Whats the excuse for this?
>>736007024Everyone wishes they were a crab
>>736007024Blame the balance fags over at the pvp section.
Big Boss was right.
>>736007024shit hurts bro
Separation of gameplay and narrative. If stats in Pokemon accurately reflected the lore it would savagely curtail usability of the roster.
how does anyone find anything after genwun endearing past a handful of mons?new designs are so fucking busy, generic looking, and souless
GIANT ENEMY CRAB
>Carcinisation>"the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab"
It doesn't really matter if one pokemon has one stat higher than another pokemon. If Kingler is set to only use attacking moves, its likely dying in two turns. If it wants to set up, it will only get to attack once. Electrode is one of the fastest pokemon in the game, but that doesn't mean it's anywhere close to good.
>>736007220Santa claus crab
>>736007024Crabs are the pinnacle of animal evolution. The perfect lifeform.
Crab is the pinnacle of evolution. In fact, crab is so good that many non-crabs tried to (and continue to try to) evolve into crabs.The bad news is that we do not have the genetic makeup to evolve into crab.
>>736007308>>736007315Thats wrong. Spiders are supposed to be the pinnacle of evolution, they do what crabs do but even better, plus they have poison and can generate web
>>736007358>die to bootFucking idiot "peak" evolution
>>736007358the biggest spider is like the size of a regular ass beach crab
>>736007194Copout retarded reply
>>736007308macro evolution doesn't exist
>>736007414If we are talking about size then sperm whales are the pinnacle of evolution
>>736007423Not really. Vikavolt is said to zip around at high speeds but it's one of the slowest fully evolved pokemon. Miltank is about as fast as Pidgeot who is said to fly at mach 2.
>Kingler>Crawdaunt>Crabominable>Crustle>Klawf>ClawitzerIT IS NOWTIME FOR CRAB
>>736007443I was comparing spiders to crabs. Spiders are usually quite small, but crabs can get pretty damn big.
>>736007450Yes, thats why GF is retarded and so are you for defending it. Keep up
>>736007308For me it's these madlads
>>736007463Clawitzer is not a crab.
>>736007478Size doesnt mean much. Its what they can do that matters
>>736007358Can't live in water though
>>736007429Retarded christcuck detected
>>736007510Neither is Crawdaunt. Crustaceans are honorary crabs.
>>736007308
>>736007534Diving bell spiders
>>736007556H-he's just helping the turtle to the water, r-right?...
>>736007556shiti hate to remember how pretty much everything gets slowly and painfully eaten alive in the wild
>>736007024OG animalistic pokemons are better in every way
>>736007537>my grandpa was a randomly generated fishMaybe evolve past being a faggot
>>736007556
>>736007648Now, you say that you only prefer animalistic pokemon, but there are a ton of later pokemon that are basically just regular animals that you people claim to hate anyway. Just say what you really mean.
Did someone say peak of evolution?
>>736007498YEEEEEEEE, HAW!
>>736007556>Don't mind me, just pirating this turtle...
>>736007024Those numbers dont represent actual stats though, it is only growth potential.
>>736007713It's okay when generation one does it.
>>736007662>retard has no idea what he's talking aboutMany such cases, you should kill yourself and never open your retarded mouth again.
>>736007308it's just hands man, hands are OP, why kill prey when you can just hold it
>>736007713nta, the art changed for the worse
>>736007648Ah yes, those OG animalistic pokémon...
>>736007840Yes that looks like your mum. Problem?
>>736007840jynx and mister mime should have had trade evos
>>736007798>no refutationstrawmanning is evidence of low iq
>>736007781to be fair, turtles lay a ton of eggs so it's not like there aren't more
>>736007864insults are not strawmen
>>736007024I mean you wanna fuck with a crab that big?
>>736007853
>>736007785Yeah but Eternatus isn't even a physical attacker, so comparing it to Krabby is just disingenuous faggotry.
>>736007840seems legit to me
>>736007024>Pistol Shrimp>Pistol shrimp generate cavitation bubbles with acoustic pressures of approximately 12 psi (80 kilopascals) at a distance of 4 cm from their claw. The high-velocity, snap-induced jet creates a cavitation bubble that collapses to produce extreme heat (over 4,000°C) which is hotter than the surface of the sunDon't shit on Kingler. He's also a pig-sized crustacean which is literally as impossible as creation gods IRL
>>736007169>>736007024Lore > balanceThere. I said the obvious.
>>736007853I'm convinced Jynx would have progressed with Electabuzz and Magmar if it didn't have the controversy. I'm surprised they even still include it in some of the newer games since they've started cutting stuff.
>>736007895falacy falacy
>>736007916Its special atk is still lower than a spooky coral. LMAO
>>736007853And what would be Jynx's evolution, Aunt Jemima?
>>736007358>Spiders are supposed to be the pinnacle of evolutionYou could argue turning into a spider is a form of carcinization. The idea the round, 8-10 leg form is superior for locomotion in 3 dimensions
>>736007736>something indigenous Australians already knewwow they're so smart wowwow
>>736008041Crabs walk sideways though, spiders can traverse omnidirectionally
>>736008061Actually most of them have an extremely low iq
>>736008023>And what would be Jynx's evolutionYou're right, I can't think of a single pokemon that looks completely different from its evolution.
>>736007194Legendaries are banned to begin with so why not?
>>736008023That creepy thing from the Moomins
>>736008267Are you telling me you don't want to see 100 mirror matches of Mewtwo, Kyogre, Xerneas, Miraidon, Zacian, and Rayquaza?
>>736007024Ash's only sweeper was the crab.
>>736008020>one of the few good nu mon designs>make it a slow and frail wall breaker>worse than its preevo due to eviolite Fucking game freak SLOW FRAIL WALL BREAKERS WILL NEVER BE GOOD STOP MAKING THEM AHHHHH
>>736008336They could have made it so legendaries took up more pokemon slots to make for making them that much strongerThen it'd be like do you want to have half a team full of legendaries or the a full team of plebs
>>736007953crabs are peak evolution though they should have higher BST
>>736008590yeah I'm so glad that Eviolite cancer won't make it into Pokemon Championsfinally justice for my nigga Dusknoir
>>736008676Dusknoir looks like ass man, why would you want that?
>>736007308I hate this stupid fucking brainless meme. I don't know why retards keep posting it. it's been years.
>>736008590Just put an AV and invest in bulk bro
>>736007736who is introducing the platypus to new places?
>>736007308>>736007358>>736008041I think there are more beetles than any other life form on land.So yeah, perfect life forms are crab or beetle.
>>736008794Sadly the issue isn't really in Special Bulk, moreso the fact Turtwig takes physical hits better.
>>736007194Like 90% of the roster is already unusable. Nobody's rocking up with a Castform.
>>736007308evolution is just a theory
>>736007024peench
>>736007024It's a video game for children. The same reason why the hero of one nation is weaker than random thugs and city guards in later area.
>>736008325Wait isn't Jynx already based on that? The coincidence is too bighttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Groke>The Groke is a melancholic and lonely character.[2] She appears as a big dark sheet ghost with a big nose, who passively freezes everything around her.
>>736007308>Atheist: "We all actually came from monkeys!">Me: Then why are there still monkeys?>Atheist: "O-Oh, uhh, those ones didn't evolve!">Me: Yeah okay, then where are all our other ancestors? The supposed dozens of steps between apes and us?>Why did every single one of those evolve into us, but it was just those monkeys that didn't evolve?>Atheist: "W-Wait, this isn't fair! Oh no, Charles Darwin's lies didn't prepare me for this!"Evolution is so fucking stupid it's unreal.
>>736009387>Yeah okay, then where are all our other ancestors? The supposed dozens of steps between apes and us?*points at niggers*
>>736007934>water mon is factually hotter than magcargoheh
>>736009005Then just have vgc cat on your team at all times
>>736007498I've I was a sea creature I'd devoted my life to killing every disgusting eel
>>736008676>yeah I'm so glad that Eviolite cancer won't make it into Pokemon ChampionsHow do you mean, can't you use pokemon from your own games?
