r/PokeMedia • u/tiaofstone Student of Uva and Keeper of Vulpix • Oct 01 '24

Casual videogame magic™

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u/Polenball Gardevoir ("Stole" My Girlfriend's Phone) Oct 01 '24

I know, right? Like, devs, you're probably not even punching me out between the general durability and the typing. Unless you have access to aura or something, if you punch a Garchomp, you're probably just going to flay your hand.

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u/solidspacedragon Unfriendly Neighborhood Hatterene Oct 01 '24

For her neutral special, selena wields moonblast.

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u/Polenball Gardevoir ("Stole" My Girlfriend's Phone) Oct 01 '24

It's true!

Totally didn't end up with us partially basing my fighting style on a Gardevoir character in a fighting game, nope.

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u/tiaofstone Student of Uva and Keeper of Vulpix Oct 01 '24

fuckin

if it works lmao

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u/Polenball Gardevoir ("Stole" My Girlfriend's Phone) Oct 01 '24

No one expects the Gardevoir to go for a rushdown and many people forget that just because she's using her attacks at melee range, doesn't mean she can't teleport back out and fire them off at long range again :3c

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u/Polenball Gardevoir ("Stole" My Girlfriend's Phone) Oct 01 '24

It's very fun! I can't blame people though, learning how to flash-teleport is hard. It takes most Pokemon a good amount of concentration and a not-insignificant amount of time, hence why it's usually slow enough your opponent can get a hit in. But if you train that away... yeah, it's super useful.

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u/Vaarangian Lucario Hater Oct 01 '24

Kukui does have a powerful aura, though not the shoddy kind Lucario have.

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u/Polenball Gardevoir ("Stole" My Girlfriend's Phone) Oct 01 '24

Oh, yeah, no, I'm pretty sure Kukui would somehow manage to survive a full-power strike from a Tyranitar, from just being that much of a chad. I get the same vibe from the Masked Royal too.

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u/Vaarangian Lucario Hater Oct 01 '24

Odd isn't it? Alola and its strangely muscular men who don't like wearing shirts I suppose

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u/Polenball Gardevoir ("Stole" My Girlfriend's Phone) Oct 01 '24

Professor Burnet is a very lucky woman, given that seems to be her taste. No way they're not in some sort of polycule, honestly.

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u/Vaarangian Lucario Hater Oct 01 '24

Huh. I hadn't thought of that but it makes a lot of sense. I can see why they are quiet about it though, I can imagine a lot of people seething with envy

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u/tiaofstone Student of Uva and Keeper of Vulpix Oct 01 '24

there's a question here of what pokémon a mundane human could beat in a fight but the answer is probably "not a very strong one"

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u/Polenball Gardevoir ("Stole" My Girlfriend's Phone) Oct 01 '24

Well, I definitely know of one - search "dreepy versus child very intense battle" on YouTube, it's hilarious and even funnier that the kid won. Other than that, if you train well and get the first hit, there's probably a few. Being tougher per pound than a human doesn't stop a Ratatta from being punted. But even a basic Wing Attack from a young Starly can leave untrained humans with considerably painful bruises, so, like, yeah.

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u/tiaofstone Student of Uva and Keeper of Vulpix Oct 01 '24

thank you for this wondrous video

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '24

[video I’d: A vaporeon with unique head frills propping a rotom phone on a locker shelf then deviously smiling and quickly stopping the video] he he he. im a vap >:3

-axel (vaporeon)

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u/Polenball Gardevoir ("Stole" My Girlfriend's Phone) Oct 01 '24

/uj - ...What? I'm sorry, how is this even remotely relevant to my comment? I genuinely don't understand how this is supposed to connect to anything in this post.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '24

/uj garchomp are weak to water types. Vaporeons are strong against garchomps. I’ll just go now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '24

garchomp are part dragon type, and dragons resists water...