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I PROTECC

6 (11.5%)

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2 (3.8%)

Waiting on the third AND fourth one

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GET WELL SOON ZYGARDE

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Total Members Voted: 51

[Bluerobin]

It's really amazing. It makes me miss the Bay12 Pokemon hack that fizzled.

[Furtuka]

whaaaaaaaaaaa

Ok this looks neat

[Sirus]

whaaaaaaaaaaa

Ok this looks neat

Note to self: Watch this later when on a device that can youtube.

[Culise]

Isn't this partially the premise from one of the movies, too? 
...
Yep, ping.  I look forward to seeing how they do it.  If X/Y is anything to go by, the special episode will be a bit more interesting than the actual story. 

[Neonivek]

You know... I'd love Megaregigigas

[Culise]

You know... I'd love Megaregigigas

It'd be lovely, but knowing GameFreak's sense of humour, it'd probably gain the ability Truant.

[umiman]

Of the many things I was expecting out of the new games, flying into space on the back of Mega Rayquaza really wasn't on the list.

Also, I think they mentioned that between XY and ORAS, you'd be able to catch every single pokemon. So does this mean Mew and Shaymin and other legendaries are going to be in too?

[Thexor]

I'm pretty sure they mentioned capturing all non-event exclusive Pokemon. Which would exclude those two, sadly.

[umiman]

Alright guys. ORAS comes out on Friday.

Some more reports of the megaevolutions I've fought.

1. Mega Sceptile is basically a grass version of Mega Blaziken. It has STAB outrage so just think of it as a super Garchomp except grass / dragon. I think it's kinda derpy and dies too easily, but your experience might differ.
2. Mega Swampert is donkeyballs tanky. The one I fought tanked a 3x boosted STAB sucker punch with 30% hp to spare. That's pretty scary.
3. Mega Steelix is just the same thing as Steelix. Aka, don't use physical attacks against it, it dies to one fireblast.
4. Mega Glalie is meh, but it has the refrigerate return which is pretty nice.
5. Mega Diancie is pretty strong. Very hard to kill.
6. Mega Rayquaza is broken.
7. Mega Salamence is broken.
8. Mega Groudon is actually really scary. Because his physical defense is so high, you really can only deal with him with special attacks. However, he makes water moves unusable so basically you're limited to ground moves. Literally only ground special attack moves (aka earth power) will scare him. He has no other weaknesses. Earthquake? He just tanks it no big deal. Don't mess with him, it's pretty brutal.
9. Mega Kyougre is just like regular Kyougre except stronger. However, his new ability isn't as good as Groudon's as he never had a problem with fire moves to begin with.
10. Mega Camerupt sucks. He basically must have rock polish to function or he's worthless.
11. Mega Slowbrow sucks. His tankiness is not worth losing regenerator. Also no leftovers makes him really garbage.
12. Mega Sharpedo is a scary suicide pokemon. He usually spends the first turn boosting his speed. Then he starts attacking everything with a billion damage until he dies.
13. Mega Altaria is meh Its attacks are kinda pathetic with no real damage. It's quite tanky but it's not going to be able to do anything.
14. Mega Lopunny is really strong. STAB high jump kick with super base damage and super base speed. Also STAB return. It can fight everything.
15. Mega Gallade is pretty okay. It actually gets some pretty decent speed and combined with its tankiness to special attacks it can wreck a lot of damage.

[Urist Imiknorris]

You know... I'd love Megaregigigas

It'd be lovely, but knowing GameFreak's sense of humour, it'd probably gain the ability Truant.

That would probably be an improvement.

[umiman]

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/11/18/pokemon-omega-ruby-alpha-sapphire-one-coolest-new-features-yet/

Basically, with the DexNav, the more you encounter a pokemon, the easier it gets to find the pokemon with the skills and IVs that you want.

[Bluerobin]

So, as a distraction from ORAS and all of the leaks which may or may not actually be real, I've had a craving for a tournament. Not a normal one, but rather the Pokemon Rivals tournament that Akroma and Culise ran a while ago (almost a full year ago... yeesh). Now, there were problems with it last time, most of which centered around how complicated it all became, so I have a thread over in Play With Your Buddies that I'll be using as a sort of devlog/brainstorming thread to see if we can polish it up and make it easier to run and to take part in. If you're interested, either in the tournament or in giving input on what's good/bad, pop on over.

As a copy/paste, so people have an idea of what this is all about without reading the manual: The general idea is that the tournament mimics a playthrough of the games. You start at a low level with one unevolved Pokemon and no EVs. As you travel, you "catch" pokemon based on the routes you choose to travel down, fight gym leaders, gather items for your Pokemon to wield and, hopefully obviously, battle the other participants. There were multiple stages of the tournament, one for each town, and watching the teams develop organically was really awesome.

[Furtuka]

So er leakers are reporting that Mega Rayquaza doesn't need a Mega Stone and can hold items as a result. If this is true then uh wow

[Tawa]

Ah.

I forgot to mention something today regarding the American/Japanese release, which is conviniently occuring in three days (assuming a midnight release):

[Furtuka]

...uh I'm sorry to tell you this, but theres actually only about 28 hours remaining. Give or take a few to account for timeones. Midnight release events are a thing, specially since Smash WiiU is coming out the same day. I'm gonna head to my local gamestop tomorrow night for the release event.