I thought legendaries are banned from anything competitive
>>736009459We humans are all the same species, anon. Just kinda ignore the fact that there are several different species of tigers that all look basically the same, heh...
>>736009702It depends on the usage tier for Smogon and depends on the regulation for cart. Some regulations ban legendaries, some restrict them to certain ones or a given amount, and some allow them in full.
>>736009702Most of them are. All the box legendaries + mewtwo, except for suicune, are usually banned. Mythicals have always been banned because they are locked behind times events. The rest of the legendaries like the birds, the beasts, regis, etc have always been legal.
>>736009459Racism isnt that funny anymore
>>736008676In an interview the producer of the game already said that Clefairy and P2, as well as more items, would be added later and the only reason they were left out of the initial release was to keep it simple for new players. Clefairy wasn't even in base SV either and was in the DLC so no Clefairy at launch isn't exactly new.
>>736009863>the only reason they were left out of the initial release was to keep it simple for new playersThat's just a fancy way of saying "we weren't able to get them all programmed in on time".
>>736008676Dusknoir sucks ass people won’t use it even without eviolite and they already said they’ll add it eventually lol
>>736007024>Whats the excuse for this?seniority
>>736009387>Yeah okay, then where are all our other ancestors? The supposed dozens of steps between apes and us?You know that at some point in history "humans" (apes already walking upright) were borderline on the brink of extinction, right?Also, apes didn't start evolving into humans all over the world, but only in a very, very localized region.
>>736009690There will be next to no unevolved Pokemon in Champions at the start. You get Pikachu and I think that's it. Something about trying not to confuse first time players about what Pokemon are good under normal circumstances.
>>736010173It's also so the initial pool for the "recruit a Pokemon" gacha isn't bloated with even more worthless trash mons than it already is. They want early adopters who aren't just transferring in their HOME spplies to have an actual chance to build up stock and survive before the meta consolidates into the usual boring slop.
The meatsweats will still be the ones dominating the game even with a limited pool of pokemon and no items.
>>736007024
The problem with Pokémon are levels.A shitmon can beat a broken pokemon if the level difference is high enough.Like, look at Pikachu. It has very low stats but how come it can fight stuff above its weight class, like legendaries?That shouldn't be fucking possible.
>>736010569I've always assumed stats were more about actual skill instead of power. That's why I don't think of the speed stat in the way you'd typically think of it. I think speed is more about a pokemon's reaction time, as opposed to how physically fast it actually is. Maybe Vikavolt is just stupid, so it's psyically fast but it has slow reaction time.Also in the anime, Pikachu got bodied by a level 5 Snivy as soon as they got to Unova.
>>736010461Let me know how much those stats actually help you when the battle starts.
>>736010874>Koffing enters the chat
>>736010569The problem with Pokémon are cunny.A hebe can beat a broken ojisan if the cunny difference is high enough.Like, look at Marnie. She has very low stats but how come she can fight stuff above her weight class, like ugly bastards?That shouldn't be fucking possible.
>>736007556SNIPPED
>>736007358Spiders are completely mogged by dragonflies. They are the most efficient predator on the planet as an adult and they're way cooler.
>>736009387This has to be bait.
>>736009387>We all actually came from monkeysMakes sense you'd find an inconsistency when you start off with an incorrect premise. We didn't evolve from monkeys. We evolved from a monkey-like common ancestor that we share with monkeys.
>>736010569>how come it can fight stuff above its weight class, like legendaries?"Little guy beats giant monster through training and determination" is the basis for nearly all human fiction.
>>736010874252+ Atk Choice Band Slaking Giga Impact vs. 200 HP / 0 Def Arceus: 403-475 (93.5 - 110.2%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO252+ Atk Choice Band Slaking Giga Impact vs. 200 HP / 0 Def Arceus on a critical hit: 604-712 (140.1 - 165.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO252+ Atk Arceus Extreme Speed vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Slaking on a critical hit: 204-240 (46.2 - 54.4%) -- 55.5% chance to 2HKO
snibbety snab
>>73600905490% is better than 99%
>>736011628Also, environmental specialties. Some regions were better suited to the ancestors who led to the monkeys and apes we see today, some regions were better suited towards the ancestors who led to humanity proper.
>>736008325Brilliant.
>>736010815>Maybe Vikavolt is just stupid, so it's psyically fast but it has slow reaction timevikavolt being slow is a reference. vic viper is a slow ship until you get upgrades progressing through the level. the last move vikavolt learns is agility
>>736009387>where muh missing linkhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=ICv6GLwt1gMOf course the ones we found aren't called "missing" anymore.
>>736007308>Albert Wesker smacking crab tank>THE PERFECT LIFEFORM
>>736007024Mess with the crab, get the snibedi snab
>>736007308If crabs are so great then why are they defenceless against ants?
>>736011390Dragonflies are the incels of the animal kingdom
>>736007024No gods, only Crab
>>736007024There's only one god in pokemon, and after I use him to glitch out maximum Master Balls there's no pokemon that can stand before me.
>>736007024Krabby, Kingler, Clauncher, Clawitzer and Corphish are my favorite pokemon. Never liked Crawdaunt, though.
>>736012095>Never liked CrawdauntIt's because of the dark typing isn't? You racist
I heard youre talking shit about crabs
>>736009459Out of Africa's never made sense to me. Central Africa has 160,000 years of head start in development.
>>736011693she cute
>>736007220Attack its WEAK pointFor massive damage
>>736012241>Central Africa has 160,000 years of head start in developmentBut the resources are shit
>>736011693Gets mogged hard by scolipede
>>736011778>posts a clip from a children's cartoon>"Heh, slam dunk. Another win for science."That's not the "epic win" you think it is.
>>736009387No one is replying to you with the truth. We evolved from a specific selection of apes focused around Ethiopia, only it wasn't natural; it was a forced evolution (called uplifting). Our intelligence was bestowed upon us by extraterrestrials; actually, the entire planet itself was seeded by aliens billions of years ago, too. Aliens engineered the mitochondria in our cells to bond with other microorganisms, enabling multicellular lifeforms.
>>736012241Evolution is usually the result of environmental pressures. If they reached their final form where they were living, there was no pressure for them to evolve any further. Their dark skin also protected them from the sun. When different groups of humans moved north and in to Europe, they had to not only contend with harsher conditions, but also learn how to develop ways to store food and build shelters. Africans never really had to do that. So while the travelers lost their melanin, they also learned agriculture and shelter building, while africans didn't. This also required evolving higher IQ.There is no end goal for evolution. Out of Africa makes sense when you realize that the people who left Africa had to actually develop intelligence and skill. Even if you do believe that we are all one species, we are very much not all the same. Africans stopped evolving because they didn't have to evolve anymore to survive where they were living, which is why they would have been better off just staying there.
>>736012507>humans moved north and in to Europe, they had to not only contend with harsher conditionsOH THE HUMANITY, WE NEED TO GO BACK TO FUCKING AFRICA, THIS LAND IS TOO CRUEL
>>736012419Yes, yes. And they also taught us how to build pyramids because 'big base that becomes smaller as you go up' is such a complex concept our minds couldn't understand it even though we were surrounded by mountains since the moment we were born.
>>736007423You say that but short of some FPS games they all follow that rule and then some.
>>736007308>evolution keeps turning animals into crabs! Isnt science so heckin' quirky?!>look inside>all false crabs are from one group of shrimps that split off from real crabsI hate internet science so fucking much
>>736012572It doesn't snow in central africa, so they never learned how to prepare for the future, and there was no shortage of animals to hunt there at all times of year.
>>736012615More than just Pyramids, the Ancient Egyptians were taught how to harness electricity, but the knowledge was lost
>>736007556The cycle of life can be cruel.
