PBR ruined the series for me.

>>30683765
You are literally the only person I ever heard of that liked Battle Revolution

>>30683845
Battle Revolution was great when it launched.

There was no other way to get random matches with people, and it had doubles too.

People using all kinds of crazy sets just for the shit of it, people putting a Mewtwo on their team, people running monotype... it was so fun. I miss it.

>>30683845
I like PBR too. It wasn't fantastic but I still had a good time.

>Genius Senority didn't care about competitive.
>Game becomes unplayable without properly trained mons after beating round 1 since it locks you into round 2.

>>30683765
Dumb irrelavent question. Is win / loss recorded in xy/oras/sunmoon? Probably the reason I stick with simulators since it's a permament record of my shittiness/ I don't want to see 1 permantent loss record mentality.

MASSIVE DAMAGE

JUDGEMENT HAS BEEN DEALT

Another thing, I forgot you could trade teams with people you fought. That was a great idea that GF should implement in the main games.

>>30684004
The blue corner faces a great deal of pressure!

>>30684002
The last ones that did that on the trainer card was BW2.

But your win/loss will be marked on your global link profile.

>>30683765
Didn't you have a total of like 40 pokemon you could use if you didn't sync to a copy of dp? That was stupid.

Should of had the same rental system as stadium. Maybe with move custimization.

>>30684001
This. Battle Mode in Colosseum and Mt Battle in GoD became also unplayable if you didn't use competitive trained Pokémon in the higher leagues.

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>Seeing Palkia use Spacial Rend in PBR
>Seeing Palkia in glorious 3D for the first time

>>30684096
Mt Battle?? What I just threw charizard with heat wave and rayquaza with earthquake and watched everything melt. It was piss easy but fun.

>>30683845
Slowly but surely we are eentering the age of Gen 4 nostalgia. Remakes when?

>>30684096
It was hard, but not impossible. I mean, you had Pokemon like Zapdos and Aggron avaliable.

I'm sure there are Youtube videos of people beating the whole thing with their ingame teams.

>>30684152
>>30684244
Sorry, I meant Orre Colosseum in GoD. Mt Battle is indeed beatable with your in-game team.

>>30684205
>entering
We're already in and I'm totally fine with it.

>>30684205
>Gen 4 was 9 years ago

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>>30683845
I loved PBR.
I still have that Electivire and Magmortar with the PKTOPIA OT.

And while I loved it, it was a shit game.
If you didn't have a Gen4 game with good mons you were shit outta luck. It was basically a battle simulator for your Gen4 mons.

If you bought the game and expected a Pokemon Stadium, you would be really fucking dissapointed.

Still, online was fun as hell.

> mfw trolling people with Tri-Attack Serene Grace Togekiss

You can get a Serene grace Togepi in Pokemon XD

>>30683845
Eh, I liked it too. I know a decent chunk of people who enjoyed it also. The announcer was fucking primo, you cannot deny that.

But that's beyond the point. Though, I think GF added plenty of fun stuff for casual/noncompetitive play. Poke Pelago is growing on me like I wouldn't believe, and Pokemon Refresh is way better than Amie was.

I just wish most final stages of Pokemon were developed around the same base stats so more were viable, and thus, more fun/diversity. I think that there's a future that exists in which Pokemon is extremely diverse, rich, and endless fun in competitive, not everybody running genies or Celesteela or whatever it is.

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Am I the only one that hates how you see the opponents team before battle?

>>30684520

>TFW fairy typing made tri attack kinda crap on it.

I loved that Togekiss, perhaps I should fish it out of the old game I left it in as preperation for when I can fix its I.V's.

>OP hates competitive
>Loves a game where competitive play is the only thing you do
???

>>30684689
Eh, I have it on my AS cart. It's waiting until Bank opens so I can fix them IVs like you said. It's just going to be for trolling the shit out of random battles online, and my friends. Serene Grace+Tri-Attack is why you use it. Damage is a pity yes, but goddamn is it hilarious to have half your opponents team be frozen/paralyzed/burned.

