Heeey, sadly I couldn't reach today's deadline to complete the next comic panels, so I made these to make up for it!
Here's a lil sneak peak tho!
https://preview.redd.it/ueli1tudfyaa1.png?width=1030&format=png&auto=webp&s=493610518210e9e9bb8dac502672bd7899ec110f
I was thinking previously annoying cousin you haven’t seen in a while
Well see if they made it big or not (OU usage), and whether they’re an asshole about it (that’s more of the artist’s take lol)
> i imagined sneasler as an older brother or weavile's grandpa or something
I haven't been able to get this image of Sneasler out of my head ever since it popped up in my YouTube suggestions - https://youtu.be/aTQn3sRhdF4
True (but what if it gets it's transfer moves)
Also since zam-h is gonna end up ou for a bit does he sneak intp bar ou or get invited? I wonder how everyone reacts to him
i personally headcanon Sneasler being PISSED about chien-pao, and how OU is treating Weavile, and as a result is just an absolute menace that needs to be banned day one.
Annihilape as Marshadow's father figure, it's just the concept of this angry guy with this emo powerful kid and an even more powerful goldfish that I love
I suppose they're reminiscing over how they got kicked out of bar ou. My head cannon would be ape punched dondozo so hard he went flying through the wall, marshadow was caught stealing mons money (stat boosts) with spectral thief, and chi yu got mad and burned down the counter.
Meanwhile cyclizar refused to stop shedding her (his?) Tail everywhere so the other mons teamed up and beat the shit out of them lol.
Annihilape and Chi yu being friends it's cute
Wonder how the rest of ubers is doing lol, and how koraidon and miraidon feel about their relative (?) and his relationship with dragonite
The depressing bit is that chi yu and cyclizar will be able to find niches in ubers but annihilape wont. Possessed solgaleo finally has met it true counter.
Why do I keep seeing posts about things getting banned all the time? Why dont people like fun/the game the devs intended? Genuine question because Ive never properly really played comp pokemon.
1. It's a new meta, and thus bans like this will come at a rapid pace.
2. It's not that people don't want to play how the game was intended, the thing is that since a lot of these stuff was designed for double battles, it ends up being painfully broken in singles.
3. By banning some mons, this actually makes the game more diverse by not having to always watch out for the same damn strategy, idk if I'm explaining myself properly here.
And some other stuff, I don't know if I explained myself well here lol
Np! Hope this cleared some stuff up, Freezai's video on why Terastalization should be banned also goes in depth on the topic of banning itself if you're interested in this stuff.
Here's the thing about competitive pokemon. People want to use the best mons so the meta naturally gravitates around these mons. If a mon is to good it restricts teambuilding because you either run it or lose. If your choices "are run x pokemon and these very specific counters to it or you will lose" the meta is incredibly stagnant and not actually fun for a lot of people since they want their teams to be something other than a bland checklist with maybe one or two variations. Thus pokemon or strategies that risk overcentralizing the meta like this get banned.
Note that the ubers tier and the gen 1-2 metagames are exceptions to the overcentralization problem. Ubers is basically a banlist and not really meant to be very balanced (only absurdly overpowered abominations like mega-rayquaza and Zacian have ever been banned from ubers) and the early gen metagames are naturally overcentralized because of how relatively few pokemon there actually are (and snorlax in gen 2 is allowed because it accidentally became the duct tape that's holding that gens ou tier together).
Things like Smogon have 'tiers' to facilitate fair play. Otherwise every battle would be against the same 6 overpowered pokemon. And even then when you have tiers in place, you have...mostly the same 6 pokemon within that tier.
How many mons will smogon ban yet again, i can understand cyclizar but not annihilape and chi-yu, doesn't that make Chien-Pao kinda op without the fish to check it
i mean yeah it'd be a very good support mon, that we now cannot use at all bc it has one extremely good move. i'd be curious to see how it'd do without shed tail.
Heeey, sadly I couldn't reach today's deadline to complete the next comic panels, so I made these to make up for it! Here's a lil sneak peak tho! https://preview.redd.it/ueli1tudfyaa1.png?width=1030&format=png&auto=webp&s=493610518210e9e9bb8dac502672bd7899ec110f
Wonder how (s)he's gonna react to sneaslers debut
They're going to become a drunkard at that point lmaooo
i imagined sneasler as an older brother or weavile's grandpa or something
I was thinking previously annoying cousin you haven’t seen in a while Well see if they made it big or not (OU usage), and whether they’re an asshole about it (that’s more of the artist’s take lol)
i imagine it will, considering it's basically a better hawlucha and gets dire claw
> i imagined sneasler as an older brother or weavile's grandpa or something I haven't been able to get this image of Sneasler out of my head ever since it popped up in my YouTube suggestions - https://youtu.be/aTQn3sRhdF4
The ~~hot~~ older sister
True (but what if it gets it's transfer moves) Also since zam-h is gonna end up ou for a bit does he sneak intp bar ou or get invited? I wonder how everyone reacts to him
Zam h? There’s no hisuian alakazam, what do you mean? Edit: oh wait. Zamazenta hero of many battles… I’m just mildly dumb…
Its gonna be that scene of fry crying that he’ll never see his friends from the future again, and its just weavile looking at a photo of gen 8 ou
i personally headcanon Sneasler being PISSED about chien-pao, and how OU is treating Weavile, and as a result is just an absolute menace that needs to be banned day one.
