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For those of you that play Pokémon competively...

greatman05
10-11-2009, 10:27 PM
...Why is it that Pokémon like Weavile and Alakazam are allowed to have terrible defenses instead of putting any sort of investment into improving their defenses?

snowchick7669
10-11-2009, 10:33 PM
Wait a minute.....

People play pokemon competitively?

Ad
10-11-2009, 10:33 PM
  

hellokitty[hk]
10-11-2009, 11:32 PM
Wait a minute.....

People play pokemon competitively?
Lol!
I've never heard of it...
Are you talking about the card game?
Have you considered that the game may just be imbalanced?

greatman05
10-11-2009, 11:57 PM
I'm talking about the video game and its simulation, Pokemon Netbattle (Supremacy for Gen. IV)

supersmashbrada
10-11-2009, 11:59 PM
Why are we talkin about this on this forum again...

red1776
10-12-2009, 12:04 AM
just for clarification, is this the card game that 9 year olds play?

Route44
10-12-2009, 12:15 AM
just for clarification, is this the card game that 9 year olds play?

Naa, red, you can actually play competively between DS hand consoles. I know teens that play it competively.

hellokitty[hk]
10-12-2009, 12:20 AM
Naa, red, you can actually play competively between DS hand consoles. I know teens that play it competively.
I have no idea, but because its a DS game, it probably can't be updated, therefore, it may be imbalanced by design.

Isn't Pokemon RPG style? How would that work competativly?

red1776
10-12-2009, 12:20 AM
oh okay, i thought i had seen my daughter playing it with cards a time or two

MetalX
10-12-2009, 07:41 PM
"Teens that play it competitively" huh? Wow. I'm 17 and I wouldn't be caught dead playing that :)

Ad
10-12-2009, 07:41 PM
  

Technochicken
10-12-2009, 07:49 PM
I was thinking that exact same thing:D (minus being 17). I'm guessing it Route44 was referring to young teens.

red1776
10-12-2009, 08:23 PM
"Teens that play it competitively" huh? Wow. I'm 17 and I wouldn't be caught dead playing that :)

:haha: well put Metal, I asked my 9 year old about it and she the same thing.

greatman05
10-13-2009, 12:34 AM
Well, I mean, there are some competitive elements to it...Link battles, WiFi battles, EV training, picking out Pokémon based on stats, etc. To each his own, I suppose...I'm a big fan of the games, so...yeah. For me, age has nothing to do with how much I enjoy something...I still occasionally watch Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon (not as often as I used to 'cause the newer shows are starting to suck...bad).

Route44
10-13-2009, 01:39 AM
If you would have asked elementary kids from about 6 years ago as well as some teens they had no problem playing Pokemon on their Game Boy Advances or with cards.

Now it is passe'. And what is "in" now will soon be passe' as well. It is the Link Battles that greatman05 points to that has a fun aspect. And I agree, the stuff Nickelodeon puts out now are terrible.

werepossum
11-09-2009, 04:18 AM
Surely competitive Pokémon playing is a sign of the Apocalypse, no?

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