Also have bottle caps set aside for that Electivire. Fuck I love that Electivire.

Maybe one day I will finish my current playtrough of X...err...Gale of Darkness and clone those Togepis to give away on veepee.

>>30684843

I doubt if I can be bothered with that Electrivire again. I already have a 5IV one with the same moveset, if I made yet another, it will be for balltism purposes (ultra ball)

it was a bad game, the animations blew, the RNG wasn't accurate to the game either

and I refuse to let you forget what the game trailer looked like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7jJtzqt4JI

one of the biggest bait and switches I've ever seen, and I'm surprised it wasnt illegal

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>>30684487
Gen IV aged really well

It's more that the prevalence of social media and YouTube ecelebs made people realize a real meta existed and 90% of people would rather play meta than "just have fun" because playing meta is more fun to them because winning is everything

>>30684986
>RNG wasn't accurate to the game
explain

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PBR had a great announcer but no one is going to beat Stadium's
>WOW, THEY ARE DOWN! THEY ARE BOTH DOWN!!!

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>>30685077
>A SAVAGE HIT!
>GROUND ZERO!
>IT'S A HEAD-ON COLLISION, POWER VERSUS POWER!

>we'll never get ted lewis back to announce for the games

>>30684647
It adds a strategic element to give you something to think about when considering which 3 (in singles) or 4 (in doubles) pokemon you want to go with.
Why do you think it was exported to the mainline games?

>>30683765
>Those amazing move animations.
You mean the shitty pasted on overlays?
>That announcer that was pure hype.
You mean the sad me-too follow up to Stadium's actually good announcer?
>The characters being all animated, getting all cocky when they win or really angry when they lose.
Don't forget the N64 tier Pokemon models with terrible animations.

I know you grew up with gen 4, and PBR was your first Stadium game, but it's easily the worst in the franchise. Same as gen 4 is the worst generation in the franchise.

>>30685077
WHAT'S THIS? DISTORTION? THE COLOSSEUM!

>>30684986
>KONO SOFUTOWA DIAMONDO PAARU

Man I wish I knew what he was saying besides that, that way I could know why he keeps repeating that over and over.

>>30684791
I mean, it has battle frontier-esque gimmicky battle modes.
Actually, that's what PBR had going against it; it does a lot of stuff that was innovative for the time, but even later games in the same generation do that stuff better.

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>>30685266
>FUTURE SIGHT HITS! DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING!

>>30685076
the accuracy of moves and secondary effects were all fucked. It didn't follow the same formula as main line stuff

>>30685240
>Don't forget the N64 tier Pokemon models with terrible animations.
>I know you grew up with gen 4, and PBR was your first Stadium game, but it's easily the worst in the franchise. Same as gen 4 is the worst generation in the franchise.

I've played both. While the Pokemon models were the same as Stadium (and Colosseum), the increased polygon count made them look nice.

And the trainers were excellent. They reacted when attacking and when their Pokemon got hit, unlike SM's.

As for the announcter... both are good. The only problem I have with PBR's announcer was the use of the word "stats". "X keeps gaining stats!" was terrible for immersion.

>>30685240
Hello kalosperm

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>>30685266
>that visual effect trick room gives the arena

>>30685365
>Genwunners are LITERALLY Kalosperm!
Oh wow, how had I never realized this before? It's not like they are exact opposites or anything.

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>>30684843
>X...err....

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>Such irony. Its own teammate was the only one to go down.

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Fuck, man. I miss those days, anything could work back then. My favorite thing to do was pair a Cherrim with a Seedot and then sash swords dance with Seedot and Sunny day with Cherrim, then pull off that gen 4 explosion goodness and watch the other guy ragequit as his dialga and mewtwo die.

Post favorite PBR songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRXug_r_XRA

Holy shit this was snazzy.

