Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

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Some Badger said:
I can attest to this. Running Zoroark can be rewarding if you're creative about it. I've been able to run a Zoro on a handful of teams since Gen 6 without battle prep compromising my strategy. I still get the drop on Showdown players all the time outside of the NU tier, especially if my last selected mon is something known to be slow/bulky.
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Did you try using the Quick Claw on it?
 
Yukari Yakumo said:
Did you try using the Quick Claw on it?
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I haven't, but only because I prefer to run a Choice item + U-turn regardless of the EV build. Plus Zoroark's base speed is high enough that it's hard to close the gap anyway.

Razor Claw is nice too tbh, especially if you wanna run Taunt but have the rest of your moveset specced towards offense.
 
Nauseated Courgi said:
Battle prep didn't really fuck him over like that. Sure, your opponent knows you have one in your team, but they don't know what pokemon you disguised him as unless they were willing to risk hitting a ghost or poison type-disgused Zoroark with a close combat or moonblast. Battle prep, imo, only fucked him over if you didn't utilize team formation and type-match ups.

If the form he took was random then Zoroark would be left wide open to any attack that it doesn't resist. The ability is fine the way it is as it gives the player control over which form it would take.

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If you know what you're doing Illusion has the potential to be really powerful. You can hide behind setup moves that the Illusion Pokemon can also learn and then slam them with an attack they weren't expecting. I honestly wish it wasn't a signature ability and more Pokemon had it. Imagine hiding a Dragapult behind the illusion of a Steelix or something.
 
Wingnut said:
If you know what you're doing Illusion has the potential to be really powerful. You can hide behind setup moves that the Illusion Pokemon can also learn and then slam them with an attack they weren't expecting. I honestly wish it wasn't a signature ability and more Pokemon had it. Imagine hiding a Dragapult behind the illusion of a Steelix or something.
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Well that's what Hackmons are for I suppose, though I agree Illusion is great.
 
Did You Know Gaming got their hands on the official Japan-only PokéDex encyclopedia and got Nob Ogasawara to translate it. There's some real cool lore that existed in the beginning but has since been dropped over time or never made its way into localizations.
 
Rayquaza is cool as shit, like holy shit look at this MOTHERFUCKER
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His design is simple but epic as fuck. He's a snake dragon thing that controls the weather, how is that not fucking epic?! Rayquaza is also somewhat THE hyperbeam pokemon, everytime he uses hyperbeam its always cool like the time he obliterated Deoxys point blank with one THAT was sick as fuck. Its habitat is also cool as fuck, the upper atmosphere? Now thats both interesting and unique. I could go on about how fucking amazing rayquaza is but I'll spare you all from my super austim.
 
Speaking of Pokémon trading cards, it seems that Pokébeach was hacked recently.
PokeBeach was hacked on Monday. All files were deleted. We have been assessing the situation for the last 72 hours. I have barely slept.

No user data was stolen or compromised.

The hacking was a professional job conducted by an overseas team who wanted to hold the website hostage for monetary gain. The team gained access to the site through an exploit in a popular piece of software we use, which we updated a week prior. We can’t go into too many details because we are currently exploring our legal options.

The team first reverse-engineered our backup script to delete all of our offsite backups. This wasn’t noticed until it was too late. They also attempted to modify PokeBeach’s article program so that new subscribers would be referred to their Paypal account. This was instantly reported to Paypal, who worked with us to confirm no new accounts were affected.

As we locked them out of the web server, they issued a command to wipe it clean. We discovered they were in the process of downloading it so they could offer it back to us for payment. It’s also why they deleted our backups.

Later we received a message from an individual who suggested I should mail him my cards from this tweet if I want some of my files back. He disappeared after I ignored him.

The hackers never had access to our databases. No news stories, forum posts, or user accounts have been affected. However, the last few years of media files are gone. This includes news story images, forum attachments, and similar. We are currently trying to find local backups and use recovery software, but the outlook is grim. Our web host Linode even kindly pooled its team together to help with our recovery efforts.

I consider PokeBeach a monument to the Pokemon TCG. I have worked hard to preserve the last 18 years of my news stories so fans could look back at the game’s history. It really hurts to lose years of that to vandals who don’t care about our game or its community.

