Prof. SALTY
The Scruffy Professor
I think it’s seaweed, not moss.
You are correct XD I'm not sure why I typed moss, I knew it was seaweed.
I think it’s seaweed, not moss.
Given the past two games allowed you to dress up as a member of a villainous team you'd assume that doing so would get you some odd reactions. Don't get me wrong I love the outfits but from a practical perspective, you'd think someone would raise a few questions. Especially after you become champion.
I mean, there's an old guy in Celadon just chilling at his table with 2 rocket grunts in his house and he doesn't even mention it. I don't think regular citizens care that much.
Given the past two games allowed you to dress up as a member of a villainous team you'd assume that doing so would get you some odd reactions. Don't get me wrong I love the outfits but from a practical perspective, you'd think someone would raise a few questions. Especially after you become champion.
That’s kind of like if two Mafia guys broke into your house and just chilled with you. Even the citizens of Cerulean City and Icirrus City don’t notice that there’s a (former) Team Rocket member living amongst them, and he steals a machine part from the Kanto Power Plant in broad daylight.
At the beginning of Black/White, when Team Plasma gives a speech on Pokémon liberation in Accumula Town, people at least do seem to notice what’s going on, but they don’t know that Team Plasma are a criminal cult masquerading as a Pokémon rights organisation at this point.
You mean the bit in Gold/Silver and HG/SS where you disguise yourself as a Team Rocket member?
Given the past two games allowed you to dress up as a member of a villainous team you'd assume that doing so would get you some odd reactions. Don't get me wrong I love the outfits but from a practical perspective, you'd think someone would raise a few questions. Especially after you become champion.
To be fair, the outfit you wear in Let's Go looks nothing like an actual Team Rocket uniform. You just seem to be some sort of Team Rocket fanboy or something.
What kind of weird person would love a criminal organization that steals Pokémon for money?
What kind of weird person would love a criminal organization that steals Pokémon for money?
The fact that defeating Pokemon used by Trainers doesn't award you more experience than the wild ones of the same level in the Alola games. It makes no sense because the Pokemon used by Trainers are stronger than those in the wild.
Even in real life, there sometime tends to be a glorification of criminal orginization. It's strange, but it exists.
Yeah, I find it really weird. It looks as if type matchups aren't a thing in the anime. I think there are some episodes that look into certain type matchups but they aren't covered as extensively compared to the games.What really gets me is that in the anime, type advantages exist, but are commonly not adhered to as strongly as they are in the games. Look what happened when Ash tried to use his Pignite against Brycen’s Vanillish in the Unova series, for example. Fire is strong against Ice, so why was Pignite struggling?
Yeah, I find it really weird. It looks as if type matchups aren't a thing in the anime. I think there are some episodes that look into certain type matchups but they aren't covered as extensively compared to the games.
Yeah, that one. I remember that was the way Ash got his first Gym Badge. I remember there were times Ghost-types were hit with Normal-type attacks without Foresight but I forgot which episodes they were in.And then there’s of course the infamous ‘powering up Pikachu with electricity from a power plant’ from the episode where Ash battles Brock. At least it kind of tied in to Rock’s weakness of Water when the sprinklers were activated, thus making Onix weak to Pikachu’s electricity.
What really gets me is that in the anime, type advantages exist, but are commonly not adhered to as strongly as they are in the games. Look what happened when Ash tried to use his Pignite against Brycen’s Vanillish in the Unova series, for example. Fire is strong against Ice, so why was Pignite struggling?
Sort of like what happens with Al Capone and Pablo Escobar, for example.
Yeah, I find it really weird. It looks as if type matchups aren't a thing in the anime. I think there are some episodes that look into certain type matchups but they aren't covered as extensively compared to the games.
And then there’s of course the infamous ‘powering up Pikachu with electricity from a power plant’ from the episode where Ash battles Brock. At least it kind of tied in to Rock’s weakness of Water when the sprinklers were activated, thus making Onix weak to Pikachu’s electricity.
Even so, I still know that some people like Clemont mention type matchups to predict outcomes for battles. But I never said it was non-existent in the anime as I do remember at least one episode that was focused on one very specific type matchup, which focused on Fairy's immunity to Dragon. Well at least the purpose of it is so we have less predictable battles in the anime after all.I assure you that type match ups do indeed exist. They are mentioned plenty of times, and very commonly have had major impacts on battles. They're just not as important, that's all.
It's type advantage, not type dominance. You may have an advantage if you use a super-effective move, but that doesn't mean it's an instant win. A stronger Pokémon can overcome any disadvantage. To use an extreme example from the games, a level 100 Vanillish will almost certainly defeat a level 20 Pignite. I'm not arguing that Brycen's Vanillish was level 100, I'm just trying to make a point that it is possible for a Pokémon with a type advantage to struggle.
Also, compare that to the Pokémon move Soak. It works better than you would think.
But I never said it was non-existent in the anime as I do remember at least one episode that was focused on one very specific type matchup, which focused on Fairy's immunity to Dragon.
Soak wasn’t introduced until Gen 5, and the battle with Brock took place during the timeline of Gen 1. Maybe when GF are coming up with new moves for a new generation, they look back at the anime and find some improvised moves to turn into real moves?
That was in The Clumsy Crier Quiets the Chaos! which was the episode where a Pokémon Center Wigglytuff calmed down a rampaging Salamence. It was an XY episode.Was that the episode with Ash battling Valerie?
Your talking about how the sprinklers soaked Onix in water making him conductive to electricity and is similar to the move "Soak" there fore making it internally consistent? Nope. Not even a 100% close. A sprinkling of water and using the move "Soak" are two different things. In fact by that logic you could literally apply that to every ground-type who was recently soaked by water, such as Rhydon from the swimming episode or Wooper from Pokemon Generations who was completely immune to electricity even though it was swimming in water. That's just plot armor really. In fact it even makes less sense that this wouldn't be the last time Ash's Pikachu's thunderbolt would beat a ground-type. It isn't even the only Onix to be beaten with Thunderbolt, we would see this again with Roark in the Diamond and Pearl series. But you know what's interesting about this? That poor use of Pokemon logic is very representative of the limitations of the Gen 1 battling mechanics, how Pikachu had no super-effective move during Gen 1 against Onix.My point is that the internal logic of Pokémon remained consistent. Obviously I'm not trying to say that the sprinklers was literally representing the move Soak.