Canada [Jul 26, 2014] B.C. Brawl Monthlies - Back in business, now featuring Smash 64! (Burnaby, BC)

[Alacion]

Meetup.com is hella lame. You have to pay $12 a month... forget that!

(and after all that work of setting it up...)

 

[T-block]

enguarde or go homeeee

squitter was arite too

 

[Kantrip]

Enguarde is absolutely amazing and is one of the only two Buddies to be included in all 3 DKC games for a reason. Just not a plausible addition in a smash game setting.

Why isn't there a Pokémon modeled after a swordfish yet?

 

[Captain L]

sometimesredsometimesblue.com is awesome, it's free and the fun never ends!

 

[T-block]

wait i forgot about expresso =D he was the **** too

gorebyss is kind of a swordfish...

 

[Alacion]

irlevents.com might be a good thing to advertise on or work with.

Should I stop because nobody is responding and I know most people don't really care?

 

[_GrapE_]

Let's all play Pokemon instead of whatever the hell it is you're all talking about.

I'm buying a purple 3DS after the weekend and getting Black 2.

 

[Kantrip]

Whoa. Whoa there.

Serious business, right here. Don't disrespect the DKC.

Pokémon is cool too though. I really wish Shedinja were viable. Or at least it was possible to revolve an entire gimmick team around him and have it actually take people by surprise occasionally.

 

[_GrapE_]

Shedinja I guess COULD be viable, but you'd need to have an entire team revolve around him and the entire metagame would have to change, and he'd need major boosting moves and you'dd need 3 stall supports next to him and pray that the other team doesn't have a taunt, which every team does.

Also since there's preview, you'd need to pray that your opponent has absolutely no answer for it just from the select screen. But they basically always will, not to mention that anything as simple as Sand Stream, Stealth Rock, or Spikes, would eff you over.

 

[Kantrip]

Yeah team preview ruined everything.

Rapid Spin and the ability to change the weather are obviously necessary. Meh.

 

[_GrapE_]

I have to EV and IV train for 30+ Pokes and qualifiers are in April plus tournaments prior. ughughughughughugh

 

[Captain L]

I was so good at EV training back in the day

 

[Kantrip]

I was so good at walking around and killing the same wild Pokémon over and over and over again, too!

 

[| Big D |]

I remember using the fastest methods available to me, but I was always happy and rewarded for my time.

[COLLAPSE="How my EV training went using various methods"]

[/COLLAPSE]

 

[_GrapE_]

I'm more concerned about IV breeding, since the EV stuff is just tedious.

 

[Blue Yoshi]

Just saying, that mushroom kingdom chess game is wrong. The Kings are on the same files, and the Queens are on the same files. In that game, they show the Kings on the same file as a Queen of the other side.

 

[Kantrip]

I would always go for natures, but when it came to getting perfect IVs I just gave up.

@Rob: Great observation skills. I'll admit I really didn't pay attention to that sort of thing. Of course you did, though

 

[_GrapE_]

I need perfect IV's, so it's going to take me forever to get all the Pokemon I want at a satisfactory level.

 

[T-block]

does RNG manip only work for 4th gen? saves a lot of time

 

[_GrapE_]

You can manipulate it to a degree, but a lot is still just luck.

 

[Captain L]

I have a 31/31/31/31/31/31 shiny dragonite do you want it

RNG'd not AR'd

 

[_GrapE_]

I don't use Dragonite, but that would be something very nice to have, so yes I would like it.

 

[Kantrip]

What's the nature, just out of curiosity?

 

[_GrapE_]

How others feel when I use rain team.gif

 

[Captain L]

calm, egg move light screen

(yeah even though it's light screen, it needs to be bred)

it's like special defense or something...


oh wait wouldn't dragonite be bad since he'd have inner focus instead of that new one


shiny dragonites are green so I named him yoshi

congrats on 1243 posts caiden

 

[_GrapE_]

Shiny full IV Dragonite is valuable and I'd be able to get some good stuff for it, so I definitely want it. Inner Focus is good.

Wait. Will whatever game you have it in be able to trade it over to Black 2?

