3rd Post: I can’t pic-spam no more which is bad : (

OK I talk about Pokemon : )

People think Pokemon is a childish game – you enter your name and become a Pokemon trainer and go “catch em all”. And you battle monsters to gain experience points, level up and battle other monsters.

But unfortunately IT IS NOT. >: ( It is very competitive and you need a lot of strategies to win. Most competitive battlers are 17+ (some nearing 30) and it’s almost equivalent to playing Halo or whatever stuff. Of course internet sources are unreliable, but a user on Smogon(competitive battling Pokemon forum) said that when he was a kid he went to a Pokemon convention and got totally trashed by an older kid who knew how to play the game.

Major improvements have been made to the game since the first generation, there are individual values, effort values, dynamic values of the different Pokemons in the game and it is much harder to obtain stronger Pokes. I bred like a billion of same Pokemon just to get one with good in-bred stats, just like genetics. : ( Strong parents will produce stronger babies. And introduced in the second generation was Shiny Pokemon. Everytime you meet a wild Pokemon there’s a 1/8100++ chance of it being a shiny Pokemon of different colour. It is basically just a trophy to show it off to other players, but amazing to own. (I personally have around 6 of them ^__^)

But the thing I love most is the strategies of the game.

EG. Breloom

Substitute
Takes 1/4 the user’s max HP to create a Substitute that takes damage and blocks non-damaging moves until it’s broken or the user switches.

Focus Punch
Tightens user focus on the first turn and attacks on the second. Deals major damage. Move fails when user is attacked while tightening focus.

Spore
Puts the opponent to sleep

Seed Bomb
Normal attack for regular damage.

Breloom is good because he’s rather speedy and can put the opponent to sleep through Spore, set up a substitute to prevent himself from dying that fast(he has shitty defenses that are as strong as tissue paper) and while he Focus Punches. High Attack and STAB(Same Type Attack Bonus x1.5) usually can OHKO(one hit KOs) anything who comes in. And he has a special ability Poison Heal that heals itself when poisoned, which makes him even stronger because I usually let him hold Toxic Orb that inflicts Poison status and while poisoned, can’t be status-ed with sleep, paralysis, burn or freeze.

OK I END NOW STOP BLABBING ABOUT BORINGNESS.