Pokemon Thread!

[JiraiyaSennin]

My daddy works at Nintendo and he just LEAKED me TWO NEW MEGA EVOLUTIONS:

Spoiler

This is the scoop of the century.

That leak is so legit it hurts.

Anyway, I really like the idea of Parental bond, considering it's pretty much like a x1.5 (Probably) boost to every attack and let's you break though focus sashes and substitutes.

It's also good for when you one shot a Pokemon then the next Pokemon is near death and that second attack can just take it out.

[Ghost Nappa]

I just found out Alomomola is the same thing backwards. Call me a slowpoke if you want.

[Psychospacecow]

I just found out Alomomola is the same thing backwards. Call me a slowpoke if you want.

Nah Bro, you evolved last month.

[gamemaster1991]

I just found out Alomomola is the same thing backwards. Call me a slowpoke if you want.

So is Eevee, Girafarig, and Ho-Oh. They are palindromes.

Did you know that Ekans, Arbok, and Rotom have backwards names. I knew Snake and Kobra, but just found out about Motor today.

[JiraiyaSennin]

I just found out Alomomola is the same thing backwards. Call me a slowpoke if you want.

So is Eevee, Girafarig, and Ho-Oh. They are palindromes.

Did you know that Ekans, Arbok, and Rotom have backwards names. I knew Snake and Kobra, but just found out about Motor today.

How about that Muk?

[Psychospacecow]

I just found out Alomomola is the same thing backwards. Call me a slowpoke if you want.

So is Eevee, Girafarig, and Ho-Oh. They are palindromes.

Did you know that Ekans, Arbok, and Rotom have backwards names. I knew Snake and Kobra, but just found out about Motor today.

How about that Muk?

See, I was refraining from making that joke...

[gamemaster1991]

I just found out Alomomola is the same thing backwards. Call me a slowpoke if you want.

So is Eevee, Girafarig, and Ho-Oh. They are palindromes.

Did you know that Ekans, Arbok, and Rotom have backwards names. I knew Snake and Kobra, but just found out about Motor today.

How about that Muk?

See, I was refraining from making that joke...

Me too.

[JiraiyaSennin]

Well, someone had to do it.

[BumblebeeCody*]

I just found out Alomomola is the same thing backwards. Call me a slowpoke if you want.

So is Eevee, Girafarig, and Ho-Oh. They are palindromes.

Did you know that Ekans, Arbok, and Rotom have backwards names. I knew Snake and Kobra, but just found out about Motor today.

How about that Muk?

See, I was refraining from making that joke...

Me too.

Same but only because I realised the 90's ended 13 years ago, when we stopped making that joke.
Also Marril backwards is Albert Wesker.

[Sohakmet]

Am I late for the Muk joke?

[JiraiyaSennin]

So is Eevee, Girafarig, and Ho-Oh. They are palindromes.

Did you know that Ekans, Arbok, and Rotom have backwards names. I knew Snake and Kobra, but just found out about Motor today.

How about that Muk?

See, I was refraining from making that joke...

Me too.

Sam but only because I realised the 90's ended 13 years ago, when we stopped making that joke.
Also Marril backwards is Albert Wesker.

Well it was going to happen whether it was me or not.

[Klonoa]

Anyway. I might as well say this about the OPness of the megas.

When we are all talking about the state of the game most of us are referring to Smogon rules. the official rules that Game Freak cater for are VGC double battles which are a completely different metagame to singles.

Blaziken is nowhere near OP in doubles because in singles it can use Hi-Jump Kick to absolutely destroy things while in doubles because pretty much every pokemon uses protect you have to resort to the far weaker Sky Uppercut as your fighting STAB. Also, Blaziken doesn't use spread moves, which means nothing in singles but in doubles that's a really bad thing and leaves it open for the other pokemon to attack it.

Also they Mega Stone is the only item each of them can hold. No Choice sets, No Life Orb, No Leftovers, No Type Resistance lure berries no nothing. That's a pretty big bummer and leaves me wondering if Megacario can actually keep up with it's normal form (If Megaccario reduces the attack stat then it'll be instantly bottom of the barrel crap.)

This should be stable in a doubles metagame. The singles metagame is unofficial and the Pokémon community has trusted Smogon to keep it stable (Even if they are failing at it by being massive pussies at the moment, but that's a whole other story.)

I posted this on another forum but I though I might as well put it here.

[BumblebeeCody*]

@Klonoa
I guess once we get a comparison of Blaziken to MegaKen then we can see how their stats fair out.

[Antwan]

New Pokémon anime. Starring Red.

[Arjahn]

New Pokémon anime. Starring Red.

Holy crap, a Pokemon anime with badass animation without Pikachu plastered all over it? I'm sold.