Surprisingly solo'd Rank S battle royale with a Rhydon knowing Rock Blast. It might have to do with the fact that the move was murdering those birds.

Cross Chop Machamps are fucking nasty, ESPECIALLY IN GROUPS OF FIVE. I suffered my first loss at their hands. Had to use two Wonder Keys within only two floors, then was unable to endure the remainder plus Articuno.

Got some grinding and searching to do later tonight after festivities.

Oh, and the method of learning new moves in this game sucks hard.

I know. I'd much rather be able to shell out a jesusbillion dollars and know I'll get EQ rather than trying a hundred times at 6000 bucks a go and get Roar 40 times.

And yes, Cross Chop hurts. Badly. Other than Dynamicpunch, it's really the only melee move I'd recommend. And I happen to have a Machamp that knows both.

Pokémon Crystal part 133: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcFzUHjUt8g&fmt=18

I can't say anything about Advance or EX since I haven't tried them yet, but a number of the slashing moves, namely Air Slash, Dragon Claw, and Shadow Claw, are very nasty when STABed and chain particularly well. The range is enough that they can easily mow through oncoming hordes when you rhythmically tap the button.

One thing I can tell, though, is that in the later EX battle royales they're completely useless. The AI seems to be a lot better, their charge times are shorter, they surround you a lot more easily, and their damage just plain insane.

SMB3 part 8, where some anger starts showing up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCEl5oKUW04&fmt=18

C'mon, how do I get that mushroom?

Well, I've grown to like Protect on a number of my pokes, so we'll see how that helps. As for the slashing moves, because they're so quick and sweep you along as you spam them, I think if I stay along the outside and catch 3-4 pokes in the swipe (not very hard to do) I can just constantly stun them until they die.

The battle royales are interesting though in that it seems the bosses will kill everyone else until only you remain, and then target you. In Mewtwo's case, though, it attacked the birds exclusively until they were gone.

That whole stupid "corner of the block" thing is the reason I instinctively jump onto the top of every block I hit containing a powerup, mushroom or not. I refuse to let them get away!

...sigh. And here I thought it had to do with the direction you faced.

BTW, I don't know if anyone here ever played FF11 (I sure didn't), but long story short, I heard there were so-called unwinnable boss battles that could last a whole day before Square decided to artificially limit the duration to two hours. I even heard some people DID try to go all the way, and they lasted 20 hours or so before stopping, because some of the players were starting to feel physically ill, with seizures, puking and all that stuff. And another attempt where the boss restored its entire HP after 30 hours of battling, and five players quit the game seconds after that. It all sounds like an urban legend, but I can actually believe that stuff happened for real.

Well, I befriended my first legend... Cresselia. It was the third time I fought it (I kept going back for a Gallade.)

Surprisingly my most useful poke right now is Mew with Bulk Up and Ice Beam. My starters are obsolete, but the ubers have been extremely ridiculously annoyingly difficult to buy moves for that actually inflict damage above two stars, so the ubers are almost never used (except Mew.) So the starters aren't worthless yet. Once I reach EX rank I'll go back to Normal and farm the 2nd forms needed to recruit the starters, then get them once I'm at EX rank so they'll be strong again.

Edit: Well, I BARELY managed to beat Advance Battle Royale on S. I'd shake Mewtwo's hand if I could, because it appeared in the nick of time and easily destroyed Dialga who had well over half its health, and Palkia who was on the verge of destruction anyway, but I needed to get away from it.

I'm now going back and picking up building materials so to speak, the first order of business being to reconstruct a better Shaymin in the hopes of it already knowing Air Slash, because I refuse to spend another fucking 80,000 coins trying to get it. In the meantime I'll try rebuilding another Charizard since I've built a fondness for it (for once that insane movepool actually serves a purpose!) and scoring some stuff I missed along the way.

In trying to get a Kangaskhan I had an extremely brief meeting with Articuno, who was not only OHKOed by Rhyperior but actually stuck around to be recruited along with the spoils! Woohoo! I'll try that with Moltres, for lulz. I need to go there for an Arcanine, anyway.

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Unlike the first, which I took with a camera, this came straight from the game. I gotta admit, I thought the ability to take a picture at pretty much any time was kind of retarded and frivolous, but hey- it has its uses. The best part is, unlike Brawl, this game actually saves the photos as JPegs, WHICH CAN ACTUALLY BE TAKEN OFF THE SD CARD AND PUT ON THE COMPUTER WITHOUT GOING THROUGH A LOT OF UNNECESSARY BULLSHIT. TAKE A HINT SAKURAI.

Unlike the Gabite, this Drapion actually has a reason to be used a little bit, because it's Lucky and the power is kind of usable at EX.

You have any shinies, Slow? You haven't talked about Rumble much.

The Kricketot is all there is.

Also, DAMN. The Americans in the crowd simply have to look up the ending of the Grey Cup final. Hollywood couldn't have done any better if they tried. I'm still in shock TBH.

