At 11/17/08 01:44 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote: Replace Sandshrew with a Tentacool or a Magikarp/Gyarados. You'll need a water type, and Numel/Camerupt is a superior ground type anyway, since it will learn Earthquake without TM. You'll need a surfer and Tentacruel should cover that nicely,

Where do you get the Good Rod again? As of now, I only have an Old Rod, and I'm not having any luck with getting Tentacools with it, nor am I interested in switching out to raise a Magikarp or Tentacool at a low level.

At 11/16/08 06:52 PM, tails4president wrote: do more training but also train a rock type.

New list, and I'm now at the Lavaridge Gym (actually I'm still training my Pokemon by Mauville):

Sandshrew, level 19 (working on it...)
Swablu, level 17 (also working on it...)
Kirlia, level 24
Numel, level 26
Aron, level 26 (here's your Rock-type)
Grovyle, level 28

Any other suggestions?

At 11/16/08 12:52 PM, tails4president wrote: if i was you i would level up the taillow a bit and level up grovyle. put them to maybe 21-25.

Well I'm trying to keep them as even as possible, so that would mean a lot of training for the others. But now I'm at the Mauville Gym with these guys (I think I need more training):

Nincada, level 17
Poochyena, level 17
Makuhita, level 18
Ralts, level 18
Grovyle, level 19
Taillow, level 19

I caught a slew of new Pokemon, which I plan on switching out after the ones I'm using evolve. My goal is to get them all to evolve to whatever their last possible stage is, then I'll just keep using the ones I like until the end of the game.

My friend just gave me his Ruby version the other day (yeah, going back to 3rd generation), don't know why, so I erased his file and made my own. I'm currently in Slateport, before the rival battle, and my team is as follows:

Nincada, level 11
Makuhita, level 12
Poochyena, level 15
Taillow, level 19
Grovyle, level 18
Ralts, level 18

Any suggestions on how to make my team better? Some possible replacements are Aron (10), Wingull (12), Zubat (11), or Nuzleaf (14). I don't like Nuzleaf though, since most of the time Nature Power will turn into Stun Spore (in grass), the only other move he has is Bide, and I'm trying to save TMs (Bullet Seed).

At 11/13/08 05:07 PM, Nikenick wrote: I sometimes kill Crink with arrows and he's toon link.

Now I gotta ask Crink, how...?

He haves 5 jumps, but the hitbox of his aerial is pretty small.
And I try not to do that when my opponant got a character that can attack with his up B, but I do that when he can't ( lucario).

Well it's your choice I guess... But good Lucario players can actually swerve completely around you when you try to hit them in the air.

Stop talking about 'first times'.

Well considering that I've only fought you like two times, there's a "first match" and a "last match".

I sucked horribly back then.
Please note that I got the game 3 months later then you guys did.

When did you get it? I only got my copy on June 14th, which was when school let out for me.

I chose Random, I know that I played repetitive but I was just smashing some buttons =P
Don't judge me when I choose random, rfl.

Who said I'm judging you? You asked for someone who had figured out your attack pattern, so I listed what you did for DK. And what's "rfl" supposed to stand for?

At 11/13/08 03:56 PM, Nikenick wrote: I kill Ike's easily with my arrows, they jump, I hit them with arrows and then they fall.

But what if they're not far away enough? What if they still make it back? Or what if the person isn't even an Ike?

Arrows kill characters with bad recovery moves, and will give some extra damage to the ones with good recovery moves.

Not always. Link for instance can just hang onto the ledge with his hookshot/clawshot, and you can't block the grab unless you're hanging onto the ledge yourself. And besides, arrows won't always hit the target.

Pit's a pretty good aerial fighter. He's got 5 jumps and Wings of Icarus, and his aerials have decent priority. It's a lot better to try and kill them by knocking them off the screen than to try and just keep them away.

Tell me 1 person who figured it out.

I figured out your ZSS the first time you used her. Might not know your strategy now, but it's probably similar.

You did the same thing with DK everytime when I was playing you last Friday. Whenever I came close, you would shield or dodge the hit, then do a down smash or forward smash, then move back. If you had a Giant Punch ready, you'd wait for me to run at you, then use it whenever I got within range, or you'd Headbutt me and use the punch. Whenever you died, you'd charge up a Punch, then throw it at me, since you had invincibility. You only switched it up once when you used Hand Slap instead of smashing. That's not a complete summary of everything you did, but that's basically what you were doing after Crink was eliminated.

At 11/13/08 10:49 AM, Nikenick wrote: Meh, I'm gone for 1 day and people start suddenly talking about me.
First of all, I don't think that I'm a spammer.
Yes my playing style is a bit repetitive, and I know that it's annoying to play against(I've pissed alot of people off, half of my friends doesn't wants to play against me).

I don't mind your Pit, but your ZSS is annoying as hell.

I shoot arrows whenever I get the chance to, Pit has a projectile so I should use it.