>>736007024Crabs are cool, the faggots on the left are lame. Simple as.
>>736012684Blame reddit. They popularize stuff because it's le quirky bacon narwhal joke that's partially based in actual science, and the users there keep telling these sorts of jokes over and over, that the people who see it and don't understand the reality of it. Those niggers still spread the myth that baby rattlesnakes are more venomous because they don't know how to control their venom, which is absolutely false.
>>736008998Heracross is so good, I love this nigga like you wouldn't believe
>>736007959>>736008023There's a cute mega where she becomes an angry opera singer
>>736012853>she
>>736012950Yes, Jynx is a female-only species.
>>736012419>aliensTime-travelling humans from the future but close enough
>>736013081>Human evolution is just one big bootstrap paradox ouroborous
>hasn't changed in 60 million yearscrocs truly are the world's greatest animal
>>736013372That's genuinely scary.
>>736012507>le Africa had food all year around that they could just pick up meme Piss off
>>736013449They do if they're smart about it.
>>736013241A bootstrap paradox is only a paradox to beings that exist on the arrow of time. There is no law of the universe that says information must have a point of creation, and time as a dimension exists all at once, which can be manipulated like any other. Once a species invents that technology, going back in time to ensure your kinds' survival becomes inevitable.
>>736012167Hard to say. Crawdaunt looks... I don't wanna say busy, but too tall and aggressive. That isn't inherently bad, but I like Corphish because of how goofy and huggable he looks.The evolution tries to be more menacing, and the permanent death stare accomplishes that, but it's still using that ridiculous body as the base. The color scheme also doesn't do anything for me.
>>736013542Yes sure that's the issue, they weren't smart enough to pick up the food that was somehow magically available to them all year. In the rest of the world plants follow season and harvest has to ripen before it can be taken, except for Africa where everything is just ripe 24/7 365 days of the year
>>736013695You really are a retarded faggot it seems. There are tons of animals in Africa. Why do you magically think that there were just fruits and vegetables all over the ground for them to pick up? Or like rotisserie chicken and cheeze nips?How did you reach that conclusion?They lived there for hundreds of thousands of years just fine before white people kidnapped them, my point was that they would be better off if they just stayed there.
>>736013875>Why do you magically think that there were just fruits and vegetables all over the ground for them to pick up? Because that's the talking about that people like >>736012241and other brain rotten /pol/sters build their entire arguments around. You can even see that shit here >>736012507
>>736013934So your suggestion is that out of africa makes no sense because all humans should be equally evolved all over the world despite having spent hundreds of thousands of years apart.That's your magical conclusion about why out of africa is bullshit?
>>736014081No I'm saying that people who go >Humans have been in Africa for so long, they should have had a heart start in everythingAre full of horeshit
>>736014184>they should have had a heart start in everythingThat way my entire point. I said that evolution has no end goal, and if a population has no incentive to adapt, they simply wont. Being intelligent and sapient is not the end all be all of evolution, otherwise Antelope would have been building rocket ships long before we did.
>>736007864You don't know what a strawman is, even after doing it yourself with the "my grandpa is a randomly generated fish" comment. Smartest christian award
>>736007736Fun Factthe venomous spurs are not something weirdly unique that the platypus evolved, it's something most mammals had during the jurassic and cretaceous they're the only mammals left that retained this trait, but during the height of the dinosaur, your average mammal was venomous
>>736013695>In the rest of the world plants follow season and harvest has to ripen before it can be taken, except for Africa where everything is just ripe 24/7 365 days of the yearCould you give an actual argument or a source for your outlandish claim that parts of africa aren't exceptionally fertile?
>>736007024peench u
>>736013934>people like >>736012241(me)I just don't understand. I'm even not making an argument. I just don't get how in that unimaginably massive breadth of time there's only Great Zimbabwe for sub-Saharan Africa while North Africa has Mali, Egypt, Kush and Carthage.
>>736013372crocs have undergone a lot of changes in 60 million years, there were tons of unique crocodilians including fully aquatic ones (whales drove them to extinction) fully terrestrial ones (caniformes drove them to extinction) and even arboreal ones (rodents did those in) the reason crocodiles look like they didn't change is because all the ones that did change got extincted by mammals and the only ones left are the ones that look the least changed
>an easy landscape where food can just be picked off the ground without effort according to /v/
>>736014665The only retard in this thread who said that is the guy who doesn't have the reading comprehension to understand that's not what was being claimed.But sure, go off about how god created humans 6000 years ago.
>>736014665humans lived here though. it's not my fault that you or I don't know all the answers to how.
>>736007024He’s also the perfect HM slut
>>736007024its humor. something you zoomers dont understand
>>736014492Mali is sub-saharan you retard there's also Kongo and Swahili
>>736013585Crawdaunt's problem has always been the big stupid blue fake lips.
>>736014665Poop skin jamboy detected
>>736014665You think that all of africa is a desert?
>>736014982>powerful and docile animalsyou are aware that african animals have a drastically higher level of innate fear of humans than any other animal on the planet right?since you know, those animals actually co-evolved with hominids and evolved to react to us in the same way they react to a god damn lion not to mention "never dreamed a sail" when one of the most famous stories of the Mali empire is of an (ultimately doomed) attempt of them to try and reach the Americas long before Europe did
>>736007498>je suis monté!
>>736007185Then be catches it and it gets zapped away to live with Oak until he needs Kingler to clutch out a win at the Pokemon League.
>>736013585>>736014921how am i just now noticing that he has a smaller set of claws under the main set>>736015026he clearly does, otherwise he wouldn't be acting disingenuous with his posts to refute some bizarre point that nobody was making in the first place
>>736007498>[Twilight Princess Battle Climax theme intensifies]
>>736015124he sent a lot of his pokemon to oak without ever battling with them once. I don't recall him ever actually using muk.
>>736014982A KKK fanboy is surely someone who gives well informed opinions about Africans >>736014314But why do you think Africans had no incentive to adapt? >>736014417Dry season, good luck growing anything when water isn't around.
>>736007196Gen 2 was fantastic, however.Gen 3 had some nice designs, but you could see the bullshit start to sneak in.
>>736011693I made a really funny set for this in mashups ages ago
>>736015026first of the serengeti is not a desertsecondly a massive portion of africa was savanna or jungle, especially more in the souththe regions that were fertile, such as around the river Niger and the Ethiopian highlands saw the spread of agriculture and with it settled societiesthere's also some peculiarities to seemingly perfect locations that make them exceedingly hard to use, one of the prime examples is the Congo river which despite seeming like it would be the prime location for a maritime empire with upriver hinterlands is actually impossible to traverse all the way to the oceanand no not "impossible to traverse for africans" impossible to traverse what so ever, the first time anyone sailed the full length of the river was in the 2010's and was only possible with a modern 1 person seat specialized kayak designed to be able to withstand the rigors of that river, it's still flat out impossible to use it for cargo transport
>>736007556Off to a private crab island.
>>736007736Was just thinking the other day about how fucking weird these goobers are
>>736015203He did in both the Johto and Kanto leagues iirc.
>>736015220>But why do you think Africans had no incentive to adapt?>HURR WHY DON'T AFRICANS JUST CHOOSE TO EVOLVEStill not getting it. Animals that can live comdfortably where there are have no reason to leave. You're still treating the end goal of evolution to reach the point where we are now, as though modern humans were always our end goal, and if you don't get why that's wrong and retarded, then I have zero reason to try to keep explaining it.
>>736007556>coconut music plays
>>736015225>but you could see the bullshit start to sneak in.Gen 2 was fucking atrocious, not 3. Babies and toys everywhere.
the reason africa didn't have as much agriculture as europe is simpleeuropeans got conquered and were forced to engage in agriculture, they never invented agriculture themselves after all, it was entirely forced upon them by their masters
>Everything is le evolving into le crabsName one thing that evolded into crab in the last 2000 years.
>>736008590I used her in a trick room team to decent effect. She's pretty cool.
