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Twitch Plays Pokemon Emerald: Right A Down, Right A Down
EarlyEarly
Member
Level 80 Azumarill and they haven't beaten the game yet? Holy smokes. Everybody else is also pretty low leveled. I guess this game turned out to be much harder that the previous two.
User 73706
Banned
Azumarill didn't really become a powerhouse until XY, statistically speaking. No matter how much it levels up, its base stats mean it can handle some hurdles ingame, but a water-dominated region, lack of Huge Power and an Anarchy-driven moveset aren't doing it any favors. Its defensive ability, great typing and high base HP mean it's a walking "survive with 1HP because heart of the cards" machine, though. It's basically equivalent to starting with a respawning Pichu for a Nuzlocke challenge.
Hyperactivity
Banned
Nope, still safe for a little while yet.
And yay at democracy being back. Never particularly hated or liked it, but it added a dynamic that had become very closely associated with TPP for me, and without it it felt as though something was missing.
Hope we can get a better team thanks to it
Hyperactivity
Banned
HELL YEAH. WE FINALLY GOT AN ODDISH TO A VILEPLUME AND TENTACRUEL IS JUST AWESOME
Bedameister
Member
wow Azumarill at 82?
If we keep going it might even get 100
If we keep going it might even get 100
ratcliffja
Member
Most of our party is still dead weight even with the evolutions. The bird in particular is terrible and hasn't gotten experience in forever.
Bedameister
Member
whats up with all the select spamming?
ratcliffja
Member
You won't be missed.Oh we're doing democracy again? Bye forever stream. I'd rather just go play Pokemon myself.
Emerald started so well
redmetal86
Member
Oh dear, it's raining again. And shining brightly again. And raining again. And shining brightly again.
Rayquaza probably took a nap while waiting for A.
Rayquaza probably took a nap while waiting for A.
Fucking Democracy.
The Elite 4 is going to be a horrible grind unless we can get some other strong Pokemon.
Probably not going to happen. Sidney and Glacia have several Pokemon resistant to Water, most of Drake and Wallace's team resist Water. Resisting Water is huge because M4 has horrible physical attack and there's no way we'll win just spamming Rollout. Phoebe has Pokemon immune to Rock Smash that can burn or curse M4, and Wallace has shit like Ludicolo that will murder us if it gets off a Leech Seed or Double Team.
The Elite 4 is going to be a horrible grind unless we can get some other strong Pokemon.
redmetal86
Member
redmetal86
Member
Oh I would love to see that. The battle of the weather giants, in 3D!
ratcliffja
Member
Well adding all those HMs and TMs in democracy should help for everybody except useless xx.
redmetal86
Member
Here we go!
Oh we're doing democracy again? Bye forever stream. I'd rather just go play Pokemon myself.
Emerald started so well
Undersea Cavern is on Rocket HQ levels and Sootopolis Gym is just straight up impossible without democracy. It was known before the start of Emerald it'd be coming back eventually, and it came back during the Undersea Cavern.
Considering the proximity of the time stamps I'm guessing we did this in democracy. I was all for going on a TM hunt, but using democracy to teach them is just lazy, I don't approve. I really wish streamer took away democracy right after we finished Undersea Cavern, we've had it for less than 24 hours and we're already abusing it. Hopefully it's gone permanently after Sootopolis Gym.
Thousands of strangers collaborating together to achieve a single goal: lazy
ratcliffja
Member
Yeah I'll never understand that mindset. The stream has gotten so much more watchable in the last 24 hours.
Not worth it. The whining from anti-democracy people would be even more unbearable.
We should just focus on getting that 8th badge, and figure out how we can even survive against the E4. Marill alone won't cut it, and I'm not sure about the rest, even with their newly gained TMs.
The current democracy system doesn't allow for holding a button down, it inputs commands one at a time. In other words, getting up Sky Pillar is impossible for us, so no Rayquaza.
Using the easy method which takes a few minutes over the standard one which could take hours=lazy, yes.
redmetal86
Member
Archie's getting ignored so hard.
This may very well be our most painful Elite 4 yet, which is saying something. The difference in our team composition between runs with and mostly without democracy is staggering. I'm wondering which pokemon will rise to the challenge and assume a clutch role like Solid Snake did in Crystal.
Anarchy had two weeks. Taking the reins to get something done in ten minute what couldn't be done in two weeks isn't laziness, it's getting shit done.
The problem is teaching these TMs is not required, we don't absolutely need to get this shit done, so there's no reason not to leave it to anarchy. We got the TMs in the bag, and with enough spamming in anarchy we would have eventually taught them. If we could teach like 5 or 6 HMs in anarchy in the past 2 weeks I don't see why we couldn't do a few TMs.
Fixed that for you.
ratcliffja
Member
Pretty much. It's not like they're HMs. And seriously, if you're that worried about it, you should set your own TPP up. If it was anarchy 100% of the time and we never could use democracy, I'd lose interest due to being unable to beat the game, but I wouldn't whine about it. I don't see why it's worth worrying and complaining about, especially when it involves insulting the majority of the chat.
Which is better than using democracy to teach them. Which we're apparently doing again.
I guess this is what this run was missing, people raging over anarchy/democracy. #PCShuffle #KillTheTaintedMons
So you've lost interest in the last two weeks? And aside from Undersea Cavern and Sootopolis gym, we'd be able to beat the game without democracy.
ratcliffja
Member
I have lost a lot of interest, but I mean I'd likely stop watching eventually since it's very likely impossible to beat without ever using democracy for the reasons you mentioned. I actually think we could have beaten the undersea cavern eventually in anarchy if it weren't for the down bots.
Edit: Also, I'm not necessarily pro-democracy, I'm just anti-anti-anarchy.
redmetal86
Member
Brace for incoming white out.
I've been watching this stream a lot more than Crystal, that's for sure.
And that's great, because it's funny when we have a chance of failure and we still manage to succeed.
Probably one of my favorite aspects of TPP is the shared experience of a community playing the one game. I really dig debating which starters to get, who we should try to catch, which operations to undertake, etc. even if they don't always work out. It means more when people are invested in making the run succeed. Anarchy related hijinks are fun (Masterball -> Goldeen), but if we're leaving everything up to pure anarchy all the time then it might as well be RNG Plays Pokemon at that point. So I like the occasional bout of democracy to refocus our strategy, use the PC in a non-cataclysmic manner, and maybe even let our poor pokemon finally evolve.
I love your salty tears in the chat <3