Right now we have launched a bare-bones version of the website so we can still post news stories (you’re on it!). Over the next few days we will attempt to bring the forums and article program back online. We ask for your understanding and patience during this stressful time.

Coincidentally, I have been working on a new layout for PokeBeach that was going to launch later this year. It’s not ready yet, but it’s also not worth rebuilding the old website (and its forum integration) when a new website is on the horizon. So it seems we will have to operate in “lite” mode for a little while.

We believe the hackers were drawn to PokeBeach because of the increased popularity of the Pokemon TCG. PokeBeach has been getting more visitors this yearthan at any point in the last 18 years. The hackers probably thought the site would be worth exploiting.

Tonight we will still be covering the release of S7 Sky Stream & Towering Perfection. So stay tuned to PokeBeach — we aren’t going anywhere!
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As someone who takes part in the competitive aspect of the TCG this honestly pisses me off. Scalpers continue to prove that they deserve the rope.
 
Archeops said:
Speaking of Pokémon trading cards, it seems that Pokébeach was hacked recently.

As someone who takes part in the competitive aspect of the TCG this honestly pisses me off. Scalpers continue to prove that they deserve the rope.
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This really sucks. Isn't this what happened to MangaDex a few months ago as well? They were in the middle of a new version of the site, then they were hacked, with them having to shut the whole site down, since it wasn't worth it to fix up the old site when the new one was being worked on.
 
Pulpanator said:
Rayquaza is cool as shit, like holy shit look at this MOTHERFUCKER View attachment 2310589His design is simple but epic as fuck. He's a snake dragon thing that controls the weather, how is that not fucking epic?! Rayquaza is also somewhat THE hyperbeam pokemon, everytime he uses hyperbeam its always cool like the time he obliterated Deoxys point blank with one THAT was sick as fuck. Its habitat is also cool as fuck, the upper atmosphere? Now thats both interesting and unique. I could go on about how fucking amazing rayquaza is but I'll spare you all from my super austim.
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Rayquaza's fin turbines I think also rotate if I remember right (I honestly don't know why he has those otherwise). The design is so sleek and he's a fierce motherfucker, like of all the Pokémon that were worshiped in lore, Rayquaza definitely earns his spot in being feared enough for humans to worship. And that was before Mega Evolution.

Also he got to be a legit boss in Subspace Emissary. No real reason other than because he's motherfucking Rayquaza.

Ray's just real cool.
 
Rayquaza is one of the strongest legendary designs ever (if not one of the best Pokemon designs period), but I will never forgive GF for setting Mega Rayquaza upon the competitive scene because it ruined Ubers for like a year and Anything Goes for the rest of time.
 
Pulpanator said:
Rayquaza is cool as shit, like holy shit look at this MOTHERFUCKER View attachment 2310589His design is simple but epic as fuck. He's a snake dragon thing that controls the weather, how is that not fucking epic?! Rayquaza is also somewhat THE hyperbeam pokemon, everytime he uses hyperbeam its always cool like the time he obliterated Deoxys point blank with one THAT was sick as fuck. Its habitat is also cool as fuck, the upper atmosphere? Now thats both interesting and unique. I could go on about how fucking amazing rayquaza is but I'll spare you all from my super austim.
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You're right and I love you for that.
 
Rayquaza's weird ball-jointed arms kinda ruin the design for me. They look like they're detachable, as though it was just a toy or something. I'm well aware that my opinion is dumb, and I'm sorry.

Still a cool 'mon, though. It has a really nice shiny too.
 
Pulpanator said:
Rayquaza is cool as shit, like holy shit look at this MOTHERFUCKER View attachment 2310589His design is simple but epic as fuck. He's a snake dragon thing that controls the weather, how is that not fucking epic?! Rayquaza is also somewhat THE hyperbeam pokemon, everytime he uses hyperbeam its always cool like the time he obliterated Deoxys point blank with one THAT was sick as fuck. Its habitat is also cool as fuck, the upper atmosphere? Now thats both interesting and unique. I could go on about how fucking amazing rayquaza is but I'll spare you all from my super austim.
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I like rayquaza but I like Arceus a lot more despite both of them looking like they got caught in a fence or pipe of some kind like the segments on Rayquaza and the golden ring on Arceus.

Arceus also has the cry that feels the most out of place and meta out of the entire series.

 
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