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Right, theme time. I almost didn't have much of an idea, but then the perfect opportunity fell into my lap. Sick Smash Score! It's looking very likely that we'll finally be getting the "long waited by Tony Hawk" remakes of the third and fourth games in the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series, so today's Smash roster have all used a Skateboard at some point. Yes, even Simon. That guy has an amazing track record of squirming his way into my themes in ways I never even knew about! There's a costume restriction here. Bowser Jr - Bowser Jr, Larry, Wendy, and Ludwig only This is the first time that only some of the Koopalings are allowed, by the way. The research we did for this was a ride! Miis are also allowed, but cannot be wearing any special costumes that hide the fact that they are Miis. (Cuphead, Bomberman, etc.) Stages have some nice slopes to skate off of tonight! No stairs though. Stairs are a skateboarders worst nightmare! Format: Time, 2 Minutes Special FS Meter: On See you at 7:30, for the standard Custom set. -
Right, I wasn't around last week, so already behind a week more then I would've liked. Huh? Oh no, you're not getting two posts now. Don't be stupid. There's only one non-legendary Pokémon that was banned to Ubers in Gen 3 (Ruby/Sapphire), so we're moving to Gen 4 (Diamond/Pearl) now. Wobbuffet/Wynaut is a weird case of a Pokémon most people wouldn't expect to be good enough to be banned to Ubers actually getting there. This time, anyone with even a basic knowledge of how strong Pokémon can be can tell you this next one is good. In fact, @Jonnas already did. Garchomp is a Ground/Dragon Pokémon introduced in the Gen 4 games. It's our first example of what is officially called a "Powerhouse Pokémon". Powerhouse Pokémon all have a BST (Base Stat Total, the total of a Pokémon's base stats) of 600. The Powerhouse Pokémon most of you know of is Dragonite. So they're designed to be strong, but not quite as strong as Legendary Pokémon... In theory, anyway. Garchomp is a land shark, it's also a jet, apparently. Yeah, the thing can fly, somehow. It's most famous for being the signature Pokémon of the Gen 4 champion, Cynthia, probably one of the most difficult battles in the mainline games (there have been harder since). She has a lot of very good Pokémon, and Garchomp is only one of them. Here are it's base stats. See? They add up to 600. That's why the BST is 600. That's a really nice stat spread. Special Attack is not important for Garchomp, so that being the lowest stat is no problem. What makes Garchomp so much better then it's other Powerhouse counterparts of the time? Well, multiple things, but the main thing is it's speed stat. The speed stat in Pokémon determines the turn order in battles. In normal circumstances, the Pokémon with the higher speed stat will go first. It doesn't matter if you have 1 more speed, or 100 more. So ideally, you want your Pokémon to have just enough speed to outspeed your opponent, anything more then that is kind of a waste. Funnily enough, that clip @RedShell posted above is a good example of this, doesn't matter how big and strong you are, if someone goes first and ends the fight, you don't get to do a thing. A lot of good Pokémon in competitive battles have a base Speed stat of 100, this means that Garchomp outspeeds most Pokémon with minimal stats invested into it's Speed. That kind of min-maxing made it an absolute menace. As well as that, Garchomp's diverse movepool means it can fulfill a good variety of roles, which means your opponent needs to guess at what you plan to do with Garchomp. If they guess wrong, or aren't able to counter your plan, then you get an immense amount of momentum, and there's a real chance that you will procced to destroy the opponent. Oh, but that's not all. Because Garchomp has an absolutely killer ability in Gen 4 in the form of Sand Veil. Sand Veil: Raises the Pokémon’s evasion during a sandstorm by one level. So let me tell you something about the Smogon community. They absolutely loathe anything that affects evasion. If a Pokémon has any method of changing this, Smogon will go out of it's way to ban it in some way. This is why Bidoof was once banned to Ubers, BTW. Unfortunately, that's no longer the case, so you won't be seeing that Pokémon here. But you know what the most surprising thing about Garchomp is? It's only in Gen 4 that Garchomp is actually banned to Ubers! One of the most famous examples of what this thread is about is actually only relevant in one generation. After that, it got an alternative ability that's nowhere near as good as Sand Veil, so Smogon only allows Garchomp to have that not-as-good ability. For almost every other generation, it's actually in OU (OverUsed). Well, except Gen 9 (Scarlet/Violet). It's actually fallen lower there! It's now in UU (UnderUsed). The power creep has not been kind to ol' Garcho. Now, I know what some of you thinking, didn't Garchomp get a Mega Evolution? Well yeah, it did. But unlike every other Mega Evolution ever, Mega Garchomp is actually worse then the regular one! For reasons I can only imagine as balancing attempts, Garchomp's base speed goes down by 10 when it Mega Evolves, which if you've been paying attention, puts it below the ideal 100 speed threshold. Which means that most people just used their Mega Evolution on a different Pokémon instead. Does that mean it's good in casual play? Oh boy, is it ever! To be fair, most Powerhouse Pokémon are good. The big downside is that like all Powerhouse Pokémon, they're hard to find, take a while to train, and tend to evolve quite late. Put in the effort though, and you've got a ridiculously good Pokémon. You can't go wrong with Garchomp here. And remember, casual playthroughs don't have to follow Smogon's rules, so feel free to be an utter degenerate and use Sand Veil.
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On a similar vein as bob's Spider-Man 2 woes, SNK has actually launched an Open Beta for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves just yesterday. I giddily signed up and... ...it doesn't run on my PC Low video card memory. The true price of keeping my hobbies relatively cheap and frugal. Other realistic options that will allow me to own a playable version of this game include getting myself a Steam Deck (or similar handheld PC), or cross my fingers that this'll get a port for the Switch 2. Will have to give either option some serious thought. I knew this was a risk when I first put this game on the pledge, but I really wanted to have faith. Kinda sucks that this is the first update I have for my pledge. On a brighter note, I'm already playing another title that's also on it (and this one, I can play on one of my current consoles). -
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By BowserBasher · Posted
Racing made a change from all the shooting. So this goes for me as well as @Glen-i how can we be so good at one F-Zero game, but so bad at others? I just can’t seem to GBA F-Zero yet F-Zero X well, yeah I think I won more than you three combined. Glen is the opposite. Terrible at X, yet does well on the GBA games.
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