unknownstranger
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Ampharos is a reliable dude. I always enjoy it using it. Probably one of my favorite Pokemon actually.
This gif alone is enough reason for Mega Ampharos to exist.
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RTTP: The Pokemon. All 721 of them, and counting.
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This gif alone is enough reason for Mega Ampharos to exist.
I love Ampharos. I don't care that it drops the sheep design because it looks very good IMO.
Mega Ampharos is also cool. The hair/wool/whatever is glorious, although the Dragon typing seems a bit overkill. I'm honestly not a fan of Megas changing types. Stats and abilities are enough for me.
Mega Ampharos is also cool. The hair/wool/whatever is glorious, although the Dragon typing seems a bit overkill. I'm honestly not a fan of Megas changing types. Stats and abilities are enough for me.
I personally love Mareep and its evolutionary line (used one on my team whenever I could either catch or breed one), but I loathe its Mega Evolution. The whole point of Mareep evolving was that it lost its wool, so seeing the hair, let alone hair looking as ridiculous as it has that covers up its tail orb in what looks like a vanilla swirl with cherries, felt like a regression rather than an evolutionary step forward like other Megas like Mega Mawile getting a second mouth... thing or Mega Salamence fully filling its previous evolutions' flight desire by abandoning its feet (which yes are hidden by that weird strap but either way, it's not using them), not helped by becoming a Dragon-Type in what is easily the worst generation to be a Dragon-Type Pokémon.
balladofwindfishes
Member
- Fully evolved three stage evolution by level 23, you get Zubat so early that by the time it hits level 22, friendship should be high enough anyway. In Black 2, my Crobat was literally a Golbat for one battle.
- Wing attack just keeps going down in level, now Zubat gets it at level 13 lol. 60 base damage attack with STAB against an early game that's usually fighting and bug heavy.
- If that wasn't enough, B2/W2, Acrobatics TM 110 BP STAB attack sweet lord have mercy. Basically no downside either, because items aren't really required at all to do anything in story mode.
- Crobat has great story mode stats. Decent attack, excellent speed. Pretty much always goes first and you can run from basically every wild Pokemon
- Confuse ray by the early 20s to cheese the CPUs
- Crobat can learn fly, RIP birds
By level 23 you can have a Pokemon with the same BST as Rhyperior, Noivern, Magnezone and Porygon-Z. 60bp STAB by mid 20s. 110 BP STAB move by the mid 30s (in gen 5 and beyond).
Game Freak pls
I guess I'm forgetting what Legendary stats used to be like. Nowadays you have mons with super high attacking stats everywhere.
MrPhiliasfrog
Member
I've never been able to catch them all.
Don't worry. Me neither.
Recently, I just don't bother. I just try to catch seven or eight pokemons.
Benzychenz
Member
Absolutely adore this line.
Used an Ampharos in my very first Silver run as a kid, and again in SoulSilver. What a fucking majestic beast that guy is.
Used an Ampharos in my very first Silver run as a kid, and again in SoulSilver. What a fucking majestic beast that guy is.
The online trading helps a bit, but it still takes a major commitment to complete it. Don't get me started on the shiny ones.
unknownstranger
Member
Ampharos was my second highest level when I beat Red in Silver. It was Jynx, then Ampharos, then Typhlosion, forgot the next 2 and my lowest level was Pupitar who clutched the win against his Snorlax.
In Gen II 115 spacial attack was still considered pretty high.
I actually didn't knew how to obtain Ampharos until I played HG/SS.
I had a Mareep in my first Silver playtrough, and evolved it into Flaaffy, but it never went beyond level 27 before switching it for Raikou.
So it was kind of a schock for me to know that Ampharos was Flaaffys evolution xD
I had a Mareep in my first Silver playtrough, and evolved it into Flaaffy, but it never went beyond level 27 before switching it for Raikou.
So it was kind of a schock for me to know that Ampharos was Flaaffys evolution xD
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Dragon puns.
Wait for Mega Excadrill to be part Dragon.
Wait for Mega Excadrill to be part Dragon.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Ampharos is great.
Yup, same here.
Ampharos was pretty awesome in my first Silver run.
As soon as it evolved, it was a beast for the rest of the game.
Wasn't too happy the Mareep line was missing in Crystal.
Yep. Getting a Zubat ASAP in Gen 2 onwards was always a good decision.
(Except in FR/LG, where you get screwed over because of locked evos. Still decent as Golbat though.)
Loved getting Crobat early on and just wrecking stuff.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Locking the newer evos in FR/LG was ridiculous.
I realize it's a remake, but come on. Future remakes fully embraced new evolutions and treated them as if they had always been in that region's dex. Which is how it should work.
FR/LG was their first remake, and I think they may have did it a little too close to the original. In many parts, the game is basically just a tile to tile remake.
I think OR/AS went the opposite way. It didn't stick close enough to the originals, so many areas felt unfamiliar (like Mauville). HG/SS are the perfect balance of new and old.
I realize it's a remake, but come on. Future remakes fully embraced new evolutions and treated them as if they had always been in that region's dex. Which is how it should work.
FR/LG was their first remake, and I think they may have did it a little too close to the original. In many parts, the game is basically just a tile to tile remake.
I think OR/AS went the opposite way. It didn't stick close enough to the originals, so many areas felt unfamiliar (like Mauville). HG/SS are the perfect balance of new and old.
MrPhiliasfrog
Member
Unfortunately, I never had friends who played pokemon past the Red/Blue/Yellow generation.
Once, I had the chance to caught a shiny fleebas, in Ruby, without knowing anything about him/her and the concept of shiny.
