Emolga Used Double Team!

[rionaleonhart]

More notes on Pokémon White! I am now just past Nimbasa City.



I was a little let down by the ferris wheel scene, largely because I'd somehow been led to believe that it was a RAGING HOTBED OF N/PLAYER SEXUAL TENSION and in the end it was just a raging hotbed of N telling me he was the leader of Team Plasma. I was quite pleased by the revelation, though, because, unless I've severely misinterpreted N's character, it means that at least Team Plasma's leader genuinely believes in their philosophy.

Regarding the Pokémon Musical: ahahaha, what? That's probably the strongest argument I've ever seen for Team Plasma's cause. I dressed my Servine in a top hat and bow tie and sent it onstage to twirl a cane, and someone came up to me afterwards to tell me it was so wonderful that it may have changed their life. I love this ridiculous game.

And then the scene in which Bianca's father accosts her and tries to make her come home actually made me tear up. A Pokémon game made me cry. I was not expecting this. The moment the scene had ended, I went in search of the music in it. More piano music, please, Pokémon games.

I am inordinately amused by the sign for Marvelous Bridge. 'Truly marvelous! And also a bridge!'

Cheren is really interesting! He's your friend, but his attitude to raising Pokémon sort of reminds me of your rival in Gold/Silver. Cheren isn't as actively cruel as Mr ??? (he no longer says 'My name's ???' in SoulSilver, but I still can't resist naming him 'Query'), but they're both focused on power as an ultimate goal and inclined to view their Pokémon purely as a means to that end. NO, CHEREN, YOU HAVE TO TREAT YOUR POKÉMON WITH TRUST AND LOVE.

Not speaking of trust and love: I hate Emolga. I hate it. It's adorable, yes, but I hate it. IT'S AN ELECTRIC TYPE THAT FLIES, SO YOU CAN'T HIT IT WITH GROUND MOVES, AND THEN IT PARALYSES YOU AND USES DOUBLE TEAM EIGHT MILLION TIMES SO YOU CAN'T HIT IT WITH ANYTHING. Not to mention Volt Switch. Go away, Emolga, you absolute git of an adorable flying squirrel.



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Comments

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, Emolga. Bane of everything in the world. It frustrated me so much in White that I went ahead and got one myself in Black, and I love her to bits, if only because now the power is mine. NONE SHALL STAND IN MY WAY.

The Ferris Wheel scene: I think people are so enamored of it because the player character gets to be in a traditionally romantic small enclosed space with a cute guy who insisted you absolutely had to be there with him, and then it turns out all he wanted to do was talk to you. Which, he could have done that anywhere, why did he pick a spot associated with dates? And why does he consider you such a ~worthy opponent~? But mostly it is because he is a cute guy, I think. Nobody said Pokemon fans couldn't be shallow.

[rionaleonhart]

Fair enough! I am totally fine with people 'shipping N/Player, what with N trying to get you to understand his point of view and proclaiming that YOU AND I WILL BE FRIENDS. And, yes, there is the question of why N wanted to get You Personally onto a ferris wheel and explain his position.

(Your icon portrays the CREEPY FIXATION--um what dynamic of the pairing perfectly.)

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

(My icon is from the glorious fancomic Black Adventures, which is equal parts vague-playthrough-of-the-game and madness-on-a-stick. Actually they've only just managed to win Elesa's badge in it, that is pretty coincidental there. It starts here (http://blackadventurescomic.com/2010/10/29/episode-01-part-01/) if you're interested, although, fair warning, the first two chapters were made for 4chan and thus are not, um, particularly classy. But the rest of it is hilarious and adorable!)

[rionaleonhart]

(That comic is adorable; thank you so much for the link! I've just finished the Christmas chapter. N is sort of breaking my heart.)

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

(N sort of breaks everyone's heart. I assure you, it only gets worse, and by worse I mean better, but maybe not better for N, he is not very happy about it.)

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

THANKYOU FOR LINKING ME TO THAT COMIC

Oh, N.

