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Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 06:56:47 No.28026984 View View Reply Original Report

Sky Battles are the most useless addition to the series.

Please prove me wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 06:58:42 No.28027002 Report

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I liked them, because they had mons specifically to fuck you over.

They were harder than Diantha even.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 06:59:33 No.28027010 Report

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>>28026984
I won't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:02:25 No.28027039 Report

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>>28026984

I liked them because they were optional battles that could actually be hard as fuck.
>tfw Emolga becomes a fucking Nightmare

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:02:33 No.28027041 Report

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>>28026984
lets say your only flying type is a pidgey evolution, they'll send out an aerodactyl or emolga to ruin your day, no one carries multiple flying types to prepare for something like this. made sky battles a little bit fun and challanging

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:04:13 No.28027055 Report

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>>28026984
Only a sith deals in absolutes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:08:04 No.28027083 Report

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>>28027055
Isn't that an absolute?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:08:44 No.28027088 Report

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>>28027055
I never said I wasn't a Sith.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:10:07 No.28027093 Report

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idk, I went through the whole game without doing one so I wouldn't know

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:11:18 No.28027102 Report

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>>28026984

I actually wouldn't mind Sky Battles if they actually allowed certain Pokemon to stay on the ground when not in a Sky Battle, or properly animated shit that should have to flap to stay aloft (I'm looking at you Tropius).

How would you guys feel about Dive Battles?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:12:20 No.28027112 Report

Quoted By: >>28027204 >>28027293 >>28028503

>>28026984
The most useless additions are abilities, and the game asking if you want to use another repel. It's just useless clutter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:15:35 No.28027149 Report

Quoted By: >>28028460

>>28026984

Quite frankly I'd love to see more monotype battles. You can't just rapestomp somebody with a 6 Pokemon Team and at the same time are an incentive to make a more diversified Team that are all equally trained.

If anything Sky Battles should get expanded by other types of Battles, though I can't really think of any atm

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:17:00 No.28027164 Report

Quoted By: >>28027199

>>28026984
I think they could be awesome.

I have a vision: the Pokémon are constantly flying. Gameplay wouldn't really change, but it would look like a dogfight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:18:42 No.28027190 Report

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>>28026984
Polishing Badges

Do you even remember which game that was in?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:20:06 No.28027199 Report

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>>28027164

https://youtu.be/AlRYZj8PM-g

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:20:20 No.28027201 Report

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I wish I could ignore them, but no, they had to ruin a shit load of birb bros, like Skarmory with this permanent gliding animation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:20:35 No.28027203 Report

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>>28027102
I want swim battles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:20:50 No.28027204 Report

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>>28027112
>the game asking if you want to use another repel
Fuck you that was a great addition

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:21:12 No.28027205 Report

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>>28027190

I'm guessing Gen 4 because that was the only Gen I skipped and I don't remember this

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:21:31 No.28027206 Report

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They would have been great if there were possible online.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:22:00 No.28027214 Report

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>>28027190
I liked doing it the first time but it got old
fast
>>28027205
ding ding

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:24:54 No.28027236 Report

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>>28026984
Considering that, until this post, I had completely forgotten they were even a thing, I'd have to agree

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:25:05 No.28027238 Report

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>>28027199
>this guy has OU: The Team: The Experience: The Movie: The Game
>then pulls out this fucking PU piece of trash

????

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:31:37 No.28027293 Report

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>>28027112
>and the game asking if you want to use another repel
yeah having to go back to your bag every time your repel ran out was much better :^)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:32:07 No.28027299 Report

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>>28027238

Well if Sky Attack was instantenous in the games too Unfezant might be a good mon too

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:32:56 No.28027303 Report

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>>28027299
Good? No. OU? Fuck no. Better than garbage? I guess.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:43:24 No.28027399 Report

Quoted By: >>28028781

Sky Battles could've been useful if they used them during soaring. Makes more sense than Aggron standing on a fucking cloud.

What they needed wasn't to be removed, but to actually get some damn attention. A Battle Chateau Sky Battle mode could've been interesting- use everything you learned from fighting Sky Trainers and fight in a challenge that would definitely be harder than Super Doubles.

At least one Wifi competition would've been nice, too. Inverse Battles could've benefited from it too. Imagine the kind of meta that could've sprung up around VGC Inverse Battles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 07:49:34 No.28027458 Report

Quoted By: >>28027551

>>28027303

Idk man
Unfezant has a pretty incredible attack stat and good speed. And it's bulky enough to take a hit. It's main problem us that it lacks the movepool. An instant Sky Attack would make it much more viable than people prolly think.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 08:00:26 No.28027551 Report

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>>28027458
it just needs brave birb

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 08:07:42 No.28027596 Report

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>>28027199
Wouldn't that be awesome?

