Paper Mario: Sticker Star

Magnemight posted...

I really don't see how someone can not understand that a Baseball Bat is the correct thing unless you missed the baseball bat (which would be an understandable problem, though it is in the main path) due to all of the heavy-handed hints the battle throws at you. The scoreboard in the background, the stadium itself, the boss showing all of the ball-shaped segments it's composed of to you before the fight, the initial text saying "Play ball!" on the screen as the fight starts...

And aren't a good deal of these speedruns relying on the whole "one overleveled starter can blast through the game" strategy? After the third gym one can usually has enough coverage in their team to take on all types, but for the first three, there isn't too much flexibility for one's party.

Well, I can't speak for everyone, but when I saw the scoreboard, audience, arena thing way back in the e3 trailers, all I could think was "Yay, Glitz Pit!"

And of course I hoped it would be on the saddle of the Yoshi Sphinx, which seemed bigger then than it was now. So when I finally made it up there, after being a little disappointed by the Sphinx and irritated at having to exit the level and come back for more stickers for Toad, I was paying more attention to possible TTYD references than battle hints, and that's what I took all that as.


Actually, a good number of these speedruns are relying on a single, horribly underleveled starter with bad IV's blasting through the game, aided by vitamins in Kanto, glitches in Johto, and buff ledgendaries in all subsequent gens.

http://speeddemosarchive.com/PokemonRubySapphire.html

Go ahead and watch segment 30 and you'll see what I mean. That's something you'll never see in competitive battling, no matter how skilled a player is (partly because you can't use the stat boosts from a mid-battle level up to avoid getting KO'ed).
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Magnemight posted...

That said, bad IVs? Wouldn't bad IVs be detrimental to some of those victories that barely pull through?

Well, they are. The thing is, figuring out the IV's (even approximately) of a Lv.5 pokemon at a glance is sort of difficult, and the nature is more important. In a pokemon game it's good not to reset a lot because the intro is fairly long and the game is very slow until you get the running shoes, which isn't fun to redo. So, for single-segment runs, the amount of soft-resetting you'd have to do per attempt is just too much to be really possible. In segmented runs like the one I linked to, which require a much higher level of manipulation (that full restore came from pickup), and by the time the runner realized how bad his IV's were, it was too late to do anything but force his way through with critical hits.

Nobody would take them by choice, but more often than not you get them and there's nothing that you can do about it.
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"it's that game that is so great it makes you want to destroy your Toilet." -Throwback2780

Chain Chomps have 2 defence but are hard coded to take no damage in battle, except for First Strikes. This gets you 10 coins, usually.
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