>>736015453carb bucket mentality in people
>>736015350Perhaps both of us are shit at explaining so that's why we currently are at this situation, because this all started here >>736013542Assuming that post was yours, are you denying that you're built your argument on a false premise (that food in Africa was always available) and that Africans were too stupid to pick it up?
>>736008267Fanmade banlists can't be enforced outside of the communities that made them.
>>736015357Shit taste, can't sugarcoat it.
>>736015453your mom when she got crabs
>>736007308>Dude crabs lmaooo>MOST SPECIES AWARD crown is on Beetles Tanks > mecha
>>736014921This actually looks really good. I hate how GF went from making animals to making characters.
>>7360156192/3 of the starter lines are literally just blobs with vague elemental features tacked onthe only mons from gen 2 worth a damn are skarmory, scizor and the legends
I got interested in Champions but then I remembered how dogshit newer Pokemon look and I'm not going to subject myself to that.
>>736007736>No stomach>Have teeth early on - but lose them for no reason>Mammal but lays eggs>...but then the baby develops outside the egg anyway>No nipples, just sweat the milk outWhat the fuck are these guys up to. Its like a combo of the most random traits
>>736007450That’s travel speed, not reaction speed. Someone needs to learn on /dbg/
>>736008023>>736007959They should hard commit and make the Jynx evolution look like a waifu mon, but give it stereotypical "cute black girl" features.Fuck the haters. It'd kill off the old controversies and win people over
>>736016036Give her a huge ass and long, gem'd out nails.I'm only half-joking.
>>736014665What, you can’t eat grass? Skill issue.
>>736016314I eat ur mums ass.btfo
>>736016414So you can eat poop? Then surely grass isn’t an issue for you?
>>736015965>Mammal but lays eggs>No nipples, just sweat the milk outthose are just ancestral traits of mammals, that's what early mammals didmilk is just modified sweat
>>736014331>jew got this madYou know there are more dignified ways to consneed
>>736012572at 60F it's pretty uncomfortable to be outside at night with no clothing, fire or shelterat 40F it's lethal, you'll get hypothermia within just a few hours you either live somewhere warm or do something to make the conditions for your survival possiblewhy do you think all the bums live in California? if you sleep outside in Maine at night, you just fucking dieit's also why africans never did jack shit, there was no significant pressure from nature for them to adapt or die, they could survive just by existing, hunting animals and building rudimentary shelters
>>736015861it's a bit pointless to even judge gold and silver on the new pokemon they added, because most of them were completely unavailable until you beat the league, trade evos, or version exclusives. the games themselves were fine if you don't mind using just kanto mons.
>>736015350The argument that Africa is a place where you can live "comfortably" is retarded. That's not what happened.What happened is that, as humans evolved in Africa, the environment had time to adjust to them and form a deadlock where humans had to struggle to survive like any other animal.When they left for other continents, the life in these continents was not adjusted for humans nor knew how to handle them, so they could mop these animals up with little issue; and once that task is done, your dominion of the region is basically unquestioned and thus you have time to settle down, do agriculture, etc.
>>736007902Do you think Mr. Crime would be discriminated against? Would there be special laws in place to prevent it?Would there be a special NPC to let us know that not all Mr. Crimes are nefarious, and that their behaviour is not biologically-determined?Would there be an episode of the anime showing us a Mr. Crime with a heart of gold, who, really, just liked playing pranks?
>>736015203>>736015348He used Muk specifically against the Bellsprout girl in Kanto League.
>>736014982>powerful and docile animalsthis is the one thing africans absolutely do not have, though I don't consider it alone a valid excuse for why they're STILL struggling to do literally anything
Why do we still have "Out of Africa" proponents when older remains have been found outside the continent?
>>736016826I dunno, they have a thief pokemon and people seem to tolerate it. It's even a dark type as well.
>>736007556the fuck bro is doin to the turt
>>736016993Yeah, but that's a fox: he'll steal your food and then go home to the forest.Mr. Crime is humanoid, and, presumably, his crimes would be more social in nature.
>>736016759This is legit such a meme there were tons of Gen 2 Pokemon during the story they’re just not the ones people want to use lol
>>736007498So that's how Frye's family gets their eels.
>>736016992because those older fossils point to migrations that most likely completely died out/failed to pass genes
>>736008610Pokemon TCG kind of does this. And even then everyone just uses the legendaries.
>>736007024Kinglers high attack doesn't mean shit if it gets one shot by any number of Pokémon who out speed it.
>>736007024It's a really big claw
>>736017386it's pretty bulky on the physical side though
>>736007024"Legendary" pokemon are shit and shouldn't be a thing for players to catch.
>>736007498yeeclaw
>>736017480Eternatus's max form is not possible to catch or use, you just get to battle it once during the story. It's also no longer possible to use Ultra Necrozma even though Necrozma is in some of the newer games.
>>736017427and yet it's weak to grass and electric
>>736007934But Kingler is not a pistol shrimpThis is >>736007510
Biblically-accurate Pokemon were a mistake. Retvrn to crab.
>>736007556Don't do this to me, anon. I love baby turtles.
>>736017659yes and? those are not particularly bad weaknesses, water has been known as a great defensive typing for ages
>>736007308Yeah by "animals" this means crustaceans like lobster and shrimps will evolve forms that don't need to swim around because their niche doesn't require it and so they don't develop their tails very much and curl them under their body and focus more on walking on their legs so they take on a crab-like form.
>>736007539Crabs are crustaceans as well. Same with carpenters/rolly pollies/pill bugs
>>7360174054 U
>>736018436tell that to all 10,000 reddit faggots who think they're the first one to make the joke about humans turning in to crabs
>>736012638Another copout retarded reply
>>736014492The region's climate makes it hard to establish advanced societies. Northern Africa had access to cultures that lived in climates better suited for establishing one and had rivers that stayed constant. Sub-Saharan rivers are seasonal so you can't really develop around one which most great empires started off around.
>>736018436Besides the real example you should use for this level of convergent evolution isn't crabs, since like you said that's crustaceans onlythe actual example in nature is treesan apple tree is closer related to a pansy than it is to a pine tree
>>736007902>Mr. Lime.
>>736019043Jej
>>736013372Isn't that a gator?
>>736007902Only works in English though.His name is "Barrierdo" or something like that in Japanese so it'd be weird
>>736017037Merely a victim of Pokenomic circumstances
>>736019042Very true. Trees are just plants groups that all came to the same outcome of increased lignin will create a sturdier, stronger body.
>>736019290and it goes back even further, tree ferns aren't even remotely related to modern treesjust like you said, turns out that being the tallest plant is an advantage, but to be tall you gotta be strong and a trunk is a dang good solution
>>736019042Bamboo is also similar to a tree but its grass. The various families of animals that can fly are in no way related to each other.
>>736015965>but then the baby develops outside the egg anywayHow does that work?
>>736019365the weird thing is that tree but grass happened twicebanana trees grow in fundamentally the same way grass does and are closely related to true grasses in fact the way a banana tree grows is closer to how grass grows than bamboo is to how grass grows
>>736019395that's how kangaroos develop. The embryo is born into the pouch and then latches on to a nipple where it stays connected until its old enough to let go and move around.
>>736019395eggs hatching into premature young is pretty common in naturein a lot of birds chicks are hatched blind and naked even more helpless than human babies
>>736007024now post the rest of their stats
>>736019395The little niggas hatch really underdeveloped and have to hang onto their mom for a whileIt's like baby birds more than something like snakes or sharks where they basically hatch ready to go
>>736019338>ferns aren't treesYeah they still release spores instead of seed development and if you look under their leaves you can see the little spore pockets when they're in their reproduction phase.
>>736019365>Bamboo is also similar to a tree but its grassSo are palm trees.
>>736019583it's really funny that there's live-bearing sharksthey're about as far away from us as a vertebrate can be evolutionary not chordates though because tunicates are the weirdest fucking animal
>>736009154So is gravity and time but you still wouldn't jump off a building because you know that'd make you late to work.