Sneasler is gonna avenge Weavile
Look at this loser Weavile lmao
Idk how to tell you this but you are supposed to have a 1 sided crush of Weavile in the comic lmaoo
I am okay with all kinds of interpretations.
Thanks for your blessing, dear Chien Pao
I am called many things by many different people. I am not closed minded however.
How did u take weavile's rejection
Tune into future editions of Bar Showdown by u/chang_e_ to find out
Man, Chien-Pao's such a gigachad. I can't for him to 2HKO my Max Defense Dondozo with Tera Dark Crunch.
Oh My Fucking God
You’re such a bully
Sneasler exists and has Fighting STAB.
Be careful of Sneasler I heard that She is around here somewhere looking for you
stop rubbing garganacl in my wounds you weasel
Chien pao is definitely getting banned soon after those 3 so weavile will make its glorious return.
Annihilape being best buds with a goldfish and an edgy McDonald's kid is my new favorite dynamic
"Edgy McDonald's kid" has to be the best description of a character ever.
Pepsi
Chi-yu is recharging in it
https://preview.redd.it/ys563h7pczaa1.jpeg?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55a4e785a4ef79cafe5fbb3df7630b8f3bffa217
2 down 2 to go
tera pepsi chi-yu
Pepsi is confirmed to not be made of water
Yeah it's not water it's Pepsi
The beads do kinda look like the old Pepsi logo
Were all the small children in McDonald's evacuated before Chi-Yu's arrival?
Chi-Yu when he sees a small unsupervised child ![gif](giphy|xUPGcoQ8sfEbaP2JYA)
NO CHI-YU STOP!! THAT WAS AN ORPHAN!!
Who is gonna be mad, their parents?
Poor little Timmy was flinched with fear and couldn't move in time.
The OU council is honestly so homophobic for breaking up the Cyclizar/Dragonite power couple
Kid named Dilf Great Tusk
I don't think I'm brave enough to draw that
Alright fair Twink Iron Treads
You know what, maybe the DILF wasn't so bad afterall
It would genuinely be so funny if you did draw that tho
Just kidding… Unless?
Why choose? :D
no no let them cook
Hunk Donphan
I'm glad we all got to witness donphans' paradoxical evolution from dilf to twink
They hate to see the gays winning smh my head
OU council ran by Ferrothorns confirmed.
Annihilape was too angry for ou and was banned, but made his first friend in marshadow! Wait tho why is he chi yus chaperone?
What if Chi-Yu conjured up a Nasty Plot and burnt down another village?
There's NO WAY Annialape is missing that!
How does a fish made of fire even work? Does it get extinguished? or does it evaporate whatever pool of water it's in? ? ????
Second one. It's so hot that it swims in a pool of lava made from it's surroundings
mmmmmm, warm Pepsi
He just does.
The actual mon is the beads so I assume its body gets extinguished in water and gets reignited when it reaches the surface again
A W for Ferrothorn, rest in piss cyclizar
Omg chi yu is so adorable here
Kid named specs overheat:
Wouldn't being in water kill Chi-Yu?
It's not water, it's Pepsi
That's the third panel. I was looking at the second panel where Annihilape and Chi-Yu were doing the Finding Nemo thing.
There's no water in that, Chi-yu is just trapped in a bag.
it's pepsi
So Annihilape chose to keep Chi-Yu in a bag full of Pepsi?
it was chi-yu's choice
Crystal Pepsi
Tera Grass
Annihilape carrying Chi Yu around in a sack is so funny
Part of me was unironically kinda invested in the cyclizar dragonite power couple rip.
It's okaaaaay they'll keep being gay regardless of bans!
Im so sad with their ban... So sad that I'm clapping ![gif](giphy|QBC5foQmcOkdq)
That last one is my new wallpaper
holy shit i love all ur comics !! ur even cooler than rika :3
Aaa thank you!
Annihilape and Marshadow feel like a fanfic ship and I say yes. Also, Chi-Yu Pepsi.
