Pokemon Mystery Dungeon [22]: Absolutely Awesome

[@benjaminpeterson455]

Fun fact, if you haven’t purchased the Darkness Ridge Friend Area/Camp before this point, you get it for free alongside Absol (as it’s where his species lives).

[@benjaminpeterson455]

14:40 Dark Types are super effective against Ghost and Psychic Types, but weak to Fighting and Bug Types. The “Dark” is also something of a misnomer, as there are only a few Dark Types moves that involve actual darkness. Rather, the Dark Type’s specialty is underhanded tactics. From biting the opponent, to dropping their guard by pretending to cry, to stealing items, to performing feints, Dark Type Pokemon use any and all tactics to win a battle.

[@JammerAma]

Yeah I believe it's a mistranslation or a censorship and the type is called Evil in Japan

[@benjaminpeterson455]

@@JammerAma Indeed. And the reason WHY Fighting is super effective against it is because Fighting embodies honorable combat sportsmanship, which is a big thing in Japan.

[@JammerAma]

@@benjaminpeterson455 that makes sense

[@kirby5790]

On a similar note, I think the Bug weakness comes from some sentai teams being bug themed, or something like that.

[@morgancrabtree6248]

​@@kirby5790 Late reply but I always heard it as several bugs are nocturnal or something like that.

[@theoneguy420]

Making me really want to watch/play the other games in the series. You have a good Christmas as well, Tim!

[@Following1000]

Absol in this game is definitely what made me appreciate Absol more, not only a good party member till the end of the game but just a really cool character. Yeah, the inherited Oran berry mechanics from Super REALLY help for this fight, probablty the hardest fight in OG.

[@79bigcat]

Fitting Absol joins here. It warns others of disaster, but is often blamed for them. Hence, the dark typing. Maybe once you explained your journey to him, he can empathize; which is why he's the only one who will join in this arc.

[@zombiem3mes441]

can't believe you're my childhood youtuber when I saw your pvz series as a kid!

[@KlaviceGavin]

4:45 Tim, that’s Skeeter not Articuno. Oh good you realized it. Still funny though. You never fail to make me laugh, both you and Emile.

[@kirby5790]

When fighting a large boss, I'd suggest trying to maneuver around so your whole party isn't on the same side of it. This makes it much less likely that it'll hit all of you at once.

[@Erthshade]

This. The boss fights have some AoE abilities but it's not just screen nukes. Those attacks Articuno was using are 3x3 squares I think, which just happened to be the same area both of the characters were in. Other enemies have line AoEs that hit 3 tiles wide. It's really beneficial to get your mons on two different corners at least.

[@Vdiffuser]

Congrats on taking Articuno down in the first attempt at a handicap!

[@KlaviceGavin]

5:37 Absol starts a tradition of a forced Party member that’s significantly stronger than you, on you, that is continued in later games. Best thing to do is to use Absol frequently to weaken tougher foes.

[@GreyOatmeal]

16:25 Orcs are pretty cool, nothing like raw ATK power And Merry Christmas!

[@lmcd301]

Man I have to say I am really enjoying this LP by the way. I had kind of forgotten all about these games too!

[@bekahmccue]

So the word used to describe Gardevoir and The Human's relationship was "partners," which could be romantic, platonic, buisness, etc etc. A relatively easy mistake to make because most people use it in the romantic sense, but it's actually more versitile and allows more ambiguity to the story

[@JoelTheParrot]

i like your clock-hand bird beak idea

[@sirekumasutra7022]

Merry Christmas to you and how bout them Detroit Lions?

[@fusion7675]

I saw ur card at uniqlo in Disney springs

[@KevX36]

7:44 remeber this joke throw away joke, it will be funny for reasons seen later

[@Zykestryke]

Articuno is a much more balanced fight in the version. Articuno was a nightmare in the original GBA/DS versions. This largely has to do with how Speed changes work differently between versions. In DX, changes to Speed affects Accuracy a little and makes your attacks more or less likely to be used multiple times in a row. In the original, your speed being lowered meant you skipped every other turn. And Speed being raised meant you got bonus turns. Speed changes can stack up to 3 times. Meaning Articuno could attack both your Pokémon up to 4 times in a row between your turns. If you had a Grass-type starter, a dozen Reviver Seeds could end up being insufficient.

[@Dukstless]

Speed changes still work the same way, but there's now two speed stats. - Movement/Travel Speed: Always been there. If a move raised or lowered Speed in main games, it lowers this now. -1 means you act every other turn, +1 or above you get one additional attack turn (as well as up to 3 extra movement turns). - Speed: Introduced in Super Mystery Dungeon, this influences moves that use Speed in damage calcs (the few moves that existed before would instead use difference in Travel Speed), accuracy/evasion bonus, as well as bonus attack rate. This stat cannot be temporarily lowered or raised to my knowledge. That being said, Speed was not what made Articuno a nightmare, the other birds also had Agility. Oh no no no, it was Powder Snow, which for whatever reason was a room wide nuke, and since the boss arena is just one large room... Whoops! (the move was nerfed in Gates to hit only in front of you btw, so it's less of an issue)

[@Following1000]

This isn't quite how speed increases work, whilst it increases movement speed until it fades, actions like attacking are only sped up once before reverting to normal speed. Attacking 4 times in 1 turn isn't possible by boosting your speed in the original. Speed dropping does work as expected though.

[@slambrecht6]

I like shorter videos, so no complaining here.