Defend this.

>>31374587
Adding in more moves for the AI to rotate to just increases the likelyhood that they'll randomly use the wrong move. Giving them fewer moves actually makes them slightly more capable.

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>the only notable flygon trainer in recent memory uses a completely cucked set

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

GF'S NOT EVEN TRYING TO HIDE THEIR CONTEMPT FOR FLYGON ANYMORE

JUST DEPROGRAM IT FROM THE GAME, ITS FUCKING DEAD

>>31374672
They'll always choose a SE move. Flygon naturally learns Earthquake, Dragon Claw and Rock Slide.

This moveset is a fucking joke.

>>31374599
Literally in the file name.

>>31374587
This Flygon can't even do anything to a Togekiss or Togetic. That's wild.

>>31374762
>tfw it could have had those moves and Dragon Dance during this battle

>>31374805
>dragon dance
>two special moves

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>>31374745
>Flygon also is literally a worse Aura break 10% Zygarde

We can have a Zygarde thread here now?

>>31374762
>suggesting 3 Atk moves in what's clearly a SpAtk set
>EQ is the same as EP in all but 10 bp, and that 10 makes it "a joke"
>dragon breath is only marginally weaker than dragon claw, but comes with a 30% paralysis
The set is functionally the same for in-game, this is just a SpAtk flying that can't use shitty moves.

>>31374828
dude this set sucks massive donkey balls, cant even hit a togetic lol

>>31374587
I think it killed one of my pokemon and the rest of her pokemon are enough to offer a balanced battle. I thought it was over after Mudsdale when Gastrodon came out. Thankfully I had some leaves to throw at it.

>>31374828
There's no reason to go with this set that's significantly weaker on the already weak Flygon.

>>31374860
Cool words. Yeah, no reason to go with it at all besides what I already said.

>significantly weaker
>10bp difference
>trading 20bp for 30% para
Wow what a fucking landslide.

>>31374820
Yeah, but I was talking about the three physical moves mentioned.

>>31374877
Flygon has much weaker special attack dude.

I taught my Gyarados Flame Thrower because it looks cool.

>>31374910
Wow, 20, wew lads pack it in its game over.

You fucking idiots realize that individual encounters in video games aren't supposed to drain you of all your resources, right? If you had to hit the pokecenter between trainers that would be horribly tedious.

>>31374587
Hapu and flygon deserve each other

They're both shit

>>31374745
>BW2 were the only games with a good Flygon
>postgame exclusive

>>31374964
It's a boss fight numbnuts, it's not supposed to be a free exp bag like all the trash trainers you run into in routes. The difference between 80 base attack earth power and 100 base attack earthquake is massive, especially now that the trainers have EVs.

>>31374587

Less Moves. Less chance for the AI to fuck up.

>Fight Team Skull Grunt's Drowzee with my own.
>Use Disable. Pound was disabled.
>No moves left. Drowzee used Struggle.

You'd think it'd at least know Confusion...

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>>31374964
>If you had to hit the pokecenter between trainers that would be horribly tedious.

>>31374745
>Forgetting Aarune

>>31375002
Please just don't even try to talk about this game as if you know anything if you don't even know the bp of the moves you're talking about. You're at a computer right now, how can you be that stupid?

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>>31375074
>trainer specializes in Flygon
>gives you the only other dragon/ground type mega stone

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daily reminder

>>31375084
Are you retarded? I was referring to Flygon's stats there buddy

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>>31375084
New to this convo but really?

>thinking base attack stats and base attack of moves are the same thing

You're a dime a dozen anon

>>31374762
Who the fuck is Happu?

>>31375084
>>31375116
>>31375120
/thread

>>31375084
Anon...

>>31375154
the old lady midget kahuna

>>31375154
Hapu the dwarf.

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>>31374587
>Physical Flygon

>>31374587
I guess they were trying to nerf it slightly due to Hapu's level jump. Her rematch team has it as fully physical, so they had a plan. Plus the whole less choices for the ai thing.

>>31375120
But he said base attack, anon. Not base stats.

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>>31374745
?

The number of NPC trainer Pokemon in the later games with pitiful, incomplete movesets meant to accompany a bad AI that won't ever be improved outside of battle facilities is one of the main reasons why Game Freak's laziness renders me devoid of hope for the series.

