The Energon Pub

News Credits: 2 · Sat Apr 24, 2010 3:28 pm

Fanart can make anything hot, that's why it doesn't count.

News Credits: 1452 · Sat Apr 24, 2010 3:29 pm

Booo Hiss!!

News Credits: 2 · Sat Apr 24, 2010 3:43 pm

Tekka wrote:Fanart can make anything hot, that's why it doesn't count.

I know what you mean. It's called "Jailbait" for a reason. Is it too much to ask that when you make a female character attractive, you also make it so people don't have go to prison for their thoughts?

Though there's also the whole idea of letting 10-year-olds travel all across the country, on foot, alone, to capture highly deadly wild animals as well as going into combat with various criminal organizations.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Apr 24, 2010 3:49 pm

Blurrz wrote:Booo Hiss!!

Awww, don't worry, fanart is a healthy part of every fandom, and we would be lost without it.

I mean, how would I go on living without Gardevoir's Jigglypuffs?

Shadowman wrote:I know what you mean. It's called "Jailbait" for a reason. Is it too much to ask that when you make a female character attractive, you also make it so people don't have go to prison for their thoughts?

Though there's also the whole idea of letting 10-year-olds travel all across the country, on foot, alone, to capture highly deadly wild animals as well as going into combat with various criminal organizations.

What's more worrying is that the police don't seem to be able to do the job that a ten year old does all by his/herself.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:13 pm

Tekka wrote:What's more worrying is that the police don't seem to be able to do the job that a ten year old does all by his/herself.

In the first game, you diffuse a hostage situation at the headquarters of a major corporation (responsible for manufacturing Pokeballs, no less!) all by your self, and last I checked, you don't get a whole lot of credit for it.

News Credits: 1452 · Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:04 pm

Stumbled upon this. I know it happened in Gold/Silver, not so much HG/SS because I was much more prepared haha.

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News Credits: 2 · Thu May 06, 2010 2:36 pm

So, the new starters are being revealed next week! Gonna be awesome! X3

News Credits: 2 · Thu May 06, 2010 2:45 pm

Tekka wrote:So, the new starters are being revealed next week! Gonna be awesome! X3

I have it on good authority that they well be...

...one fire-type, one grass-type, and one-water type. And you all owe me good money if I'm right!

News Credits: 2 · Thu May 06, 2010 2:50 pm

Gosh. Next you're going to tell us they'll be orange, blue, and green coloured or something equally crazy!

News Credits: 2 · Sat May 08, 2010 6:00 pm

It's a pig, a beaver and... Excalibur. Maybe.

News Credits: 1452 · Sat May 08, 2010 6:07 pm

Dope...

News Credits: 2 · Wed May 12, 2010 4:32 am

Gots teh CoroCoro scans... Everything's looking good so far, though I'll most l likely be going with the grass starter this time instead of fire.

News Credits: 1 · Wed May 12, 2010 5:40 am

I'm so depressed...I always choose the water starter but this one looks fugly IMO... :-(

However this fire "pig" just rules..!Can't wait to see it's evolutions...!

News Credits: 2 · Wed May 12, 2010 5:57 am

I'm also turned off majorly by the water starter, however the final evolution will always be the deciding factor in my choice.

I've already picked out a name for the pig starter when I get it. "P-Chan".

Lol.

As long as it maintains the nose shape, I'll name the grass starter "Excalibur".

As for the water starter... I have no idea what I'll call it. I'll have to see the final evolution before I make that choice.

Also, I really like the new female trainer, especially the hair. Conversely, I hate the male's hair. Blech! Though I will go with the male trainer as always...

I'm really excited about all this in general though. Can't wait for the games to come out in Japan and I can start collecting monsters to trade over to the US games when they're released. :grin:

News Credits: 2 · Wed May 12, 2010 8:57 am

So, the fire-type is a pig? Am I the only one who realizes, finally, we have a pig that can cook itself?

Not only that, but this opens a whole new realm of pork-based puns. I don't usually rename my Pokemon, but I feel I may need to name him "Baconator."

Wed May 12, 2010 11:47 am

I have to say...the new starters look like junk....

Wed May 12, 2010 11:58 am

I'm not real impressed either. Hopefully the evolutions are really cool....

News Credits: 2 · Wed May 12, 2010 1:52 pm

The grass starter almost certainly has the potential to evolve into a pretty slick looking reptile, much like Treecko did, and I can see FirePig evolving into something threatening and beefy too. (Or should that be porky? Hur hur.)