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>>30685077
>RIDE THAT SURF!!
>A PSYCHIC BLAST!!
>HERE COMES THE AERIAL ATTACK
>RAH! THUNDERBOLT!!!

>>30685579
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBRQtWX_onE

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>>30685077
>mfw realizing he was the narrator in the anime

>>30685579
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN9WTj9QwHg

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I want to fuck a squirrel

>>30683765

Fond memories

>Used to roll online in doubles with Gengar and Electivire leads
>Gengar T-Bolts Electivire
>Electivire proceeds to wreck shit with EQ and Cross Chop

Why no physical electric move with 80+ BP and no recoil damage doesn't exist yet despite there being several Pokemon literally BEGGING for it is beyond me.

>>30685266
https://chfoo.github.io/pbrchase/

>>30683845
You probably havent played it. A person who hasnt played it would say that.

Pbr had better character customization than the current games. This was also the first game with online battles. I played it a shitton

>>30685579
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1irHwwUQNZM

>>30685746
>Fang moves will still be 65 BP.

>>30684205
Well the /vp/ formula is:

Gen (current - 2) ruined pokemon. Gen (current - 1) saved pokemon.
Gen (current) sucks.
God i feel so nostalgic for gen (current - 3).

>>30685782
You couldn't even change your shirt and your pants independently though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkxOURORB8
What would his team be today.

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>>30685579
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW9A35Lqcy8

>TFW Courtyard always had that fucking fog though

>>30685847
Please PLEASE let Genius Sorority make a Switch game

> Dat rain effect
> Implying he wouldn't use Primals and Mega Fug
> Maybe an Ultra beast or two

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>>30683765
basically "I can't get to battle 50 in super doubles"

git gud, casual

also OP, PBR came out during Gen 4 when Pokemon wasn't really competitive.

If PBR came out now it'd be just as "srs bzns" or whatever your boogeyman is.

>>30683765
>Pokemon wasn't supposed to be an e-sports game. Genius Sonority understood this, why can't Game Freak?

What do you expect Game Freak to do? Game Freak doesn't design Pokemon games with competitive as a top priority.

Pokemon didn't become competitive because it was designed that way, it became competitive because of WiFi and the evolving competitive community.

>>30683765
Now I want announcers in the main series game.
Not everywhere, mostly online battles and maybe some in game places, like the Pokemon League, PWT, Battle Royal, etc...

>>30685199
it literally decides the game

if you pick wrong, you lose

team preview is fine for 6v6 but not for 3v3

>>30685933
Is it bad that we enjoyed the meta in its infancy? I don't know about OP, but I play normal OU meta now, but I really did have a blast with troll sets back in the day.

I have fond memories of the wheel of battle stips (all your mons get poisoned) and the other one where you randomly select mons from the other team and yours. Good times.

Also best song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYi219M3CJg

>>30686008
Not like the VGC wasn't a thing at that time, either.
They even made special builds of PBR to use for the final battle
https://youtu.be/B5ep7mNsRaY?t=80

>>30683845
Battle Revolution was pretty good.

Stadium was better, though.

>>30684520
>I still have that Electivire and Magmortar with the PKTOPIA OT.
mah nigga

>>30683765
I liked how the trainers in PBR actually started using Ubers as you go farther along.

I wish there was something like that for the Battle facilities in the main games, otherwise what is the damn point of all the legendaries when there is no post-game content to use them on, and they are banned in every single format?

>>30686063
I found a great one back in gen 5
>used to love triples
>go in
>guy had sheninja and 2 others
>used skill swap on his other two mons with the sheninja
>whole team had wonder guard and it was a bitch to try to beat

>muh fun

t. sub 1500

>>30684386
Oh, I remember that.
To 12 year old me with no knowledge of competitive, Orre Colosseum was just unbeatable brutality out of nowhere.

>>30685520
I used paraflinch hax Togekiss to troll legend teams. Ice Shard Weavile as backup because so many people used dragons.

>>30685726
You and me both.

>>30683765
>or will they remember that Pokemon was supposed to be a game for everyone to play together and have fun?

