Social Swamp's Social Thread 3 - And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain...

[Cutie Gwen]

...Southern Kalos might be the new region then

 

[Aetheri]

Favorite starters by region?
Kanto: Blastoise
Johto: Tie between Feraligatr and Typhlosion
Hoenn: Blaziken
Sinnoh: Empoleon
Unova: Emboar
Kalos: Greninja

Also, when's the direct supposed to start for those of us in the Central time zone?

The Direct is in about an hour and a half...

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It was brought up before so I'll ask....who has ever tried Nuzlocking a pokemon game?

 

[Cutie Gwen]

The Direct is in about an hour and a half...

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It was brought up before so I'll ask....who has ever tried Nuzlocking a pokemon game?

First Nuzlocke experience: Lost against Hugh because he ****ing crit me

 

[ChikoLad]

There's an official Pokémon Twitter account for the UK & Ireland now.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PokemonNewsUK?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

 

[Burruni]

The Direct is in about an hour and a half...

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It was brought up before so I'll ask....who has ever tried Nuzlocking a pokemon game?

I've only nuzlocked Kanto.
Red and Fire Red.

There's one death in particular that will stick with me.

Pokemon Red, Koga battle.

Getting down to his Weezing, I send out my Beedrill, Kamina.

Twinneedle hits both times, getting the damn thing down to about a quarter health.

>Self Destruct.

And the way I'll always think of it is a suicidal charge from Kamina jamming one drill into both faces. As the Weezing starts to shine from the incoming explosion, a single tear's shed.

"Later, buddy..."

 

[Cutie Gwen]

I've only nuzlocked Kanto.
Red and Fire Red.

There's one death in particular that will stick with me.

Pokemon Red, Koga battle.

Getting down to his Weezing, I send out my Beedrill, Kamina.

Twinneedle hits both times, getting the damn thing down to about a quarter health.

>Self Destruct.

And the way I'll always think of it is a suicidal charge from Kamina jamming one drill into both faces. As the Weezing starts to shine from the incoming explosion, a single tear's shed.

"Later, buddy..."

Kamina never died. He simply hid himself so he could heal.

 

[Aetheri]

I've played Wonderlockes quite a few times, but strange enough the funnest Nuzlocke I did was just a regular Nuzlocke in Pokemen Y....got to use quite a few Pokemon I never used before like Roserade and Bisharp...Only notable death i remembered though was Bisharp in Victory Road, died to a Weavile of all things...I thought to myself 'Weavile's frail and weak to steel, Bisharp can handle it'....outsped (expected) and used Low Kick (forgot Weavile even got Low Kick) and just annihilated Bisharp....'welp that's what happens when you underestimate your favourite pokemon' XD...

It's not a Nuzlocke but I did manage to play through Pokemon Y doing a Dragon Monotype (I limited to only 1 psurdo); Tyrantrum, Haxorus, Dragalge, Salamence, Flygon, Noivern...no other Pokemon game actually gave more than 6 choices for dragons before so it was really fun...Haxorus was my MvP without a doubt...

 

[PushDustIn]

Venusaur
Meganium
Sceptile
Torterra
Serperior
Chesnaught

You have such a wide aray of cool looking and effective grass types and you just never choose any of them?

Chose Squirtle
Haven't played
Haven't played
Haven't played
Chose Tepig
Chose Greninja

I'll probably pick up the new version of Ruby/Sapphire at some point, since I've never played them before...

 

[Bedoop]

There's an official Pokémon Twitter account for the UK & Ireland now.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PokemonNewsUK?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

Can't wait for PokemonNevvsUK to come in and start messing with everybody

 

[Cutie Gwen]

http://mynintendonews.com/2016/02/26/supermetaldave64-takes-down-his-leaked-nintendo-info-videos/
'Perhaps Nintendo asked him to take them down'
****ing morons, Nintendo has the right to take them down without warning on YT, Dave must have realized his potential backlash and decided to stop

 

[Burruni]

Kamina never died. He simply hid himself so he could heal.

The best part.
In a symbolic sense.
Is that shortly before, I had caught my Doduo which I jokingly named "Trimon" because of Drill Peck.
The EXP from that very Gym battle got the evolution.

Fast forward to the Champion Blue fight, vs Alakazam.
Turn 1 Reflect.
"Giga..."
Drill Peck, takes down a little over half.
Turn 2, Recover.
"Drill."
Drill Peck, takes down to a bit over half.
Turn 3, Recover.
"BEAK!"
Drill Peck CRIT.

And I can't help but imagine it being that each turn another head went into the actual attack into a three-prong spiral nightmare.

 

[wedl!!]

yes, nintendo, the company touted for being reasonable and rational with copyright. always ready to calmly discuss it.

 

[Volga]

I've not done a Nuzlocke yet.
I've done Monotype,and Monocolor,but no nuzlocke.

 

[A Distant Demon]

So late to the party everyone has already cleaned up and left

Favorite starters
Venasaur
Meganium
Swampert (mudkip was the first pokemon I ever owned)
Torterra
Samurott
Chesnaught

. . . I like Grass types

 

[MasterOfKnees]

It was brought up before so I'll ask....who has ever tried Nuzlocking a pokemon game?

