Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

[Mando Knight]

Also the guy I just trolled put in on youtube, if you want to see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-e-8VkvDVs&feature=plcp

The kid needs to learn a lot with regards to video creation... that is, he needs to re-dub the entire thing without all the vocal pauses and use a screen-capture program rather than a webcam to film the screen. The video's quality is painful, even without his prepubescent voice.

Complicated? Its basically just the same as those two Psychic attacks that hit physical defense but use SpA. Except more so.

The "except more so" is the issue. Also, excepting niche cases, not too useful, and often limiting. Offensively, it's generally a loss (unless you really want a Special Dark move but don't get Dark Pulse), and defensively it matters less or is a detriment (i.e. Rock types with it suddenly worry about Waterfall a lot more because it hits their weak defense, if Chansey/Blissey got it, Aura Sphere or Focus Blast would utterly annihilate them), only rarely playing to their strengths (a Jellicent taking Wild Charge more easily, for example). If it also forced the opponent to observe the change (that is, it changed which attack or defense stat it uses) it might be more useful for taking Dragon moves, but would possibly be even more complicated on the defensive side than is advisable.

On another note, when you play through Pokéstar Studios, Rosa's physical similarity to her mom is more obvious... they have the same single eyelash in a roughly central location over each eye. Normally, Rosa's visor covers her eyelashes, but she takes off her visor while in costume. (It's also visible in the anime trailer, which is also remarkable for how you can match up the events with those in the game, though they have overleveled/evolved Pokémon for the most part in order to make it more badass)