It still is. People are having fun. You're not having fun because you can't build a team around "your bros" and keep getting BTFO

>>30685717
This shit was too good.
>tfw dragging out the battle just to groove

>Games with Lickitung Sushi:
>Stadium
>Games with NO Lickitung Sushi:
>Stadium 2, PBR
I think it's clear which is the best.

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>>30685897
>fucking around online with a team consisting of ordinary Magikarp, Metapod, and two Ditto
>end up beating someone playing seriously thanks to the Courtyard fog

>>30685897
>TFW Courtyard always had that fucking fog though
That caught a lot of guard.
>see its run by Mafia boss
>expect Honchkrow
>the mad man actually had one
Great theme too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1zCdslTA-Q

>>30686008
>What do you expect Game Freak to do? Game Freak doesn't design Pokemon games with competitive as a top priority.
>Pokemon didn't become competitive because it was designed that way, it became competitive because of WiFi and the evolving competitive community.

When you start feeding it with ladders, rulesets (can't use Pokemon from older gens, really?) and Pokemon specifically made for competitive (gen 6 was full of those) that were unobtainable during the main game, yeah, I'd say that competitive is GF's priority right now.

We're at a point where most strategies doesn't works anymore, simply having a balanced team doesn't works, you have to counter every single autistic combo that has been introduced since gen 5 if you don't want to lose 4-0.

The latest in the autism spectrum are the Tapus and Ultra Beasts. This crap wouldn't have existed in gen 4. Increasing your offenses to the point where you're OHKOing 50% of the game, or boosting because you got a kill with those ridiculous stats?

Read the above carefully and it'll become clear that GF is pandering to the competitive "I want to be special" crowd rather the average people.

>>30683845
Aside from vietnam flashbacks of Darkrai cancer online, PBR was the shit back then.

>>30685897
That is why I just brought in my Kyogre.
Who cares about not using legends, fuck that fog.

>>30683845
I loved Battle Revolution. It has amazing music. Unfortunately I don't remember a lot of the actual game play because it's been a long time since I've played it because I lost my disc. :(

>>30686345
I mean, competitive catering is gonna happen with online being fully realized and the age of competitive games like DOTA and League being on us. There's not a lot to do about it, though.

>>30685847
I remember getting my shit kicked in by his Groudon + Flower Gift Cherrim in one of the rounds.

>>30683845
It was neat for online battles and the trainer customisation was pretty good. Too bad it didn't have any Stadium tier minigames, then it would have been GOAT

>>30686345
That still doesn't really mean shit when you realize Pokemon has only really become competitive due to the growing community and resources.

If you took Gen 4's meta and put in with today's community and resources, it wouldn't be as "experimental" as you guys like to nostalgia over. Instead of abusing Tapus and UBs, other pokemon would be abused.

>>30683935
>putting mewtwo on their team
what a zany whacky strategy to use a shitmon like mewtwo.
inconcievable.

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>>30686363
>had no idea what darkrai was other than the fact it was an event legend I'd never get like deoxys
>ran into a team with 5 darkrais and 1 shiny darkrai

>>30683765
Who's this semen demon?

>>30686459
>>30686363
Yeah, for some reason Darkrais were everywhere.

Also remember a ton of Fake Out + Last Resort Ambipom.

>>30685579
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFS-dw3qGTM

You groove, you lose.

>>30686345
Gen 1 meta was like 15 pokemon.
every team had tauros and chansey.
it is a LOT more varied nowadays.
i beat tapus and UBs with my monotype team on the reg. you just have to put a modicum of thought into your team and use your brain when battling.
i would say that you are wearing rose tinted glasses, but you are probably a sinnoh fetus

>>30686530
Darkrai was popular because it was the only good legal event legendary back then. They couldn't program Shaymin-S in, normal Shaymin was okay, and Darkrai pretty much owned because it was sanic fast, had an accurate sleep move, and said sleep move hit both foes in Doubles.

