{"id":5704,"date":"2016-03-14T14:06:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2016-03-15T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T20:08:45","slug":"the-approaching-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5704","title":{"rendered":"The Pokk\u00e9n Dilemma: The Unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guys, I don’t know what to do. Pokk\u00e9n Tournement<\/strong> is just days away and I have no idea which monster I want to choose as my main. Sure, I could just try them all and then choose based on my findings, and that’s probably exactly what I’ll do. But I do think that it’s fun to go over the competitors and try to figure out which one I’d like the most, based on wild guesses and theories.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I don’t scrutinize trailers and other promotional videos to try to figure out the attributes and\u00a0abilities of each character before playing them. Most of my thoughts are just based on\u00a0my existing thoughts about the Pok\u00e9mon in question, how they perform in other games, and how their designs might affect their performance in a one-on-one fighting game.<\/p>\n

Let’s look at the\u00a0monsters that\u00a0I’m least interested in first:<\/p>\n

SCEPTILE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>The final evolution of the grass-type starter from Ruby and Sapphire, Treecko.\u00a0while it’s\u00a0in a dire position because I don’t usually give a hot damn about grass-type starters, Sceptile\u00a0is actually one of the cooler ones, at least in my opinion. A big ol’ lizardy guy with some manner of tree for a\u00a0tail.<\/p>\n

I would imagine that Sceptile would use that tail in\u00a0the bulk of its attacks, because it’s got pretty puny little arms. It does have blades on those arms, but they still seem like more of a liability than a real asset\u00a0 Plus, man, grass type. I am really not a big fan overall, even though I love the colour green. There are a few grass-types that I absolutely love (like Roserade and Gourgeist), but for the most part I just can’t be bothered with ’em.<\/p>\n

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BRAIXEN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>The second form of X\/Y starter Fennekin, I feel like Braixen is at the same time a very great and very odd choice of a fighter. There were already a couple other “magic” fighters on the roster when Braixen was revealed, but Braixen is the only mid-stage Pok\u00e9mon on the list. Also, its weapon of choice is a twig. Yep.<\/p>\n

Fennekin is a really adorable starter, but I’ve never been too keen on its evolutions. Braixen is alright, but Delphox has always been a very undesirable pok\u00e9mon to me. I dunno. Just not crazy about a magic bipedal fox. It really doesn’t help that the\u00a0Pokk\u00e9n roster has a whole bunch of\u00a0much cooler fire-types on deck. Braixen never had a chance.<\/p>\n

GARDEVOIR<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>The first time I played through Pok\u00e9mon Sapphire, I caught a Ralts right away, and its evolved form, Gardevoir, was a wonderful asset to my team all the way to the end. It’s a\u00a0very powerful Pok\u00e9mon, made all the better with its new secondary fairy-typing. A Gardevoir that can go toe-to-toe with dragons<\/em>? Yeah, sign me up!<\/p>\n

Then again, Gardevoir’s power lies entirely in is psychic abilities. Not overly interesting when you’re playing a fighting game. Don’t get me wrong, a occasional projectile is perfectly fine, but building a character around psychic moves? That’s pretty much the same reason I’m not really into Braixen. Give me a more physical fighter, please.<\/p>\n

MACHAMP<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>A massively muscled, four-armed powerhouse. Machamp exists solely to be\u00a0the number one karate champ in the Pok\u00e9mon world, and fits into the Pokk\u00e9n roster\u00a0perfectly. Those four arms will be great for pummelling\u00a0opponents into submission before they have a chance to get an attack in. Heck, it’s even already got a championship belt!<\/p>\n

So why is Machamp relegated to my “not interested” list? Simply because it’s not interesting<\/em>. Even in generation one, it was the lamest of the fighting-type pok\u00e9mon. It’s rough going when you’re up against the likes of Primeape and Hitmonlee, and Machamp just didn’t have the right stuff to make the cut. Plus, what’s up with that beak? Honestly, I’d probably be a bit more interested if this fighter were replaced with the mid-stage Machoke.<\/p>\n

WEAVILE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>Apparently wildly popular in.. I don’t know. Japan, maybe? For some reason, Weavile has some level of fame, and tends to pop up unexpectedly often. Some kind of weasel with an odd headdress, Weavile is an ice\/dark-type Pok\u00e9mon that seems to love being\u00a0kind of a jerk. Or, at least that’s what it’s smirk suggests.<\/p>\n

I don’t know much about Weavile. When it first showed up in Gen 4, I barely noticed it because I wasn’t into either of its typings, and by the time I came around on ice-types, there were so many better monsters to choose from. Weavile is also one of the few Pokk\u00e9n fighters that I’ve watched video footage of, and it makes all of the horribly annoying cat-like sounds. There’s an easy\u00a0pass right there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guys, I don’t know what to do. Pokk\u00e9n Tournement is just days away and I have no idea which monster I want to choose as my main. Sure, I could just try them all and then choose based on my findings, and that’s probably exactly what I’ll do. But I do think that it’s fun … Continue reading The Pokk\u00e9n Dilemma: The Unlikely<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pokemon","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5720,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/5720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}