Shouldn't one of the starter types actually be useful for the main game?
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Why is Grass so bad?
Shouldn't one of the starter types actually be useful for the main game?
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it is, play the fricking games
if you want a bad type try rock
>Rock
What few resistances it gets, while not stellar, are still nice to have, and its offensive coverage is probably the best of all types. Bug is a better example.
nah i find rock worse
Funny how bug bros can do neutral damage while normal bros can barely hurt them
Blame Game Freak's fricking moronation with how many Grass-type Pokemon were handled.
Meganium being a fully evolved starter Pokemon shouldn't be inferior in battle compared to NFEs. It fricking shouldn't. NO starter Pokemon should be outclassed by a Pokemon that hasn't evolved.
Proposal that doesn't involve weaknesses or resistances (to prevent screeching):
An accuracy boost for Rock-type moves only if used by a Rock-type Pokemon.
immunity to powder moves is nothing to sneeze at
or ice
>or ice
They'll come and minute now.
i mean look at venusaur and meganium, they're probably meant to be defensi-
oh. wait.
Grass isn't a bad type because there's a powerful support move that exactly 6 out of 67 fully evolved Grass-types are able to learn.
>Support moves
>For the main game
LMAO, just pick an actually good type and attack, bro. No need for support moves
All the gimmicks grass gets are just GF pity-buffing it for being a shill starter type. Otherwise Grass type has no redeeming feature aside from resisting water. Rock and Ice are at least good offensively
nah beating water is pretty helpful
walling electric is also helpful
and ground
Ground does a better job. Complete immunity is still better
Flying does a better job. Complete immunity is still better
This is why "support" in any video games are a meme. Most supports are unnecessary and other stronger types can fill the support role just as easily if not better
nah being able to steamroll water and ground is nice to have as well as resisting both and electricity as well as immunity from powders and all the helpful utility's i swear by grass
Is it worth dying to everything and not being able to kill anything though?
i kill plenty with it dunno what your problem is
did you read the second through eighth words in the post you replied to? if you did, do you think your reply follows?
Answer the question, homosexual
learn to read and you will find your questions are already answered
Electric is still a far superior check to water than grass, since many water types also learn ice moves
Also because grass is weak to and is resisted by a ton of types, many dual-type water mons don't get hurt by grass or can kill it before grass can do anything to them
>immunity is better than resisting
Is it? Thanks anon, I never would have realized. Fricking autist.
How many ground type pokemon know rock throw?
have you ever tried to beat someone up with grass it's pretty weak
Grass is unironically the best testament to there being competent people at GameFreak. It looks like crap at a glance but has genuinely helpful utility on nearly every team hence FWG cores.
everyone seems to forget that pokemon is/was a single player game and that types were designed around your typical RPG progression curve and not muh competitive. grass makes (or made) sense as a type that lets you hit a lot of early game wild pokemon you run into frequently, especially paired with poison. you'll never get hit with any bad status from a poison sting, you hit geodudes in caves pretty good, you hit most stuff you'll find while surfing pretty good, sometimes you'll suffer from pidgey but otherwise you could reasonable expect your grass dude to be fine early through midgame until psychic spammers show up.
pokemon's type match-ups was built around this concept of single player progression, which is why dragon has so many resistances (because it's a 'final boss' sorta pokemon). obviously things are much different now but the type chart hasn't changed much which is weird, but pokemon autists are a different breed and heavily resist change so what can you do at this point.
Competitive autists are the ones defending grass type because it can work as "support" though
I mean, that's also a thing in single-player tho.
Grass-types gets access to all the powder moves and leech seed and you even have all the Mushroom mons that are exclusively grass and have access to Spore. Grass-types also have all the draining moves and things like Morning Sun and Synthesis.
Fire is about nuking shit, Water is all-arounders, Grass is for weirdos that want to be more technical in their single-player campaign. All of these are equally viable, except most people will choose quicker options, especially that battle system in Pokemon already is sluggish in comparison to other jrpgs.
It's called Hard Mode, b***h.
yeah. Never seen anyone Tera into Grass
>Never seen anyone Tera into Grass
Then you're a shitter playing with other shitters. Fire into Grass is one of the bread and butter tera type changes, especially with Flash Fire.
Damn near every Heatran runs Tera Grass.