>>30686592
>Gen 1 meta = Gen 4 meta

At least try to come up with a decent argument before shitposting.

>been 3 gens since we've had a 3D console Pokemon game
Hold me.

>>30686653
The value-add of being in 3D has been negated by the games already being in 3D.

>>30686629
retard.
every meta was exactly the same since the very beginning, with the exception that more mons = more options.
gen 4 was not more balanced or varied than now, you were just a stupid kid battling other stupid kids.

>>30684487
Actually a full 10

>>30686688
I wasn't the person you replied to before, but I'd argue every meta is just as stale and homogenous as the last, including gen IV's. OU has always been a set of 45-60 of the same mons used over and over again, with the bottom half never seeing usage. Acting like Gen 7's meta is any better or worse than 4's is laughable.

Back then EV training wasn't nearly as widespread so most nonhacked mons wont have good IVs or be EV trained.

Those were the days.

>>30686770
agreed.

>>30686853
And then Pokesav existed

>>30684096
>GoD

what's the matter? scared to say XD?

>>30686454
Did you see VGC2009?

The world finals had a rain team (as in, Rain Dance, not Drizzle) and a fucking Shedinja on it.

The Pokemon weren't designed with competitive in mind. Sure you had your Salamences with Draco Meteor, but outside of that, you had room to experiment. You didn't eat Aeriliate/Parental Bond Double Edges or Shattered Psyches/Devastating Drakes and had your shit OHKOed. You didn't have to worry about all the OP shit that's been stacked on top of one another since gen 5.

I mean, everyone thought that DisQuake would be the top tier strat along with CM Trick Room Cresselia and Explosion Heatran. Neither made it to the finals, and neither makes you lose turn 1 because you didn't specifically made your team to counter them.

That, along with PBR's carefree online, was what made it fun to me.

>>30685673
It's not. The Battle Revolution announcer is the anime narrator. The original Stadium announcer is Tracy, and it's impossible to unhear once you've heard it.

>>30685291
only DP went slow. HGSS and Plat ran fine

>>30686880

Still inaccessible by the majority of the population.

>>30686932
I haven't even played competitive since gen 4. I assumed it was basically the same now but with more variety. Has it really gone downhill?

>>30686924
Yes because tards will waste post space and everyone's time with THAT pointless meme

>>30685799
>XY saved pokemon.
>SM sucks.
I think the formula has been broken

>>30686985
I didn't even care about IVs back then, only EVs and Natures.

>>30687000
There's a lot of powercreep, yes. Not that anon but it really fucked with the lower tiers the hardest. OU was pretty homogenized already in gen IV, but UU and under got all of the broken, powercreeped mons from gen IV's OU and it wasn't pretty. Now you're stuck with that "USE ABSOLUTE META OR DIE" mentality instead of "anything can work".

>>30685767
>https://chfoo.github.io/pbrchase/
SAVING THIS LINK

>>30687000
To give you an idea, many previous ubers like Salamence, Latios and Garchomp fell into OU and UU.

>>30683765

It's funny looking back at PBR now that the main games have 3d models

some models like Empoleon look a lot better than the 3ds games then others like Gliscor or venasaur look like absolute shit

>>30687065
>>30687236
Sucks. I had a lot of fun coming up with teams that had good synergy and creative movesets. I also strongly remember all the controversy when chomp got uberlocked.

>>30683765
what is RBR ?

Who here completed Masters? I only got to the fourth round or so because I can't raise pokemon for shit.

>>30685799
Problem is Gen 6 saved nothing, it's still considered the worst ever, and Gen 7 is doing much better than 6 did already.

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>>30685767
>Hurled by Seismic Toss.
MY DICK CAN'T TAKE MUCH MORE

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>>30688194

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>>30685767
>WHAT'S THIS?! DISTORTION?!>?!?!?!?! THE COLOSSEUM!!

>>30688237
The way its egg bounces around, I keep thinking it'll drop and shatter.

What kind of things would the announcer say these days?

