Orpheus

Some of the nominations are so bad though. Some idiots are wanting Sand Stream banned if other weathers go. What the [bleep]. Tyranitar was never broken in any generation, why is he broken now? Even Hippowdon isn't broken. Goddamn some nominations are stupid. If Sand Stream is banned, they're effectively removing Tyranitar and Hippowdon from the game, and that's not a move you want to make.

What would be the point in the discussion if not for opinions? Jesus christ kid. "everyone that disagrees with me must be a kid!" Birthday: February 12, 1996 Kids arguing with kids IMO. Damn kids need to get off my lawn.

Barujina isn't a bad option, despite the SR weakness. That won't matter though, as it's defenses are so spectacularly high nothing can really OHKO it. 110/105/95 is nothing to scoff at.

*jarate that nulls your fire crit and covers you in piss* *airblast back* *bushwacka crit missed* *shotguned* But truthfully if you're zoomed in I'll do it so fast you wouldn't have time to react. Or I nullify the entire tactic at once by frontline quick-sniping with the rest of the team. Good luck getting near me without dying. And if you are in front of me, you will take 150 damage unless you're lucky or I royally screw up. And I jarate the feet, so airblasting does jack. At least you know about airblasting. Remember the original situation sir. "highly concentrated snipers who stare down their scope for half of the match." Your average, noob sniper. Point taken. But yes, most snipers are terrible. Opposite of that is this little gem:

*jarate that nulls your fire crit and covers you in piss* *airblast back* *bushwacka crit missed* *shotguned* But truthfully if you're zoomed in I'll do it so fast you wouldn't have time to react. Or I nullify the entire tactic at once by frontline quick-sniping with the rest of the team. Good luck getting near me without dying. And if you are in front of me, you will take 150 damage unless you're lucky or I royally screw up. And I jarate the feet, so airblasting does jack. At least you know about airblasting.

It actually comes in-the-box with the game. For PC only, the glorious PC gaming master race :D

*jarate that nulls your fire crit and covers you in piss* *bushwacka crit*

I'm personally on the fence regarding Landlos. And most of us are proposing just banning Drizzle and Swift Swim from being on the same team. It's more reasonable, so that we can further figure out if Drizzle is truly broken because of Swift Swim or what. It's the best solution, so that Drizzle can be seen without Swift Swim abuse, and Swift Swim is kept in check to where the user uses Rain Dance. I still find those suggesting Reniculus to be rather stupid. Nearly all of them had weak pokes offensively on their stall teams, so of course Reniculus could eat them for supper. I'm still nominating Latios, Manaphy (OF COURSE!), and I'm currently on the fence regarding Excadrill/Doryuuzu.

Eh, it was blanket banned, which goes against their philosophy. The Rankurusu nominations piss me off though. Just because you idiots run six stall pokes with one attack each and rely on hazards does not mean he's broken.

Yeah, I'm interested in most of the N64 remakes and the Shin Megami Tensei games. Especially Devil Survivor, which is a massive remake and expansion of the 2008 DS game.