>>736019742I'd jump off a reason for that specific reason, actually
>>736019660and despite that they once upon a time were also trees convergent evolution is just so fascinating, it's the ultimate proof that evolution isn't just "random"it's a game of optimization and there's actual rules to it that everyone follows
>>736007024That there is also level and EVs on top of it. A wild Kingler is never getting strong enough on its own to fight a legendary. But if it has been trained to be among the strongest Kinglers in history, then it can. Although legendaries still have better overall stats than the majority of normal pokemon. Just not necessarily one specific stat.
>>736019725There's species of reptile that also have live births. There's one species in Australia going through this change with some females having live births.
>>736019725take your pick, boys
>>736007220>>736012297it's almost been 20 years since that happened
>>736019870actually it gives even further than thatskinks don't just have live birth, there's one obscure african skink named Trachylepis ivensii that goes way beyond thatthey have a fully developed placenta, as in their placenta are closer to our placenta than even marsupials are, their eggs have been reduced to truly vestigial remnants that hatch before even reaching their womb and will likely just be gone all together in less than a million years of evolution
>>736019832>evolution isn't just "random"This what creationists don't understand. Evolution works with what it has available. You would think humans have less hair than apes, but in fact we have just as much but our DNA doesn't express that hair genes as much to make it thicker because we put more into brain development which compensates that lose of retaining heat protection from the elements by making things to cover ourselves with and evolution selected out those that didn't do that.
>>736019928this is closer related to you than an octopus is by the waythey only have brains in their larval forms, the moment they attach they just eat their own brains
>>736020119Who the fuck wants a brain when all you are is a tube waiting for food to go into it?
>>736007024Blame gen 4. Legendaries are meant to be big guys, not literal gods.
>>736007478It’s better to be small. Easier to find food. Being huge is suffering.
>>736020104don't forget how the thinning of our hair wasn't related to tool use at all but rather it allowed our sweat to more efficiently cool us down increasing our endurance and in turn letting us incorporate more meat in our diets first by scavenging then later by active hunt which in turn let our brains grow larger which in turn made us capable of fabricating clothing which in turn let us migrate to areas which are way too cold for our heat-adapted bodies to survive in normally and none of that was working towards this goal in any way but rather just working with what was best in the moment
>>736020195I think it started with gen 3. That was the first time the legendaries were integral to the actual story.
>>736016592>christcuck calling anyone else a jew
>>736007024Now show their Special attack
>>736007024>t. never got pinched by a crab
>>736020280>and none of that was working towards this goal in any wayAnother thing creationists don't get. They assume evolution has us as some end goal and then wonder why nothing else has evolved to be like us. If the niche doesn't select for it, why would that adaptation develop?
>>736020398>>736008020
>>736007358Spider hands typed this
>>736009387>>Atheist: "O-Oh, uhh, those ones didn't evolve!"This is the strawman. Every living thing on the planet has and is currently evolving. Even so called living fossils, organisms that largely resemble their ancient ancestors, have changed over time. Thats all evolution is, gradual changes through breeding of traits and random genetic mutations. There is no end point or goal, organisms are simply more likely to reproduce if they are better at surviving to do so and/or are better at reproducing.
>>736007024>posts special attacking legend next to physical attacking PokemonKrabby and Kingler's only good stat is physical attack and has a base stat total of like 400, this should be a poster child of cherrypicking.
>>736009754Viable offspring is one of the prime factors in differing species. Its why "dogs" are a single species, but lions and tigers aren't, ligers aren't usually fertile.
>>736020693>>736008020
>>736007308Evolution is just a theory.
>>736015090>african animals are impossible to domesticate!>white people try for a bit, get pretty good results>arabs managed to get the camel to work, the animal that hates humans more than anything.I mean, somewhere like new guinea having jack shit makes sense, but africa being "too hard" is cope.
>>736008267Restricted formats in official. Smogon/showdown doesn't exist and doesn't matter as far as the pokemon company is concerned, and they don't need to mess with it or balance around it since they handle their own rule sets.
>>736020827a GAME theory
>>736020924You dont matter
>>736020843White people tried to domesticate Zebras but they're too much of cunts for that to work. There have even been instances where a zoo had multiple zebras in the same exhibit and they had to separate them because they were cunts to each other.
>>736008020>>736020787Oh would you look at that, an ad-hoc later gen evolution that also has minmaxxed glass cannon stats who had one number better than a restricted legend. There is a reason they always gave cover legends until gen 6 a boring base 90ish speed, just like starters they weren't supposed to be too min-maxed. Trying being a legrnd that has speed comprable to Meeteo but also great bulk. Meanwhile Cursola here has worse physical bulk then Chansey.
>>736007586>wants to help turtle reach the water>realizes it can only walk sideways
>>736021120>Massive goal shifting happeningYou lost tranny
>>736020827Yes, scientific theories are>the best explanation we currently have until sufficiently challenged or proven wrongSometimes they end up wrong, but thats a good thing because it means we learned something new.
>>736013585>>736014921>>736015847The blue stripes are to imitate a Sharpedo. It’s supposed to emulate batesian mimicry as a means of self defence.
>>736021257Elaborate how I shifted the goalposts. >why yes, glass cannons having one really high number exists and can compare or even surpass legends in one particular stat but that doesn't mean shit
>>736015286>Crabstein Island
>>736021059Without even any selective breeding people have managed to tame zebras enough to ride them. The only reason they haven't been domesticated is because we already have horses and donkeys. So there is no incentive to go through the breeding process we already did for them for an animal that would be entirely redundant with them.
>>736021560taming =/ domestication people have been taming elephants enough to ride them for well over 2000 years and yet it is and has always remained impossible to domesticate an elephant at the same time, bees are not tame, but they are domesticated also african cows are genetically distinct from the rest of the world and are the result of a separate domestication incident from local cattle, so one of the few animals possible to domesticate from africa in fact was domesticated by africans
>>736021493>ACTUALLY THERE’S A REASON IT LOOKS DOGSHIT SO IT’S ACTUALLY GOODGod I love how it’s impossible to criticize GF, oh how I love the fact that no matter how retarded the decision that some faggot will defend it to the absolute death
>>736021268>best explanation we currently haveNo. They are>Whatever the jew funding our research told us to say so he can sell trash and brainwash the goyim easier
>>736021841people have always been criticizing pokemon simply because they didn't understand what the design was based on. it's fine to have an opinion on its design, but it makes you a retard to just assume it was just random bits and bangles haphazardly thrown together
What next? /v/ believing in flat Earth and thinking the Moon landing was fake because da j00s say otherwise? And on top of that you have all the christcuck larp. Grim times for 4channel.
>>736007024The fact that the Pokemon on the left are primarily Special Attackers, while the Pokemon on the left are primarily Physical Attackers
>>736021493>Crawdaunt is consistently one of the stronger gen 3 pokemon>Sharpedo is consistently one of the weaker gen 3 pokemonCrawdaunt chose pretty poorly for a mimicry
>>736007024Even game freak understand that the original 150 were superior and it should have stopped there. Why should car keys be powerful?
>>736007556>Bro (totally absolutely not me) when he sees a minor (she told me she was 18 I swear!)
>>736022112Take me, mamma Venusaur
>>736022008How does the jew angle make sense if it's Americans who fight against evolution (and science in general) the most and they're also Israel's most loyal followers?
/pol/ is leaking again
>>736022134>>736008020
>>736022047Being bad on or with purpose doesnt stop something from being bad.
>>736022261If you can be okay with Rotom, Klefki is basically the same idea. Then there's Dehlmise, which is criticized for being an anchor, when it is actually the moss growing on the anchor, not the anchor itself. Is it a good idea? Maybe not, but it isn't just random nonsense.