People only tera Grass in VGC. In Singles, it's pretty much useless.
The fact that Heatran exists and is so heavily used even in singles means that Tera Grass isn’t useless in singles.
Hell frog sees far less use in singles than you'd think. The moveset nerfs really hurt it.
I’m referring to the game, not the dumbfrick fanfic version of the game.
Smogon is the real comp version because it's the only way to competitively play 6v6 singles. Oh, and you don't have to be a bootlicker and actually buy the Pokeslop Game Freak knows you pathetic worms will still buy anyway.
>it’s the only way to play [clown format the game isn’t designed around]
don’t care
>Clown format
>literally the base format of the game
GF dickriders...
The base format of the game is 3v3 singles and 4v4 doubles. I have no clue what's happening in the game in your schizo universe.
I wasn't aware I couldn't use more than 3 Pokemon when fighting Geeta.
>hurrr I can use full restores in the toddler campaign therefore it’s relevant for competitive
grass types are often double typed to compensate
>Grass types are only good if they have another type
Pretty telltale sign of a shitty type
Fire types are terrible without a second type
You don't play Pokemon you just watch e-celebrites telling you their opinions.
/thread.
>MUHHHH ECELEBS!!!!!!!
I swear they've become vp's biggest boogeyman rather than making rational arguments
Shut up, e-celeb shill. Go jump into a hole and die. Just remember to like and subscribe to another basedboy with cookie cutter opinions.
>rather than making rational arguments
Yeah I hate these homosexuals that can't find a youtube video to speak for them on every topic.
Full list of these images?
Grass has very subtle advantages
>immune to powder moves, in a world where Spore, rage powder and Amoongus are so so prevolent in doubles
>strong against Water, one of the most defensive typings in the gsme that are only weak to Grass and Electric
>fire-water-grass is the most fundimental trifecta for adequate type coverage in the game
>strong against ground, one of the better attscking types in the game, who's only other resistance is bug (lmao) and as well as it cant touch flying
Grass is a good situational defensive option and a good check to water for the most part
I guess but would prefer it wasn't resisted by so many things. I pretty unfun
>any water type not named magikarp used ice beam
Grass is perfectly fine for the main game, competitive kiddies don't matter
Why is tera grass useful to have on multiple pokemon that I use on my team then?
Because
You dont always want to deal with the handful of weaknesses but you want to occasionally be able to deal with specific threats such as spore, grounds, or waters
Why are people on this board so fricking terrible at the games? It’s actually staggering.
We're talking about the main game moron, not your VGshit genning autism
>we’re talking about the toddler campaign where literally any pokemon can beat any pokemon
Why are people on this board so fricking terrible at the games? It’s actually staggering.
Doesn't excuse of grass' shittiness in the toddler campaign
Holy esl
>No argument
Grassbros...
>capitalized greentext
Dio mierde
I'd like to see what this chart looks like after Pittsburgh. Grass Flutter Mane won Worlds and people now know what it can do.
Poor bug
Nobody cares about hackmon battle sim
>bug isn't the worst ty-ACK!!!!!
Doubles is not real Pokemon. 6v6 Singles is.
>resists Water
>resists Ground
>resists Electric
>immune to powder moves
Just as a type it's amazing defensively, and then when you factor in all the individual Grass Pokemon it gets even better. There's a reason Grass is the most common tera type. Most Pokemon are improved by becoming Grass.
Why is Water so bad? Look at Barraskewda’s stats. Why id Water type no good
>inb4 t. Geeta
Grass, Fire, and Water are the elemental types most prevalent to our world and serve as an easy to understand triangle.
Grass’s gimmick is status moves to harm the opponent combined with moves that boost the user. Fire is a hyper offensive type and Water is a defensive tank type.
I'm doing a grass-only run in White and I have no coverage for flying or fire
>The base format of the game is 3v3 singles
Grass attacks aren't great most of the time, but they make up for it with Status moves like Sleep Powder, Leech Seed, Aromatherapy, and Synthesis. They also have some actually great moves like Giga Drain, Wood Hammer, Leaf Storm, and Energy Ball. You can't use a grass type as an unga bunga me click strong moves guy the way you can with a Fire or Water type.
>Aromatherapy
>he doesn't know
chikorita
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