoted By: >>22179457 >>22180668

>>22179410
>implying that was a mistake

Also VGCers tend to make threads when the season is actually up, and even then nobody really talks because nobody wants to tell their secrets and strategies for obvious reasons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:18:10 No.22179449 Report

Quoted By: >>22179494 >>22179571 >>22180170

>>22179396
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-193161374
I'm With No Survivors.
I'm at 1600.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:19:03 No.22179457 Report

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>>22179448
I meant, we fap to pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:24:04 No.22179494 Report

Quoted By: >>22179506 >>22179576

>>22179449
Huh. gj. What an expert's opinion on why /vp/ sucks a bag of mutilated dicks?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:25:13 No.22179506 Report

Quoted By: >>22179517 >>22179532 >>22179576

>>22179494
>expert
>1600

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:25:58 No.22179517 Report

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>>22179506
The one-eyed man is king and all that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:27:49 No.22179532 Report

Quoted By: >>22179576

>>22179506
At /vp/ standards. 1600 is just considered as an expert since more then 80% of vp sucks bags of dicks wen it comes to competitive battles

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:30:27 No.22179543 Report

Quoted By: >>22180987

>>22179396
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-189611678

>1666

Get bent

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:34:02 No.22179571 Report

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>>22179449
lol dummy

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:35:02 No.22179576 Report

Quoted By: >>22183609

>>22179494
My opinion is there are good players on here, but they are scarce. A lot of /vp/ likes to talk exaggeratedly under the original pretense it's humor, but that gets lost along the way and it ends up sounding like we're some group of people collectively ahead of the curve. So basically, stop shitposting as much, because it starts to stick.

>>22179506
>>22179532
1600 isn't expert per se, but it's pretty damn good. I got so mad the other day when people were saying 1600 just means you're not a scrub while 1750 was decent and 1850 was good. 1750 is around top 25 and 1850 is around top 5 on OU. So 1600 (about top 200 or 300) on a site with thousands of players is good. I even played a mod yesterday whose rank was like 1700 something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:38:30 No.22179602 Report

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Because /vp/ lacks experience, a lot of players here started competitive in the middle of the 5th gen, and only play occasionnally.
I started to play seriously in 3rd Gen, and I did a lot of tournaments, and even a smogon world cup but I stopped in the beginning of the 5th gen. Therefore, I guess that good players in /vp/ will start to shine in the end of this gen, based on my own record.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:40:55 No.22179611 Report

Quoted By: >>22179663 >>22179678 >>22181173

>muh numbers better than your numbers
>implying showdownshit even matters when the official format is doubles and doesn't have 500 bans in place to protect baddies who just want to put up rocks all day

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:43:39 No.22179631 Report

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>>22179429
/tr/ainer here.

I know what you mean.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:48:00 No.22179663 Report

Quoted By: >>22179678

>>22179611
OP specifically mentioned VGC.

And you can ladder for VGC on Showdown, too, and I don't see a lot of /vp/oreons ranking high on their, either.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 16:49:38 No.22179678 Report

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>>22179611
>>22179663
Actually OP was talking about competitive in general. So to the first guy, you're nitpicking for no reason.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 17:14:03 No.22179901 Report

Quoted By: >>22180269

>mfw peaked 1700 in XYOU
>server died
>zarel fucked up everything

I'm still mad about this and I'm mad that we still don't have the option for XYOU
Greninja is the cancer of ORAS OU and it takes so much fun out of it since it fucks over teambuilding to such a massive extent now

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 17:28:40 No.22180064 Report

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I only play Ubers seriously, and it's hard to round out a team to counter everything. Never gotten above 1400 myself.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 17:40:21 No.22180170 Report

Quoted By: >>22180248 >>22180302 >>22180792

>>22179449

>dragon tail garchomp

you should have lost that

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 17:49:43 No.22180248 Report

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>>22180170
>he doesn't know about Bulkchomp

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 17:51:45 No.22180269 Report

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>>22179901
>Greninja
kek
>Send out Float Stone Empoleon
>win