>>736022739It's almost like I said that it's fine to have an opinion on a design, but I notice you conveniently continue to bitch and make a non-point
>>736021707Do you really need the logistical challenges of domesticating elephants explained to you? There is no magic gene that makes an animal impossible to domesticate. If it can be selectively bred, it can be domesticated. Even animals that can't (initially) be bred in captivity are possible to domesticate via selective culling. Animals like elephants weren't domesticated because it wasn't worth it, not because it can't be done.The most retarded part about this cope is that zebras aren't even an especially challenging project. They're not actually any more hostile to humans than other wild equids. And certainly not more than the natural predator of humans that just so happens to be the most thoroughly domesticated animal. Their social organization is extremely similar to horses. And the environment they live in is less hostile and resource barren than the Eurasian steppe while also being less open, making them easier to catch for an ancient human on foot.
>>736022741I like Dehlmise but not Klefki. I'm neutral on Rotom. Looks matter more than concept.
>>736023030Sad about your face then
>>736022741The ship wheel is a bit much but its not badNta but i get it
>>736007556I think its worse to be killed by something so mindless and apathetic compared to a human that at least has some sadistic enjoyment.
>>736022741I said 150 and have no idea what you schizo rant is about.
>>736021841You’re brain damaged and incapable of looking at the situation objectively.People were reeling off about why there were blue stripes on Crawdaunt so I explained the design philosophy. Nowhere did I say it was a good design or that anyone was wrong to dislike it.
>>736015114kek
>>736022895a key requirement for domestication is that the animal has no instinctual fear of humansand that's the main problem with zebras: they have an instinctual fear of humans, it's why it's impossible to domesticate themthey are in fact drastically more hostile towards humans than other wild equids homo sapiens also literally never had a natural predator, wolves have never considered humans prey animalsthe fact you think wolves were natural predators of humans says quite literally everything that needs to be said about how trustworthy your posts are
>>736025185you can't expect gen 1 pissbabies to behave rationally
>>736019228kek
>>736007185Ash aint humanno way anyone could tank that and live
>>736023948From the ant deciding to skinny dip in your coffee to the crocodile helping you cover the whole river they're not mindless nor apathetic. They're literally fucking hungry and you're on the menu. It's a dog eat dog world. The fuck do you want, to get inside the crab's brain and see it thinking about the cool sand ball yard it built?
>>736009387t.
>>736007358Horseshoe crabs are technically arachnids, therefore spiders are crabs.
>>736026585specious logic, because horseshoe crabs are not actually crabs
>>736008457Ash had like twenty tauros.
>>736026585They're in some retard cousin group besides arachnids last time i've checked.Also why aren't you stuck to a blood milking machine you stupid waking rock?
>>736026943I really dislike Ursaluna
>>736025250>homo sapiens also literally never had a natural predator,Being fuck huge scavenger gorillas with big fuck you legs puts a dent of a lot of predation in the jungle pockets, but what about the savannahs? Homos had to travel through them and lionesses hunt there and fags look very huntable for cats that can fucking cloak while on tall grass.
>>736027047Both versions of them? Cuz I don't like bloodmoon all that much but the other one seems fine
>>736013372American Gators and Nile Crocodile aren't successful because they are "peak lifeforms" they are successful because we farm them. They are just about the only carnivore that is worth harvesting for meat, they also taste really good.
>>736027176The physical one is slightly overturned minmaxxed but tolerable and counterable. Blood Moon's design is retarded and it's way overtuned.
>>736007024he crab
>>736011447You say that, but there are people who genuinely think like this and assume evolution is false because there's a gaps without understanding not all things fossilize.
>>736007024Crabs have a huge pinch grip that's stronger than a gorilla's deadlift capability. Let that sink in. Train your grip = you will increase your deadlift.
>>736027298Black Caiman as well, just about every other croc species is pretty much left alone and they are in a bad spot
>Pretty guud Thread I wonder what they taste like
>>736027298I have the relationship with Crocodile meat similar to what others have towards blue cheese. (Love it or Hate it) I'm in the "hate camp" due to the way too strong game taste. I mean its edible just not for me and I enjoy organ meats usually. I prefer eating Roo meat. Leanest meat and similar to chicken or duck. (both goated.)
>>736027119As early as Homo Erectus we didn't have any natural predatorssure lions would opportunistically kill one of us, same way we'd opportunistically kill one of them but there was not a single predator who'd consider us even as a secondary food source once we got to the point we could fully walk upright and use weaponry Homo Erectus and onwards were apex predators, and even if technically a bigger apex predator could kill one, it's just never worth it, it's why bears don't hunt wolves despite a singular bear being very much capable of killing a wolf or why lions don't hunt hyenas remember, a predator doesn't just have to win from it's prey, it has to win AND be in a state where they're not badly injured and it's that last part that would have been a complete shitshow against humans in group Also tf are jungles relevant, our ancestors weren't jungle animals, we're descendant from the last common ancestor with chimps who left the jungleyou wanna know what we'd call their descendants that didn't? CHIMPSAustralopithecus was a partial woodland expert and anything in the genus Homo is a dedicated savanna expert
>>736007024Crab is the top tier evolution line.ez
non ironic answer: legendary Pokémon have stats that are all very high. all 6 of them. the crab has literally just attack and all shit stats otherwise. he's slow, can't take a hit and his HP is low.
>>736027721Based as fuck anthropologist anon
>>736023948what did that bird think was going to happen
>>736027176nah it looks fucking retardedespecially the play-doh eyebrow "clouds"
>>736027721>Wewuzchimpsandkangsandshiit.Post hands, one palm down, the other up.
>>736027721>why lions don't hunt hyenaslions will very much kill hyenas if they can, but they usually don't actually eat it. guessing they taste like shit.
>>736007358Spiders are nothing like crabs, and they kinda suck, actually. Lots of costly mutations pushed to overkill levels like hydraulic limbs, overly developed primitive eyes, venom and webs, at cost of being slow fragile campy shits who can't swim, can't fly, and have such garbage digestive systems that they have to be on a smoothie diet.
>>736028225lions will only kill hyenas as last resort, the primary interaction between the 2 is one of intimidation I'm not saying they can't kill a hyena, I very much said they did, I'm just saying as a predator if you want to eat something hyena sized literally every single god damn animal in africa roughly that size is better choice than going for a hyena cause if the lion fucks up his bite (and remember predators fuck up a lot, most hunts aren't successful unless you're specialized for eating things 10x smaller than you) he's now, rather than dealing with a panicking antelope, dealing with an angry cornered hyena who can easily inflict a debilitating wound with his biteOne wrong move and now one of the lion's legs is crippled and it doesn't matter if he technically wins the battle here, he's just as dead because he can't hunt anymorethat's why predators don't fuck with other predators and why they roarand also why, this might surprise you, predators tend to roar at humans and make threat displays, they recognize us as fellow predators and go in "fuck off" mode, a predator who wants to eat you is going to do his absolute best to not be seen or heard
>>736026858And did any of them get a sweep? No? Then they aren't sweepers.
>>736028001they're just stuck on mud retard, it's a ground type, not eyebrows
>>736007024>736007024Have you tried fighting a crab?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mHKHKR8x6A
>>736007024wait a fucking second this is just an /an/ thread
>Fat cat>outpaces Pokemon that can move at mach 1
>>736028913>you sure you wanna do that
How we feelin' about bro-conut crabs?
>>736029593>look what this ultra beast hassnibedy snab :DDD
>>736029832forgod bigdure :DDD
>>736029593bug
>>736027539you do need grip strength so that you don't focus too much into grabbing the bar, but it's not really that relevant
>>736009323Jynx is based on the Yamauba and ganguro fashion.
>>736029593Would
>>736028794Okay, and? Still looks fucking retarded
>>736007498This happens all the time on a spiritual level. Archonic nigger mantids and greys fuck with people's perception who are too awake. We call them schizos and lock them up.
>>736028935Cat reaction times are insane.