There's a fine line between the amount of projectiles you should use, and the amount of projectiles that you do use (going by what others are saying here). Personally, I haven't seen you do this to me except in the first match I ever fought against you, but you stopped after I said "STOP SPAMMING".

I roll/spot dodge so much because Pit is a fast character, after a succesfull dodge I can counter easily because Pit's fast.

I'm not seeing the connection here. What does him being a fast character have to do with his success in countering? Most moves don't have a huge amount of ending lag, so your counters might just end up being blocked.

Now about 'the smashes only' thing.
Look at Pit's attacks: Mirror shield, Arrow, Angel Ring and Wings of Icarus. The only things I can attack with is besides smashes(reflecting projectiles doesn't counts) is with an arrow or with Angel Ring.

You can push people off with Wings of Icarus. I've actually killed my friend by doing that. As soon as he got back to the stage, I pushed him off with the small spurt of air from doing Wings of Icarus on the ground, so he did an attack instead of recovering cause he was going to hit me right before. But that was just lucky.

I REALLY don't like Angel Ring, it can get countered easily, so that's why I never use it.

It can't get countered per se, but it's easily avoidable or DI'ed out of. Plus it has long ending lag, so you'll usually get hit if you miss.

So that leaves me with arrows and smashes only, not much variation.

Things called "tilts", the "standard A combo", and "grabs" exist.

And I know that I barely use arial attacks, but I somehow don't like them and I can't use them properly yet.

Pit's a good edge-guarder with his aerials and jumps. His arrows can't solve everything you know.

Also, why would I change my playing style if it works?

Because it's repetitive and easily countered after people figure it out.

Also, to everyone complaining about his Pit: Have him play you with Random. Anyone else he uses from that is pretty good and he doesn't really spam at all.

At 11/12/08 10:13 PM, kRaZyAzN wrote: after further review: UL says that combo vids are staged ya da yada yada.

He also said that they're just lucky moves that are made when you don't expect them.

JIGA vs. some wario.

he's not that impressive. Apparently, all the CA members strongly believe that jigs is their best brawler. You can take him though, cool, can't you?

He's got a decent Snake, but his opponents are horrible. For example, the Ike he was playing in one of his videos shielded for like 3/4 of the match (sometimes for no reason, like when he was on the other side of the stage while Snake was recovering), and used the standard A combo or Eruption the other 1/4 of the time.

At 11/12/08 09:32 PM, DocSprite wrote: I'd like to join this here crew.

Welcome! You might want to post your FC when you get your router fixed up.

I use Ike, because I'm a huge-ass fan of FE.

Just Ike? Any others?

I also consider myself the best Brawl player in my entire town, and no, I'm not exaggerating. At least, I know that I'm the best Brawl player in my school. However, my router's broken, so I can't pwnz yall at the mo'.

Best in the entire town and best in the entire school are two completely different things.

Also, this applies to everyone: Have you ever played someone who's said "I'm the best at Brawl" and then you can completely destroy them? My friend does that a lot. He says he's so much better than me, then I go and 8-stock him in a 10-stock match, while he's on a team with his sister (2 vs 1).

At 11/11/08 09:14 PM, kRaZyAzN wrote: Joe, join? We know you're better than half the guys on that list...

Doubt it. Besides, I'm not even sure if I can make it if it drags on to Saturday. I only have 3 hours (unless I can miraculously persuade my parents to let me play longer).

At 11/11/08 08:22 PM, Underload wrote: Any OBJECTIONS!?

Not sure if this applies to anyone in the list, but you might want to make sure that there won't be any lag-related issues when the matches start. I'm not interested in hearing people bitch about how the lag "threw off their game" or something.

At 11/11/08 02:37 PM, Grade-Zero wrote: Too late. You don't stand a chance now!

Someone who's using the Ike that's hyped up on steroids could probably beat you. And happy 2000th post.

At 11/10/08 08:42 PM, kRaZyAzN wrote: Loogie. Look around please. You've made countless pendruple (5?) posts in a row. All with some shitty picture attached to it.

I'm pretty sure it's "quintuple". And looking back, you made quadruple posts all the time back when the crew was starting out, and you posted a bunch of things at once on that Epic Brawl Screenies thread.

And can anyone break down exactly how these "clan wars" work?

Would someone mind explaining this to me as well? I don't really see the point of these.

At 11/10/08 07:33 PM, knuxrouge wrote: Xat Clan Battle. Friday.
Our team, the SSBC clan--to be named.
Join now and prove your skill, This was constructed and formed by the best players in the crew, who think's they're up to snuff? Join before this Friday, a 5 vs 5 clan battle.

Good luck to whoever's involved?

At 11/10/08 04:53 PM, kRaZyAzN wrote: holy shit. We've never had so many people at once! It's the entire crew!

Ha, I was the last person to say something.

At 11/10/08 01:37 PM, CybNexusMkII wrote: I play Melee, due to the fact that I can't locate a copy of Brawl anywhere, yet I play it on my Wii.