Borrego

Borrego Mon 15 Dec 2014 17:54:15 No.22180302 Report

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>>22180170
That is what this guys are meaning. We think we know but we suck a big full bag of black dicks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:02:44 No.22180386 Report

Quoted By: >>22183609

>>22179396
Because the entire board is too busy circlejerking and complaining about "le smogon tyranny" to actually play the game. As someone that's actually voted multiple times, it's especially aggrivating to see people complain about suspects when next to nobody on here even bothers to get to reqs. y'all need to git gud

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:29:00 No.22180668 Report

Quoted By: >>22180927

>>22179448
>tfw no one to teambuild or discuss strategies with and nuggetbridge is full of literal 12 year olds
it hurts ;_;

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:32:13 No.22180704 Report

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>>22179396
because I'm a lazy piece of shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:32:26 No.22180706 Report

Quoted By: >>22180782 >>22180816 >>22183609

>>22179396

I always lurk showdown battles and I sometimes play for up to 6 hours a day and I can never get past a 1400 at my prime.

I'm lucky most days to even hold 1300. I lose to almost any set or gimmick regardless what I myself use or if I know how my opponents team works.

If I can't be even mediocre, I at least wish I could be passionate at something i'm good at instead of this shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:40:34 No.22180782 Report

Quoted By: >>22180803 >>22180858

>>22180706
what kind of teams are you using?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:41:24 No.22180792 Report

Quoted By: >>22180880

>>22180170
>reading comprehension
He was the other guy, not the guy using the Garchomp. This is why /vp/ is shit. Can't read. It all starts an at early age.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:42:54 No.22180803 Report

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>>22180782
6 dunsparce.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:44:06 No.22180816 Report

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>>22180706
As someone who's gotten through 1600, I understand what you're talking about. There are 1600-level players around 1300 and 1400, and sometimes 1300-level players around 1600, it all depends on who you get matched with.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:45:31 No.22180830 Report

Quoted By: >>22180974

>>22179396
because good players hardly browse /vp/ as a whole, let alone post in a replay thread

you're looking in the wrong place

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:48:18 No.22180858 Report

Quoted By: >>22181011 >>22187759

>>22180782

I build a new team pretty much every day because i'm pretty sure i suck at it.

I can never fit everything I feel i need to face an opponent properly on a team.

Most recent failure is this: Diancie @ Diancite
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Mild Nature
- Rock Polish
- Moonblast
- Diamond Storm
- Earth Power

Chesnaught @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 252 HP / 64 Atk / 192 Def
Impish Nature
- Spiky Shield
- Leech Seed
- Spikes
- Drain Punch

Gyarados @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Substitute
- Dragon Dance
- Waterfall
- Crunch

Heatran @ Air Balloon
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Stealth Rock
- Lava Plume
- Flash Cannon
- Taunt

Jirachi @ Light Clay
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 HP / 80 Atk / 144 SpD / 32 Spe
Careful Nature
- Light Screen
- Reflect
- Iron Head
- Healing Wish

Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Rock Tomb
- Earthquake
- Pursuit

sorry I don't keep replays even if I win.

The general idea is to give support with Jirachi so I can set up and sweep with either gyarados or diancie, but even as strong as they are usually my opponents bulk the hit and one shot me back, and in general I never seem to be able to control momentum in a game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:50:36 No.22180877 Report

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>>22179417
That's being bad though. Besides, it'd mean that you're only playing shit players and since you're enjoying yourself down there I'm guessing you're quite shit too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:51:17 No.22180880 Report

Quoted By: >>22181242

>>22180792

Are you retarded? If he was garchomp guy I would say "you deserve that loss" or something. I'm saying he would have lost that if garchomp wasn't using a retarded build.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:55:11 No.22180927 Report

Quoted By: >>22180943 >>22180974

>>22180668

>using the Nugget Bridge forums

The actually good players don't really post on there except to correct the most retarded posts, so what you have is a cesspool of low to mid level players echoing terrible strategies and teambuilding paradigms. If you want to use it as a resource, just stick to reading the published articles or lurk in their irc room.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:56:52 No.22180943 Report

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>>22180927
that's what i was referring to when i said it was full of 12 year olds. anyone can see that by lurking the forums for a few days

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 18:59:21 No.22180974 Report

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>>22180927
>>22180830

I try to watch the top ranked player battle replays on the ladder but i'm getting the feeling that their teams are build to deal with oddly specific things other high level players they know well use, since their tier has a much smaller pool of players.

