AbsentGravity
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Anyways, good deck list prodigal. I altered it a little and plan on running a LuxChomp (I hate the term Lady Gaga) list for state's.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Anyways, good deck list prodigal. I altered it a little and plan on running a LuxChomp (I hate the term Lady Gaga) list for state's.
Good luck!
I just don't see what is so great about luxray. It hardly complements garchomp, and to me it just looks as if someone randomly threw two LVXs together and thought, "hey, that looks ok-ish, it's bound to win!" and surprisingly, it did (somehow). Sure, Luxray is an ok card, but it isn't exactly breathtaking. I like my decks to actually work, so Luxray is a no-no. Overrated.
I just don't see what is so great about luxray. It hardly complements garchomp, and to me it just looks as if someone randomly threw two LVXs together and thought, "hey, that looks ok-ish, it's bound to win!" and surprisingly, it did (somehow). Sure, Luxray is an ok card, but it isn't exactly breathtaking. I like my decks to actually work, so Luxray is a no-no. Overrated.
Any chance of updating this list?
No, article lists do not get updated, nor would I post my latest list here given the money on the line for States/Regionals.
How about you just give it to me? I don't live close to you....lol
prodigal_fanboy said:This will therefore be the most difficult part of the article, from my perspective as an author. Things that seem self-evident must be communicated with lucidity to ensure that you, the general populace, can pick this up and run with it. Thus press onward I.
Things that seem self-evident must be communicated with lucidity to ensure that you, the general populace, can pick this up and run with it.
f you don't get it, you're just not thinking metaphysically/abstractly enough
This is the hardest part of writing this article , in my opinion. Seemingly obvious things must be clearly conveyed to ensure that anyone reading this can pick the deck up and run with it. That said, here I go!
Why must this article be written in such a smarmy know-it-all kind of tone? When you use unnecessarily ostentatious vocabulary which could easily be replaced with much easier words that can, as you put it, lucidly communicate the point of your article to the player base, it reflects upon you in a negative light. Articles on Pokégym are generally written informally, as your wide vocabulary has nothing to do with your ability to get your point across. If anything, what I view as eggheaded language makes you seem arrogant. I'm not saying you are, but I simply find the article irritating to read with the abundance of formal language.
On top of this, there are at least two instances in which your article implies that you are of a greater intelligence level than your audience, including the quote I cited.
The vocabulary wasn't intentional, I swear. I think it might have been a byproduct of my intended tone. The tone was, mainly because when I wrote it I was sick of some of the downright fictitious matchups being posited and passed as fact on front page articles. As for your two examples, I'll cede the first one -- that is me being pretentious. The second one is out of context. In that paragraph, I'm jabbing at the quirky, concealing deck names, and the statement in parentheses at the end of the cited line helps to show that.
I don't mean to offend you, merely warn you that your article sounds rather eggheaded The content is great, as I've read it myself. I'd have to admit I'm a bit of a hypocrite on this one, but I'd also say that what you type is much fancier than what I type.
It's the internet. If I were to take offense so easily, I'd probably being crying in a hovel.
Donphan is easily taken out with crobat following with a dragon rush. A 1-1 tech really isn't going to help the matchup. I've tried a 2-2 Donphan prime in my deck, and it just wasted space and lowered my consistency.
Quagsire makes an effective Donphan counter. 40 x 2 -20 = 60 = 120 / 2. It's a two-shot, and Quagsire is useful as a tech for its body anyways.