>”Huh?! Oranguru instructed its teammate to attack again!"

>>30685767
Jigglypuff, Jigglypuff! Jigglypuff? Jigglypuff.

>>30683765
PBR was fun!

>>30688366
>Beaten, but at what cost? Innards out strikes back with a slam!

>>30688366
>What's this? The colosseum is all weird!
>A beautiful garden is blooming in the colosseum!
>An electric current runs through the colosseum!

>>30688366
>There's a real healthy meta in the colosseum tonight folks

I'd that Taylor so hard

>>30688572
Kek

>>30688469
>>30688504
Nice

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>>30688572
>Only in response to Celesteela, Tapu Koko or Pheromosa being out at the same time

God I wish.

>>30688366
>Corrosive cuts right through its steel body!
>Whats this? It can't seam get its feet moving against Tsareena!
>The shell comes off! Look at that vibrant (color) hue!

>What a hit! Golisopod definitely won't stay take another!
>Golisopod sees where this is going and gets out!
>Golisopod makes an emergency exit? It was hardly scratched!

>>30688366
>Smacked down by Darkest Lariat!
>Spirit Shackle hits the spot!
>Soaked by Sparkling Aria!
>A grassy field has grown in the Colosseum!
>An electric aura floods the Colosseum!
>Dominated by Trop Kick!
>Torn apart by Prismatic Laser!
>Blown away by Fleur Cannon!
>Huh?! Minior's shields are down!
>What!? Mimikyu! The Disguise took the hit!
>Topsy-Turvy changes the tide of the battle!
>Sliced by Accelrock!
>Obliterated by Oblivion Wing!
>A sinister aura fills the Colosseum!

>>30688689
>4th
*stay to take another!

>>30683765

>always the same teams

Don't do VGC then. There's actual differentiation in Singles. And Battle Spot has very few restrictions over all, not to mention you can just battle someone with any rules you want.

You're literally just too autistic to want to talk to someone to battle.

>>30688695
>Dominated by trop kick!

I wonder what this anon's fetish is

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>>30688695
>>Dominated by Trop Kick!

>>30685810
Yes you could?

PBR, a Wii game from mid 2007, blows Sun & Moon, games from late 2016, out of the water in terms of trainer customization and graphics.

>>30688689
These are actually pretty faithful to the style, they make me want another PBR super bad.

>>30688689
Those Golisopod ones are top notch

>>30688774
The models in PBR are fucking ass.

>>30683765
>Those amazing move animations.
>The character customization.
>The characters being all animated, getting all cocky when they win or really angry when they lose.

All of these are in the new games.

> Game Freak started doubling down on "competitive"

Well no shit, it's a strategy game. I hate competitive scenes in every game but this is genuinely retarded thinking.

>>30686192
Yeah, you do have sub 1500

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>>30688695
>Dominated by Trop Kick!

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>>30688963
>Amazing move animations in the new games
>Lame, undewhelming attack effects the Pokemon don't even move their bodies for in some case, all "hit" animations are a stiff flop in place
>Even attempting to say they match up to PBR's at all

Everything else you said was legit, but that's just silly.

>>30685077
>Here it comes...THUNDER!
>Oh! It held on by the skin of its teeth!
>It's a revolving door of pokemon!

>>30689121
I liked the Genius Sorority games, but all the non-contact moves were really weak, lacked the Oopm from the Stadium games and now S/M
Compare Stone Edge in PBR, which was a bunch of slow shards, to S/M, which is a fucking stalagmite coming out of the floor.

>>30688963
Watch a PBR match... everything is much better animated, from the trainers to the Pokemon to the moves. In the normal Z-move, the Pokemon literally slides towards the opponent... while in PBR they have a moving animation.

The one thing that SM does better are some physical moves like Close Combat and Power Whip.

>>30689121
PBR doesn't even have animations for status moves.

>>30689190
I will admit some of the moves lacked impact, like flamethrower. In my opinion they were more visually impressive than anything S/M has to offer, though. That sort of comes with being on a console, though.