I'm really considering that watching any more of those battles are a waste of time since their odd teams would likely fail against a low ladder player's.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:00:25 No.22180987 Report

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>>22179543
The other guy got so much hax it's not even funny.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:01:04 No.22180996 Report

Quoted By: >>22181386

>>22179396
Because even when playing competitive my team is still a semi Karen team. I hate gimmick items or using ugly shit mons like Therian Landorus. I'm fine at being around 1400/1500.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:02:38 No.22181011 Report

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>>22180858
>Overgrow Chesnaught
Aw shit nigga, what the fuck are you doing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:14:35 No.22181173 Report

Quoted By: >>22181222

>>22179611

If doubles was meant to be taken seriously then that's the format the game would have you play the story as.

Oh wait that's singles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:17:11 No.22181202 Report

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I'm competitive, but I prefer the TCG scene.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:19:30 No.22181222 Report

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>>22181173
No, they have you play Singles because that's the easiest format that requires the least thought, so even stupid kids can beat it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:20:24 No.22181234 Report

Quoted By: >>22181418 >>22182365

Legit online wise, I go about 50/50. It's hard to do much better than that without spending hours and hours of trivial bullshit to stand up to the army of Japanese NEETlords.

If you're talking about Pokemon Showdown, then I am pretty okay at it. I haven't played too much yet, but most of the battles there are easy as fuck, even when I'm using a randomized team.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:21:02 No.22181242 Report

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>>22180880
If it weren't that defensive build, it would've lost much earlier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:33:57 No.22181386 Report

Quoted By: >>22181467

>>22180996
1400-1500 isn't bad, it's only a bit below the higher skill levels. Comparing yourself to the guys who top the ladder is no way to estimate your ability. I'd say once you're past the trenches of sub-1300 it's just a matter of improving your teambuiding and understanding the flow of a game that you need to work on to climb higher. But I agree, I really struggled to break 1600 and eventually just started trying out other metas for fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:36:13 No.22181418 Report

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>>22181234
I really wish gamefreak would implement a 6v6 mode for BattleSpot. Losing matches because I brought the wrong 3 members of my team gets irritating, but I suppose making the best choice is part of the game too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:39:51 No.22181461 Report

Quoted By: >>22187240

>>22179396
Honestly, I don't mind that /vp/ is shit at competitive. It's unrealistic to expect everyone to be great, and as a philosophy I try very hard not to look down on or make fun of people just starting out and trying to get better at something.

HOWEVER, what I do mind is that it seems like a huge portion of /vp/ develop these retarded-ass opinions about Pokemon and the metagame and shit and are so damn convinced that they're right, despite being clearly inexperienced. I mean, for fucks sake, about a month ago /vp/ was saying M-Metagross was a shitmon. In fact, almost every mega that ended up being clearly broken, /vp/ collectively believed and argued to be horrible.

It's that /vp/ is just so bad but also so confident that they're right instead of being open minded. It's fucking annoying.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:40:10 No.22181467 Report

Quoted By: >>22182458

>>22181386
I usually pick my favorites from the OU tier and combine it with the moves my in game mons have, so I usually have Strength on them instead of unreliable moves like Return that drop in power when the happiness drops. I once got above 1600 but I kept swapping mons and even had some NU shit on my team which made me drop to mid 1400s again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 19:48:28 No.22181594 Report

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>>22179396
But Jeudy is a /vp/oreon and has posted in the VGC generals many times

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 20:49:24 No.22182365 Report

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>>22181234
It's easy because you're playing the shittest of shit players in the beginning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 20:55:55 No.22182458 Report

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>>22181467
>return
>unreliable
I guess if you keeping fainting your Pokemon at the E4 or something it is...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 21:04:48 No.22182555 Report

Quoted By: >>22182681 >>22182776 >>22182809 >>22182889

I am 1400+ with a shit ass team.

