PGD: Happy Birthday, Red!

[Espy Rose]

Stall teams and doesn't like competitive Brawl?
I'm so confused.

Triple battle master race.

 

[Player -0]

Poke'mon... I've only really played Emerald, and don't know where the cartridge went for by GBA.... Buh Bai level 62 Pichu...

 

[~Radiance~]

Togekiss is probably one of my all time favs when you run serene grace airslash and twave. So much flinch.
I really want to try this klefki prankster that slush has been talking to me about where you go swagger, sub, foul play. seems fun.

 

[KayLo!]

Stall teams and doesn't like competitive Brawl?
I'm so confused.

Two completely different types of games.

Also, even I have my limits.... old school Blissey still made me rage.

EDIT: YES, LAWRENCE KNOWS!!! Perma-paraflinch so good.

 

[~automatic]

I finally ordered Pokemon Y.

 

[Vale]

Two completely different types of games.

Also, even I have my limits.... old school Blissey still made me rage.

EDIT: YES, LAWRENCE KNOWS!!! Perma-paraflinch so good.

Battles in generation two (G/S/C) involved five+ turns of switching and double-switching in order to set up one good hit.

 

[~automatic]

That's because people are ******* and don't use hyper beam right out of the gate.

 

[redfeatherraven]

Work's going to 12/7s, so pardon my pending greater-than-usual infrequency.
Looking forward to the check though. Gonna need a forklift.

@Vale, read the Wall 'O Text. I can see where the gaps in my knowledge are piling up, but at least I can name them now.

My current set is, I think, relying hard on offense. The team consists of Mawile, Lucario, Aegislash, Greninja, and Goomy (bit fresh) at the present time. For now there is also a Blaziken, pending replacement to keep the team OU. Could attempt to sweep with Lucario, settle in for a longer set with Mawile, Aegislash, or Goodra, or pull stupid Protean Greninja tricks until my opponent throws their 3DS out a window in frustration, but I don't know how well any of it will actually play out in the wild.

As it is it looks like it's going to rely almost exclusively on out-offensing the other team or SProG shenanigans to get business done. I'm calling it the Hail Mary team because I'm praying it'll do a goddamn thing. Criticisms welcome, needless to say.
Plus with all the breeding I've got to do still, I got time to polish the metaphorical turd ball.

In what may be a rookie thought I also have to wonder how megas play out when there's multiple mega candidates. Are there nuances to picking the right one for the job? Could there be ways to force your opponent to make a hard and ultimately incorrect call on their megas?

 

[~Radiance~]

so tonight I was playing a lot of project M and i didnt realize it was possible to strain your eyes playing it but somehow I did haha.
As someone who never really played competitive melee and now am used to wavedashing, L canceling, and all the other fancy stuff, I have to say that brawl is like really boring to go back and play.

I also played with a friend of mine in brawl whose falco is medicore and I tried to give him some threads and vids to look at on stuff like DACUS and whatnot but I think hes not wanting to really look at the stuff im trying to help him with out of some sense of he thinks im not better than him by much so my advice is kind of null.

TL;DR- i played project M and it was fun. My friend dosent want to take my advice for pride reasons.

 

[Reizilla]

FZ, let's Pokebattle.

 

[KayLo!]

I have to say that brawl is like really boring to go back and play.

Hear, hear! Or here, here? Whichever it is, thank **** one more person figured this out.

 

[Phoenix Lord']

Good for you, FZ. It always warms my heart to hear stories like that.

And it's, "Hear, hear!"

 

[Vale]

In what may be a rookie thought I also have to wonder how megas play out when there's multiple mega candidates. Are there nuances to picking the right one for the job? Could there be ways to force your opponent to make a hard and ultimately incorrect call on their megas?

In short, there won't be more than one candidate on a team. Items play too critical of a role in battling for most teams to waste multiple slots on mega stones (I can write about the prominent items, if you'd like). Choosing a mega evolution to use is part of the team design process. They may, however, use multiple Pokemon that could use Mega Evolution, but only one will actually be holding the stone. For example, with your team consisting of Lucario and Blaziken, one or both should probably be holding a Life Orb or Expert Belt. If you plan to use Mawile, you make it obvious that it is going to be your mega, however, because it is too weak otherwise.

 

[Espy Rose]

Why the hell would it be "here, here?"