 

[Acute.Anthrax]

The last pokemon I played was Blue, got the gf pokemon black with a dsi to keep her entertained during her spare classes and jesus have things changed from the simple times lol

 

[Asa]

stop ignoring kev


freaking newgens

 

[Captain L]

irlevents actually looks really legit, I could see that drawing some new attendance.

Once we have a tournament date booked I think we should definitely post it there as well, couldn't possibly hurt.

Also Kevin you can feel free to advertise stuff on your own without all of BC necessarily being involved in the same attempt. I recall Ben posting something on Reddit about BC smash that I'm sure most of the rest of us didn't know about. It doesn't have to be a group effort. One man may be the difference between victory and defeat.

 

[| Big D |]

Bryan pls

 

[Captain L]

dawson is such a newgen

 

[Alacion]

Thing is I don't want to do it alone, and I'm not asking everybody to help out.

I am arguably more busy than everybody here with 38 hours of class per week as well as working 3-11pm on Sundays. I can't do things like advertising and networking alone (I am especially timid about talking to strangers about video games) and sometimes I need a second opinion. It's depressing when you put hours into potentially fruitless work and you're ignored and people don't care.

 

[~Firefly~]

I'm kind of in the same boat, except replace work with extracurricular responsibilities. I also have all my courses attacking me with due dates at once, which is why I haven't been doing much. -.-

 

[michael_li]

I don't like tech skill.

Because in essence, a game where you don't need it is better. You shouldn't have to work to get your character to do what you want them to do, they should be able to do it easily, given you make the right decisions.

Tech skill being kept at a minimum optimizes the use of actual skill, e.g. decision making, which is pretty much what brawl is about.



This is THE EXACT REASON I'm bad. (following this, not a lack of)

Alphicans please.

what. the. ****. LOL!!

:S

 

[Alacion]

I dunno I always thought tech skill is actual skill.

I'm not *that* bad at Brawl and I honestly keep the decision making and reads to a minimum.

 

[Arcansi]

what. the. ****. LOL!!

:S

You see, on wifi(espicially when the game first came out), fsmash punish to most things (and using a lot of roll>fsmash is good).

And now it's a huge hurdle I have to get over every time i get back into smash, and held me back a lot getting out of wifi.

I dunno I always thought tech skill is actual skill.

I'm not *that* bad at Brawl and I honestly keep the decision making and reads to a minimum.

I don't consider tech skill comparable because it shouldn't need to exist, and because anyone can perfect it by just sitting and doing it over and over.

If that's what games are about, who has the most time to practice, I don't play them.

 

[Asa]

you know we play brawl right?

 

[Arcansi]

you know we play brawl right?

If brawl was about who had more time to practice I'd probably be better than most of you, if not all of you.

You know that could just mean you're not capable of getting better.

This is absurd. The only possible reason I would be fundamentally incapable of improving is if I was unable to process all my choices fast enough to ever do the correct one more than i can now, which isn't true.

Bad habits != skill capping.

 

[The Iron Wolf]

You see, on wifi(espicially when the game first came out), fsmash punish to most things (and using a lot of roll>fsmash is good).

And now it's a huge hurdle I have to get over every time i get back into smash, and held me back a lot getting out of wifi.

Roll > F-smash even on Wifi should not work on a player with even a shred of knowledge of this game in 2012.

I don't consider tech skill comparable because it shouldn't need to exist, and because anyone can perfect it by just sitting and doing it over and over.

If that's what games are about, who has the most time to practice, I don't play them.

Tech skill adds its own sort of depth into fighting games and it's learning curve usually depends on the player. Some tend to pick things up rather quickly while others take longer. It's not always about who has the most time to practice. To assume that learning tech skill = requires lots of practice, therefore lots of time isn't necessarily true.

And since we're talking about Brawl I find it even funnier that we're even complaining about tech skill lmao. Yes it's there, but to a far lesser degree than Melee. On a personal note it's one of the things that I find appealing about competitive fighting games.

 

[Alacion]

When I picked up Peach, I sat down and practised her like 15-30mins a day for a couple weeks. Then I stopped practising