I have completed nuzlocke runs of Red, Gold, Ruby and a god-awful english translation of Green, documented all four runs for memories' sake.

The Green run was by far the most fun, I can only assume the rom I got was some kind of old direct word-for-word translation because it was all over the place, even the Pokémon names were a mess, for example Venusaur was called Flowe and Fearow was called Drill, and I'd like to see if anyone can guess who the likes of Delan, Yadon, Bobo and Papan were. It also crashed three times, I even had to switch to a more functional rom using the same save file to get past Bruno and then switch back again, so I always saved as often as I could. It was a new way of playing the old game I've completed countless times, with all the new names for Pokémon and moves I was always kept on my toes and had to do a lot of risky things, it was tons of fun even if tedious at times.

 

[Guybrush20X6]

Given 5 minutes is pretty long for a trailer, I wonder if they'll do both Z AND Sun&Moon

 

[Opossum]

Starters? Starters.

Venusaur
Typhlosion
Swampert
Empoleon in Pearl, Infernape in Platinum
Samurott in Black, Emboar in Black 2
Greninja

And dammit, I love all these guys. I'm a holder of the seemingly unpopular opinion that Emboar and Samurott are perfectly good starters, and that Samurott has a good design.

 

[Champ Gold]

Best Starters has always been for me

• Blastoise
• Typhlosion
• Blaziken
• Infernape
• Samurott
• Greninja

Now how about this: Name 6 of your favorite Pokemon

• Blastoise
• Blaziken
• Ampharos
• Galvantula
• Scrafty
• Solrock

 

[Aetheri]

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Salamence
Rayquaza
Sableye
Scizor
Haxorus

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But if we're going by Generation
Alakazam
Sneasel
Salamence
Weavile
Haxorus
Noivern

 

[Burruni]

Best Starters has always been for me

• Blastoise
• Typhlosion
• Blaziken
• Infernape
• Samurott
• Greninja

Now how about this: Name 6 of your favorite Pokemon

• Blastoise
• Blaziken
• Ampharos
• Galvantula
• Scrafty
• Solrock

Blastoise
Sandslash
Gardevoir
Lilligant
Galvantula
Aurorus

 

[MasterOfKnees]

Now how about this: Name 6 of your favorite Pokemon

Venusaur
Nidoking
Feraligatr
Jigglypuff
Ho-Oh
Groudon

Top being my absolute favorite.

 

[Opossum]

Favorite? Favorites.

Klefki
Ursaring
Chandelure
Gengar
Qwilfish
Castform

 

[FalKoopa]

How long until the direct?

 

[Soul.]

Gen V starters were average when Black and White were released. Serperior got Contrary in Gen VI so I guess that makes it better. +2 Leaf Storm probably hyped a lot of people.

Also 3DS is now 5 years, really cool.

 

[Burruni]

How long until the direct?

~20 minutes

 

[MasterOfKnees]

How long until the direct?

In about 20 minutes if I'm not mistaken.

 

[A Distant Demon]

http://www.twitch.tv/nintendo

The stream is up.

EDIT note to self. Do not embed twitch

Auto loads chat and is HUGE

 

[Ivander]

First starters?

Squirtle
Totodile
Torchic
Piplup
Oshawott
Froakie

 

[FalKoopa]

The youtube link is up, by the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJnzH2C6Cr4

 

[Burruni]

Might as well post this one more time before the direct.
(Even if Hoenn already happened)

 

[Deleted member]

The Direct is in about an hour and a half...

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It was brought up before so I'll ask....who has ever tried Nuzlocking a pokemon game?

I do lots of them
My first one was in Y where I still have nightmares and blame myself for half of the deaths
The other half I blame on ****ing Korrina, Pursuit and crits
And it changed my opinion on some Pokemon
Mainly Azumarill tho

Kamina never died. He simply hid himself so he could heal.

FECasualMode.png

 

[Aetheri]

<insert IT'S HAPPENING gif>

 

[Burruni]

I do lots of them
My first one was in Y where I still have nightmares and blame myself for half of the deaths
The other half I blame on ****ing Korrina, Pursuit and crits
And it changed my opinion on some Pokemon
Mainly Azumarill tho

FECasualMode.png

(It's actually a reference to Capcom retconning Inafune's design to have Zero die at the end of X5. In X6 he just appears out of nowhere and said that, as nothing more than a torso and head, he hid off somewhere to repair himself)

 

[Radical Bones]

Five minutes hype!

It's 2am hype!

I'm almost falling back asleep hype!

 

[SuperMii3D]

New Pokken Pokemon + SunMoon plz

 

[Burruni]

1 Pokken fighter trailer and then Big Game Announcement
LET'S HOPE

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Ok, so for some random reason I actually woke up on time. It means I'm not going to have enough sleep tonight, but whatever. I had to pee and it woke me up on time

 

[FalKoopa]

That intro tough.

 

[A Distant Demon]

Solrock and lunatone in one of the double battles


that's hillarious

 

[Silvera]

HYPE