I've heard the argument though that with rain gone, Sandstorm would then be overpowered and we'd be back to square one wanting sand stream, Doryuuzu, Landlos, etc. banned, which makes sense to me. A Manaphy ban I completely understand and agree with. Let me make a simple argument to answer the whole cycle: Drizzle is utterly overcentralizing by comparison to all other weather. Teams that don't carry a weather changer generally can't win against the likes of Kingdra, Ludicolo, and friends. There are a SLEW of rain abusers with awesome movepools and the speed and power to abuse it, and constant rain would make even Nattorei ridiculous. I personally run a Hippowdon just to be sure that Rain doesn't overrun my team. There are only two direct sand abusers, Doryuuzu, who would be better served by banning Sand Throw than Doryuuzu himself. As for Landlos, he's powerful, but a lot of things can outspeed and easily come in on Earthquake. I'd argue that Poison Heal Gliscor is even worse because of his absurd defenses, the fact he can easily find setup opportunities, Taunt (Landlos is an offensive beast and can't give up a move slot for that), and the fact that unless you can corner it, it won't die easily. And Doryuuzu has actual counters: Gliscor laughs, as does Landlos, Breloom, and Birijion. And if Sand Stream was banned, we'd effectively be banning Tyranitar and Hippowdon from standard play, as that's their only abilities that are currently released, and that is NOT a move anyone would want to do. As for Drought, there are a small pool of good abusers (Venusaur, who is a [bleep] because of his goddamn Sleep Powder, Heatran, Volcarona (Ulgamoth's English name)), but one theme befits Chlorophyll users: Their movepools are abysmal. They mostly have to rely on HP for coverage, and Grass is a terrible attacking type. As for Snow Warning, there are no real abusers of it outside a crappy gimmick set on Froslass, and Walrein (although it can't work as well anymore). It's summoner is the worst weather summoner of the entire lot. Pathetic defenses, slow speed in this metagame, passable offensives and a fair movepool. He also has seven utterly common weaknesses: Fire, Rock, Fighting, Bug, Steel, Poison, and Flying. Ok, Flying is only somewhat more common than before, and Poison is non-existant outside of Toxicroak. Still, that's a lot of weaknesses, compounded with his Stealth Rock weakness. He's the worst of the lot.

I've talked with some of the smogon staff, apparently if I can maintain a constant rank at where I'm at, and provide a decent paragraph, I should get voter rights. Then I'll vote for no Drizzle or Manaphy. I've argued that by virtue of my timeframe for getting online is impossible to get 1400 with (late night in the US), it just can't be reached. They do make special cases if you can present a decent argument.

(20:06:15) +RankingBot: Your rank in Standard OU is 144/16816! Ah, cool. At this rate, I might get the ability to vote in the next suspect test.

So, who wants cake?

Thing is, the grenades have an arc. Use that to your advantage, like firing over walls, bouncing them off walls around corners, etc.

Bianca has more of a "white" connotation to it IMO. I don't think they had any decent ways to localize Cheren, so they left it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBp8LM2me4g Holy [cabbage]...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C3D0rcFXrY&feature=player_embedded Seen this over 50 times, but it always makes me bend over with laughter every goddamn time. I welcome our new ketchup-spewing overlords.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/989552-pokemon-black-version/57763606 I'm currently doing a nuzlocke run of B/W, so track it over at the topic I linked.

Heh, here's a fun fact for you guys: I don't recognize any of your faces at all. I sometimes don't even recognize my own face.

I'm honestly not too sure what to think. On paper it seems like an alright idea, provided it's voluntary. If it remains optional and corporations can't force the use of it, I don't see too much of an issue. Then again, there is corruption.

Thing is, in upper levels of play, Demomen have it the hardest of all. They're limited to one per team alongside the medics and more recently, heavies. Scouts are your main counter and most can two-four shot you easily enough. Their disjointed hitboxes do not help matters at all. You practically need some support in the form of a scout to protect you, or a medic. To balance it off, they have area denial and some insane firepower.

Zuruzukin is "Eh" for me. He's not bad, but he's the weakest link in my team, in that he really doesn't do much. Sure being able to eat Gengar for breakfast is awesome, but he just doesn't do enough for the team. Shed Skin doesn't quite work well either, so maybe I could play around with an Intimidate variant which can safely deal with Doryuuzu? Failing that, there's always Machamp/Roobushin/Hariyama. Don't forget Gliscor/Landlos, both of which also check Dory's counters if you happen to have a dory of your own. Balloon dorys are a problem for Gliscor that only run earthquake, though. Main problem with this is that I already run Landlos and don't want another ice weakness. I might start using a more physically bulky Hariyama or something, who knows. Knock Off is an awesome move after all.

Would this be a good or a bad time to make a sex joke? Perhaps they ran out of steam way too quickly.

There is actually. I don't know the specifics, but it basically boils down to hosting the map itself as the save file for the server.