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Rant of the Week: Smogon’s Tiers are flawed

March 26, 2011 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment

I have to admit, Smogon is the most informative website for competitive Pokémon battling. It’s a known fact that I use most of their suggested move sets and EV spreads on my Pokémon for use on Wifi battles, Battle Frontier and Battle Tower. However, there are two things that bother me about Smogon. They are banning Pokémon like Salamence to Ubers and the NU tier is flawed since it contain Pokémon that could destroy many of the very weak Pokémon like Plusle.

While I agree that Garchomp should be banned since it’s relatively difficult to counter/check without having a Weavile or bulky waters with Ice Beam. On the other hand, Salamence while strong is pretty fragile. Stuff like Stealth Rock, Ice Shard, Stone Edge, Ice Beam can OHKO or 2HKO Salamence easily. Most bulky waters like Vaporeon, Suicune, Milotic and sweepers like Weavile, Starmie could basically take Salamence out. To me, banning Pokémon with the exception of Garchomp to Ubers is not a solution, but a big cop out.  If you going to do it that way, you may as well ban Tryanitar, Dragonite, Scizor, etc. because they are too powerful and everyone’s using it.

This also brings up another point, battle emulators. With emulators, planning a good team takes knowledge, but it’s not difficult compared to breeding and training a mountain load of Pokémon. When you battle in game, the possibility of having perfect IVs doesn’t happen very often. Unless you spend the time breeding for IVs/moves, training for EVs and all that stuff, it’s going to be inconsistent. This is the main reason why I don’t battle with simulators, since they take the fun away. Doing battles over Nintendo DS or Pokémon Battle Revolution is the only genuine way to enjoy battles to the fullest.

Lastly, I feel that Smogon’s tiers for Generation IV are flawed since it’s not based on merit, but on popularity. In the past, tier lists were based on merits that depended on the Pokémon’s base stats, move pool, ability and typing. Nowadays, these lists are generated through the use of simulators like Shoddy Battle and Pokémon Online. The disadvantage of this method is that some of the good Pokémon will end up in the undesirable NU, the tier that screams horrible, novelty, and unwanted. As a result, you have some Pokémon like Espeon1 that ends up NU, which makes the whole tier broken. Instead of shoving all the formerly powerful Pokémon in NU, UU should have two subsections. Upper UU for the Pokémon that is used frequently and Lower UU for the Pokémon that aren’t used that frequently, but too powerful. Then, reserve the NU for extremely flawed, weak and novelty Pokémon like Luvdisc, Castform and Plusle.

  1. Because Alakazam is butt ugly ↩

Tagged With: fandom, it's really not a big deal bro, opinion, Pokemon, rant, Serious Business, Smogon

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Twitlonger and Deckly Hate? What is the hubbub?

March 1, 2011 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment

A tweet caught my attention today when I complained the lack of Twitlonger in Kiwi, the Twitter client I am using… saying that Twitlonger and Deck.ly defeats the purpose of Twitter. Since Twitter is Microblogging in 140 chars, typing more than 140 chars will make it a macroblog?

Consider this… You are on a mobile phone and someone posts a long tweet… Since most mobile Twitter clients don’t really show the whole message, you have to click on the link and wait until the full tweet loads. Sounds great right? Depends… it’s more of an inconvenience. But what if you are on the go and need to send a long message on Twitter? It depends on the situation…

If you are going to write a long update on Twitter, you may as well make a blog post on a personal blog, Tumblr or Posterous… so that people don’t have to read through the tweet and realize that the tweet continues onto a link… For mention replies, they are okay because you probably don’t want to hassle people with multiple replies and it’s not worthwhile to post on a blog.

 

Tagged With: it's really not a big deal bro, opinion, social networking, Twitter

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Pointless Flash Rant – Flash 10.1 still sucks

November 11, 2010 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment


Flash is becoming a never ending nightmare with high CPU usage and the laptop getting hot. Even with a i5, the laptop still manage to get very hot when I play a 360p Youtube Video. On top of that, 10.1 video acceleration was on and it didn’t do ANYTHING! The video still played really choppy.

There is no wonder why Apple doesn’t want to install Flash by default, it’s a piece of shit. Adobe insists that Flash does not cause a computer overheat and drain the battery quickly, they are dead wrong. Stop shafting the Mac and Linux users out there, because nobody is happy.

And yes, I use ClicktoFlash so I don’t have Flash Ads eat up my CPU and make my laptop a steaming hotplate.

Tagged With: Adobe, apple, Flash, Flash Sucks, it's really not a big deal bro, rant, Real Life

Scoring System

September 20, 2010 by chikorita157 Leave a Comment

Flak: then give it an average score (5)! you’re not very honest
chikorita157: If you haven’t seen the grading range on my site, 6.8/10 is in the average range. As in grading, a D is below average and C, average… A score of 5/10 is considered failing. I don’t follow myanimelist scoring system, its bullshit
Flak: so you never rate anything 1-4? (since)… when did i mention MyAnimeList?
chikorita157: Considering that anything under 59 is failing, no…
Flak: so you admit that your current scores are meaningless, and that you’re actually rating things on a six point scale?
chikorita157: no… I am not… and why are you making it a big deal of it… it’s a freaking scoring system… :/ FYI, I do score a few titles under 5.99, but 1-5.99 is considered failing no matter what.

This conversation is so moronic that I don’t even want to talk about it anymore

Tagged With: it's really not a big deal bro, pointless, scoring, super cool story bro

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