 

[Vale]

Why the hell would it be "here, here?"

You agree with what is being said, but only in specific geographic locations.

 

[Player -0]

so tonight I was playing a lot of project M and i didnt realize it was possible to strain your eyes playing it but somehow I did haha.
As someone who never really played competitive melee and now am used to wavedashing, L canceling, and all the other fancy stuff, I have to say that brawl is like really boring to go back and play.

I also played with a friend of mine in brawl whose falco is medicore and I tried to give him some threads and vids to look at on stuff like DACUS and whatnot but I think hes not wanting to really look at the stuff im trying to help him with out of some sense of he thinks im not better than him by much so my advice is kind of null.

TL;DR- i played project M and it was fun. My friend dosent want to take my advice for pride reasons.

Just CG him to death, into a QaL into a Jab Lock into down tilt then troll edgeguard.

 

[Espy Rose]

You agree with what is being said, but only in specific geographic locations.

I think for the first time, I'm going to use my ignore feature.
Your idiocy is aggravating.

 

[~Radiance~]

I'm still waiting for the day that something optimistic comes from espys mouth rather than blatant negativity

 

[Espy Rose]

We can only hope you're gone by the time that happens, TG.

 

[~Radiance~]

And we can only hope you lose weight by then fat-t

Auto, go with me to dinner on friday. Ill be at hsu by tomorrow

 

[Reizilla]

I think for the first time, I'm going to use my ignore feature.
Your idiocy is aggravating.

Aren't you glad you're not a mod anymore?

 

[~automatic]

I have Friday plans kinda.

 

[Espy Rose]

Hopefully my fat kills me. Better than dealing with you.

@Rei: Sweet merciful god yes.

 

[KayLo!]

Why the hell would it be "here, here?"

I don't ****ing know, that's why I asked. To show that you're "here" with the person in support of what they said?

I'm sure there're figures of speech that make far less sense.

 

[Espy Rose]

I don't think there are.
I'm actually positive that yours was the most senseless of them all.

Fun fact by the way, "Blood is thicker than water" is abridged from a longer phrase that said, "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb," which essentially means the exact opposite of what we use the abridged version for today.

 

[Vale]

So, my friends and I decided to save some replays of Project M matches so we could figure out what we were doing wrong, not knowing that it didn't work. We never realized our largest problem was thinking we won with three stocks left, when in fact we apparently all just jumped off the edges of the map a minute after the game started.

 

[Espy Rose]

Your biggest error was playing Project M.

 

[Pikabunz]

Espy, if you have nothing good to say then don't post.

 

[Espy Rose]

Good hustle, K Prime.

 

[Phoenix Lord']

Your anti-PM schtick is getting pretty tired, though.

 

[KayLo!]

His anti-everything shtick's been getting tired for a while.

 

[Espy Rose]

I'm glad you're enjoying it. I'll ensure that it sticks around for quite some time.

Oh, another note: Elle Fanning as Aurora in the Sleeping Beauty remake?
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame.


Might check it out though. Looks decent.

 

[Reizilla]

Project M does suck pretty hard though.

 

[Angiance]

Everybody, the best course of action against those choosing to express their negative emotions, is to completely ignore them.

 

[Espy Rose]

That's... the first thing you've ever done in here to prove that you have intelligence.
I'm honestly stunned. It's just... kinda awesome.

 

[Scatz]

I just watch this thread and all I see is Espy being the equivalent of a grumpy old hag.

 

[Espy Rose]

You say it like it's not the norm. Almost as if you're implying that I can actually be nice.

Actually, I just realized a hole in pikagirl's advice. Suicidal tendencies are typically affiliated with negative emotion, right? By that stance, you'd ignore a depressed/suicidal/spiritless individual just because they were being negative. That's... kinda harsh for someone who is probably projecting themselves as a means of calling out for help.

On the other hand, I'm damn sure that when you say "negative" in your post, you actually meant "scathing" or "insulting." Makes more sense given the context this way.

The PGD title couldn't be more true now than it has ever been. I'm proud of you guys.

 

[Phoenix Lord']

I ain't even mad.

 

[Espy Rose]

Are you sure? Not even a little bit?

 

[KayLo!]

I made that title days ago when we were talking about Belle.... reference to the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland.

Although it is pretty funny that it semi-applies atm.