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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat, Vol. 3

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Rainami

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It could be worse.

I hope I get my license soon so I can just drive by myself to the next one.
 

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I play the game for fun as well, but watching competitive battling clips is also fun.

I don't really like the competitive battling "scene" at all.... The first time I came into contact with it, saw tier lists and realized that all the Pokemon I like aren't "competitively viable" made me put off.
 

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@jda95 The competitive community does a good job at making most Pokemon seem terrible. Just because a Pokemon isn't in a high tier doesn't mean you can't use it.

It depends what level of competitive you are. If you're battling people on Smogon, then you're gonna probably need to use mainly high tier Pokemon. But less serious stuff is more lenient.
 

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I kinda do different levels of competitive stuff. I have teams that mainly are just Pokemon I like, but I also have teams that are really strong but don't have a lot of Pokemon I like much.
 

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It's half-half for me. I have Pokemon I like among the ones I EV trained, but some, I looked at what people usually trained and thought "Oh I have that Pokemon, why not" and trained one. Like Salamance (banned in competitive battling iirc, but still) who was very helpful in Battle Subway 0.o
 

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It's half-half for me. I have Pokemon I like among the ones I EV trained, but some, I looked at what people usually trained and thought "Oh I have that Pokemon, why not" and trained one. Like Salamance (banned in competitive battling iirc, but still) who was very helpful in Battle Subway 0.o

Hehe... That's the reason why I don't actively participate in competitive stuff these days - I prefer doing my own things in my own pace. There's a strange and yet beautiful quality on being static when it comes to things like this.

That said, I just work with what I know...
 

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I had a female Bagon with DW ability that I really wanted to raise, and nicely while at it.

Some Pokemon - like Chandelure - I love it and it's used in competitive battling as well. (Maybe not anymore? I don't follow the trends)
 

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Yeah, I just mainly dislike Smogon because they seem a little arrogant to me. >.< Like, the way they want everyone to follow their metagame rules.
 

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Every time I try to get into battling, I always ref my best to just not bother and go with standard TPC rules - it's really easy to.understand and is very stable.
 

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I don't do competitive battling. Partly because up until I bought my 3DS, I didn't have easy access to wi-fi (stupid DS Lite only working with WEP secured networks). And partly because I'm not finished with the Pokemon games I do own.

I've lurked on Smogon a bit, and I can honestly say I'm not tempted to join XD Has a fraternity feel at times.
 

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One look at Smogon, and I think I began to doubt whether I'll ever take another look at it again.
 

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Hey guys.

I finally beat Red last night. I just brought in Altaria on Venusaur after Swampert killed Pikachu, used 5 dragon dances and swept his entire team in one hit with dragon claw. That was really the only way I could do it because Blastoise was faster than everyone on my team and could OHKO everyone on my team.
 
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