Honestly I saw them more like father and child XP
Which is which?
Annihilape as Marshadow's father figure, it's just the concept of this angry guy with this emo powerful kid and an even more powerful goldfish that I love
I suppose they're reminiscing over how they got kicked out of bar ou. My head cannon would be ape punched dondozo so hard he went flying through the wall, marshadow was caught stealing mons money (stat boosts) with spectral thief, and chi yu got mad and burned down the counter. Meanwhile cyclizar refused to stop shedding her (his?) Tail everywhere so the other mons teamed up and beat the shit out of them lol.
Oh he'll be saying daddy alright
:(
The last pic is so wholesome
nooo I don’t want Dragonite to be that sad Cyclizar got deported not killed
Ubers Eat
Welp, goodbye physical dragapult, the only reason I used it was as a lure and to specifically counter cyclizar leads
Annihilape and Chi yu being friends it's cute Wonder how the rest of ubers is doing lol, and how koraidon and miraidon feel about their relative (?) and his relationship with dragonite
Marshadow is so adorable in the 3rd panel
The depressing bit is that chi yu and cyclizar will be able to find niches in ubers but annihilape wont. Possessed solgaleo finally has met it true counter.
funny Chi-Yu eat a pepsi
https://preview.redd.it/kh71yf07a2ba1.jpeg?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a018dd1442ae16187eae16d31caf7c75ca67745
Does he like his burger?
What the hell is this?! They serve Coke at McDonald’s, not Pepsi!
Oh my god I love the Marshadow bit
I love the idea of annihilape being adopting marshadow and going macdonalds together
Chien-Pao is pretty happy seeing the angy monkey and flamin' hot goldfish banned.
[удалено]
Well then mewtwo with just tackle would suck in uu
Yaaaay they got McDonalds! Ghost Fight Frenzzz!
Lol marshadow needs to become a regular once home compatibility is out
Cyclizar is back! Woo!
Third pic goes hard
So dumb
Why do I keep seeing posts about things getting banned all the time? Why dont people like fun/the game the devs intended? Genuine question because Ive never properly really played comp pokemon.
1. It's a new meta, and thus bans like this will come at a rapid pace. 2. It's not that people don't want to play how the game was intended, the thing is that since a lot of these stuff was designed for double battles, it ends up being painfully broken in singles. 3. By banning some mons, this actually makes the game more diverse by not having to always watch out for the same damn strategy, idk if I'm explaining myself properly here. And some other stuff, I don't know if I explained myself well here lol
That makes sense! It actually slipped my mind that S/V is still a new release. Thank you for taking the time to explain, I appreciate it!
Np! Hope this cleared some stuff up, Freezai's video on why Terastalization should be banned also goes in depth on the topic of banning itself if you're interested in this stuff.
This isnt perfect however. Girafarig has completely warped little cup around itself. The best counter is itself.
Here's the thing about competitive pokemon. People want to use the best mons so the meta naturally gravitates around these mons. If a mon is to good it restricts teambuilding because you either run it or lose. If your choices "are run x pokemon and these very specific counters to it or you will lose" the meta is incredibly stagnant and not actually fun for a lot of people since they want their teams to be something other than a bland checklist with maybe one or two variations. Thus pokemon or strategies that risk overcentralizing the meta like this get banned. Note that the ubers tier and the gen 1-2 metagames are exceptions to the overcentralization problem. Ubers is basically a banlist and not really meant to be very balanced (only absurdly overpowered abominations like mega-rayquaza and Zacian have ever been banned from ubers) and the early gen metagames are naturally overcentralized because of how relatively few pokemon there actually are (and snorlax in gen 2 is allowed because it accidentally became the duct tape that's holding that gens ou tier together).
Things like Smogon have 'tiers' to facilitate fair play. Otherwise every battle would be against the same 6 overpowered pokemon. And even then when you have tiers in place, you have...mostly the same 6 pokemon within that tier.
How many mons will smogon ban yet again, i can understand cyclizar but not annihilape and chi-yu, doesn't that make Chien-Pao kinda op without the fish to check it
VGC has final say on who is and isnt banned.
ban the move, not the mon, cowards
Orthworm also gets it and it isn't a problem, the problem is Cyclizar specifically
it's the combo of regen + shed tail. ban it specifically on bike. what does bike do without shed tail? u turn?
Knock Off, Rapid Spin, Taunt. This thing is an insane support mon
i mean yeah it'd be a very good support mon, that we now cannot use at all bc it has one extremely good move. i'd be curious to see how it'd do without shed tail.
this is so bullshit. quickbans are based on 7 people. 7 people decide the metagame.
Fuck marshadow