Why don’t people use Brightpowder more? I’ve been using it on my Starmie and Curselax with moderate success. It seems like more people would use it, if it weren’t for the screams of “HAX”.
Say what you will but playing defensive is my style which transcends not just this game but all gens of pkmn as well as many other games I play. Street fighter CoD chess just to name a few.
I don’t fear what you run nor do I rage quit. Once I get my team together post bank ill be ready to play against all ya’ll!
10% increase in evasion isn’t significant enough to justify running it. Even moves that have crappy accuracy will hit at least half of the time.
It makes unreliable moves like fire blast, focus blast, and stone edge even less reliable. However, most of the best moves in the game have 90-100% accuracy.
It’s not that the item sucks, but it doesn’t apply much.
However, if sand veil and snow cloak were legal, then every move in the game misses at least have the time and moves like focus blast gain the accuracy of a fissure(30%) and 90% accuracy moves gain the accuracy of hypnosis.
I miss these abilities. When weather was permanent and sand veil was legal, I had a field day with eviolite gligar, and bright powder garchomp.
It was inconsistent but hilarious still. Even if you had something that completely countered Garchomp, your moves would only hit half the time.
Maybe the Smogon metagame was better, since, well, NUMBERS! If there is anything that interferes with my precise calculations*(in a game with random damage, lol)*, then it needs to go!
What did Cacturne and Froslass ever do to you, Mood? Why do you hate them so much?
Not necessarily… What do YOU think needs to be banned other than Lugia and company? Which I don’t have any problems with, but you know, Mr. “Wild Wild West” over here…
Garchomp’s Sand Veil ability was infinitely better than rough skin.
Smogon hates Garchomp and Gliscor alot.
These two guys holding brightpowder sound really fucking annoying, but I want for them to be legal in Smogon’s servers and other servers just for trolling purposes.
Enjoy that Hidden Power Ice and Ice Beam having 65% accuracy suckas!(Sand Veils evasion increase is really 25% based on the method of calculation that the game uses)
The other Sand Veil users are kind of crappy.
Froslass will piss you off in the off chance that your attack misses as a result of snow cloak, but her cursed body ability is much better. The chances of disabling a move passively is really fucking good in comparison.
Frostlass is super frail so snow cloak isn’t going to really put in any work.
That’s my other query… What’s wrong with trolling? I love to troll in games-- Nothing is funnier than hitting mouthy Fox noobs with Luigi 0-to-death combos ending with DA SHORYUKEN in Melee, or just anti-airing every jump-in in SF and watching the opponent lose their shit.
Same thing in Pokemon-- Sometimes, you just wanna break out that Moody Bidoof and watch as Talonflame and friends get rolled on by da BEAVER OF JUSTICE.
It’s made even better when you get someone so mad, they go on GameFAQs or Smogon and make a thread crusading against “hax” and how they were “cheated” out of a win because they weren’t prepared for fucking BIDOOF.
In today’s Cottonelle soft world, playing SF correctly(spacing, anti-airs, screen control) is considered trolling. Especially when you don’t do anything flashy like big combos or Supers/Ultras, sadly.