>>31376337
>I never look at more than surface data

>>31375029
Stop this meme, the AI always goes for SE moves. If it was facing a Togekiss, and it had EQ, ROck Slide, and DragonBreath, it wouldn't magically spam Dragon moves at Togekiss

So many trainers spamming self-affecting status moves as their mons get slaughtered over the course of several turns. Fucking why?

>>31376367
They really don't just use SE moves. They'll use NVE or normal effective moves, and also status moves.

>>31376367
>fight Giratina in AS with Sableye
>uses Aura Sphere for 5 consecutive turns instead of the other Ghost moves that can actually hit me
no

>>31376337
That leaves me wondering why you had any hope in the first place when they had shit like the evil boss of the first game have a Pokemon with 1 move.

>>31376422
So I'm guessing Hala is now easier on the second round since now its team has complete movesets

>>31376422
If the AI is set to it's best value it will use whatever does the most damage, or a status move. Most trainers are deliberately set up to be stupid.

>>31376517
I'm probably going to organise a group suicide if we reach those levels of bad again. Please don't remind me how terrible the first two gens were movepool wise, not mainly due to trainers but more along the lines of the gpdawful level-based pools.

>>31376599
Chances are your movepool wasn't all that either, siince TMs were not infinite and movepools were smaller in Gen 1

Comparing a "boss" in Gen 1 with a bad moveset is not comparable to a "boss" in Gen 7 with a bad moveset, because you're way less limited while they for some reason remain the same

>>31376613
Not to mention that gen 1 trainers had this AI problem of thinking that status moves would be "super effective" and spam them.

SM doesn't have this problem, so it has no excuse to not add 4 moves.

>>31374672
>>31375268
You're defending SHIT AI.

>>31376337
>>31377131
This, defending awful AI with awful movesets means you're defending a company that just don't know how to balance difficulty.
The battle facilities is indeed proof that they CAN make AI that's not braindead, but why they choose to dumb it down so much for the story that they have to limit its move choices is astoundingly stupid.
I love pokemon but I hate Gamefreak.

>>31376495
Wild pokemon choose moves completely at random, if I recall. Why this also applies to legendary battles is another fuck-up Gamefreak has no excuse for, since you'd expect they have at least some cognitive function unlike wild pokemon that mostly act on instinct.

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>>31374587
This thing wiped my whole team because most of them were weak to ground, slower than him and had to deal with the mudsdale just before

I only managed to beat him because of my charjabug with eviolite and x-scissor that evolved right after

>>31377189
Because if every single trainer was competent idiot kids would actually have trouble with the game, GF assumes people are idiots and they're right.

>>31374672
stop this meme and end your life

>>31377189
I hate how using a writ in the Battle Chateau got rid of the opponents' nice movesets and just went with the default ones their mons have at their levels.

>>31377189
>You're defending SHIT AI.
Not even a little bit. Just describing it.

>>31374996
You could get Trapinch on Route 4

>>31377189
>This, defending awful AI with awful movesets means you're defending a company that just don't know how to balance difficulty.
>The battle facilities is indeed proof that they CAN make AI that's not braindead, but why they choose to dumb it down so much for the story that they have to limit its move choices is astoundingly stupid.
>I love pokemon but I hate Gamefreak.

Because as always casuals come first. Same reason so many trainers only have one Pokemon in this game. Even after you complete Kiawe's trial I am still seeing trainers with only one Pokemon against my Gyarados, Brionne, Magnemite, Trumbeak, and my other two Pokemon.

>>31377475
Other two Pokemon are Roggenrola and Umbreon.

>>31374587
Pokemon Sun and Moon is easy. Every trial I've done so far is a joke.

>>31374587
They got lazy programming the AI so they just slapped two STAB attacks and called it a day.

>>31374805
Can't give them stat-up moves or they'll spam it until they're at +6.

>Golisopod used Swords Dance!
>Golisopod used Swords Dance!
>Golisopod's Emergency Exit!

>>31377242
>he didn't use a rare candy to evolve charjabug before the happu fight

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>>31377701
>Having the pokemons you use to beat the main story evolve anywhere else than important or tough fights

>>31376517
I had.
They couldn't program shit back then.
It was the first game, you can't compare.
It was already fixed in Gen II. There is no excuse for gen VII.

>>31377764
this