>>736007308Moving sideways and hiding in rocks is busted in the ocean because so many marine animals dump all their points into speed and have no points in handling
>>736007308there's a lobster that walks on land that everyone calls a crab. forgot the name though.
>>736031103That bird actually lived BTW the filmmakers just baited everybody
>>736026508*doggy dog world
>>736013372
>>736031591yjk
>>736031501>>736031708Fuck you, this is animal abuse. Of course it's a hot pot / wok, only chinksects would record such vile filth. It should be illegal to cook crustaceans alive.
>>736031708m-man, that onsen must be REALLY hot, I sure hope he comes back out to dry off soon...
>>736031791Holy shit that fish is way stronger than he looks
WHY THE FUCK DOES DRAGONAIR TURN INTO THIS GOOFY FUCKASSIF DRAGONITE JUST EXISTED AS ITS OWN THING I WOULDNT BE MAD BUT HOLY SHIT
>>736032031Why isn't he at least blue?
>>736032031Something like a togepi should evolve into dragonite.
>>736031875it wanted a hot bath~
>>736031708Right wingers should replace the penguin with lobster.
>>736020843>tried to domesticate hippos and failed>tried to domesticate zebras and failed>tried to domesticate monkeys and got mixed results (some of those assholes end up killing you)>tried to domesticate lions and failedIm confused, what good results am I missing here? Surely you arent talking about the fucking koalas
>>736029893I hate arms coming from inside the mouth. Imagine a jaw that wasn't designed to close completely and always have some airflow or opening to it, that sounds horrendous.
>>736031256Sweet Arceus...
>>736031791How soft is that shell I wonder
>>736032031You know the Venonat and Caterpie evolution line got mixed up in development of gen 1
>>736031256>hear me out>what if it had higher offenses than Mega Rayquaza>and it could use The Light That Burns The Sky, over and over every turn without a penalty
>>736032679Venonat to Butterfree? That's cool, I can see that
>>736032679That's a baseless rumor, it was never ever confirmed true, not even during the gigaleaks.
>>736007308Being a crab has to be come form of demonic corruption
>>736011723Only 4.50% of all 1025 pokemon sre competitively viablue
>>736028935>>736030748Yeah, Speed is more reaction time and recovery than ability to achieve high velocity. Most mons with low Speed are slow, but not all, and most mons with high Speed are fast but also not all.
>>736031256Still nothing compared to the previous flavor of legendaries. You look at Koraidon and think its stats are nothing special, a mere 135 attack right? This is a mistake. Its attack is not simply 135, it's more equivalent to it having around ~220 (not factoring in held item, IVs, EVs, or sun boost by the way it gets even worse)
>>736032031piss colored barney lookin ass
>>736007024This image made me just realize that pokemon is just slowly turning into a shittier SMT with all of its lore powercreep pseudo-demigods/outright gods and demons.
>>736032398ONCE IT GETS YAITS GETS YA
>>736032785>have to get a 4x ice weak mon to half health without an easy item like sash before it gets access to mega>switches from physical to special attacker when doing soit's baisically the og zen darmanitan as a legendary, it's much better but it's still kinda shit
>>736032398>one day a crab minding his business suddenly and without reason died to a delta p beyond his capacity for understanding>and the world continued to spin, completely apathetic to his doom
>>736034001Wouldn't have happened to an octopus
>>736033924zygarde 100% never was shit. also zen darma has the same hp. zygarde changes hp so it "recovers" it.
>>736034154see, neither is darmanitan. and that's why zen darm is so shit. why sabotage your set for a gimmick if you can just use regular darm, or regular zyg?
cunny is that powerful (translator note:cunny is crab in Japanese)
>>736034001>without reasonFalse! The reason is simple: it walked over the crack and paid the price for it's hubris.>but the crab had no ideaNonsense. It lives in a 3d environment, it could have chosen an infinity of directions to move in all equally rich in plankton and algae, and yet it chose the one that would get it killed. Not only that, but every fiber of it's being should have been telling it to get the fuck away from that, yet still he approached.The crab CHOSE this, it was not random, it was SUICIDE.
>>736034349Does the crab have awareness or sentience? Does a crab actually decide, or does it react to the hormones and chemical influxes of its mind?
>>736007024simple is best
>>736032443What is that?
>>736007024They're all special attackers
>>736034341Truth nuke
>>736007194>stats in Pokemon accurately reflected the loreGardevoir would be a walking apocalypse because it can create black holes. Pokemon lore is retarded.
>>736035089hoff crabhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXpt8KcoczY
>>736027539
>>736007308>Crabs are the pinnacle of animal evolutionCrabs are the "pinnacle" of animal evolution in the same way a pit is the ultimate living space. Everyone wants to fall into a pit, right? That's why so many things fall into them. Animals keep turning into crabs because crabs possess a lot of convenient qualities that make life a little easier, but by specializing into crab they fall into a closed-loop (genetically) that they can't get out of. It's why some animals haven't changed for millions of years, because they get caught in a selective-pressure hell that refuses to let go. Like a crab claw.
>>736032679No. Caterpie is a literal cartoon version of a butterfly larva.
>>736008267Accurate power levels wouldn't just hurt competitive play. It would cause massive problems for the main game as well.
>>736007024So this is a case where getting crabs is a good thing?
>>736007185>>736007024The reason?HE'S MY FUCKING HERO
>>736011660absolute Yiddish nonsense
I love the krab.
>>736031591>Why did God make me with no lips or muscles to suck when I got fresh tiddy right here?
>>736034349Show some goddamn empathy.Imagine being human and having that happen to you
>>736007308Crabs is racist
>>736025250every animal ever started off with instinctual fear of the apex predator you stupid ass mongolid
Crabs are powerful
>>736007024Why must you minimize the power of my friendship with my very large crab>>736017480They're not exactly a pocket monster if you can't catch them and put them in your pocket now are they?
>>736032031>Charizard doesn't get dragon dual typing because the type needed to be special>Give it to a knockoff barney insteadI'm still mad.
>>736031791>This kills the crab
>>736009387>dogs evolved from wolves, so why are wolves still around?????You are mentally retarded.
>>736032031Dragonairtrannies are the most boring people on earth.>I love my heckin blue snake, fuck the dragon with actual limbs
>>736007024bros my kingler looks weird
>>736009387>t. high school dropout
>>736012572>Wow this is so nice and green and warm, I think I'll stay here. No need to build shelter or store food, it's warm and food sources are abundant!>Six months later-
>>736010874slaking can be very good in competitive if used as an opener. one powerful smack to start the game can be enough to justify his existence. then be smart about swap outs and you can get more good use out of him.
>>736019183waruido
>>736019183>Niggerdothere, fixed
>>736031256what the fuck is this gay ass design
>>736039680i do love my heckin blue snake, yeah
>>736007308>theorize that animals that have the same traits are descended from a common ancestor>dna testing proves this wrong for crabs>instead of admitting you were wrong, just say "wow, what an amazing coincidence that these unrelated animals became crabs? Isn't evolution cool?"
>>736007498WHEEEEEEN AAAAAANOCTOPUS GUY LATCHES ONTO YOUR EYETHAT'S A MORRRAAAAAYYYYYY
>>736041003that seems like the normal response, since dna testing proved it right for other animals, and also many crabs
>>736040706the same design as 10 years ago but greener and with a cannon
>>736041163more gamefreak employees should be committing seppuku
>>736020716That's bullshit though. Coyotes and wolves are separate species and can create viable offspring. Humans and Neanderthals did too.
>>736007024balancing for competitivefags is one hell of a drug
>>736041337if we just killed all of them we could save the series
>>736007024yes the legendaries should have stats in the tens of thousands that would work swell
>>736007358Spiders can't live on the ocean floor, crabs canyour favorite niggerman is on the same level of crabs and that's a honor
If a pokemon has less than 100 speed and less than 100 atk or special atk, it is a shitmon and i won't use it, simple as.