Obviously it wouldn't be that choreographed, but imagine the two Pokémon flying on a course through the sky as the camera pans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 08:38:03 No.28027805 Report

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>>28026984
Pretty much.
However, I do wish the battle facility had a Type-Masters tournament like the PWT, where you can only use Pokemon of one type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 08:41:13 No.28027831 Report

Quoted By: >>28027859 >>28027912 >>28027973 >>28028693

>>28026984
Rotation Battles would like to say hi.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 08:41:42 No.28027836 Report

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>>28026984
But they're fun

You're mad because you probably lost a nuzlocke on accident didnt you

>nuzlocke x y

You're the most useless addition to this board, get rekt in the name of arceus, faggot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 08:43:30 No.28027859 Report

Quoted By: >>28028664

>>28027831

I don't get why Rotation Battles aren't more popular. Especially the Smogon crowd you'd expect a battle format that relies much more on team building and personal skill.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 08:48:26 No.28027893 Report

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>>28026984

What's your trainer ID, OP? I need it to post as the definition of the most useless addition: you as a player.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 08:51:16 No.28027912 Report

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>>28027831
Except rotation is really fucking fun

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 08:59:37 No.28027973 Report

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>>28027831
Rotation is great. Singles with instant switch for half the team. That takes real strategy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 09:35:22 No.28028228 Report

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>>28026984
They should added Dive battles with the same stupid restrictions.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:06:47 No.28028437 Report

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>>28026984
This exists.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:09:26 No.28028458 Report

Quoted By: >>28028478 >>28028484

>>28026984
The most useless addition is cutting grass with Cut. It's neat, but it literally serves zero purpose.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:09:34 No.28028460 Report

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>>28027149
>underwater battle (water obviously)
>underground/quicksand battle(ground)
>magnetic battle (steel)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:10:54 No.28028471 Report

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>>28028437
This is bait.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:11:58 No.28028478 Report

Quoted By: >>28028563 >>28029067

>>28028458
What? You can cut tall grass? What game?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:12:39 No.28028484 Report

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>>28028458
>Can help you avoid a wild encounter when you're out of repels.
>Zero purpose
???

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:15:09 No.28028503 Report

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>>28027112
Asking if you want another repel was literally the biggest improvement to Pokemon since the Special stat was split to SpeAtk/SpeDef.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:22:54 No.28028546 Report

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>>28026984
I'm gonna have to agree that Badge Polishing is a more useless addition. It was a nice little thing when I was first playing through Pearl, but it was entirely useless.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:25:44 No.28028562 Report

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>>28028546
>mfw I was a kid and had to tell other kids why their badges looked like shit after 2 days
It was the most boring thing to do, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it myself too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:25:56 No.28028563 Report

Quoted By: >>28028592

>>28028478
I remember doing it in GSC, don't know if it was a thing in RBGY, haven't played those.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:30:08 No.28028592 Report

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>>28028563
Apparently it's a thing from gen1 to gen3. I started im gen3 yet I still don't remember it being a thing :T

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:31:18 No.28028605 Report

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>>28028471
>instead of 1 shitty battle mode there is 6 shitty battle modes and a battle tower
Sure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:41:26 No.28028664 Report

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>>28027859
>smogonbabies
>playing a format that's not on their poorfag simulator
Good one

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:42:31 No.28028677 Report

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>>28026984
They were ok but felt unpolished and not cool enough.
I loved the rumors about the hights having influence on battle.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:45:09 No.28028693 Report

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>>28027831
>Rotations are what SMOGON should love and care
>They don't

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 10:52:57 No.28028747 Report

Quoted By: >>28028797

>>28028592
There was no prompt or anything for it, you just had to select cut from the move menu.

It cut away one tile of grass so it would be pretty tedious if you were hoping to cut all the grass out of your path to avoid encounters, you were better off using repels or just leading with a speedy mon and running. Probably why they axed it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 11:00:37 No.28028781 Report

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>>28027399
>my name is elektross and Im a levitating electric lamprey

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 11:02:42 No.28028797 Report

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>>28028747

Huh, didn't it cut a 3x3 square?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 11:05:13 No.28028808 Report

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>first sky battle
>want to use Beedril
>can't
it's shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 11:20:20 No.28028907 Report

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Inverse battles >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 11:23:29 No.28028931 Report

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>>28027203
We could well get dive battles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 11:36:27 No.28029026 Report

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>>28026984
That's not VGC! We already had an established metagame.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 11:40:59 No.28029055 Report

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Double battles

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 11:42:30 No.28029067 Report

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>>28028478
The first 4 or 5 generations. After that, cutting grass was removed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 11:52:07 No.28029149 Report

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>>28027190
I liked how they each played a note if tapped. Playing songs on them was neat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 11:52:41 No.28029158 Report

Quoted By: >>28030051

do they actually add something to the game or do they literally just remove stuff you could use?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 12:19:08 No.28029354 Report

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>>28026984
the bike racks nobody uses in gen iv

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 13:47:53 No.28030041 Report

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>>28026984
It's the reason to pick Y I guess

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 13:48:54 No.28030051 Report

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>>28029158
I could be playing smogon right now

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 14:11:23 No.28030222 Report

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>Super Contests without the move appeal round and barely any dancing
>Only input is dressing the Pokémon and when to use props during the performance
>Discriminates against Pokémon with no arms from "winning" the musical due to requiring held props to steal the spotlight
>Rewards from it are only more props to collect for a Trainer star/medal

May or may not be the most useless, but certainly more so than Sky Battles and definitely a farce to the contests that came before it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 14:12:11 No.28030233 Report

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>>28026984
You are not wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 15:53:50 No.28031648 Report

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>>28026984
You're right

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 15:56:51 No.28031683 Report

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>>28026984
They're the only battle style to not be in another game of a gen. GF probably thinks it's shit too

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 24 Aug 2016 16:00:55 No.28031740 Report

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>>28026984
I forgot they existed. I never did one.

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