Rare Article: Subtle Team Synergy
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In my experience, most Pokémon battles are lost because of one of these three things:1. Your team, while made up of good Pokémon, only works as isolated powerhouses, not as a functioning unit.
2. Your team works so well with each other that your strategy was apparent, and someone exploited its weaknesses.
3. You just lost. Bulbasaur happens. Try again.
What if I told you I have a solution for problems one and two? I know you are curious. The answer to all your questions are just a click away. As long as all of your questions pertain to this specific subject.
Sing it with me! "Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes! How do you measure a year in life?"
Wait, what? You're telling me this isn't the anniversary of the musical Rent? Crap. Let's start over.
It's been a year of PKMNCast. I figure that some other editors will celebrate this year in the podcast, so I thought that I would look at the best of the website itself over the year by presenting an article under each ongoing column on the site that is, at least in my opinion, the best.
All of us here in the PKMNCast community play a bunch of Pokémon. Probably more than is healthy. One of the main reasons, I would argue, that players flock to Pokémon is that it is a world with such rigid rules. It's all in the numbers, and besides a crit here and there, there isn't much chaos in the mix.
On the last "It's Super Effective" we (jokingly?) suggested doing a tournament where only unevolvedBug types can be used. Honestly, with the Grey League going on, we probably won't start an official one in the foreseeable future. HOWEVER! I thought I'd present you Pokefolk with some rules to play with, in case a few of you wanted to do a tournament like this but did not want to put the effort into devising the minutia of the rules, you lazy slowpokes.
This week's rare article was almost going to be a recap of VGC. I'm assuming you guys are tired of us constantly talking about VGC at this point. So, without further ado, something different!
Last week I went really broad. I was even emoting. I know right? Feelings are so 2010. Let's have a bit of a pallet cleanser this week by contrasting last week's broad post with one that is about as narrow as it can get. One rule structure. One Pokemon. Come with me as I dive right in to the delicious, sweet, creamy taste of Vanilluxe. Yum.
Sometimes good Pokémon are rendered unusable by their inability to evolve. We're going to look at three Pokémon, from old to new, that deserve an evolution.
Recently I made the decision to go to the "last chance qualifier" for this year's Video Game Championships. I figured it wouldn't be too difficult to get used to the format of VGC, but I soon found out how wrong I was. This might be the hardest rule structure I've ever played in. Let's take a look, shall we?