Melee > Brawl in terms of competitiveness.
Brawl > Melee in terms of extra stuff.
I pick Brawl.

At 11/9/08 10:56 PM, kRaZyAzN wrote: STFU. I don't spam with lucas. I do magnet pulls to recover, but that's nothing.

I meant USE HIS MAGNET. And you spelled "laser" wrong.

At 11/9/08 10:39 PM, kRaZyAzN wrote: only if you stop FIREBALL FIFREBALL FIREBALL SMASH, ROLL, ROLL, FIRE BALL.

*coughLucas'PSIMagnetcough*

At 11/9/08 07:33 PM, Truth wrote: It shouldn't be a problem in the tournament since only FD, Battlefield, Smashville, yoshi's island, and Lylat Cruise are allowed. you can't really flee in these levels.

Well technically, you can flee, but you'll probably only get to shoot one shot before you get attacked, unless you're playing against some really slow person. I guess that's why those are the "allowed" stages.

At 11/9/08 01:38 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote: bobbyjoe, do you want in? Because I'm pretty sure chariblock wants to join too.
If so...

Nah, I'm going to sit this one out. I restarted my Pearl, which was my competitive version, so I don't have any real Pokemon to battle with. And I don't think you want to battle with my screwed up Diamond version. Besides, scheduling matches with me would be difficult. Good luck to the participants though.

At 11/9/08 11:06 AM, kRaZyAzN wrote: I also am looking forward to playing bobbyjoe :)

Unfortunately, you'll have to wait until next week. I forgot that I have to go to my dad's house during the weekends now, so I can't play on Saturday nights or Sundays. This goes for you too knux, sorry.

At least I can play though...

At 11/8/08 06:29 PM, Truth wrote: Ganon's brute strength more then makes up for it.

If he can make it to Pit. If he can't, well...he's going down if he gets shot enough.

At 11/8/08 12:07 PM, chariblock1 wrote: quick question what about super moves like blast burn frenzy plant and hdro cannon and volt tackle oh yeah are we allowed lucario cos hes in my diamond

"Super" moves are allowed, seeing as there are no rules going against that. And Lucario isn't classified as a Legendary, so he's allowed.

Regarding the date, you just need to schedule a match with someone, but since there's already four people registered. You might need to get someone else to participate for the matches to go smoothly.

At 11/8/08 12:53 PM, Truth wrote: People shouldn't whine about spamming. If spamming is too hard for you to counter, then you suck.

Let's take the example of Pit vs Ganondorf. Ganondorf is both slow and has no projectiles. Pit has a very easily controlled projectile. If it's on a large stage, then getting there could be very difficult for Ganondorf, seeing as he's not the most mobile character, and he's got no way to fight back.

If it's a non-projectile spammer though, then yeah, you should have no problem with them.

Unless your playing multiplayer and only one player spams, then that's just annoying.

I personally find this a lot easier to counter. The spammer is usually focused on hitting specific people (going by my experiences, spammers that I play tend to do this), so you can just hit them from afar with projectiles, or you can just run up and hit them when they're occupied with the other person. But this is just what happens to me, you might not be able to do this when you're fighting spammers.

O that's nothing, Now whenever I'm playing weak opponents (like azn), I sometimes hand my controller over to my Dog to finish the fight

Another one of these arguments? Oh well, good entertainment I guess.

At 11/7/08 04:05 PM, knuxrouge wrote: Bobby, please, get this message before your privileges expire.
Add me. Go to the friend code page and add me.

I dunno what your friend code is. And you might wanna get on Xat.

Who's up for a brawl? I can only play for 5 hours over the whole weekend (don't ask...), but I'm up for a match. I'll probably suck seeing as I haven't played for around 2 months, but whatever.

Random poll: On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest, what would you rate footstooling? That's when you jump on a person's head for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about. Similarly, how would you rate gliding/flying (Pit, Charizard, Metaknight)?

At 11/5/08 08:10 PM, ironraven24 wrote: What the hell is Gale Guarding?

Stab in the dark here, but I'm guessing it's where you use the Gale Boomerang's pushing effect to stop the person from coming back to the stage, like Mario's FLUDD or Squirtle's Water Gun.

At 11/3/08 11:55 PM, Aci6 wrote:

1. GTS and Pal Park are fine, then. But still, no Legendaries. Some are WAY overpowered. (and you gotta admit, that's kinda fair. Cuz i've seen a lv. 50 Darkrai take out a team of fully evoved lv. 100 pokemon.)

What sort of puss used a lvl 100 team against a Darkrai and lost?
BULLSHIT unless the person had no fucking idea.

The guy probably just put everyone to sleep and waited for Bad Dreams to kill them all off while using Dream Eater and Nightmare. After all, there are no official rules in the games to prevent more than one Pokemon from being put to sleep or frozen.

At 11/3/08 10:34 PM, newgroundskeeperjim wrote: I like ditto because he can be anything he wants and even in his original form he's cute.

Ha, first time I saw a Ditto in the anime, I thought it was a blob of strawberry jelly...