The only one I really have no clue about is the water starter. It'll be a nice surprise to see how it turns out I suppose! You never know, it might be awesome in the end.

Wed May 12, 2010 2:17 pm

Time to throw my hat in here!

As for Gen. V, I hope of the following:

--Water resists Rock

When small rocks are thrown into the water surface, the small rocks bounce off, as if it's being deflected. Also, when a big rock gets thrown into a small pond, the water just splashes off, and it's still water.

--Rock resists Ice

When I threw a chunk of Ice on a rock, the latter didn't shatter.

--Ice immune from Electric

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5IMaVWDnSU[/youtube]

--Ground resists itself

Every time an earthquake occurs, land just mixes with itself, am I right?

--These following type combinations
1. Psychic/Dark. For the longest time, I've held the belief that there's an insider bias, in favor of Psychic-types, in Game Freak offices. First ubers were Psychic; first cute legendary was a Psychic.

With this, it just tells me that the bias is over.

2. Normal/Ghost. I have a bias in favor of 1-weakness Pokemon.

--New Evos

1. Skarmory evo with either Flash Fire or Volt Absorb.
2. Weezing evo into Poison/Dark, while getting BST of 595 and maintaining Levitate.

News Credits: 2 · Wed May 12, 2010 2:29 pm

Without the addition of a new type, I doubt we'll see any changes to the resistances table like that. (Though I can't help but quietly wish that Dark's immunity to Psychic would change to a resist.)

Skarmory is already one of the best Pokemon in the game with a whopping ELEVEN resistances and immunities, and you want to eliminate one of the two weaknesses it has?

I'm sure we can all calculate the odds of that happening...

News Credits: 7 · Wed May 12, 2010 3:56 pm

Shadowman wrote:So, the fire-type is a pig? Am I the only one who realizes, finally, we have a pig that can cook itself?

We've had a chicken that could cook itself as a starter, too. And... a flaming poo monkey...

Loving the starters. I think I shall name the pig Chris P. Bacon

News Credits: 2 · Wed May 12, 2010 4:25 pm

Interestingly, I did have a Torchic named KFC.

News Credits: 2 · Wed May 12, 2010 4:51 pm

Noideaforaname wrote:
Shadowman wrote:So, the fire-type is a pig? Am I the only one who realizes, finally, we have a pig that can cook itself?

We've had a chicken that could cook itself as a starter, too. And... a flaming poo monkey...

Loving the starters. I think I shall name the pig Chris P. Bacon

Oh yeah, actually Torchic and Chimchar were my picks. Actually, so was Cyndaquil...huh, I think I prefer fire-types.

No, no strategy to my picks, ever. The best ones are the ones that look the coolest.

Thu May 13, 2010 1:08 am

Tekka wrote:1. Without the addition of a new type, I doubt we'll see any changes to the resistances table like that. (Though I can't help but quietly wish that Dark's immunity to Psychic would change to a resist.)

2. Skarmory is already one of the best Pokemon in the game with a whopping ELEVEN resistances and immunities, and you want to eliminate one of the two weaknesses it has? I'm sure we can all calculate the odds of that happening...

1. The suggestions I made are independent of a new type. Also, no, I still want to see that immunity kept, since it means a lot (read: Psychics, being gamebreakers).
2. Some people whom I asked somewhere else told me only one word: "UBER!"

News Credits: 2 · Thu May 13, 2010 5:31 am

That statement is false, because Pyschics haven't been gamebreakers since RBY.

Psychics as they stand today:

Strong Against: Poison, Fighting
Ineffective Against: Psychic, Steel, Dark

Resists: Fighting, Psychic
Weak Against: Bug, Ghost, Dark

All three types they are weak against have powerful (and common) moves to use against Psychics. Shadow Ball, X-Scissor, Dark Pulse, Silver Wind, to name just a few.

Psychics are actually a bad type these days, Ubers not withstanding, even Alakazam, with its amazing Speed and Special Attack, can't compete any more because of its horrible defensive stats.

To the point, even changing the Dark immunity to a resist would not help Psychics regain any semblance of their former power, simply because the odds are stacked so heavily against them now.

The only thing it would accomplish is creating a solid type triangle between Psychic, Dark, and Fighting, which is what I want. So there could be a dual type triangle between future starters. E.g. Fire/Dark <-> Grass/Fighting <-> Water/Psychic. Which would be a great combination for a trio of final evolution starters. That is my sole motivation.