>>30689190
Stadium had the best animations for special attacks.

>>30688366
>>30688689

>Whats this?! Wishiwashi called a whole school of allies!
>What a shame! The Wishiwashi left as quick as they came!
>The school of Wishiwashi scatters away!
>I guess those Wishiwashi didn't want to be friends with a looser.
>Wishiwashi's school came back!

>With some silver lining, Palossand's defense is buffed!
>The water strengthens Palossand's defense!
>Who would have thought? Palossand's walls actually look stronger!

>Mudsdale has got to be stronger for the next one!
>Mudsdale's stamina starts to grow!
>Mudsdale shrugs it off and stands straighter!

>Passimian catches their ally's ability with receiver!

>Its blinded by Dazzling! It can't move!

>Who would have thought!? The attacked didn't hit the real Mimikyu!
>Oh! You're all found out now Mimikyu!

>>30688366
Imagine him screaming Z move names for the entire duration of the animation.

>>30689190
Stone Edge had the same philosophy as the anime and the DP games, small pebbles slicing from below (Sliced by Stone Edge!). It only became pillars in gen 6.

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>>30689413
SUPERSONIC SKYSTRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE

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>>30689461
Torkoal is fully powered by its Z-Move! SUNLIGHT YELLOW OVERDRIVEEEEEEEEEEE!

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GUARDIAN OF ALOOOOOOOOOOOOLAAAAAA!

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>>30685767
>Meeeewtwo

>>30688366
>Its attack rose after a decisive blow!
>Ultra Energy flows through the beast!
>Soul Heart claims the strength of a fallen foe!
>What's going on? Zygarde cells are swarming the colosseum!
>Desolate Land brings unbearable heat!
>Primordial Sea floods the colosseum!
>A Delta Stream whips through the colosseum!

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>>30683765
>>30683845
Despite Stadium 2 remaining my all-time favourite (also due to nostalgia and how it was my only N64 game back then), PBR was lots of fun despite the bitter aftertaste it gave with how it's very dependent on your DS games whereas in the Stadium games you could play around with a massive roster of rental mons.

That said, PBR got trainer customization and it was really well done and I love how the animations had more personality and expression to them. I really hope that, despite modern Pokemon games having become 3D, GameFreak or Nintendo will still reconsider a successor to PBR and the Stadium Games for the Nintendo Switch. I just want to play 3D Pokemon battling on the big screen. Nevermind the fact PBR and the Stadium games gave you the opportunity to have your team fight against other teams you have used in the past --- I really wish there was a way for my Sun team to fight against my Y team or Yellow team, but alas.

>>30685767
Damn, do you also have one for Ted Lewis who was the announcer for Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2?

>>30689190
>but all the non-contact moves were really weak
How can you say this when dark pulse is the tightest shit imaginable?

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>>30688695
>Dominated by Trop Kick!

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I had a ton of fun with PBR, I had a shit ton of good mons in Pearl plus the ones from my LF and my brothers Ruby GBA cartridge that I moved to Pearl. Some of the best times with my cousins during sleepovers

>>30683765
While I liked PBR back in the day this
>That announcer that was pure hype.
Is just plain untrue. The guy sounded like he wanted to fucking kill himself every other minute for being forced to commentate on this kiddy game.

>>30683845
PBR was actually great to have back then since your only options for playing online were DPPt with no Battle Spot, ridiculously slow and prone to random disconnections online battles and static 2D graphics, or Shoddy Battle which aside from speed and accessibility had nothing else going for it. Between Shoddy and PBR and smogons Wi-Fi subforum I had all of my online battling needs covered.

>>30685847
>those smooth text-attack transitions
>those fast healing/HP dropping animations
>no embarrassing fps drops on any of the moves
I can't fucking wait for competitive battling to return to home consoles with the Switch Pokemon game. I tried watching VGC yesterday and I wanted to kill myself every time a Tapu Bulu or a Pokemon with Leech Seed/Leftovers appeared on the stream.