Edit: Pokémon Crystal part 134 is now up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s44T2ZqifnI&fmt=18

Edit 2: Megaman 3 done. Wily's castle was an absolute joke. I didn't even need to go out of my way to collect E-tanks, and the Yellow Devil there is a disgrace to the original. OHKOing the Megaman clone with a Search Snake was just ridiculous. But this all pales in comparison to Gamma, supposedly Wily's greatest creation, being killed in one hit by the TOP SPIN. If I were Wily, I would've called it quits right there and then. I mean, the Top Spin... geez...

It's only fair considering you got bent over by MM2. ;)

Maybe I'm getting better? Actually, the part that gave me the most trouble was the gauntlet (relatively speaking, since I only got one game over there because I was on my final life when I got to level 4), since MM3 doesn't have the brutally overpowered weapons MM2 has. The Needle Cannon is probably the best weapon there, and I still don't recommend using it on anyone but Snake Man. The Gemini Laser would be interesting, except if you miss you can't fire off another one for a decade, and the Shadow Blades are a failure of a mix between the Metal Blade and the Quick Boomerang. As for the Magnet Missiles... jeez, miss twice and you don't even have enough to beat Hard Man. I had to finish the bastard with the Mega Buster, and I literally only had one bar of energy left at the end.

But the thing that made it even easier is how the levels were cut down. In MM2, after you're done with the (admittedly easier) gauntlet, you immediately fight the hardest boss in the game for your troubles, and you only get one shot because of the horrendous ammo clip of both Atomic Fire and Crash Bombs. Fail, and you gotta suicide until you get a game over. Here, the gauntlet (almost) has its own level, Wily has his own level, and Gamma has its own level. Not to mention, whereas the alien needed to be taken care of with surgical precision, Gamma is just Rush Coil, four or five Hard Knuckles, avoid a shot or two, jump, Top Spin, done.

Edit: I got started on MM4, and the weapon selection is vastly superior so far. Rain Flush and Pharaoh Shot are both better than anything MM3 has to offer, and the Flash Stopper... oh my, I think I'm in love. Too bad it only affects one Robot Master, but then again it'd be way too broken otherwise. After the BS that was the original Time Stopper, I can say Cossack definitely knows his stuff.

I never use either of those weapons against MM2 Wily, and I'm thinking the only reason you did is because some guide told you they did the most damage. When weapon energy is an inconvenience, you don't struggle around it, you just do something else. Such as use Metal Blades or even just the buster.

The only game to rival MM4 in weapons quality is MM9. Everything else just doesn't compare at all. Anyone that says MM2 had more useful weapons is a fucktard.

Well, the Metal Blade and Quick Boomerang shine with their own special light... I guess that's why people think so highly of MM2's weapons.

And I did try Wily with other weapons, and I had a lot more trouble than with the two I used.

Edit: Who's up for another soporific gym leader battle?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSsy9dXQ6iQ&fmt=18

I've started ripping apart the EX battle royales, with a Bulk Up + Cross Chop Machamp with Punchy and 2366 power, and a Rock Wrecker + Fire Blast Rhyperior with Punchy and 2404 power. It's still hard, though, namely because whereas my pokes hit like trucks, these bosses hit like trains. I usually have to back off at some point to avoid getting sandwiched by them.

I cleared 1, 2, and 3 of EX... before I go further I want to buy some new moves for some other pokes, since champy and rhyperior inevitably die before the second round is over (they pretty much almost always solo the first round, and come out of that badly damaged.)

Edit: HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

The farthest I've ever gotten in EX 4 is making the uber dragons appear. During the four attempts that followed, I couldn't even beat the first round. The only thing Bulk Up does for me now is basically see that I get 3HKOed and not 2HKOed. Hell, without it, Mewtwo couldn't even survive ONE attack from a Drifblim.

I dunno how the hell I managed to beat 4-1. This is absolutely insane.

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IT CAME DOWN TO ME, MEWTWO, AND PORYGON-Z

I started wailing on Mewtwo, only to quickly find that he is not only not hit out of his attacks like everyone else, but can OHKO me through Bulk Up.

The fact that I made it this far is only indicative of the sheer force of Cross Chop. Holy shit. I can't believe I'm saying this, but that got intense.

Actually, I have to give props to Snappy Rhyperior, a new toy I went out of my way to get, and as I expected it allows it to launch very quick Rock Wreckers and Blizzards, which greatly helped me take down round 1.

I've spent like 5K in the NORMAL C TERMINAL trying to get False Swipe. If it weren't for the fact that I keep seeing new moves, I'd suspect GameFAQs of lying to me...

High five on those shinies, dude. I got a few more:





I didn't get the lineup shot of Fearow because I inadvertantly pressed to continue while doing an "Oh, shit, I didn't realise I got a shiny!" Funny thing is, I didn't know I got a shiny Infernape until I was scrolling down and noticed the face was a different color. I ignored the blue text because when I'm on my routine killing sprees, I just zone out =P

Mewtwo doesn't stagger anymore in EX rank? Goddammit, this is going to be hell.

Speaking of GameFAQs, I checked what it had, and one of the FAQs says you can't get tickets in EX rank. Lies, most of my strongest Pokémon I've obtained that way.

;_; I want Pokemon Rumble. But I only have 500 WiiPoints. FFFFFFUUUUU, Anyone willing to gift me 1000 Points? <___<