Dragonite
Sableye Mega
Arcanine
Hawlucha
Haxorus
Bisharp

decent for that team, right? they are my main niggas. refuse to put in unoriginal shitmons like landorus and rotom just to become 1800

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 21:13:25 No.22182681 Report

Quoted By: >>22182690 >>22182902

>>22182555
such a reble

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 21:14:02 No.22182690 Report

Quoted By: >>22182725 >>22182902

>>22182681
such a sheeple

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 21:17:54 No.22182725 Report

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>>22182690
I don't care much for the genies either but I don't act like not using them is the most heroic thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 21:22:36 No.22182776 Report

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>>22182555
>all physical attackers

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 21:24:36 No.22182809 Report

Quoted By: >>22182857 >>22187240

>>22182555
No those are fucking shitmons. You can't win with all those. Drop Sableye and Bisharp and just go into UU, or git gud.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 21:27:28 No.22182857 Report

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>>22182809
learn to reading comprehension faggot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 21:29:29 No.22182889 Report

Quoted By: >>22183630

>>22182555
>refuse to put in unoriginal shitmons like landorus and rotom just to become 1800

Ever thought that some people might, ya know.. LIKE those Pokemon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 21:30:12 No.22182902 Report

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>>22182681
>>22182690
You're both fagits. kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:26:21 No.22183609 Report

Quoted By: >>22190209 >>22192357

>>22179576
>>22180386
>>22180706
Speaking of which:
the showdown ladder only shows up to top 500.
Is there a way to find out how many players are between, for example, 1100 and 1400?

1100 because I want to exclude throwaway alts and people with less than 5 battles
1400 because that's the 500th player's rank in UU (which is my main tier)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:27:45 No.22183630 Report

Quoted By: >>22183648 >>22183684 >>22183695 >>22183864 >>22183905 >>22190830 >>22192366

>>22182889
no one likes them. those who say they do is to defend the fact that they use them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:29:02 No.22183648 Report

Quoted By: >>22183695

>>22183630
I do. I also very rarely use them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:32:16 No.22183684 Report

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>>22183630
>defend the fact they use them
>LOL I need to justify using the two best pivots in the game in Momentum: the metagame (c)
No, they don't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:32:33 No.22183690 Report

Quoted By: >>22183738 >>22183929 >>22187240

>what is /cpg/
that's where the real kids are. quite a few ladder toppers who also happen to be 12 years old and avid shitposters. you'd never guess that they were gud because they don't really brag about it. but yeah look up doge ebinest, henry, egoo, etc. they're like 2000+ in ou at their best

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:32:57 No.22183695 Report

Quoted By: >>22183739

>>22183630
>>22183648
I remember way back when loving Rotom's design, and finding his different forms both silly and cool with interesting applications, especially washing machine. Then I looked up what its uses were competitively. Now I feel a little dirty (but not very much so).

My favorite pokemon since GS has also been Scizor. I seem to have a nasty habit of picking competitively useful mons without actually knowing how useful they are initially. It happens.

That said, I don't really use them very much, as I also like a bunch of shit or sort-of-shit mons too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:36:43 No.22183738 Report

Quoted By: >>22187240

>>22183690
oh also forgot to include tourneyfags (aka best of the best) like bedschibaer, ben gay/craing, and mcmeghan who align themselves with /cpg/ but i'm not sure if they actually visit /vp/

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:36:44 No.22183739 Report

Quoted By: >>22183896

>>22183695
>I seem to have a nasty habit of picking competitively useful mons without actually knowing how useful they are initially.

Dude, you do NOT need to justify liking a 'mon just because a bunch of insecure faggots on /vp/ get their shit rekt by them. Hell, some of my favorite pokemon are both edgebait and top tier 'mons. Scizor, Bisharp, Lucario, Megazard X, M-Metagross, Latios, etc... The list goes on.