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

I am happy to spread the love! "Oh, N" is pretty much the default reaction, it is true.

[anewcitylife.livejournal.com]

I've heard it's more sexual-tension-y if you play as a girl, although I never play as a girl so I have no idea if this is true or not.

Also Emolga is an adorable douchebag. I spent forever levelling up a Sandile so I could kick that gym's ass, because silly me, I thought 'oh, it's just an Electric-type gym'. Grrrrrr. Think I managed it with a Roggenrolla in the end.

[rionaleonhart]

I'm also playing as the male character, so I'm afraid I can neither confirm nor deny this.

It was such a cruel joke on the part of the game designers. 'Look, we're putting the Electric Gym just after a desert where you can catch Ground-type Pokémon if you like, because we're nice AHAHAHA OH WAIT DID WE NOT MENTION THAT TWO-THIRDS OF THE LEADER'S TEAM AREN'T AFFECTED BY GROUND MOVES?'

[jeanne-dark.livejournal.com]

I play as a girl, and the sexual tension hit me like a brick. I was like, "WHY AM I SHIPPING THESE TWO?!?" DDD:

Also, I love my Emolga. I love my Emolgo so so so so much. I don't even know.

...I should start playing the game again, I think.

[rionaleonhart]

I play as a girl, and the sexual tension hit me like a brick.

Ooh, I'm sort of intrigued by this.

I suppose it's all right to love an Emolga you own yourself. I SUPPOSE.

[zarla.livejournal.com]

I NEVER GOT ANY TENSION FROM THE FERRIS WHEEL SCENE but i had a boy character so idk man
THEN AGAIN I DIDN'T THINK N WAS THAT STALKERISH maybe i'm just unobservant

oh dang there's a nice version of that bianca theme on the BW ost... where is it... well this isn't it BUT STILL A REMIX OF IT pyeww (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOG_t2jTAIA)

That gym I swear, my Dwebble got me through it with that knockdown move he had. Dwebbles are so cuuuuteeee

[rionaleonhart]

That remix is now stuck on loop in my head and I'm probably never going to get to sleep, but thank you very much for the link!

I AM SO SURPRISED THAT YOU'VE BECOME ATTACHED TO THE BUG POKÉMON THAT IS MOSTLY OBSCURED BY A VAGUELY MUSHROOM-SHAPED SHELL

SO SURPRISED

[zarla.livejournal.com]

I MUST ADMIT I AM NOT AS INTERESTED IN ITS EVOLUTION THOUGH

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

I was waiting for you to get to Nimbasa!

THIS IS RELEVANT TO THIS ENTRY. (http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=041111)

Also Emolga is a bitch and I hate it. But I'm raising mine to use it in a bait-n-switch combo with my Gligar.

[rionaleonhart]

That made me laugh out loud. I particularly like that his choice of Pokémon was in the same evolutionary line as mine and dressed in exactly the same way.

I suppose Volt Switch would be a very useful move if you wanted to paralyse a Pokémon and get out of there as quickly as possible.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's part of why I thought of that one.

I'm planning to use it in conjunction with U-Turn. :D Bait-n-switch.

[jan-the-verse.livejournal.com]

Chiming in that playing as a girl, on the Ferris Wheel all I felt was sexually harassed and accosted by a total creeper. It was a really isolating and upsetting moment. Hence really effective? I don't ship it, but I see why people would read it that way.

[rionaleonhart]

That's interesting! And also a bit horrible. I'm sorry it was such an uncomfortable moment!

EMOLGA'S FLIPPIN' DOUBLE TEAM

[(Anonymous)]

So, i was just training my lucario, with a speed stat of 171 and here's a FLIPPIN CHEATY EMOLGA who decides to use double team about 50 times, then it proceeds to tear through my team. THE WORST PART IS THAT ITS FLIPPIN LVL 10!

Re: EMOLGA'S FLIPPIN' DOUBLE TEAM

[rionaleonhart]

I'm sorry for your suffering! (But thank you for sharing this story, because it made me laugh.) We have all known pain at Emolga's adorable paws.