Years later, I realized how much of a pain he/she is to capture.
PataHikari
Banned
The Mareep line is one of the best.
Mega Ampharos is also one of the best.
Mega Ampharos is also one of the best.
Nocturnowl
Member
Ampharos is okay but count me as one who wishes that the sheep motif was pushed further, Mareep being my favourite of the line and I can still remember its "roar".
balladofwindfishes
Member
Without knowing the rest of Ampharos' line, you'd think it was a weird bipedal electric sea lion.
With Flaafy's rubber flesh, Ampharos actually seems like it would be rather good in the water. Its body is decently built for an aquatic mammal. Long, slender, flippers, flexible and with water resistant rubbery skin.
With Flaafy's rubber flesh, Ampharos actually seems like it would be rather good in the water. Its body is decently built for an aquatic mammal. Long, slender, flippers, flexible and with water resistant rubbery skin.
I had some fun with a Mega Ampharos gimmick a while back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwp7Wsj_thI
I want to use it a bit more conventionally at some point though, perhaps in a TR team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwp7Wsj_thI
I want to use it a bit more conventionally at some point though, perhaps in a TR team.
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Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Well it's based on "electric sheep" from the "do robot dreams of electric sheep" stuff, and the mega from the wordplay (denryuu is its Japanese name).
Ampharos is a reliable dude. I always enjoy it using it. Probably one of my favorite Pokemon actually.
Dat hair flick always slays me.
Ah them simple days, back when using one of the legendary beasts in a battle with friends was seen as cheating because they were "too OP". LOL!
My man. Crobat is soooo good in game. I used him for the first time ever in Black 2 since Freedombird is exclusive to White 2, and oh man, it becomes a powerhouse so damn quickly. No idea why I waited so long to use him, I think my hate of Zubat might have clouded my judgement.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Legendary pokemon aren't still op?
Professor Beef
Banned
Some of the early gen legends aren't, thanks to power creep.
There are two tiers of Legendary pokemon, those with 600 and under BST (trios like the birds, dogs, etc) and those above that.
The ones with 600 and under BST aren't overpowered, in fact most of them aren't even good.
The ones above that, like Kyogre, Mewtwo, and all that, are considered too strong. These ones are banned in most competitive formats.
Really depends on which legendary you're talking about.
Regigigas and Articuno are downright terrible.
Thundurus and Celebi and Terrakeon are badasses.
Mewtwo and Arceus are broken as hell.
And Mega Rayquaza is so broken it was banned from the tier with all the other broken Pokemon.
Aaronrules380
Member
Although even among them, there are some like Kyurem that aren't that good
Ampharos is awesome. It used to be one of my all-time favourites back when Gold/Silver first came out, and while it has dropped a little over the years in that regard, I do still love it. Its' Mega Evolution is hilarious and very fitting imo.
Somewhat unrelated, but I think I used the most standard team ever when I first played Pokemon Gold:
Although once I got to Kanto I mixed things up a lot, and this was my team when I faced Red:
Somewhat unrelated, but I think I used the most standard team ever when I first played Pokemon Gold:
Although once I got to Kanto I mixed things up a lot, and this was my team when I faced Red:
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I'm trying to remember what my original Gold team was. I'm pretty sure by the time I got to red it was
(yes that is shiny Dodrio, the first shiny I ever caught was a Doduo on my way to the Johto E4)
(yes that is shiny Dodrio, the first shiny I ever caught was a Doduo on my way to the Johto E4)
Power creep is a bitch, it rendered many once highly powerful Gen I, II and III Legendaries useless.
That, and also some of them (Like Entei and Regirock) weren't really good to begin with.
Poor Regice got hit HARD by the special/physical split.
balladofwindfishes
Member
The Regis not having Recover bothers me
Especially Regice, whose suppose to be a Special tank. But with no reliable recovery move.
Also
Uhh... they probably should fix Regice's shiny form
Especially Regice, whose suppose to be a Special tank. But with no reliable recovery move.
Also
Uhh... they probably should fix Regice's shiny form
Registeel with Recover would be kinda absurd.
But in a good way.
The real question is why the fuck Claydol doesn't learn Recover. Practically every goddamn Psychic type gets Recover, including Pokemon like Alakazam that get practically no use out of it, and yet Claydol doesn't learn it.
Hey let's not put Entei in the same group as Regirock. He's actually a decent legendary and even more so this gen after gaining both Sacred Fire and a new resistance.
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
My early Crystal team...
My first Silver team was just a Dodrio and the traded Machoke from Goldenrod (don't do this and use him as your main, he can't solo for squat). I didn't even use the rest of my party. I actually forgot I even had typhlosion.
My Crystal party was a Meganium, a Pidgeot, an Espeon, I think suiccune, an Ampharos, and Tyranitar.
My Crystal party was a Meganium, a Pidgeot, an Espeon, I think suiccune, an Ampharos, and Tyranitar.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Typhlosion, Venusaur, Gyarados and uhh... I forget the rest. I think I remember Scyther. I must have had a flying type, I just don't remember who it was.
Professor Beef
Banned
I'm trying to remember what my original Gold team was. I'm pretty sure by the time I got to red it was
(yes that is shiny Dodrio, the first shiny I ever caught was a Doduo on my way to the Johto E4)
I just looked up Dodrio's shiny coloring for current gen, and it's the same goddamned puke-green that is far too common.
I actually like the green on Espeon.
Professor Beef
Banned
I always felt bad for Sandshrew/slash fans since they never learned Earthquake naturally until...3rd gen, I think?