>>736041405the final boss of ZA has various appendages that serve as enemies. they only take 3 hits from zygarde, but they're programmed to have 25000 HP each, which is the absolute highest in the series.
>>736041674that's so gay
>>736007556Yoink!
>999 attack machamp with iron ball, revenge and flingyup. its gaming time
>>736015965It's like an Elden Ring build when you don't know wtf you are doing but you want to try all weapons and styles, your stats are all over the place, your souls fashion is an abomination, you don't even know how it works, but it works
>>736016714What this anon said. Having to plan for the winter in advance to not die (or low drinking water overall) plays a huge role on how society develops
>>736014982>they didnt invent the wheel because.. because they just didnt, okay?? there was no need for it!!
>>736033924A thought experiment>if Zygarde holds a Booster Energy, it activates turn 1 and transforms him into Complete Forme automaticallyWould people run it over the mega stone?If the answer is “no, mega is way too broken” then the Complete Forme transformation conditions don’t balance it
>>736013372I hate bigass reptiles, I think we as a species should kill em all or at least crocodiles and komodo dragons specifically. Mammal pride worldwide.
>>736042827who gives a shit
>>736042932Anyone worried about a restricted format with this running around>>736031256
/an/ threads on /v/ are always super comfy.On a side note my PC died today and I don't have enough money for a new graphics card so, hello Jailbroken ps4 my old friend
>>736007443We were not talking about your mama nigga
>>736043140please find something of value to care about
>>736033362Only for 5 turns of sun, which can be weather war’d off. And Collision Course is only 100BP (133 if it’s SE), not fucking 200.
>>736032443The nourishing tube.
>>736009387The common ancestor we share with monkeys was something like a tree shrew. There were different branches of hominids, the most notable Neanderthals but they were wiped out, at least phenotype wise. We don't look like them but all modern humans have like 5% Neanderthal DNA. Most likely scenario that there was a combo of genocide/assimilation until only Homo sapiens sapiens remained. Now that gate is closed until we all die, assuming we don't fuck up the planet so bad we kill everything else too
>>736012507There's no point in discussing with people that are basically saying that a Cane Corso and a Chihuahua are basically the same. You just need eyes and common sense to realize
>>736014314The end goal of evolution is to survive. If you happen to evolve into a reality bending civilization or into a microbacteria that can survive in volcanic vent on the sea floor it's the same as long as it works
>>736043758nah we only split from the baboon lineage around 25mya at which point old world monkeys were already distinct old world monkeysand we only split from gibbons at around 15mya, 18mya earliest, our LCA with them was pretty distinct proto-apeafter that we had a LCA with chimps around 7mya and could interbreed with them up until about 5.5myaSomething super interesting is new evidence rising that our LCA with chimps might have been a facultative biped rather than a chimp-like tree dweller and the hominid lineage was the one that specialized more in terrestrial locomotion while the chimps specialized in arboreal locomotionalways remember, chimps are just as evolved as we are, just selected for by different pressures
>>736019870The most fascinating for me is parthenogenesis. To think an insect, not a bacteria, can pop out infinite copies of itself as long as there's food. I hate aphids . Then there's the sea slugs that will regenerate a full individual when chopped into pieces
>>736045523plants fucking love parthenogenesis there's a flower who's sole dedicated pollinator bee went extinct like a million years ago and hasn't had sexual reproduction of any kind since then, just endless copies of itself
>>736045635one million year old virgin
>>736045723well no the OG flowers are long dead, the individuals don't live that long
>>736045762you can't prove that
>>736020104A lot of people praise our brain and language but humans as beasts evolved to stamina Maxx first, brain later. Predators are not supposed to be able to pursue their prey for days without stopping, that's because we don't overheat, we can sweat from all our skin and being upright means you take less direct sunlight.
>>736045852persistence hunting is a bit of a meme in how it's presented thoughthe real persistence hunting isn't charging after an animal for days to exhaust it, that's pretty wastefulthe actual use of our stamina in hunting combines with another distinctly human trait, our minmaxed upper bodies for throwing weaponfunctionally this combo meant that hominids engage a prey animal from range without any risk to themselves, letting them do things like treat a herd like a target rich environment rather than a death sentence and then if they didn't kill something outright, but wounded it, they could pursue it until it exhausted itself usually like an hour or 2 later and claim the kill anywaysanother factor with endurance and bipedalism as well as not overheating was being able to cut up a carcass and carry away far more meat than they could eat to feed the rest of the group without having to defend a kill from other predators
>>736046079i mean, we did also famously run them off of cliffs
>>736045523Certain jellyfish can revert back to early forms of its development>>736045635>there's a flower who's sole dedicated pollinator bee went extinct like a million years ago and hasn't had sexual reproduction of any kind since thenAvocados were originally eaten by large herbivores before humans came in and killed them off and humans kept them around because they liked eating them. Without humans the avocado would just die off>just endless copies of itselfMany bamboo species hav a built in clock when it blooms and dies and for this certain bamboo plant was 120+ years and unknown to the people that found it and cut ooff piece for clones for gifts to grow and when all the clones bloomed the same day and died right after>>736045852>Predators are not supposed to be able to pursue their prey for days without stoppingNot entirely true. Komodo dragons bite victims with their venomous saliva and then chase them down to exhaustion and will follow them for days at a time. What makes humans different we don't need to get up close to kill our prey. We can throw a spear, arrow or rock at fast speeds. One of the things that gave us an edge over the other hominids around us. Neanderthal never advanced its weapons past large stone tip spears good only for up close fighting hence their more stocky frame compared to humans
>>736046357yes and we didn't do that by pure endurance, we did that by being smarter than them, and setting up an entire herd to run off a cliff because we had fire to terrify them with and could set up tribe members ahead of time along the path to scare them like, a bison can plan ahead maybe like half an hour at best?Humans can make plans years ahead of time, it's just completely and utterly unfair to them, they were acting on instincts that would have worked against everything other than a human
>>736028683Bengal Tigers definitely look at humans as food. They stalk them for long distances and will wait for humans to attack them from behind. Harvesters in the Jungle wear masks in the back of their heads to prevent tiger attacks. Tiger piss stinks tho so it's easier to avoid tiger territory by smell
>>736047028Polar bears are also natural predators, will actively hunt people to the point that polar bear hunters don't actually "hunt" polar bears, they get into their territory and just walk until a bear starts following them. Terrifying.
>>736047162when you live in the fucking arctic you take what is offered
>>736028919We were (gladly) bamboozled again.Mods are based and don't mess with /an/ threads even if they are off topic.Bnuuy threads are also good. /tv/, anything that is NOT videogames basically
>>736047028only injured or starving tigers risk that though
>>736031791Eating the fucking pincers is wild. This fish must be related to the one that eats coral.
>>736032443>We need to let black crabs into our volcanic vent society that has endured for millions of years undisturbed or we will surely perish in the coming years
>>736043758>Most likely scenario that there was a combo of genocide/assimilation until only Homo sapiens sapiens remained.wait until you find out what the proto-indo-europeans did to everyone elsethe secret winning combo is neanderthal blood and steppe nomad blood
>>736034341I can believe it since we are seeing the cunnification in games right now. Pregnata, Re, Sakuna, Imoutos everywhere. Over time everything becomes an Anime girl.
>>736007024Gyarados syndrome. That's back when pokebuilding philosophy was less than straightforward and the STAB type didn't always match up with the dominate stat. When STAB was a bonus. Nowadays it's expected.
>>736048178aka Flareon Syndrome
>>736041268Viable offspring that can infinitely mate with each other is the issue. Mules are sterile (mostly) but they live their entire lives without problen. Ligers also,but have severe health issues because the growth hormone goes whack and reach unhealthy sizes.
That's why I love my boy Shuckle, absolute highest defenses in the entire series and he's just a worm turtle.
>>736045360Based anon correcting my ignorant self.
>>736045635That plant is like me, wtf.Except I never scored.