What's the worst that's gonna happen? Some shitposter's gonna use their pre-made generic "le shitty taste 0/10" post?
Dont worry about it. Like what you like and dont let people's opinion affect it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:37:19 No.22183747 Report

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>>22179396
Because I literally don't care about how good or bad I am. I don't play competitive, period. I just watch the games and go like "eh, it would be cool if this mon got this move" or "heh what a silly strategy, baton passing hone claws to a mon with thunder, blizzard, focus blast and hurricane" or whatever
same reason why i watch showderp
it's just fun i dunno

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:47:21 No.22183864 Report

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>>22183630
>no one likes them
woah dude you sure told that guy

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:50:37 No.22183896 Report

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>>22183739
I actually don't give much of a fuck what people think on /vp/, I just thought it was an amusing coincidence that it happens more often than not.

I can understand people's issue, to some degree, because Pokemon is continually pushed as this kind of... monster friendship game, despite the mechanics really going in very much the opposite direction. People still get way too butt-flustered about it, however. That's their right, I guess.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:51:00 No.22183905 Report

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>>22183630
I like them BECAUSE theyre good.

Checkmate bitch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2014 22:53:33 No.22183929 Report

Quoted By: >>22187240

>>22183690
henry and ego both dont ladder anymore and are equal to that of tour players in ability. doge ebinest would be tour level but he doesnt play them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2014 03:40:04 No.22187240 Report

Quoted By: >>22188012

>>22181461
Fucking this. The only time I saw mega metagross being mentioned in a good light was in /cpg/, and even then some people were trying to argue that it was bad.

>>22182809
>dragonite
>hawlucha
you're right about arcanine and haxorus being shitmons though.

>>22183690
Funny that the only thread on /vp/ with actually good players is dead half the time, and inactive the other half

>>22183738
mcmeghan and bedschibaer do, ben gay not so much

>>22183929
henry still ladders sometimes

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2014 04:19:07 No.22187759 Report

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>>22180858
Your team is massively offensive, so for a screens lead I would suggest Azelf. Good mixed offensive stats, access to Explosion for a good sacking move, and access to screens, SR, and Taunt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2014 04:46:37 No.22188012 Report

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>>22187240
it's probably the same people that think that 150 base attack isn't good because "muh powercreep"

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2014 10:13:33 No.22190209 Report

Quoted By: >>22190503 >>22192357

>>22183609
Bumping thread from the bottom of the catalog and this question in particular

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2014 10:52:46 No.22190467 Report

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>>22179396
>being good
>pokemon

Being good at pokemon is like being good at poker. Sure there's a lot of educated guessing involved, but eventually, and this plateaus pretty low down, it's all a game of chance sprinkled with lucky guesses.

Even when you get into the more diverse doubles and triples, while there's a lot more actual skill and input that isn't guessing, it's still all a massive crapshoot. Cause no matter how good you build your team, no matter how ebin you are at guessing a switchin or strategy, pokemon is so diverse that there is always a team out there that'll beat you.
In fact, there are hundreds. And there is nothing you can do about it.
Fuckin deal with the fact that there is no such thing as being truly good at pokermon, it makes playing the games a lot more fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2014 10:57:31 No.22190503 Report

Quoted By: >>22190824

>>22190209
page Antar on the smogon forums

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2014 11:09:36 No.22190578 Report

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I went online for the first time yesterday and got raped hard.

I thought that because it was a kid's game I'd be up against all these random kids using shitmon but it was a bunch of Japanese experts. I feel belittled and broken now.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2014 12:05:09 No.22190824 Report

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>>22190503
A direct link would help. Antar is a user, not a page, and I can't look through 3200 of his posts without knowing some keyword.
Unless I'm missing something.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2014 12:07:36 No.22190830 Report

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>>22183630
I like them because they are strong. What now feggit?

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2014 16:40:00 No.22192357 Report

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>>22190209
>>22183609
I'll take a reply and let the thread archive in peace, I promise.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2014 16:41:38 No.22192366 Report

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>>22183630
>no one likes rotom
speak for yourself faggot

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