>>30691091
I think Stadium type games are done for which is kind of a shame. I mean we've gone 2 entire gens with no such thing. I think there's still some novelty in seeing the battles with more grafix.

>>30685933
>PBR came out during Gen 4 when Pokemon wasn't really competitive
t. I started playing competitively in gen 6

>>30688366
>"It Mega Evolved! The battle is heating up to a fever pitch!"
>"That Z-Move could turn the tide of battle. What will the opponent do next?"
>"What an effective rotation! The battle is making cautious steps toward victory."

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>>30688366
>"Tsareena's Queenly Majesty put it in it's place! It can't move!"
>"What's this?! The Pokemon changed! It was all an Illusion!"
>"[Pokemon] used it's Adrenaline Orb! It's not backing down!"
>"Smacked with a Red Card! Looks like it's going back to to the bench!"
>"You've done it now! Anger Point boosts [Pokemon]'s Attack through the roof!"

>>30687750
>and Gen 7 is doing much better than 6 did already.
That's if you look at it from a personal standpoint. Gameplay wise it's pretty damn awful with the most removals and poor reworking since gen 4.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvYErWWvec
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvYErWWvec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvYErWWvec
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvYErWWvec

you will never here this music ingame again

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>that one faggot who'd always pick Countryard Colosseum in the random online matches

Man I was so disappointed when BW didn't get anything like this. Even with 3D models now it's just not the same, all the spectacle of an announcer added so much.

I'd be all for a mode like this on the Switch or whatever else, always had the most fun using in-game DP or HGSS teams anyway.

>>30683845
This, a year or two ago everyone shat on it. But I guess that kids that started with gen IV and have nostalgia towards it can post now.

>>30683765
>always the same teams.
Stopped reading here. PBR was NOTHING but fighting the same fucking teams of Darkrai and shit.

>>30688366
> We all know this dance folks! Time for a Z-move!
> IT'S HYDRO VORTEX!
> WOW!! TAKEN DOWN IN ONE HIT!!

>>30683845
I trained and pokesaved all my Pokémon in my pearl version so I could send them over to PBR and (try to) relive the days of Pokémon Stadium.

>>30684004
IT'S DOWN AND OUT

>>30684205
I actually recently replayed Platinum and still loved it. I've always loved Gen IV and always will, nostalgia or not.

>>30693945
The added animations of the trainer calling back/sending out their Pokemon, winning/losing, and the Pokemon themselves being much more expressive definitely added to the experience.

>>30693570
Indeed.

>>30686258
>400+ characters
>should be happy to use only the same 20
This idea right here is what will murder the series.

>>30685645
The Pokemon... stand heroically against an inspiring view of Poketopia at night...

>DA DUN DA DUN DA DUUUN DA DUUN

>>30683845
DS requirement aside, the game actually looked really fucking nice for a Pokemon console game, and I always opted to play that online over the DS games because of the neato animations and music. I think the only thing it lacked was Griseous Orb & Sky Form Shaymin support.
The real crime is that there'll never be a GS console Pokemon ever again, so we're stuck with these garbage bucktooth moeface retard character designs & lackluster Pokemon models on 3DS instead of something nifty like PBR or Colosseum.

>EARTHQUAKE TEARS OPEN THE GROUND!
>OOH!
>BAM!
THE ATTACK MISSED!
>IS SLOWLY LOSING ITS HEALTH!
>MULTIPLE HITS, IT KEEPS DEALING DAMAGE!

>>30684986
>Blew a hole through the back of the stadium.

FUCKING LOL, THE GODDAMN FALSE ADVERTISING. These guys were pulling off some serious Todd Howard shit a decade ago.

>>30686941
>It's fucking Tracy.

Even better.

>>30686685
There is more than just 3D they can work with. A stable 60 fps, improved particle effects, better looking arenas, pokemon following their actual sizes and not these pocket sized wailords.